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#51 kamikaze1

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Posted 07 August 2015 - 16:43

Well, Fangio got kidnapped...

 

Edit: http://en.espn.co.uk...tory/23608.html

 

So did Enrique Bernoldi.... but long before he was a F1 driver.    IIRC kidnap of some rich Brailian's son at the time.   Speaking of which, greatest Birthday of my life... 18th May 2001 (?), watching Coulthard in the McLaren following Bernoldi around in the arrows for 40+ laps of Monaco unable to overtake :D   Must still haunt both drivers. 



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#52 scheivlak

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 21:54

http://www.theguardi...y-holiday-villa

 

“It was a horrible situation,” he said in Spa, before the F1 season resumes on Sunday. 

“It is not a nice feeling knowing that someone is in your room going through your drawers just eight centimetres away from your wife’s head. That’s the horrible bit, really. 

“You can replace the money and jewellery, you obviously have the sentimental value of an engagement ring, but it is all replaceable, whereas our health isn’t.”



#53 f1RacingForever

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 22:00

That what you get for spending $250k on a ring. A fool and his money...Insurance will cover it



#54 JHSingo

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 22:08

That what you get for spending $250k on a ring. A fool and his money...Insurance will cover it

 

What a bizarre comment.



#55 scheivlak

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 22:18

That what you get for spending $250k on a ring. A fool and his money...Insurance will cover it

I guess you're insured - what's your adress? 


Edited by scheivlak, 20 August 2015 - 22:18.


#56 superden

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 22:32

That what you get for spending $250k on a ring. A fool and his money...Insurance will cover it


Douche.

#57 Juan Kerr

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 22:46

That what you get for spending $250k on a ring. A fool and his money...Insurance will cover it

First of all I agreed with the reaction of the others, bizarre comment etc but you are actually right. Anyone who spends that sort of money on an engagement ring must surely accept that they immediate make themselves a target for some of the more primitive members of our species. I mean there's nothing wrong with spending that kinda money in my view as long as you don't go around the world telling everyone you wanna save the planet etc. money is indirectly an important earth resource. The more one individual has the more thousands of other individuals somewhere don't, it is connected of course. Money is just a currency that represents far more important resources.
Rich celebrities are targets, rich celebrities know they are targets.



#58 garagetinkerer

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Posted 21 August 2015 - 20:51

I like JB... Good to know that no one was hurt through the incident.

 

I came across this, don't know how true this is, but, we all know how marketing is the fine art of spit-shining turd and charging big bucks.



#59 Collombin

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 17:28

Diamonds aren't forever at all, can't they just be burnt away to carbon dioxide? And they aren't any prettier than cubic zirconia, they're just a clear stone. The success of diamonds is indeed a marketing masterpiece.

The missus disagrees. But that sort of proves the point.

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#60 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 17:47

The diamond reputation really is amazing, there are much prettier stones imo.

 

I totally get the supply and demand curve, but it's one of the greatest tricks ever pulled.



#61 garagetinkerer

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Posted 23 August 2015 - 09:23

The diamond reputation really is amazing, there are much prettier stones imo.

 

I totally get the supply and demand curve, but it's one of the greatest tricks ever pulled.

 

Telling half the population of the world that this is what is a measure of love, it helps a lot really. I mean, you do spend a lot of money to create a demand, but over the years, i'm sure they have recovered a fair bit of it. At one time, extraction of the product was difficult and they were indeed rare, but now i guess it is far from it.

 

Diamonds aren't forever at all, can't they just be burnt away to carbon dioxide? And they aren't any prettier than cubic zirconia, they're just a clear stone. The success of diamonds is indeed a marketing masterpiece.

The missus disagrees. But that sort of proves the point.

Yep. One minute you may be perceived to be rich, the next minute, all that is gone. :p

 

About the bolded bit, were you really expecting something different? This is how marketing works. Even engineers fall for the same trick, even though they know it is exactly the same thing inside, say a couple of laptops. One of my friends, an engineer, he suggested that i didn't want him to be cool.  :rotfl:

 

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