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McCracAttack posted:
i've never heard of or seen one before, and i'm guessing the point of em is to sell you some dumb bullshit just like 90% of everything else
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Lots of people never take off their wedding ring, like, at all. My father in law can't take his off because he wore it during his first-class cricket career, and now it's more of a D-shape from all the cricket ball impacts.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:30
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McCracAttack posted:
I don't use them myself, but I can think of a couple reasons: Some folks have A Thing about taking off their wedding ring (or their partners do) and these seem like a decent solution to that, or they might be useful when traveling in a high-theft area but you still want to retain the "I'm married" signal.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:31
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Some people like to wear wedding rings. If you're in a profession where a metal ring would be dangerous it's a good option instead of not wearing a ring for half the time (again, assuming you like to wear a wedding ring).
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Oct 2, 2020 02:32
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Arcsech posted:I don't use them myself, but I can think of a couple reasons: Some folks have A Thing about taking off their wedding ring (or their partners do) and these seem like a decent solution to that, or they might be useful when traveling in a high-theft area but you still want to retain the "I'm married" signal. Trapick posted:Some people like to wear wedding rings. If you're in a profession where a metal ring would be dangerous it's a good option instead of not wearing a ring for half the time (again, assuming you like to wear a wedding ring). I've heard that answer too but it never made sense to me because the process is: 1. Take off your wedding ring. 2. Put on this other ring that isn't your wedding ring. Like, you didn't swear to have and to hold your dearly beloved with this $15 ring you got off Amazon. So why bother? I'll accept that this is why these thing exist, I just can't follow the logic.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:37
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McCracAttack posted:I've heard that answer too but it never made sense to me because the process is:
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Oct 2, 2020 02:45
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Trapick posted:Some people like to wear wedding rings. If you're in a profession where a metal ring would be dangerous it's a good option instead of not wearing a ring for half the time (again, assuming you like to wear a wedding ring). I'd probably pick up one of these if I worked in a machine shop. I haven't taken mine to the cleaners for years because having it off bugs me. It's like that dread from a cell phone or wallet being missing but worse.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:55
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I've thought about getting one since my metal ring is almost too big a lot of the time, and since it's tungsten carbide it can't be resized.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:56
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Okay, I'm the odd one out here. Every time I ask about silicone rings I get a bunch of answers just like these that also don't make sense to me. But it's clearly me who isn't getting it. I just can't imagine someone like my grandmother getting mad at my grandad for taking his ring off to work on a tractor but then being relieved when he agreed to wear a milk carton ring around his finger until he was done.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:04
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I don't know about other folks, but if I got a silicon ring it'd be a permanent replacement.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:16
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hooah posted:I don't know about other folks, but if I got a silicon ring it'd be a permanent replacement. That would actually make more sense to me. I've only even seen them like getting ready to go on a mountain bike ride and someone takes off their wedding ring, throws it in their glove box, and puts on a silicone ring. Like, dude, we weren't going to get confused and hit on you during the ride. We've all met your wife.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:20
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McCracAttack posted:That would actually make more sense to me. I've only even seen them like getting ready to go on a mountain bike ride and someone takes off their wedding ring, throws it in their glove box, and puts on a silicone ring. Like, dude, we weren't going to get confused and hit on you during the ride. We've all met your wife.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:29
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McCracAttack posted:That would actually make more sense to me. I've only even seen them like getting ready to go on a mountain bike ride and someone takes off their wedding ring, throws it in their glove box, and puts on a silicone ring. Like, dude, we weren't going to get confused and hit on you during the ride. We've all met your wife. If they're used to having a ring on all the time, then their brain might constantly be throwing the "AAAAAAAAA your ring, you lost your ring, look around and find your ring!" alert. Wearing a dummy ring might turn off that distraction. I've done a similar thing but with a wristwatch. I've worn a watch since I was a kid, it's just part of my clothes at this point. One time my watch broke, and for some reason or other, it was a few days before I could get to the store to pick up a replacement. But going bare-wristed would constantly set off that little alarm in my head, so I just wore the broken useless watch for those few days to shut it up.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:30
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My original wedding ring is somewhere in Neyland Stadium
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Oct 2, 2020 03:34
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Trapick posted:If you time it just right you can pounce on him when he doesn't have one on and bam he's your husband now. Married life is more stressful than I realized.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:36
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My wife and I don’t wear rings because we think they’re gross.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:53
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Gross? My gold ring was probably the most antimicrobial surface I’ve ever worn
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Oct 2, 2020 04:00
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Powered Descent posted:If they're used to having a ring on all the time, then their brain might constantly be throwing the "AAAAAAAAA your ring, you lost your ring, look around and find your ring!" alert. Wearing a dummy ring might turn off that distraction. For me it's this, although my normal ring is wood and my substitute is cheap stainless steel, i just switch it on beach or swimming days My wife also has a substitute ring because she's a surgeon and wants something lower profile for the OR. She says as a woman having something on reduces her male patients' creep levels by half. Old men suck in that way.
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Oct 2, 2020 04:35
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Is there a website to track airplane flight patterns over an area? I don't need it to be live, I just want to see generally where they fly, over a specific area. I want to look at cities and see where planes fly over residential areas.
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Oct 2, 2020 05:07
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El_Elegante posted:Gross? My gold ring was probably the most antimicrobial surface I’ve ever worn Metaphorically gross. A little symbolic chastity belt that also represents like, conspicuous consumption and dowries and wealth consolidation and the raping of the global south. all sorts of hosed up poo poo. Just gross.
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Oct 2, 2020 05:22
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McCracAttack posted:That would actually make more sense to me. I've only even seen them like getting ready to go on a mountain bike ride and someone takes off their wedding ring, throws it in their glove box, and puts on a silicone ring. Like, dude, we weren't going to get confused and hit on you during the ride. We've all met your wife. Maybe you should mind you own drat business.
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Oct 2, 2020 06:41
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Is there a website to track airplane flight patterns over an area? Dunno if they do the heat map style "this many airplanes fly over this area" type things, but I love watching flightradar24 when I'm hanging out looking at the sky. E: forgot about the times we live in lmao live maps are kind of useless lately Jyrraeth fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Oct 2, 2020 08:43
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My wife works for a non-profit and didn't feel it was appropriate to go to the field wearing the (heirloom) diamond engagement ring I gave her. She's also rather sentimental so she asked me to buy silicon rings so she would still be wearing something from me. Then this year she started getting worried that all the hand washing and sanitizer gel she was using was going to make the rings fall off somehow so she wore them here for another four months and kept her other rings safe in a drawer.
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Oct 2, 2020 08:50
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greazeball posted:My wife works for a non-profit and didn't feel it was appropriate to go to the field... I fully accept my case could be an outlier, I just want to know what the stereotype is/what people are supposed to envision when reading greazeball's post.
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Oct 2, 2020 10:36
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I know some people who work in Africa for mining companies who regularly go out and do things like drill water wells and do earthworks for villages where the need arises. I assumed greazeball meant that sort of thing, going and doing humanitarian works in remote locations.
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Oct 2, 2020 10:46
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I have like 5 silicone rings that are different colors so I can look cool. Why would my partner give two shits about what ring I’m wearing? Most of the time we’re not even wearing them, especially at home.
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Oct 2, 2020 12:48
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dirby posted:Jumping off this, but what is the standard implication/thing people imagine when someone "works for a nonprofit"? Because 1. I work for a nonprofit and it's a regular office job and 2. No one around me in the organization does anything I would phrase as "go to the field". Oof, it seems I'm in a bubble here and haven't really thought about how I talk about my wife's work in a while (also I usually just tell people where she works instead of being cryptic about it). We live in Switzerland and there are a lot of international aid organisations here and their beneficiaries are often in emergency situations in African, Asian and mid- or near-Eastern countries caused by wars, natural disasters or ethnic conflicts. She works in comms and fundraising so usually it's just normal office work in town. But she makes annual trips to visit the projects they're financing (she works in a long-term development org now, as opposed to emergency medical where she worked before) so she can document progress and produce better fundraising materials. These are in west Africa in both urban and rural areas. In the past she did logistics work for a medical aid org and those trips included time in some very large refugee camps in east Africa and southeast Asia. I said oof because I feel like I somehow expressed the same attitude as her colleagues in the medical aid org who felt like field work was the only work that counted and that the comms and fundraising people weren't ~real~ members of the org. The projects need their money (which includes field workers' wages!) from somewhere though and important planning, strategic and management tasks get done in head office, even if they aren't emergency pediatric surgeries. It sounds like my phrasing may have belittled the work you and many many many other people do for non-profits so I apologise if that was the case because it wasn't my intention!
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Oct 2, 2020 12:48
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FCKGW posted:Maybe you should mind you own drat business. Nah.
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Oct 2, 2020 14:19
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Why are people so up in arms about other people's choice in jewelry? GOD FORBID PEOPLE DO SOMETHING SO SMALL AS CHANGE WHICH RING THEY WEAR!!!!!!
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Oct 2, 2020 16:18
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I want a new tea mug like this:  But with a fun or custom design on it. Where do I look for that online? Etsy?
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Oct 2, 2020 18:37
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tuyop posted:Metaphorically gross. A little symbolic chastity belt that also represents like, conspicuous consumption and dowries and wealth consolidation and the raping of the global south. all sorts of hosed up poo poo. Just gross. 
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Oct 2, 2020 18:54
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greazeball posted:Oof, it seems I'm in a bubble here and haven't really thought about how I talk about my wife's work in a while (also I usually just tell people where she works instead of being cryptic about it). We live in Switzerland and there are a lot of international aid organisations here and their beneficiaries are often in emergency situations in African, Asian and mid- or near-Eastern countries caused by wars, natural disasters or ethnic conflicts. tell your wife i said thanks yourself buddy
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Oct 2, 2020 19:12
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In Gmail, when you mark something as read without opening it, does it send a read receipt to the sender or perform any other action (for example pulling an image from a server, etc), or does it simply remove the unread flag on the user side?
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Oct 2, 2020 19:37
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Marriage is inherently misogynistic and I have nothing but respect for people who recognize that
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Oct 2, 2020 20:08
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El_Elegante posted:Marriage is inherently misogynistic and I have nothing but respect for people who recognize that Oh really please tell me more that is my stupid/small question
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Oct 2, 2020 20:16
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Oct 2, 2020 20:18
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gonna register my relationship with the government for some reason. it'll take a court to separate us, so romantic
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Oct 2, 2020 20:19
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owlhawk911 posted:gonna register my relationship with the government for some reason. it'll take a court to separate us, so romantic I only married my wife to make sure my son doesn't inherit poo poo when I die. The practical implication is that my widow will not have to sell our future house when I die. We also don't wear rings because who cares.
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Oct 2, 2020 20:25
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BonHair posted:We also don't wear rings because who cares. Tons of people in this thread apparently.
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If all this QAnon stuff began when someone on 4Chan or 8Chan or whatever weird anime/child porn/libertarian militia gun club forum, couldn't that person be located? If these "first posts" by this person are there, can't the feds or even just spunky Internet detectives reverse-locate this person through the IPs and/or what-have-you? I think at this point it wouldn't make a difference, but I wish they would finally link this whole mess to a bored twelve year old who wanted to see if he could mind control people.
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