Lightning Scorpion pet 1100 points, golly gosh thats crazy

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

I always thought it was 1-2 months salary.

The "one month's salary" thing was started by a successful advertising campaign by De Beers Group - the major sellers of diamonds (clearly they weren't biased at all).
Since then it seems to have expanded as people took that as a baseline and wanted to show off more, anything form 1-3 seems to be recommended today from what I can see.

I consider this all bullshit, made up by the people selling you the expensive diamonds to guilt you into paying way too much for them - because, well, it is. As you said earlier in the thread, the gesture should be what's important, not the price tag.

This.

And diamonds being the main stone is also a creation of De Beers. Plenty of engagement rings pre-1900 were simple metal or had other gemstones. Diamonds are also not nearly as rare as De Beers would like people to believe.

Finally, lab created stone are chemically identical to those found in nature, can be created to be flawless, and sell for much less than those found on the Earth.

It's all marketing hype.

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Loreweaver wrote:

See, tactically, you introduce her to the conspiracy early in the relationship, and bring it up casually every so often to further ingrain the idea by the time you actually want to propose.

Y'all better prepare yourselves because I'm going to blow your minds and win you the girls.

- Read this

- Create many ads centred around exposing the falseness of the diamond monopoly; be subtle about this (don't just write 'DIAMONDS R DUM'), do your research.

- If you really want to cross over into psychopathic territory, pair these ads with more ads that remind her of you/things you do/things about you she loves just to really cement that love.

- Whenever she brings up the De Beers and diamond shit ("I saw something interesting on facebook today..."), act uninterested, or as if you're barely paying attention.

- When the time to propose comes, propose with a beautiful ring that has her favourite gemstone (because it is love, after all)

- After the moment has passed and she asks about the process of buying the ring or decision behind it, tell her that you care about what she cares about; she opened your eyes to the child slavery used by De Beers, you didn't want to support a company or industry like that, American corruption, she makes you a better person, etc.

You're welcome.

On-topic: what was the topic, again?

EDIT: Right! Lightning scorpions. Pretty steep but lovely to look at.

And if you give her the wrong Diamond Ring...

...There are no Chaos Orbs.

I had always assumed, from a rather young age I might add, that the 1-3 months Salary was the guideline for a much less capitalistic or sinister reason.

You have expenses every month, even optimistically saving 25% of your income each month it'll be 4months - 1year before you've been able to save up enough. And it was precisely that TIME INVESTMENT I had assumed the guideline was about (as a very poor man's 2 month salary is perhaps the weekly take for a very wealthy one, but my making it a sliding metric the time invested becomes a more universal constant) Certainly Marriage is not something that should be decided lightly, and I guess I did, and still do see the time invested as a sort of failsafe, IF you realize you want to marry the fine miss Fairchild, well keep at it for half a year and if you still want to marry her it wasn't a fleeting fancy or an impulse.

Also prior to turning 19 years of age I thought a 'Shotgun' wedding was so named because it happened in a damn hurry, not because it was a union made under duress of buckshot.

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Nubatron wrote:

I just looked up a ring that is 1/3 my yearly income. Yeah, never in a million years.

No trouble there.
I can probably find some discarded tinfoil somewhere and make a ring from it :D.
The lightning scorpions does look nice, but it's nothing compared to a baby rhoa.

Where I live (US) I thought wedding ring should be equal to around 3 to 4 months of the income.
I don't think that's bad tho, since the bribes family is covering most of the wedding cost unless something has changed.

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Mikrotherion wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

I just looked up a ring that is 1/3 my yearly income. Yeah, never in a million years.

No trouble there.
I can probably find some discarded tinfoil somewhere and make a ring from it :D.
The lightning scorpions does look nice, but it's nothing compared to a baby rhoa.

I will absolutely buy up any tinfoil you have. That's easily worth 3x your annual salary. Why wear a tinfoil hat when you can have a tinfoil tent or cabin.

As for the diamond market:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Funny enough, the ones we make are better but worth less.

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mark1030 wrote:

I bought the Lightning Scorpion during the Black Friday sale. What else ya gonna do with points when you don't want any more stash tabs?

*gasp* there are ppl who don't want more stash tabs? blasphemy i say!

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Pewzor wrote:

Where I live (US) I thought wedding ring should be equal to around 3 to 4 months of the income.
I don't think that's bad tho, since the bribes family is covering most of the wedding cost unless something has changed.

The wedding ring?? God no. Most wedding rings are fairly inexpensive (assuming just gold, no diamonds or other stuff), in the $100-$300 range (per ring). Different metals (titanium, tungsten, platinum, etc) and fancier metalwork can drive the price up to $600-$800 per ring (I mean, you can drive the price up as stupid high as you want with various options) which is what my set cost (platinum, celtic knotwork design, made in/shipped from Ireland to the US).

Edit: I'm assuming you meant "bride's family". While that still seems to be on average the case, I bet we'll see the continuing trend towards that not being the norm. We paid for our own wedding pretty much (some small help from each set of parents).

He meant the engagement ring, but you knew that.