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From The Mirror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-rushed-hospital-after-10898657)

I'm certainly not a fan but as someone who has dislocated the same shoulder on two different occasions on the rugby field, I do sympathise - the pain is something beyond belief, and a Doctor told me that a hip or shoulder dislocation is the closest a man will ever come to knowing the level of pain experienced in childbirth!  :'(

I'm going off at just a bit of a tangent here, but I was reminded, reading the above posts, of the following anecdote:

Rugby player, in a hospital casualty department, shouting out in pain at the relocation of his shoulder blade.

Nurse admonishes him, saying "There's a lady over there who's just given birth to a baby - without half so much screaming!"

Rugby player: "Yes, but you try shoving it back where it was and see what reaction you get!"  :o ::) ;D

I must admit to confusing her with the pneumatic young lady once known as Jordan.

I wouldn't blame Katie Price if she was greatly insulted by that!!

Me neither!

Still not as big an insult in my opinion as when, just after I moved to Bristol in September 1977, I watched the local news on the telly. The story was that Bristol folk didn't have much idea of world history, so HTV rocked up to East Street Bedminster, a mere giro's throw from where I was newly installed at work, to debunk the theory.

They picked on this very elderly (possibly even over 50) couple in traditional dress. She wore a turban hat and a check worsted coat, he had a cap on. "Tell me sir," asked the interviewer. "Who is Neil Armstrong?" Our man furrowed his brow.

"Wait a minute," he said, "I got 'un. E'm to play the trumpate, innum?"

One small step for (a) man, one huge pair of (to be continued)