Posted on 01/06/2007 7:44:37 PM PST by blam
"And now that you've hijacked this thread ( another NO NO and absolutely against posting rules )and tried to makes it all about you, you, YOU, I suggest that you go talk with your wife. Perhaps she doesn't give you the attention that you feel that is your due and that is why you are hectoring women here; we are her stand-ins. Well, go take out your misogyny on her."
Nothing personal here, eh?
Do you realize that all I need to do is quote you to make you look like a fool?
"So go ahead and talk to yourself. I however will not bother reading it. Have a nice life Junior."
Hey, thanks for giving me the last word, senior. If I'm your junior, you're no spring chick, hun!
You have the unmitigated gall to call me childish and rude when *you* were the one who asked if I got my wife's engagement ring from a "crackerjack box." (As if it was any of your business anyway!)
If you were as mature morally as you are in years, you would apologize to me rather than trying to bullshit me and everyone else here with your pathetic bluster.
There, I got the last word. But somehow I bet I'll hear from you again. I know your type.
nope, only 21
How would anybody know?
Thanks Bernard!
I'm completely with you on this issue, Russ. I'm a woman, and have been married 14 years, and never have owned or wanted a diamond. When my then fiance asked me what kind of ring I wanted, I told him, a gold band. We picked out a ring together, one that has a pretty design to it, and I have never regretted the decision.
Back then, the campaign deBeers was running showed a photo of a diamond ring, with the text, "Is too months salary really too much to spend on something that lasts forever?" My reponse was, and still is, a resounding YES!
I think it makes me a wiser consumer, one who is not as easily duped by silly marketing gimicks.
I certainly think you and your husband have the right to buy each other whatever you want, though.
I do object to all the characterization of women (not necessarily by you, but in this thread) as shallow and materialistic, who need expensive little pretties to keep them happy.
Well, it gives men a nice excuse: "Honey, let's just live together...I won't marry you until I can afford to buy you the diamond you deserve! It's a matter of principle." ;)
I've seen that "characterization" coming mostly from men who didn't want to spend the dough, on this thread. I agree it's up to couples, what they want to buy - if anything at all.
It's interesting, though, that people do make relationship judgments based on what's on one's finger. I have a fairly large sapphire, and four rows of diamonds in the engagement and wedding bands. A woman (stranger to me) saw them one day and said, "Oh, you have beautiful rings - your husband must really love you." I'm happy to say that he does, but it's not based on what he put on my finger.
I guess you could say I didn't want to spend the dough, and I'm sure he was relieved not to have to. Who wouldn't be?
If I have been standing next to you in line, the women might of told me my husband didn't love me at all, based on the retail value of my ring. ::eyeroll::
Women have the option to do what I did - choose another stone. When I got engaged, colored stones were substantially cheaper than diamonds. There's nothing "magic" to me about a diamond per se; I have enough that I've inherited, so I didn't "need" one as an engagement stone.
I would hope she wouldn't have said anything of the kind! I was kind of taken aback at her assumption of the quality of the love = the quantity/size of the stones!
Or to not choose a stone at all.
yeah.. i found that out when i bought my first wife a (lab created) colour change alexandrite set. I asked about the difference between them and real ones, the jeweler laughed and said he couldn't afford to have that set in his shop if it were real.
it was still a beautiful set. :)
Hey, thanks for the encouraging words. I know there are many women out there who don't fall for the diamond ruse -- the notion that only a diamond can prove your love.
"Back then, the campaign deBeers was running showed a photo of a diamond ring, with the text, "Is too months salary really too much to spend on something that lasts forever?" My reponse was, and still is, a resounding YES!"
I'd call that the deBeers stupidity tax, or tithing for billionaires. What a pity that so many fall for it.
ROFL!!
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