Did you buy your girl a big rock to ritualize your love for each other? Odds are, she’s daydreaming about fucking BIGDICKENERGYMAGACHAD down the office hall. From the world’s most authoritative journalism source, diamond rings as beta male screenings:
Women expect a pricey engagement ring if their partner is UGLY to compensate for their poor looks
Researchers showed 590 people a photo of an attractive or unattractive person
They were asked what it would take to get engaged to the person in the photo
Men said they would buy a more expensive ring if the ‘girlfriend’ was attractive
Women expected a pricier rock if the ‘boyfriend’ in the photo was unattractive
Ah, complementarity. Diamonds are a girl’s best recompense.
Alpha fux/beta bux field tested and found operative. da GBFM lollzzloled.
The good news for ugly men is that they can buy themselves a hotwife, which once again proves that men can compensate for their looks while women have no such option. An ugly chick can’t do anything to convince an hsmv man to commit to her.
The study also found that women who rated themselves as attractive were more likely to go for larger, more expensive rings, regardless of their partner’s looks.
‘The finding is consistent with the notion that desirable women expect greater resource investment from their mates,’ said study lead author Madalyn Taylor.
Game can save men a lot of money. What’s it worth to you to be able to seduce and sequester hot babes on the cheap?
But there’s a dark side to appeasing a woman’s self-entitled instinct to indulge herself of a man’s earned wealth:
A previous study by economists at Emory University in 2014 found that the more expensive the engagement ring, the more likely the couple would get divorced later.
Once you establish a dynamic of giving a woman everything she wants, she has no reason to work for your love and the challenge of pleasing you goes missing, leaving her adrift in anhedonic limbo, waiting for the first excuse to step out.
A reader writes,
Damn, I must be better looking than I thought. My wife to be only wanted a simple quarter caret ring. I offered more, but that’s what she wanted.
How do you know when you have your girl on lock? She agrees to stay on as your kept concubine for the low low price of your intoxicating cock.
Gave the old wife my grandmother’s ring. Lots of sentimental value, but I can’t imagine it’s $$$$.
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At least Nana took real good care of it. It shows she appreciated your Gramps and his efforts, if the ring survived to make it to you. I bet you anything a modern woman will divorce you and sell the ring ASAP.
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>>> “A reader writes, Damn, I must be better looking than I thought. My wife to be only wanted a simple quarter caret ring. I offered more, but that’s what she wanted.”
I hope your reader is (((a reader))).
Because, for a White man, purchasing (((a diamond))) is an act of treason against Chr!stianity, Western Civilization, and the White Race.
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This is a bit OT, but I think matters in context:
Had a Brother-In-Law in the hospital. My sister (his wife) in several nights of sleep-deprived hysteria, wanted to “pull the plug” i.e. croak him (my words). She’s a nurse. Her husband (a Marine) came out of it and is in recovery.
I was in military medicine. I offered my services and (albeit unsolicited) medical opinions to my parents. My mother stated my sister’s opinions and brought up my (((nephew-in-law))), who is in (((health insurance))), and said she trusted their opinions more.
Now, we’re Irish-Catholics. I never liked my (((nephew-in-law))), for obvious reasons.
I said that neither of them know sh!t. My mother stated that, she preferred their opinions over mine. I stated immediately that I was leaving, because they’re taking (((his))) opinions over family. They both exclaimed, “(((He))) is family!” I retorted in my own little improvised Glengarry Glen Ross speech, complete with watch prop (Breitling) for effect. She apologized for “offending” me. I made no answer.
I’ve made a clean break from them. It’s hard, but I demand total loyalty and allegiance, even from my parents. I’m a #MAGA man, and there can be no compromise with any (((fraud))). We have to make hard decisions.
By all means, take the advice of my (((nephew-in-law))), like (((him))), perhaps respect (((him))), but (((he))) isn’t family, and don’t trust (((him))).
NEVER take sides against the family.
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DA GBFM MAXIM: “Da bigger da cockas da smaller da rockas lzozozllozolzozozozo”
Cororally: DA GBFM’s cockasz so big dat da diamondz he buys his womenz are infintesimal in size.
Sir Isacc Newtonz taught da GBFM about infiinitesimalsz. DA GBFM stood on da shoulderzlzlzo of giants so as to see furtherlzlzozoz
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Da GBFMz stood on the shouldersz of giantz so as to splooge furthersz lzozozllozo
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As times approaches infinity infinitesmall approaches nothingness
Leibnitz stated in his famous theorem which attempted to explain which of our sins brought earthquake to Lisbon
That brings us to the following question
Are diamonds are forever when cockas are yuge?
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“Da bigger da cockas da smaller da rockas lzozozllozolzozozozo”
OH JESUS CHRIST. I LOL’ed.
Will we ever know the true identity of GBFM so that we may thank him properly???????
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Because this is the notoriously leftist Daily Mail who wrote it, I can imagine the derisive smirks of the feminists on staff. On the other hand, a man wrote this, so at least there’s more of a sense of brutal honesty.
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Are you confusing the Daily Mail with the Guardian? The DM is probably the least social justice warrior of the Brit papers.
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Can’t tell the difference anymore to be honest. Then again, the Daily Mail does have a Femail column, so there’s that.
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Anybody care to top (bottom?) my $6 Burlington fake ring that I paid for after she said yes (foregone anyway)
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Experienced machinist here. Made my wife and myself a ring from plain aluminum stock. Material cost = less than 5cents. Going on five years.
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Congrats bro
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nice
perfect combination of showing her you won’t waste money on her but also romantic because you made it yourself. girls love that shiz
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heh. cool
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Wha, no titanium?
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Too pricey, it defeats the purpose of a cheap, easy to make ring.
And Cracker I never thought of it that way when I made it but she did. It endears me much more to her that I made it myself.
Quoras, $6 is impressive too. In this day and age, any man who gets away without buying a ring of gold or diamond has accomplished something worthy of praise; even more so if he did it while circumventing an inherited ring somewhere. The smallest gestures from a HSMV man who doesn’t dole them out often means more than grand standing from a LSMV bafoon.
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Pricey? At the time you made the rings it was probably less than $10 a pound… ya cheap bastid. 😉
Granted, over the past five years it’s gone up to about $30 per pound, but sometimes ya gotta show her that you care. lzlzlzlzozlzozlzozlozlozl
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On the easy to make aspect, it’s about the same effort, maybe a bit slower feed and speed on the lathe. 😉
She can tell her friends it adamantium. lzozlozl
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How about no ring at all. Would not contribute to the Jewish De Beers diamond marketing scam: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/
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I recall reading that the machority of diamonds pass through Israel when they get processed. Go figger.
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Yeah diamonds are shit. I myself wear two rings. One is the recently acquired oura ring, helps with the health metrics. This I also bought for the entire family (mom, dad, wife, brother, but not son he’s only 2)
Other one is a pure 22 carat gold ring with a clear sapphire. I boght in India where labor was dirt cheap and I paid less than $1500 for this thing that most likely will get passed down the generations.
Bought wife some jewelry too earlier this year, but not for appeasement or anything. More like putting some of my own money in gold while letting her have it for an odd occasion or lovemaking session lol.
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that’s exactly what Napoleon got Josephine
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mehhhhh
A pricey rock makes you enviable to the other women who are jealous of your broad.
Trump didn’t cheapskate his wife.
I just don’t get being so afraid of being played for a fool…rid yourselves of these beta thoughts.
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its not fear its refusal to buy something i dont want to buy or need to buy otherwise for no reason.
if i want to buy jewelry or metals or coins whatever, i will. but on my terms, my timeline and my reasons.
what % of his income did trump spend on mellie’s ring?
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Former female coworker had quite the glittering diamond ring but kept her last name. I’m not ring expert but it was quite the rock. And she’s a petite one, too.
Which brings up the question: is it wrong to flirt with m@rried women or does it depend on the level of flirting?
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I use to be very conflicted about this but I’ve squared it in my own mind probably not for the better but simply because I’m so fucking cynical and jaded now.
On the one hand, if you even an ounce of honor you can put yourself in the shoes of the cucked man she is making a fool of and feel regret for even opening the door. On the other hand, to be blunt– “Who bitch this is?” as our homeys would say. I.E. Control your fucking woman.
If you have so little control she runs all over you on a whim you likely should have had the wherewithall to not put a ring on it to begin with.
I’ve been cheated on more than once when I was a younger less aware guy. In -every- case there were easily seen signs that this behavior was quite natural for the bishes involved. I tightened up my radar for sociopathic whoo-ahs and my game. Cheating ceased.
p.s. props to Quora on the 6 dollar gumball machine ring. Any woman of value should care approx. fuck-all about the size of a piece of compressed carbon she wears on her finger.
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i have a similar viewpoint on this. i do feel sorry for men who get used and abused by sloots. i’ve been there and it’s a horrible experience. and in most cases men are only doing what they’ve been taught is right. man up, accept her slutty past, stay committed even if she’s rotten to you, etc
but like you said, he shouldn’t have put a ring on her finger in the first place so it’s sad for him but that’s the price you pay for being a dumbass
also, with regard to the big ring and not taking his name. no man should w1fe up any woman who isn’t thrilled beyond belief to take his name. that’s a HUGE red flag. no name change, no ring, no w3dding. in fact, i would probably dump the chick immediately once i knew her intentions.
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Man, when I have to go back to the commandments to remind youse yeggs how to act, well… this is why we lose.
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery. (it’s the sixth, for the record)
What God has joined let none of you company men… you fairies… put asunder.
(((shakin’ mah haid)))
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you’re right of course GE
however…
the majority of ‘m@rriages’ today have no mention of god in the ceremony, no man of god officiating, no church, nada
half the time people are getting m@rried at the frickin city hall or at a local park with some joker officiating who went online and spent ten minutes getting a permit so he can do the ceremony
in my mind, these m@rriages are not blessed or sanctioned by god in any way whatsoever. all they are is legal/government contracts
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merci
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Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Youse yeggs serve whatever gods or man-made -isms you wish… as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
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i agree with you GE
i am not on the market but if i was i wouldn’t be trying to snatch a m@rried woman. but that’s not the point
my point was…
many people say they are m@rried but they are only legally bound. they are not m@rried in the eyes of god or the church. other religious laws don’t apply to them because, in the eyes of god, they are not m@rried
of course that’s no accident. people who don’t include religious vows, have a man of god officiating, etc do that because they either don’t believe in the need for god to bless their union and they don’t intend to live a god’s m@rriage
i’m not in favor of breaking up anyone’s relationship but i also don’t m@rriages like seriously
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* i also don’t take m@rriages like that seriously
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I understand what you’re saying, Cracker, but God’s commandment says “no adultery”, period… and that applies whether you believe in God or not, and whether the w-e-d-d-i-n-g was religious or secular.
Nothing breaks the peace, hence the cohesiveness of a folk, quicker…
And even God is probably (((shakin’ His haid))) that He had to even mention it, let alone have it chiseled it in stone.
If His Commandments were being given in this day and age, most of ’em would be followed by DUH!
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I steer clear of moralizing to my friends. 2 of them cheat on their wives with regularity (there are extenuating circumstances.)
But I do tell them- you know people get shot over this stuff. You bang another man’s wife, you have no idea what he might do.
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i agree
i’m never going to say adultery is good or that we should condone it. i am a proponent of m@rriage and believe the lack of godly m@rriages in our culture has damaged society immensely
i also believe a secular m@rriage is not equivalent to one sanctioned by god.
don’t know what the rules are for other religions but in the catholic church, a legal m@rriage and a church sanctioned m@rriage are not one in the same.
you can go to the courthouse and file the paperwork to get your legal contract established, but if you haven’t had a catholic ceremony, you are not m@rried in the eyes of the church or god so scripture about m@rriage does not apply to you
same with divorce. in the catholic church you can be divorced legally but not in the eyes of the church and vice versa.
the fact that so many people go through the motions of getting m@rried without the religious aspect and seriousness of the matter is a huge contributor of our decline. and i don’t think it’s an accident. people who get m@rried legally but not under god do that intentionally. they are not committed, they are not in it for the long hall, they are doing it so they can show off a ring and get a tax right off
have also read that civil ceremonies, especially courthouse w3dding have like an 80% divorce rate. no surprise there. get m@rried without god’s blessing and you’re bound to fail
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That’s why they call you Fast Eddie.
Me, I got two friends… pain and a dollar bill.
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To flirt? There’s no commandment against that.
You fuck her you do so at your own risk. Been there, done that, made sure hubby was nowhere around, NEVER at her place.
Worst you can get is to find out she’s m@rr!ed en media res because the mfer comes home. Mfers get shot for that and there’s a special category of homicide, voluntary manslaughter, that takes into account crimes of immediate passion like this and has lesser culpability.
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“I’m too pretty to work”
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‘The good news for ugly men is that they can buy themselves a hotwife’
Bad news is that giant rock is just the price of admission to the Sisyphean appeasement treadmill.
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yep
like rollo says, you cannot negotiate genuine desire.
you may be able to get a girl with your money. but unless she actually desires you as a man, she’ll only be going through the motions. and she will NEVER stop wanting more and more resources, attention, etc to keep her happy.
without a doubt she’ll also be banging her coworker or the lawn boy behind your back whenever she has the chance
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“you cannot negotiate genuine desire.”
this is worthy of a longer discussion.
Cap and I were discussing awhile back that the sweet spot for attraction/genetics seems to be between 8th and 12th cousins. closer than that and obviously you run into problems. beyond that and the person is too distantly related to be considered part of your tribe. you might be turned on by them, but the animal drive to procreate and build your tribe’s legions is not there.
it’s something guys would do well to consider, tuning into which girls are part of your “tribe”, and choosing one of those as your mate. the other things are less important, m@rriage, pointy elbows, etc. you want a woman with whom your sexual bond is so strong that neither of you can do with anything less. you can do A LOT with a girl like that.
if you find that connection it’s a lot easier to follow through on fertilizing her eggs. it’s actually hard to imagine NOT doing it….unless you’re a faggot.
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eh…no it ain’t. Do what YOU want to do. If you want to put a big ring on your bitch or buy her more than skittles for her bd, fuck man, do it. JFC I don’t get this whole “look at me, I’m such a cheapskate hahahahaha”…you’re deprecating your own bitch by playing HER like this.
I’m not saying you throw pearls before swine but come on now….a rock doesn’t turn a bitch into something other than what she already was. Don’t try to buy her love, but if she DOES love you, I just don’t get the utter petrification people around here have with putting themselves out there and taking a risk of getting hurt. FFS, be a man and do it.
It honestly NEVER occurred to me that any girl I’ve been dating EVER would cheat on me. To my knowledge it’s never happened. That’s my frame, bitch you cannot do better, good luck if you think you can. The one time I caught a ho runnin around, she swore up and down she didn’t do anything with the ex, I was like that’s it. Found some messages in the phone, pulled the plug, asked her years later, she still maintains she was innocent-ish, she’s long since marr!ed a different dude. But whatever, I pulled the plug on her, and was engaged. She even tried to come back to me after she was marr!ed lol and I said hell no.
Lotta guys now are getting watches for a wedd1ng gift in exchange for a ring….seen a number of dudes in the better consulting firms sporting these $8000 omegas and shit that their fiancee bought them.
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The wife wears her grandmother’s ring. I didn’t spend a dime.
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best case scenario, tbh
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At an old job where I had access to lots of personal data I used to play a game where I’d guess the square footage of the home a 30+ woman lived in based on her looks alone. I’d also try to guess which of 10 or so residential districts of the city she lived on based solely on her appearance.
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That last part is true. I had an on again off again girlfriend for 3 years. We always seemed to break up around her birthday and valentines day and get back together before my own birthday. Life’s funny like that.
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If love is reciprocal obsession then it is inherently unstable. If a man is obsessed with a woman it will diminish her obsession for him.
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Considering that the value of any given diamond on the market is an absolutely artificially created value – typically set by DeBeers & Company – I don’t understand why anybody with a modicum of intelligence would want one.
Emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and a few other gem-stones depend on their rarity for their value. Diamonds, not so much.
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Old buddy of mine fell for the (((rube))) of spending 3 months’ salary on the eng@gement r1ng. (And/or wedd1ng ring, who the hell knows nowadays.)
He actually said those words, “well, they say. . .” He and a few others were always of the “they say” milieu. I knew that wasn’t right, but didn’t have enough wherewithal now like I do to know who (((they))) are.
Ring was ugly too. Just a giant stone with a boring cut to it.
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who tf is “they”? f all this bs
if you’re gonna buy a diamond make friends with some jewelers and some jews and get a fucking used one off wherever. Buy it from some ho off CL or something, take it to your jeweler, get it verified and lowball the bitch.
Then your girl can wear the big rock, and you can salve your cheapskate urges lol. If your girl has some kinda thing against “someone else’s” rock, get rid of her.
She never needs to know where anything you get her is from, hell you could heist it for all I care. But if you score for ex a Tiffany diamond at some ridic price because you bent over a cancer patient who lost their health insurance, that’s baller af. She will get tons of attention from jealous women (catnip for bitches) and YOU will be the one who got her that. And at the same time you lowballed a desperate person and made a plan come to fruition. That’s win/win/win
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^^^Wherein F-Street proves his (((tribal))) bona fides beyond any possible shadow of a doubt.
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“Old buddy of mine”
One of the moast gut-wrenching aspects of swallowing the Red Pill, and going to That Dark Place, and re-working your Inner Frame, and ceasing to give a d@mn about anything whatsoever – one of the moast gut wrenching aspects is in being honest with yourself about who are really your buddies versus who are actually your enemies.
There comes a point in time when, if a “buddy” won’t swallow the Red Pill, and emerge a better man for it, then he ain’t your “buddy”.
He’s your enemy.
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yeah oblivious, because i use a jew to get something for cheap, i’m part of the tribe? LOL. Or maybe I’m smart.
In favor of diamonds is that they come from conflict zones.
NOTHING polishes a diamond like the blood of a black man. I specifically REQUEST conflict diamonds and I want to know for sure that there are LEGIONS of dead niggers on that rock.
Is three months’ salary really that big of a deal when you can destroy entire nigger societies with conflict?!?! I think not!
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That whole “two month’s salary” thing, around for some decades now, always had me (((shakin’ it))).
You’re telling me a young man just starting out who makes, say, $30K per year should spend $5000 on an engagement ring?
I don’t think so,,, and if your fiance’ sees it that way, then walk away.
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That “Two month’s salary” is now obsolete – the “Rule of Thumb now is a diamond approximately the size of her erect clitoris.. So, choose wisely, brah..
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Not to mention their notoriously ugly labor practices, but as we all know, shitlib/globalistgirl principles vanish faster than Houdini when it’s convenient.
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Game can save men a lot of money. What’s it worth to you to be able to seduce and sequester hot babes on the cheap?
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a wicked tongue and a charming allure beats money game any day every day.
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Try this again. Previous one with image stuck in mod.
Ideal engagement ring? A ring pop. Comes in many colors, looks pretty, she can suck on it in her spare time.
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My fiancée has a simple gold ring with an aquamarine surrounded by a small diamond halo. She couldn’t be happier with the thing, and doesn’t care that the center stone is worth $100 at best. The ring cost less than a grand.
Bonus: Buying a non-diamond gemstone engagement ring is about the most woke and based thing a white man can do against the DeJews monopoly.
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Mine is my birthstone, which I share with my husband. It’s not considered a precious gem, but it’s precious to me.
Once went to an engagement party where the newly engaged couple spent about 80% of the time talking about the ring: how many carats, how much it cost, how they went to great lengths to make sure it was real, blah blah blah. It was a completely joyless affair. The kicker is it was so big and gaudy that it looked like paste jewelry; would never have thought it cost $11k.
PS – Yes, they’re divorced now.
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“The good news for ugly men is that they can buy themselves a hotwife, which once again proves that men can compensate for their looks while women have no such option.”
This is known as a “Wifestitute”.. Credit to: Terrance Popp
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No diamond for my wife. I got both of us plain gold rings from the interwebz for about $700. She was thrilled.
Had experience with materialistic, cheating bishes in the past. Learned my lessons and screened them out like hell after that.
It’s a litmus test. Any women who will flip out if you don’t drop huge coin on a ring ain’t worthy to be your wife. Let some dumb schmuck have her.
Screen this early. Tell her about “your friend” who didn’t buy his gf an engagement diamond because he’s saving for a house and she flipped out. Watch her reaction. If she sides with the fictional diamond-less girl then dump her quick.
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“It’s a litmus test. Any women who will flip out if you don’t drop huge coin on….anything…dinner, drinks, clothes, vacations….and a ring ain’t worthy to be your wife. Let some dumb schmuck have her.”
FTFY
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Once took out a cute girl to McD for a 1st date, she flipped out passive aggressively that I didn’t let her choose where she wanted to go.
Fucked her, sex was horrible, I hard-ghosted her the next day.
She came to my place while I was getting drunk with another chick. Fight, I got slapped, beer got poured all over my bedroom floor, spent 30 mins with both chicks in the bed at one point, bricks were dropped onto my Benz’s hood and boot.
Lesson’s learnt; Never put your dick into crazy. Always screen hard. If you land in bed with two chicks, try to have a threesome, just try.
[CH: if you’re gonna stick it in crazy, you may as well push for a threesome. you can count on crazy chicks to be down with all sorts of perversions.]
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agree 100%…but.
Cmon guys, if you have the money wouldn’t you spend it on a pricey vacation or nice clothes? Not out of obligation but because, well, you want to?
I mean I only will have a gf if she’s hot…i’d fuck less easily but someone i’m seen with regularly, i got standards. These girls look spectacular in expensive clothes, jfc Loro Piana is like kryptonite for me it just makes you look ridiculously better despite however good or bad you already look.
Flying up front is better by far, and I had a girl who was a 10 who was like wtf are you wasting this money for…I asked her if next time she would be ok if I flew up here and she was in back. LOL
I guess I’ve never had a situation where I bought something nice for a girl, and I’ve done it a bunch of times and I’m sitting here regretting it. It’s fuckin money whatever, regardless of how the shit ended between me and her, it sure as fuck wasn’t over a watch or a pair of tiffany earrings. Or wow, me and the latest ex racked up like 11 michelin stars over the past year now she’s gone…hey I ate there too. Not a moment’s regret for these experiences shared
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hey….Try Hard Trav…
try harder.
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“Let the Gascon speak… his accent amuses me.” 😉
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Give her Moisaanite … and keep her moist at night?
https://www.brilliantearth.com/news/moissanite-vs-diamond/
Moissanite was first discovered in 1893 by a French scientist named Henri Moissan, who later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered microscopic particles of the gem that would eventually bear his name in Arizona, in a crater created by a meteorite that fell to Earth. He initially thought that he had discovered diamonds, but later determined that the crystals were composed of silicon carbide.
Natural moissanite is incredibly rare, so moissanite available today is laboratory-created. After many years of trial and error, the particles Moissan discovered were successfully synthesized to produce what is now one of the world’s most scintillating gemstones.
Moissanite is engineered to give the illusion of similarity to diamonds, but is compositionally and visually quite different from a real diamond. The durability, brilliance, and color of the two gems are quite distinct.
For the same size from the top view, moissanites are dramatically lower in pricing than diamonds of that size. Moissanite gems typically vary in price only based on size and whether the stone is premium or super premium.
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What, a ring? Pfft. To my concubine is simply sang
I will pay you more than money…
Not by pennies dimes nor quarters
But with happy sons and daughters …
And they’ll sing around Stromboli
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I didn’t buy my wife a ring when I proposed, or since. I’d like to, but she’s fine without it. And I’m not handsome.
I am a bit of an asshole though. And always made her chase me, although I didn’t know I was doing it.
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Wotan
Leave me in peace: the ring will I hold!
(Wotan turns angrily away from them.)
(The stage has again become dark.)
(From a rocky cleft on one side breaks forth a
bluish light in which Erda becomes suddenly visible,
rising from below to half her height.)
Erda
(stretching her hand warningly toward Wotan)
Yield it, Wotan! Yield it!
Flee the ring’s dread curse!
Hopeless and darksome disaster
lies hid in its might.
Wotan
What woman warneth me thus?
Erda
All that e’er was know I;
how all things are, how all things will be
see I too:
the endless world’s all-wise one, Erda,
warneth thee now.
Ere the world was,
daughters three of my womb were born;
what mine eyes see,
nightly the Norns ever tell thee.
But danger most dire calleth me hither today.
Hear me! Hear me! Hear me!
All that e’er was endeth!
A darksome day dawns for your godhood:
be counseled, give up the ring!
(Erda sinks slowly as far as the breast. The bluish
light begins to fade.)
Wotan
With mystic awe fills me thy word:
go not till more thou tellest!
Erda
(disappearing)
I warned thee; thou know’st enough;
brood in care and fear!
(She completely disappears.)
Wotan
If then care shall torment me,
thee must I capture, all must thou tell me!
(Wotan tries to go into the chasm to stay Erda.
Froh and Fricka throw themselves in his way and
hold him back.)
Fricka
What wouldst thou, raging one?
Froh
Go not, Wotan!
Touch not the Wala, heed well her words!
(Wotan gazes thoughtfully before him.)
Donner
(turning to the giants with resolution)
Hear, ye giants! come back and wait ye!
the gold shall be your guerdon.
Freia
Dare I then hope it?
Deem ye Holda truly such ransom worth?
(All look attentively at Wotan; he, rousing himself
from deep thought, grasps his spear and brandishes
it in token of a bold decision.)
Wotan
To me, Freia! Thou shalt be freed.
Bought with the gold,
bring us our youth once again!
Ye giants, take now your ring!
(He throws the ring on the hoard. The giants let
Freia go: she hastens joyfully to the gods, who for
some time caress her in turn, with the greatest delight.)
(Fafner meanwhile spreads out a huge sack and
goes to the hoard, preparing to pack it all up.)
Fasolt
(to Fafner)
Stay, thou greedy one!
Something give me too!
Justice in sharing fits us brothers.
Fafner
More for the maid than the gold
hungered thy lovesick look;
I scarce could bring thee, fool, to the bargain;
as without sharing Freia thou wouldst have wooed,
if now I share,
trust me to seize on the greater half for myself.
Fasolt
Shame on thee, thief! Tauntest thou me?
(to the gods)
You call I as judges:
say how the hoard shall justly be halved!
(Wotan turns contemptuously away.)
Loge
The hoard let him ravish;
hold but thou fast to the ring!
(Fasolt throws himself on Fafner, who has mean-
while been busily packing up.)
Fasolt
Away! Thou rascal! mine is the ring;
mine was it for Freia’s glance!
(He snatches hastily at the ring. They struggle together.)
Fafner
Touch thou it not! the ring is mine!
(Fasolt wrests the ring from Fafner.)
Fasolt
I have it, fast I hold it!
Fafner
(striking out with his staff)
Hold it fast lest it should fall!
(With one blow he stretches Fasolt on the ground:
from the dying man he then hastily wrests the ring.)
Now gloat thou on Freia’s glance!
For the ring seest thou no more!
(He puts the ring into the sack and quietly goes on
packing the hoard. All the gods stand horrified. A
long solemn silence.)
Wotan
(deeply stirred)
Fearful now, appeareth the curse’s power!
Loge
Thy luck, Wotan, where were its equal?
Much was gained when the ring thou didst win;
but that now thou hast lost it
boots thee yet more:
for thy foe-men—see!—murder their friends
for the gold thou hast let go.
Wotan
What dark boding doth bind me?
Care and fear fetter my soul:
how I may end them, teach me, then, Erda:
to her must I descend!
Fricka
(caressing him cajolingly)
Where stay’st thou, Wotan?
Lures thee not friendly the fortress proud?
Now it awaits with kindly shelter its lord.
Wotan
(gloomily)
With evil wage paid was the work!
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