I hate you, Vegas Ubercon (1798 hits)
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Submitted by CookieLass (View user info) at 2006-01-04 16:31:27 EST
I should love you. I really should. I still plan to see you in March, Ubercon, even though you caused this.
New Year's Eve, midnight, 3 bottles of champagne into the night, Jason and I have paused Anchorman to watch the ball drop on telly. As it hits, he leans over to me, takes my hands, and gives me the very first New Year's kiss I've ever had in my life. Earth shattering. Wonderful. When I came away from the kiss, the ring was already on my finger, and he had a giant smile on his face. I looked down and there it was. All he said was, "Vegas, baby." and started the movie again.
I hate you, Ubercon.
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2009-05-04 04:29:55 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-12-15 18:52:51 EST (#)
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What happened with this, anyways?
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2006-02-16 12:51:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:51:35 (#)
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Wow. A clear glass-looking thing on my hand. Sparkly, yes, but worth the 3 months' salary it cost? I'd rather have an xbox 360.
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I love you so hard.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2006-01-09 17:40:27 EST (#)
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I want to get married in Vegas.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2006-01-05 09:22:32 EST (#)
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Aha. In that case, I stand corrected! Good on ya lass.
Oh, and if he makes a shitty husband, you can always bump him off and get loaded. Which is good... :)
Congrats honey.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-05 09:10:40 EST (#)
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I condensed it for the sake of not writing a 3 page reply. Here's the situation: I'm anti-marriage because I don't see the point. You can be with someone just as easily by cohabitation forever than by forcing them to you with a legally binding contract. But I've always said that if the man I was in love with really felt he needed that level of security, then I'd capitulate. Jason's view is this: His job is fairly dangerous, and if something happens to him, his massive life insurance policy would be unclaimable for me unless we're married... his health insurance is better than mine, and thanks to the "no legal partnerships" law just passed in Texas, I can only get it if I'm married to him. It's cheaper to put me on his auto insurance if we're married. Plus, he's just ready to take that step with me. It means alot to him that we say those vows, and as his partner, it would make me incredibly shitty to negate what's important to him because my feminist streak is itching. I grump at him all the time about his lack of spontenaity and romance, and when he saw that the UberCon was on our 1 year anniversary, he couldn't resist the chance to show me he knows a thing or two about spontaneous romance.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2006-01-05 08:53:19 EST (#)
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"But he's given me the girlie ultimatum. Once the booze wore off and I started to backpedal, he said "You either marry me, or it's over", and there you have it."
I'm really really happy for you Rowan, don't get me wrong, but I think that's fucked up. From his side.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-01-05 08:46:46 EST (#)
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Woooooooooooooooo!
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-05 08:32:56 EST (#)
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The only difference is the stone color and the gold tone. It's a 2-carat(ish) amethyst set in white gold. Same faceting action with the star and whatnot. And I am staunchly anti-marriage. But he's given me the girlie ultimatum. Once the booze wore off and I started to backpedal, he said "You either marry me, or it's over", and there you have it.
Bam, I'm of the same mind as Manic on this one. There's a difference between the women who OWN diamonds and the women who MUST HAVE diamonds. For instance: my brother in law gave my sister a lovely 3 carat diamond that he'd saved ages to buy. It was what he wanted my sister to have, not what she demanded. Her friend Rose, (also engaged) saw it, turned to her fiance and said, "Why don't you give me things like that? I WANT A NEW RING!" See the difference?
Bubba, I'll always be anti-diamond. Educate.
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/BloodDiamonds.html
Jay, it's official. It's an Uber wedding. All the people coming to the Ubercon are invited to the wedding, so pack something festive. It would seem Tom Jones has already been booked, though.
Phuzzy, I'll make certain that when I decide to be the adulterous whore that all married women turn out to be (according to the men on this site, anyway) You'll be the one I cheat with.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-01-05 06:21:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2006-01-05 05:02:28 (#)
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Wait, vegas ubercon is in march? Dammit people, I'll be up there in July or so, but no, lets not wait for Ainkara... Go ahead, it's fine.
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tell you what.
I'll wait for you.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2006-01-05 06:07:09 EST (#)
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NOOOO!
THAT'S TERRIBLE NEWS!! That's fucking awful!
For me.
For you, I spose it's okay.
Yeah, fine, congrats, whatever, w00t.
Whoopty friggin doo.
I hope you're real happy.
With someone else.
Who isn't me.
REAL FUCKING HAPPY!!!
punkass.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-01-05 05:35:56 EST (#)
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You should have said "no" just to fuck with him, then laughed and said "just kidding" when his world collapsed around him.
I've always wanted to do something like that.
Congratulations.
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2006-01-05 05:02:28 EST (#)
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Wait, vegas ubercon is in march? Dammit people, I'll be up there in July or so, but no, lets not wait for Ainkara... Go ahead, it's fine.
Oh and congrats cookie :)
Just out of curiousity, did you ever find out what happened to that book?
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-01-05 02:57:17 EST (#)
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auto engagement plus 2. Congrats!
Submitted by Confuzitron (user info) at 2006-01-05 00:52:56 EST (#)
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I'm having an UberCon in my pants, and nobody's invited except my right hand. Maybe my left hand if the right one gets tired.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-01-05 00:12:31 EST (#)
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hey well at least you got a ring. btw if you can see about two blocks out the ball you might see me looking embarassed while my two friends peed in the middle of 44th and whatever the fuck that is.
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2006-01-05 00:01:22 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-01-04 22:23:57 EST (#)
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WOOO!
I'll book the Tom Jones, then?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-01-04 20:57:57 EST (#)
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Congrats. Here's to years of happiness. STOP with the anti-diamond
crap! I bought my old lady a diamond ring for Christmas, and she
was happier than I've ever seen her in the last 38 years.
Yeah, we're old fucks, but things only get better. . . . . . .
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-01-04 20:55:43 EST (#)
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You know it, babycakes. WHATEVER it takes.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-01-04 20:52:44 EST (#)
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Heh, whatever you've got to do to keep getting laid at your age, eh Shlong?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-01-04 20:49:29 EST (#)
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Well, all I know is that with every new rock I throw on Mrs. Shlongy's finger, my dick appears to look bigger to her...so I'll keep on keepin' on, if you catch my drift.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-01-04 20:40:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:39:01 (#)
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Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:32:07 (#)
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Good girl, I got a beautiful tanzanite set in white gold for my engagement ring.
Fuck the snooty bitches and their diamonds, give me something with color looking like it has a life force of its own.
Congrats!
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Quite the generalization there MANIC...I expected more from you.
My wife has diamonds, I find her far from snooty...or a bitch most of the time.
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Its one thing to give diamonds lovingly to a wife. It is another to have the mistaken belief that "Only a diamond will do" in the case of an engagement. I'm not talking about those that are given them outright by their betrothed popping the question. I talking about the nasty, "I've got a bigger one than you" type of bullshit. The ones who will grab as many carats as their fiancee can afford so they can lord it over anyone with something smaller.
I've never been a fan of diamonds but after living in an affluent city and watching the little rich bitches with their sparklers talk of nothing else I've come despise them as much as I do the women wearing them.
There are beautiful gems out there FAR more interesting and valueable than a diamond. And when it comes down to it most people have forgotten that the engagement ring is nothing more than a promise to wed, not a goddamn trophy piece. Its that band you exchange during your ceremony of choice that is important. To love, honor, and cherish the person that it is given to.
I know women who can't bare to leave the house without several carats glittering from their fingers and their ears making them nothing more than sad little pawns in the game of conspicious consumption. It just sickens me that people can be so utterly shallow and taken in by nothing more than a shiny bauble.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-01-04 19:17:57 EST (#)
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Holy crap.
Submitted by SkinnyKenny (user info) at 2006-01-04 19:16:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2006-01-04 19:08:10 (#)
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Hey! Lemme be in charge of the bachelor party! (sinister cackle)
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What the hell are you talking about? Vegas IS the bachelor party.
Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2006-01-04 19:08:10 EST (#)
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Hey! Lemme be in charge of the bachelor party! (sinister cackle)
Submitted by SkinnyKenny (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:42:19 EST (#)
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It is beautiful.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:39:01 EST (#)
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Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:32:07 (#)
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Good girl, I got a beautiful tanzanite set in white gold for my engagement ring.
Fuck the snooty bitches and their diamonds, give me something with color looking like it has a life force of its own.
Congrats!
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Quite the generalization there MANIC...I expected more from you.
My wife has diamonds, I find her far from snooty...or a bitch most of the time.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:32:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:27:08 (#)
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.... it's an amethyst set in white gold. I'm staunchly anti-diamond.
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Good girl, I got a beautiful tanzanite set in white gold for my engagement ring.
Fuck the snooty bitches and their diamonds, give me something with color looking like it has a life force of its own.
Congrats!
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:28:02 EST (#)
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Congrats to you girlfriend.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:21:25 EST (#)
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Congratulations are in order, I think. Weren't you solidly against the idea of marrying?
Until I saw the comment that the picture isn't the actual ring, my first thought in my head was "DIZZAMN!"
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-01-04 18:19:55 EST (#)
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Congrats baby.
I got married in Vegas...at the Excalibur...by a dude dressed up as Merlin.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:51:35 EST (#)
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partially jag. That was what began the one-woman boycott. Then I got to thinking about it and it occurred to me that there are man-made diamonds that are a fraction of the cost with the same hardness, same brilliance, indistinguishable from a genuine diamond unless you put them to a carbon test... there are also white sapphires, white topaz, etc, etc, that, to the naked eye, look JUST like diamonds and have similar hardness, and they all cost about half what a diamond costs. So it's only snooty bitches insisting that they have that stupid burgundy box that keep the industry going... Plus, I just don't find them all that pretty. Wow. A clear glass-looking thing on my hand. Sparkly, yes, but worth the 3 months' salary it cost? I'd rather have an xbox 360.
Submitted by jagmcmanus (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:40:41 EST (#)
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sorry for linkwhore but info on vegas - http://www.ubersite.com/m/81177
BTW are you anti diamond because of the corrupt industry practices?
I am
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:39:39 EST (#)
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aaaaAAAHHHH
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:27:08 EST (#)
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that isn't a picture of the actual ring... just the picture that's on the website. I haven't taken a picture of the actual ring. The one I'm currently sporting has the same kickass faceting (called the "Lone Star" cut www.kirkrootdesigns.com) but it's an amethyst set in white gold. I'm staunchly anti-diamond.
Josie, e-mail me and I'll send you the new addy
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:21:00 EST (#)
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Congrats and good luck, Rowan!
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:11:00 EST (#)
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Congratulations!
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2006-01-04 17:05:40 EST (#)
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Congrats!
And email me your current address again. Heh.
josie.brown.at.gmail.com
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:54:49 EST (#)
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congrats
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:53:40 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:52:30 EST (#)
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w00t
-Dave
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:51:41 EST (#)
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Woo!
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:49:29 EST (#)
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Congratulations.
Submitted by userpete86 (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:49:13 EST (#)
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That's a beautiful cut on that aquamarine.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:45:29 EST (#)
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Congrats, best wishes, etc.
Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:43:37 EST (#)
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tim...i will win.
and for once, you will have to shut up.
OH SNIPPITY SNAP!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:43:14 EST (#)
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I'll +2 this post if you also remember to do a post when one of you breaks the engagement for some fucking stupidass reason.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:42:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:36:16 (#)
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BAHAHA!!!
This post needs a LOT more Rape.
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*nods* True wisdom. True.
Your sore asshole should teach you to never bet on the colts.
right fudgepackface?
Submitted by Mike00295 (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:42:04 EST (#)
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Congrats.
Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:41:16 EST (#)
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my friend proposed on new years eve.
he spent the bulk of January 1 vomitting out of fear and anxiety.
i'm not kidding.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:40:55 EST (#)
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no, fudge. I gae him anal when his Chargers beat the Colts. I lost the bet.
Which brings me to another point concerning Vegas... I'm not allowed to gamble.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:39:33 EST (#)
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bring your best wedding attire. I demand UberVegas wedding. This means that someone has to dress like Mr. Duke, and someone has to dress like Dr. Gonzo.
BRIDEZILLA DEMANDS IT!!!
Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:38:55 EST (#)
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so basically what you're saying is, you gave jason some anal on new years eve.
oh, and congratulations.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:38:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:33:36 (#)
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although the dawning of a new year and/or engagement is hardly cause enough to PAUSE anchorman.
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*nods* True wisdom. True.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:36:16 EST (#)
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BAHAHA!!!
This post needs a LOT more Rape.
Submitted by SkinnyKenny (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:36:15 EST (#)
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Oh shit!
Drive through nuptuials.
Submitted by punkerrjess (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:35:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:33:48 (#)
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YAAAAAY!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:33:48 EST (#)
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YAAAAAY!
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:33:36 EST (#)
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although the dawning of a new year and/or engagement is hardly cause enough to PAUSE anchorman.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2006-01-04 16:32:40 EST (#)
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allow me to be the first:
CONGRATS!