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 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:12 pm
I read the following article in Popular Science. It shows why women are idiots for coveting diamonds so much. Everyone with a brain and a decent amount of education knows that diamond is not a rare substance, and it's only considered valuable because people are stupid enough to believe the marketing hype that the diamond industry puts out. But the fact that they can't even hold up to an accident ticks me off even more. PLEASE STOP BEING STUPID, PEOPLE! If you're too lazy to read four-and-a-half paragraphs, I've bolded the most important parts. Quote: I can’t stand diamonds. No, really, they just tick me off, because nearly everything about them is a lie. Diamonds are neither rare nor intrinsically valuable nor uniquely romantic. Those are ideas invented by the diamond industry. And no, despite what the ads tell you, diamonds are not forever. They are flammable and will burn brightly with a little help from a torch. This makes perfect sense when you consider that they are made of pure carbon, which reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (“reacts with oxygen” just being another way of saying “burns”). Diamond has one legitimate claim to fame: It is still, as far as we know, the hardest substance. Despite its hardness, though, the chemical bonds that hold the carbon atoms in diamond together are actually weaker than those that hold together the other common form of pure carbon, graphite. The difference is that in diamond the bonds form an inflexible, three-dimensional lattice, whereas in graphite the atoms are tightly bonded into sheets. But those sheets can slide easily against each other, making graphite soft and slippery. It is bond strength, not hardness, that determines how easily oxygen can attack and burn a material, allowing me to burn a diamond in a pool of liquid oxygen resting in a block of graphite. If your house burns down with the family jewels inside, you can collect the pools of melted gold, but the diamonds will be gone in a puff of CO2. Cheaper, more attractive stones, such as cubic zirconia and synthetic ruby and sapphire, are made of refractory metal oxides that easily withstand the same heat. So it’s actually mall trinkets, not diamonds, that are forever.So from now on, every relationship I'm in, I will give the evidence that diamonds are nigh-worthless. If after that, the stupid c**t still believes that diamonds are worth more than the much better looking stones of color (or the even shinier, stronger, cubic zirconia), I will punch her in the breasts. Okay... maybe I won't punch her, since that'd put me in jail, but I'll most likely leave her. I can't stand stupid people who won't take hard proven fact. Source link to article: http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-08/burn-diamonds-torch-and-liquid-oxygen
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:38 pm
LOL!!!
Good luck with that, and let me know how it turns out.
the problem is that you are under the assumption that women are logical and that reason will work here. rofl rofl rofl
however if you succeed... SCORE ONE FOR THE TEAM!!! blaugh
I hate having to choose between my car and my girl every paycheck... stressed
The one that can get nekkies usually wins... and for that very reason. xd
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:11 pm
Perhaps it's because I've been diagnosed as a functioning sociopath, but I can easily choose my car over a woman if the woman doesn't give me the same enjoyment and loyalty as my car. When you get older and have more money, sex gets easier to get from others. The only time I'd ever choose a woman over a car is if she can be as loyal and dependable as the car, and make me the number one priority in her life. My reactive mimicry personality will then kick in, and I will also make her my number one priority. But until that happens, there are more pussies in the world than GTOs.
(And I fixed the link, but the article doesn't have much more than what I quoted, under fair use law.)
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:01 am
Well, the hint should be there looking you in the face. I mean, when diamonds are plentiful enough to be used in industrial tools, that ought to mean that there's more than enough of them to go around, aren't there?
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:06 pm
Yeah but I already gave mine diamonds so... picking the car over her now will most likely end up with me needing a lawyer. Although I thought I had a "car comes first" clause in the pre-nupt...
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:38 pm
Whoa... you're married?! I'll give you that, then. If I ever loved a girl enough to marry her, I'd probably love her more than the car. But I doubt I'll ever love a woman that much.
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:43 am
Yer all lucky. My missus just got her CAMS navigator's license(smashed the course and test on the first go) Now, if she suspects that I value the car more than her, she can send us both to the pearly gates. eek
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:33 am
Yeah, we moved in together pretty much right out of high school then married soon after.
I call the ring my "house arrest bracelet"! xd
@ joey... at least you get to drive up to the gates in style? 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:03 am
In style, and ON FIRE. xp
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:59 pm
My fiancee's engagement ring is cubic zirconium and gold. It's a very pretty ring and she loves it. Yes, she knows it's a CZ. In fact, she asked for it to be CZ. How much did it cost me? $165.00. I know I love her more than both my 350Z and the Corvette I would have had, hadn't I loved her, because we're going away to school together and getting married in January.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:19 pm
CZs actually have more "fire/shine" than diamonds anyway. I saw a big fatty CZ the size of a softball that was faceted so that there was a "floating" starburst of light inside. It was SICK!
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:54 am
Hmmz, can't say if I'd ever be capable of marring someone. At the moment, my mentality is cars and bikes over women if you can believe that. Although I'm sure if I met the right girl I may be tempted to ask her to move in with me or something romantic or whatever.
Marrage and kids over a BMW M5....hmmm, not so sure about that either.
If I ever tie the knot I would want it to be in Vegas on the back of a chopper, and I'd want the ceremony to happen in adrive though wedding chapple with a Japanese Lesbian Elvis impersonator.
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:13 am
Super Panda454 Hmmz, can't say if I'd ever be capable of marring someone. At the moment, my mentality is cars and bikes over women if you can believe that. Although I'm sure if I met the right girl I may be tempted to ask her to move in with me or something romantic or whatever. Marrage and kids over a BMW M5....hmmm, not so sure about that either. If I ever tie the knot I would want it to be in Vegas on the back of a chopper, and I'd want the ceremony to happen in adrive though wedding chapple with a Japanese Lesbian Elvis impersonator. That's quite a bit more amusing than my wedding was, that's for sure. Although, all this talk of choosing cars over girls... Why would you have to make that choice? Find a girl that supports your car-lust, and you're set. My wife encourages me to work on the project cars, and even helps out a bit. She thinks I look damn sexy when I'm covered in grease and holding a wrench. wink
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:24 pm
Super Panda454 Hmmz, can't say if I'd ever be capable of marring someone. At the moment, my mentality is cars and bikes over women if you can believe that. Although I'm sure if I met the right girl I may be tempted to ask her to move in with me or something romantic or whatever. Marrage and kids over a BMW M5....hmmm, not so sure about that either Millefune Perhaps it's because I've been diagnosed as a functioning sociopath, but I can easily choose my car over a woman if the woman doesn't give me the same enjoyment and loyalty as my car. When you get older and have more money, sex gets easier to get from others. The only time I'd ever choose a woman over a car is if she can be as loyal and dependable as the car, and make me the number one priority in her life. My reactive mimicry personality will then kick in, and I will also make her my number one priority. But until that happens, there are more pussies in the world than GTOs. Twistex Although, all this talk of choosing cars over girls... Why would you have to make that choice? Find a girl that supports your car-lust, and you're set. My wife encourages me to work on the project cars, and even helps out a bit. She thinks I look damn sexy when I'm covered in grease and holding a wrench. wink There aren't enough girls like that, that aren'tl fat, ugly, butch, or macho, to go around.
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:46 pm
Millefune Super Panda454 Hmmz, can't say if I'd ever be capable of marring someone. At the moment, my mentality is cars and bikes over women if you can believe that. Although I'm sure if I met the right girl I may be tempted to ask her to move in with me or something romantic or whatever. Marrage and kids over a BMW M5....hmmm, not so sure about that either Millefune Perhaps it's because I've been diagnosed as a functioning sociopath, but I can easily choose my car over a woman if the woman doesn't give me the same enjoyment and loyalty as my car. When you get older and have more money, sex gets easier to get from others. The only time I'd ever choose a woman over a car is if she can be as loyal and dependable as the car, and make me the number one priority in her life. My reactive mimicry personality will then kick in, and I will also make her my number one priority. But until that happens, there are more pussies in the world than GTOs. Twistex Although, all this talk of choosing cars over girls... Why would you have to make that choice? Find a girl that supports your car-lust, and you're set. My wife encourages me to work on the project cars, and even helps out a bit. She thinks I look damn sexy when I'm covered in grease and holding a wrench. wink There aren't enough girls like that, that aren'tl fat, ugly, butch, or macho, to go around. Those girls are indeed rare. It was easier for me to find a limited edition Rothamans Racing model of an already super rare Honda NSR400. (but that could be argued that that was luck.) So far my experience with girls is, they're either good looking and cool and fun to talk to, but have boyfriends or aren't interested at all. Or They're good looking /ok looking, and painful to talk to in the day light. confused
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