[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 5/4/08 6:44 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> (If you read the rest of this guide look at how they try and press you
> into the "better" diamond purchase. Really quite funny. Mostly, it is
> about how bad you will look to your peers, if you get a "lesser"
> diamond. Will she still love you if you come home with THAT? Come on
> now, how many can really resist with the new partner on your arm?)

I've always thought it funny when people take "advice" from a salesman.
After all, his sole purpose is to get as much money out of you as possible.
His "advice" is no more than sales patter.

> BTW diamonds are VERY hard to sell for a good price second hand! They
> are not a good investment. They are however very pretty, women seem to
> like them and it is about what they represent not what they are really
> worth.

To me they've always represented a hunk of carbon treated by great pressure
& heat for millennia...

Or somebody with a lot of money saying "Look how much I'm willing to spend
to impress somebody".  Honestly, for the price some middle class people are
willing to pay for a diamond ring, doesn't furnishing an entire living room
with furniture say "I love you" better?  Or even making a down payment on
that house to live in?  :P