Last Cunt Standing

If it’d gone on much longer Eric, the Ref would’ve put in for maternity leave.

Not the most diverse of populations up there, Raas. In fact after five minutes thought the only famous Black Scotsman I can think of is McLaren from Porridge.

If you’re Scottish, it’s still more likely to be Heroin or Cholesterol that kills you, to be fair.

Shouldn’t you be in the melee down Carrow Road? Millwall are in town, and for some reason it’s outrageously not been rescheduled for the World Cup Final…

WA built an enormous fence to keep Rabbits out. Make your own joke.

Somewhere in Spain there’s an El Neil wishing for the direct opposite.

Sam Kerr is already flogging batteries down here. I don’t see the connection myself.

If only someone warned this might happen, chapter six hundred and forty nine thousand… https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/19/craft-beer-boom-uk-firms-bust-brexit

The Queen of Spain obviously thought differently. He’d have gone for the blokes, or if his side piece happened to be in Sydney at the same time. Or indeed if he could guarantee not being booed by the crowd. Funny, I had him pegged as a feminist.

He’ll be too busy hanging round the poop deck for that. Hello sailor.

What do you make of Prince William staying at home?

Remiss of me not to point out in this ugly saga that when seven Consultants raised their collective concerns about a series of unexplained events, they were by all accounts slapped down by management and threatened with referral to the GMC. It wasn’t always this way, and the resulting inquiry needs to pay close attention to why these eminent men and women, who’ve devoted big chunks of their life to protecting the young and innocent, were sidelined by people who’d struggle to use a coaster, much less know how to interpret a postmortem c-peptide result in a neonate. If it were me, I’d be calling Michael Gove to answer whether experts really are yesterdays news.

You have a list?

The magazine you get with a subscription to The Corner, despatched monthly from a Caravan parked illegally on the M4 near Newport, is designed to be left unopened, and if you do, only the letters page is worth reading.

Apologies Eric. I was startled by the black leggings. A personal favourite of mine, especially those cheap ones than go thin on the arse so you get a partially obscured view of some white polka dot Primark knickers. Usually the wearer is at the helm of a double buggy, with an arse like a Rhinoceros, blaring at little Whitney and Keane to stop bleeding crying and eat their bleeding Maccas for breakfast. On a Cruise, though. Fucking hell.

Much comment on this side of the planet today about the fact that the Queen of Spain (not Ashley Giles’ wife, for those in the know) is venturing Down Under for tonight’s Women’s World Cup Final, but that the Prince of Wales, President of the FA, can’t be arsed because he is on holiday, too many trees would die, and besides it’s only women. Major PR gaffe incoming I sense when the Lionesses triumph and they all get the OBE or whatever. I can’t think why he wouldn’t come over. Surely a surreptitious hook up with the Marquess of Cholmondley isn’t too difficult to arrange to sweeten the pot, or failing that, given there’s almost two dollars to the pound presently, he’d have had some bargain fun in certain parts of Sydney. His Ginger brother would have made the trip, I’m sure. It’s all quite out of character for Wills. Even more so for a man we’ve all had pegged as a feminist.

The turn’s wearing black leggings and there’s a bloke in the audience in a fucking hoodie. I didn’t know TK Maxx did cruises.

Best trivia question ever: in what year did Hull go down as a result of Manchester United drawing with Inter Milan? A) 1999.

Another feather in your anti-authority, go-your-own-way, do your own research, tinfoil fucking cap there Bill. Bravo. It was for (arguably poor) comedic effect, and I doubt @Eric Cuntman gave a monkeys. You really do need to calm your farm these days Bill.

Rod Hull always creeped me out. Billy Connolly had the best strategy for dealing with him; “if that thing comes near me I’ll break his neck and your arm”.

Ah, sometimes you hear news that makes you wistful and nostalgic for simpler times. I’ll risk acrimony by saying he wasn’t a fantastically insightful interviewer, but back in the day when Hollywood A-Listers would fly over and talk without something to flog, he made them feel comfortable. His warmth came through the screen, too. Who didn’t get in from a Saturday night out and sigh contentedly when those familiar bars struck up? I’ll be instantly disbelieved of course, but I bumped into him once in the bar of The Midland Hotel in Manchester, and he was, at least on that occasion, every bit the genial Yorkshireman we thought we all knew. A glass 🥃 for Parky tonight I think. Chapeau, fella. Jonathan Ross can fucking do one.

Where have you bloody been anyway? I initially thought you’d booked a holiday in the West Bank and been offed by a Palestinian. I suppose the disappointing summer in the UK has limited the time spent clutching the binoculars at your upstairs window? Perhaps you’ve been travelling somewhere….perhaps a little tour exploring the origins of your beloved Kebab. Regardless, I think it’s time you fought every base instinct, and shared…..

I couldn’t give two shites. And we barrack down here. If you wanna root, you do it in bloody private.

I’m not pinning much hope for you on the Spaniards, Neil. Football’s coming home, and it’s wearing a frock. Still, SPOTY should be a doddle this year. That Russo bird will walk it. I’m glad the Aussie news will move on from puff-pieces about the Matilda’s now. No public holiday after all. Good.

This is much better, Beasty. I disagree with 1 and 6, 2 is a well established epidemiology phenomenon largely due to reporting bias, 5 gets a “don’t know” from anyone objective, and 3 is not arguable. 4 is however very interesting, and the reference was strong. Certainly I’m satisfied that COVID antibodies were in circulation much earlier in 2019, and though anecdote isn’t evidence, I know several otherwise well people who reported “worst ever flu” episodes in 2019 who almost all had exposure to travel and airports much earlier than September 2019. If you have more on item 4, I’d be interested.