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Russian brides? Seriously!

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Old Jun 2, 2003 | 09:49 PM
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I just watched a program on Discovery Health channel (I think) and they were talking about these guys finding Russian brides through catalogs. Come on, you don't get down and propose after a few letters and a few days in Kiev...er, do you?
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Old Jun 2, 2003 | 10:05 PM
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I met someone who did this. I don't know him except for the couple of hours I was around him. He's not an attractive (physically) person, but this particular person was very excited about his wife coming over and you could tell he was going to treat her well and take good care of her. I'm sure that's not the majority of these.
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Old Jun 2, 2003 | 10:06 PM
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There is a NASA tech inspector in the N. Cal Chapter, better known as the "Tech Nazi" who quit because he got himself a Russian mail order bride. She showed up a few times at the track before he quit.
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Old Jun 2, 2003 | 10:39 PM
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I just saw that and next week they're going to have transgender teens
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Old Jun 3, 2003 | 07:57 AM
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I think mail order brides are more common than most people realize. There's a lot of things that society doesn't talk about but which happen with some frequency. Mail order brides, arranged marriages, etc., are some of them.
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Old Jun 3, 2003 | 03:20 PM
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I have a good friend who did this. Her name is Tatyanna and she is hot, a tall leggy blond. Basically, they wrote a few letters back and forth, he went over and visited for a week, then she came over here and visited for two weeks. They were married at the end of the second week
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Old Oct 10, 2008 | 09:20 AM
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as a Russian-speaking guy, I MUST speak on this

this is complex, yet simple, at the same time

living in the US is a lot better than living in the former USSR republics - no doubdt
in Russia, a young woman can look forward to being poor, marrying an abusive angry drunk, and seeing nothing

by marrying a fat American with bad social skills, she can come to THE BEST DAMN COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, not work, be well off, and opress her shy husband all day long. she will be bought a car, and she can fulfill her womanly need of bearing children in a SAFE and STABLE environment.

it's a no-brainer

poor Russian men; they have nothing that can be sold in this way

do NOT DARE to tell me that I am wrong - I have way too much insider info; there is not love involved here
this is a business transaction
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Old Oct 10, 2008 | 09:25 AM
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I won't say you're wrong. . . that's about the long and short of it from what I could tell.

<---flirts regularly with mail-order brides who've already arrived.
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Old Oct 10, 2008 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by DimaK321,Oct 10 2008, 09:20 AM
in Russia, a young woman can look forward to being poor, marrying an abusive angry drunk, and seeing nothing

by marrying a fat American with bad social skills, she can come to THE BEST DAMN COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, not work, be well off, and opress her shy husband all day long. she will be bought a car, and she can fulfill her womanly need of bearing children in a SAFE and STABLE environment.
Makes a lot of sense
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Old Oct 10, 2008 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Oct 10 2008, 11:25 AM
I won't say you're wrong. . . that's about the long and short of it from what I could tell.

<---flirts regularly with mail-order brides who've already arrived.
Also, I believe that if they do get divorced the Russian lady is now an American citizen and can go find a better sugar daddy.

Yahoo for capitalism!
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