Or any of the Kardashians

You can check with stores though - my local pet store works WITH the local rescue centre to as a sort of halfway point for adoption. Store =/= bad automatically. It very much depends on location.

This is so horrible! I heard they do this to market the purse industry

I feel like many are moving away from a diamond as an engagement stone.

Also common as hell, just the yearly sales (of natural diamonds) are heavily restricted to keep prices high.

They aren't that rare either but DeBeers have a monopoly which keeps the prices up. Not to mention the destruction of the environment and exploitation of low paid workers.

I disagree that they're worthless - worth is culturally determined - but I do agree with the rest.

I love my engagement ring. It has a one carat diamond in the centre.

NO MATTER HOW EVIL THEY ARE, THERE STILL SO DAMN PRETTY

This is the exact reason my engagement and wedding rings are created Sapphire (lab made). Better for the planet and much cheaper to replace.

We claim to be intelligent beings yet people will routinely spend large sums of money for a tiny shiny rock.

Actually, Diamonds are extremely useful in the hi-tech industry.

The supply of diamonds is carefully rationed. There is a beach in Namibia with millions of them and it is only guarded.

Netherite is better

I for one love diamonds! Just buy them used then.

False. Not all diamonds are blood diamonds that come from Africa, and the entire industry is not tainted. If people want to wear diamonds and can afford them, then let them. It really isn't anyone else's business what kind of jewellery people prefer. Do we "stop digging" for other mined substances simply because some people don't like them? It's always people who can't afford them who seem to want them abolished.

i thought diamonds were useful for lasers and such or maybe some kind of medical devices

Also I'm no expert and couldn't tell apart a diamond from glass, so why bother?

Lab created are just as beautiful

Blame women for that. They're the ones that want the damn rock

My ideal engagement ring is a black ring made from titanium…one can dream to receive such ring from a guy….

Plus they virtually worthless. Years ago when gold first started spiking I worked armed security for an itinerant gold buyer. He came through my are 2 or 3 times a year. It would make me real sad to see older ladies coming in to sell their wedding set(which was usually high carat gold from before WW2) and a 1 to 2 carat diamond. The ladies would get real upset when gold buyer only wanted gold and tell him the diamond cost $x,000.00 when they were married. If they decided to sell the buyer would take the diamond from the setting and return it to them. He tell them check with a jeweler but to himthe diamond was worth near nothing.

Instead of giving my GF a ring, I showed my commitment by getting her name tattooed on my member. Lucky for me her name is Ada.

Speaking as an American, about every 2 years, I order an 5kg block of Callebaut dark chocolate from Belgium. (We do have quality artisanal chocolate makers in the US, but Hershey is just disgusting. It's too sweet and the texture is off-putting.)

Regardless of what it may say on the label, they aren't actually recyclable. The ones that look like a little bag with a plastic ring at the top are just as bad, there's as much plastic in that ring as there is in an entire cup.

If I could upvote this a million times... And then there are those 'flat tummy teas' that are really just diuretics

Never heard of it, had to google. Apparently not working well in Sweden.

Big thanks to all the corporate jerkwads who got our grandparents hooked on nicotine several decades ago! (This is sarcastic lol)

I am not 100% sure about that one. Yes plastic isn't easy to recycle. (Although HDPE (Lids) and PP (bottles) can be recycled quite well. IF you recycle).. but: It is a lot lighter than glass. Less weight means less energy/fuel for transport. And that means less CO2 (for transport). So.... if you look at the facts and add up the numbers (instead of just going: "Plastic is Evil) you might be surprised. Could be that, as enviromental bad as they are, they could still be better than glass

Starbucks isn't even good coffee.

B. I. D. E. T.... I want one so bad

They are facing a problem im the EU now. They cant be labled by what they are working against (because they don't) and they can't be labled by what's suposed to be in it... because there is almost nothing of it left. So soon they will habe to be labled as what they are... sugar

One of the techs at my dialysis unit just started this. She's only in her 20's and has no idea how long it's been around. She was going on and on about it and I just rolled my eyes.

Fashion, which is nothing more than a "gotcha."

All Nestle products sadly

I'm gonna be the one - What is an "MLM" product?

Other excellent headphone manufacturers include Sennheiser, Klipsche, Audio Technica, Sony (they have a wide range including some very good stuff) and Bose (overpriced, but better than Beats).

I think they're illegal in Europe as well?