# What do you think of this ring? Does it send the right message?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625 "2010-07-22T18:04:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/1 "2010-07-22T18:04:07Z")
I’m thinking [this elegant ring](http://www.inspiredsilver.com/p948_the-modern-claddagh-ring.html)would beautifully express to a special woman what I’m thinking about her. What do you think?
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/2 "2010-07-22T18:13:39Z")
It’s an eye-opener, for sure.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/3 "2010-07-22T18:16:39Z")
I guess it depends on what kind of jewelry the special woman wears.
I don’t have a gold-digging bone in my body – seriously, I’m as low maintenance as they come – but I’d rather have a smaller ring with a real stone than something with fake stones.
I know – it’s the thought that counts, and if you think she’d wear it, then go for it.
ETA: Wait. This a whoosh, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/4 "2010-07-22T18:25:56Z")
Yeah, I don’t think I would like to receive it (though I’m not a girl).
In the original Claddagh ring (based on one of the associated links on that page), the hands are cradling the heart. I assume this is traditional, though I am not familiar with it before now.
In this version, the hands are gripping the heart for dear life. It seems creepy to me. Like one of those uber-possessive men who start out wanting to be with you all the time, and end up beating you up because some man looked at you for a nanosecond.
Whoosh? I hope so.
Roddy
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/5 "2010-07-22T18:27:55Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> I’m thinking [this elegant ring](http://www.inspiredsilver.com/p948_the-modern-claddagh-ring.html)would beautifully express to a special woman what I’m thinking about her. What do you think?
I don’t know. What are you thinking about her?
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/6 "2010-07-22T18:28:44Z")
Goatse ring?
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/7 "2010-07-22T18:33:17Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> Goatse ring?
Bingo.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/8 "2010-07-22T18:36:11Z")
Are you thinking of Squeezing her heart really tight?
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/9 "2010-07-22T18:43:59Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> Goatse ring?
God help me, this is exactly what I thought when I saw it.
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/10 "2010-07-22T18:51:41Z")
> [@Skammer](#):
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> God help me, this is exactly what I thought when I saw it.
Ain’t the internet wonderful?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/11 "2010-07-22T19:00:42Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> Goatse ring?
Oh, no. Now I can’t think of anything else when I see that ring.
:eek:
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### Author:  [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/12 "2010-07-22T19:00:59Z")
Absolutely… apparently the goatse ring also cures cancer.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/13 "2010-07-22T19:28:06Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> Goatse ring?
My thought before I even saw the ring.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/14 "2010-07-22T19:42:30Z")
\*\*Binarydrone \*\*owes me a keyboard.
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### Author:  [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/15 "2010-07-22T20:10:09Z")
Good god - she certainly _is_ a special woman if this ring makes you think about her at all.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/16 "2010-07-22T20:16:52Z")
I kind of liked it until the goatse comparisons… but the website is deemed untrustworthy according to Web of Trust so I’d be very careful about buying anything from there.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/17 "2010-07-22T20:17:34Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#):
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> Good god - she certainly _is_ a special woman if this ring makes you think about her at all.
Bless her heart.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/18 "2010-07-22T20:48:50Z")
Naaaa…it’s not a proper Claddagh without the crown. And a prolapsed rectum will never take the place of a crown.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/19 "2010-07-22T20:51:37Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> Bless her heart.
It’s not her heart that needs blessing if the goatse ring makes him think of her.
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### Author:  [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-ring-does-it-send-the-right-message/547625/20 "2010-07-22T20:55:27Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
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> Naaaa…it’s not a proper Claddagh without the crown. And a prolapsed rectum will never take the place of a crown.
Hmm… that WOULD make for an interesting coronation tho… perhaps suggest it to some stuffy monarchy as a way to stay in touch with modern times?
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