“He went to Jared!”
What you don’t hear in those commercials is what’s implied: “He’s not a worthless human being because he bought these sparkly rocks from us that have an actual value of less that $5 each but have a perceived value of hundreds or thousands of dollars each.”
A documentary several years ago on the deBeers family stated that the average diamond was actually only worth $2.
I never really liked diamonds in the first place. They look cold to me. There are much better gems and semi-precious gemstones out there to express one’s feelings in a variety of ways.
Frankly, if I’m wearing a black tux, I’d rather be wearing hematite than a fucking diamond.
ETA: I don’t know who the hell coined the phrase “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, but women should really be offended by the concept.
From Ron White, doing a routine about diamonds:
“Why don’t they just say what they mean? ‘Diamonds. That will shut her up.’”
Any woman that receives a diamond out of the blue is really thinking “Oh, crap, what did he do this time?”
So my wife tells me, upon a conversation that mentioned website cookies, they really coined that term incorrectly. She’s not technically inclined, but she tries. I love her more for this conversation.
“Why name it after something sweet and wonderful? They’re not and they can potentially cause lots of problems. Why not call them something more appropriate, like demons. That way, each time you close your browser, it can ask if you want to purge your demons. Hell, you’d feel better afterwards, too!”
I just about died laughing and wondering what life would be like if ‘cookies’ were actually ‘demons’.
I prefer thinking of them as digital litter.
Web cookies seem like a great example of, “OK, here’s a neat feature… No one would ever exploit that, would they?”
Late 90s web design was such an optimistic era. Remember when spam was actually a big deal, not something you just accept that you need to filter out somehow?
As bad as the movie was, can anyone else see Donald Trump trolling the world’s leaders w/ nuclear warfare the way “President” did in G.I. Joe: Retaliation?
Anyone ever think that the only reason why Dwayne Johnson got cast in the Doom movie is that he could do the Doomguy expression?
Been sitting here at my PC for half an hour with a snotty nose schnucking and wishing I had kleenex nearby…
Looked over to my right and there is a whole box. SMH
what kind of company doesn’t do direct deposit these days?
There are advantages to not having direct deposit. When I was fired from what is now JPMorgan/Chase and was then Bank One, I got two extra paychecks through the mail after my termination. If they’d been direct deposited, I would have had to give the money back. (They did ask, and I, knowing my rights in regards to unsolicited checks that arrive via USPS, said ‘no’. They did not ask again because they knew it was their screw up. I considered it my severance.)
Also, it’s easier to prove that you were underpaid.
All of my paychecks from Hells Cargo were direct deposited. The only stub I got was electronic and only accessed through my employee login on the employee intranet.
When I was fired, I lost all access to those stubs (and the timesheets on the same system). Hells Cargo claimed that I was paid, and I had no way to prove otherwise.
Yeah, seven years later and still haven’t seen a dime of my last two weeks’ pay.
All of the places I’ve worked that had direct deposit gave me a paper “check” that had all of the information on it that a regular check would have (they were even printed on check stock) but the check part said something like “Direct Deposit Receipt Only”.
Sportsperson of the year, many-times tennis champion, and…she can’t even run her own 5K?
Reviews are already starting to pop up for “The Force Awakens”. It’s going to be very difficult for me to remain spoiler free before I have a chance to go see it with my kids.
I’m going to see it on Saturday. Trying to remain spoiler free.
The sooner the better for me. Hopefully I’ll get a chance before Sunday.
Weak am I.
I’m taking dakson on Sunday as one of his birthday presents.
I’m probably holding off until the weekend after Christmas. Too busy right now, when not at work.
There’s a Firefox extension that claims to block spoilers.