right here. Quite interesting, especially if you have a daughter (preferably a vegetarian, passport-chasing, beautiful doctor or lawyer - and we’ll need to check the horoscope).
Someone really needs to tell these people that “homely” does not mean a girl who wants to be a housewife.
So? Indians have been looking for matches for their children since time immemorial. The Internet just widens the playing field.
- tsarina, currently boinking an Indian boy herself.
The desperation is a natural consequence of a culture that routinely aborts female fetusses. Give them (and the Chinese) 20 years and we’ll really see some sociological abberations.
In Britlish, that’s pretty much what it means.
What I find interesting about these ads is the fact that most of the UK/US/Canada-based guys are probably pretty westernised in most ways (I know some guys who answer to these descriptions fairly well, allowing for mothers’ tendency to exaggerate). Except at the age of 30 - single, clean-shaven, high-earning professional - their mother tells them they’re going to get married, and picks the wife.
It says something about me that I found it stranger that the males in the ads were called “boys” despite being in their 20s than that they were looking for “girls” in probably the same age range. I’m not sure what it says about me, though.
Er… not that I’m agreeing with the practice any, but as a bit of a traveler, I suspect your misreading the label “homely”.
In America “Homely” equates to “plain” or “not especially attractive”. In ex-Brit colonies “homely” simply means a woman who wants to be a mother and is family-oriented, as opposed to a more career oriented gal. Home and hearth and all.
Phrack. Looks like Hemlock beat me to the post.
I thought the US was an ex-brit colony.
No - the Americans are “Damn Upstart Colonials”
There is a difference 
This crossed my mind as well.
And typing at the same time? Talk about multi-tasking!!
re: Homely.
But at least some o’ those guys were living in the US, looking for American wives. And on this side of the pond, you better duck fast if you call a girl “homely” to her face.
I use to surf around The Times of India. Some of the women are very sexy and all seemingly incredibly smart. And all I repeatedly thought to myself “Damn, too bad I live 10,000 miles away.”
Although they were all a foot or more shorter then I am.
Hmm, I’m currently having an impossible time opening up their homepage.