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It's not even that old. The jewelry companies just spent a lot of money convincing people things where always this way.
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rodbeard posted:It's not even that old. The jewelry companies just spent a lot of money convincing people things where always this way. Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least a month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!"
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Nov 3, 2018 01:51
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least three month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!"
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Nov 3, 2018 02:21
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least a month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!" Interesting read on the ad campaign. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/diamond-de-beers-marketing-campaign https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/
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Nov 3, 2018 02:28
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So is no one going to address how this gently caress skeleton has the shoulders of a linebacker?
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Nov 3, 2018 02:29
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least a month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!" You stopped too soon. You didn't get to the part where they realized they could label and mark up poo poo diamonds that used to be sold cheaply for industrial purposes as "chocolate diamonds", because every woman is obligated to lose her mind at the mere mention of chocolate.
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Nov 3, 2018 03:48
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least a month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!" My fiance and I agreed to get a moissanite ring and even picked it out together, saying "if we ever get engaged we'll buy this one." I thought she was joking when she kept talking about how much she loved the diamond, but she kept telling people that it's a real diamond. At this point, I don't know if I should tell her that it's the exact same not-diamond ring that we agreed on getting I get to be part of the AUG, yay!
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Nov 3, 2018 03:50
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A late friend of mine bought his wife a TV as an engagement gift.
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Nov 3, 2018 04:01
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twistedmentat posted:A late friend of mine bought his wife a TV as an engagement gift. 
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Knormal posted:So is no one going to address how this gently caress skeleton has the shoulders of a linebacker? 
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Nov 3, 2018 07:16
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Wow, look at this guy, not buying an OLED 4K UHD 3D SUV 8FT TV for his fiancée. You clearly don't love her at all. 
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Nov 3, 2018 07:47
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Everything about the wedding industry is a loving ripoff. Few grand for a dress your wear once, any venue/catering service/etc immediately doubles its price when it finds out it's for a wedding, a lovely fruit cake with literally the worst kind of icing (fondant) simply because it can be made to look pretty, etc etc. If my partner and I ever get married we're just going to sign some documents at the town hall and then have a big BYO party somewhere because getting together all your friends and family for a celebration is the only worthwhile part of the process.
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Nov 3, 2018 08:41
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Interesting read on the ad campaign. 
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snergle posted:That poor bird. desperatly needs a vet. beak and feather disease is caused by being a dirty pos. I was thinking the bird is stressed from being forcibly grabbed out of its cage and bullied into saying the n-word on nazi livestreams
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Nov 3, 2018 15:50
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The more posts I read, the gladder I am that I didn't click those links. 
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Nov 3, 2018 16:06
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AlbieQuirky posted:For anybody who cares why I don't like it: three-stone rings aren't a traditional choice for engagement rings in the US (they're marketed as "past/present/future" anniversary rings here) rube
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Nov 3, 2018 16:08
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so what I'm getting from this is that second from the right has the biggest dick of anyone here
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Nov 3, 2018 16:42
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I hd my fiancee pick out the stone, band type, and metal she wanted used for an engagement ring.
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Nov 3, 2018 16:48
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https://twitter.com/CircuitMlp/status/994695406385881088
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bike tory posted:Everything about the wedding industry is a loving ripoff. Few grand for a dress your wear once, any venue/catering service/etc immediately doubles its price when it finds out it's for a wedding, a lovely fruit cake with literally the worst kind of icing (fondant) simply because it can be made to look pretty, etc etc. Used dress stores are also a thing because what do you do with a wedding dress? Get a 2000-3000 for a few hundred if this your thing. My wedding was $700 for food and a bottle of chapmapge per table, a dres, cakes, marriage and officiater liecence, everything.
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pseudorandom posted:Wow, look at this guy, not buying an OLED 4K UHD 3D SUV 8FT TV for his fiancée. You clearly don't love her at all. hey i got her a ring what more do you want
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Nov 3, 2018 17:07
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Mr Hootington posted:I hd my fiancee pick out the stone, band type, and metal she wanted used for an engagement ring. I proposed to my wife at the end of Sims Park Pier in Euclid, OH, Spring of '85 after spitting a bottle of wine. I said, "So do you want to get married?", and she said "Hell yeah". That was 31 years ago. Anyway she picked out her engagement ring, and it was only 1/4 caret because anything larger looked "fake" in her mind. I dunno, I think it was a good plan.
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Nov 3, 2018 17:09
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Picnic Princess posted:I worked in a jewelry store for 6 years and trust me, some women out there will straight up dump you in the store if they get a diamond or set of diamonds under a carat. I've seen it happen. Marketing has gone to these people's heads like you wouldn't believe. If you get less than a carat it means you don't love them. It's insane. My friend was engaged to a woman who set a minimum price on her engagement ring, it had to be at least like $500 more than the one her sister got.
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Nov 3, 2018 17:18
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I proposed to my wife at the end of Sims Park Pier in Euclid, OH, Spring of '85 after spitting a bottle of wine. I said, "So do you want to get married?", and she said "Hell yeah". That was 31 years ago. Anyway she picked out her engagement ring, and it was only 1/4 caret because anything larger looked "fake" in her mind. I dunno, I think it was a good plan. It was. Congrats on 31 years.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I proposed to my wife at the end of Sims Park Pier in Euclid, OH, Spring of '85 after spitting a bottle of wine. I said, "So do you want to get married?", and she said "Hell yeah". That was 31 years ago. Anyway she picked out her engagement ring, and it was only 1/4 caret because anything larger looked "fake" in her mind. I dunno, I think it was a good plan. 
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Nov 3, 2018 17:42
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Lakedaimon posted:My friend was engaged to a woman who set a minimum price on her engagement ring, it had to be at least like $500 more than the one her sister got. I hope his response was to not marry her
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Lakedaimon posted:My friend was engaged to a woman who set a minimum price on her engagement ring, it had to be at least like $500 more than the one her sister got. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha! Then your friend was like "Hmm, maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all." 
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Nov 3, 2018 17:43
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Nov 3, 2018 17:45
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I am, as a goon, honor bound to marry anyone who proposes with the goatse ring. Not a duplicate. The original. And you know exactly how I want you to propose.
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Nov 3, 2018 17:47
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Looks like I gotta start doing my stretches 
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bike tory posted:Everything about the wedding industry is a loving ripoff. Few grand for a dress your wear once, any venue/catering service/etc immediately doubles its price when it finds out it's for a wedding, a lovely fruit cake with literally the worst kind of icing (fondant) simply because it can be made to look pretty, etc etc. British wedding cake loving blows. It was a pretty rude awakening for me after being used to American/Canadian cakes which are (usually) edible. Also the using children to be bridesmaids what the gently caress is that about.
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Nov 3, 2018 17:55
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Wait, are British wedding cakes actually fruitcakes, the dubious 'treat' of western holiday folklore?
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Lakedaimon posted:My friend was engaged to a woman who set a minimum price on her engagement ring, it had to be at least like $500 more than the one her sister got. My dad's bitch of a new wife had never had a real job in her life, lived with her rich parents who were paying for her to just take 1 class a semester endlessly to pretend she was getting a degree and working toward some kind of career. 100% gold digger. I was 11 or 12 when I distinctly remember a demand being made over a board game night. Her ring had to be a minimum of 2 carats. I think the final ring had a custom band, a 2.5 carat stone and another half carat of tiny ones worked into the band design or something. Fast forward to a wedding involving a chartered helicopter landing at the reception to take them to JFK where it landed right at the gate to their flight to Tahiti to stay at Hotel Bora Bora for 3 weeks (this was pre-9/11 and my dad's an air traffic controller.....he loves telling the story of boarding the flight and the rest of the passengers being in awe, it's his favorite story about how important he thinks he is). Even young me knew this was all a giant red flag. I can't even begin to estimate how much he spent on all of this.
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You can have a big fun wedding that is cost effective for what you get, but it just takes work, and what I noticed is that people are either too lazy to bother so they just scale everything back, or they are too inflexible and spend way too much for what they get. My wife found a wedding dress for $300 in a mall store and it looked amazing. She saw a beautiful, 7 tier cake online that originally cost $4,000 and got a little Mexican bakery in San Jose to make a copy of it for a tenth the price. We had catering for 250 people, but it only cost 9 bucks a plate which was a fraction what most caterers cost. So we got to have a fancy big wedding at a fraction of what most people pay. But it was because we were both determined and flexible enough to make it happen, and many other couples aren't either of those.
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Nov 3, 2018 18:09
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He's a dumbass pos for a surprise public proposal, but I thought it was sweet when another dude gave him a supportive hug after being rejected. 
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Nov 3, 2018 19:00
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Dienes posted:He's a dumbass pos for a surprise public proposal, but I thought it was sweet when another dude gave him a supportive hug after being rejected. dudehugs should be encouraged 
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Nov 3, 2018 19:22
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Don't forget champagne diamonds, if you ever wanted to wear something on your finger that looks like the color of warm piss.
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Nov 3, 2018 19:23
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queserasera posted:Don't forget champagne diamonds, if you ever wanted to wear something on your finger that looks like the color of warm piss. I just pee on my fingers. Problem solved.
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Panfilo posted:You can have a big fun wedding that is cost effective for what you get, but it just takes work, and what I noticed is that people are either too lazy to bother so they just scale everything back, or they are too inflexible and spend way too much for what they get. Congratulations on your cheap relationship
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