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Diamonds Are No Longer A Girl's Best Friend
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-7-2006 | Chris Hastings - Stephanie Plentl - Beth Jones

Posted on 01/06/2007 7:44:37 PM PST by blam

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To: D.P.Roberts
Kooks manipulated by special interests. Follow the money.

Well said. This is more liberal hypocrisy. Just like the phony AIDS ribbons.

Hollywood stars are dumber than uncooked Ramen noodles.

221 posted on 01/07/2007 5:37:51 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: Kath

Having been married twice, and given two diamond engagement rings, I am pretty cheesed off with the institution.

I would suggest that any woman who needs a diamond ring to put out is a prostitute, married, or now.

Of course, most US women are more sexually active before they are married, than they are after they are married. Odd thing, that. Some women feel the need to sink the hook before marriage, and only have the psychological freedom to get that "headache" after marriage.

What is the old saw: What substance is guaranteed to take away a woman's sex drive?

Wedding Cake.


222 posted on 01/07/2007 5:39:56 PM PST by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: Kath

Having been married twice, and given two diamond engagement rings, I am pretty cheesed off with the institution.

I would suggest that any woman who needs a diamond ring to put out is a prostitute, married, or now.

Of course, most US women are more sexually active before they are married, than they are after they are married. Odd thing, that. Some women feel the need to sink the hook before marriage, and only have the psychological freedom to get that "headache" after marriage.

What is the old saw: What substance is guaranteed to take away a woman's sex drive?

Wedding Cake.


223 posted on 01/07/2007 5:39:57 PM PST by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: dixiechick2000

Twice!

Thanks for your kind words.


224 posted on 01/07/2007 5:41:54 PM PST by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: Kath; nopardons; Skywalker

"Did your wife buy this argument??? Where did you get her wedding ring??? Out of a box of cracker jacks???"

I just want to go back to this little gem one more time (no pun intended). First of all, what I got my wife is none of your business, nor is it anyone else's other than my wife's.

Secondly, my wife and I scrounged up our savings for a down payment on a house shortly after we got married some ten years ago. That house has since tripled in value, for a profit of $500,000 on an initial outlay of less than a tenth of that amount.

Does that make us rich? Not by a long shot. But it has kept us from going broke. More importantly, it has allowed my wife to stay at home and be a full-time mother. Thanks to that investment, we can afford to send my son to a private school, and my wife has plenty of time to help him with his schoolwork.

Had we used a good chunk of that downpayment for a diamond rather than buying a house, my wife would be forced to fight traffic every day to work outside the home, and she would have little time to help her son with his homework. I'll just bet she's happier without the diamond!


225 posted on 01/07/2007 5:52:36 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
You wrote, "friggin" in post #163, in post #169 you used the word "schumck"; both of these words are profanity and have been repeatedly been asked to not be used by the owner of this site and by his Mods.

You are also baited and flamed and personally attacked several posters, which you admitted doing in your post #104. That is also against posting rules.

Unlike you, I have done none of that, nor am I the one who is a liar.

Since when, exactly, are hard, cold facts "baloney"? You repeatedly said erroneous things and when refuted, all you have done is to come back with smarmy insults and personal attacks; with one exception...when you were told the same facts by a man!

It is you, and you alone, who "can't stand the heat"! Me? I'm doing just fine.....thank you very much.

Oh please.......playing the "victim" card and carrying on your silly vendetta against diamonds ( tell me, do you hold the same views against sapphires and rubies and emeralds and couture clothing and anything else that you can't afford? ), is just childish.

226 posted on 01/07/2007 5:52:37 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Kath; nopardons; Skywalker

"Did your wife buy this argument??? Where did you get her wedding ring??? Out of a box of cracker jacks???"

I just want to go back to this little gem one more time (no pun intended). First of all, what I got my wife is none of your business, nor is it anyone else's other than my wife's.

Secondly, my wife and I scrounged up our savings for a down payment on a house shortly after we got married some ten years ago. That house has since tripled in value, for a profit of $500,000 on an initial outlay of less than a tenth of that amount.

Does that make us rich? Not by a long shot. But it has kept us from going broke. More importantly, it has allowed my wife to stay at home and be a full-time mother. Thanks to that investment, we can afford to send my son to a private school, and my wife has plenty of time to help him with his schoolwork.

Had we used a good chunk of that downpayment for a diamond rather than buying a house, my wife would be forced to fight traffic every day to work outside the home, and she would have little time to help her son with his homework. I'll just bet she's happier without the diamond!


227 posted on 01/07/2007 5:53:12 PM PST by RussP
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To: donmeaker

Oh my, you really have been burned, haven't you?


228 posted on 01/07/2007 5:54:09 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

"Oh please.......playing the "victim" card and carrying on your silly vendetta against diamonds ( tell me, do you hold the same views against sapphires and rubies and emeralds and couture clothing and anything else that you can't afford? ), is just childish."

I never said anything about those other stones.

And how do you know what I can or cannot afford? Or did you just pull that out of your rear end like everything else your write?

Oh, and "friggin" is "profanity"? I suppose "darn" is profanity too, eh. You are a loser -- and yes, that is an insult. Go ahead and report me -- but don't forget to report yourself too, whiner. And don't forget to tell them that a mean man is picking on a poor helpless little woman.


229 posted on 01/07/2007 6:01:46 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
How did your buying a house keep you from going broke? How did it allow you to send your child to private school? And HOW on earth did it allow your wife to not work?

If you live in the house, it hasn't put any money into your pocket, no matter what its valuation is, vis-a-vis what you put into it as a down payment.

You keep talking about "feeling social pressure" and then bashing anyone and everyone who may have a diamond or many... none of whom have told you that YOU MUST BUY THEM. That "pressure" you feel is all in your own mind; it certainly isn't on this thread, except from you.

230 posted on 01/07/2007 6:02:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: RussP
The Admin Moderator posted a thread about what is not allowed to be posted a few weeks ago; yet again. It appears that you either keep missing the directives, or blithely ignore them.

No, you didn't mention those other stones, which is why I asked the question. I also mentioned other things, which, again, you have also chosen to ignore.

I know that you can't afford the things I said you can't, from what you have said in your posts. It comes through loud and clear and you proved my assumption to be correct in your previous post; the one about your house.

No, "darn" isn't profanity; however, what I pointed out to you, that you have already used, and now, that bit about "pull that out of your ass" is too.

I am neither "poor" nor "defenseless"; unlike you. And I am able to debate without using your low class, guttersnipe, juvenile, puerile tactics.

231 posted on 01/07/2007 6:12:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

"If you live in the house, it hasn't put any money into your pocket, no matter what its valuation is, vis-a-vis what you put into it as a down payment."

Now, *that* has to take the cake for the most clueless posts ever. You don't know the first thing about personal finances, do you.

First of all, have you ever heard of a home equity loan? Could that "put money in my pocket"? Secondly, has it not occurred to you that I would have to pay rent if I did not own a home? And let's not even get into tax benefits and retirement.


232 posted on 01/07/2007 6:14:56 PM PST by RussP
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To: nopardons

"No, "darn" isn't profanity; however, what I pointed out to you, that you have already used, and now, that bit about "pull that out of your ass" is too."

You know darn well that is not what I wrote. You are a friggin' liar. Are you left-wing college student by any chance?


233 posted on 01/07/2007 6:18:29 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
tsk, tsk, tsk...................

Apparently, I know and actually understand far more about personal finances than you do, from what you've just said. Evidently, you imagine that loans are some kind of "free" money" and have no bearing on your assets or net worth. And as far as your retirement is concerned, here's hoping that when that time comes, you don't have to sell into a down or collapsed housing market. Of course, by the time you've paid off all of the loans you keep taking out, your final profit won't be as great as you hope they will be.

You just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper!

234 posted on 01/07/2007 6:24:57 PM PST by nopardons
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To: angcat

I've only had it a little over a year, and have never polished it . . . I guess I should look into that! I don't recall my mother ever caring for her opals.

Maybe that's 'cause we live in Houston, and it's pretty darn humid here. :)


235 posted on 01/07/2007 6:29:59 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: nopardons

Your level of ignorance is truly incredible. So borrowing against equity in a home is no different than borrowing against nothing?

Listen genius, the equity in my home is *mine.* It's something I would not have if I had squandered the money on a diamond instead of a home. It's like having money in the bank. Getting the home equity loan is like taking my own money out of the bank. Yes, of course I have to pay the loan back, but I can always sell the house to pay it back if I need to.

Yes, of course it is unwise to take a home equity loan if you are going to squander the money (on an expensive diamond, for example). It is also unwise to take your money out of the bank if you are going to squander it, but does that money in the bank is useless?

You are truly clueless. I suggest you quit while you're behind.


236 posted on 01/07/2007 6:45:55 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
Go read your post #163, as well as the one I am replying to; both and one other, which I don't feel like going looking for, all contain the word "friggin. That is not a lie, but thanks for lying yet again and making yourself look ridiculous.

Okay, so you said "rear", not "ass"; same thing and still disallowed.

Please do try, even a wee bit, to get control of yourself and stop reacting with such emotionalism; it is not becoming and so babyish.

237 posted on 01/07/2007 6:51:38 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Let me give you my honest opinion of people like you. You disgust me. You get on a discussion forum and you dish out insults but then you cry foul when you get insulted back. Then you try to play the gender card and claim that I am "denigrating women." You misquote me to make my posts look vulgar. Then you make some remark about how little I can afford without any basis whatsoever, just to insult me.

You have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the diamond ruse. You've already proven that by implying that I must be against the diamond ruse because I am "cheap" or poor. Grow up and quit wasting the time of the adults on this forum.


238 posted on 01/07/2007 7:03:45 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
Oh deary me, you really don't understand much about anything! Pity that................

Math and logic are not your forte. You really should take your own advice and quite when you are lagging so far behind. But here's a hint....your "equity" is less than you suppose, because you have to repay the loans. Please get someone to explain debits and credits to you.

239 posted on 01/07/2007 7:14:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: RussP
Your projection and insecurity problems can be treated. And should you be unable to afford the treatment, I'm sure that there must be a free clinic near you...go look in the Yellow Pages.

You've played so many different "cards", one needs a score card to keep track of them all.

Oh, so "schumck" which translates to the word penis, isn't vulgar? How about your constant use of the word "friggin"? When you manages to pull yourself up out of the gutter and are able to write as an adult, instead of like a low class 12 year old, then, and only then, reply to me; sweetums.

240 posted on 01/07/2007 7:19:51 PM PST by nopardons
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