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TOOT BOOT posted:It's kinda funny, I got scammed into buying a service plan on our rings. lol so the first time i really financially ate poo poo on this relationship, i misread the "6 months no interest!" clause on the ring paperwork and thought that we could just start paying it off with interest after 6 months. Turns out if you go 181 days without making a payment, they backcharge you the 19% interest rate on the sum, plus "fees", plus random Punishment Charges and chuck it to collections immediately and that's how i ended up paying some bank $1300 on a $700 ring
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we made our rings for eachother there's artists you can hire that work in jewelry who basically let you use their workshop and show you how to do everything and supply the metals, it's much much cheaper than going to the jewelry store plus it's cool you get to measure out the flakes and melt them into a bar and then roll it out and stuff, takes all day tho
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Apr 18, 2020 01:02
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:we made our rings for eachother i really wanna do that old sailor thing and make a ring out of a nickel or whatever. it's cute and is super labor intensive for a worthless item so that's extremely on brand for me
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Apr 18, 2020 01:04
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Jonny 290 posted:i really wanna do that old sailor thing and make a ring out of a nickel or whatever. it's cute and is super labor intensive for a worthless item so that's extremely on brand for me probably all you need is the torch and a tapered metal rod for shaping and sizing it with a hammer though it'd be a good excuse to get a rolling mill
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Apr 18, 2020 01:09
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wedding cakes are the biggest scam and people. Go insane over them but the only time I've had one and it's been nice was when it was like a generic sponge or something. or the one that was a tower of cheese that was good. now that I think about it I don't think I actually had any of my own wedding cake but otoh we got cheap comedy children's cakes from the supermarket and stacked em up because gently caress spending money on that instead of on booze.
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Apr 18, 2020 01:09
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my cake came from a bakery in Berkeley I don’t remember the name of
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Apr 18, 2020 01:12
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went to a wedding at dinosaur bbq once it was good
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Apr 18, 2020 01:16
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haveblue posted:went to a wedding at dinosaur bbq once every wedding my new york friends have had has been catered by dinosaur bbq its a solid choice
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Apr 18, 2020 01:21
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is it better to have loved and to have lost or to have never loved
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Apr 18, 2020 01:35
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Uptime Sinclair posted:we had a wedding of 50 and our total budget was $10K canadian. we kind of forgot to factor in tax but otherwise it still feels like money well spent. everyone liked the food and said it was one of the better weddings they’ve been too, which is at least kind to lie to my face about like i’m some kind of rear end in a top hat it was about the same for us. we had it at an art museum and it was rad and everybody had a great time. we even took out a loan (horror of horrors!) and then I paid it off when i started getting paid to touch computers a few months later 🤷♀️
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Apr 18, 2020 02:07
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my sister in law is a professional pastry chef so she made the wedding cake and a groom's cake as our gift. it was loving awesome, those cakes would've been way out of our budget if she hadn't been like "I got you"
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haveblue posted:apparently I've only been to classy weddings, what's the cake smashing thing it’s some poo poo where the man is supposed to demonstrate that he now owns the woman but she displays a rebellious streak by smashing cake and frosting on each other’s faces in front of family and friends so the bride and groom both look like two year olds in front of family and friends. unbelievably it’s even dumber than it sounds when i described it.
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Jonny 290 posted:lol so the first time i really financially ate poo poo on this relationship, i misread the "6 months no interest!" clause on the ring paperwork and thought that we could just start paying it off with interest after 6 months. Turns out if you go 181 days without making a payment, they backcharge you the 19% interest rate on the sum, plus "fees", plus random Punishment Charges and chuck it to collections immediately and that's how i ended up paying some bank $1300 on a $700 ring I think this is how mattress companies make their money. They offer you like 4 years of interest free financing, but if you miss a single payment or are late even once then that deal becomes void and they backcharge you all of the interest for the entire period at some insane rate. The reason they do such a long time is that then it's some piddly $25 payment every month and they just catch people who switch banks or get unlucky, which increases in probability the longer the terms are.
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Apr 18, 2020 02:46
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i have not got married but ive been to plenty of weddings and my criteria for rating them are, in order: 1. is the bar free for long enough that everyone can get shitfaced 2. is the food half-decent 3. literally anything else including whether an actual legal marriage takes place imo if you can't afford 1 and 2 then cut your guestlist until you can, and if that means it's you, your spouse and two witnesses getting drunk in a medium-fancy restaurant then that's preferable to the alternative of guests paying for their own drinks before midnight
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Apr 18, 2020 03:33
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My parents got married in the forest and everyone had to literally camp out overnight to sleep off the drunkenness (the wedding party stayed in cabins)
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ShadowHawk posted:My parents got married in the forest and everyone had to literally camp out overnight to sleep off the drunkenness (the wedding party stayed in cabins) a guy i worked with told a story about how he went to a wedding at someone's house where they had an enormous backyard, and part of the invitation was that guests should bring camping gear and stay the night after the reception. everyone was all "woohoo camping!", but when it got late literally everyone except my friend packed up and left. so he woke up the next morning by himself in a sleeping bag on the lawn. i don't think he even knew the bride and groom very well. they invited him in for breakfast with the family and then he went home
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Apr 18, 2020 04:11
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ShadowHawk posted:My parents got married in the forest and everyone had to literally camp out overnight to sleep off the drunkenness (the wedding party stayed in cabins)
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Apr 18, 2020 04:15
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PCjr sidecar posted:the cake smashing thing is stupid in the cursed images thread i once saw a birthday party video where someone smashed the person's face into the cake, but it was one of those fancy cake wars cakes and it had a wooden dowel hidden in the middle to hold it together and it went right in her eye. i will never, nor will i let anyone i know, smash a cake
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Apr 18, 2020 04:38
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the cake smashing fucks up the bride's makeup which is no joke a big deal because, even if she didn't spend an hour+ on it and possibly pay money on professionals for it +hair earlier that day, it's a massive dick move because that means she's gotta go clean up and redo it in the middle of the reception whilst wearing a expensive wedding dress and also it's an event where people are constantly taking pictures and, you know, humiliating your wife indelibly isn't a great way to start a marriage for the groom the prep is like, a haircut earlier that week and then probably a fresh shave that morning that you did yourself, and your main worry is getting a handful of $500+ wedding cake smeared on your rented tux
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Apr 18, 2020 05:37
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big scary monsters posted:i have not got married but ive been to plenty of weddings and my criteria for rating them are, in order: lol i once officiated a wedding where i had to drive back down the following week for a quick do-over because the dipshit couple got their marriage license the night before in a state that has a three day waiting period also the one marriage i officiated that has since ended in divorce (another has turned poly, the other five are still doing well)
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Apr 18, 2020 08:09
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I had never never heard of wedding cake smashing before this thread. I wonder what other absurd things never percolate to my side of the atlantic ? Usually my media consumption means I'm pretty familiar with typical us customs, like not looking at explosions or finding the president etc
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Apr 18, 2020 08:22
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The cake smashing sounds like something japan would come up with for a tv show or a porn video.
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Apr 18, 2020 08:24
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instead of smashing cake in each other’s faces me and my wife will simply throw eggs at all our guests.
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Apr 18, 2020 08:36
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Stereotype posted:instead of smashing cake in each other’s faces me and my wife will simply throw eggs at all our guests. lol. power move.
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Apr 18, 2020 10:33
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hopefully the eggs are rotten so it’s not wasteful of fresh eggs that could feed people
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Apr 18, 2020 12:21
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i remember being blown away by how much the wedding was going to cost me i'm glad i didn't actually have to go through it, and got all the deposits back.
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MononcQc posted:hopefully the eggs are rotten so it’s not wasteful of fresh eggs that could feed people what you too good to catch wedding eggs or something
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the cake smashing thing is derivative of the feeding first piece of wedding cake to each other at the reception ha ha how outre how rebellious and performatively wasteful we are and now its a tradition its genx as gently caress boomer: feed me cake, spouse genx: ha ha smash millenial: uh zoomer: whats a wedding reception
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Apr 18, 2020 15:23
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never married who gives a poo poo we been together 12 years regardless
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born in a chapel raised in the nave the white trash cake smash is all I crave
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Apr 18, 2020 16:50
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the first data from the serological survey from santa clara county is back, they estimated like 3% of the population has had it, but there are some good reasons to think their estimate is high and it could be as low as 1-2%. another study estimated the prevalence at 4% of the population US-wide, 2% excluding new york. compare that to iceland which had 5% infected already last time I looked, spain that has something like 15%, and the hardest hit parts of italy which are 50% or more. it means the US still has lots of new infections ahead of it.
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that's unsurprising; flattening the curve means extending the timescale too. if the isolation measures continue to work as they have in california, healthcare systems won't be overwhelmed but this will continue chugging along for months.
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DuckConference posted:the first data from the serological survey from santa clara county is back, they estimated like 3% of the population has had it, but there are some good reasons to think their estimate is high and it could be as low as 1-2%. another study estimated the prevalence at 4% of the population US-wide, 2% excluding new york.
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Apr 18, 2020 18:27
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haveblue posted:born in a chapel
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DuckConference posted:the first data from the serological survey from santa clara county is back, they estimated like 3% of the population has had it, but there are some good reasons to think their estimate is high and it could be as low as 1-2%. another study estimated the prevalence at 4% of the population US-wide, 2% excluding new york. the stanford one? yeah its trash they got a lovely sample then ‘corrected’ (inflated) their numbers a lot based on hunches. the lead researcher is sketch as gently caress as well (three weeks ago he was pushing no deaths) now mammonites are using it as ammo to relax restrictions
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PCjr sidecar posted:the stanford one? yeah its trash https://twitter.com/alanmcole/status/1251493794039705600?s=21 https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1251332447691628545?s=21
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it doesn't matter the rates because we cant test for poo poo and dumbshit states/large companies will open up business too quickly with the new federal guidelines and we will spike again. it seems like to me theres a non zero chance in the summer/fall we'll be dealing with a second wave of corona and 50 or 60% U6 unemployment.
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power botton posted:it doesn't matter the rates because we cant test for poo poo and dumbshit states/large companies will open up business too quickly with the new federal guidelines and we will spike again. almost certainly
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haveblue posted:born in a chapel
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is it possible to purchase monitors and poo poo still?
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