Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 16:43     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!

So heteronormative and kinda cringy.


You use the phrase "heteronormative" because being heterosexual is overwhelmingly the norm in our society. They are selling engagement rings. In our society, men buy them to propose to the women they want to marry. That explains the number and the messaging in the ads -- they know their audience.

You sound really stupid when you start using words like "heteronormative." I can't tell whether you're being deliberately obtuse or whether you have so embraced this kind of nomenclature that you don't understand just how wildly outside the mainstream it is.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 16:43     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:I know the Mervis family. They are wonderful, kind people.


Yeah.

Those, wonderful, kind, South African diamond miners. Sure.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 16:32     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I always feel bad for the brother they force to live in the diamond mines.




But can ride his bike there! Just like when they were kids.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 14:53     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Best local ads in DC except for old Eastern Motors and Jhoon Rhee. Bonus points if Zed is mentioned.

An article once referred to Ronnie Mervis as the "Indiana Jones of Diamonds".


The family story of the Mervis's is actually pretty harrowing/amazing. It goes back to before WWII. Grandmama Mervis was just barely able to escape Lithuania as a teen and was a refugee in Johannesburg, SA, and was about to be sent back to the nazis, who’d since captured Poland and Lithuania. But she met Morris Mervis, who was working for a moving van company his father started in J-burg. She recognized the family named from back home in Vilnius, and she chased down the young man driving the truck and pleaded with him to do something to prevent her from being sent back to Europe, where she would certainly be sent to a camp. He told her he’d marry her and that would allow her to stay in SA, thus saving her life. She later bore their sons - Zed and Ronnie - and Morris got into the diamond business that was taking off in SA at the time. Were it not for her seeing the Mervis name on the side of a moving van, she likely would’ve been sent back to Europe and been murdered in the holocaust.



The Mervis’s are good people. Some people might think the commercials are corny or hokey, but as a MoCo native, I’ve been hearing them my whole adult life, and to me they’re comforting and familiar.

And “heteronormative”? Well, heterosexuality IS the norm. So, yeah…. Grandmama Mervis would’ve envied your lifestyle where the biggest thing you have to worry about is this gender insanity y’all preoccupy yourselves with.


You sound kinda MAGA and cringy but ok


Not PP - what’s MAGA about that? Or is this like Karen, something small minded people use when they disagree with someone?


It's just a generic attack line some people use here. I assume they hope people will see MAGA and join in on the attack.

Not MAGA. I am a rare centrist who thinks both far sides of the spectrum are loons.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 12:10     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Isn’t Elon Musk one of those south Africans ?
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:56     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!

So heteronormative and kinda cringy.


Oh, how fun! Another thing to be outraged about, yay!

Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:49     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:I mean, they are probably doing whatever possible at this point, right? Lab diamonds are virtually identical to even experts. They must be pivoting or getting very stressed.


Lab diamonds have no value at all, other than for industrial uses or cutting tools. Even if they’re identical or even superior to natural gems, they’re still fake.

A natural diamond is special because it’s rare. It’s expensive because so much work has to go into finding them, mining them, cutting them, and finishing them. And that’s what creates their value.

Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:22     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
I mean, they are probably doing whatever possible at this point, right? Lab diamonds are virtually identical to even experts. They must be pivoting or getting very stressed.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:21     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:The family story of the Mervis's is actually pretty harrowing/amazing. It goes back to before WWII. Grandmama Mervis was just barely able to escape Lithuania as a teen and was a refugee in Johannesburg, SA, and was about to be sent back to the nazis, who’d since captured Poland and Lithuania. But she met Morris Mervis, who was working for a moving van company his father started in J-burg. She recognized the family named from back home in Vilnius, and she chased down the young man driving the truck and pleaded with him to do something to prevent her from being sent back to Europe, where she would certainly be sent to a camp. He told her he’d marry her and that would allow her to stay in SA, thus saving her life. She later bore their sons - Zed and Ronnie - and Morris got into the diamond business that was taking off in SA at the time. Were it not for her seeing the Mervis name on the side of a moving van, she likely would’ve been sent back to Europe and been murdered in the holocaust.


I totally read this in Ronnie's voice as if he was doing an ad.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:20     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
If you’re offended by the diamond industry, a diamond retailer, and diamond retailer commercials because they are “heteronormative,” boy are your priorities out of whack.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 11:18     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Best local ads in DC except for old Eastern Motors and Jhoon Rhee. Bonus points if Zed is mentioned.

An article once referred to Ronnie Mervis as the "Indiana Jones of Diamonds".


The family story of the Mervis's is actually pretty harrowing/amazing. It goes back to before WWII. Grandmama Mervis was just barely able to escape Lithuania as a teen and was a refugee in Johannesburg, SA, and was about to be sent back to the nazis, who’d since captured Poland and Lithuania. But she met Morris Mervis, who was working for a moving van company his father started in J-burg. She recognized the family named from back home in Vilnius, and she chased down the young man driving the truck and pleaded with him to do something to prevent her from being sent back to Europe, where she would certainly be sent to a camp. He told her he’d marry her and that would allow her to stay in SA, thus saving her life. She later bore their sons - Zed and Ronnie - and Morris got into the diamond business that was taking off in SA at the time. Were it not for her seeing the Mervis name on the side of a moving van, she likely would’ve been sent back to Europe and been murdered in the holocaust.



The Mervis’s are good people. Some people might think the commercials are corny or hokey, but as a MoCo native, I’ve been hearing them my whole adult life, and to me they’re comforting and familiar.

And “heteronormative”? Well, heterosexuality IS the norm. So, yeah…. Grandmama Mervis would’ve envied your lifestyle where the biggest thing you have to worry about is this gender insanity y’all preoccupy yourselves with.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 10:56     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!

So heteronormative and kinda cringy.


Diamonds are heteronormative and cringy.


What’s it like, being an irrelevant weirdo stuck on something from years ago?
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 10:30     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Best local ads in DC except for old Eastern Motors and Jhoon Rhee. Bonus points if Zed is mentioned.

An article once referred to Ronnie Mervis as the "Indiana Jones of Diamonds".
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 09:45     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!

So heteronormative and kinda cringy.


It’s a new week, so I guess you guys need a new issue to be outraged over. Can’t let the bullhorns get dusty, right?

Anonymous
Post 11/18/2025 08:04     Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I always feel bad for the brother they force to live in the diamond mines.




Poor Zed


You wonder if he ever gets to come over for family holidays. "Ronnie, maybe you could work in the diamond mines this year?'