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[J Boy]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Match.com, one of the top Internet dating websites, has been accused of hiring people as "date bait" to date some of their one million customers to encourage them to keep paying for the service.

A Los Angeles racketeering lawsuit said the lonely hearts website secretly recruited people to send enticing emails to its customers and to go out on dates with them as a way of getting them to keep up their 30 dollars monthly subscription.

The company's ringers, branded "date bait", went on as many as 100 dates a month -- three per day -- with Match.com customers, who use the site to search for boyfriends, girlfriends, and possible husbands and wives.

So do you get boom boom or at least a BJ? Which girls [screen names] are they? This could be a good deal!!

[On The Go]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Match.com, one of the top Internet dating websites, has been accused of hiring people as "date bait" to date some of their one million customers to encourage them to keep paying for the service.

A Los Angeles racketeering lawsuit said the lonely hearts website secretly recruited people to send enticing emails to its customers and to go out on dates with them as a way of getting them to keep up their 30 dollars monthly subscription.

The company's ringers, branded "date bait", went on as many as 100 dates a month -- three per day -- with Match.com customers, who use the site to search for boyfriends, girlfriends, and possible husbands and wives.

[Yella Man]

Well, here I sit all excited in Seoul waiting to catch my flight to the Philippines like it’s my cherry voyage again or something. But you know what? It seems like it’s my first time every time every single time I book a trip to the Philippines. It’s just that darn exciting! I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting anxiously for the crack of dawn so I can rip open my presents…only, these presents are much more fun to unwrap, your able to ride them doggy style once you do get them unwrapped, you can unwrap as many as you want (subject to funds and hard wood availability of course), you don’t have to worry about following instructions to put them together, and best of all, you definitely don’t have to wait in the Customer Service line to return the ones you don’t like (just kick them the hell out the room!) Anyway, anyone available for a few drinks hit me with a PM between 16-20 November. More to follow in a few….

Yella Man

[Harvey WB]

I have Spam maybe 3X a year, LOL and ditto for Tapa, Longanisa (wifey corrected my spelling, LOL, and said "you're on that site again". I told her I'm here for the gastronomical reviews only and never look at the pics!) and the other Filipino Foods. When in RP, I try to eat a "Filipino Breakfast" every day, but since it's been almost 3 years, I'm sure my system has recovered. BP and cholesterol are fine (well 185 for cholesterol sounds good to me after 220, LOL), especially since I quit smoking in March (still miss it).

Looking forward to a possible trip in March: MNL, Romblon, Baguio, a couple of nights at Bali Hai in Bauang, La Union and then, Sinait, Ilocos Sur for maybe a week (between Vigan and Laoag). I'm holding out for a solo trip to Davao just prior to my return to US for a few days, wife and baby will stay in Sinait for a few months. No massage in Sinait though, so I'll be heading to Laoag and/or Vigan for theraputic treatments.

[Cebu Local]

Wow, thanks for all of the comments. Cebu Local, you are right, will probably buy it there. We will bring back some corned beef, as ours is quite different from what my wife is used to. We do eat it for breakfast

Remember to paraphrase the old Wendy s slogan in the 90 s",Where s the Buffalo"!!!!

[Frequent Flier]

Wow, thanks for all of the comments. Cebu Local, you are right, will probably buy it there. We will bring back some corned beef, as ours is quite different from what my wife is used to. We do eat it for breakfast and I was introduced to Spam by my GI father in the 1950's, reintroduced to it by my Filipina wife, now with rice and Filipino style fried eggs for breakfast. Never thought I would like rice in my breakfast menu! Yesterday we had Longenesa (sp?) rice and eggs here in NJ, USA, one of my favorites.

On another note, from another thread, I believe that 90 "something" % of Filipinas would make "somebody" a good wife, you just have to take the time to meet the one that is right for you, so don't be in a rush. Remember, the searching can also be very rewarding, LOL, just be careful of other's feelings.

I agree with your assessment of Filipina's as wives. I know more that are positive and going strong then the other. I'm still considering one for myself, but to something or another to make the commitment.

But my real question here was to your diet? I couldn't help but wonder if you keep track of your blood pressure with that diet? I had a friend who recently had to take notice of his blood pressure, which has caused me to take notice of mine. I now average 115 over 75 and dropped 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

FF

[Harvey WB]

Wow, thanks for all of the comments. Cebu Local, you are right, will probably buy it there. We will bring back some corned beef, as ours is quite different from what my wife is used to. We do eat it for breakfast and I was introduced to Spam by my GI father in the 1950's, reintroduced to it by my Filipina wife, now with rice and Filipino style fried eggs for breakfast. Never thought I would like rice in my breakfast menu! Yesterday we had Longenesa (sp?) rice and eggs here in NJ, USA, one of my favorites.

On another note, from another thread, I believe that 90 "something" % of Filipinas would make "somebody" a good wife, you just have to take the time to meet the one that is right for you, so don't be in a rush. Remember, the searching can also be very rewarding, LOL, just be careful of other's feelings.

[Marc25]

Anyone know the fastest way to get a local id in makati,my hotel has local rates one half the regular and it would really help ,appreciate any imput

[Wander Luster]

Guys,

I posted somethiing about my situation, but I think it was on wsg.com. That was very confusing when this board moved. I'm still not sure about the transition.

Anyway, I am in a win/win or maybe loose/loose situation.

I'm attractive and in mid 30s. Compared to other western guys who would be judged the same as me in the US, somehow PH girls seem to like me a lot more.

Married to a lovely woman in the US. Pretty good marriage but not great.

I split my year going back and forth between PH and here cause I own a biz in one of the top 3 cities and have employees there. When I'm there I can't stop thinking about how amazing it would be to not sneak around and not lie.

To have incredible freedom to go to beaches with whomever I want when I want without worries. I am my own boss.

When I'm home it would seem lonely to be single.

And then there's the option of just being not married and living in the PH for 10 months of the year.

So I'm especially interested to hear from you guys that are married and somehow "restricted" by a marriage and who are older than me.

I have no kids, I could break this if it's the right thing. You may have kids which is a different story for the break. Do you wish you got married if you live in the PH a lot of the year.

Cebu Local, I've gotten so much from you're posts over the past couple years, what do you say if you are or are not single about this issue?

Thanks!

[Wulfe13]

Its about 10 cents more expensive at Duty Free Philiippines and about 25 cents more expensive at SM Supermarket.Do your back a favor and buy it here.btw The reason for the difference in taste is that Philippine corned beef is a cara-beef blend which is moist and fattier compared to 100% all beef American corned beef.Read the labels of Phil corned beef,Water Buffalo or Carabao is blended into the Corned Beef Cheers

Spam isn't corned beef, it's made from Pork. I didn't notice a difference in taste when I was in the Phils, and I eat Spam fairly often here in the States. And it was about the same price. There is a big difference in taste if you buy the generic version.

[Cebu Local]

I really don't get why people like spam so much. Hawaiians go bonkers over the stuff too. Even eat it for breakfast. I think the US armed forces got people hooked on the stuff in WW II. I suppose it is an aquired taste.

In Korea Spam is prestige food served in Spam sushi,Spam teppanyaki etc.Manila has a restaurant called Spam jam which offers spam cooked in over 100 ways,In Spam Burritos,Spam Spaghetti,Spam Sushi etc.

[Buko Max]

I really don't get why people like spam so much. Hawaiians go bonkers over the stuff too. Even eat it for breakfast. I think the US armed forces got people hooked on the stuff in WW II. I suppose it is an aquired taste.

[Fast Eddie 48]

Here's a crazy question, sorry, LOL. How much is a can of Spam in RP? How about those small round cans of New Zealand corned beef? I'd hate to lug a case of Spam as pasalubong only to find it cheaper there (it's about $2.15 a can here). My inlaws love it.

to harvey

I do find canned meat price is much higher in asia ,spam in US is around 2.00
usd , i just came back from thailand is 148 bht a can , in manila robinson is
almost 4.00 usd , i have a philipina friend she alway bring alot of canned spam
and corned beef every time she go back to pi , i think she is crazy to carry so
many canned food back .

fast eddie 48

[Cebu Local]

I don't remember the exact price but I know that it is very close in price. However, many people have told me that the taste is different. Therefore, we bring a few cans from the States to give to family members over there. Also, we always have to bring back Pure Foods brand Corned beef because people over in the States like it.

Its about 10 cents more expensive at Duty Free Philiippines and about 25 cents more expensive at SM Supermarket.Do your back a favor and buy it here.btw The reason for the difference in taste is that Philippine corned beef is a cara-beef blend which is moist and fattier compared to 100% all beef American corned beef.Read the labels of Phil corned beef,Water Buffalo or Carabao is blended into the Corned Beef Cheers

[Sam5935]

Can someone direct me to the thread that has the "best of" photos? I can't find it anywhere!

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