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Black Francis · 06-09-2015, 10:55 AM

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I wasn't exactly clear on the stipulations, so that clears it up. I had to deal with similar things when I was in another country, but it was me being the American, and the other wanting to be an American. Dropped her pretty quick when she showed me an engagement ring catalog after we'd been together only a few weeks.

can you really blame her? I mean. It must suck to be in her position, to have to earn what you were given for free. She shoulda played it cool and all but marrying you for a green card was probably part of her plan before she met you cause love alone is not gonna get her a green card, right?

I dont mean to assume what her intention was, idk the details of the relationship you two had but i do know that these situations most times are viewed as a green card scam without taking into account why foreigners have to resort to that.

Plankton · 06-09-2015, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

can you really blame her? I mean. It must suck to be in her position, to have to earn what you were given for free. She shoulda played it cool and all but marrying you for a green card was probably part of her plan before she met you cause love alone is not gonna get her a green card, right?

I dont mean to assume what her intention was, idk the details of the relationship you two had but i do know that these situations most times are viewed as a green card scam without taking into account why foreigners have to resort to that.

I spent the weekend at her parents house once (a nice, quaint little villa in a small German town, really picturesque), and they were pretty much bent on me getting her knocked up from the way they treated the whole situation. I mean, I was a fairly decent looking lad, and had a future, but the ulterior motive was pretty blatant. I took the sechs and ran.

Black Francis · 06-09-2015, 11:26 AM

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I spent the weekend at her parents house once (a nice, quaint little villa in a small German town, really picturesque), and they were pretty much bent on me getting her knocked up from the way they treated the whole situation. I mean, I was a fairly decent looking lad, and had a future, but the ulterior motive was pretty blatant. I took the sechs and ran.

I probably woulda done the same thing.

From their side though, it was kind of a good plan the problem was they revealed it too early lol

The Batlord · 06-09-2015, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

can you really blame her? I mean. It must suck to be in her position, to have to earn what you were given for free. She shoulda played it cool and all but marrying you for a green card was probably part of her plan before she met you cause love alone is not gonna get her a green card, right?

I dont mean to assume what her intention was, idk the details of the relationship you two had but i do know that these situations most times are viewed as a green card scam without taking into account why foreigners have to resort to that.

I certainly respect the motivation behind scamming for green cards -- as far as I'm concerned, any Latino who is willing to go through all the trouble and danger of sneaking across the border, and leave behind the life they've always known to come to a place culturally alien to them, deserves to be here far more than somebody who just happens to have been born here -- but it's still unjustifiable to play with someone's emotions like what Plankton is describing.

For someone to actually try to marry someone else, that's big **** for them, and I have a hard time believing that anyone willing to manipulate another human being like that -- at least who's not living in fear for their lives in a brutal dictatorship or war torn hellhole -- is going to be a particularly decent person who would I want to help out.

If a foreigner was so desperate to live here that they were willing to come to me and ask that of me honestly, I can't say that I'd be willing to turn them down. I know it's kind of unrealistic to expect someone to be that forthright, but if it did happen, I'd see their problems as being far more worthy of consideration than my own "selfish" desire to not get caught by the authorities.

Black Francis · 06-09-2015, 12:11 PM

Right, for some people it can mean a way out, but its such a huge gamble cause it could end up backfiring on you. Its a little f*cked up the system works this way, that you have to marry a person to pass on your rights cause worst case scenario that person could use those new given rights against you.

especially if you have children with that person and then sh*t goes wrong,
then you'll be like "Bitch, i brought you into this country!" and she'll be like "and? Mohamed needs new shoes!"

Plankton · 06-09-2015, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

Right, for some people it can mean a way out, but its such a huge gamble cause it could end up backfiring on you. Its a little f*cked up the system works this way, that you have to marry a person to pass on your rights cause worst case scenario that person could use those new given rights against you.

especially if you have children with that person and then sh*t goes wrong,
then you'll be like "Bitch, i brought you into this country!" and she'll be like "and? Mohamed needs new shoes!"

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Black Francis · 06-09-2015, 12:59 PM

Eddie murphy should've sticked to doing stand up, thats what he did best.

Plankton · 06-09-2015, 01:35 PM

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Had a head-on collision last night with me on a mini bike, and a friend on a go-cart. I was doing about 20-25 mph, as the go-cart was doing the same came around a corner, and BAM! Lights out. Sprained my wrist, re injured my foot and collar bone, bruise on my leg, and neck, fractured my nose, and I have 9 stitches in my forehead, and 5 stiches in my chin. Got out of the emergency room at 5am this morning all sewn up. It could have been a lot worse, it's a good thing I have a hard head since it bounced off of the roll cage on the go-cart at an impact equal to about 60mph.

It'll be a while until I can play guitar again (left wrist is very tender), so I guess I'll be taking a break.

So, it's been almost a year since this happened. Everything is mostly back to normal, save for a twinge of pain in my wrist when I play for extended periods of time, but all-in-all I'm pretty much at 99%. The mini-bike I destroyed got a makeover too:

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The Batlord · 06-09-2015, 01:49 PM

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So, it's been almost a year since this happened. Everything is mostly back to normal, save for a twinge of pain in my wrist when I play for extended periods of time, but all-in-all I'm pretty much at 99%. The mini-bike I destroyed got a makeover too:

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Who could predict that riding on something like that might go wrong?

EPOCH6 · 06-09-2015, 02:18 PM

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So, it's been almost a year since this happened. Everything is mostly back to normal, save for a twinge of pain in my wrist when I play for extended periods of time, but all-in-all I'm pretty much at 99%. The mini-bike I destroyed got a makeover too:

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Oh man, I know that feeling, I've ruined myself on a mini-bike in the past too. Looked extremely similar to yours actually. Small wheels and long handlebars, a recipe for pain, but holy hell is it a lot of fun.

06-09-2015, 12:11 PM	#32565 (permalink)
Black Francis Out of Place Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: in an abstract house Posts: 4,111	Right, for some people it can mean a way out, but its such a huge gamble cause it could end up backfiring on you. Its a little fcked up the system works this way, that you have to marry a person to pass on your rights cause worst case scenario that person could use those new given rights against you. especially if you have children with that person and then sht goes wrong, then you'll be like "Bitch, i brought you into this country!" and she'll be like "and? Mohamed needs new shoes!" __________________ "Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

06-09-2015, 12:59 PM	#32567 (permalink)
Black Francis Out of Place Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: in an abstract house Posts: 4,111	Eddie murphy should've sticked to doing stand up, thats what he did best. __________________ "Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A