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I wouldn't say it is completely sad. The silver lining is that the marriage will obviously end, which will be the best for everyone involved.
It does highlight one of the major problems of life in the UK, though.
Stupid licensing laws led to a ridiculous general attitude toward drinking, with every opportunity to drink ending up being treated as an opportunity to drink too much.
I've yet to be to a wedding in the UK where everyone didn't get far too drunk. Every other country where I've been to weddings, only a comparatively tiny percentage drank too much.
In this case, the groom got drunk and beat the cr@p out of his new bride. He would probably have ended up doing that every Friday night, anyway, so all this publicity has done her a favour.
In sort-of defence of the @rsehole's indefensible behaviour: he obviously wasn't ready to get married and have children, and the booze just brought it all out on the wedding day.
It all sucks, but it just highlights that it's better for all concerned if the marriage ceases to exist.
'Sides, she's cute, and maybe she'll find herself a nice developer who'll treat her right (by getting out of her hair, every Thursday, by going out to play D&D).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You want me to put you up while you try your luck?
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Nah, I don't play D&D, so I'm not her Mr. Right.
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Mark, I'm not sure how many weddings you've been to in the UK, but I can't recall any myself where drunkenness was the norm. A quick count tells me I can remember going to 16. I'm not saying that nobody was drunk, but there wasn't anyone obviously so and there was no fighting! I'm not from a refined background (having been dragged up in Surrey Docks), so it's not a class thing. I'll be back there in December for another wedding and I'll be surprised if there are any problems there! 
Now I've been to a few in Canada and my son got totally smashed at my daughter's (he went to sleep it off - no fighting) and one of my daughter-in-law's family got ejected from my son's wedding (some fighting!).
I agree with you about restrictive licensing and attitudes to booze are a problem. Countries like France and Italy have much fewer issues with alcoholism. Canada's licensing laws are more restrictive than the UK's and it's very common for youngsters to go off to university and get rat-arsed on a regular basis. I believe that this is also true in the US (frat boys, sorority girls).
In summary, I know binge drinking is a problem (not just in the UK) and open bars at weddings are a perfect opportunity for that. There are plenty enough bad things to say about the English (plenty of good too), but I don't see England as being a nation of drunken wife beaters.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: There are plenty enough bad things to say about the English (plenty of good too)
OK, you went off into some kind of fantasy world between the parentheses, there.
PhilLenoir wrote: I don't see England as being a nation of drunken wife beaters.
That's true.
Some of 'em are sober.
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What has this got to do with being English? Scum like this husband are, unfortunately, endemic in every country.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: What has this got to do with being English?
He had to go through all the effort of beating her.
In the US he would have simply been able to shoot her, far more efficient.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: In the US he would have simply been able to shoot her, far more efficient.
<wry expression>But many fewer aerobic advantages.</wry expression>
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Also, since muscle in no longer a factor - in the US, she just may have shot back at him.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: in the US, she just may have shot back at him.
Given recent reports it is more likely her unborn child would have reached out of her vagina, removed her gun from her purse, and shot both of them.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Chaveri -
Didn't you notice my exit line? It kind of flavors the whole thing.
[On the other hand, one of the other replies indicates, sadly, I wasn't as far from the mark as one would hope]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The sub-species Bozo-Bozetta Flagrante of species Homo Sapiens Sapiens (we have to say "Sapiens" twice to reassure ourselves) is distributed world-wide.
Blame genes, proteins, and hormones, not a country.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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BillWoodruff wrote: Blame genes, proteins, and hormones
Actually - you sort of proved my remark - well played.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well, after all it remains wrong. 
But laughable. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I do know it's wrong.
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I'm absolutely appalled.
I shall take every chance I get to point a finger and laugh at such a person who treats others so badly, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's called an iPhen!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Couldn't you wait your turn? 
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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Now you've made my head hurt I'm going home!
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Richard Deeming wrote: Because all smaller numbers are irrelevant.
Still a finite number 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Indeed, and so much more interesting than ∞.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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