A few days back during the attack of Gunkid I made reference to his purchase of a Philippine bride in a derogatory manner and I am now paying the price.
Every time I log in I face the offer of a "nice Asian lady" that would be willing to do whatever unmentionable things I cold possibly imagine, as a pop up add.
Occasionally they throw me a curve and offer a stunning Russian or Ukrainian chick.
I know they are lying!
See, the thing is I have known three guys that did the mail order bride from the Philippines thing. Both men were rather strange individuals. One looked normal but was crazy as a sack of bats, the other looked like a frog and neither of them could begin or sustain a normal relationship.
Sack of Bats wife stayed with him just long enough to have a child, gain citizenship and then split. Knowing this guy I can not blame her at all. Oddly, she is a rather normal person now married to a normal man and leading a normal life for the past 20 years.
Frogman's wife stabbed him. She did not kill him, but she cut him up pretty bad and he refused to press charges so I suspect she had warned him not to even think about touching her, caught him thinking about it, and cut him up.
After the stabbing incident they stayed together for several years, with him sleeping on the sofa, and he did express the opinion that since she was an obsessive compulsive cleaner the cost of importation was cheaper than hiring a maid.
Guy #3 was a different story and I knew him when he was stationed in the Islands. He met a Philippine girl, lived with her for two years, then he got transferred back to the states.
She stabbed him in the airport terminal when she found out he was not taking her with him back to the states. Nearly killed him, and he was in the hospital for a long time before he could return home.
As a historian I am aware that arranged marriages have been the norm for all of human history. I know they can work, for some people, under some conditions. But I am scared to death of those Philippine girls, and I am pretty sure the Russian chicks would kill you in a heartbeat too!
I have grown old enough to face my own mortality, and I know I will die at some point in time, sooner rater than latter at my age. But not from having my throat cut from ear to ear by some chick with a thick accent.
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