That look on her face is “I thought you were my gay bestie, what?”
Julie’s right though, marriage is a contract a financial commitment. If you don’t have much money there’s no point in getting the government involved in your lifelong partnership. You can have a wedding and all that if you want for cultural reasons, but if you’re submitting that paperwork to the government it’s just a waste if you’re poor. Hell, im middle class and we still aren’t getting married because our taxes would go up, so yeah i dont need a government contract telling me i have to stay with my partner or something.
Honest question, where are you that taxes go up if you get married? In most places I know, things get more tax efficient when you’re married. You can typically transfer assets (or debts) between each other without incuring the taxes you would if you weren’t married, and you can make more efficient use of tax free allowances.
We happen to make basically the same amount of money so the married tax brackets hurt us rather than help.
No.
None of this is correct.
How do taxes work in your country? I’ve not heard of a tax burden increasing before due to marriage
22 years of marriage here. Never bought, given, or worn a diamond in my life.
Marriage rings are a marketing campaign created to sell you a piece of carbon that is so “rare” they put them on $12 drill bit sets.
Yep. Yep. Different quality stones. Gotcha. Interested in buying a bridge by chance?
Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the galaxy. Silicon is twice as rare, so maybe spend 6 month’s salary on a quartz ring instead? Either that, or save up for a down payment on a house. Nah, who needs a place to live when you can have a hunk of mineral, right?
If I’m spending 6 months salary on silicon, it better at least run Doom.
How much for the bridge? I would need a guarantee though that it’s actually used and not just buolilt on flat land in the middle of nowhere! I am no fool after all.
natural diamonds, are indeed rare, in part because of the marketing campaign driving up demand for an completely useless use of them
They really aren’t, De Beers just had a cartel on the diamond industry and artificially restricted the supply to drive up prices. They have massive deep storage vaults filled with gem quality diamonds just so it can maintain pricing.
Gem quality materials are overall “rare”, but among gems… diamonds are practically common.
Silicone band to not interfere in workouts
$3
10 years, 1 child
Yeah I’m not that far into marriage and I swear someday I’ll get around to getting a nice ring, but I currently wear a silicone one and my wife wears an heirloom ring from her family.
Too bad they have to divorce when the cat dies.
Just put the cat in a box with a radioactive substances. Scroedinger’s marriage.
Schrodingers taxes…
Marital status: both
marital status: yes
That is good news. I’ve lost two cats (ages 16 and 18) to kidney disease, so I’m glad to hear there’s some progress in that area.
Maybe this couple could have a happy marriage for 25 or 30 years if this new treatment can keep their kitten’s kidneys working.
what happens when the cat dies, contractually?
Same as when you lose a wedding ring. Get (in this case, adopt) a new one.
The wife or the cat?
yes
You get a new, similar-looking cat and pretend nothing has changed.
Ritual suicide.
If he can’t afford a $200 ring, how can he afford to take care of a cat??
I really hate those pictures that just show some randoms with a sob story. I always feel that they are totally fake.
(and if this is true: You can get cheap wedding rings. You do not have to pay thousands of money for them. You can get a cheap ring and that does work, too. Feel free to propose to the human you love even if you can’t afford some expensive ring)
Well the tagline is bullshit editorialising, yeah.
(You also do not need a ring at all.)
I hate these made up headlines.
I saw that when i was like eight years old and apparently you’re the only other person in the world who saw it because nobody acts like anything on the internet could ever be fake
Yeah but also there’s the “nothing ever happens” crowd and they’re equally as annoying.
I think in this case it’s a bit irrelevant anyway, the financial situation is irrelevant but clearly he is proposing in clearly he does have a kitten everything else is immaterial really.
He could just be giving her a car, no?
It was the only cartoon that was on the minute I got back from school. With 4 channels available it was this, Bargain Hunters, some soap opera or the news.
Arthur was not very funny or particularly interesting, but it sure beat out the alternatives.
The theme tune has been stuck in my head for 30 years…
Arthur was amazing even if maybe yeah Arthur himself was a mediocre character lol but the other characters are pretty much all excellent
“Man going to eat kitten in front of his succubus goddess wife to proof his devotion”
Normalize not buying useless $2000 USD pieces of junk that starved children in Congo had to dig with bare hands, just to marry your soul mate.
Man: Babe, did you know they discovered a new species of toad in the Amazon Forest.
Woman: That is so incredible! We have to do everything in our power to raise awareness about conservation.
Man: Great idea. Let’s use our pet cat " Toby" as the mascot.
Why wouldn’t they use the toad as the mascot? Instead they use a cat, an animal that has caused the extinction of multiple species?
No no none of this adds up at all.
is a wild.
While a cat will cost more on the long term, proposing with a kitten seems like it would be nigh impossible to turn down. Who says no to a kitten? I don’t believe it has happened in recorded history.
respect to whoever censored the handles and not driving eternal hate to Julie every time this meme gets reposted. Also I didnt realise proposing with a cat was an option this is getting added to my proposal consideration
I think she said “yes.” And Julie sucks.
What’s Julie’s number?
Shes crass but Julie knows her priorities, the woman in the picture knows hers too I’d hope. Or maybe both are gullible or irresponsible, who can say. Cats are super neat but (ethical) jewellery is neat too. Marriage isnt for everyone but it’s nice to think of the people it brings happiness to.
noo but they didn’t pay a significant amount of money to the diamond industry!!
Won’t anyone think of the slave owners?
It’s ok, they’ll pay the same in vet bills.
De Beers is de upset.
They’ll release De Bears on him!
It’s the capitalist tithe
