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I missed the end of the programme – did they live happily ever after?
…one couple did Moe yes. The man with the chubby face and yellow teeth with that dark haired lady, I don’t think I’ve seen a happier couple in a long time, so things seem to have worked out for them, which shows it can be done, perhaps if you don’t expect too much to start off with.
As for the American redhead, I thought she was an attractive lady trapped in a boring marriage and long since out of love with her husband. An early mid life crisis – the traits of which I have some knowledge.
She seemed so keen on the English man she came over to meet, in whom I failed to see the attraction and I felt a little sorry for her at his rejection, but seeing the way she looked at her husband, if she carries on the way she is, suggests to me it will be a man in a white coat that will eventually carry her off.
what I don’t understand is why she had 4 kids before she realised she was in a boring marriage – surely she’d have twigged by about the second – and wasn’t she by far the most boring one in the relationship because all she did was sit on the computer all day….
hi Max,
“Not been out with a redhead for a few years. She’s not from Anchorage by any chance? Alaskan women are interesting, imo”
… next on your hit list?…If I was looking I think someone from a warmer climate, like Hawaii perhaps – a little more exotic.
“Next thing you know, the nice customs fellow locks her up in an Immigration cell and sends her back on the next plane. No visa, you see”.
…ha! this Delaware lady…the complacency of people who travel never ceases to amaze, and one cannot help but laugh at others misfortune in this respect.
Presumably all was resolved eventually but the story as you told it, got a resounding lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from me…
“As for the adultery thing you mention, Mrs mare I’m not sure I’m the only fellow in Mrs Tulsa’s life. It’s a shame, but a fact of cyberlife. You have to accept it with dedicated cyber surfers (which she is)”.
…on reflection, I can understand this. At first I thought it most unsavoury but now not so. I think it must be habit forming and once you develop the knack and confidence then like you say, a whole string of affairs is possible.
I don’t think they are lucky though in general, although it’s nice to hear of the successes, I’m not envious of this way of meeting people now that it’s the fashion. I always felt eye contact to be essential before making any decision and still feel that way about it.Just out of curiosity Max, when you start these on line relationships, do you sometimes wonder, or has it happened already, that the person you are getting to know, turns out to be either a lot older or younger, or even horror of horrors the wrong sex, than you assumed and that you had been led astray?. I have read this happens.
I would feel quite wronged if any of that happened to me, but I might see humour in it too, I don’t know. I’d like to think I could tell the difference but presumably it must be a hazard.“There is deffo a bond between Yank women and British men in my experience; (I’ve got a theory why, but that’s another story)”.
..this is what I wanted to ask you, what is this theory? If you don’t mind us dwelling on it here [you needn’t if you don’t want].
I’ve had many a happy holiday in the States and have nothing against Americans. A few are extra friendly in a way I’m not accustomed to, but I like that.
I was waiting at Minneapolis airport once, seated all alone [my husband was checking out the duty frees], when this bow legged chap came rushing up to me in a hurry and sat down beside me and started chatting away as if we’d known each other for years.I told him almost immediately he was bow legged and thought he’d sat on a horse for too long at which point he related how he owned a huge ranch in Texas and was up here on business, but spends most of his life on horseback. . I believed it.
We carried on chatting, he was brash and confident yet I couldn’t help but find him amusing too, which is always a plus, but of course I was completely detached from any suggestion of intimacy and assumed he must know I’m with someone.
Shortly my husband arrived, at which point he seemed surprised and embarrassed [how dare he!..] and quickly went quiet, wished us well, and shortly left the scene. I didn’t realise it at the time but looking back on it now I did actually ‘pull’, I believe. That is the nearest I got to an American.
It also proves that a little insult at the beginning can work wonders.
nice to talk with you again,
Mrs Mare, after the horrors of today on the horses and the cards, I’ll be lucky to buy a happy hour glass of lemonade in the Anchor Inn in Mansfield, ne’er mind visit some tasty ice maiden in Anchorage.
But it’s nice to think about. Thanks!
And as for the climate, I used to surf when I was younger, but I’m reliably informed by American pals that Hawaii is like a transplanted Blackpool full of Americans and Japanese. Also, I met someone who travelled with her boyfriend from Washington all the way to Anchorage on the back of a Kawasaki Z750. Now that’s the way to travel, Mrs Mare. She loved it there too. Unspoilt, except for the drinking.
I’m not envious of this way of meeting people now that it’s the fashion. I always felt eye contact to be essential before making any decision and still feel that way about it.
It’s declining, Mrs Mare. The whole cyber thing. I reckon it peaked about 2004/5 and it’s been fading since. You might remember when Message Boards first appeared.
I was a member of Direct Racing in 2000 and absolutely loved it, before it got invaded by morons and JC, the great admin there, had enough and closed it down.
Back then, everyone had a Message Board to go to, didn’t they? On every subject possible. They actually started to replace pubs as meeting places, in the sense you had a local MB. This is how I met the ladies over the ocean – through an MB.
Then you have the dating sites, which five years ago were THE place to get hitched. Your Match.Coms and others. But narcissistic MeMeMe sites like Facebook and Myspace are slowly wiping both out – the MB and the dating site that is – and you hear veterans of the keyboard talk about getting back into “analogue” dating, (i.e. face-to-face).
You mention about liars and trolls, who are not what they seem. A lot of this scenario is a kind of Folk Devils and Moral Panics perpetuated by the right wing press. I’m always reminded of the brilliant Brass Eye satire in this case. Not all of it is straight – there are nutters in all walks of life – but small enough to make it safe, given a few rules.
Women are just as likely to meet a sex-starved married fellow in the snug of the Dog and Duck as on http://www.kentgladiolifancier.com; (I must say though: all my contacts over there could have shagged about thirty married men every year had they been so inclined. The cyber baboonery is full of unhappy married people. It makes you wonder about the sanctity of marriage, Mrs Mare).
I have to say that I was lucky. On no occasion, did I arrive in the US after a twelve hour flight and hug a hulking lorry driver in a pleasant little yellow summer dress and light sandals instead of the eager housewife from Oregon with whom I’d shared a lifetime on MSN.
Neither have I been subjected to the Sister or Best Mate photo, (plenty have, though). None have been murderers, or Kathy Bates out of “Misery”. I’ve met a couple of liars though. People can’t help that, it seems.
And let’s face it! Most people of our generation use the Net because they can’t socialise directly because of kids or geography.
I told him almost immediately he was bow legged
Do you know, Mrs Mare. I believe you. LOL. How to make friends and influence people, huh!
It also proves that a little insult at the beginning can work wonders.
Hah! Treat em mean, keep em keen!
Works every time, as you know.In my experience – and it is limited by several hundred million – US women don’t play that game as much as the local talent does.
And you haven’t had the merging of gender identity in the US like you’ve had over here; a land where pretty young women tattoo themselves like Maoris, drink themselves insensible, copulate in skips, pee behind walls, swear like dockers and fight like Millwall and at the same time, their young men dance round their bum bags in pubs to the sounds of Take That, buy moisturiser by the vat, hug each other, cry like babies, wax their mini-coconuts and read Cosmopolitan on the bus.
It’s all very confusing here. To a large extent, American Men are Men, and American Women are Women. I might be wildly wrong and I’m no sociologist, but that was my experience. A much simpler outlook.
KT, if you’re reading this, read a few posts back about a cleaning offer!!
Mrs Mare, it’s been a pleasure. Till yonder. Max
Vaguely remember message boards, bit before my time on the net I think. I didn’t realise that’s how you were meeting people though.
“I have to say that I was lucky. On no occasion, did I arrive in the US after a twelve hour flight and hug a hulking lorry driver in a pleasant little yellow summer dress and light sandals instead of the eager housewife from Oregon with whom I’d shared a lifetime on MSN”
lol!!!!….a nice giggle to start the day there. I was just imagining…
“(I must say though: all my contacts over there could have shagged about thirty married men every year had they been so inclined. The cyber baboonery is full of unhappy married people. It makes you wonder about the sanctity of marriage, Mrs Mare)”.
You know Max, some might think me to be not all the ticket, I might even agree..
but this has never happened to me and I feel fortunate in that respect.Think you’re right in your last paragraphs though about the cultural differences between here and the U.S. between men and women….I can go along with this.
You do make me laugh Max, I’ll give you that….I best let you get on and thanks for being so revealing once again, I’ve learnt a lot here…quite fascinating to me.
Always be glad to hear of any more escapades that come your way…I think it’s the way you tell ’em…lol.
all the best now,
MargaretMaxilon5,
I was a member of Direct Racing.
It certainly was a good board at first.
Never forgot, "EC" accused me of being a "tipster" once on there!
I sent an email off to JC complaining that the accusation was totally unfounded. Poor, bloke he was always receiving grief from various members because of "parties" stiring things up; no wonder he gave up.
Happy days
Matron, it would probably have survived but for the closure of the Channel 4 forum – which was the model for the Betfair one. Met some nice people on DR – not the least JC.
Mrs Mare, it’s been a pleasure meeting and talking to you. Escapades are unavoidably off the menu at the moment – but I’m sure that this is just a blip.
My spiritual ex tells me that Cancerians are in for a treat in the next six months, so I might be getting a life after all.Kentucky in May, here I come…
Take care
Max
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