‘The court martial was held in secret, because it concerned the security of the state.’
Hitler has only got one ball!
Goering has two, but very small,
Himmler has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
‘Women with long fingernails want children before thirty-five, I think. Women with short fingernails don’t know.’
Fiction by Denise Rose Hansen.
‘Bobby McDoone was somebody I’d always known, and like most old buddies he was part ally, part rival – but with a difference.’
Fiction by Dan Hofstadter.
‘She wears a push up bra and a low-cut top, much to the admiration of the surfers. But it is not their attention she seeks.’
Fiction by Kathleen Ridgwell.
‘It was the universal dream. Cristiano Ronaldo earned more money in one week than the best engineer or lawyer did in one year. The boys knew that and I knew it, too.’
Fiction by Joshua Lubwama.
‘Down here, a thought was a precious thing. It carried our entire lives.’
Fiction by Chanel Sutherland.
‘I didn’t have the language for why I could not be a tourist in the same way as my white counterparts.’
