@llangley If you are on a PC with a mouse pointer, hover over the star and it will reveal a window layer with the user ids of the people that starred the message.
@llangley Thanks for telling me about the press and hold method, I didnt know that. Did not know of any way to see who starred a message when using a mobile device until now.
@canuk I have two terrible “lost my wedding ring” stories and one mildly amusing “didn’t lose my ring” story. (yes, I am the lunkhead husband that lost his ring twice and am currently on ring # 3)
Playing basketball, I dislocated my ring finger. It looked gruesome as the middle bone was nearly side-by-side with the bone where the ring is. A trainer was able to pop the joint back into place, but in the subsequent haste of taking off the ring and getting the finger iced down, I somehow lost the ring.
I lost ring #2 at the bottom of the lake while water skiing.
When we first got married, I had a hard time adjusting to wearing a ring. I fidgeted with it all the time. During the first few months of marriage we were at a baseball game, waiting for the national anthem to start. In the near silence, the poor schmuck behind me dropped his wedding ring and the whole section could hear it go “ding-ding-ding” as it bounced down the aisle. My wife glared at me as I pointed to my hand and vigorously shook my hand to indicate “not me”.
I’ve been wearing the garter belt of the bride of the last wedding I attended as a kind of Rambo-esque headband for the last 17 months. It could probably use to be wrung out.
@tinamarie1974 she’s one of the titans: has rhinos for breakfast, yanks trees out of the ground with her bare hands and this one time she shoplifted the entire city of Duluth. People were all, “Where’s Duluth, it was right here?!”, but she brought it back the next day.
i don’t wear a ring, i’m not legally married, but i am taken with no plans to marry sometimes one of us gets asked if we’re the other’s spouse and we usually just say yes or some variation on “might as well be.”
@cadmore
To clean his lathe spindle John Herning
Inserted while it was still turning
A finger, alack,
Which he didn’t get back.
To manage with nine he’s now learning.
@cornchip No. Fortunately, I’ve still got all 10, present and accounted for. Day ain’t over, though.
Buddy lost part of one changing a band saw blade. Whenever I think about slacking on PPE or practices, I think about him. Adjusts my priorities quickly.
@cengland0@RiotDemon I don’t wear nitrile gloves around spinning things. I assume they’re thinner and break more quickly than a silicone ring. If it gets caught in something and remains intact long enough to pull your hand or arm closer to the equipment, it may be a good idea to leave it off.
@cadmore@cengland0@RiotDemon I think tattooed rings aren’t a bad idea. I mean…if you’re gonna get married, why not make a real commitment!? Plus, you avoid all the “accidentally ripping off your finger with a bandsaw” problems.
@cadmore@cengland0@RiotDemon@UncleVinny I switched mine to my right hand since I am left-handed, after I almost ripped off my finger trying to pull a backboard out of the storage slot under the bench in an ambulance at a wreck scene. One of the screws was slightly protruding and caught on my ring…
When I got married I got an engagement and wedding ring set plus a plain band for every day because fabric and thread catch on rings when working. Eventually, the band was too tight so I switched to a silver band of hearts that my husband gave me about 10 years ago.
@Gypsigirl213@Limewater I’ve never polished it. I’m sure inside of the hearts could use a good cleaning. @tinamarie1974 I did consider it but I have mostly tarnished silver jewelry.
I wear my wedding band and an “engagement” ring every day and have for the past 18 years. I say “engagement” because hubbie upgraded my diamond ring after a few years. I loved the original one but he wanted to get one a little bigger while he was on a trip and surprise me with it.
My original wedding ring was a little too loose. I had never worn a ring before, and a properly-sized ring felt really claustrophobic.
Years later I lost it while taking my daughter on a walk in the winter. I remember taking my gloves off and making a snowball to throw out on a frozen pond. It might have gone with the snowball, or it might have slipped off somewhere else.
I never found it again and replaced it with a steel band a half-size smaller. If I’m going to be losing these things, I’d rather lose a cheap one.
@jcroxmisox whew… that’s some self-assuredness right there! My co-worker went that route. Good for you guys. I don’t exactly love wearing a ring, but I do like the physical/material aspect of it.
@cornchip It’s been 8 years we’ve been married now. I can honestly say it’s by Christ alone that we’re still together and thriving even for this long, definitely nothing that he or I are capable of doing. My assurance is not in myself, is my point
@jcroxmisox That’s beautiful! I love celtic designs, and have considered getting a celtic pattern inside the cross I have tattooed on my back. In time, I suppose. Thanks for sharing!
Yes. I wear a tungsten ring for work. I have a wood ring that is made from a springfield 1903 rifle stock and a ww1 wool us army field shirt. Rustic and main makes them. pretty cool. Cant wear it at my plant though as it will get damaged
Yes and I still love my rings 15 years later. Love, love them. Good thing since I’ve gained about 25 pounds since then and taking them off is not easy now.
I was married for seven years and got used to wearing a ring. After the divorce, I saw a deal on a tungsten carbide 8mm, so I got it for my right ring finger. Wore it for a few years (handy bottle opener) until I lost it at the beach a few months ago.
Haven’t cared enough to replace it, but I still freak out every once in a while when I notice it’s “missing.”
@medz@PocketBrain My wedding ring is completely covered in scratches on every exposed surface. The only place it’s smooth is on the inside that is only visible if I take it off.
I prefer it this way-- it now has a natural matte finish.
Technically mine had to be cut off because I got fat and my hands swelled. But I now wear my deceased grandfather’s ring as my own. Therefore I don’t, but I also didn’t pick it out per se… Oh well, I chose #1
@mike808 The ring says, “I’m not a threat, ladies.” Before she knows it, you’ll be sharing a complimentary breakfast at the local motel.
Works every time.
My wife picked ours out. They’re sterling silver and cast from intertwined willow twigs. We wrote the cheaper metal into our vows, pointing out that you can take gold for granted, but silver will tarnish if you neglect it, and made it a metaphor for a healthy marriage.
My wife and i don’t wear wedding rings. Meh, could you please sell some cheap ass gold plated CZ bands that we can buy to show our love for each other?
I had a $50 titanium ring from Walmart. The only time I almost lost it was when I was in Iraq. I took it off to more comfortably wear gloves on patrol. I hung it on a large bolt in my work area thinking I’d easily recall where I left it. The next day I realized that I had misplaced it (read, ‘forgot I did that’), and it took several hours to find it. Funny, my wife at the time was freaking out on me, asking if I was cheating, putting me through the ringer as to why it was off in the first place.
Her ring is rather special. It started as a cheap ring from Amazon, with a middle sized but cheap diamond. We were rather poor starting out. A few years later, I had both my grandma’s rings, and she had her mom’s mom’s ring. We had all the relevant rings melted down, all were 24 karat white gold. We had two bands made from the metal of all four, with the “engagement” ring consisting of the three largest diamonds and the wedding band having the smallest inset with some flakes/chips from my mom’s mom’s ring flanking it.
Having a custom ring made was cheaper than I expected, which I found interesting. We might have gotten a deal because the jeweler was a friend of my wife’s family, but I’m not sure. Either way, it was a significant ring, sentimentally, to us.
I wonder how many times she nearly lost it while taking it off to fuck other dudes. She’d have it off for days here and there, sometimes weeks, and I never really wondered. I just thought the ring was too tight from the weight she put on during pregnancy. She has had a hard time losing the weight, and her fingers are larger as a result.
Now I can’t get it back (ex-wife won’t just give it back, and legal routes to get my parts back are expensive) and I may lose both my grandmothers’ diamonds. I took a sledge hammer to mine, hardly dented it at all. Titanium is tough. I ended up just throwing it away. I looked up how easy it would be to launch it into the sun, apparently that’s really difficult. It makes sense now, but I hadn’t ever really thought about it.
There’s no point to the story. I just thought it was strange enough to post, I suppose. Y’all seem to like strange.
@MagnaVis perhaps ypu should have left the ring on the bolt.
Reality is when people are super tense with worry that someone is doing something (ie cheating or lying ect) often they are doing exactly that.
Where’s the “No, I’m not married” option?
@cengland0 THAT
@cengland0 guessing purposely left off to mess with people
@cengland0 I’m not married and there’s no option for me on the coveted Meh poll
@cengland0 Came here to ask this. Glad it’s the first reply!
@cengland0 That’s the greatest comic ever.
@cengland0 well hello there
to all the guys that stared this
@CaptAmehrican @cengland0 how can you tell if they’re staring?? And, what, no love for the gals??
@llangley If you are on a PC with a mouse pointer, hover over the star and it will reveal a window layer with the user ids of the people that starred the message.
@cengland0 lol, I knew that. Also if on a phone you can click and hold to do the same, just be careful not to star (or stare) yourself
The “gals” comment was for kidding @CaptAmehrican since she was lurking for the unmarried guys
@llangley Thanks for telling me about the press and hold method, I didnt know that. Did not know of any way to see who starred a message when using a mobile device until now.
@CaptAmehrican How dare you vaguely flirt with single guys during NNN?! Shame.
@cengland0 @llangley nope not into the gals
@CaptAmehrican @MagnaVis
this is what I meant to say
@CaptAmehrican @cengland0 oops, wasn’t implying anything. See above
I have a great/terrible “lost the wedding ring” story, but my wife got me a different ring so now what do I do?
@canuk oh my gosh. What a conundrum!
“Lose” it again, @canuk.
@canuk I’m in a similar position, though I picked out my replacement ring myself. I selected that I wear it.
@canuk I have two terrible “lost my wedding ring” stories and one mildly amusing “didn’t lose my ring” story. (yes, I am the lunkhead husband that lost his ring twice and am currently on ring # 3)
When we first got married, I had a hard time adjusting to wearing a ring. I fidgeted with it all the time. During the first few months of marriage we were at a baseball game, waiting for the national anthem to start. In the near silence, the poor schmuck behind me dropped his wedding ring and the whole section could hear it go “ding-ding-ding” as it bounced down the aisle. My wife glared at me as I pointed to my hand and vigorously shook my hand to indicate “not me”.
Sometimes, the wedding ring is a sex symbol.
But far, far less often than you’d think, @hchavers.
@haydesigner @hchavers
But far, far less often than you’d ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ hoped,
FIFY
I’ve been wearing the garter belt of the bride of the last wedding I attended as a kind of Rambo-esque headband for the last 17 months. It could probably use to be wrung out.
Does that help?
@UncleVinny that sounds like a BIG garter belt!!
@tinamarie1974 she’s one of the titans: has rhinos for breakfast, yanks trees out of the ground with her bare hands and this one time she shoplifted the entire city of Duluth. People were all, “Where’s Duluth, it was right here?!”, but she brought it back the next day.
Tessa! Such a prankster.
@tinamarie1974 @UncleVinny wait are you talking about the garter, or the garter belt?
@moonhat @tinamarie1974 garter belt. To be clear, it’s waaaay bigger than my head.
@UncleVinny I love Duluth! My great grandma used to live there. I’m glad she brought it back.
Actually haven’t had it off in probably 15 years…Wait…feeling claustrophobic all of a sudden…passing ou…
i don’t wear a ring, i’m not legally married, but i am taken with no plans to marry
sometimes one of us gets asked if we’re the other’s spouse and we usually just say yes or some variation on “might as well be.”
@jerk_nugget Some jurisdictions, you answer in the affirmative enough times, you are.
@cadmore @jerk_nugget, and in a number of places in the US, if you cohabitate together long enough… You are legally married anyway.
(Common law marriage. Usually about 10 years or so, but can vary.)
@cadmore @haydesigner yup! unfortunately, MA is not a domestic partnership state.
Lathes, routers, ‘n rings make for a bad combo.
@cadmore And working on live electronics.
@cadmore
To clean his lathe spindle John Herning
Inserted while it was still turning
A finger, alack,
Which he didn’t get back.
To manage with nine he’s now learning.
@cadmore @cengland0 what about the newer silicone rings?
@cadmore learned the hard way like me?
@cornchip No. Fortunately, I’ve still got all 10, present and accounted for. Day ain’t over, though.
Buddy lost part of one changing a band saw blade. Whenever I think about slacking on PPE or practices, I think about him. Adjusts my priorities quickly.
@cengland0 @RiotDemon I don’t wear nitrile gloves around spinning things. I assume they’re thinner and break more quickly than a silicone ring. If it gets caught in something and remains intact long enough to pull your hand or arm closer to the equipment, it may be a good idea to leave it off.
@cadmore ooh I haven’t cut anything off yet thank god; just incorrectly sized my own wedding band…
@cadmore @cengland0 @RiotDemon I think tattooed rings aren’t a bad idea. I mean…if you’re gonna get married, why not make a real commitment!? Plus, you avoid all the “accidentally ripping off your finger with a bandsaw” problems.
@cadmore @cengland0 @RiotDemon @UncleVinny I switched mine to my right hand since I am left-handed, after I almost ripped off my finger trying to pull a backboard out of the storage slot under the bench in an ambulance at a wreck scene. One of the screws was slightly protruding and caught on my ring…
When I got married I got an engagement and wedding ring set plus a plain band for every day because fabric and thread catch on rings when working. Eventually, the band was too tight so I switched to a silver band of hearts that my husband gave me about 10 years ago.
@callow Does the silver ring tarnish? Do you have to polish it?
@callow @Limewater or they could just purchase today’s item!! Lol
@callow @Limewater Silver doesn’t tarnish while being worn.
@Gypsigirl213 @Limewater I’ve never polished it. I’m sure inside of the hearts could use a good cleaning.
@tinamarie1974 I did consider it but I have mostly tarnished silver jewelry.
I wear my wedding band and an “engagement” ring every day and have for the past 18 years. I say “engagement” because hubbie upgraded my diamond ring after a few years. I loved the original one but he wanted to get one a little bigger while he was on a trip and surprise me with it.
I had a salesman tell me he doesn’t wear a wedding ring because he sells more when he talks to women and they think he is single…
@somf69 I work with a lot of sales people and have always noticed the salesMEN never seem to wear them, but salesWOMEN do…
/giphy curious
@somf69 @tinamarie1974 ok that questioning doggie drinking coffee is too cute
@moonhat @somf69 @tinamarie1974 the little ears perking up!
My original wedding ring was a little too loose. I had never worn a ring before, and a properly-sized ring felt really claustrophobic.
Years later I lost it while taking my daughter on a walk in the winter. I remember taking my gloves off and making a snowball to throw out on a frozen pond. It might have gone with the snowball, or it might have slipped off somewhere else.
I never found it again and replaced it with a steel band a half-size smaller. If I’m going to be losing these things, I’d rather lose a cheap one.
How about “No, I’m not married?”
@kittykat9180 How many people would fall under that category though? Can’t have every made up option in the list.
@aldwardo @kittykat9180 I would think single and no ring would be a HUGE category
@kittykat9180 What about… No, was, but now Happily NOT married
I’ve got a tattooed wedding ring, so I’m not really “wearing” one but it’s not like I’m going to take it off either.
@jcroxmisox whew… that’s some self-assuredness right there! My co-worker went that route. Good for you guys. I don’t exactly love wearing a ring, but I do like the physical/material aspect of it.
@jcroxmisox Can we see it? I considered getting one. I’m glad I didn’t now, but, I’ve always been interested.
@MagnaVis Sure.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/e9Fum5XRrf872wrZ7
@cornchip It’s been 8 years we’ve been married now. I can honestly say it’s by Christ alone that we’re still together and thriving even for this long, definitely nothing that he or I are capable of doing. My assurance is not in myself, is my point
@jcroxmisox I got ya now, nice. Good place to come from. Right there with you.
@jcroxmisox That’s beautiful! I love celtic designs, and have considered getting a celtic pattern inside the cross I have tattooed on my back. In time, I suppose. Thanks for sharing!
Got engaged my last year of design school. Thought I’d be real clever/romantic and machine both our rings out of the same bar of titanium.
Of course I effed it up and measured myself about a half a size too small & I could never wear it.
So for Valentine’s Day this year I designed and 3D printed (through Shapeways) matching silver rings (miraculously didn’t screw mine up this time).
Yes. I wear a tungsten ring for work. I have a wood ring that is made from a springfield 1903 rifle stock and a ww1 wool us army field shirt. Rustic and main makes them. pretty cool. Cant wear it at my plant though as it will get damaged
Yes and I still love my rings 15 years later. Love, love them. Good thing since I’ve gained about 25 pounds since then and taking them off is not easy now.
I was married for seven years and got used to wearing a ring. After the divorce, I saw a deal on a tungsten carbide 8mm, so I got it for my right ring finger. Wore it for a few years (handy bottle opener) until I lost it at the beach a few months ago.
Haven’t cared enough to replace it, but I still freak out every once in a while when I notice it’s “missing.”
Smashed my left hand and the ring doesn’t fit any longer…
@ThatsHeadly owwww! Are you ever going to work out a replacement plan? Like switch to another finger/hand/toe/dongle?
No almost took my finger off on a lathe when I forgot to take off my ring so now I just don’t wear one.
I wear a bachelor ring.
@PocketBrain Tungsten carbide wedding ring can do this and result in no scratches to the ring.
@medz @PocketBrain My wedding ring is completely covered in scratches on every exposed surface. The only place it’s smooth is on the inside that is only visible if I take it off.
I prefer it this way-- it now has a natural matte finish.
@Limewater I’m sure it looks great.
Technically mine had to be cut off because I got fat and my hands swelled. But I now wear my deceased grandfather’s ring as my own. Therefore I don’t, but I also didn’t pick it out per se… Oh well, I chose #1
I wear a ring when I go out. Chicks dig a dude who isn’t afraid of commitment.
@mike808 The ring says, “I’m not a threat, ladies.” Before she knows it, you’ll be sharing a complimentary breakfast at the local motel.
Works every time.
@medz @mike808
My wife picked ours out. They’re sterling silver and cast from intertwined willow twigs. We wrote the cheaper metal into our vows, pointing out that you can take gold for granted, but silver will tarnish if you neglect it, and made it a metaphor for a healthy marriage.
/image twig ring
My wife and i don’t wear wedding rings. Meh, could you please sell some cheap ass gold plated CZ bands that we can buy to show our love for each other?
I had a $50 titanium ring from Walmart. The only time I almost lost it was when I was in Iraq. I took it off to more comfortably wear gloves on patrol. I hung it on a large bolt in my work area thinking I’d easily recall where I left it. The next day I realized that I had misplaced it (read, ‘forgot I did that’), and it took several hours to find it. Funny, my wife at the time was freaking out on me, asking if I was cheating, putting me through the ringer as to why it was off in the first place.
Her ring is rather special. It started as a cheap ring from Amazon, with a middle sized but cheap diamond. We were rather poor starting out. A few years later, I had both my grandma’s rings, and she had her mom’s mom’s ring. We had all the relevant rings melted down, all were 24 karat white gold. We had two bands made from the metal of all four, with the “engagement” ring consisting of the three largest diamonds and the wedding band having the smallest inset with some flakes/chips from my mom’s mom’s ring flanking it.
Having a custom ring made was cheaper than I expected, which I found interesting. We might have gotten a deal because the jeweler was a friend of my wife’s family, but I’m not sure. Either way, it was a significant ring, sentimentally, to us.
I wonder how many times she nearly lost it while taking it off to fuck other dudes. She’d have it off for days here and there, sometimes weeks, and I never really wondered. I just thought the ring was too tight from the weight she put on during pregnancy. She has had a hard time losing the weight, and her fingers are larger as a result.
Now I can’t get it back (ex-wife won’t just give it back, and legal routes to get my parts back are expensive) and I may lose both my grandmothers’ diamonds. I took a sledge hammer to mine, hardly dented it at all. Titanium is tough. I ended up just throwing it away. I looked up how easy it would be to launch it into the sun, apparently that’s really difficult. It makes sense now, but I hadn’t ever really thought about it.
There’s no point to the story. I just thought it was strange enough to post, I suppose. Y’all seem to like strange.
@MagnaVis Wow. Awful story, but very well told. Sorry you had to go through that bullshit.
@MagnaVis perhaps ypu should have left the ring on the bolt.
Reality is when people are super tense with worry that someone is doing something (ie cheating or lying ect) often they are doing exactly that.
@Limewater Thank you, things get better though, and I’m better now too.
@CaptAmehrican Hahaha, that’s some fire right there! In hindsight, I see that she was projecting pretty hard.