I’m not skilled enough to write a worthy Pit OP, nor am I entirely sure what the object of my ire should be yet, so this’ll rest in MPSIMS for the time being.
Have a go at this article. Either the subject of this story is a complete liar and made up the entire thing for media attention, or he’s an idiot, but his fiance is scum of the earth. I’ll be very curious to see if there’s any follow-up with this.
There’s so much stupid in that story that I don’t even know where to begin. Wow.
If the story is true, the upside is that it’s probably better to learn that your fiancee is a golddigger before you marry her, rather than after.
Somehow, I don’t think he cares that his girlfriend is a golddigger, and the picture in this link suggests that he thinks the whole thing is funny.
Huh-huh. Huh-huh. “Cockfosters.”
Oh, Grow up, really.
snort, chortle, pounds table
Although, something in this story smells like shenanigans …
What?
I suspect it’s more something like “Sure I got you a ring honey! And it cost $12,000 even though I’m just a lowly floor fitter! But I, uh, put it in a balloon and the balloon flew away, will you take this $5 plastic ring instead?”
Boy, I really need to be more devious. That never occurred to me. But yeah, now that you mention it, that makes sense.
Yeah, she pissed at him for being a God damn idiot. I would want another ring too, if for no other reason to make sure he’s not so much of an idiot that he’ll try the same stupid trick twice.
Wait: the ring in the box was inside the balloon, so it would appear when the balloon was popped?
If so, I don’t believe the story either. Gifts can be put in balloons, and there are shops that offer to balloon-wrap a gift, but then it’s always the non-helium varieties. Has to do something with needing a big nuzzle to fill the balloon with air. To make them “float” , such air filled balloons are tied to a stick.
Balloons filled with helium are filled by tiny nozzles. Impossible to get a gift in. Also, a single helium balloons has to be pretty large to support the weight of a ring&box.
No, here’s another vote for a guy who wanted to weasel out from under buying a ring.
My BS-ometer is pegged with that story.
Well, I had imagined that if it IS true, he must have put the ring inside the balloon without the box, but it all sounds silly. He’s stupid and she’s nasty. A lucky escape for both, perhaps.
But it’s a story from the Sun, a trashy tabloid that doesn’t quite go in for “World War II Bomber Found on Moon” stories, but it’s not too far off that in terms of low quality.
Let’s not be so quick to condemn the gf - could be she knows the real bf and he may have twisted her words in an attempt to make people feel sorry for him.
Personally, I would view ths as a sign that the relationship isnt meant to be.
That occurred to me as well, but I was and hoping and continue to hope that Reuters would put some thought into stories they take from The Sun before publishing them.