{"id":262,"date":"2011-10-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=262"},"modified":"2011-10-11T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:05:20","slug":"diamonds-are-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds are forever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Or so Sean Connery would have us believe, the Lying, Caledonian prick.\u00a0 It turns out the half-life of crystalline carbon isn\u2019t in fact limitless but is finite, i.e. not \u2018forever\u2019.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never trusted that man, any individual that bangs on about his place of birth and how good it is to be \u2018Scottish\u2019 when you spend all of your time on the Moon is clearly a top grade knacker.\u00a0 \u2018Moon Man Connery\u2019 needs to get a grip, take a look at the real world and the people within it, and the laws of degradation, wear and decay!\u00a0 Diamonds, Emeralds, Opals and even Jade all have a limited lifespan.\u00a0 They don\u2019t live longer than trees or planets or ex-Tory prime ministers, they eventually fizzle out into their base elements and form you, me, him, them or the others.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s carry this on.\u00a0 The very idea that ANYTHING can live forever is a most ridiculous idea.\u00a0 If Shaun Connery (of 1 Moonville Avenue, Moonville, Moonshire, The Moon MN1 0ON if you want to write) seriously thinks this, he should have the time awareness lobe of his brain removed and transplanted with a piece of haddock.\u00a0 Uncle Shawn\u2019s fish lobotomy would be a welcome bit of brain surgery given his immense naivety concerning the concept of eternal stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Lets sum this up in a nutshell, and let\u2019s get Connery in from his moon patio where he drinks his moon cocktails to listen.\u00a0 This nutshell only lasts a few lines and words and is therefore FINITE (Connery).\u00a0 It is a synopsis.\u00a0 Connery?\u00a0 You lie and are ignorant.\u00a0 You living on the Moon in your Moon Mansion is all well and good and I\u2019m sure it is a lovely property, but don\u2019t rub it in our faces.\u00a0 Get into your moonmobile and leave us normal Earth-folk alone.\u00a0 Finally, and most importantly of all, please, please, please do not lie to us about the lifespan of precious gemstones again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Or so Sean Connery would have us believe, the Lying, Caledonian prick.\u00a0 It turns out the half-life of crystalline carbon isn\u2019t in fact limitless but is finite, i.e. not \u2018forever\u2019.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never trusted that man, any individual that bangs on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-nonsense","category-rant-tenuous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}