See here. About a 10-minute clip from some sort of British television show. This is anotherin my series of warnings about marrying a Thai girl you don’t know very well – or any younger girl you’ve met over the Internet like this poor sod has. And he still wants to make things work. 
This appears to be some sort of British television show, on the up and up, but I can’t imagine these people agreeing to appear on it.
I have no immediate or long-term plans to find a bride on the internet.
Well, I guess my work is done then. 
I have to say that that kind of show makes me entirely queasy inside. It’s just a more civilised form of witch-hunting - or at least this one was. Lie-detectors are hardly infallible, and the way the presenter was attacking the woman with his pet audience baying at his heels was quite frankly disturbing to me. I don’t know what the truth is - no one does but the woman, presumably, but the sort of vicious attack that I saw there doesn’t really achieve anything.
ETA: I’m with Lobsang in spirit - but Russian brides are fine, right? 
Yes, I have reservations about lie-detector results myself. But what strikes me as bizarre is the poor husband’s willingness to air this in public and try to work it out with the wife even if the results are true. Just a lonely old git who thought he’d found the perfect wife over the Internet. Not sure why the girl would agree to this either. How much do they pay people to be on these shows?
I must admit leaning toward guilty until proven innocent in these types of cases, unfair as I know that is. It’s such a common story. At least this husband hasn’t been bumped off – yet – for a US$1-million insurance payoff like happened to this Canadian upcountry here in February. His Thai wife, who seems to have organized the hit on him – they have the two hitmen in custody – has just been released on bail, to the horror of his family back in Canada.
That clip made me sad 
Seriously, the whole thing reeked of sadness.
Is that guy like a British Jerry Springer?
Yes, and he’s hardly alone. People tend to think of these guys as lecherous perverts, but in so many cases they are simply horribly lonely men who think they’ve gotten a good break for once. There are a lot of predators waiting to take advantage of them. Helps explain a lot of the many farang (Westerner) suicides in Pattaya. I can’t figure out why someone would go this public about it, though.
Purely from the posts so far, I thought “Ah, this must be Jeremy Kyle”. :rolleyes: Yes, he’s like a British Jerry Springer, though his show airs in the daytime, so I would assume there’s less cursing and more just shouting (though happily i’ve not watched an episode).
Could somebody summarize the clip, for those of us who can’t access YouTube?
Some sort of British Jerry Springer show. (I guess. I’ve never actually seen a Jerry Springer show. Just know him by reputation.) An older British man met a young Thai lady on the Internet, married her and took her to Britain. He began receiving anonymous phone calls and such that she was fooling around behind his back. The couple agreed to appear on this show, for which she agreed to a lie-detector test, the results of which would be revealed on the show and which she failed, the implication being that she only married him for a visa. What’s sad is that no matter what one thinks of lie-detector results, the poor git keeps saying he hopes they can work things out eventually no matter what, but you can tell this is a doomed relationship. The man seems a prime candidate for what’s come to be known as the “farang high dive,” from a tall buildng.
I’m sure there are some kind men who do this sort of thing. For the most part, the entire thing reeks of the buying and selling of women to me.
There are women their own age (always older men/younger women) who are on a more equal footing (financially, education, opportunities) they could explore and not be lonely.
If I hired a male escort for the night, I’d be a fool if I thought he loved me and we could build a life together. Some of these men need to stop and think about what they’re getting themselves into.
Did yo get burned by Thai girl at one time? You seem to post about this topic a lot. I’d be interested to hear your take.
Sounds that way, but results like above are the most common outcome.
Back in about '97, I went to Karate with a slob who was trying to get a Russian bride. The guy didn’t make shit for a living, had two kids, lived in a shithole dilapidated suburban house that he wasn’t capable of keeping in decent repair. Then he surprised us all by going for a Russian bride. After all, what woman wouldn’t want an unkempt, unhygenic lazy poor guy with two kids and a broken down house? At least he wasn’t fat! :rolleyes:
He made a couple of trips, god knows how he came up with the money, and at one point was supposed to bring back this one particular woman. But then she started making additional demands; a bunch of cash up front, money for her family members, bring her sister and uncle to America, etc; and the whole thing fell apart. Primarily because he didn’t have the money. If he had, I’m sure he would have handed his entire bank account over to her.
Of course, this was the guy who brought a -sharp- replica sword to class repeatedly, after being warned not to, and promptly sank it about a half-inch into his left shin while swinging it around. The sword was sharper than he was.
Haha! No, I have never been burned by a Thai lady. (At least not so far. I’ll keep my eye on my long-term Thai wife just in case .) And even back in my salad days when I was truly running riot through the bars, I kept my head enough not to have married a bargirl, or even gotten serious woth one.
But I post in order to do my best to warn other guys. You really have no idea how many guys end up broke and destitute and suicidal because they fell head over heels in love with some bargirl they met last week or the other night and became involved with. All of us guys over here who have not had that happen know someone who has. It ranges from the comical, like when the friend discovers his newfound honey is really a man (and you can’t tell them it’s a man, they’ll not believe you and just become angry with you), to the tragic, like all of the suicides in Pattaya.
That’s right. And I’m doing my bit to get them to stop and think. But you don’t know Thai bargirls. (The girl in the video may not have been a bargirl, but they often have been, at least at some point.) They can charm the pants off of a statue. Guys come over here, and they get taken completely unawares. Many bargirls enter the trade looking for a golden payoff like the airline pilot I know of who recently whisked one away to farangland. Hard to explain if you’ve never experienced it. These are not dollar crack whores on the bad side of town.
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Dang list keeps getting shorter and shorter.
And now, for the lighter side of Thai Internet brides, see here.
I meant using the usual methods.
A bride who I happen to have met on the internet - that’s different. 