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Belfast Woman to Marry Oklahoma Man She's Never Met

  • 23-08-2012 2:54pm
    #1
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭


    http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-woman-prepares-to-marry-an-American-man-shes-only-met-online-167162865.html?page=1
    A Belfast woman is preparing to meet her American fiancé for the first time. The pair plan to marry, although they have never met, having found each other on an internet dating website.

    Patricia Mallon (48) from Belfast will meet her fiancée Joseph McMahon, from Oklahoma, for the first time in three weeks when he arrives to prepare for their wedding.

    McMahon proposed to Mallon by phone in April and they now plan to marry just two weeks after they meet for the first time.

    McMahon is a divorced father-of-two, who works as a car restorer in Oklahoma.
    I find it hard to believe that they would do this. I'd say you don't know anyone properly until you've picked their dirty undies up off the bedroom floor a few times!!

    I'll give them 6 months...

    How Long Will They Last... 27 votes

    < 6 Months
    0% 0 votes
    < 1 Year
    44% 12 votes
    Happily Ever After...
    14% 4 votes
    As Long As It Takes An Atari Jaguar To Start
    40% 11 votes


Comments

  • #2
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    bet you it's two dudes


  • #3
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I like how they have to point out that she's not the one pictured in the stock photograph.


  • #4
    readyletsgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    LOL!!!!!
    I love the way the paper gives the womans age but no mention of what age the man is, least he has a job.

    Fair fups to both of them I say!


  • #5
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Internet relationships are one of the more disturbing aspects of my generation, and I should know. Eventually I went out and got a real life non-weird girlfriend. Far superior to the internet species.


  • #6
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    readyletsgo wrote: »
    LOL!!!!!
    I love the way the paper gives the womans age but no mention of what age the man is, least he has a job.

    Fair fups to both of them I say!

    They mightn'y have given his age but he'll be 50 on 7th October, the day they are getting married, so I'd say he's probably late forties or so...


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  • #7
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Woman that works with my brother in law met an American guy online and married him after meeting twice iirc.


  • #8
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Greencard. Nice.


  • #9
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Sure you only know them when ye marry them ;-)


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    humanji wrote: »
    I like how they have to point out that she's not the one pictured in the stock photograph.

    I bet that's not even his hand :rolleyes:


  • #11
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    humanji wrote: »
    I like how they have to point out that she's not the one pictured in the stock photograph.

    It's a good thing they did, I didn't realise 3D had come along so much in laptops!


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  • #12
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    I voted 6 months


  • #13
    bamboozle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    had a weird taxi driver a few months bank who decided to tell us that he was sleeping in seperate rooms to the wife and he's leaving her to go live in texas with some bird he met on line once his eldest kid finished his leaving cert.

    when i pointed out it was very hard to get a visa he told us that they're crying out for taxi drivers in texas.


  • #14
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    The Sun wouldn't leave you without a picture.


  • #15
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭Jarren


    I blame the internet.


  • #16
    ronan45
    Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭ronan45


    humbert wrote: »
    The Sun wouldn't leave you without a picture.



    THATS MY WIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! MARCELLA WAIT TILL I GET HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YWO TIMING NO GOOD.........


  • #17
    csi vegas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭csi vegas


    bamboozle wrote: »
    had a weird taxi driver a few months bank who decided to tell us that he was sleeping in seperate rooms to the wife and he's leaving her to go live in texas with some bird he met on line once his eldest kid finished his leaving cert.

    when i pointed out it was very hard to get a visa he told us that they're crying out for taxi drivers in texas.

    Haha!

    And do you have that effect on people that they tell you these innermost secrets? My aunt has the 'gift' - people actually follow her round to reveal their deepest fears and feelings to her :eek: they tell her they see a 'healing holiness' in her and seek her advice.
    I am glad not to have inherited.


  • #18
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    No, just NO.

    There could be so many things they aren't telling each other and could be in the mindset of "sure it be grand when we meet".

    Meeting to see how they get on is all good but marriage is a step to far.


  • #19
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    humbert wrote: »
    The Sun wouldn't leave you without a picture.

    Fúck it. I'm not about to have a go at them. I would have advised a prior meet though.

    I sped read the article itself, and assume the wedding is happening over there. If it all goes tits up, they could be out of it in a few months.





    Not. Like. This. Hell hole.


  • #20
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I bet they live happily ever after. Honestly if the two of them are that idiotic then they are perfect together.


    Or he'll chop her up and make a table out of her.


  • #21
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ChippingSodbury wrote: »
    http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-woman-prepares-to-marry-an-American-man-shes-only-met-online-167162865.html?page=1


    I find it hard to believe that they would do this. I'd say you don't know anyone properly until you've picked their dirty undies up off the bedroom floor a few times!!

    I'll give them 6 months...

    At least he's real - I hear tell of some women that get married to an invisible man and then they never even get their leg over with him!

    I'm a bit suspicious if the story is true!


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