Man, if I had a nickel for every time I've said that I do not want Bill Cosby to wiggle his weiner in front of me . . .
Boom. Penis. You're welcome. I think I may use Bill Cosby's Wiggly Weiner for my fantasy baseball team name.
No girl. This is the face he made when I plunged into his butthole with my flesh submarine: Then he made me lunch as a "Thank You":
No, most small jewellery shops quote for an individual job if they are making it by hand (can't speak for the chain stores who cast rings by the hundreds). Once you've quoted the customer, you have to pray the markets don't fuck you because, if they do, you lose money on the job. If it comes in slightly under, great! It means you might be able to pay your own salary that month. Like JWags said, the big chain stores are the ones who make the big profit (I advised katokoch via PM to avoid them except to just look at designs). My dad's been a jeweller for 49 years and been running his own business for about 20 years now and, to be honest, for the majority of that time, it's been lean pickings due to market issues and a big change in buyer demographics (Black people in S.A. aren't traditional precious metal jewellery buyers because most never had that sort of disposable income). What JWags also said about sometimes being forced to sit on stock for long-term is also correct - my dad has been sitting on this one clients' earrings for at least 2 years and has called her numerous times to collect them (he only gets voicemail) and she still hasn't. Not only is that money that you have tied up for x amount of time, you may also have to sell the item at less than it cost to manufacture just to get something back for it. Also, not all of the jewellery made is diamonds - there are other stones out there too, some even more controlled than diamonds, like tanzanites - now THAT is an inflated price piece of shit rock. Also, you get scrap gold filings from each job which you are stuck with until you have enough to be able to send the filings for refining (oh, the refining charges you at least one gram from the total for that, and it usually takes a few months for a single shop to build up enough to go for refining unless they have an exceptionally busy workshop with at least 4 full-time artisans). Please don't compare price fluctuations in petroleum products to precious metals - petroleum-based products simply do not experience the same fluctuations in price. If the gold price increases by $10 per ounce* in one day, no-one bats an eye. If Petroleum-based products did that, every economy in the world would instantly go into death throes, same goes for food products. *most jewellers don't buy metal in ounces but in grams and have done so for years. I used ounces as an example because that's how the stock market shows gold prices...
Every small jewelry store I've ever seen around here has the stones and settings on hand for you to choose from, so those costs would already be over and done with. Maybe this isn't true of the higher-end places, but they don't really cater to people like me anyway.
The shit would be so much cheaper if we just used the bandana things from Braveheart. And unlike rings they won't leave tan lines when you take yours off in a hotel bar. No, instead finely cut the super-valuable hardest substance on earth and half-ruin the person buying it.
So apparently the news station I watch accidentally aired a picture of a cock this morning, pretty dam funny. I'm surprised they held it together. The traffic guy and weather girl have a very visible reaction when it happens.
I don't usually get worked up over nostalgia filled remakes, if they're good I enjoy them and if they're bad I shrug and move on. With that said, this is one I don't think I can be neutral on. This article describes my feelings well. It looks like a sweet adaptation, but they're right, sweetness wasn't really the core of the strip. Apologies for not posting this in the movie thread, but it's Peanuts. That's pretty iconic.
Why do women think it's a good idea to post profile pics on dating websites of them in a group or standing next to their much hotter friends?
That's his thing too? I just figured he'd show up to berate me if I bought the incorrect model of german luxury car.