[quote=“SuchAFob”]
Mine is 171 and I am always having to threaten the lives of the girls around him…
(I’m good at it too. I don’t even have to talk. I just look at them and they scurry away in fear!)
But the point is, he gets lots of attention so maybe tall isn’t THAT important.[/quote]
Did it ever occur to you that he probably gets lots of attention because he has a western woman on his arm? I mean, I’m sure a lot of locals find that intriguing…
[quote=“beautifulspam”]
If anyone has tips on how a guy who’s only 177cm can get ANY attention from women in this country[/quote]
High heals??
If my bf said something like ‘I really need to talk to you about something, but I’ll tell you when you get back from your trip’, that would be so annoying. Just straight out say- if it’s important, talk about it now, or else I’m going to think of you like the boy who cried wolf. One day you’ll really need me to pay attention to something important and I won’t be.’ Sort of like a conversation with a child. Too much silliness- and it could be just the tip of the iceberg. My huband is 10 to the 10th power more childish now than when I first met him. For two weeks straight now it’s been- ‘feel my forehead!!!Am I hot?’ ‘No.’ "Feel my arm, is it hot?’ ‘No. I have to help the girls with their homework now.’ 10 minutes later: ‘Feel my forehead, it it hot?’ I have the patience of Job because of this job. : / 
The thing that keeps me sane it that he is insanely funny, both intentionally and not. Like the time he had a herniated disc and had been out of work for a while. A female customer asked him where he had been for so long, and he replied: “I hurt my disc” , only he left out the ‘s’ sound. Or the time we were driving by a field and he said to my 2 daughters, “I saw two foxes run across this field before”, only for the word ‘foxes’, he couldn’t quite pronounce the ‘x’ sound. It came out as a ‘k’ sound, and for some reason he added an ‘er’ sound between the ‘k’ and ‘s’ sounds. Maybe he was just a slip of the tongue harking back to another word he had often heard, or maybe it was like the ‘er’ that you hear in standard mandarin, like yi duo huar? I have a thousand of these instances. Like the time we were waiting for the Fed Ex truck, but instead of saying Fed Ex, the short e sound changes to a short a sound, the d to a t, and the x/ks sound loses the k. A riddle: can you make out what disc, foxes, and Fed Ex were transformed into?
[quote=“Indiana”][quote=“SuchAFob”]
Mine is 171 and I am always having to threaten the lives of the girls around him…
(I’m good at it too. I don’t even have to talk. I just look at them and they scurry away in fear!)
But the point is, he gets lots of attention so maybe tall isn’t THAT important.[/quote]
Did it ever occur to you that he probably gets lots of attention because he has a western woman on his arm? I mean, I’m sure a lot of locals find that intriguing…[/quote]
I am sure this makes a difference. But he had loads of chicks all hanging on him way before we started dating. It’s personality. Taiwanese girls are not actually as shallow as people always say they are. He has a great personality and thus the chicks are always trying to be with him.
Its the socks he puts down his pants
Can’t be. I tried it and all the girls laughed. They said it made my bum look all deformed.
[quote=“beautifulspam”][quote]
and remember lifes tuff for her, cuz you are the sought after whitey and tons of Taiwanese chicks wanna be with you?? Course shes insecure and watching your every move and guessing your intentions. You just have to redouble your efforts to make her feel safe and secure. I would say a few other things but since this channel is PG rated [/quote]
That’s what she thinks. And don’t I ever wish it were true!
If anyone has tips on how a guy who’s only 177cm can get ANY attention from women in this country, pm me or post here without delay :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:[/quote]
ONLY 177? I am like 175 and I’d say thats about average in the US, I never had a problem finding girls- the average girl in the US is under my height soooo… I would guess in Taiwan I would be getting looked up at still…
[quote=“tommy525”]
if a Taiwanese girl ISNT doing just that? It means shes on to someone new 
:) When she stops giving a shit bout your day or who you see or why you lookin at that girl?
and remember lifes tuff for her, cuz you are the sought after whitey and tons of Taiwanese chicks wanna be with you?? Course shes insecure and watching your every move and guessing your intentions. You just have to redouble your efforts to make her feel safe and secure. I would say a few other things but since this channel is PG rated [/quote]
It’s funny to see that mine has taken a completely opposite approach: Whenever i look at something going by, or just point out somebody’s attractiveness, she is the one to tell me “quick! go get it!” in a provocative way, or to add whenever i am kidding her on this matter “if you wanna change girlfriend, go ahead…”.
I guess i am the type of foreigner appreciated in taiwan (i’m 1,86m, blond with blue eyes, with a fair skin, and not too bad a build), but she has found the parade in turning what should be a weakness in a strength.
She just knows how to price herself (understand NOT $$$), unlike so many Taiwanese girls going out with foreigners, and i honestly got a great deal of respect for her thanks to this.
I guess the southern education from an educated mama has helped, since the three sisters are quite something to see.
That’s life’s irony at its best 
As so many things in Taiwan i found they are just an amazing mix of contradictions: extremely romantic and surprisingly shallow/materialistic in the same time. They will stick to love harder than most people and do great efforts in this end, but expect a Vuitton bag for xmas 
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I explained that to myself as a complete absence of Logic in the way we understand it, replaced by an absolute ruling of feelings.
Whenever Taiwanese do something, it is related to their feelings or somebody’s else feelings, they just constantly keep playing on each other’s emotions through this game that talking and interacting with people is for them. I honestly find that invaluable since it is a much happier way to handle life than so many other cultures have.
It will sounds stupid, but i was damn happy when my Taiwanese male friend called me on Skype to show me on his webcam the food he was preparing for my return. They just know how to use constant little attentions to make people happy by showing them care.
Note that my experience of Taiwanese is only with people from Tainan and its area, and that i always managed not to put myself into an argument or a fight with one of them.
I guess i had it different here since i met Taiwanese people 4 years BEFORE coming to Taiwan, and that i was introduced to the best of the locals though my girlfriend.
Ed, you gotta know the people from outside the city are so much more sweet than those IN the city.
But I find this true EVERYWHERE!!
Can’t be. I tried it and all the girls laughed. They said it made my bum look all deformed.[/quote]
Personally, I like the high heels idea. I’d certainly get noticed.
Anyone know where I can find a set of size 11.5 stilletos
[quote=“SuchAFob”]Ed, you gotta know the people from outside the city are so much more sweet than those IN the city.
But I find this true EVERYWHERE!![/quote]
Countries and culture also seem to do a good deal of difference.
I shouldn’t bitch about my own country, but French aren’t exactly good at that. Whereas people i met in India were so often exquisite (even nicer at first contact than Taiwanese).