HONEY, THIS IS NO WONDERLAND ANYMORE

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Back to Home Written on 12-Dec-2008 by patencia

For some millionaires the financial crisis has not only been a source of great headaches, but also of traumatic heartbreaks. As they see their fortunes vanish, a truth of their lives is suddenly unveiled: they have married a cuaima; a gold-digger guarra.

"I told my wife to stop this organic food malarkey"."She went ballistic. Organic Hass avocados cost £1.75 each and she wanted me to buy six of them! In the end, I just peeled off the labels that said they were certified organic and put them on ordinary avocados – she didn't notice the difference. I did the same with bananas…"; "She has a very high standard of living,'' he said. ''She's never taken the Tube or a bus; it's always taxis. And she likes to eat out a lot, at the best restaurants, and she likes to buy expensive gifts for people she wants to impress."
"As soon as the financial wobbles started, she must have joined some upmarket dating agency because somehow she's found another very rich man pretty damn fast."

But the tragic thing is that, if the (now two-times) poor guy, decides to drown his sorrows in his favorite brothel, it might well be that he has to face yet another consequence of the financial crisis: the industry of prostitution has not proved immune to recession.

"Now 40 brothels in [the small Czech town Dubi] have shrunk to just four — the others have turned into golf shops or goulash restaurants". ""I have offered free Viagra, free porn and cut the rates of the girls by 40 per cent, but business is down 45 per cent — it's really terrible."

A cruel world this is, queridos.

For more details on these two stories see this and this
The beautiful illustration is from arts&ghosts

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written on 12-Dec-2008
chickerino says:
heart bleeds etc

right. I'm off to buy a Chrysler!
NOT!
written on 12-Dec-2008
webjam says:
I guess that´s a positive effect of the recession (the toxic women thing, I meant).
how hard it´s to believe in love, isn´t?
written on 12-Dec-2008
albertob says:
the previous post was written by me... sorry
written on 12-Dec-2008
cuaimon says:
Please, let me contribute to your very informed discussion:

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/11/18/rich-c ... sses/

Which I take to prove that cuaimas are only cuaimas when they are on the supply side. A buying cuaima is not a cuaima anymore.
written on 12-Dec-2008
patencia says:
Yes, I guess probably both effects are relatively possitive. But the problem is that the "toxic women" are not the exactly the "victims" here: somehow they manage to find another prey.
And well, love comes in different flavours and it's a complicated feeling, but I find it hard to believe that these guys really believed that their toxic women ever loved them.
Nobody said that gourmet-love was easy to find, but I guess I believe in it.

Anyway, where's that Chick-Chrysler?

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