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To: TobagoJack who wrote (33973)	4/27/2008 4:41:42 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217749

Prices are not hurting. It's all about perception. If the perception has not settled in, the crisis is not there. Is like sound levels: it needs to move 2.5dB to be perceived by the ear. Anything less than that is not perceived as change in the sound level. I prices jump from one level to another in a sudden move people would perceive. But because it's been changing slowly and steadily, people are adapting to it. It hurt first people who have month at the end of their money instead of money at the end of the month. It's always like that: Hurt from the bottom up. The bottom can be starving, the top knows nothing about the starvation at the pyramid's base. Extreme case: Marie Antoinette: "They don't have bread? Let eat brioche then" CB customers are losing everything -including newly acquired shirts. The vast majority this is a no issue. Prices have room to go up and wallets paper money to be depleted and taken to where the food and oil are produced.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (33973)	4/27/2008 8:50:22 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

and of course you do not want her to read SI ROTF...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (33973)	4/27/2008 9:03:51 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217749

Very funny. I doubt very much you really want your wife to do your laundry or wash your car, etc., or maybe I don't understand the culture? In the US, we pay Asians to clean our clothes and Central Americans to clean our houses, mow our lawns and wash our cars. I feel sorry for the poor Asian women, they work their asses off, the husbands expect to be treated like princes and give nothing in return. This is why Asian women love American men, American men treat women much better and while a lot of American women don't recognize this, as a lawyer who handles a lot of divorces, I do recognize how generous American men can be. Take a tip from them. Don't fight over the remote control, get another TV. Don't fight over the car or the computer or the cell phone, she needs her own. Don't fret about the joint balance sheet getting bigger, just don't get a divorce and you'll never need to worry about it. Women love a good provider, be magnanimous. Be magnanimous in marriage, selfish in divorce. A good woman is a pearl beyond price, let her do her own thing in the marketplace, she's got a natural advantage over you, men are the hunters, women the gatherers. Let her gather. A good woman will spend your money in ways that make you richer, happier, more contented.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (33973)	4/27/2008 1:04:24 PM
From: Riskmgmt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217749

So TJ, you are stirring the pot trying to "spice" up the thread for those who miss Zim and MQ? I see llaine was first to take the bait. I an see why you taunt he so much. She says "or maybe I don't understand the culture" but then proceeds to give advice, apparently oblivious to the irony of her advice << and while a lot of American women don't recognize this, as a lawyer who handles a lot of divorces, I do recognize how generous American men can be. Take a tip from them.>> So follow her advice and be generous.<g> After all, she is representative of the culture that has the highest divorce rates, the biggest gender confusion, the most sexual hypocrisy and the tendency to tell everyone else how they should live. Overlook the fact that she lumps Chinese, Japaneses, Thais, Philo's etc., into one big general "Asian" pot for she must be correct, why she has 4 recommendations already. Obviously, it is mans duty to provide for the woman. <<A good woman is a pearl beyond price, let her do her own thing in the marketplace, she's got a natural advantage over you, men are the hunters, women the gatherers. Let her gather.>> A friend of mine, is letting his wife (soon to be ex-wife) gather, so far she has gathered, half his bank accounts and half his assets and probably a lover or two as well. Being a good gatherer she is, with the aid of a helpful divorce lawyer, trying to gather more. i am thankful for posts like llaines for straightening me out, for I was of the mind that some of the cultures in Asia were actually superior in areas of marriage and relationships. I mistakenly thought that the lower divorce rates, happy couples and lack of lawyers offered hope. But now I am straight, it is just that the countries are poor and not evolved and the women are not happy, just smile because they are not educated. They only pretend to look up to the man and honor him, really they are prostituting themselves awaiting the liberating equality that is the right of all women.