“In China, by tradition, your success is measured by your number of mistresses.”
Good news for Tiger! Kinda, anyway.
Russ Niles, reporting that a federal court has ruled that the FAA must release registration information for jets with blocked tail numbers, but tracking flights still won't be possible.
For about 10 years, private aircraft operators have been able to have their N numbers "blocked" from outside scrutiny under the National Business Aviation Association's Blocked Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program. In late 2008, a non-profit investigative journalism Web site called ProPublica submitted an FOIA request to the FAA to release the list of BARR participants, claiming the owners of the aircraft were using the program to prevent public scrutiny of their use of the aircraft. The FOIA request came shortly after the Big Three automakers made headlines by using corporate aircraft to travel to Washington to ask for federal bailouts. NBAA went to court to block the release of the information citing security concerns, but on Friday a D.C. district court ruled the FOIA requests must be honored; it did not extend the order to include real-time requests for information on aircraft.
And Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Christophe Babin is gloating about Tiger's brand strength in China following the revelation of numerous affairs.
"Very quickly we have taken sides,” Babin said. “We stay with him but, as he wants more privacy and as he won't play for a while, in the countries where the issue is quite sensitive we won't use him much.”
Consequently, in the US, Woods's image has been removed from the company's advertising. However, it remains on the Tag Heuer website and, in China, use of it has been increased.
“In China conversely you have Tag Heuer with Tiger Woods everywhere because [with] the Chinese it rather increases their esteem,” he said. “In China, by tradition, your success is measured by your number of mistresses.”
Monday, March 1, 2010 at 08:04 PM
Reader Comments (11)
Elin is Swedish - therefore there might be a chance. . . They could live in Europe - he could still play in the 4 majors and the World golf championships and largely stay away from the hypocrites in the States.
Tiger getting away from hypocrites - that is rich. Well played.
These women feel the domestic dispute was probably caused by the numerous years of far more egregious behavior, like:
always leaving his junk around the house,
never listening to anything his she says,
complaining anytime she asks him to do anything,
constantly watching porn,
complaining about her cooking or the way she dresses,
complaining about the way she handles the kids,
complaining about her mother whilst not acknowledging his own mother's shortcomings,
continually demanding... um...services... that she doesn't care to provide,
never wanting to cuddle,
being obnoxiously, demonstratively jealous anytime another guy looks at her,
always criticizing her taste in movies,
playing with the Xbox more than the with kids,
laughing at disgusting David Feherty flatulence jokes....
..in short, being from Mars instead of from Venus.
You see where I'm going with this? Marriage just isn't natural. Men and women are two different species that were never meant to co-habitate. In our society it's practical, and far less expensive than maintaining separate households... and where there's not exceptional wealth, most make the best of it ... even manage to enjoy it. But when there IS extraordinary wealth... and no practical reason to stay together... the type of issues I mentioned above can become intolerable....and the women I spoke to generally felt that those kinds of things, repeated over the years, were more likely to have been what caused the alleged domestic disturbance... fight... nine iron action... whatever it was. The overt mistress texting was just one more "unacceptable behavior" in a long list. Probably not even the most vile one.
In some countries multiple mistresses probably signify wealth and ...ironically...relative marital happiness. Because the husband and wife spend more time apart. Assuming Tiger and Elin Woods work things out, what nearly destroyed their marriage was too much time together. What nearly destroyed their marriage was marriage itself.
sorry that ended up being longer than I indended. :o)
A discussion about power imbalances in a relationship would be fine with me, but leave the wanky New Age cliches about Venus and Mars at the door. They don't add insight at all, they just confirm people's existing comfort zones.
Sounds like you've had a girls night out!