Internet Mail Order Brides !

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The Times

November 12, 2005

Husbands on run from the only Thai bride in the village

By Will Pavia

FOR more than 30 years it has been the marriage that dared not speak

its name; now the life of the only Thai bride in the village is about

to get a great deal tougher.

Britain's growing legion of middle-aged men and their

"internet-order" Thai wives have long suffered social disapproval

after their marriages. But their struggle for acceptance is about to be

dealt a further blow, by the television show Little Britain.

Next week millions of viewers will be introduced to the marital

travails of Dudley, a scruffy, middle-aged gent who seeks the love of

his life in a Thai Brides For You brochure.

When Ting Tong Macadangdang arrives on his doorstep, she is not the

slender vision of oriental womanhood he had hoped for. The sketch even

has a concluding catchphrase, shortly to spread into the vernacular,

when each week Dudley agrees that Ting Tong can stay "just for one

night".

It would be fair to say that the show is not being looked forward to by

those involved in the Thai introductions business. "I'm not too

keen on comedy," said Lawrence Lynch, 52, not a little

apprehensively. He found his Thai bride Thapanee, 36, through a

marriage agency nine years ago.

Now he is one of the trade's most unashamed advocates. Through his

Kidderminster-based company, Thai Professional Introductions, he claims

responsibility for "750 successful marriages" since 1997.

"Ting Tong means crazy in Thai," he said. "I suppose I can't be

too sensitive about these things. But I'm being asked to do silly

things nearly every week. I wouldn't mind being on Newsnight or

something sensible, but I'm always getting lumped with the complete

wackos."

Already, he says, he has trouble getting his former clients to

acknowledge that they ever used his service. "I'd say 90 per cent

of the successful couples try to pretend they just met in a bar or

somewhere," he said. "I get invited to weddings and they say,

'Can you just tell everyone you're a friend, someone we happen to

know'. "

Meanwhile, unsuccessful couples receive unsympathetic treatment in the

local press. One of the most celebrated Anglo-Thai disasters was that

of Brian Clegg, the former Northern Gas chairman who, aged 75, was wed

to 23-year-old Banjit Sawaengdee. She left him days after her arrival

in Britain. Even as the phenomenon surfaced on television screens, with

the Coronation Street butcher Fred Elliott being duped by a bride who

was only after a stake in his sausage empire, life was cruelly

mirroring art in Milton Keynes.

Robert Memery, 46, a butcher, was fleeced of his life savings by a

masseuse he had met in a hotel in Thailand. When the marriage fell

apart, he discovered that his brother-in-law and niece were his

wife's husband and daughter, and his new sister-in-law had been a

paid actress.

In 2003 David Blunkett threatened to stamp out the trade in Thai brides

by forcing the 25,000 Thais who were arriving annually on student and

tourist visas to pledge not to marry. Those who broke their pledge

could be deported.

This has not stopped agencies who help to bring back Thai brides on

fiancé or spouse visas. Between 2001 and 2003 the Home Office has

granted settlement to 3,600 wives, partners or fiancés from Thailand.

The annual numbers of Thai wives and partners granted settlement has

been growing - up by a quarter in 2003, it far surpasses the trickle

of Thai husbands arriving in Britain.

Ken Moylan, 52, a dentist from Birmingham, is prepared for the

potential fallout from the Little Britain send-up. He found his

30-year-old wife Wam through Thai Professional Introductions four years

ago.

"I landed in Bangkok at 1pm," he said. "By four I was in the

meeting room. The first girl I met looked nothing like she did in the

brochure. The second girl didn't, either, but she was the girl that

I'm married to. We just got on so well."

Middle-aged women are the fiercest critics of his happiness, he said,

adding that he was looking forward to the new Little Britain series.

"It sounds hilarious," he said. "Some people will be offended but

they are probably the ones who don't want to admit they found their

wife through an agency."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,...1868600,00.html

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This guy lawrence lynch has been on a numer of TV programes about this topic of mail order asian wives over the years ...

[TAWP]

I guess only those that have anything to be ashamed off will take it negativly...(the show, that is).

[Thomas_Merton]

How many Thai brides/Little Britain threads do we need?

Why couldn't you just have posted this in the other thread you started - "fat Thai Bride" (little Britain Characters), new series ++"?

[daleyboy]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

[AmeriThai]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

Edited November 12, 2005 by AmeriThai

[daleyboy]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

Dont let the wife hear you say that 50kgs and about 4 feet 10 long, about 2 feet wide, want to give her room to move, plus i will need maybe a storage system for food and water, it could be a long flight What do you reckon i should write on the waybill?

[AmeriThai]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dont let the wife hear you say that 50kgs and about 4 feet 10 long, about 2 feet wide, want to give her room to move, plus i will need maybe a storage system for food and water, it could be a long flight What do you reckon i should write on the waybill?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

DANGEROUS ANIMAL! APPROACH WITH CAUTION!

There should be plenty of food and water available in the cargo area.

Just kidding.

[GU22]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just be careful how you open the parcel when it arrives.

Remember what happened to Waldo Jeffers

[daleyboy]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

Dont let the wife hear you say that 50kgs and about 4 feet 10 long, about 2 feet wide, want to give her room to move, plus i will need maybe a storage system for food and water, it could be a long flight What do you reckon i should write on the waybill?

DANGEROUS ANIMAL! APPROACH WITH CAUTION!

There should be plenty of food and water available in the cargo area.

Just kidding.

[Neeranam]

QUOTE(daleyboy @ 2005-11-13 02:09:52)

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging. laugh.gif

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Just be careful how you open the parcel when it arrives.

Remember what happened to Waldo Jeffers ohmy.gif

That link doesn't work but I read about Waldo here - http://www.alwaysontherun.net/velvet.htm#13

As for internet brides - they are an embarrassment.

I met a millionaire Scottish guy last month and his 3rd Thai wife whom he met on the internet. This time it is going to be different.

She sat there the whole time saying "farang pood Thai geng" to the family of 10 who travelled along for the ride. Did the guy not feel like a &lt;deleted&gt; asking me to translate for his wife the whole time?

A very average looking(if not ugly)Isaan woman about 35 years old who couldn't speak much English.

I can't understand it. She paid someone to write to this guy by email.

A word of advice - if you come over here and marry someone, wait a few days(AT LEAST) and check out your package.

Edited November 13, 2005 by Neeranam

[sonthaya]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dont let the wife hear you say that 50kgs and about 4 feet 10 long, about 2 feet wide, want to give her room to move, plus i will need maybe a storage system for food and water, it could be a long flight What do you reckon i should write on the waybill?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

DANGEROUS ANIMAL! APPROACH WITH CAUTION!

There should be plenty of food and water available in the cargo area.

Just kidding.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Daleyboy, don't have any feeling of shame in, this is humans we are talking about.

[daleyboy]

Anyone know what the postage costs are for a 50kg package from Thailand to the U.K, the agancy i bought my wife from told me i had to pay for my own postage and packaging.

Depending on the size of the package, you might get a better rate with bulk mail.

Dont let the wife hear you say that 50kgs and about 4 feet 10 long, about 2 feet wide, want to give her room to move, plus i will need maybe a storage system for food and water, it could be a long flight What do you reckon i should write on the waybill?

DANGEROUS ANIMAL! APPROACH WITH CAUTION!

There should be plenty of food and water available in the cargo area.

Just kidding.

Daleyboy, don't have any feeling of shame in, this is humans we are talking about.

Fair play you are a &lt;deleted&gt; moron arent you? You trail round behind every one of my posts trying to put a snide comment in, when clearly anyone with any intelligance whatsover can see that this thread like many of the others i have commented on has no sreiousness in it at all.

Ok so lets talk about shame, you go on about how Bg's are ok then advertise a picture of who i am assuming is your GF. Now if she is a Bg or not do you really think you should be flashing her picture all round the internet?

Until you have a better command of the English language and it subtleties i should shut the &lt;deleted&gt; up make stupid comments, to posts that you obviously either dont understand the language or the context.