Yes, Pips - I have the horrid lifestyle of 'he who owns a restaurant'. Meaning.. 'Hell in a Handbasket.'

In North America, a "Wife Beater" is this:

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Kindly made prominent by the upstanding uneducated white men who partake in drinking excessively and then follow up with a good bit of cardiovascular excercise with their significant other.

Being romantic, charming and respectful - traits in the past that helped men have become 'yesterday's news', and is generally frowned upon by women. As for 'boring guys', we all know that women are now gravitating towards 'broke-ass', welfare-taking, lying, cheating dirty scumbags. Yours truly is making his best effort to undertake these same desireable and irrisistable qualities.

Thank you for the lesson in Briton slang. I should look some of those up. You should have used your purse do deck the same bloke right in the kisser. That's disgusting. All of your belongings. And what belongings! I'm constantly surprised by how MUCH women choose to carry in their purses! Wallet, keys, phone. What ELSE do you need?