The game was twice suspended, briefly in the first half after a large inflatable banana was thrown on to the pitch and for around 15 minutes after the interval because of objects hurled from the stands.
All these romantics aren't good for you, you know," he says, rather patronisingly, as he helps her collect the books she has hurled out of a window in a fit of teenage angst.
It's also great that we live in a world where people are free to be this incorrect without being hurled into stockades and mocked mercilessly as blithering idiots.
If Jim Murphy is to win in a fashion convincing enough to give him real authority over Scottish Labour he must deal with the charges against him that are already being hurled with vigour both by Nationalists and some of the Labour left.
We were downstairs having breakfast - Golden Grahams quite possibly - (don't get me started on the British and the breakfast cereal) when a dull thud on the hall floor announced the arrival of the hamster who had taken his new-found freedoms too far and hurled himself off the landing.
There is always a tinge of sadness when any footballer leaves his boyhood club, not least at a time in the Premier League when young English players aren't so much nurtured gently to maturity as yanked squealing into the light and then hurled beneath the wheels of the machine at the first downward wrench of the gears.
But it got worse: he insulted women, slammed down his glass, hurled ashtrays, laughed like a crazy person, head thrown back.
He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.
Canadian Nick Cienski said the climbers' camps had been devastated by the avalanche, which hurled gear, people and tents hundreds of feet.
Inspired by Kafka's short story The Hunger Artist, Hermann Hesse's Siddartha and, possibly, his burgeoning love handles, Blaine fasted while people hurled food and abuse at him.
An hour before the kick-off I was signing autographs for some young fans in the tunnel when a torrent of the worst kind of language imaginable was hurled at me from above with no regard for the children present.
