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Well sure, but you'd also hope that after "dating" for 7 years they'd have met in person or at least have spoken on the phone by now and yet...

I find that happens a lot, though. People do tend to hang out for a long time, even without food. We're used to a restaurant culture of "either order something or get out" but in my time in the Ukraine I've found people to be totally lax about just hanging. I first thought that maybe he was there to pick someone up, but the filming carried on longer than planned so he sat there and fiddled on his phone while he waited. And then I thought that maybe the whole scene really only lasted 45 minutes and they're lying to us about the two hours. Maybe he'd ordered something or had met someone there earlier and now he's waiting for a train or a ride. My guess, though, is that it was someone from production. They may have even seated him there intentionally so that it would inspire the "was that dude really Lana" convo.

Didn't he say something like the reason he didn't just go to her house is because he didn't want to be creepy? Like walking around with her picture and showing it to random store clerk wasn't?

I'm starting to doubt a single thing about David's story is true. It's funny, though, that TLC blurs our Lana'a "real" name on the chat site that he uses. At one point you can clearly see that her name is "Svetlana", which is what "Lana" is short for anyway. That's like blurring out "Johnathon" for a guy people call "John."

This is all hogwash. That candy store he went to isn't even in her town. It's like an hour and a half away. The restaurant is in her town, but the candy store isn't. TLC is just testing my patience at this point.

David: she's starting to feel like my Lana again! Dude. She said TWO WORDS. And it was the same word repeated.

As long as he didn't stand out as a crew member (no camera, headset, etc) they probably figured it didn't matter. That we'd just think he was a local. FWIW, restaurant and cafe culture over there is a little different than ours. I've sat with nothing but a cup of tea or hot chocolate (Eastern European hot cocoa is basically chocolate mud and it is glorious) and written in my journal or read for two hours. Conversely, the McDonald's in my town has a sign up limiting inside diners to thirty minutes and that was before the coronavirus.

Is this one also Anastasia Date? If so, couples are able to take communication offsite. I'm not even sure he's talking to a real person. The coldness, refusal to comment on obvious things (why she missed the meeting, that he's in her town, etc)... I'm starting to think that he's just talking to one of those automated things. You know how when you're Googling a new dry patch on your arm and you find yourself on a website for toe cancer and a little picture of a model pops up and says "Hi, how can I help you today"? You're not really talking to a doctor...wonder if David knows that?

Brother Usman isn't quite convinced that this whole thing isn't just some collosal joke. Mommy Usman says no because Lisa is too old, not of their tribe, from another country, and he only met her through the internet-all of which makes Mommy Usman more intelligent than 70% of the people on this show.

Mayo is a very popular substitution. Coke is a popular substitution for water (it helps the leavening) and we often use applesauce in place of oil.

Not in my experience. Maybe in a pre 9/11 world but certainly not in the past 19 years. I went through the process with my husband myself and people are turned down every day. In my own case, it wasn't just a picture and proof of online communication that was needed-we applied while I was pregnant and my fiance literally went into his meeting with our kid and we still had to produce additional proof of relationship for the first step of the process. (And for the record he was British and we'd already lived abroad together for 2 years.) It can be a crapshoot and is highly dependent upon foreigner's nationality, financial assessment, number of visas currently being processed, proof of ongoing relationship outside of communication (joint vacations, time spent with each other's families, etc), medical exam (exam, chest xray, & bloodwork taken at US Embassy approved medical clinic), age difference, visa interview, previous issued visas, and previous marriages. And sometimes it all comes down to what side of the bed the visa agent woke up on. If David's storyline really unfolded as shown, a photo op would not net her a visa. There are no phone records, no video chats, no texts...Outside of communication through a for-profit website known for scamming, there is nothing and a picture of them at a restaurant will not change that. Ironic thst he knows he wants to marry her without meeting her...he thought the same about Anya but upon meeting decided she was too shy. But THIS time is different...

I still rinse my hair with white vinegar. A couple times a month I use a coconut oil mixture I make myself. We haven't pyrchased shampoo or conditioner in our house for years. My daughter, who has glorious hair, uses baking soda and vinegar for her scalp and rinses with lemon juice. That's her head in the pic. Mayo can be a good oil treatment. Not that much different than using eggs, which is also a thing. However, it HAS to be rinsed out. And well. When eggs get left out in the sun, they go bad. Same with mayo. If Bad Egg wants to use it then that's cool, but it didn't show him rinsing it out. In that hot sun between his sweat and the mayo I can only imagaine how he must smell. Homeboy has no place bitching about Rose's leg hair being "gross." I would bet good money that the pigs smelled better.

It looked the same to me, it just looked like she unrolled her mattress pad against a different wall.

Dude looks like your average Dickensian grave digger.

Oh yeah, I get girl crushes all the time. I'm not sexually or romantically attracted to the women, it's usually something like I admire one of their traits or I want to be like them. I think it's very simple for Stephanie. She wanted to be on the show for the social media clout so she cultivated a relationship with someone in an exotic location (not a third world country, but a country that would still be interesting on camera). It was easy to keep up the pretense from afar-a few messages and pictures wouldn't take up more than five minutes a day-but she couldn't keep it up in person. Her initial plan may have been to have a teary breakup once the season aired.

75% of my job is marketing so I know how much time you can spend online. The amount of time Tom spends just with his trolling, fighting, posing, and hijacking is insane. He's beyond middle school crap. The man's a big baby.

Another fan here. I love early Elvis when it comes to looks, but I actually prefer later Elvis for voice: In the Ghetto, Moody Blue, American Trilogy, Crying in the Chapel, etc and some of the later country songs he remade (Always on My Mind, For the Good Times, etc) He also recorded my favorite Christmas song-It Won't Seem Like Christmas Without You. He was a beautiful man. On topic... David's storyline isn't funny, it's a little creepy. He's stalking her at this point. She sent him a message that basically told him she'd like to meet for a photo op so that she could come to the US, and he acted like she'd sprung some John Dunne level shit at him. He's acting REALLY obsessed, but I'm still not sold on the truth of all this. From what we've seen in his posts, he's way more casual than the show has let on. He has an ulterior motive for being on this show, I just haven't found it yet.

I would definitely agree with the Yolanda/David assessment if we didn't already have outside info on them over in the "couples" boards.As such, I think they're both catfishing US.

Okay, one of you guys need to watch this so that I can start the snarking. I'm loving Brother Usman. Stephanie can suck my toe. She's manipulating and almost gaslighting Erika and the whole wanting to get to the bottom of Erkia's friendship with the dude is just her trying to find more justification for keeping her at arm's length. The real winner of the night is the server at David's restaurant. I need her on Pillow Talk.

Yea, if he continued to send packages after the first few were "lost" and he didn't bring his own sheets then that's on him.

And it still makes him look a little off. Oh no! She wouldn't even hug him upon meeting?! Next!

He's already 30, would have to change his name, and with Lisa on his arm he'd lack sex appeal which is something that most of these genres (R&B, rap, soul... not real sure which avenue he wants to pursue) build on. More importantly, he has no networking here. He'd be starting from scratch. And while you don't necessarily need to go the club tour route anymore, there's nothing he could throw up on SoundCloud that would make him stand out from the pack. The most he could do would be to capitalize on his 15 minutes he's getting right now.

Flip her hair...

I never saw her with a passion for dance. Never really even saw her dance...

She is so pretty. This franchise doesn't deserve Kiralym, though I would like to see her on a reunion panel with Lisa and Angela. The comparisons would be amazing.