Vanessa wrote:citris1 wrote:I wonder if Dollforum itself could hold a raffle and offer a doll as a prize?
That's a tough one... It should be "doable", technically, but in all other aspects, I'd expect big trouble. It would have to be done by management, but probably no one in there has the unlimited trust of every single member. I remember when recently, we tried to collect money to buy some "court manuscripts" and it ended up in a big mess. (don't even know what happened to the money donated)...
nooserhang wrote:Yes girl U're right (as usual, not a compliment, it's just that I've read most of your posts and U seem to be a very prudent and nice gal), corruption is an issue but since history of corruption has had its major chapters here in my country, there are a couple of associations devoted to the protection of costumers here and I've talked with one of their leaders, he has told me about laws here and from his perspective importing a doll to Colombia is doable.
Yes, remember what I said in my p.m. : There probably is corruption everywhere and anywhere, in any country. I for one prefer those countries openly admitting "yes, we have corruption and it IS an issue", like yours, over those countries denying (like mine) and saying "corruption, us ? naaaah... we're clean and honest, but look at (insert country)..." (pointing with finger)
Yeah I remember, BTW sorry for not having answered your last PM. It's not that corrupt ones here accept they are corrupts, it's just that they are too obvious they can't hide, their mistakes are big fat and pink. Another thing that worries me and it's the real problem is envy, ppl here seems to be envious of other ppl all the time. In case a dollie could be sent to here it might happen that the customs officer, here they are low rank cops with little to no education at all (may be that's why they are there), decides he has to open that big box because it may contain a big ammount of drugs (how stupid it sounds, we export drugs, that's why marihuana and coke are so expensive in Europe
so a box coming from another place is no problem, the problem is more likely to be in parcels going out of here) and then he sees this beautiful big doll sitting there...then the guy has a flash back to his childhood...he hardly had a toy because his father preferred to spent the money in beer and prostitutes. How unfair, he could think,"I'd never had a toy, now I have to work very hard protecting my country...and while I'm working in this low wage shit there are other adults like me, who still have time to play with beautiful dolls while I have nothing..." then he discovers dollie is complete and almost perfect to the minimum detail and...yes...he's a man,he thinks, so he thinks he has to do what a man has to do and then he does it...he brutally rapes the doll. Then he's aware he has messed it up and that their uppers will go after him because the receiver would set a reclaim form for his/her doll. Then he (custom cop) decides the doll is stuffed with drugs but his real thought is that the new owner doesn't deserve the parcel sent to him/her, besides that, he has to cover the evidence of the rape...so it's axe time. And this whole mess just because the poor cop feels he's having another bad day while the rest of the wolrd is having fun.
nooserhang wrote: yes I know I was talking to U about adopting your synth clone, that was before the bureaucrats here at my college had denied me my re-entrance, money was not a problem then because my mom agreed to give me a dollie instead of a car once I got my degree...but now...no degree, no dollie.
D'OOH.
Didn't know about that...
And it was just because a teacher decided I was too rude by telling a class mate he had to do his own site for the class since I considered it was not fair me being plainly rejected but asked to work for the same teacher that got me out of the college. Envy and anger all time seem to be the mark of middle-class Colombian (BTW, I'm no middle class, I'm nearly a beggar
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nooserhang wrote:she'd have some bodyguards in case the customs guys wanted to play the wise guy...no, I'm not talking about guys in black leather jackets and shades but about my mom, two lawyers, me and the leader of the costumer protection association
Sounds like a good task force.
Of course, such a beautiful work of art is worth even the guys in black shades
Netwit wrote:I was wondering if someone knowledgable should post the rules in other languages, French perhaps, for the members for whom english is not their primary language.
I could translate to German.
If needed, send me a pm with the final wording, TJ.
