[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', ' ')The third man had married an Irish girl. He boasted that he told her his house was to be cleaned, the dishes washed, the cooking done and the laundry washed. And this was all entirely her responsibility. He said the first day he didn't see anything and the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day some of the swelling had gone down so he could see a little out of his left eye!

[JJ]

divorce is illegal in the Philippines. (lots of mistresses)
So one day we're sitting around the living room talking with several of our friends about all the divorces we've seen in the last few years and out of the blue Bing says "well if Jay tried to divorce me, I'd just kill him." Very matter of fact. I said "WHAT?" and she said "simple. I'm too old to start over."

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 'd')ivorce is illegal in the Philippines. (lots of mistresses)
So one day we're sitting around the living room talking with several of our friends about all the divorces we've seen in the last few years and out of the blue Bing says "well if Jay tried to divorce me, I'd just kill him." Very matter of fact. I said "WHAT?" and she said "simple. I'm too old to start over."

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', 'N')o, that is not it at all. Believe it or not, before I actually did have respect for you, but this thread destroyed it. Why? The topic title and the contents of your first post tell me quite a lot about you, that you are so desperate that you would resort to purchasing a person for companionship. Also your post about how your problems dealing with the opposite gender are the fault of industrialization tells me the real reason why you want our society to fail, because you need it to happen to justify yourself. If our society doesn't fail, then you're lost.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'A') woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him.

She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears deep in thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of coffee. "What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?"

"Do you remember when I met you and you were only 16?" he asks solemnly. The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and sensitive. "Yes, I do" she replies.

The husband pauses. The words are not coming easily. "Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car, making love?" "Yes, I remember" says the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continues... "Do you remember when he shoved a shotgun in my face and said, "Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?'" "I remember that too" she replies softly. He wipes another tear from his cheek and says..."I would have gotten out today."

[PenultimateManStanding]

Madpaddy is a tonic, a healing dose of outrageous humor. No offense meant, SPG, but Madpaddy should be poster of this year and every other. I Love You Man

[Pretorian]

One friend says to another: I can't stand my wife. She doesn't cook, doesnt clean, always dirty, looks like an old hag all the time, doesnt look after children, we constantly fighting, I can't take it anymore! I am going to kill her.
Another says-- No, don't do it. You'll get 15 years. You know what, there is a better way. You can fuck her to death. That's totally legal and noone will blame you. Just fuck her every 2 or 3 hours or so, and in 3 weeks she will die, problem solved.
So in 2 weeks this friend decided to visit him to see how he is doing. He knocks but nobody is answering, and the door is open. He comes in. Everything is sparkling. He hears singing, he goes to the kitchen and sees his friend's wife making an 8-course dinner. She is singing, and wears a beautiful dress, looking as a 20yo doll.
He goes to the living room, and sees his friend, his amorphous body almost drowned in the puffy chair, he is of greenish-white colour and he says with a hoarse, barely audible voice " You hear that? She is singing. The bitch doesn't know that she has 1 week left to live!"

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he whole idea that you can "purchase" a wife is farked up. A marriage consisting of an exchange of money for company, cooking and sexual favors is just a glorified service contract with a prostitute-servant.

[blukatzen]

I'm reading all the posts where folks are complaining about "buying a wife". That *is* a term, but in most cases, it pays for the services of the service or forums that allow the women and men to meet, and arranges for them to file paperwork, legal notices, or whatever is needed for the foreign party to emigrate into the (usually husband to be's) host country.

Would you use the term "buying a child" if adopting? NO. You pay for the SERVICES of the agency arranging the adoption!

Enough with the sexist crap already. No one is "buying" anyone else here, especially Heineken.

Blu

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '+')1 Good God! Hell has just frozen over. Lots of relationships boil down to a servile relationship anyway. This one just has money at the outset.
To the vast majority all women are, are glorified servants anyway. And marriage is just a way of chaining them to you, you should be made to pay for it if you are going to be that low and crass to buy a wife.

[Madpaddy]

Hey PMS,

Thanks. I love you too.

[Quinny]

I think you're being a bit naive here. OK I take the point that Heineken might have been using the term buying a wife tongue in cheek. I was quite shocked when he used the term as he normally seems quite a decent bloke.

The thing is a lot of relatively rich westerners do literally buy wives & children and I don't mean in the caring way they do it to exploit them. Some reckon there are more slaves in the world today than before theslave trade was abolished!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'I')'m reading all the posts where folks are complaining about "buying a wife". That *is* a term, but in most cases, it pays for the services of the service or forums that allow the women and men to meet, and arranges for them to file paperwork, legal notices, or whatever is needed for the foreign party to emigrate into the (usually husband to be's) host country.

Would you use the term "buying a child" if adopting? NO. You pay for the SERVICES of the agency arranging the adoption!

Enough with the sexist crap already. No one is "buying" anyone else here, especially Heineken.

Blu

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'I') think you're being a bit naive here. OK I take the point that Heineken might have been using the term buying a wife tongue in cheek. I was quite shocked when he used the term as he normally seems quite a decent bloke.
The thing is a lot of relatively rich westerners do literally buy wives & children and I don't mean in the caring way they do it to exploit them. Some reckon there are more slaves in the world today than before theslave trade was abolished!

[Pretorian]

Blukatzen, if you had to choose between your child and an orphan on that ship , what would it be?

[JJ]

sophia's choice? and no mention of cannabalism?

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'B')lukatzen, if you had to choose between your child and an orphan on that ship , what would it be?

[oowolf]

Just an aside: I've spent the last 5 years trying to convince an old girlfriend (now 51 and single) to move from Oregon back to Montana and my doomstead. The doomerish links I've been emailing her, from LATOC, survival acres, etc. have apparently worked. (She is a constant lurker here, too). The 60% loss in the value of her retirement pension finally bitch-slapped her into reality.

She is now liquidating her assets and has tentative plans to be here by Spring.

Stand by....

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'J')ust an aside: I've spent the last 5 years trying to convince an old girlfriend (now 51 and single) to move from Oregon back to Montana and my doomstead. The doomerish links I've been emailing her, from LATOC, survival acres, etc. have apparently worked. (She is a constant lurker here, too). The 60% loss in the value of her retirement pension finally bitch-slapped her into reality.
She is now liquidating her assets and has tentative plans to be here by Spring. Stand by....

[oowolf]

......"dogged persistence"....

[oowolf]

This "I told you so" moment was 30 years in the making. Vindication at last!