Diamonds vs. HDTV. Gee, really?

[kyrielle]

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=wired_news&itemid=43626

Ah, a news article about how women prefer an HDTV system to a 1-karat diamond ring. Come on people, is that so hard to figure out? Diamond rings are stupid. The diamond is not all that pretty; glass or cubic zirconium can match or better it, at a fraction of the cost. Myths aside, the diamond ring is an awful value, since the market is controlled as it is; it resells for less than most people think.

All the ads that try to sell you diamond rings? Are practically insulting, saying that's what a woman wants. Do I look like I have fuzz for brains? If you want to get me a jewel, get me something with color, or get me cubic zirc. If you want to get an investment, buy me some stock. Don't fiddle with the two.

At least the HDTV is useful. And I don't want one of those, either. Now, a digital video recorder, or a digital voice recorder, or both..... (Actually investigating the latter to figure out which one I want; simply drooling over the former.)

WHY do people assume the inherent worth (monetary and sentimental) of diamonds? Ugh. Expensive marketing campaign makes a nice lead weight for an already-iffy stone, anyway.

And yep, it is before 5 am and I am grumpy. Imagine that.

Comments

[camwyn]

At least the HDTV doesn't stand a high chance of having been mined at gunpoint by prisoners of war, then sold to finance bloody revolutions and atrocities in African civil wars... sorry, I've been soured on much of the diamond mystique ever since the Clean Diamonds Campaign started at Amnesty International. The diamond industry just managed to get a code adopted to cut down on the use of conflict diamonds to finance all manner of horrors, but in the end the HDTV is probably still a safer bet.

Besides, I like colour in my stones.