|
|
#
?
Mar 2, 2019 16:30
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 12, 2024 00:37 |
|
|
Magnificent snipe.
|
|
#
?
Mar 2, 2019 17:54
|
|
|
amazing
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 05:42
|
|
|
lol
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 12:34
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 12:47
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 13:57
|
|
|
Not Ali, but I guess this is the best place for it: I bought a motorcycle jacket from Amazon (for stylish warmth, not for motorcycling). It was advertised as Prime-eligible, but that's only for one size/style. Mine shipped yesterday, three days after I ordered it, and has apparently just left Karachi, Pakistan. They say it'll be here (Texas) on 5-8 March. Any bets on the delivery date? Also, according to the Amazon reviews, it's a really good jacket for the price, but has to be hung outside for a few days to allow the stench to dissipate, because it has that unique petroleum-esque smell of cheap leather poo poo from Asia. When I was a kid I got a pair of repro Vietnam-era jungle boots from a catalog, I know that smell. And, living in the middle of the biggest oilfield outside the Middle East, I know the smell of crude oil, and it is indeed strikingly similar. Edit: oh, it's in Dubai now, according to the FedEx site. Edit again: I accidentally sent it to the wrong address (my home, where I will not be next week, meant to send it to my parents' house, where my retired father is always present). The FedEx site asks questions to verify your identity, and apparently I've had a roommate named Kevin Tyler that I never noticed. Fun fact: you can't change the delivery address as a recipient, but you can put a "hold at location" order, so my jacket will be dumped at the nearest Walgreens drugstore to my house, presumably annoying the employees. The list of locations had six Walgreenses and one FedEx depot, I guess because the drugstores get daily FedEx deliveries. (and the depot is waaaay across town). Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Mar 3, 2019 |
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 16:48
|
|
Bad Angus! Bad!
|
Haha that rules
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2019 18:14
|
|
|
Someone is straight up selling mussels that may or may not contain pearls like some kind of mystery box http://s.aliexpress.com/m6nmaMV3
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 01:49
|
|
|
oh jesus that's going to be great getting those after weeks in the mail.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 01:52
|
|
|
Them if you want a certificate for your new pearls it’s another  https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/brIkMinQ
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 01:54
|
|
|
Bummey posted:Someone is straight up selling mussels that may or may not contain pearls like some kind of mystery box
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 04:12
|
|
|
Pick posted:hell yes. and the glass ones are really good. search "glass nail file" and filter by orders. Mine just came in, after a month, and it looks like the abrasive is sprayed on rather than etched. :| I mean, a dollar, but. e: oh, yeah, this poo poo scrapes right off, just from regular use. I took a penny to it and scraped off the surface just as easily. It tears the nail same as sandpaper boards. These are really bad, and every other glass file I see online (not on ali) look identical to these so they're all a total crapshoot. Bummey fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Mar 6, 2019 |
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 04:31
|
|
|
apparently its a thing on amazon too like what the hell https://www.amazon.com/2018-Freshwater-Cultured-Oyster-Inside-Colors/dp/B07CPLNM14
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 04:40
|
|
|
Bummey posted:Mine just came in, after a month, and it looks like the abrasive is sprayed on rather than etched. :| I mean, a dollar, but. bummer, you got ali'd. mine were good?
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:04
|
|
|
I've stumbled across livestreams of people shucking like a hundred oysters and letting viewers buy sets of oysters and get the pearls shipped to them and it's the gently caress
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:08
|
|
|
Yeah, that's a known thing with glass files and very common on amazon, ali, etc. What I did was buy 4 different ones from different vendors -- 3 of the 4 were good, 1 was garbage. Buying 4 from Ali was still half the price of buying just one in a local drugstore. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:13
|
|
|
its like turtle treasures but in real life
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:18
|
|
|
Nature's blind bags
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:23
|
|
|
If you go to a state fair, sometimes you'll see a booth with live oysters. Pick one, they open it, you keep what's inside, and they can turn the pearl(s) into jewelry for you to pick up that evening Would not try to have one live oyster shipped from China, though Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 6, 2019 |
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 05:27
|
|
i like nice words
|
Anne Whateley posted:If you go to a state fair, sometimes you'll see a booth with live oysters. Pick one, they open it, you keep what's inside, and they can turn the pearl(s) into jewelry for you to pick up that evening coward
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 08:42
|
|
|
Warning: May cause Red Tide Poisoning.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 09:23
|
|
|
Charles Bukowski posted:Warning: May cause Red Tide Poisoning. Tide Poisoning is the new Tide Pod 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 11:08
|
|
|
Bummey posted:Someone is straight up selling mussels that may or may not contain pearls like some kind of mystery box They are most likely to all contain a pearl, since the only way you're not getting one is if they accidentally missed implanting a bead or if the mussel didn't survive the implanting process. "Natural" pearls are near impossible to find because the chances of cracking open a clam that happened to have a speck of sand stuck in it at some point are hella low, they're all farmed and the claims in the listing saying it's 100% natural is bullshit. Having said that, I'm intrigued by the idea of digging through rotten mollusc to extract a stinky pearl.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 12:20
|
|
|
Is the scam that they had sand artificially put inside them to form a real pearl "unnaturally" or is the scam that they had fake pearls shoved into them?
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 12:48
|
|
|
BattleMaster posted:Is the scam that they had sand artificially put inside them to form a real pearl "unnaturally" or is the scam that they had fake pearls shoved into them? The scam is claiming the pearls occurred naturally, when yes, they've been seeded. These are two different products - naturally occurring pearls count as a gemstone, and the price is well higher than farmed pearls, but good luck trying to find non-farmed pearls. Also, they claim there's no plastic which is highly unlikely, it takes too long to grow a nice big pearl from a sand grain. They put big plastic beads inside and wait for the clam to give it a thin coating, then harvest. The thin coating means the lustre of the pearl will be poor, and the thin coating will soon rub off, leaving you with ugly blotchy beads. Higher-quality pearls will be left alone years longer, to allow for more layers to form on the bead, giving the pearl a better lustre and durability. Since you can't tell the quality of a pearl here before you open the clam up, I'd be willing to be the quality's not gonna be good. Most people won't know the difference, so it doesn't really matter if you just want to dig for a shiny thing inside a clam.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 15:45
|
|
|
It's oysters, not clams, that produce pearls. It's true basically all pearls start from deliberately introduced seeds. The seeds are usually small spheres of mussel shell, rather than plastic or whatever, due to compatibility. The term is "cultured pearls." It's pretty cool imo, it's been going on for over 100 years. It's not a scam, like 99% of pearls are cultured, although yeah there are levels of quality and no you still shouldn't really trust aliexpress.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 16:21
|
|
|
Scam Clams Boistered Oysters
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 17:23
|
|
|
I have found a pearl in a mussel twice in my life. Almost cracked a tooth once. They were not super pretty, but they were pearls not from an oyster for sure
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 17:45
|
|
|
Yeah true, you can also find them in mussels, just rarer. Looking into it, it looks like the aliexpress pearls are probably grown in freshwater mussels, which I didn't know. Nicer cultured pearls are grown in saltwater oysters, usually individually.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 18:06
|
|
|
heeheex2 posted:Scam Clams hustle mussels bollocks molluscs
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 18:17
|
|
|
phony abalone
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 18:18
|
|
|
bad posts ahead!!! posted:phony abalone lmao
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 19:05
|
|
|
I used to do the pearl thing at the state fair every year when I was a kid. It was fun because I was a weird kid I guess and I liked jewelry. I got twinsies out of one once and got earrings. I still have a little crack baggie of like half a dozen loose pearls from that stuff (along with a big bag of uncut gemstones from one of those "buy a bucket of dirt and go mining" places) my mom found an unopened pearl "kit" at goodwill and gave it to me for christmas last year. it was a box with a crappy little cage necklace setting and then a tuna can-like container with the mollusk in it that you had to pry open. It was in some smelly liquid and pretty drat gross. worth the $5 for laughs
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 19:44
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 19:49
|
|
|
yeah they did that to me on wish, so i quit using it. turns out wish was just a more expensive ali anyway
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 19:56
|
|
|
Libelous bivalves Shell game shellfish
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 20:54
|
|
|
steamed clams
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 21:39
|
|
|
Clams can also produce pearls, I have one from a giant clam but it's a garbage blister pearl natch
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 22:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 12, 2024 00:37 |
|
|
alpaca diseases posted:steamed clams D'oh, no. I said steamed hams! That's what I call hamburgers!
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2019 22:34
|
|
