I didn’t vote in the ring poll, either. I have a diamond ring, which was the thing to do when we got engaged. But if I were doing it now, I wouldn’t want a diamond – certainly not a natural diamond dug up with quasi-slave labor. And I found the stone sticking up to be awkward to wear – I was always bumping it against the tops of drawers and stuff. I just wear a wedding band, which is close to my finger. (And take it off at night, and when working with machinery.) Today, I’d probably want an engagement handcraft of some sort. Or maybe no engagement present at all.
Skipped the ring poll. If I’m proposed to and am asked what kind of ring I want, I’m running away, as the person proposing obviously knows nothing about me.
I’ve never worn a ring, nor would I ever desire to. The one time I married, I used the cheapest available band for the ceremony, then sold it as scrap a year later (for a small profit) when gold prices went up.
If I had to choose a ring today? Maybe vintage, or something recycled (new jewelry made from existing pieces). I don’t want to support unethical and unsustainable mining practices. As it is now, I only wear my diamond ring when I’m outside the house. At home, I take it off when I take off my watch, aka about 5 minutes after I get home.
For warm weather, we sleep under a summer weight duvet with a duvet cover. With a fan running all night. No air-conditioning.
I wear a wedding ring, an alternative ring when hiking, and occasionally other rings. I wouldn’t want an engagement ring.
I have and am now wearing the same gold ring my beloved wife gave me when we got married on Aug. 11, 1990.
“I don’t want any gem or precious stone on my ring” should have been an option.
I would sort of like to see a multivariable poll.
The variables:
Gender of the ring-bearer
No ring, plain ring, ring with decoration.
White metal, yellow metal, other material.
Diamond, other gemstone, other form of decoration.
What about if it appears plain, but Elvish script when you cast it into the fire?
Who would have the strength of will to do such a thing?
I’ve met a few women who wanted that kind of commitment in their relationships. 
On casual Fridays I sometimes wore shorts. I had an outside job, and of course i wore shorts on the hot days. On one of my best jobs, the CEO started coming to work in shorts, so I decided shorts were okay, but still mostly Fridays.
Tangentially: my wedding ring (which I designed, and worked with a goldsmith friend to make) has a braid of white gold incorporated in it. I included the white gold entirely due to having been a fan, when I was younger, of Stephen R. Donaldson’s “Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” fantasy novels, in which the protagonist (a man from our reality) had a white gold wedding band, which granted him great power while he was in the fantasy realm.
So, if I ever find myself in Donaldson’s “The Land,” I’ll be a total badass. 
(FWIW, I tried to re-read those books some years ago. They haven’t aged well, and I didn’t even make it halfway through the first book. )
That book could depress a hyena. 
Kudos for the 1776 reference.
I knew a woman who had a ring like that, but she never used it: sheknew we could all smell her perfume from half a block away, so what would be the point.
I have fond memories of reading them back in high school, but I haven’t gone back and reread them; I think I tried once but didn’t get very far. I did read the four-book Last Chronicles not too long ago, and there’s some good stuff there, but boy could they stand to be edited down.
I never wear shorts, period. The only exception is when I’m at a beach resort for vacation, or when I’m in Hawaii. Both only happen once in a while.
Thanks.
You know those little things they use in cartoons to indicate smell? Like tildes upright~~? I was walking down an aisle once and one woman actually had a kinda shimmer around her from the perfume.
Dave Barry called those “visible stink rays.”
I don’t wear shorts to work, but do wear them every minute I’m not at work from March to October or so.
I wear shorts all the time I’m wearing shorts now. I wore them to work once. Our dresscode got a lot less formal after a couple years working from home, and i was in one day when i also had to do a lot of walking in the heat, and wore shorts. Our department head has recently signaled that he didn’t care.