A poll
Out of interest:

Someone on "Common" said guys wearing any form of jewellry except a wedding band is hideous and dirty.

I'm rather partial to blokes wearing one (small and tasteful) neck decoration, be it a thin chain (not long) or a more hippy leather band thing. In fact, it makes blokes look teh mighty sexual and rape-worthy to me.

Am I alone? Mistaken? Or just plain insane?
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:06, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Well
I wear a tasteful silver chain round my neck, and a celtic style earring (just the one).

My ex wife talked me into getting the earring as she thought they were incredibly horny.

Ironic that she fucked off with a bloke that didn't have one, really.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:14, Reply)

I have a small stylised surfboard made of bone or something
on a leather thong that I wear round my neck. I like it because it breaks up the hairy gap in the gaping collar of my shirt :-)

I'm of the opinion that chains round the neck of a bloke are pretty nasty, unless it is a particularly thin one, with the purpose of the chain being to support a tasteful or stylish item.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:14, Reply)

Oh yeah
Mine's quite thin, with an oddly shaped hippy crystal type thing.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:19, Reply)

RE: Chains
I agree; they have to be incredibly thin to be nice. Not a big hunk of dirty-rapper style gold or something.

All this neck attire chat is making me hot and bothered! :P
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:23, Reply)

@Davros' Grandad
Harsh.. your ex has no taste! Official!!

Still, at least she left you something foxy to woo the ladies with ;)
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:24, Reply)

Sorry...
Agree about the chunky chains thing though. Synonymous with either (a) pasty white chavs or (b) perma-tanned bodybuilder types. There is no in between.

EDIT *blushes*

*scuffs feet*
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:25, Reply)

I have nowt
As I am boring, bland and (to complete the alliteration) a bastard to boot...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:28, Reply)

Oh wait
Nooo, I mean your ex has no taste for leaving you! Doh!

That came out wrong. Your chain sounds lovely :)

EDIT: Blushes too for sounding like a total twunt and sending messages before engaging brain!
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:31, Reply)

TDW
You are a bastard, yes. People on /talk have said it, so it must be true.

:-)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:32, Reply)

I was always bought up to believe
that the only jewellery a man needs is a watch.

Which is why I wear none. Oddly enough, the married men in my family didn't/don't even wear wedding rings.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:33, Reply)

Oh yeah
I forgot the rings. All two of them.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:34, Reply)

TDW
If /talk said it, it must be true!

Neh mind, bastards are forever not just for Christmas and I'm sure you're lovely really, although you might like to get a chain...

*dribbles*
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:35, Reply)

T.A.C.
Don't sweat it. It made me laugh.

Silently, as I'm in a very quiet office
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:35, Reply)

Nods
I agree, a thin silver chain is really sexy. It definitely can't have any kind of pendant on the end, especially dollar signs. Don't think I've ever seen one with a pound sign on it. Bloody imported yankee rubbish. Anyway. I also think dog tags are very sexy, but only on a real soldier (marine preferable - to quote Lois, those are they guys you wanna fuck). People playing dress up in dogtags annoy me. Apparently they sell them in River Island with a diamante in one corner. I think you'd get fairly raped for wearing that in the army.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:44, Reply)

@ Davros'
There's only one ring, fool of a took!!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:46, Reply)

I
do not wear any jewellery, watches or even glasses, no tattoos, only the scars of a couple of earrings I had done in a pub aged 17.

I have one very old watch, that I wear to weddings and funerals, and a few sets of cufflinks.

I just don't like clutter, plus im shit, and lose / drop / break things very easily
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:47, Reply)

No clutter
I was going to make a minimalist joke then, but I feel I don't know you well enough!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:49, Reply)

kitty
knock yourself out, im quite disappointed you did wade in all insults blazing anyway ;)
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:50, Reply)

haha
I didn't want to get mistaken for a /talker and have kitteh privileges removed!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:51, Reply)

Woo!
Another lady's opinion! I was starting to think I'd broken some female taboo and would be shunned for all eternity by them females.

Oh, and "yes!" to your dollar sign and marine comments.

Hubba Hubba

Anyone got a cold shower on the go?
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:51, Reply)

I think it defeats the object
if you share the cold shower with someone else...
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:52, Reply)

I've gotten some odd static
for wearing rings. I typically wear one on the third finger of both hands- one has a green tiger eye, the other is a woven design with a cabochon in it. They're both silver, and neither looks even remotely like a plain band.

I've been repeatedly asked if this means that I'm married.

Now, to be fair, there was a time when I wore a fairly plain silver ring on the left hand, because I was in a very misogynistic state of mind at the time and simply wanted to be left alone. I got past that point, but had gotten in the habit of wearing a ring, so I continued anyway.

Additionally, my fingers have gotten larger over the past five years or so, resulting in me shifting the one I used to wear on my left middle finger to the right hand third finger- and the one I used to wear there to my left hand.

Is this trashy? Confusing? Weird? Should I not wear rings at all?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:52, Reply)

@kitty
Damn! Foiled again!

Those pesky kids.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:53, Reply)

@The Resident Loon
Hard one.. rings are ok for me. I find wedding bands v. sexy (well, only my husband's, honest!).

I guess it depends on how big this "tiger eye" is.. I've got an image of one of those mood ring things and that gives me the shudders!!

For me, as long as it's tasteful, anything goes.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:55, Reply)

lol Thank you Mr. Davros though that whole episode really didn't concern me too much, despite what those evil /talkers would like to believe!

Thank fuck for QOTW!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:57, Reply)

Loon
Tis hard to say, some guys suit rings, some guys definitely do not! My sister's bloke has some titanium bands with tribal stuff on them which sound really tacky but they really suit him (no I don't mean he's tacky!), and I know some old school metalheads who have those massive dragon type rings on that really suit them, so I guess it's subjective!

Do I win the award for the most ambiguous answer?

PS. I don't think women pay much attention to wedding rings or absence thereof because some married blokes have discovered that they are able to remove their wedding rings, making it no longer a foolproof method of separating the two!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:57, Reply)

Agreed on wedding ring removal
You can never be sure unless you are a super-sleuth a la CSI and check for indentation marks. Ha!

Anyone who wears one for any lengthened period of time has them. Fact!

Then again, who can be fucked with that when you're out on the piss?
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:02, Reply)

sooo
Kitty, what was the minimalist clutter joke please?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:04, Reply)

I wear a nice
watch.

I can't have earrings, although lots of people say I'd suit them.

Someone said I should get a Slash esque nose piercing once. Hmm.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:05, Reply)

@ TDW
I got bored very quickly and put them on ignore. That's two less jabbering twunts with nothing interesting or constructive to say off the interweb. In my house anyway.

@ TAC - ain't that the truth. It took the best part of 3 years for the indentation from my wedding ring to vanish!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:09, Reply)

Sorry I was going for subtlty!!
A de-cluttered body is a minimalist body - which quickly translates into small penis joke.

Y'see?

It was probably would have been funnier if I'd told it straight off the cuff/kept it in my own head.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:11, Reply)

hmm
I wish the small penis was a joke :(

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:17, Reply)

Halfy
It's so small I'm afraid it is a joke...
( Cawl, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:21, Reply)

well
If you hadn't cut it off and stuck it in that prostitutes ear it wouldn't be a prblem.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:22, Reply)

Look, I said I was sorry about that.
It was a simple mistake.
( Cawl, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:29, Reply)

I said
give her a wet willy

not

maim me for life, skin her and dance around Croydon wearing her entrails as a hat.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:34, Reply)

I wear
a silver ring on my left thumb.

Occasionally a thin silver double necklace which is small square chain link, and two small silver hoops through three holes at the top of my left ear. And (to the world in general) I don't care if you hate it :)

Edit: oops, sorry al, didn't see you there!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:46, Reply)

Al
im not called the thread killer for nothing!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:47, Reply)

result!
@atthegeordie

You could add swearwords and debauchery?

@No3L

Sounds acceptable. Proceed.

The overall results of the poll seem to be.. bugger. Inconclusive! We've just got a lot of lovely men sharing their nice collections, and only two ladies (me and Kitty) doing the "rub-your-thighs" dance. Who cares. Jewellry wins!

Maybe we should have a daily poll... tomorrow's should be more polemic.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:50, Reply)