Fuck The Fuck Off

This particular picture, though I had no idea why, pissed me off. The idiocy of trying to explain the custom of wearing a wedding ring on the left ring finger by saying, "it's the only finger with a vein connected to the heart."

Excuse me while I take out this comically sized bullhorn:

*ahem*

"BULLSHIT!"

Wikipedia, if you please...

"Before medical science discovered how the circulatory system functioned, people believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. Because of the hand-heart connection, they chose the descriptive name vena amoris, Latin for the vein of love, for this particular vein.
Based upon this name, their contemporaries, purported experts in the field of matrimonial etiquette, wrote that it would only be fitting that the wedding ring be worn on this finger. By wearing the ring on the third finger of the left hand, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other."

"Before medical science discovered how the circulatory system functioned..." BEFORE. Wait, it gets funnier to me. What about the left hand?

"In Western cultures, a wedding ring is traditionally worn on the ring finger. This developed from the Roman "anulus pronubis" when the man gave a ring to the woman at the betrothal ceremony. Blessing the wedding ring and putting it on the bride's finger dates from the 11th century."

"In medieval Europe, the Christian wedding ceremony placed the ring in sequence on the index, middle, and ring fingers of the left hand. The ring was then left on the ring finger. In a few European countries, the ring is worn on the left hand prior to marriage, then transferred to the right during the ceremony. For example, a Greek Orthodox bride wears the ring on the left hand prior to the ceremony, then moves it to the right hand after the wedding. In England, the 1549 Prayer Book declared "the ring shall be placed on the left hand". By the 17th and 18th centuries the ring could be found on any finger after the ceremony — even on the thumb."


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When I get married, I'm wearing it on my middle finger, just to tell people what they can do.