Santa Nailed to Cross in Protest

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2007-12-23 04:29pm

Sapphires and rubies are actually more rare.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2007-12-23 05:30pm

Ah, it's about time someone executed-in-effigy the God of Capitalism for his aiding and abetting of the most heinous crimes against humanity, nature, and common sense, and the most cancerous society in the history of the planet!

Are you always on?

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2007-12-23 06:04pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Honestly, I have bigger problems with the diamond cartel's manipulation of the engagement ring mythos than I do with the commercialization of Christmas. At least the retailers don't insist that you must spend a minimum of two months' wages on Christmas gifts.

Considering that the only people who will know the cost and your monthly salary are you and your fiance-to-be, anyone who is stupid enough to believe that deserves to waste the money.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-12-23 06:10pm

HemlockGrey wrote:
Ah, it's about time someone executed-in-effigy the God of Capitalism for his aiding and abetting of the most heinous crimes against humanity, nature, and common sense, and the most cancerous society in the history of the planet!
Are you always on?

Yay, someone took the troll bait!

Post by **Gandalf** » 2007-12-23 07:44pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:
Ah, it's about time someone executed-in-effigy the God of Capitalism for his aiding and abetting of the most heinous crimes against humanity, nature, and common sense, and the most cancerous society in the history of the planet!
Are you always on?
Yay, someone took the troll bait!

Huh?

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-12-24 01:17am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Honestly, I have bigger problems with the diamond cartel's manipulation of the engagement ring mythos than I do with the commercialization of Christmas. At least the retailers don't insist that you must spend a minimum of two months' wages on Christmas gifts.
I actually sort of feel sorry for straight men over this one.

Huh? I've seen plenty of gay couples with shiny rings. I remember on the news when Massachusetts decided to allow gay marriage both male and female couples had them.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2007-12-24 02:26am

Adrian Laguna wrote:
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Honestly, I have bigger problems with the diamond cartel's manipulation of the engagement ring mythos than I do with the commercialization of Christmas. At least the retailers don't insist that you must spend a minimum of two months' wages on Christmas gifts.
I actually sort of feel sorry for straight men over this one.
Huh? I've seen plenty of gay couples with shiny rings. I remember on the news when Massachusetts decided to allow gay marriage both male and female couples had them.

No real cultural pressure, tho'.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-12-24 03:50am

General Schatten wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Yeah, right. You needed clairvoyance to see what should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain, right?
Whatever, Wong, I can't help you if you don't understand that language can be interpreted entirely different ways depending on tone and body language, both of which, again, can not be observed in a text only format.
You actually think you need to go through someone's posting history to confirm that he does not have a serious general policy of approving the abuse of children?
You're seriously going to stand there and tell me you've never run into one of those people who like to torture and abuse their children attempting to say it 'toughens them up'?
You did not ask for clarification about whether he seriously believed it was good to mentally traumatize children. You asked why he believed this. What, you think I can't just scroll back up this page and see how full of shit you are?

I love the way you accuse me of trying to "save face". Nice case of projection, kiddo.
You're acting just like a fundie of accusing your accuser of what only you are doing.

Notice I simply asked why he grouped it in the good category, I did not expressly say that he believed it. Again, nice attempt.

Fine, kiddo. Go ahead and pretend that any reasonable person could have read his post and said "Hmmm, it looks like he might have a general policy of advocating the abuse of children! I better ask him why he has such a horrible policy!"

It's pretty obvious that you think you can just argue your way out of your own embarrassing stupidity.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-12-24 10:59am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Huh? I've seen plenty of gay couples with shiny rings. I remember on the news when Massachusetts decided to allow gay marriage both male and female couples had them.
No real cultural pressure, tho'.

Yeah, I don't think there's very many men who would break down in tears, convinced that they weren't loved just because they didn't get a diamond.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-12-24 12:13pm

Uraniun235 wrote:
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Huh? I've seen plenty of gay couples with shiny rings. I remember on the news when Massachusetts decided to allow gay marriage both male and female couples had them.
No real cultural pressure, tho'.
Yeah, I don't think there's very many men who would break down in tears, convinced that they weren't loved just because they didn't get a diamond.

I don't see what the problem is with that. If your fiance acts like that, you should count yourself lucky because you got an early warning sign that you chose the wrong girl.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2007-12-24 04:21pm

Honestly, I'm looking for a girl who insists that I don't buy her a diamond ring, on account of the fact that DeBeers makes Halliburton look like a neighborhood lemonade stand.

At my last job, one of my coworkers married a graphic designer, so her wedding ring had three stones on it, a ruby, an emerald and a sapphire (RGB).

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-12-24 04:59pm

Durandal wrote:At my last job, one of my coworkers married a graphic designer, so her wedding ring had three stones on it, a ruby, an emerald and a sapphire (RGB).

OMG, that is so geeky. I love it!

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2007-12-24 06:21pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Durandal wrote:At my last job, one of my coworkers married a graphic designer, so her wedding ring had three stones on it, a ruby, an emerald and a sapphire (RGB).
OMG, that is so geeky. I love it!

Everyone got a kick out of it when we saw it.

And it's way more personal and meaningful than the typical metric of "Oh look at the size of this diamond".

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-24 09:52pm

It took me over 5 hours to get that joke. I'm ashamed of myself.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-24 09:54pm

Wedding rings have stones?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-12-24 10:03pm

Lady's ones do.

Sapphires. It's all about the sapphires.