They are going to be thrashed so hard we might as well hold the election at the Hellfire Club.
Grinning, he said, "We're die-hards — we might win a game someday," then added, "But it's sad that it happened".
If we dig hard, we might find who and what influenced all three, but in essence these are men who arrived with something never heard before.
But the flip side of wanting indisputable proof of courage under fire is that we are vulnerable to doubts about our goodness and to fears that if tested hard, we might be found wanting.
So, to redress this horrible, vile trend, let me tell you about some of the things men are brilliant at and which women will never even be vaguely competent at, no matter how hard we might try.
One of the ironies of parenting is that however hard we might try to engender such feelings, we have little control over what childhood experiences children will actually return to, what memories they will use to create their sense of identity.
No matter how hard we might try to make it otherwise, there is a fundamental and irreducible level of unfairness to market competition, one that undermines the moral legitimacy of market outcomes and provides a justification for taking reasonable steps to make them more equal.
Once he'd spotted us (not hard: we might as well have had Tourist Muggins tattooed on our foreheads), he immediately grabbed our bags and scuttled off into a bewildering maze of unlit, unpaved alleys, lined with people in long blanket robes, with children and chatter and animals and a strange smell that could have been death, or spices.
"We work hard, we might have a moan up at each other and might dig someone out one day," he added.
