Hey Westerngrrl, I live in a trailer...

[FL]

and belong to a yacht club. I can look out my windows and see 100 miles in any direction. I have a degree in Psych., BFD, but chose another career, I'm a garbageman and proud of it. I come from a long line of bluebloods, but my fiance is poor even by filipino standards. We'll have our wedding reception at the yacht club and in two years, head out on a four year around the world sail, yeah, Europe, Greece, the South Pacific, Indonesia, Australia, etc., etc., cool, huh?. In the meantime, I make 50g a year as a G-man(sorry no degree)...Celebrate diversity, don't slam it. Follow your dreams, but be careful, they just might come true....

[Jeff S.]

... in response to Hey Westerngrrl, I live in a trailer..., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

I'm in the automotive industry so am close to the industry news. Remember the GM strike the year before last? Well the Flint MI, Delphi stamping plant workers went on strike for more money. The average income was $92,000 per year (about CDN$ 142,000) and the average workday 4 1/2 hours. Awww, the poor guys have to slave so hard for such low pay. Anyway this is roughly 4 times the average hourly pay of the engineers designing the parts - for tossing sheets of steel into a punch press?

[Dave H]

... in response to Hey Westerngrrl, I live in a trailer..., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

Hey G-man,

I come from a line of blue bloods too. I love to dumpster dive. Maybe we're related. Do you hold your beer bottle with your pinkie finger out like me? ) When drinking from a can, I use a "Steinway." It is a handle that clips on to my beer can. I have them in gold and silver so that I can match the appropriate can colour.

Speaking of "Steinways," a lady gave me a Yamaha Piano recently. I was searching for "treasure" on bulk trash pickup day. I usually pick up old furniture and my sister-in-law refinishes (shabby sheik). She made thousands of dollars last year selling recycled junk furniture to rich people. You know, people with college degrees. In fact, she has a Master's degree and left her career as a teacher. She now works less hours and makes more money as a "junk" furniture dealer.

By the way, it is a good thing WG was born in Canada. She might have been abandoned (or worse yet) in her ancestral homeland of China. To me, rescuing these girls from death and abandonment is a far nobler cause than worrying about "old, fat, wrinkled" White and Black guys marrying younger Asian women and treating them like queens. I have several friends that have adopted daughters from China. I wonder how many other baby Chinese girls disappear and are never found? Why are all of the Fem-Nazis after the descent guys and leave the perverts like William Jefferson Clinton alone? They turn a blind eye to the world sex slave trade and attack guys who are just trying to find true love. Oh I know, I know! Bill, and those sex slave traders are rich businessmen and professionals with college degrees. The kind that WG wants to marry. Maybe she should explain her "real" interest in us. She is probably just bored. I hope she stays! We haven't had this much fun in a while. )) It sure beats talking about toilet paper.

Dave H.

[Dave H]

... in response to Hey Westerngrrl, I live in a trailer..., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

N/T

[Westerngrrl]

... in response to Hey Westerngrrl, I live in a trailer..., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

the schools and the friends trash you for life?  I don't think so.

[FL]

... in response to And have the 'Rents....., posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

Real friends don't trash, schools don't give a rats a@^% about you and "Rents(?), remember, I don't have a degree, but there's hope for you, you lowered yourself to respond to a garbageman, we won't tell your "friends"

[Westerngrrl]

... in response to Re: And have the 'Rents....., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

'Rents=Parents.  This is an anonymous messageboard.  You don't even know my real name

[shadow]

... in response to Re: Re: And have the 'Rents....., posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

there are ways to find out! Wanna see?  HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!! Might be fun to publish it here, along with Daddy's name. Larry.

[FL]

... in response to Re: Re: And have the 'Rents....., posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

And don't want to know your name, shades of paranoia?? ...But thanks for showing my fiance what a self-centered, self righteous, shallow, AW is, now she understands. You came here questioning the age differences, got answers that you rejected, now you claim to be doing "a study"...what BS you got for tomorrow? Don't tell your friends or "rents" your here, what would they think???..... just an old, bald, fat guy engaged to a filipina that is more real woman/person than you'll ever be, even with your precious degree....

[Westerngrrl]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: And have the 'Rents....., posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

So you want to keep your wife at home to all your housework?  WOW.  What a life.  Oh yeah...the next thing you want to to is to take away our right to vote, huh?  Maybe we all should stay home, not go to school.  WOW.  What a world that would be!

[kevin]

... in response to Real, huh?, posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

Although I haven't taken courses in women's studies, I believe you are on quite a different wavelength than Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  They crusaded for womens' rights, and they helped shape America into being a better place to live.  But the stuff you slam us guys about, first of all, I'm sure they could not conceive such issues.  Second of all, if they were alive today, I think they'd find the issues we're slammed about to be ridiculous.

On the same token, think of the framers of the Constitution and the separation of Church and State.  Nowadays, school vouchers are controversial, because it infers government money being diverted to schools in religious settings, among other things.  "God" can't be mentioned in public without stirring up commotion.  Morals stem from religious upbringing, therefore the logic sometimes infers that the government should be impervious to some acts (like adultery) that causes harm to others, because after all, it boils down to religious convictions, and that's as far as it goes.  The social consequences:  The breakdown of the family unit, and ultimately the breakdown of society.

- Kevin

[yogi57]

... in response to Real, huh?, posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

I think you should grow a male organ f___ yourself

[FL]

... in response to Real, huh?, posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

Where did you even remotely get the idea I want to keep my fiance, soon to be wife home? How did you read that into what I wrote??? She has a job when she's ready for it and it won't be slamming latte's for toothpaste money, gotta keep up the reputation, you know! Again, after two years I'll force her on a 56' sailboat and force her to see the world...Gotta go, the Simpsons are on......

[Westerngrrl]

... in response to Re: Real, huh?, posted by FL on Jan 23, 2001

Some of the posters here seem to be angry at the fact that I want to have a management level career making a high five-low six figure starting salary.

[SteveG]

... in response to Well..., posted by Westerngrrl on Jan 23, 2001

I'm angry about the fact that even though the last couple of days this board has discussed almost every subject known to mankind the world over EXCEPT meeting and marrying Asian women and NOT ONCE has anyone covered technical tips on how to improve the 1/4 mile time on my TransAm!!!  

 Seriously, if you get that kind of money right out of school, you will either be dreaming - soon to wake to extreme disappointment - or living in an area with such unbelievable inflation that rent or house payments will quickly shrink your paycheck to more "normal" proportions.   I am an Engineer and after 16 years I still haven't reached the 6 figure mark.  I just hope to get there before I retire!

                                    SteveG