Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
Feb 27th 2007, 12:01 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I worry about marriage/dating when I move to America also. I hear American women are very materialistic and status oriented, and they tend to be a gold diggers. Finding a good life mate is important to everyone and I wonder where I can go to find a nice woman - not a girl who wears a thong, has many tattoos and already has starred in an amateur porn film by 19.
Hey - what's wrong with thongs aka g-strings? I wear them from time to time...
I have to say I don't like tattoos on women and girls unless they are small and discreet. Angelina Jolie and Pink have gone too far and Posh Spice is heading the same way...my friend calls them 'Tramp Stamps' LOL. I can't imagine how these tattoos are going to look when these women are all in their 70s...yuck! 
Feb 27th 2007, 1:17 am
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Mr. Grumpy
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
In the grand scheme of things, racial segregation ended relatively recently in this country. I remember one of my black teachers telling our class about how his high school in Northern Virginia -- which was my middle school at the time -- was still segregated in the early 1970s -- at least 15 years after the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. In fact, interracial marriage was illegal in South Carolina up until 1998. Racial relations are still strained, no matter how much we'd like to think that they aren't. So it's really no surprise that interracial couples aren't the norm.
you think 1970a was late for ending segregation!?
my wife's high school in knoxville didn't degegregate until the 90's!!!
Feb 27th 2007, 1:30 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
Ha ha.....be prepared if you're ever thinking about getting engaged over here. From what I've observed, the engagement ring seems to be a far more important thing here compared to the UK and the general idea is that the guy must spend approx 3 months salary on the ring (which is usually a large diamond solitaire, preferably from Tiffany's not the sapphires/rubies/emerald and diamond rings that British girls usually go for).
Hey - what's wrong with thongs aka g-strings? I wear them from time to time... I have to say I don't like tattoos on women and girls unless they are small and discreet. Angelina Jolie and Pink have gone too far and Posh Spice is heading the same way...my friend calls them 'Tramp Stamps' LOL. I can't imagine how these tattoos are going to look when these women are all in their 70s...yuck!
Hey - what's wrong with thongs aka g-strings? I wear them from time to time... I have to say I don't like tattoos on women and girls unless they are small and discreet. Angelina Jolie and Pink have gone too far and Posh Spice is heading the same way...my friend calls them 'Tramp Stamps' LOL. I can't imagine how these tattoos are going to look when these women are all in their 70s...yuck!
money's gotta come from somewhereI think it will be funny in 40 years time when we have all these grandkids asking grandma 'what's that weird looking faded wrinkly thing on your lower back grandma?'
one of our friends (33 years old so should know better by now) just got a 'tramp stamp' - a scorpio glyph.
when she told me what she was planning I wought it would be small and black.
oh no
its multicoloured (red yellow purple and green) and about 3-4 inches wide and tall. in essence it looks like a parrot threw up on her back.
she was complaining that her cousin in texas called it a tramp stamp which I tactfully declined to comment on, although my tactless wife did suggest that many guys will be of the opinion that the 'tramp stamp' implies to guys that anal sex is on the menu
Feb 27th 2007, 1:34 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
You live in Los Angeles. Everything is weird there. Everything is also more or less accepted. People are far more material and need to be "seen" wearing the right clothes eating and clubbing in the right places. Part of this is to advance their career as a celebrity-wannabe, part of it is the lifestyle.
Feb 27th 2007, 1:40 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I worry about marriage/dating when I move to America also. I hear American women are very materialistic and status oriented, and they tend to be a gold diggers. Finding a good life mate is important to everyone and I wonder where I can go to find a nice woman - not a girl who wears a thong, has many tattoos and already has starred in an amateur porn film by 19.
I am a american woman and I think most american's are materialistic so lets not just blame the women. I think you will be able to find a nice girl without the "tramp stamp" or any tattoos because that was a trend more in my generation than it is right now. The young college girls really don't have the tattoos anymore. You will find your share of skanks in America. I saw the girls gone wild bus driving down the road 3 days ago. You will also be able to find girls that are not like that my advice would be don't look for a girl to date in a nightclub. If you are going to college you should have no problem finding a nice girl or a skank. As for the thongs everyone wears them even English girls you will just have to deal with that.
Feb 27th 2007, 1:42 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I worry about marriage/dating when I move to America also. I hear American women are very materialistic and status oriented, and they tend to be a gold diggers. Finding a good life mate is important to everyone and I wonder where I can go to find a nice woman - not a girl who wears a thong, has many tattoos and already has starred in an amateur porn film by 19.
Leave Paris Hilton out of this. She ain't normal or indicative of the average American woman. I would say that the majority of AW all want the same things in a marriage that you do and the only thing materialistic that they are looking for is a husband that can provide for their family not one that can purchase homes in three states and drives a BMW.
Feb 27th 2007, 1:48 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I think that the majority of women in the US of marriageble age are 'high maintenance' and feel sorry for the poor blokes who have to marry them.
Feb 27th 2007, 1:49 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I worry about marriage/dating when I move to America also. I hear American women are very materialistic and status oriented, and they tend to be a gold diggers. Finding a good life mate is important to everyone and I wonder where I can go to find a nice woman - not a girl who wears a thong, has many tattoos and already has starred in an amateur porn film by 19.
Feb 27th 2007, 1:52 am
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Feb 27th 2007, 2:14 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
Have you heard of the Amish? If that doesn't appeal to you perhaps check out a place called Salt Lake City, UT. You might find a girl (or two, or three!)there who still wears bloomers.
Feb 27th 2007, 2:54 am
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Mr. Grumpy
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
Is he saying that women who wear them a girls gone wild style depraved sluts?
i'm pretty sure that every woman I know under 35 has at least one thong in their underwear collection
infact, if you are with a heavier lady, as americans are more statisically likely to be compared to brits, the thong has the advantage of not creating 4 butt cheeks than a 'regular pantiy' can do when it cuts into large amounts of butt-flesh
Feb 27th 2007, 4:55 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
I worry about marriage/dating when I move to America also. I hear American women are very materialistic and status oriented, and they tend to be a gold diggers. Finding a good life mate is important to everyone and I wonder where I can go to find a nice woman - not a girl who wears a thong, has many tattoos and already has starred in an amateur porn film by 19.
Would anyone tolerate someone posting racist comments based on stereotypes because only a few forum participants are of the targeted race? How is this any different??
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Feb 27th 2007, 5:10 am
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Re: Dating in the USA and differences to the UK?
Jenney, you left out Leslie. Now, THERE's a stereotype *ducks*
