Re: Miss Manners
Femme, get real now. A real diamond earing set would run anywhere upwards of $800. Do you think this 'friend' (ghussaa aaraha hay) would spend that amount on an old acquaintance.
Re: Miss Manners
femme sab baton ko choro, is the guy single??? :) :) wink wink
Re: Miss Manners
FF, stones don’t cause allergy, basically the metal does. Anyhow it should say genuine ruby or genuine emerald or whatever the stone is. if it doesn’t says that then it might not be real.
Re: Miss Manners
weigh the diamonds at home (a).
Put a smaller bowl --filled to the brim with water-- on another bigger bowl. Fully immerse the diamond rings in the smaller bowl, which will cause water to spill over in the bigger bowl. Measure the volume of the displaced water (b)
We know density of diamonds is 3.52 g/cm3
Divide (a) by (b), and if you dont get 3.52, call up the person and curse him out.
Good luck.
screams "eureka, eureka" and runs out of the tub half-naked, while holding the towel in one hand.
Re: Miss Manners
ask a jeweler.
Weigh it in water!!! ha! that’s a first…
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and what is so funny 
.. if he was desi, then he might have bought the earings from a desi place and for desi jewlery, basically it is stamped the x k gold that piece is made of. And for a stone basically you would have to go and check with the jewller.
Re: Miss Manners
Ms Fatale.
The fact that someone cared to give you a gift. That someone thought about you even for a second. That someone bothered to run around and get the piece of jewellery packed for you.
All that alone should make it real.
Since its a gift you wont be giving out to anybody. Therefore the monetary value doesnt matter anymore. You'd be better off wearing a fake piece of jewellery that you got as a gift rather than a real one that you bought yourself.
But yeah if you run out of dope and need some cash fast then it would help to know what its worth.
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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FG that is definitely something to think about. He did tell me he was getting me something grand to make up for last yr so I dunno.
The stem is too thick. It won;t even fit in my ear. I’ll have to wait till my earlobes start hanging or something (scary thought). They will only be sitting in my jewelry box so i’ll take my time and get the stone checked some day, just to know what i have.
MyWish he is a happily married man with two kids and even if he wasn;t neither one of us would have had any such intentions, trust me.
Captain I do appreciate his thoughtfulness. Last yr he got me something and for months he kept saying he has to bring it in and then one day he called and said he had given it to someone else. To which I replied, I’m offended 
and he said well i realised u deserve better, to which i replied 
WHAT DO U MEAN??? You bought me something that wasn’t worthy of my ownership??? To which he ducked and said no no no i didn’t mean it that way. I promise i will get u something really really really good to make up for it, to which I said well lets just hope I get it before u give it away again, tp which he said Femme THIS was your chance of being great, you blew it but i will still be great and get u something lavish to which I said I will decide if its lavish enough when and if I get it!
Besides as I said before I do lose my jewelry very often. I should atleast know the value of what I lose so I can grieve accordingly.
Re: Miss Manners
I know my friend is allergic to artificial jewelry so when I gave her something, she asked me if it was real or artifical. She can apparently only wear 22K or 24K gold. So you can try that approach.
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^she knows it’s gold – it’s the stone she’s unsure about…
hmmm… i don’t know… do men give platonic friends diamonds? i don’t think even my brothers would give me diamonds ( 
).
do you know his wife? was it from both of them? is there any special occasion for the gift? (sorry if you already said it in this thread; might have missed it).
Re: Miss Manners
was my birthday Sahar.
Re: Miss Manners
I didn’t read the whole thread before answering.
I am guessing it is Zarconnia :-p
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Oh the agony 
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I suppose it’s possible. But assuming he’s a decent guy and not making any suggestions toward you, I think it’s most likely that it’s not diamonds. Rukhsar’s probably right.
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Im gonna finish him off over the next meeting
Re: Miss Manners
Femme I have some zarconnia pieces which people mistake for diamonds so don't be upset.
Maybe it is not zarconnia but a lower quality diamond?
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ohhhhh whatever! Its not like I can even wear them without getting that stemmed reduced a bit. Fine!
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I see that this thread is veering off to the wrong direction. I thought we were to discuss how Femme should kuss kay marna fake diamonds on his face and never ever to talk to him again.
Re: Miss Manners
Yay moo-aa woh Hispanic tau nahee?