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What if Adrian Chiles but entirely charmless.

Yeah you don’t get that size of a performance gap in other parts of the game. In many respects most of the best teams can beat each other on any given day, which is good. But the SA scrum is such a brutal weapon.

Yeah I mean the Boks should have been 35 points up after 50 minutes.

What a strange game. Too bad the first half couldn’t have been more like the second. I can vaguely see a counterfactual game where Prendergast makes that early penalty instead of hitting the uprights and Irish discipline doesn’t go into a tailspin.

E.g. “Is this review of Gil’s book filled with references to the work of its author? Ought one write about oneself in the third person like that?”

JD, back at the Naval Observatory, on the floor, in the fetal position, sobbing uncontrollably, his bloodied hand grasping his shattered phone, its dying screen still intermittently flickering with this photograph.

JD, back at the Naval Observatory, on the floor, in the fetal position, sobbing uncontrollably, his bloodied hand grasping his shattered phone, its dying screen still intermittently flickering with this photograph.

I mean never mind, like, JD Vance.

You can’t tell me that Don Jr and Eric won’t flinch a little on seeing this footage and learning their father is in fact capable of such unaffected fondness.