To see pics of Mariah Carey's new necklace all over media and think that life is just un-fucking-fair

[Vagabond]

I don't like Mariah Carey to start with. I possibly hate James Packer even more.

Their alliance, played all over the media, makes me feel sick.

I just hate the inequality in life. A bauble to MC could save so many lives if it were converted to something good.

[kali110]

I'm really disappointed with that necklace. For that price i'd want something a lot bigger and shinier!

[Mrsjayy]

I quite like it i thought it was going to look like she had half a diamond mine round her neck i didnt know she was divorced from Nick Cannon never mind a new boyfriend.

[Mrsjayy]

Vagabond life is unfair people are starving in the US while ms carey has diamonds I think you need to try and sort that out in your head tbh people usually pay things forward im sure Mariah will do the same

[Vagabond]

Am flouncing.

This thread is everything I hate about Mumsnet.

Back tomorrow!

:)

[cashewnutty]

Well you started it!

[ThoseAwfulCurtains]

Aww OP, are you okay?

[Mrsjayy]

Urm erm ok

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

You're flouncing because posters have shrugged their shoulders at you regarding very rich people spending their own money on diamonds?

Okay.

[CatMilkMan]

YABU it's none of your business.

[Daisygarden]

I understand what you're saying Vagabond, but your argument is so simplistic/naive it doesn't carry weight.

[pigsDOfly]

So you're flouncing because people don't agree with you?

For a start the necklace is worth $500,000, that's Dollars, not even Pounds.
That's a pretty small amount to spend on a necklace when they're so rich. The whole thing seems quite restrained to me.

Your OP did come across as jealous Vagabond talking of their alliance making you feel sick and how you hate James Packer, whoever he is; never heard of him personally.

I think it's strange to feel so bitter about people you don't actually know and have never met.

It's their money. Nothing to do with you.

[emotionsecho]

Agree pigs I cannot understand such visceral hatred for people you don't know.

I'd like to know from the OP just what she deems acceptable for $500,000 of someone else's money to be spent on.

[Sazzle41]

So she is rich, so what. Maybe she gives to charity. Her entourage alone is about 20 people who she give employment. Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest woman in the US and has spent millions on charities for education, children and the New Orleans disaster rebuild: she bought its volunteers a new car each and a holiday.

Some of us are rich some aren't. At least a lot of them do have a social conscience (sp)? and give back.

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

Come on Vagabond , stop flouncing! Just think of what the money for that necklace has gone towards - providing for others! That $500,000 has gone towards paying for other peoples livelihoods, which in turn means towards their homes, their food etc etc So it all distributes in one way or another. Every single thing we buy, whether it is a physical thing or a service redistributes our money to others and helps them live.

[Icelandicsuperyoghurt]

If you have a roof over your head, food on the table every day, access to health care, clean running water, millions of people worldwide would think that what you have - v - what they have, is fucking unfair. Which it is.

[Daisygarden]

Vagabond it does seem though like your dislike of the celebrities in question and their alliance have influenced your sense of the perceived injustice.

I think you should ask yourself why you opened your OP with your dislike of MC and JP and their alliance. I think you are fooling yourself if you don't think that has relevance to your injustice/whatever you want to call it.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Yes yabu, totally ridiculous and I'm pleased you've flounced. Hopefully you'll have a good think during your flounce about your ridiculousness.

[CitrineRaindropPhoenix]

Actually op, while you're flinching how about you google the Vatican art collection and St. Peter's and leave poor MC alone.

[CalmYourselfTubbs]

i certainly don't envy mariah carey.
clearly she has sacrificed her sanity over the course of the last two decades.
she's mental.
and how bloated and overfed she looks.
i feel sorry for her.

[Mrsjayy]

Mental bloated and overfed lovely

[Hygge]

I don't like that necklace. It's a very disappointing half a million. I was expecting her to be loaded up like a christmas tree.

But OP I think you could apply your argument to just about anything any of us buy for ourselves, even if we have much smaller budgets. Not just jewellery but stuff. Anything. A magazine, a coffee from Costa or Starbucks, a new pair of shoes when we already own shoes, anything.

You could say that since we don't actually need most of this stuff, we'd be better giving the money to charity than getting anything for ourselves.

It sounds like she already gives to charities, as I'm sure everyone on this thread does. But not many people give every spare bit of money they have though, be that 50p or £50,000.

I think you're posting from a good place but it's not just her, it's most of us, she's just doing it on a far bigger scale and I don't think she's done anything to be judged for.

The money she's wearing around her neck would change our lives for years and the inequality can seem harsh, but she's successful because people buy what she sells, and as people have said, if she's paying her taxes and not looking for loopholes, the rest of her money is hers to do as she wishes with.

[kali110]

I think she looks great. Mental? How lovely

[Becauseicannes]

I wouldn't want Mariah's life. Didn't she has a very public breakdown after she was dumped by her record company? It must be horrible to realise that people only are nice to you when the going is good. I am glad she bounced back though and showed them - you go girl!

[sweetgrape]

Yanbu,I too hate the inequalities in life.The fact that she works for her money and pays tax doesn't make it right.

[SrAssumpta]

I see where you're coming from OP but I think YABU, if I was wealthy I would donate a LOT but I would also buy myself lots of nice things, have cleaners and cooks etc. It wouldn't make me less of a good person.

You could apply that to everyone if you wanted to, why not sell your 2012 car, buy a nifty 00 run around and donate the rest to charity etc