How can I convince my fiance that

afterburnt
afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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a new pair of speakers is better than getting a diamond ring?
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,103
    That's like finding the meaning of life (or a unicorn).

    When you have an answer that works, let us ALL know.
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  • rpf65
    rpf65 Posts: 2,127
    Don't try, just buy the speakers.
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  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    rpf65 wrote: »
    Don't try, just buy the speakers.

    AND THE RING!
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    Just get ushers with the Diamond tweeter.....

    Honey, your diamond is IN the speaker....

    See I compromised....
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    Just get ushers with the Diamond tweeter.....

    Honey, your diamond is IN the speaker....

    See I compromised....

    Going down that path will eliminate the need for the ring for sure! :)
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    What do you want with a fiancé for anyway? I have been a widower for 10 years, I am never getting married again.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    Just get ushers with the Diamond tweeter.....

    Honey, your diamond is IN the speaker....

    See I compromised....

    Those are the speakers and that's my angle lol
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    What do you want with a fiancé for anyway? I have been a widower for 10 years, I am never getting married again.

    I am getting married again because I have nothing left to live for.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,055
    A ring, she's the only one who will be able to enjoy it, how selfish. Speakers, you both can as a couple or individually, not selfish.
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  • rpf65
    rpf65 Posts: 2,127
    Moose68Bash wrote: »
    rpf65 wrote: »
    Don't try, just buy the speakers.

    AND THE RING!

    Ring? A person must have priorities in life. Besides, she already put up with you this long, can anything really surprise her any more?
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  • codycatalist
    codycatalist Posts: 2,662
    afterburnt wrote: »
    a new pair of speakers is better than getting a diamond ring?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...good one.
    Just a dude doing dude-ly things

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  • xsmi
    xsmi Posts: 1,798
    Let me tell you a little story. My EX wife and I were going to jewelry stores and dreaming about rings when we both knew that was the way were heading. At one of the stores, she said, "I REALLY LOVE THAT SET!" We'd go other places and look, but she always came back to that set. Being a college student, I couldn't just go in and buy the set so I set up a layaway program that she didn't know about and bought the set, she loved.

    A couple of weeks went by and I found a pair of speakers that I fell in love with that cost MORE than the ring set, however, they worked out a deal so that I could have the speakers. We were married 13years and one of the last arguments we had was her telling me how I loved audio more than being married to her because I bought speakers that were more expensive than our wedding set.

    Moral of the story: Keep the audio purchase as separate as possible from the engagement ring.
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,387
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    Just get ushers with the Diamond tweeter.....

    Honey, your diamond is IN the speaker....

    See I compromised....

    I think you will be the one wearing that diamond...on your head!
    Stan

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,990
    Get the speakers.....you have to set precedence before the ring comes.
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    Why is it that the WOMAN has to get the engagement ring? Tell her if this is going to work, she had better buy you engagement speakers.

    That's what I did. "They're in the mail" she says. 4 year shipping process apparently. I'm patient but have a strange feeling they're aren't coming...
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • WTS
    WTS Posts: 170
    Do they still put rings in Cracker Jack boxes?
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    WTS wrote: »
    Do they still put rings in Cracker Jack boxes?

    Or gumball machines...
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,121
    miner wrote: »
    Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

    That's signature worry!
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  • befuddle
    befuddle Posts: 126
    From my perspective your left with 4 options:
    1] Find a like minded girl that can appreciate the fact that you will derive more entertainment value from the spks,
    2] Find a girl that is willing to accept a ring of imitation quality that she can pass it off as real to her family and friends so that the saving can be applied to the spk purchase
    3] Find a girl that is happily content to please you irregardless to her wants or needs
    4] If you cant find a girl that exhibits any of these qualities and you still have determined that she is the one for you-get the ring to make her happy by monetarily expressing your devotion to her! And concede to the knowledge that when the argument get intense and hard words get spoken that may result in her adopting a screw this mentality, that its always easier for her to carry the ring into the pawn shop!
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  • smglbrth
    smglbrth Posts: 1,481
    Whatever you do remember one thing, women never forget, ever...
    Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,793
    smglbrth wrote: »
    Whatever you do remember one thing, women never forget, ever...

    ...and....they may not always be right....but are never, ever wrong.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    miner wrote: »
    Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

    Forgiveness never comes forth, believe me on that!
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    miner wrote: »
    Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

    Forgiveness never comes forth, believe me on that!
    smglbrth wrote: »
    Whatever you do remember one thing, women never forget, ever...

    Very true statements!

    If you think that I will forget that you put an audio system ahead of your so called love for me, you are dreaming.

    I will most likely tell you to go marry your audio system instead.

    Do both of you a favor and don't get married.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    edited November 2016
    smglbrth wrote: »
    Whatever you do remember one thing, women weaken legs "Micky Goldmill".

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,793
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    How you dooin, C? ;)
    I took your advice...
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited November 2016
    Very good Lightman! You saved some poor woman a lot of aggravation, and you saved yourself some money from avoiding divorce court! :)

    BTW, you look a lot better without all the fuzz, and your eyes are very nice.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,793
    Awww shucks Cathy....Thanks :)
    No worries about divorce. Haven't been married for about 16 years.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Very good Lightman! You saved some poor woman a lot of aggravation, and you saved yourself some money from avoiding divorce court! :)

    BTW, you look a lot better without all the fuzz, and your eyes are very nice.

    Eyes look a little bloodshot to me...
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,793
    ken brydson wrote: »
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Very good Lightman! You saved some poor woman a lot of aggravation, and you saved yourself some money from avoiding divorce court! :)

    BTW, you look a lot better without all the fuzz, and your eyes are very nice.

    Eyes look a little bloodshot to me...

    Maybe I was stoned and got tired of the whiskers talking amongst themselves while I tried to sleep. Ponder that, snapperhead.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    lightman1 wrote: »
    ken brydson wrote: »
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Very good Lightman! You saved some poor woman a lot of aggravation, and you saved yourself some money from avoiding divorce court! :)

    BTW, you look a lot better without all the fuzz, and your eyes are very nice.

    Eyes look a little bloodshot to me...

    Maybe I was stoned and got tired of the whiskers talking amongst themselves while I tried to sleep. Ponder that, snapperhead.

    Legal here in Washington Bullwinkle...
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