The diamond ring post....

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Seems the post about the OP not thinking the ring was big or expensive enough has been shared elsewhere, whether by the OP or staff at social media searching posts on these types of forums, just a reminder to think before you post as it can be shared on other places people may see

Yup was on the Daily Mail the other day, lots of threads on here make it to the DM or to Matthew Wright's shoe

There was also an online article for Glamour about it http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/engagement-ring-madness?utmsource=dlvr.it&utmm_medium=twitter

That's not the ring though. She said it was white gold.

In Irish news (well fashion news) too

www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/weddings/249299/Woman-disappointed-with-engagement-ring-sparks-MASSIVE-online-debate

It wasn't a genuine poster

Matthew Wright's shoe

I don't like made up stories like this making women appear avaricious... kind of misogyny.
Loads of women wear neither wedding or engagement rings if they are wearing larger pieces or silver jewellery. I used to be married but i got heartily sick of a little pink stoned ring I had as I grew older.
Must say it was terribly overpriced at the time.
I am not that keen on diamonds and gold as I used to be, looks ostentatious. But each to their own.

@2014newme Thu 17-Aug-17 10:21:36

It wasn't a genuine poster

Was it pulled? I missed that.

Yes, it seems like this was one of those posts that is deliberately outrageous specifically so that it can be shared on places like the DM and beyond, all to show that Mumsnet are unreasonable bitches, in turn showing that all women are unreasonable bitches.

Loadashit.

The one about the mum leaving her two kids at home alone all summer were shared on my local newspaper site yesterday

Gosh, it's almost like the OP set the whole thing up to make a story out of it!

This thread will probably get nuked soon, being a TAAT, which is a shame as I think it is indeed a salient reminder that whatever you post on here (whether as a non-faking OP, or as a contributor to a thread which has been started by a fake or non-fake OP) is absolute daily mail fodder. Cunts.

It wasn't genuine?

Well I never!

I agree that TAAT shouldn't automatically be deleted.

Wish that MNHQ were as hot on getting TIO & TIW fixed!

Everything you post online, be it mumsnet, Facebook, twitter etc. can be copied, screenshot, sent on to others etc etc.
if you really want privacy name change and edit a few details (I for one have done this, although I mostly have gone by cocklodger over the years) so if it is pulled you have a degree of deniability, but in the world of online once it's out there it's out. Don't say or do anything you wouldn't be prepared to tell everyone in your personal life would be my advice

I saw it on my Facebook feed, a link from the Irish independent I think. Lots of men commenting on it, moaning about how false and greedy women are. Disgusting.

Completely made up

I thought it was a real post

Just saw a link on Facebook to it. It's a joke because hundreds are commenting on it and it isn't even real!

Yup I made the DM. With a caption.