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| Thread ID: 71337 | 2006-08-02 21:04:00 | Diamonds no longer a girl's best friend | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 475615 | 2006-08-03 07:05:00 | I'll remember that next time when asked why I chose a skill saw instead of diamond earrings. I can just see it now... I'd probably (no definitely!) get the skill saw shoved where the sun don't shine :eek:Really???????? Most of my female friends would prefer a power tool to a trinket any day!!!!! | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 475616 | 2006-08-03 07:52:00 | what i want for xmas is a battery pack powered drill............. and wits to go with it.... and a decent screwdriver set...:p im not a jewellery person....... useless stuff that it is... since i have a habit of breaking things........... i have found i need to sometimes fix things as well, so a good tool kit is on my wish list. a few problems i have come across is, i cannot for the life of me, undo wheel nuts on my jeep to change a tyre.but then i also cant lift the wheel once i may have got the stupid thing off with the help of some males that a happen to pass by.....:p helpless looking and blonde does sometimes have its bonus's....:p beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 475617 | 2006-08-03 08:00:00 | helpless looking and blonde does sometimes have its bonus's I've tried that- it doesn't work so well when you're a male :groan: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 475618 | 2006-08-03 08:06:00 | I bleached my hair a few months back so i could dye it purple.. The purples gone so know it's blond with re-growth.... Maybe thats why i managed to hitch around the island with incredible ease last month? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 475619 | 2006-08-03 08:13:00 | ROFLMAO........... so it helps at times to be female???? :rolleyes: or should i be saying blonde and female???? :lol: beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 475620 | 2006-08-03 08:30:00 | ROFLMAO . . . . . . . . . . . so it helps at times to be female???? :rolleyes: or should i be saying blonde and female???? :lol: beetle I have to be verrrrry careful what I say here :D The male's brain is hardwired to his 'nether regions', allowing him to spot a no-brainer a mile off . That and the genetic urge to protect and 'nurture' (or perhaps hunt and gather?) means a blond woman only has to bat her eyelashes and she will have men falling at her feet . Scientific studies have shown that, unless the guy is 'batting for the other team', the same result is not obtained if a blond male bats his eyelashes and looks forlornly at the wheel brace . I hope that explains it clearly beetle- use the force with care :) |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 475621 | 2006-08-03 21:26:00 | Well, you could be the first on the block with a new hi-tech man-made diamond simulant (I think they call them cubic zirconias!) . . . Cubic Zirconias (see here) ( . lovetoknow . com/wiki/Cubic_Zirconia" target="_blank">engagementrings . lovetoknow . com) have been available since 1976 . Unlike a diamond, they produce rainbow light when sparkling . A newer "diamond simulant" is Moissanite ( . lovetoknow . com/wiki/Moissanite_Engagement_Rings#What_is_Moissanite . 3F" target="_blank">engagementrings . lovetoknow . com) , and this has fooled even gemologists . Only a special stereo microscope used for inspecting diamonds can reveal the difference, but even this is not easy . I can see that in the short term a big Plasma screen would top a diamond but with HDTV and other new technology 'just around the corner', a diamond (or zirconia or moissanite) will stand the test of time, which is what engagement gifts are supposed to symbolize . . . at least to some people . [Edit] Re: Gemologists being fooled - apparently this was news media hype . From Wikipedia (link above): When synthetic moissanite was first introduced it made quite a stir: stories of widespread fraud were circulated by the press, with claims that synthetic moissanite was indistinguishable from diamond even by experts . The aforementioned properties clearly demonstrate this to be false: the only people fooled by synthetic moissanite were those who relied too heavily on thermal probes . This is because, like diamond, moissanite has a high thermal conductivity; probes manufactured before synthetic moissanite's introduction therefore registered synthetic moissanite as diamond . |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 475622 | 2006-08-03 21:47:00 | The male's brain is his 'nether regions', That and the genetic urge to xxxxxxxxxxx means a blond woman only has to bat her eyelashes and she will have men falling at her feet. However, I think you mean a young, sexy blonde woman. My mother is "blond" now but shes 74. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 475623 | 2006-08-03 22:37:00 | However, I think you mean a young, sexy blonde woman. My mother is "blond" now but shes 74. Yes, I know what you mean... I'm going grey and it just doesn't have the same effect. It's a cruel trick of nature- the older you get, the more you wish batting the eyelashes would work. :annoyed: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 475624 | 2006-08-04 02:46:00 | Of course if she's a geek, you will probably be able to buy computer chips with a diamond substrate. (That's for the high heat conductivity). Silicon on sapphire didn't seem too popular ... RCA made some in the 80s , including the 1802 micro (which had high radiation resistance, and was used in some satellites). | Graham L (2) | ||
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