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Betty_Boopie ,

Good news! This ring also comes in fuchsia pink with piss yellow sapphires:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dc61c5aa-13ae-4eb7-83c3-c644606cb92c.png

yuri ,

yella rubies glistenin like PISS

rustydrd ,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

JFC, does this guy specialize in making rings that look like shit?

Betty_Boopie ,

I feel like even calling this a ring is an insult to actual jewelry

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8f1ea17e-c4db-4c08-9abb-651dad275ca0.png

Valmond ,

When you want a ‘no’

Melatonin ,

Life tip: if you don’t already KNOW the answer is yes, don’t ask. It’s too early.

workerONE , (edited )

I had a girlfriend asking me like twice a week for a year- when I was going to propose and then I did and she said no. Edit I’ll add too for your consideration the fact that months earlier I had asked her what she wanted for Christmas and she said a ring, so we looked at rings and then I bought one for her and when I gave it to her for Christmas she was upset that I didn’t propose.

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

When they ask you like that… it’s the queue to have a conversation on the F-ing subnect. What are your hopes and dreams, kids, quick wedding or elaborate… you know… discuss what the future would hold together.

Once you have had those conversations you also know what the answer to a proposal will be.

workerONE , (edited )

We did all of that but then her mom got her into the church again and she decided she wanted someone who went to the same church and after she said no she told me maybe if I joined her church. Her church beat two children to death trying to expel demons and the pastor had a big private jet so I couldn’t join that church. Edit: besides the church thing, she didn’t believe in evolution and wasn’t going to teach her kids that evolution was real, a big problem for me. I might delete this stuff later, I never share online

ElJefe ,

Sounds like you dodged a large bullet there

KellysNokia ,

Or speedrun the rejection with a ring from Claire’s 5 for $5

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t even get how it’s iron man 3 themed? The Mk 42 was mostly gold

This looks more reminiscent of the suit he wore at the beginning of Iron Man 2

The_Picard_Maneuver OP ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe that’s why she said no.

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t marry this man! He doesn’t even know his iron man suits!

CheeseNoodle ,

I think its based on the chest reactor?

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

i will never understand that stupid craze about expensive engagement rings… i engaged to my wife without a ring. It was just a very emotional situation, i was sure that i wanted to ask her… and then i just asked. No ring, no special event planned out or something… just asked her, and she said yes.

People paying cars worth of money for a ring is so unbelievable for me.

deegeese ,

“Once upon a time” an expensive engagement ring worked as a sort of bride price and was a hedge against the risk of premarital sex.

Drusas ,

How does buying/wearing a ring prevent premarital sex?

yeather , (edited )

Back in ye olden times, you would pay a bride price to the parents of the bride, both symbolizing the eternal debt you owed to your wife and as a way to show you had plenty of money to spare to take care of your wife. You would then give your wife a dower, sonething they could hold onto in case you lost all your money or she became suddenly widowed. This historically was property but became rings or jewelry with expensive stones. The wife would take the dower as a sign she would no longer need to worry, and in exchange be a maiden on her wedding night. These practices were only for the wealthy, until indistrialization brought the practice to a growing middle class. Then, in the early to mid 1900s, marketing campaigns began associating the price of a ring to the love you felt for your wife, leading us to today.

cobysev ,

Back when my wife and I were still dating, she found a cheap ring she loved. It was just a normal jewelry ring with her favorite stones in it, not a fancy engagement ring or anything. But she loved it so much, she told me that if I ever proposed to her, she gave me permission to steal it from her and re-present it as an engagement ring. Which I did.

I felt bad about it though. I took the ring to propose, but my plans fell through and it took me a few more days to arrange a new proposal plan. She had forgotten all about our conversation, so the whole time she was tearing the house apart, looking for her favorite ring. She loved that I “found” it and gave it back to her with a proposal.

sicarius ,

I gave my wife a ring made out of coconut. Cost me $2 and she instantly dropped it off the balcony if the resturaunt we were at. The Thai owner of the place climbed off the balcony into the boulder field underneath and spent 20 minutes looking for it. Even after I explained that it was only a cheap coconut ring. He said the price isn’t the point, it’s the memories!
He found it, what a legend.

bane_killgrind ,

I carved a wood ring for her, and she was surprised I popped the question after I was carving it in front of her and sizing it against her finger

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

sunset, silver ring. cost me about $20.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I got my fiancee a gold cat bell instead of a ring. Granted it was a bit pricey but it has special meaning to us and it was definitely not worth cars amount of money like some people spend.

SpaceNoodle ,

Plus it’s harder for her to sneak up on you now

bastion ,

The real benefit.

Grimy ,

I got mine cat ears and she got mad at me.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The industry programmed everyone to pay silly amounts for a ring.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

I mean, it’s at least worth the value of the stones and the raw materials of the band if it’s recoverable without it all being red. But that is some “Holy Autism, Batman,” levels of understanding what women, or any halfway average person would want.

gibmiser ,

I like this therefore you must also like this.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Guy must be really poor because this looks like something that cost 20 bucks on Wish.com.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

He didn’t say what he made in 18 months. He might just sell Santa themed toilet seat covers during the holidays and isn’t aware of how to advertise.

crimsoncobalt ,

I don’t know what you’re talking about. Art Masters Jewelry is amazing. Just look at this masterpiece: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3efeb592-1fd0-47dd-883a-18b630df5f7b.jpeg

More of them here: artmastersjewelry.com/…/engagement-rings/

eestileib ,

That would be incredibly inconvenient to wear, but I don’t think it looks terrible.

fartsparkles ,

Yeah I mean come on, this is absolutely stunning /s

Image

eestileib ,

Well yeah that one’s ugly.

kautau ,

That ring is going to drug and rob me and be gone when I wake up in the morning

urheber ,

thats gonna hurt Like hell, look at those sharp edges.

BrowseMan , (edited )

Ouah… 138 pages of rings ? I’ve only checked a few and didn’t find anything I found nice.

Won’t waste more of my life to see if there actually is though.

yuri ,

It is pretty, but:

  1. Colored rhodium is garbo, that plating will wear off faster than you’d think. Regular ass white rhodium is already the most expensive precious metal, 1 gram suspended in plating solution is nearly $500 COST. I’ve literally never heard of a store having anything other than white on hand.
  2. ALLLLL of their products are only represented with 3d renderings. This is a HUGE red flag. If someone isn’t even bothering to have physical models of their products made, they have no way of guaranteeing the quality of those products. It looks snaggy as fuck, and it probably is because they never actually made one to try on!
  3. Jesus christ imagine wearing that thing. The tongues on those snakes would be fucked IMMEDIATELY. The spikes on top of those prongs would get absolutely ruined in between ripping apart every piece of fabric you moved it near. If you ever need ONE prong retipped you’ll either have to lose the spikes on all of them, or just deal with them mismatching. That WHOLE ASS HEAD is so atypical and seated strangely that even IF you managed to wear it for years, long enough to necessitate the kind of general maintenance all jewelry eventually needs, you’ll end up getting shrugged at and told “yeah I don’t know how anyone could work on this”. Even IF you got someone to work on it, that finish is gonna need touched up, which is AGAIN, something no one outside of the manufacturer will do for a reasonable price. There’s not even a good way to strip off the existing rhodium, so you’d end up with black shit stuck in all the crevasses.

I think they’re very striking, but I swear to god y’all, my store will get at least one flyer every week from some new manufacturer with a line EXACTLY like this. Buncha whacky way-off-the-beaten-path design choices, there’s no actual pictures of anything, and the markup is frankly embarrassing. Regular ass jewelry stores like mine could have this shit custom made as a complete 1-off for LESS than what they’re selling it for, don’t buy jewelry online folks 💖

shuzuko ,

Holy balls, I didn’t even zoom in to look at the prongs on that serpent ring. That’s the kind of design made by someone who only ever designs shit and never has to work on the physical product. It looks cool but no one will ever bother to attempt to recreate that if they need to do maintenance. Plus I could easily see the little circles just, bending off and OOP, there goes the stone. There’s a reason prongs are designed the way they are.

Fucking design nerds 🙄 and I say that as someone with more design experience than practical experience - but at least I fucking listen to actual bench jewelers when I do my CAD work.

shuzuko ,

Jfc

So, my husband is a jeweler. We recently started our own business (mostly repairs right now). These things are largely poorly designed and way overpriced for what they are. Plus, there’s a lot of bullshit like “14k black gold”, which isn’t a thing. It’s possibly 14k white or yellow gold with black rhodium plating, which will wear off in about 2 years and need replating. And there’s one with a 1.5ish carat diamond and a few melee marquis, with no other detailing or anything particularly interesting other than the “14k black gold” bullshit, and they’re trying to sell it for over $10,000 usd. Fucking LOL. This site is trash.

themeatbridge ,

I feel like the jeweler should have stopped him.

Stern ,
@Stern@lemmy.world avatar

The customer is always right in matters of taste. He wants an ugly ring? Jeweler should try and steer him away… but if homey is dead set, get paid in advance and make sure they sign off on the design.

taladar ,

I mean to be fair 99% of those rings look ugly.

ByteOnBikes ,

I’m with you on this - I think most jewelery is gaudy AF.

But eye of the beholder and all.

themeatbridge ,

Yeah, but like… Bruh, are you sure she’s as into Iron Man as you are? I know it was your first date, but she’s going to have to wear this everywhere. She’s going to show it off to her friends and family and coworkers. This bright red abomination that looks like it came in a box of cereal, that’s going to cost at a minimum $50 thousand dollars. Are. You. Sure?

BugleFingers ,

I am always wrong in matters of taste. This is why I get other people to do all tastes for me. This includes my wardrobe

SARGE ,
@SARGE@startrek.website avatar

in matters of taste

Oh my god I just felt my chest release slightly with a tension I didn’t even know was there.

I never hear the full sentence, people always just cut it off 5 words in for some reason…

Blackout ,
@Blackout@fedia.io avatar

The only thing that is real is that ring

ByteOnBikes ,

Who is to say he didn’t? He probably told him this isn’t going to work out the way he thinks it will, but Delusional Man said, “Bet” and gave him a bag of money.

themeatbridge ,

Good point, you’re probably right.

errer , (edited )

Customer: Did you do it?

Jeweler: Yes

Customer: What did it cost?

Jeweler: Everything

Kecessa ,

I’ve got a friend who’s a jeweler and if he’s asked to engrave something where there’s a typo he won’t say a thing, he does it as is and keeps a copy of the original to show the client if they come back, it’s not his place to question them.

Asafum , (edited )

That sounds kind of petty to be honest. I’d just send an email or leave a voicemail and wait a day as long as I can still meet whatever deadline I had set. Everyone makes mistakes and it seems like it would be hard on everyone involved to have to do it over again.

If it’s a name, then yeah I wouldn’t question them though lol

AhismaMiasma ,

That’s a shit jeweler just begging for less return customers.

Ain’t gotta make a big deal of it either. Just ask, “Okay so you want, ‘No ragrets’ engraved?”

ArbitraryValue ,

Who is more pitiable? Him or the woman who dated him?

glimse ,

The people who believe it

zurohki ,

Are you saying people would tell lies?! On the internet?!

glimse ,

No, I would never say something like that!

ArbitraryValue ,

Shhh, you’re ruining my fun.

ByteOnBikes ,

I just had this thought where what if it wasn’t a real date, like she went on a group outing and he concocted this whole thing as a “romantic gesture”?

Maybe I’m reading too much incel lore.

MrJameGumb ,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

It looks like a giant whitehead pimple lol

MacAttak8 ,

I never would’ve seen that without your comment. Now I can’t unsee it!

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