Where I come from nobody really gives a flying fuck if the diamond is real or not.
When it comes to stuff you give to someone, it's all about the meaning you and that person give to it.
At the end of the day, the intention is what really matters and the intention is to give something to your partner which means your commitment to them. Doesn't matter whether it costed you $1400 or half a million. If it's a diamond crafted inside a lab,a rock brought from the top of the Everest or some rock you found in your yard.
All it matters is the meaning you give to it.
But then I remember we live in the shitty boring year of 2017 where there is a collective need for turning even the smallest and tiny details of life into a massive dickwaving contest.
In one side of the sprectum you get people who need to brag about everything by constantly posting how much money they're spending and dress their partners in the most expensive attire and garments known by man, not because they really love them that much, but because they gotta show off to their shitty co-workers or other miserable people they live with how much wealth they have and how better they must be living.
Those people would call 'Tradition' anything as long as they have an excuse to do something that makes them look superior or unique compared to the rest of the population. For them it's not about culture, it's just a complex way to appear unique because deep down they can't accept the fact they're just ordinary people.
Then there is the people who do the opposite, they want to prove others how superior they're are by not doing what the majority does and not sticking to 'traditions'. They talk about complex feelings and desires, when in reality their lives are so simple, all they need to survive is be validated by their group of people who do the same thing.
Where I come from nobody gives a fuck if you buy an expensive diamond or if you're way too smart and modern and working at Mc Donalds (which for some reason people seem to constantly use as an insult or as a negative thing) and would rather spend your money on a different thing for your partner.
Honestly, as long as it's your cash, you're allowed to spend it the way you want.
Off Topic:
People here also don't give a fuck that you work doing retail or flipping burgers at McDonalds (McDonalds burgers are expensive as fuck in Mexico, I would consider it as a rich people's junk food imo). In fact it's a pretty good thing as opposed to having no job at all.
[QUOTE=Pie_Tony;52471206]I'd want a wedding ring made out of a meteor and bismuth.
Now that'd be a ring.[/QUOTE]
Fuck yeah bismuth looks awesome.
Honestly one thng that always made me kinda' sad about the whole diamond ring 'tradition' thing was the fact that really it kinda' precludes every other possible gift of jewelry that you could get, like there are some seriously cool stones and minerals out there but of course we gotta' get the totally clear one on a gold band and [I]everyone[/I] has to do the same thing because if you don't you're 'weird' or something. And that's before you factor in all the shitty economics and the blood diamond thing.
Bleh.
Diamonds are boring to look at. Other gems are a lot prettier
Tbh
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just saying
The boyfriend and I have been considering stuff like that for down the line. Things that are totally different and far cheaper. Neither of us wants anything with a stone on it.
[QUOTE=J!NX;52471660]Tbh
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just saying[/QUOTE]
But what are their stats? :v:
[editline]22nd July 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=laserpanda;52464904] but I don't get why other people liking diamonds is so offensive.[/QUOTE]
Because you're being scammed. Like it's even worse than Beats by Dre and Apples stuff. You're paying out of your ass for nothing at all. Even then Apple actually gives you something that's nice and useful at the same time
[QUOTE=TippZ;52471431]is this some American "tradition" that you have to buy a very expensive ring, or else you're a loser who doesn't love or care for your wife?
over here it's more common with just a ordinary ring and no one's gonna tell you otherwise[/QUOTE]
basically a good ad campaign in the 1940s set the whole market up in the US involving diamond rings, some countries followed.
[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/[/url]
this is the biggest scam since the yellow yam scam in 2009
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