Re: British sense of humour?

"nebulous" <pig@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
:"Fred J. McCall" <fjmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <ador@ble> wrote:
:> :
:> :My sister employed a more guileful technique with one ex-boyfreind - she
:> :waited until he was asleep and *then* clubbed the living *** out of the
:> :***.
:> :Strange to relate we've never seen him since.
:> :
:>
:> Lucky he didn't kill her.
:>
:> While these guys no doubt have that sort of thing coming, wouldn't it
:> simply be easier to just walk away from the guy? Safer, too, I would
:> think.
:>
:> A woman I used to know in New York had the ultimate answer to this.
:> The *first* time her husband laid a hand on her, she told him, "If you
:> ever do that again, I'll tell my father. He'll have you killed."
:>
:> She was Daddy's youngest and the darling and he didn't like her first
:> husband in the first place. You see, Daddy 'knew people'...
:
:It doesn't work. I've told you before I've got you Americans sussed, because
:I watch films. Haven't you seen the Godfather?
:

It works just fine. Real life isn't cinema.

[He never touched her again. Instead he went for the emotional abuse
of how she was "destroying him" and how he was considering suicide
because he was so depressed. I offered to have a 'talk' with him
during which I was sure he would come to the realization that he was
in no hurry to die. She finally divorced the worthless little
wanker.]


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-- Buffy the vampire
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