Thai brides ordered over the internet

BBC News: Perils fail to deter Thai bride boom


If you ask me it's playing with fire.

As long as both sides have something to gain, this phenomenon will continue. The men, usually older are looking for the stereotypically attractive Asian woman, with prowess in bed, abilities in the kitchen, won't talk back and do his bidding. She in return wants security, the opportunity to live in the West with all the economic advantages that brings, and in the majority of cases marry a man who will be less controlling than a Thai husband.

Cultural and language difficulties aside, if it works - why not? It's not like these men are sex tourists or paedophiles (I'd hope these agencies require some documentation of age, regardless of whether said documents are easily faked).

Ever seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Nope - explain the connection please.

definitely connected (the film is also very very funny)

Start a thread, and then continue to post ambiguous one liners. Not much of a discussion considering...

The film is about a group of Transvestites travelling on a bus called Priscilla and the journey involves taking them across the Aussie Outback. They rent a bus cos they dont have enough money for the airfare.

Somewhere along the way, they stop at some roughneck outback town and the guy they stay with is married to a Thai.

What I remember is the ping-pong ball scene, cos that is what the wife used to do, and the discusting cooking scene.

Have to support Hams here 100%.
Of course it would be a nicer world if women from Asia, Brazil, Poland, etc. could just get proper education, a job, and therefore the chance to select a husband for other reasons than 'holds job, has money, lives in the West'. But until then - why not?
I've met a few Brazilian women who married German geeky engineers for the usual reasons. Well, if those guys were hoping for someone who doesn't talk back or likes to cook, they chose the wrong catalogue
With Brazilian women, I guess the looks have to make up for all this. And they do.

@astro rabbit - So Thai women like to play with balls and lack high hygiene standards (or was the cooking scene disgusting in some other way)? Or is it something I can only 'get' if I watch the film - the connection between a film and the reality of Thai brides?

Maybe you should watch the film and reach you own conclusions.

Coming away from the film, marrying some asian beauty, then going there to set up a business, does that not sound like playing with fire.

So should the thread title be changed to "Obscure movie recommendation, Something about Thai brides"?

i think the proper title would be: "obscure movie recommendation and ensuing racial stereotypes based on one character and an old porn trick"...its a work in progress but you get my drift.

I've got one name to throw at you... John Wayne Bobbit... and not a Thai woman in sight.

I think the title of this thread is really crappy!

The whole thread is crap(py)

Priscilla is a great movie, but it is a movie and much better than the cheap and tacky "to Wong Fu, thanks for everything" hollywood rip-off. It has however little connection to murder and little to do with the pros and cons of mail order brides.

Not only that, the title suggests murder, not the pros and cons of mail-order brides.

Wasted bandwidth here.

You're working on a porn trick? Honey, I don't mean to condescend, but Asian girls and ping-pong balls is so 1980's. Snakes are where it's at this year - especially now Steve Irwin's dead.

The movie in question was from the 80s and features Hugo Weaving (Mr Smith from the Matrix) in drag, as well as guy pierce (L.A. Confidential) in drag.

Go and grab it from a video store, watch it, then watch the matrix again... you wont see Mr.Smith in the same light.

Mate, we should open a bar in Penang called "Irwin's", specialising in thai girls dancing with stingray barbs between their tits.

and huge boas up their respective chuffs. We'd make a fortune. I think this thread should be cross-linked with the smelly hands thread.

Penang is not even in Thailand

it says in the BBC report that the girls pay 10US$, which is equivalent to 1-days salary of a production worker in that region. So why the western guy has to cough up for one months salary. Seems like someone is getting a good deal.

What checks are made to make sure the girl is not already married, and her husband maybe is in another more affluent asian country on a 2-year contract bulding the new condominium or sky-scraper, and her children are been raisd by the mother. Very common.

It says in the report that checks are made to see if the girl is not a former bar-girl, what kind of checks. And not all prostitution is done western style. There are massage parlors, and list goes on.

The setting up a busineess in some tourisrt area, a bar or guest house, is well dodgy.

Then you are a western guy raised on good-music, traditions, history, good general knowledge and BBC TV, and other poisons, going to spend your life with someone who does not know or cannot even begin to apreciate such things. It is definitely sound like a recepe for disaster.

Hey mister, mister...I know a guy who will sell you a virgin, guaranteed no husband, no kids, a good girl, virgin guaranteed. I tell you what mister, you look like nice guy, how about buy one get 53 more...better than cheap...for free. all you have to do is wear this little vest and pull this little string.

i wonder if she looked like this?


Dudley and Ting Tong

On the Mike McShane estate in Bruise, Dudley is excitedly looking forward to the arrival of his new bride, Ting Tong Macadangdang, loving chosen from his 'Thai Brides For You' brochure.

However, when she arrives, Ting Tong does not quite match the picture in the brochure. In fact she could be prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act.

Incensed Dudley orders Ting Tong to leave, but with some subtle persuasion she convinces him she can stay, just for one night…

all you have to do is wear this little vest and pull this little string ???

use your imagination

sorry got no imagination, just got back from the beer garden

indeed Lassie, though the management has asked me to note for the record that a basket does NOT come with the get one virgin get 53 more for free offer. hand made baskets of excellent quality, however, may be purchased with or without ping pong shooting murdering women (or women look alikes) for an additional fee. no refunds, returns or exchanges allowed, naturally.

do i get a free basket if i buy two virgins and get, errrr, 106 free?

*wanders off feeling faintly disturbed at potentially facing 106 virgin thais*

you can technically only have one vest, therefore the maths dont work out in your favour. one coupon per customer. no delegation allowed. i will however throw in a snake, apparently they are all the rage.

also wanders off as have already reported self for being in bad taste, apologies all around

Wrong religion mate and probably wrong career that you're in...