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Topic: question about rings..
started by: aventari

Posted by aventari on Dec. 06 2000,23:17

So when a girl has a ring on her left ring finger does that mean she's engaged, or married or what? Or is it right hand... Help me out here someone!

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Posted by jim on Dec. 06 2000,23:21

Ok... I answer honestly instead of being a smartass.

A single ring on the left hand ring finger is engaged. Once she gets married a second ring (usually with no stone) will be forged to the engagment ring to form a single ring. There are hundreds of variations these days, but what I just described is the traditional.

Women and jewlers have made up wraps and kinds of crazy stuff to suck men dry of more money.

I should know. I've been engaged twice.

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Posted by cr0bar on Dec. 07 2000,00:05

Just out of curiosity, what are the significance of various types of piercings? I've heard a lot about earrings making a guy "gay" if they're only on one ear, etc, etc, etc.

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Posted by masher on Dec. 07 2000,00:58

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I've heard a lot about earrings making a guy "gay" if they're only on one ear

not that i know of cr0.

My brother has an earring, and i think that his girlfriend would testify that he isn't gay...

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Posted by Sithiee on Dec. 07 2000,01:33

thats what the fiance of the guy in the movie in and out thought, but damn was she wrong.

Posted by Frosty on Dec. 07 2000,02:09

Supposedly if you have an earring in your right ear but not your left, you're gay.

Posted by PersonGuy on Dec. 07 2000,02:35

Think of it as the Gay flag:

Originally it represented unity of all races, sexs, religions, etc.

Recently it was adopted as a symbol of gay pride. Now when anyone sees the rainbow flag, they assume "gay".

A right ear-peircing has been through the same symbolic steps.

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Posted by whiskey@throttle on Dec. 07 2000,03:15

A ring on the toe (intentional or not) means she takes it up the ass.

Or so I've heard.

Posted by darksol on Dec. 07 2000,06:08

that whole ring on the right ear meaning your supposed to be gay is a truth from long ago. A few years ago before it got "popular" for guys to get earings, it used to be that when a male had a ring on his right ear he was gay. Now......it doesnt really matter because everyone is doing it.....

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Posted by j0eSmith on Dec. 08 2000,02:24

An earing in a guys right ear is supposed to signify gayness

whereas a gold stud in the left ear means you sailed around the horn.
(The bottom of South America)

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Posted by peregrin on Dec. 08 2000,10:53

in general a guy(straight) gets pierced in the left. i, for example, have a 10 gauge, which i will soon be replacing with an 8. a gay guy, in general wears a stud(NOT A HOOP) in the right ear. it is acceptable to have 2 in the left ear and 1 in the right, or even more, as long as there is at least one more in the left than the right.

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Posted by aventari on Dec. 09 2000,19:26

so what your saying is that you're gay if your rightEar->ringCount >= leftEar->ringCount??

Ahhh finally in terms i can understand

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Posted by cr0bar on Dec. 10 2000,02:23

What about studs in the eyebrow? Male/female left/right think of the possibility for significance!

Posted by Spydir Web on Dec. 10 2000,18:17

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What about studs in the eyebrow? Male/female left/right think of the possibility for significance!

That's a good question, because I've been thinking eyebrow ring, but I don't wanna have it in the wrong one or something...

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Posted by psaph on Dec. 10 2000,18:19

It's all just a trend. People don't get earrings because they need to. It's so they can fit an image.

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Posted by Michael on Dec. 11 2000,01:34

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Originally posted by cr0bar:
What about studs in the eyebrow? Male/female left/right think of the possibility for significance!

This is a rather big tangent, but in Psych we learned that advertising, although it may not have a large _conscious_ effect, may have a subconscious effect by making certain thoughts more accessible. I mention this only because there is currently a banner ad up on this page saying "Think of the possibilites" and it's rather interesting that you chose that particular phrase to use here...

Posted by MinscBoo on Dec. 23 2000,02:07

Supposedly women wear earrings put on makeup and spend days in malls not because they want to look good for their boyfriend but because "it makes them feel good."

Posted by PersonGuy on Dec. 24 2000,01:01

*buzzer* Wrong! Women wear nice dresses, jewlry, and make-up to get attention from ANY and ALL males. That's because they crave attention.
Notice:
The boyfriend doesn't care and will give her attention anyway.
If she did it to feel good about herself, she'd laze around at home in her most expensive dress.

Thanks.

Edit: my hyper

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This message has been edited by PersonGuy on December 23, 2000 at 08:02 PM