Well, then, this is a day I'll feel good to be me.

Mal ,'Trash'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 03, 2007 8:41:24 am PST #5143 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is there Heat Miser/Snow Miser slash?

I'm not sure if I am more disturbed by the thought of that in cartoon version, or the Harvey Fiersten/Michael McKean live action version.


megan walker - Dec 03, 2007 8:48:43 am PST #5144 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

They arguably had the greatest marketing success in the 20th century...

Well, in the US at least. And maybe Japan? I know Europe hasn't really bought into the whole diamond engagement ring thing.

I once met someone who had worked in the sorting houses in Amsterdam and he said that it was crazy how the system worked. Value was so subjective that stones were sorted depending on where they were going, like, the US market values these characteristics so we'll send them these kinds of diamonds, Japan values this, so we'll send them these, etc.


amych - Dec 03, 2007 8:51:08 am PST #5145 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Value was so subjective that stones were sorted depending on where they were going, like, the US market values these characteristics so we'll send them these kinds of diamonds, Japan values this, so we'll send them these, etc.

See, to me, this sounds like the sanest part of the whole hoop-de-hoodle.


megan walker - Dec 03, 2007 8:53:48 am PST #5146 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

See, to me, this sounds like the sanest part of the whole hoop-de-hoodle.

Yes, but people here seem to think that they are buying something with an objective value (as long as they follow the 4Cs and such).

ETA: Here being the US and not b.org


Nora Deirdre - Dec 03, 2007 9:00:11 am PST #5147 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Hm, I bought a cookie to eat tonight before my class. However, I want it now. What to do?

(What would DeBeers Do?)

(now I keep seeing DeBeers as DeBarge)


Gudanov - Dec 03, 2007 9:02:34 am PST #5148 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

What would DeBeers Do?

Convince someone else that the cookie is worth $1000, you sell it, then you use the money to start a cookie-baking sweatshop, and have all the cookies that you want.


Nora Deirdre - Dec 03, 2007 9:06:35 am PST #5149 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Oops. I et it up already! I am such a bad planner.


Gudanov - Dec 03, 2007 9:07:32 am PST #5150 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Oops. I et it up already! I am such a bad planner.

Well that's the way the cookie crumbles.


bon bon - Dec 03, 2007 9:08:27 am PST #5151 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

De Beers would tell you to keep the cookie forever as both (a) an investment and (b) a sign of love, fidelity, and apparently, Victorian hopes and dreams. And then they would make it impossible to dispose of the cookie.


Gudanov - Dec 03, 2007 9:10:35 am PST #5152 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

And then they would make it impossible to dispose of the cookie.

To be fair, who really wants to toss their cookies?