Violence against women..

I know this has probably been done to death and was touched on in boards.ie favourite Lemming's Journal, but having come back from lunch I thought I might share a sureal experience I just had.

I was sitting in Burger King (yum yum, but enough about that), when two "ladies" sat down. Well in actual fact they were junkies but I aint going to hold that against them.

Everything was fairly ok until some battered old guy comes up to them, I would say about 50 or so. And then all hell broke loose, verbally, atleast.

He was ranting and raving at one woman in particular, calling her everything under the sun. Apparantly she left him waiting in the street for 3 hours earlier on, and naturally he was pissed.

So what you might ask, well the interesting part was amongst all his rants, he was constantly threatening to bash her in, aswell as some other nameless women who was, and I quote "probably up shagging that bosnian b*stard" - how nice.

anyway the woman turns around to him and tell his to f-off, and his reply was simply a "Begbie-ism" - "i'll give you a straight one in the face then i'll f-off"

i nearly choked on my burger, both from laughter and shock aswell (didnt think people used begbie-isms anymore).

but even more sureal was that the woman didnt bat an eyelid, and just carried her arguement as normal with this guy.

i know its a pretty much accepted thing that people keep their noses out of others business, but I was simply fascinated with this - if it was on TV I would have been laughing - but seeing it up close and personal, I was actually more embaressed to be sitting near them.

i was half tempted to say something but the idea of being told to f-off or that i was going to recieve a "bate-ing" would have just reduced me to tears.

opinions?