Wearing a class ring
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You don't see them walking around because they're at work.
Err, what?
shira
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Dat Jostens advertising works wonders. Hey college grad you prolly in debt but how bout you buy a $1k ring which you will never wear. Or shame wear all the time to remind you how you blew a grand. Oh yeah it has almost no resale value since it is sized and college specific.
There is some truth to that, for high school and non-gold rings. There are times I keep my hands in my pockets because wearing $1,500 on my hand is a stupid thing to do in the area.
Parents, working during school, that sweet graduation cash from rich uncles
Refreshment.01
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But does it run Crysis?
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Wait wait wait.. Does the college get the/any of the money you pay for the ring or..? And if they do, what exactly do they do with all those $$$? I mean surely they have to explain they use them to do x, y, or z that will benefit the students, right? Right??
ConfusingJazz
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We get an email about where we will meet to drink and network.
That's about it.
Very few people outside of Texas A&M care about class rings.
Why are we tools for having beloved traditions? I didn't say anything rude about you. :l
What's it to you?
People are awfully defensive and bitter about something so harmless.
Welcome to being an adult Aggie.
Oh, you mean they didn't use their secret ring handshake to get jobs they didn't deserve over non-cult members?
ConfusingJazz
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No, we just drink, maybe watch a game.
You whoop and talk about how you're the greatest team of all time despite finishing second in your own division.
Doesn't matter, beat bama, won Heisman, etc etc
I hear from my butthurt teasip coworkers after every Aggie loss. Funny how I don't even follow their program (what's to follow these days, am i right?)
Dude Abides
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I don't think the college gets the ring sale revenue, the jewelry company does, although they may pay the school a licensing fee.
The school doesnt have to explain anything since you are not required to buy a ring, except for Texas A&M, alma mater of Nobel laureate and certified genius Rick Perry, where you apparently kind of are or you're not in the cool kids club.
ConfusingJazz
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What does teasip even mean?
Teasips refers to University of Texas students. It's a joke about how during the war Aggies were out fighting while UT students sat around and sipped tea.
Tallshortman
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lol wtf did you get it covered in diamonds? I spent like $250 something for mine.
Whoa, why you so bitter and defensive?
I was just explaining where the term/joke comes from since he asked...
akachan ningen
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Class rings are full on ridiculous.
ConfusingJazz
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So its based on a bad 100 year old joke. Congrats?
Jeff Albertson
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Wow these Aggie people are weird, it almost seems really forced to try and belong.
Anyway I'm from England so don't have a class ring, I do have a crown from nursery though
Anyway I'm from England so don't have a class ring, I do have a crown from nursery though
I didn't make the joke. I don't particularly care for it. I was just explaining.
BertramCooper
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Don't forget your alma mater's storied legacy as one of the most sexist and bigoted public universities in the country.
Gig 'em.
So it's based on 100 year old stories. Congrats?
BertramCooper
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Half and half
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They're dorky IMO but to each their own. If you want to wear some jewelry, might as well invest in something that actually looks nice and has value as a commodity.
Texas A&M only started accepting black people and women in 1963 (with full admission of women starting only at 1971).
This is neither 100 years old nor is it a story.
It was the south and it was a military school. Not surprising. It's obviously not the same today.
Oh Lord, thread bail out.
Class rings? Fuck no. Not a huge fan of rings in general, but class rings look gaudy and huge.
Had the option to buy one in high school. So glad I didn't. Knew a bunch of people who did and they wore them for about a month. Recently graduated college too and I'd assume everyone learned their lesson, because I haven't seen a single class ring.
Granted, I went to school in Nebraska. Maybe if you went to Harvard or something? I don't know.
Had the option to buy one in high school. So glad I didn't. Knew a bunch of people who did and they wore them for about a month. Recently graduated college too and I'd assume everyone learned their lesson, because I haven't seen a single class ring.
Granted, I went to school in Nebraska. Maybe if you went to Harvard or something? I don't know.
Doctor West
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Are these A&M people allowed to marry outside the cult, or is that frowned upon? I've got to admit, I did not expect to lean about these people from a class ring thread. Are there other schools that have crazy cults too? I know Yale has the Skull and Bones, but not everyone is allowed to join that.
It's tradition!!!!
Wait, what war are we even talking about? The internets says this has been around since 1900-ish.
youngplaya21
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I'm not complaining. Keep the aggie hate going
Not for high school, and I didn't pay for it (well, directly anyways)
There are diamonds in it. Not sure if everyone saw the picture of it yet, but it's pretty much
Tornado Condor
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Is that guy in jeans in the last picture wearing a fake thumb? If so that's way over the line.
If not he is a freak with a huge thumb.
What does that have to do with anything? The thumbs up symbol is the hand signal of the university (Gig 'Em). People taking pictures on Ring Day with their Aggie Rings is an old tradition. That doesn't make us tools. Our school likes its traditions. We are happy to get our rings.
You sound bitter. And unaware of what being a tool means.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Is gig'em the predecessor to frag'em?
A&M traditions generally seem ridiculous if not insane to outsiders. To some degree, that's intentional: what's the point of having a tradition that doesn't separate you in some way from outside groups? But A&M traditions are unusually ridiculous. The jar, the ball-crushing, the pseudo-military stuff, the ring obsession and flaunting. The inordinate weirdness of the traditions, coupled with the level of pride in them, is what makes A&M fans seem like tools to other fanbases.
I don't think it's bitterness; what is there to be bitter about?
Thug Waffle
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Shit, I didn't even buy a class ring. Needless to say, I wouldn't care to wear one in public.
OrlanisWorks
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You can spend one month in the metal shop and make something personal.
Or you can pay >$1k for a ring with a lion on/in it or whatever your mascot is.
Personally: fuck that. I'm going to make a school Tomahawk. What's better, a ring or a fucking tomahawk? Rings can't do shit but fall down a sink, into a toilet, or have the gem crack/fall out. Tomahawks make trees cry.
Or you can pay >$1k for a ring with a lion on/in it or whatever your mascot is.
Personally: fuck that. I'm going to make a school Tomahawk. What's better, a ring or a fucking tomahawk? Rings can't do shit but fall down a sink, into a toilet, or have the gem crack/fall out. Tomahawks make trees cry.
Tomahawked.
Half and half
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That dude with the big thumb catches rides from airplanes when he hitch hikes.
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