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How did Tyson Fury’s daughter get married at 16?

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Wouldcou · 17/05/2026 13:08

I thought they changed the law and you had to be 18 in the UK?

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flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:38

Cheese55 · 17/05/2026 21:36

What are the benefits of marrying young and why can't you you have that and an education?. When people don't agree with something, it's not always based on envy or misunderstanding, people referencing FGM as its a good example.

What are the non benefits?

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:39

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:37

Well obviously not because that is illegal. There’s nothing illegal about marrying at 16.

Really?

Cheese55 · 17/05/2026 21:39

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:34

Education comes in other forms other than school. Most are home schooled or have tutors come a couple of times a week. I thought you EDUCATED folk would know that. Also you don’t need an education to live and put food on the table. That’s what yous believe because you don’t know how to do anything else. You don’t have the skills we do to provide for our family’s.

Most of us agree that there is more to life than formal education, that's why schools offer more then that and why kids do stuff out of school as well. The two can run alongside each other.

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

Pigeonpoodle · 17/05/2026 21:34

So it’s wrong to have a view on traveller culture, but it’s ok to generalise the entire English nation by saying that we’re very bitter. How hypocritical!

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:41

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

How DARE you tar every English person with the same brush?! Hmm

You speak for yourself.

You do NOT speak for me, or any English people I know.

Seriously, how DARE you?!

rememberingthem · 17/05/2026 21:41

What exactly is wrong in her getting married young if that’s what she wants? Also if she is happy to stay at home cleaning and raising a family what is wrong with that? I sometimes think women these days have the shit end of the stick…expected to have a career, pay half the bills and raise kids! Who’s the stupid ones? Its not traveller women from where im standing!

Pigeonpoodle · 17/05/2026 21:41

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

Self-loathing is a unpleasant trait.

Pigeonpoodle · 17/05/2026 21:43

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

And besides, it’s just not true that 90% of the world’s population think that English people are the worst. Absurd.

kscarpetta · 17/05/2026 21:43

rememberingthem · 17/05/2026 21:41

What exactly is wrong in her getting married young if that’s what she wants? Also if she is happy to stay at home cleaning and raising a family what is wrong with that? I sometimes think women these days have the shit end of the stick…expected to have a career, pay half the bills and raise kids! Who’s the stupid ones? Its not traveller women from where im standing!

What's wrong with a school aged child getting married instead of taking her GCSEs 🤔Is that a genuine question?

Should parents let their kids not bother with school/education if they want to? What if they really, really want to stay home and become a world class Fornite player instead?

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:48

Pigeonpoodle · 17/05/2026 21:43

And besides, it’s just not true that 90% of the world’s population think that English people are the worst. Absurd.

Exactly. Ludicrous, farcical post! Never heard such rubbish. Hmm

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:49

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:41

How DARE you tar every English person with the same brush?! Hmm

You speak for yourself.

You do NOT speak for me, or any English people I know.

Seriously, how DARE you?!

That part is true though. The English do not have a good reputation around the world. We are generally seen as rude, cold, egotistical, unfriendly etx.

Its not fair as they tar everyone with the same brush. But that is the reputation

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:49

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

Your not wrong, Eurovision every year proves that 🤣

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:50

Pigeonpoodle · 17/05/2026 21:41

Self-loathing is a unpleasant trait.

Or we are just realistic and have heard many people around Europe say it. The English are not liked around Europe.

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:50

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:49

Your not wrong, Eurovision every year proves that 🤣

Yep Eurovision proves how Europe feel about us.

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:53

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:49

Your not wrong, Eurovision every year proves that 🤣

Eurovision does prove it and so does the World Cup. Nations all around the world cheer on every country that ever plays against us.

You can ask any Argentinian, Nigerian, Indian, Welsh person who they dislike the most and they will more often than not say English people. Can the whole world be wrong?

BunnyWabbit2000 · 17/05/2026 21:53

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:39

As an English person I can quite confidently say we are the worst! Ask people of any country around the world what country they dislike the most and 9 times out of 10 it will be England. That's just the way it is.

What a load of absolute nonsense.

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:54

BunnyWabbit2000 · 17/05/2026 21:53

What a load of absolute nonsense.

Did you watch Eurovision? People in Europe vote for the country that they like.

Nearly every year England gets very few points. England often finishes in last place.

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:56

flabbypea · 17/05/2026 21:26

Thank you for your kind words. And I have to agree I do think there’s quite a bit of bitterness and resentfulness about the way we live our lives freely and don’t answer to no one. You’d think over the years people would be used to us getting married young but clearly not lol

'Kind words?' 😆 There was nothing 'kind' about what @InstantlyBella said.

Her post was a vicious, vitriolic attack on the English! Full of inaccuracies and mistruths.

As I said, I do NOT recognise any of what she says about the English, and think she should get new friends/new people in her life if the English people she knows are like she describes. None of what she says fits any English person I know!

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:56

BunnyWabbit2000 · 17/05/2026 21:53

What a load of absolute nonsense.

Oh come on. Everyone knows that the English are unpopular round Europe surely?

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:56

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:54

Did you watch Eurovision? People in Europe vote for the country that they like.

Nearly every year England gets very few points. England often finishes in last place.

NO, in Eurovision, they vote for the SONGS they like.

THAT is why we came second 4 years ago, last time the UK had a really good song!

.

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:57

I don't like to toot my own horn but I've had the privilege of travelling around the world and when people ask me where I'm from they are utterly astounded that I'm English, because usually the English that they know are rude, slovenly and incredibly hostile. People keep saying I must actually have been secretly born to Scottish parents which did make me laugh!

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:57

Zov · 17/05/2026 21:56

NO, in Eurovision, they vote for the SONGS they like.

THAT is why we came second 4 years ago, last time the UK had a really good song!

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No, as everyone knows, they also vote for the countries that they like. England is nearly always near the very bottom

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:59

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:57

I don't like to toot my own horn but I've had the privilege of travelling around the world and when people ask me where I'm from they are utterly astounded that I'm English, because usually the English that they know are rude, slovenly and incredibly hostile. People keep saying I must actually have been secretly born to Scottish parents which did make me laugh!

I was born in England but moved somewhere else and have the accent from somwhere else. When I go around Europe, people often say that the English are the worst tourists. They say that the people are Rude, cold and nasty.

They say it to my face because they think I am not English.

I don't really care. That just is how it is.

InstantlyBella · 17/05/2026 21:59

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:57

No, as everyone knows, they also vote for the countries that they like. England is nearly always near the very bottom

Well in our case it's both because they don't like us AND our songs are bad. We aren't exactly known for being a very musically gifted country, it's almost as bad as our food!

Livelovebehappy · 17/05/2026 22:01

Scarlettjune · 17/05/2026 21:56

Oh come on. Everyone knows that the English are unpopular round Europe surely?

Down to jealousy a lot of the time though. I’ve travelled a lot, and in comparison, many countries are inferior to the UK.

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