Anonymous
11/19/2025 07:18
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
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.
I don't understand how being married would keep her from concentration camps. Plenty of married people were sent to camps. Nazis didn't care.
Did you know that South Africa is not in Europe?
She was and "economic miigrant illegal" as they are called today.
Anonymous
11/19/2025 07:13
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.
Diamond cringe < purple hair and septum ring cringe. Not even close.
Stop being bitter about women who don't want you.
Anonymous
11/19/2025 06:33
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!
So heteronormative and kinda cringy.
Look, man… this is exactly the kinda thing that makes regular people lose their minds and start rage-voting for guys in red hats.
It’s a diamond ad. A diamond ad. Mervis isn’t out here writing queer theory dissertations — they’re trying to sell shiny rocks to dudes who panic-buy jewelry the week before Christmas. And somehow we’ve turned that into a referendum on heteronormativity?
This is the problem. It’s like we’ve all become these hall monitors of feelings, hovering over every billboard like, “Uh, excuse me, problematic!” And the average person — the people who are just trying to get through their day without losing their job or screaming into a bag of pretzels — they see this and go, Oh my god, can we not do this right now?
Because when you start calling a diamond ad “offensive,” people think the world’s gone nuts. They don’t think, “Wow, what a nuanced cultural critique.” They think, “If even THIS is a problem, what’s left?” And then the pendulum swings, man. Hard. Straight into the arms of the guy who promises to stop the insanity — even if that guy is, you know, completely nuts in his own special way.
But that’s how we get here: performative outrage over a slogan meant for people who shop in strip malls. And suddenly everyone’s polarized, and someone’s yelling, “This is why I’m voting for Trump!” while holding a Cinnabon.
It’s exhausting. It’s America. And no one’s getting the diamond.
Anonymous
11/19/2025 05:58
Subject: Re:Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Zero idea what you're talking about.
“Hi I’m Ronnie Mervis blah blah blah . . . HER love.”
I just read this in his voice.
I freaking hate that accent now.
Same
Anonymous
11/18/2025 20:46
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
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.
I don't understand how being married would keep her from concentration camps. Plenty of married people were sent to camps. Nazis didn't care.
She would have been deported since she had no reason to be in South America. Refugee status doesn't work in most countries.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 20:01
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:I know the Mervis family. They are wonderful, kind people.
That doesn't mean they can't had a crappy advertisement.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 18:30
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
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.
I don't understand how being married would keep her from concentration camps. Plenty of married people were sent to camps. Nazis didn't care.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 18:18
Subject: Re:Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Zero idea what you're talking about.
“Hi I’m Ronnie Mervis blah blah blah . . . HER love.”
To be fair, there's not a lot of jewelry for men. They are mostly selling women's jewelry.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 17:01
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else feel these ads are offensive? Seriously, eight hundred HER love?? FFS!
So heteronormative and kinda cringy.
Diamond cringe < purple hair and septum ring cringe. Not even close.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 16:44
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.
Yeah, but chicks dig 'em.
This is the norm. Deal with it.
Anonymous
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
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
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
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
11/18/2025 12:10
Subject: Mervis diamonds ad
Isn’t Elon Musk one of those south Africans ?