Johnsmith wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 5:59pm:


Nope.  I've posted facts, and if you can't deal with facts, that's not my problem.  There is a real World out here, not that one down a Rabbit Hole.

Johnsmith wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 5:59pm:


Nope.  I've posted facts, and if you can't deal with facts, that's not my problem.  There is a real World out here, not that one down a Rabbit Hole.

Okay......so now we are reduced to trolling.  I get it now. Bugger the facts..........Alice in Wonderland and trolling is the go.

Agnes wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 5:42pm:


That may be true. And domestic violence casts a long shadow over many families and their members.

But let's not be too quick to blame the men in this situation.

I'll take a risk here and describe some of my own personal experiences. A very few.

Bear in mind that I was at boarding school for most of this time. What I witnessed were holiday events.

I vividly remember coming home from the movies one night and having to pull my younger brother from his bed because Mum had set the veranda alight before retiring to bed herself. I was aged about 12.

On another visit home, I found that she'd found and fired about six .22 rounds into the family car. Dad took the rifle out of her hands after a struggle. I was about 14 then.

When I was 17, she drove to my girlfriend's mother's house and threatened the mother with violence. I was away at school at the time but the police and my father informed me.

When I was about 18 and home on another visit, I drove my father to hospital to have 7 stitches put into his scalp wound after she'd slogged him with a glass ashtray.

I had to hire security for my wedding, with the express permission of the bride's parents, because my mother was invited - and to ignore her was inviting trouble.

My father was, and still is, a big man. He could have punched a hole straight through his wife's face.

He didn't.

And he, and we, suffered for it.

A long time ago, to be sure - and the rules have changed.

Am I tainted?

Or do I just suck it all up like a big boy and not let it effect my own personal relationships?

Johnsmith wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:




lol!!! sometimes maria's wife tells her what to write and other times she thinks for herself that's why she can have opposing opinions....

ahhh, cods old girl,  sweety, while I'd love for you to stick it to Aussie, a 'mate' does not equal a 'female cab driver' ... a mate is a friend

Aussie wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 6:31pm:



Has anyone actually said that only men abuse women and not the other way around? Men are the major perpetrators but not the only perpetrators.

Kudos to your father Lionel, he did the right thing. What would have been gained had they both attacked each other? Yours was a dysfunctional family as many were back then. It is easier to split now (child and sole parent support) even though some decide to live with the chaos.