Well, now that I’ve posted that number, there’s no stopping anyone from calling and collecting that jackpot. So have at 'em.
I will like the sound of that.
Sometimes you make me like you.
Can someone explain what the “Fat Yuri” scam is?
(No need to LMGTFY, I did already and there’s no specific definition.)
The box typically says, “Some assembly required” too…
It takes lots of forms, but the common thread between them is that the victim falls in love with some nice photographs and seductive letters, while the person they are actually in contact with a fat guy named Yuri. Sometimes a hairy guy named Boris. Once they have their mark hooked, the lovely lady in the photographs will develop a need for money.
Oh goddamn! :smack: I just realized I’ve been forgetting the air holes when mailing them off. Oh well, no refunds anyway.
You must read this epic thread from 2003-2004 from our own John Carter of Mars. An instant classic.
Also, rent Birthday Girl with Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin.
The mail order bride business has been working hard at cleaning up it’s previously shoddy reputation. These days, if you aren’t completely satisfied, you can place your bride into her original packaging and return her to her country of origin for a full refund.
In order (for a man) to get married you have to meet a woman. There are many ways to meet a woman. The Russian introduction services are just another way of meeting a potential mate. Of course, caveat emptor, and you have a few additional challenges about getting to know the person. But using due caution and common sense, it is possible to meet, fall in love, and marry this way.
I’ve been married to a Russian woman I met in this manner for almost 12 years. I also know 2 other Russian / American couples who have been married longer than me. So it does work.
There also are those who abuse or game the system and you have to be cautious about that.
J.
Somehow I don’t think it’s going to pan out that way when you have Beta males who can’t get a date in their hometown pairing up with Alpha women who are proactive enough to market themselves to higher status males outside their country.
Remain stoic man, I post a lot. 
My dad was on a Chinese chick kick for about 13 years and his current 30 year old gf is from the Philippines. But if he ever finds SDMB, it’ll be because of this thread. And I’m going to tell him to keep the receipt.
Just read an article about this point in the November issue of The Atlantic. Apparently life expectancy for Russian men is currently 59.8! And for Russian women, it’s something like 72. The article details the tendancy of teenage Russian boys to begin with the Vodka and just go berserk until they pass away from alcohol poisoning sometime in their 20s.
The author said the Vodka culture is slowly changing, but in his apartment building, kids and young men were blotto all the time, and didn’t give a damn about anything – wives, girlfriends, other tenants, etc.
My thoughts on mail order brides:
I used to think the whole thing was funny, though I was sad that my prospects as a woman were not as numerous: http://mailorderhusbands.net/order/. But hey, quality of over quantity?
However, my opinion has changed as an Uncle of mine has a Ukrainian mail order bride. He became so lost in pursuit of her (or really, what she represented: hot, young trophy) that he lost all of his money, his house and his job.
“Joey P” hooked up with a Mail Order Bride from Russia. She wore the pants in the relationship while He wore the panties. She even had a mustache. They lasted a good fourteen months. She then tossed his ass to the curb. He lost everything and had to start all over. He gave up on Russian Brides and went after a Russian Groom. Last I heard, they were pretty happy with each other. They both wear the panties!
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I got one of those once, but when we started, (you know, doin’ it?) I musta done something wrong at the “Y”, 'cause she farted and flew all over the room.
I never got over that, really. And it was all because, when I complained to a friend I wasn’t “gettin’ any”, he told me to lower my standards.:D;)
Quasi
Heh. One of the techs at the pharmacy where I work is a mail-order bride from the Philippines. She’s worked her way up, has raised some surprisingly normal children (a miracle if you ever met her husband, a demented scrap-metal scavenger who looks like the offspring of Snuffy Smith and the Parson), and became a citizen recently. The day she got her citizenship, pretty much everyone she knows began encouraging her to get a divorce. I think the pharmacy will throw a party the day she announces that she’s retained a lawyer.