"Foxy"
Did he just use the word "foxy?"
What are you? 50 years old?
:-]
"Foxy"
Did he just use the word "foxy?"
What are you? 50 years old?
:-]
(I realize I am a ridiculous person making broad generalizations based on race).
Ah, well, that's good. Because you're only gerneralizing about a billion women at a time. :-]
Agreed. For all the righteous grandstanding, I would have thought it would be much more.
Not that I disagree with the principals, I actually live them myself... but FPW, you are way to wound up and righteous.
Hrm wrote:
Interesting thread...
In response to the "sad representational of American women," you can always marry a Canadian. My friend's father did that. They live a remarkably happy and normal life in BC and their children are well-adjusted, sensible, rational, kind children. Are all Canadians like that, no, and not all Americans are to be demonized, but this thread is ridiculous, so there you go.
In response to the resale value of a diamond: It isn't there the way the jewelers tell you it is because even if a pawn shop or a jeweler will buy your used ring, no one else will buy it used.
In response to the ring being what you make of it: My parents were in a similar situation to Flagpole and his wife, and while my mom's engagement ring is actually my grandmother's, the wedding ring itself is just a very thin, very simple band that fit next to the ring. It cost them nothing. Why? The couple who bought a fancy engagement ring had never come back for the matching wedding band because they got married. The entire jewelery industry is based on peculiar supply and demand. Sure, stones are rare, but you can't eat them, feed your children with them, send your children with them, heat your house, take you to work, or enable a family vacation.
In response to Flagpole and saving: Be careful how early you retire. My great-uncle retired 30 years ago when he was in his late fifties and he moved down to Florida. Everyone thought he was the biggest success ever. He and my great-aunt went out to dinner all the time, they went dancing, they joined social clubs, they traveled, everything. And he was still bored out of his mind and felt purposeless. Within a year he went back to work. He used to run an upholstery business, so he worked 3-4 hours every morning for another upolsterer, not because he needed the money, but because he was bored from lack of purpose. It's also the case that the longer you live without work the easier it is for your mental edge to slip. By all means retire!! It's great if you don't need to work you whole life. But retire with a plan for what you will do, because not working--especially if you enjoy work and get fulfillment from it--will be ever-present on your mind.
As for saving, you shoul still save, and you should still save the way Flagpole is suggesting. Sure, you could spend money now and be happy, or you could save it for the day that your loved one is diagnosed with cancer and you have hospital bills that insurance won't cover, or maybe it will be your great joy to tell your son or daughter that you've saved up enough to pay a portion of their children's college tuition bills with your children (their parents), and enable a generation of your family to graduate from college debt-free. That may be one of the greatest gifts of all time. Or you could put seed money down to fix the leaky roof of your church, which might matter a whole lot more to you at 70 than at 30, when it might be the center of your community life. Just because you get older doesn't mean that the opportunities for you to spend--and spend money wisely--disappear.
As for the ring, it's just a ring. It's a piece of metal and maybe a stone or three set in it. What matters (or, at least, what I think matters) much more is that you are getting married, which is wonderful, so congratulations. Make what you want of the ring, but make it what YOU want of it. Not what your friends want and not what these posters want you to want.
Hrm,
No worries mate about my retirement. When I hit 59.5 years of age and retire, that just means retire from HAVING to work. If for some reason I happen to be in a job I LOVE then, then I could always continue working, or I could take a part time job or play blues full-time -- whatever. Just won't need to work full-time anymore. It's the "don't have to" that I'm working towards. Right now at age 40, I still have to. At 59.5 years old, I won't have to.
"If you are worried about eternal things, perhaps you should rethink your position:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Mark 10:25
P.S. Many would say your view do make you a bad person."
In response to Mark 10:25, anything is possible with God.
Sweet. Dualing verses.
More, more, more!
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This topic has taken on a life of its own in many different directions so perhaps this debate is perfectly acceptable within this thread...
wife and I have tungsten carbide bands...that's it. silver color, will never scratch. always a shine. these things are the greatest (just don't ever break your finger and have a need to cut the band off--the metal is about impossible to saw through)
just say no to slave labor and diamonds
Just get a matching tattoo of a ring ........
another rich guy wrote:
Me: XC girl, will you give me a b**wjob for $20?
XC girl: What kind of girl do you think I am?
Me: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.
Adding the missing parts helps the joke to make sense:
Me: XC girl, would you have sex with me for a million dollars?
XC girl: Um, okay.
Me: XC girl, well then how about you give me a b**wjob for $20?
XC girl: What kind of girl do you think I am?
Me: We've already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.
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Hrm wrote:
...They live a remarkably happy and normal life in BC and their children are well-adjusted, sensible, rational, kind children. Are all Canadians like that...
I agree that Canadians, as a group, are remarkably well- adjusted but there is a group out there that is even more systematically well-adjusted than the Canadians? The Norwegians! They're like the Stepford Nation. In all my travels I haven't met a Norwegian that I didn't like. Which of course makes me hate them all the more.
I bet a piece of yarn would make Greta from Norway wildly happy and content.
anybody want to buy a Who album?
My now ex-wife made a big deal out of a ring. Looking back it was a huge red flag and I am now wiser from the experience. We went ring shopping and she picked out a ring that was $20,000. Using the two month salary thing I could afford it but something seemed wrong. She wanted the attention and felt she "deserved" a fancy expensive ring. She made it a point that she wanted that type of ring and would be disappointed with something less. I loved her and thought it would make her happy and bought into the 2 month BS so I bought it for her.
Fast forward, it was too big. It got caught on her clothing, it could cause small scratch marks on other people. She grew unhappy with the ring and had to have the band re-done and changes made. I had to have it insured which was another hidden expense over the years.
Guess what? We got divorced. She took the ring to a pawn shop and it was not worth s h i t. Maybe a couple of grand. She decided to keep it but dosen't wear it (obviously). SO now it sits in a drawer.
I ignored the red flag and bought into the ring garbage. What a waste of money and a bad experience and a hassle. Even if I was Bill Gates I would not do this. Becareful of women who think about things like this...these things do not make people happy.....they mean nothing....they are a waste of money....focus on the relationship not objects. Good luck
Pamela Anderson's Left Nipple wrote:
another rich guy wrote:Me: XC girl, will you give me a b**wjob for $20?
XC girl: What kind of girl do you think I am?
Me: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.
Adding the missing parts helps the joke to make sense:
Me: XC girl, would you have sex with me for a million dollars?
XC girl: Um, okay.
Me: XC girl, well then how about you give me a b**wjob for $20?
XC girl: What kind of girl do you think I am?
Me: We've already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.
That was Winston Churchill and Lady Astor, I believe. And it supposedly actually happened.
Two month's salary my ass. Zirconium!
I got my wife's engagement ring with her money because I dont work-beat that. The rings worth $4500US.
I thought the O.P. had basically supplied the first two lines of the joke.
I paid $2800 for my wife's ring 11 years ago. On our 10th aniversity I asked her if she wanted to trade up... She told me how much she loves her ring and what meaning it has for our years together.
Solid relationships don't need $40,000 rings ever!
Spiny Norman wrote:
How on Earth did this become a 200-post thread?
IT IS SO SIMPLE, PEOPLE!! The price of the ring has a perfect negative correlation with the size of his dick. How can you not know this???
xcgirl, more power to ya! You need to put up with that 5-inch piece of meat for years to come, so of course you deserve that $30,000 trophy!
The only engagement ring I've ever bought was less than $1,000. She still said yes. Let's just say that does not disprove your theory.
hypnotoad wrote:
Well, then you've still got a lot to learn, my fellow sushi lover. Granted, none of the "white bitches" I've dated have been from Southern California, but my Asian girlfriends (two of them from SoCal) have been way more materialistic than my Caucasian reltionships. They've got their indisputable qualities as it relates to spam and clams, but the perception of Asians as these collectivist, non-materialist nirvana seekers is a flat-out myth.
Chinese, Thai, Korean, Philippino, you name it, they're all about the car you drive, the restaurant you pick for Valentine's, and whether you rent or own. And you better f***ing learn to pronounce "Louis Vuitton" correctly!!
Thanks for the heads-up my friend, I must admit I have detected those undertones at family gatherings and the like.
Unfortunately, asian ladies are just so foxy, I don't know if I can ever go back.
I should have learned from the recent motion picture "Bad Santa." ahh....C'est la vie!
asian girls = foxy