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This ad I got (fedia.io)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Take on a second job to fulfill your civic duty to De Beers.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My friend, who comes from a pretty wealthy family, was all excited when he told me that he spent like 15 grand on his wife's engagement ring.

I also love hearing ads from a local jeweler that keeps shitting on lab grown diamonds, because he sells natural diamonds, and is most likely losing money. He was like "Lab grown diamonds don't hold their value, but natural ones do! In order to "prove" this I'll give you a lab grown diamond if you buy a natural one! "

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

"I'd like to refund this natural diamond and keep the lab grown one.
What do you mean no? You are the one who told me natural diamonds hold their value."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if we've seen the same ad, but my local jeweler who does the same thing calls natural diamonds "earth-born". Makes me want to vomit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gimme that blood diamond, make it extra bloody.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We're so close to Bloodborne diamonds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

At least it's a step up from bloodborne illnesses. Step down from Bloodborne the game though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surely there's some lab process where you could take actual blood and process it into a shiny bauble.

I could see that as a romantic gesture.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives' ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure about the amount of blood you'd really need though since I think all of these "ashes to diamonds" places add their own carbon, too. From one such website:

We combine your loved one’s carbon, a microscopic Diamond seed, and generic carbon into a growth cell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TBH I was hoping for something less clear diamond and more garnet/ruby looking.

The man-made rubies you can get off AliExpress are pretty nice, but they don't quite scream "deranged blood ritual"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Steven Singer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

ihatestevensinger (dotcom) holds true IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ugh I can see those billboards in my head, annoying font and all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yep.