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The Cheaper The Wedding...The Longer The Marriage


               
2021 Jul 27, 6:04am   4,751 views  54 comments

by ohomen171   follow (2)  

#cheapweddings Let's have some fun with numbers today. Every four years the World Cup is played. Every four years the Financial Times of London assembles a team of brilliant statisticians and mathematicians. They rent time on the best supercomputer available. The goal is to predict the winner of the World Cup. They come close but never get it right.
The distinguished media and financial services company Bloomberg has waded into the numbers game. They have analyzed a large amount of data on marriages, divorces, and the cost of the wedding. They came up with an astounding conclusion as follows:

"The cheaper the wedding, the longer the marriage."

The total cost of my wedding to Elena in February of 2001 was as follows:
Contribution to Cross Roads Bible Church: $200.00
Webvan for wedding treats: $ 50.00
Pastor Samuel Nandakumar presided at the wedding. Two of our readers were there-Joao and Djenane Santos. My platonic roommate Jacqui Kwon was there. (She has since returned to South Korea.) I got the feeling that no one there thought that the union would last that long.
Sadly, I have been to the weddings of several dear friends. They were elaborate and expensive events. Those unions did not last. There may be something to what Bloomberg said.

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36   BayArea   @   2022 Jun 29, 6:58am  

Robber Baron Elite Scum says


richwicks says


Blue says


Now a days there is no way to determining diamond vs some rock made in the lab.


Unless they fixed this "problem", a lab grown diamond would fluoresce in ultra-violet light. It's just a bunch of carbon, and diamonds aren't a "precious" stone, they are semi-precious. The only reason they have such a high value is because of DeBeers which is the cartel that controls them.



Yes sapphires and emeralds are actually precious



🤣. This comment made me spit my cereal all over the computer screen. Bravo
37   NDrLoR   @   2022 Jun 29, 9:01am  

Patrick says

Some of the best Spiritual Leaders
Billy Graham had a policy to never be alone with a woman whom he was counseling.
38   Patrick   @   2022 Jun 29, 9:19am  

I'd say that no woman should be alone with any man she does not intend to have sex with.

This is an old traditional rule most places on earth, and for good reason.

The converse would be that no man has ever has the right to insist that a woman be alone with him.
39   Blue   @   2022 Jun 29, 9:43am  

I went to annual gem show few times over the years at San Mateo, ca. The choices are unimaginable under each known category and it’s (new!) variants. If it looks good, very likely it is treated with chemicals. At least some sellers agreed openly. After massive technological improvements in the lab made stones, it make no sense to still looking for “natural” stones. In supply chain no one knows what is lab made or treated vs natural. Bought good looking “emerald” for about $350 that I thought few grands. Prices plummeted like a falling rock. It’s a good news. But sellers still can get top $$ with their jargon targeting particularly women to sell their junk.
40   zzyzzx   @   2022 Jun 29, 10:50am  

Still way cheaper to just not get married.
41   BayArea   @   2022 Jun 29, 1:19pm  

As a young single man, the philosophy of never being in a room alone with a woman seems absolutely insane.

As middle aged man with a wife/kids who has gotten to experience life a bit, it seems completely reasonable.
42   Tenpoundbass   @   2022 Jun 29, 2:29pm  

It has always been my experience, that if you find yourself alone in a room, with a smiling playful cheerful chipper woman, and you don't take advantage of her chipper nature.
They are a cold resentful B the next time you see them. That will go out of their way to not ever be in the same room alone with you ever again.

I can recall countless times that happened. One such time, the landlord's wife showed up at my door, twirling her hair, and giggling when I answered the door.
She was all about business after that.
44   Misc   @   2023 Jul 7, 6:41pm  

Booger says

https://notthebee.com/article/good-news-for-young-couples-looking-to-save-money-you-can-now-get-married-at-mcdonalds-restaurants-for-the-low-price-of-200/

You can now get married at McDonald's for $200 and chicken nuggets are included


... but everyone in the wedding party will be asked if they want fries with that.
45   HeadSet   @   2023 Jul 7, 7:43pm  

Booger says

You can now get married at McDonald's for $200 and chicken nuggets are included

Wouldn't Filet-o-Fish be more appropriate?
46   Misc   @   2023 Jul 7, 8:39pm  

I Grimace
47   gabbar   @   2023 Jul 8, 5:51am  

My friend's kid got married in the atrium of Cleveland Museum of Art. I don't think I will attend any other wedding like his. That must have cost a penny or two. He makes 350k.
48   gabbar   @   2023 Jul 8, 5:54am  

Tenpoundbass says

It has always been my experience, that if you find yourself alone in a room, with a smiling playful cheerful chipper woman, and you don't take advantage of her chipper nature.
They are a cold resentful B the next time you see them. That will go out of their way to not ever be in the same room alone with you ever again.

I can recall countless times that happened. One such time, the landlord's wife showed up at my door, twirling her hair, and giggling when I answered the door.
She was all about business after that.

I went to see a home for sale. The real estate agent turned up with tons of make up and a dress that showed plenty of cleavage. Apparently, the tactic was that I as a buyer would loose my mind over her boobs and put in a buy offer.
49   Booger   @   2023 Jul 8, 6:21am  

gabbar says

I went to see a home for sale. The real estate agent turned up with tons of make up and a dress that showed plenty of cleavage. Apparently, the tactic was that I as a buyer would loose my mind over her boobs and put in a buy offer.


Did the tactic work?
50   Booger   @   2023 Jul 8, 11:01am  

Marriage is like a tornado. In the beginning there's a lot of sucking and blowing but in the end you lose your home and everything you own.
51   Ceffer   @   2023 Jul 8, 11:23am  

The average conversation I have with a man, if I tried to have it with a typical woman, would violate so many of 'her' precious boundary conditions and behavioral requirements, I would be permanently deemed a nervy monster.

Relationships between the sexes are conditional, censored, and highly compartmentalized, mostly by the women towards the men. It's why men, even the macho types, have total split personality syndrome around women. Watching them wheedle, crawl, ingratiate, and pump out soap opera lines every few minutes on an egg timer to women is pretty cringy, but many women require it.

My whole career I have had many women around in the work places and acting neutered dosed with fear of them has kept me out of trouble. They are tar babies and briar patches you don't really want to engage, especially in the work setting. That pisses a lot of them off because they are sex manipulators and extortionists, but they will leave you alone. One of the strange and peaceful advantages of being male is that if you aren't perceived as having money, status or power, society really does ignore you, whereas women always have their egg baskets attracting attention and aggression.
52   FortWayneHatesRealtors   @   2023 Jul 8, 12:55pm  

Misc says

Booger says


https://notthebee.com/article/good-news-for-young-couples-looking-to-save-money-you-can-now-get-married-at-mcdonalds-restaurants-for-the-low-price-of-200/

You can now get married at McDonald's for $200 and chicken nuggets are included


... but everyone in the wedding party will be asked if they want fries with that.


but you also get points if you use their app.
53   fdhfoiehfeoi   @   2023 Jul 8, 10:03pm  

I used to work in youth ministry, and kids from the neighborhood would hang out at the church house I lived in with other roommates. One time one of the girls showed up before everyone else, no roommates at home. We hung out on the front porch until more kids came by. Unless you trust the female, and everyone who saw her go somewhere alone with you, don't be alone with her.
54   Patrick   @   2023 Aug 4, 1:58pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/study-the-biggest-happiness-predictor-in-america-getting-married-married-adults-30-happier-than-unmarried


"The happiness landslide comes entirely from the married": Study of Americans finds tying the knot makes you happier and nothing else comes close

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