Peeps on the interwebs are talking about this “twist” on the traditional Irish wedding ring because it, well…..looks a whole lot like something else. If you know what I’m saying. And if you don’t, then go here for the ‘lite’ goatse definition.
Ahh…..filthy romance at its finest. And for only $24.95, it’s a real bargain!
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Give the gift of goatse.exe this holiday season.
Of course it is modern…it took out the crown that stood for loyalty
Of course it’s modern…it took out the crown that stood for loyalty
I don’t think it looks dirty. Looks pretty to me!
That’s what I thought until someone explained what “goatse” meant. I am now fairly mortified.
i can’t even BELIEVE that no one has noticed that the hands on the ring do not wear a wedding band !!!
and which hand is supposed to be wearing the ring?
yes I know that some areas. the ring is on the left hand. but in other areas where wedding rings are also. it is the right hand.
plus the ring has been used not only as a wedding ring. but also as a promise ring, for those going steady.
No, the point is that the man in the original Goatse image was wearing a wedding ring.
There is a certain horror in that little detail….
sometimes I get sick of the “All things Irish” schlock that Irish Americans use to display their often 1/4 or less heritage. A tastefully placed Claddagh, harp or celtic carving around the house is cool. but some of this stuff just screams of green beer and novelty Guinness hats.
I agree. I love real Irish things like the St. Brigid’s cross we have and such. But I hate everything they sell around St. Patrick’s day. A necklace made of giant green and silver plastic shamrocks with a plastic shot gloss attached is just plain stupid.
I went to school with this kid who was a mix of so many groups that he couldn’t have been more then 1/16 irish. Yet because he had red hair and more freckles, he told me that he could flaunt it and I couldn’t really put it off because I look like “italian brooklynese white trash” which implies that having red hair and freckles give you the right to traipse around saying you’re irish. Many famous and great Irish people didn’t or don’t have red hair and freckles. And even if they did, I doubt would they use it as an excuse to wear tacky “kiss me I’m irish” tshirts on St. Patricks day.
People need to realize that just because it’s cheap in the current holiday section at walmart, doesn’t mean they need to wear it and that wearing a “kiss me i’m irish shirt” does not prove you’re irish but it does prove you follow tacky outdated and overused marketing ploys.
You tell ‘em!
They are so in the wrong. “Kiss me, I’m Irish” t shirts are for more than St. Patrick’s Day.
IMHO this is also a fail for them trying to “modernize” and “re-imagine” a traditional symbol. :/
It’s traditional, people, leave it be and go try to “update” something else. :/
I agree. leave the Claddagh alone. go update some graphics program like Ray Dream Studio. maybe to make it work on Windows 7
exactly. if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
This hideous ring is actually quite close to an authentic piece of Irish imagery.
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_Gig
I don’t think the reference is intentional, though.
Oh god, yes. This. This is what I thought of, first. None the least because I’m currently in the process of covering up a botched Sheela na Gig tattoo….
Does this mean that we should start applying Goatse as a sort of modern fertility symbol? Somehow, I think not.
I’m also unfailingly amused by the fact that their “Modernisation” consisted mainly of removing the symbol of loyalty….
it’s not a clauddagh no crown don’t care that it’s modern its supposed to have a crown
Why have a crown? Ireland gained it’s freedom from english tyranny. Why continue to use a symbol of english oppression when now, in the modern world, Ireland is it’s own country (as it has been since the war of independence in 1919-early 1920s).
Besides, the no crown thing isn’t that modern. It’s been around longer than you think.
My husband gave me a Claddagh wedding band because we both like the legend/folk tale from which the Claddagh originates. The crown has to be included because the accompanying phrase says, “With these two hands, I give you my heart, and I crown it with my love.” It’s not tied to royalty as much as loyalty. JMHO.
Correction: My husband gave me a Claddagh ring with a diamond heart that I choose to wear as a wedding band. (Just to avoid that whole argument.)
UGHHH no crown it is not the same sorry I agree . Tradition has the crown for loyalty. I have always had a Claddagh ring since I was 16 either in gold or silver.
Personally I think the connection of the actual ring to the imagery is a bit of a “stretch”.
Yeah, I agree. If you look at that ring and the first thing that comes to your mind is that twisted scene, then there is something severely wrong with you.
the image that North has a link to. is one that is of the Mother Goddess of Fertility.
What has been seen cannot be unseen. If your delicate soul has been permanently scarred by a sudden encounter with the Hands of Doom, I hope that there may be forgiveness for starting to see representations everywhere.
Especially since designers these days, cheeky monkeys that they are, have started deliberately inserting references everywhere! It’s the in-joke to take the old designer “penis reference” in-joke to places it should never have gone to. Although I will grant that this particular example is likely not intentional.
O’ tempo’a, o’ mo’es!
I was going to say the same thing.
I miss the crown, however. It’s not as pretty without the crown.
Yeah, I needed the goatse thing spelled out for me, but I don’t like the ring anyway. My first thought on the ring was “God, that is one ugly piece of ‘I Will Possess Your Heart’/Be My Stalking Victim jewelry”, but at least with Goatse, it’s funny now.
It’s bigger than it looks, but at $25 it won’t stretch your budget.
Harr dee Harr
The claddagh isn’t an Irish wedding ring – it is Irish and it does represent love but it isn’t a wedding ring. It has a pair of hands holding a heart with a crown on top. If you wear the ring with the crown facing down your finger it means your heart is taken, if you wear it with the crown facing your body it means your heart is open. In my family we get a silver claddagh ring at the age of 16 and a gold one at the age of 18.
Hey! Another family that does it! AND knows how to where it!
Granted we only get a gold ring on our 16th, but still, I’ve never heard of any other family that does it.
Those hands look like fists.
I was just gonna point out what Kitey said, that this isn’t even a wedding ring at all!!! What a dumb website (the one that’s selling it) to not even check their facts!!!
Every time I see an ‘Irish’ American wearing a claddagh ring and tell me about their ‘Celtic’ heritage I laugh- because if I were to mention Bechbretha or the Táin Bó Cúailnge or speak any gaeilge they’d scratch their head in utter confusion. If you don’t know our language, our land and our history you’re not Irish. Putting on a ring and having ‘Patrick’ for a name doesn’t make your Irish.
This ring is monstrous.
My family has an Irish heritage. We are very proud of this…just because we don’t speak your language doesn’t mean we didn’t come from the same place and we can’t be proud of our past. We are Irish, like it our not!
Uh… if it is in their bloodline then yeah they are. May not be as strong as your but its not like they can help where their ancestors went or raised them.
There’s nothing wrong with respecting and trying to understand your heritage. We’re “Irish-American” because we were born here of Irish descent… depending on how long ago it was our ancestors arrived here, the connection to the language and the history may or may not be as strong as it could be.
Besides, just because the Claddagh symbol is Irish doesn’t mean everyone else can’t embrace it for what it represents. No, simply wearing the ring doesn’t MAKE you Irish, but there’s no need to mock those of us that can recognize part of where we came from however long ago it was.
I don’t think that insulting anyone who wishes to wear a “true” claddaugh but is not “Irish” is correct. There are many, of many cultures, who love what the Claddaugh stands for. It is not a symbol that only
“True Irish” can wear. That is like saying anyone who isn’t Christian cannot have a cross of any kind or anyone who is not Catholic cannot have a Rosary…I am Pagan…I have a Claddaugh, I have a Buddha, I have Rosarys and many more religious and/or items of different heritages because of their significant meanings…and I love them all.
Not every Irish person speaks Irish. Any kind of fluency in it is a minority part of the population anymore. Apparently I’m not Irish by your snotty standards – I don’t speak it, don’t know all that many people who do, but funny, I still have a passport that says I’m Irish. Get over yourself, there’s nothing wrong with identifying with a part of your heritage without knowing everything about it.
I agree with the comment about the ring. It’s hideous.
I also agree that many American’s who claim to be Irish don’t know anything about Irish history.
This kid I went to school with (who was maybe 1/16 irish) felt that because he had red hair and freckles he could go around wearing “i’m irish” slogan tshirts all year long and talking about how irish he was all while calling me “italian brooklynese white trash” and that I couldn’t flaunt my irish heritage because I have brown eyes and really dark brown hair. This ticked me off because 1. i’m jersey, not from brooklyn (but I live in the south where people still fly the confederate flag). 2. it’s offensive to call my italian part “white trash” and 3. he had the audacity to say I can’t be as proud of my heritage because I didn’t fit the stereotype yet he was so ignorant that it doesn’t occur to him that many great and famous Irish people don’t have red hair and freckles. So yes. I understand when you say a lot of “Irish-Americans” don’t actually understand the history because when I quizzed this kid on some pretty easy stuff, I get called brooklynese italian white trash.
But, it’s really offensive how you say “if you don’t know our language, our land and our history, you’re not Irish.”
Yes, a ring and a name do not make a person Irish.
But just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean it isn’t a special place to us too.
We do not have ample opportunity to learn what people in Ireland learn. Our schools do not discuss Irish history in-depth. In my AP European History class, we skipped over the Famine (much to my dismay considering the Famine (along with the Troubles, the English dominance, and Irish Immigration) has pretty much been the subject of any research project I’ve had to do where I can choose a topic). I can honestly say that the only time we ever heard about Irish history in high school was when I did a project on it. I’m not trying to be vain but it’s just not taught and I was the only one who ever talked about it.
As for the language, we don’t even learn a respectable amount of Irish history so why would they introduce us to the language. We can learn spanish. Some schools have french. I had the opportunity to take latin. But the Irish language? No. So we have to take that upon ourselves which is not easy because that isn’t a top priority language for libraries to have resources for and a small-town America Best-Buy has the same philosophy and would rather use the shelf space on Rosetta Stone for spanish and french. We would like to learn it. But it isn’t easy.
And as I recall, at times it wasn’t easy for the Irish either. Thanks to english tyrants such as Cromwell, the Irish language was greatly discouraged.
I have a recollection of this knowledge from before I even started reading about the history.
When I was around 5 my parents took me to see The Secret of Roan Inish when it came out. One of the things I remember most clearly from that movie was a scene where a boy was being beaten because he didn’t obey his teacher when the teacher told him not to speak Irish.
In The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I remember a man being shot by soldiers loyal to England because he spoke Irish.
Growing up my dad would tell me going to church was also important because we honor our ancestors who couldn’t go to church and live free and speak their language because they were persecuted.
Then because of the Famine many Irish people immigrated to the US where they again had to use English. A huge chunk of people were lost then.
So as I recall, many people in Ireland also didn’t have the freedom to use or learn Irish at various points throughout history.
But you’re lucky. You’re in the homeland so it’s much easier for everyone to go back to learning Irish and speaking it.
So many of us in America would love to be apart of that wealth of knowledge and culture but we don’t have the same ease of access as you do.
So please don’t treat all of us as the same Irish American type. A lot of us care about more then just St Patricks day and guinness. We just aren’t as fortunate as you are to still be immersed in the culture. And yea, we may have other backgrounds mixed in but if you want to get down to genetic heritage, even Ireland has people who weren’t there since the arrival of the first humans onto the island.
But Irish people have a lot of spirit in them. Just because some of us are now in America doesn’t mean we lose that spirit. You can be Irish even if you don’t know every detail about every second in history. I’m sure some people in Ireland don’t know as much about the country’s detailed past as others. Knowing every detail of a history makes you a scholar, not a person of specific national origin. As long as we look upon our heritage with pride and respect, it shouldn’t matter where we live and if we still speak the language of the old country. It’s the honest, genuine, and pure pride and appreciation that matters.
I think it would be appropriate to try to learn what your heritage means before trying to flaunt it.
Imagine if a kid thought it was really awesome to discover he had “Aryan” heritage, without even asking what its implications were.
TL;DR. Why are you wasting so much of your time here, anyway?
Whoa…
I agree, the ring is pretty ugly, but I disagree completely with your comment.
I’m Irish-American, and though I don’t know how to speak Gaelic or what Bechbretha is, i’m allowed to be proud of my heritage. I don’t brag about being Irish-American to random people, but i’m interested in the history and land of the country my mom’s parents came from.
If you think there’s something wrong with that, you’re the one who has the problem, not me. Also, for your information, just because I don’t live there doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate Ireland as one of the places my blood comes from, and simply as a beautiful country. I’ve seeked out and read books on Irish customs and history because they interest me, and even if I hadn’t, would that make me any less Irish?
Umm Yeah I can speak a bit of Gaelic and I am Irish American. I took classes when I was younger til I was 17 in both dance and language . In fact my great grand parents were Irish born . Just because I was born here in the US and am 3rd generation American on my mom’s side doesn’t mean I cant be proud of my Irish. So don’t say not all Irish Americans dont know the language or history there are a vast many that like me do.
LOL I love that this is just now hitting teh interwebz as funny- my friends got engaged with this Goatse ring 3-4 years ago
They’re both computer nerds and loved the inside joke between them hehe.
Wheres the crown?
Brotherhood of the Brown Ring..
Actually, having a husband who is of Celtic-Irish background…this ring has NOTHING to do with the Claddaugh…traditionally or any other way…there is no crown on the top…it is just a ring with two hands. Thank you.
This is absolutely, 10000%, totally atrocious looking. The only other version of this ring I accept is the fenian claddagh ring with no crown and either one or two hearts.
Not having a crown on this ugly ring is it’s only good quality.
The crown is just a symbol of British (forced) dominance over the Irish people. The crown symbolizes loyalty (to the british as the crown shows) so to the true Irish, no crown is needed. All the British have done is persecute the Irish. The Irish island still isn’t even whole still. While the majority of it is back in the hands of it’s rightful owners, Northern Ireland still needs to be freed.
Anyways. Asking $25 for this ring is asking for $25 too much.
It’s a Luckenbooth, the Scottish symbol of love and friendship. It is usually worn as a brooch on the wedding day, and later pinned to the blanket of the couple’s first baby, to ward off evil spirits.
Nevermind, the Luckenbooth has the crown and heart configuration… oops!
The true Claddagh is not be used as a wedding band, it is a family hierloom passed down in the generations to be worn, whether or not you are with someone. The way it is worn, the hand, and the finger it is worn on each have a separate meaning. The hands on a Claddagh do not wear wedding bands, ever. And knowing the true meaning of a Claddagh, and wearing it proudly, does not scream “ALL THINGS IRISH” because most people, even if they are Irish, do not know the true meaning and symbolism of the ring and how it is to be worn.
The Claddagh symbolizes loyalty (crown) friendship (hands) and love (heart) so in this version loyalty is all gone?! How modern! (I’m Irish btw)
….Wow. That is so bad.
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