It was an early start for me yesterday

Really

Yes

Why

I was meeting my publisher for coffee

They are not publishing your shit again

Sadly they are

But is not about me at all

It concerns a conversation I overheard

Whose conversation

Two girls

Two girls

Well two women

Were they pretty

I would say that they were more feminine than pretty

They were like you Miriam

Not great looking but incredibly feminine

Fuck you Joe

Have I hurt you Miriam

Yes

Do I look bothered

No

I am unhappy that I hurt you

Liar

Tell me about the conversation Joe

What was it about

Rugby

Rugby

Yes rugby

It is a mans sport

But some women love the sport

And play it Joe

I know and it is pretty gruesome to watch

Like Eastern European weightlifters chasing a ball

We stray

What was this conversation that amused you so much about

The Rugby World Cup

What about it

They were chatting about how handsome some of the players were

I agree some are absolute hunks

Like me

I did not hear that Joe

Well the gist of what they were saying is how rugby is played by real men

Real men

I played rugger you know

For some fifths deep in Berkshire

Were you any good

Reasonably

What position

Mostly on the wing

You are quite tall Joe

I am about 1.85

But I was dwarfed by some of the brick shithouses

You know Berkshire Young Farmers

The type who bang fence posts in with their heads

Ugly

I agree

These girls were speaking about the South Africans

Especially about a chap named Eban Etzeberh

Who is incredibly good looking and about six seven tall

They said that he was their idea of a real man

Handsome solid with no hint of the feminine

There were other players mentioned but this one stuck out

They as I noted said rugby players were real men

And you would hard pressed to find a faggot among them

In my view women find real men more attractive

That is quite obvious it is perfectly normal

When one is young you look at your father as strong

It is the same thing with women as they like strong men

I like gentle men Joe

Men who care

How many faggot friends do you have Miriam

None

My case is closed

You really do not like them do you

I do not think that they are real men

Rather like the women on the tube

They prefer their men to be tough

And not anal obsessed

Most men are cunt obsessed

That is how we function

Do you ever think of me in that way

There are exceptions Muriel

Do you know something Joe

What

I am cunt obsessed

Really

I have to be knowing somebody like you