Is there something up with Johnny Depp?
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Equus said:
Not that I'm condoning it, but there's a hell of a difference between throwing a mobile phone at someone whilst in a heated argument (which is what I understand is alleged to have caused 'the bruise'), and 'beating women'.
Absolutely - but for me in those events I either pop down the driving range and blast a few balls or the squash court. Total stress relievers. Welshbeef said:
Equus said:
Not that I'm condoning it, but there's a hell of a difference between throwing a mobile phone at someone whilst in a heated argument (which is what I understand is alleged to have caused 'the bruise'), and 'beating women'.
Absolutely - but for me in those events I either pop down the driving range and blast a few balls or the squash court. Total stress relievers. PorkInsider said:
Read the rest of the article though, or the other summaries of the court hearing. He's alleged to have done more than just the phone lobbing.
Alleged being the operative word. There is no evidence beyond a verbal allegation from a woman seeking a very lucrative divorce...
Equus said:
PorkInsider said:
Read the rest of the article though, or the other summaries of the court hearing. He's alleged to have done more than just the phone lobbing.
Alleged being the operative word. There is no evidence beyond a verbal allegation from a woman seeking a very lucrative divorce...
The point I was making is that there's probably more than just the phone throwing behind Welsh's comment.
Oakey said:
Apparently he didn't like her bisexuality and lesbian friends.
First world problems eh? You're Johnny Depp and your hot wife also likes girls, how truly awful!
I know what you're thinking, but maybe it's not so great having a wife that would prefer to be spending time rug munching with her 'friends' rather than playing hide the sausage with him? "Well I'm bi, so that means it's ok for me to sleep with other people, as long as they're female".First world problems eh? You're Johnny Depp and your hot wife also likes girls, how truly awful!
He might be a bit nuts, fame and fortune tends to do that to people often. But what you're seeing and hearing is the gutter press taking advantage of a failing relationship and blowing it up into 'news'. If every waking moment of our lives involved people watching/snooping on us in order to make money, there'd probably been some juicy dirt on all of us.
Maybe he did hit his wife in a heated argument as they were splitting up, it's not nice and it's not clever, but how many of us have never made a mistake in life? Maybe it only happened that one time, or maybe it's been going on for ages. Maybe it was just tit for tat - she could have been chucking things at him and he threw something back, and was unlucky enough to get a direct hit? Maybe he didn't hit her at all and it's just a trick with some make up?
I've never met the bloke, so I'm not going to judge. Certainly not before all the facts come out (if they ever do). Also, I believe his mother passed away recently? Never an easy thing to deal with, and it could tip some one that's mentally 'delicate' over the edge.
Equus said:
Not that I'm condoning it, but there's a hell of a difference between throwing a mobile phone at someone whilst in a heated argument (which is what I understand is alleged to have caused 'the bruise'), and 'beating women'.
Not in the eyes of the law there isn't, assault is assault regardless of whether you ding someone in the head with a phone or punch them in the face.Oakey said:
Not in the eyes of the law there isn't, assault is assault regardless of whether you ding someone in the head with a phone or punch them in the face.
In terms of guilty or not guilty, sure, I agree.In terms of how severely the crime was viewed for the purposes of sentencing, or (perish the thought) gaining sympathy to negotiate a large divorce settlement, far from it.
I'd just assumed his brain was slowing down after years of substance abuse a la Ozzy Osbourne. Substance abuse sounds too strong though, like I heard somebody else say: "alcoholics go to meetings, I go to bars"
I don't see it as abuse if he enjoyed it.
I don't see it as abuse if he enjoyed it.
Edited by pushthebutton on Saturday 28th May 13:58
Welshbeef said:
Equus said:
Not that I'm condoning it, but there's a hell of a difference between throwing a mobile phone at someone whilst in a heated argument (which is what I understand is alleged to have caused 'the bruise'), and 'beating women'.
Absolutely - but for me in those events I either pop down the driving range and blast a few balls or the squash court. Total stress relievers. Boring_Chris said:
Welshbeef said:
Equus said:
Not that I'm condoning it, but there's a hell of a difference between throwing a mobile phone at someone whilst in a heated argument (which is what I understand is alleged to have caused 'the bruise'), and 'beating women'.
Absolutely - but for me in those events I either pop down the driving range and blast a few balls or the squash court. Total stress relievers. Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff