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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    I̕f ͢y̕ou̴ d͏r͏iǹk̷ ̴a͠n͡d҉ d̵riv̢e,͘ ýo̷u'͞re a̧ ̀blo҉o̷dy͞ i̢d͝i̵ǫt̶...̡

    If y͟ou͠ ̷d̡o̧n'͜t̵ dr̡i͜n͘k ͢- ͘h̀e͞y,́ ̡whàt's͢ ͟wi͟th t̵ha҉t bi͠ll̵bo̕a҉r͞d? ̨*̀ÇR̶ASH*


    HE COMES

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    Now there will be the enevitable release of Scream 5:Scream Free and Die, as they have great publicity for the billboards.
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    Image of Bandit Bandit
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    The cause of the accidents is very clear to me: Everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road!
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    07/06/09

    @Bandit: But if everyone is on the wrong side of the road, does it really matter?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/06/09

    @Duckspwn: MIND = BLOWN
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    Image of Bandit Bandit
    07/06/09

    @Duckspwn: Um, it was a joke. Um.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/06/09

    @Bandit: That response was also tongue-in-cheek. But so tongue in cheek that it BLEW YOUR MIND. You just can't see it now because your MIND IS SO BLOWN.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    I was sort of hoping they'd go back to Kenny the Weather Kia, where he proceeds to peck the eyes out of his handler in some comedic fashion. I guess that's what I get for hoping for too much.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Kia?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    @tande04: misspelled. Kea. damn stupid cars.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    There's a key piece of information missing, how long have they been in place? Anyone can say there hasn't been a single accident since they are in place if it's only been a day.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/06/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Good question. Here is a quote from another article on it:

    The billboard may be terrifying but Paparuka District Council claims that since they went up over Easter - traditionally the worst time for fatalities because of the holiday rush and first heavy rains after summer - nobody has died.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/06/09

    @tande04: @Shawn Pero: So you can have more accidents, but if they occur at a slower speed, no one dies, and just injuries.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    In reply to Disturbing Billboard Bleeds When It Rains
    Oh Groening, is there anything you can't teach us?


    Photobucket

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    Image of Indigen Indigen
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    I now believe the writers of this site are spoilt fucks.


    Where you cunts make your money at so 3 grand isnt much I don't know, since you're blogging in your underpants instead of getting a real job. Probably mooching off your parents.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/04/09

    @Indigen: Yeah, try canning some of that vitriol, you malcontent. $3,000+ for an engagement ring is common, and while I could find lots of rings at half or less than that price, there's a great deal that cost more than twice than the price in the article. I guess you don't know much at all about the jewelry market, or else you wouldn't be so eager to spout off this nonsense in this comment.


    $3,000 for a one-time/rare occasion is not that much at all if you have the income. If you make as much as the guy in the article, losing out on $3,000 would suck, but it wouldn't make him pinch pennies the next time he went to the grocery store either.


    In short: grow up.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    I prefer this guy's approach, though I suspect that Donnie is not quite in the same boat as the one mentioned in the article.



    (thanks Lindsay!)
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    I got a 404 on the twitter link.


    Thanks for posting that video Jesus; I don't know how I hadn't seen that one, but it's definitely one of their better songs.


    I hope this little contest gets this guy some attention and he finds his next true love. And I hope, for the sake of the contest winner, that he hasn't hidden it up a sheep's bum just out of spite.

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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    Most jewelry stores will take back rings in cases like this. Cash it in and have a good vacation, meet a new girl and dont buy the ring until you are pretty sure she will say yes.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/04/09

    @Curves: if you read the article, it says that he bought the ring overseas and therefore couldn't return it, and apparently he's so wealthy that he didn't need to sell it either. Who can fault him - he's just having a little fun with a bad situation, and if it makes him feel better that's worth $3000, right?
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    Image of fluidexistence fluidexistence
    06/04/09

    @weatherman: Call center jobs don't exactly make you a zillionaire... well, outside of Zaire and its many royal exiles wishing to give you many monies in exchange for use of your piddly checking account. Perhaps he's independently wealthy, or perhaps he thinks this would be a better investment of the $3,268.00.


    Personally, I'd sell the damn thing and spend the proceeds on a wild night of hookers and blow.


    My wife would absolutely appreciate that.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/04/09

    @fluidexistence: Well, if you're a chai-walla at a call center, it could make you rich!
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    Image of aec007 aec007
    06/04/09

    @Curves: It's the thought that counts not the ring. For what it's worth, a bent paper clip would work if you love someone.


    My 1/2 still wears her 10 Diamond wedding ring. They total a whopping 1/10 of a carat.
    We go on 20 next week.....


    :)


    I should get her a magnifying glass....

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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/04/09

    @aec007: Congrats to you and Mrs 007, she is a lucky woman. I agree about the paper clip, you can have more emotional investment in that paperclip than all the diamonds in Africa.


    While they are not as good as the paper clip, diamonds are still pretty nice. We ladies love shiny objects; they temporarily blind us with sparkle, so you guys have a chance to sneak up on us when we are distracted. I am pretty sure thats how its been done since the first caveman distracted the first cavewoman with a pretty rock, so he could drag her back to his cave by her hair, and DeBeers was formed.

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    Image of aec007 aec007
    06/04/09

    @Curves:
    "shiny objects; they temporarily blind us with sparkle..."
    Hummmmm.... sound like Apple to me!


    In the mean time... :



    + Watch video




    :)
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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/04/09

    @aec007: omg, that was SO cool! See, it happened JUST like it said it did.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    "The ring is valued at just $3,268, which is not much..."


    Jeebus. Not much? I think that's more than enough.

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    Image of kernel panic kernel panic
    06/04/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: its not much considering you should budget 3 months gross salary for an engagement ring. $1090 a month is a tough situation to get married in.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/04/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: It's not considered that much because there's a plethora of engagement rings that weigh in at or above the $10k mark. I knew this girl who was getting engaged, and she wasn't satisfied with her ring, which was over $15k. At that moment, I was soured completely to the entire concept, though I'd like to think that I wouldn't even consider the thought of wedding someone so damn superficial.
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    Image of Lupus_Yonderboy Lupus_Yonderboy
    06/04/09

    @kurupt: Why "should" one budget that much? Who is setting these rules up? Is it the consortium who controls the majority of the world's diamond market? The ones who only release diamonds in low volume so as to not water down their own market? Who can't incorporate in the USA because we view them (friggin' rightfully, IMO) as a monopoly and wont' let them?


    I think that it is...


    Here's what you "should" do (at least according to me-please note that I am not a consortium trying to control the world's market of anything...barring, of course, magnetite, but that's for the death ray and not strictly for capitalist gain)-


    You "should" find someone who's going to be happy with what you want to give her...and if that absolutely must be a ring, then you "should" find a ring that you're comfortable giving her-there are no standards to be met other than the ones you set-don't worry about making the diamond growers of the world happy, worry about your future wife (or husband, whichever, but I think that the rings are a little different).

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    06/04/09

    My rule of thumb: Get what you can afford in cash.
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    Image of Jason Jason
    06/04/09

    In reply to Rejected Man Hides Engagement Ring for Twitter Treasure Hunt
    Diamonds are not valuable.
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    Image of CaptMonkey CaptMonkey
    06/04/09

    @Jason: I think you mean they're not rare. Like d★nger the pirate said, they still have value, it's just based on a few people controlling the supply. You could also say "hundred dollar bills are not valuable" because really, it's just paper, but we all know that's not true.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/04/09

    @Jason: You want rare? I was watching a show on meteorite hunters last night, and a jewel made from a crystal in a metorite is worth something like 10,000 a carat.
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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    06/04/09

    @CaptMonkey: Diamonds are only valuable once. Then after you've been suckered into buying them, you have a bunch of shiny rocks that you could, in theory, pawn for a tenth of their retail price.


    Diamonds have value because De Beers has tricked us into believing they have value. The 1947 marketing blitz, "A Diamond is Forever", is designed to keep us sheep from flooding the market with millions of secondhand diamonds, propping up their inflated markups.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/04/09

    @CaseyG: What about the "She'll Pretty Much Have To" blitz?
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    Image of Gilbert Tang Jr. Gilbert Tang Jr.
    05/23/09

    In reply to Toddler Buys Industrial Excavator Online, "Doesn't Even Like Tractors"
    Well, I suppose it could have been an organic machine, too.
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    05/23/09

    In reply to Toddler Buys Industrial Excavator Online, "Doesn't Even Like Tractors"
    Cool story, I Digg it...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/23/09

    @fastharry: zing!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05/23/09

    In reply to Toddler Buys Industrial Excavator Online, "Doesn't Even Like Tractors"
    And just think, twenty or so years from now, with just a couple of clicks someone will 'buy' Pipi online...


    ...one hour at a time.

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