{"id":40574,"date":"2017-08-14T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40574"},"modified":"2017-08-14T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T06:31:30","slug":"darwin-man-posts-ex-wifes-wedding-dress-for-sale-to-buy-fishing-rod-and-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/shopping\/darwin-man-posts-ex-wifes-wedding-dress-for-sale-to-buy-fishing-rod-and-beer.html","title":{"rendered":"Darwin man posts \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 for sale to buy fishing rod and beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Darwin man posts \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 for sale to buy fishing rod and beer<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Darwin man posts \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 for sale to buy fishing rod and beer:- A SOCIAL media post on a Darwin site has its readers in stitches with a bloke seemingly making a desperate plea to the local Facebook community, looking to sell his \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 so he can buy himself a fishing rod and some beer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The post from Scott on \u2018Darwin NT Buy, Sell, Swap &amp; Wanted\u2019, outlines a desperate plea to sell the $2000 wedding dress for the bargain price of $200.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The poster wrote he initially wanted to burn the gown once his divorce was finalised, but thought better of it and posted it for sale on the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cI was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but then thought some lucky bloke would be glad to pay only $200 instead of $2000 for a dress,\u201d he told his Facebook following.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThe dress cost about $2000 that my ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for, but didn\u2019t, so I got stuck with the bill \u2014 luckily I only got stuck with his daughter for eight years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Scott went on to tell potential buyers about the dress, describing its \u201ctrain, veil and all kinds of shiny beady things\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cI think it\u2019s funny that one picture makes it look like the chest plate off an Imperial Storm Trooper,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cPersonally I think it looks like a $2000 shower curtain, but what do I know about this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Scott finished up his sales pitch urging others to snap up the bargain dress as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cCheap at twice the price. Ladies, you won\u2019t regret this. You may regret the dude you marry, but not the dress,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">By 2pm Friday, almost 900 readers had \u2018liked\u2019 the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">If anybody knows more about this post, give the NT News a call on 08 89449724.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/relationships\/marriage\/darwin-man-posts-exwifes-wedding-dress-for-sale-to-buy-fishing-rod-and-beer\/news-story\/1c7c606550431bb3e01760930392a4d2<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/shopping\/darwin-man-posts-ex-wifes-wedding-dress-for-sale-to-buy-fishing-rod-and-beer.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin man posts \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 for sale to buy fishing rod and beer Darwin man posts \u2018ex-wife\u2019s wedding dress\u2019 for sale to buy fishing rod and beer:- A SOCIAL media post on a Darwin site has its readers in stitches with a bloke seemingly making a desperate plea to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[944],"tags":[45201,45197,45203,45202,45200,45204,45206,45198,45205,45199],"class_list":["post-40574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shopping","tag-isabellahood10","tag-darwin-nt-buy","tag-dress-burning-party","tag-fishingrod","tag-isabella-hood","tag-sales-pitch-urging","tag-scott-gibson","tag-sell","tag-shiny-beady-things","tag-swap-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}