Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.
(Earl of Gloucester, in “King Lear”)
Dear Readers:
Tis the time to start worrying again: I saw this article by reporter Oleg Isaichenko. Seems like the Ukrainians have gone back to an old hobby they used to enjoy: Attacking the Zaporozhian Atomic Energy Station (ЗАЭС). Our old friend Vladimir Rogov, whom we have featured many times in these posts (he is one of the leaders of the pro-Russian forces in Zaporozhie Oblast, even though his actual title is a bit murky) reported to the media about the damage caused in the recent Ukrainian drone attacks:
“This sharp increase in enemy activity around the Zaporozhie AES, is directly connected with the Russian advances on the front. Given his latest series of defeats, Zelensky needs, at any cost, to somehow advance the agenda of the West, in order to continue begging for his usual tranches of money.
“We just saw how, literally in the course of a single day, the enemy attempted several times to harm the nuclear power plant. Initially there was a drone attack, it hit the dining hall and a loading dock [damaging one truck]. After which the Ukrainians struck the cupola of Energy Block #6. Fortunately, there was no critical damage, and the radiation levels have not gone above the norm.
“Given this escalation, it is rather strange that we do not hear any sharp condemnations of Ukrainian actions, from the leaders of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). One way or the other, it is becoming clear that the Ukrainian authorities have no plans to go on living on this planet. Kiev is realizing that it is losing and so, as a result, it wishes to turn the entire country into a type of Exclusion Zone. If this were not the case, then they would never undertake such risky strikes.”
yalensis:
Speaking of the IAEA, the reporter goes on to mention that just coincidentally [not so much!], the first drone strike occurred within 20 minutes of a scheduled, routine IAEA inspection of the plant. Ukrainians obviously trying to impress Rafael Grossi with their amazing drone skills.
These latest attacks happened just yesterday (Sunday). Russia’s Rosatom Company clutched their pearls and screamed about the attack, calling upon Rossi and the others to pay attention to, and categorically condemn, these attacks against the largest nuclear power plant in all of Europe. Grossi responded with a lukewarm call to all parties to heed the IAEA’s safety regulations.
Meanwhile, I think I disagree with Rogov about one point. He believes that the Ukrainian government has signed some kind of suicide pact with itself, because they don’t want to go on living. But we must make an exception for President Zelensky himself, who clearly intends to go on living and even has big plans for the future. I saw this piece in RT, whereby Zelensky just coughed up 20 million English pounds to purchase a mansion from King Chucky III.
It’s called Highgrove House and is located in Gloucestershire (which, pay attention, Americans! is pronounced “Gloster”). According to the London Crier:
Grant Harrold, the King’s former butler, who worked for Charles III at Highgrove from 2004 to 2011, believes the final details of the deal were negotiated during Mrs Zelenska’s visit to the UK on 29th February. He mentioned, “Prince William could have gifted the house to his father. So, the King was within his rights to sell the property.” Prince William inherited Highgrove House after Charles assumed his new role as Britain’s reigning monarch.
According to Grant Harrold, another detail indicating Highgrove House now has a new owner is that at least 6 Highgrove staff members received redundancy notices on 21st March.
So, the Little Green Bastard is even firing the loyal servants, how very Scrooge McDuck of him.
Anyhow, my point is that Zelensky does not seem to be planning to commit suicide. On the contrary, after he moves his green tush to Gloster he will start to live life, literally, like a King!
Awful Avalanche 
It gets worse, Johnson gave passports to his fifty ‘besties’ as well.
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In other words, the entire camarilla have British citizenship?
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He’ll just be another bandit in London, if he gets there.
One of the shahs daughters died of a drug overdose in a Dorchester hotel suite a few years back,,, Skirpal,,who knows where he really is,,the Muslim brotherhood,,Bill Browder found refuge there,,the list is endless.
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aye, it’s a veritable Rogue’s Gallery, there in London…
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The Russian military is winning in slow motion and that comes at a price. Desperation in the West is systematically increasing and their puppets in Kiev are being goaded into ever-increasing escalation. But this slow pace of decline is such that they still possess sufficient capabilities to do great harm when focused on points of weakness. This will only get worse until the consequence becomes equally threatening. In other words, they won’t desist until they have no choice but to do so or die.
If I were Gerasimov, I would communicate to Syrsky that the next attack on ZNPP will result in the obliteration of downtown Kiev. It is cheaper to rebuild that city than deal with another Chernobyl.
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But then, Gerasimov would need to follow through on that threat…. Don’t draw lines you won’t be able to enforce.
There are things the West can do that will trigger a nuclear response, but I rather doubt it will ever involve striking Kiev. Nukes will fly first into select airbases, supply centers and energy infrastructure.
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Gerasimov doesn’t need a nuke to level downtown Kiev. He will soon have 9,000 kg glide bombs at his disposal and an entire air wing to deliver them. And it’s not an idle threat. Russians don’t bluff.
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According to Nestor the Chronicler, who lived in the 11th century:
In the year 880 AD Prince Oleg led his army south along the Dnieper river. Having captured Smolensk and then Kiev, Oleg set himself up as prince in Kiev, declaring that it would be “The Mother of all Russian cities.”
And this is why Russia cannot destroy Kiev, it would be like destroying one’s own mother.
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So the Little Green Bastard Turd+ is hired as a piano player for His Highness Chuck?
Oh the Humanity…
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It still steams me that Greenie fired the staff. Where is an elderly butler supposed to find a comparable job? He will have to go on the dole.
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As SB suggests below, Russia may have a job for him. If anything should happen to Z… Well, the butler did it!
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haha! that’s a good one, I didn’t even see that coming.
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Gotta laugh at anyone who calls Charles Rex Chucky. Not one native soul in Blighty calls a Charles a Chuck — that’s a pure North Americanism which didn’t pass back across the pond. Unlike words like nosh and geezer which did but mean different things in a social context.
Zelensky proves that crime pays and it also pays to have criminal pals like Boris. To hell with half a million dead Ukies and another million and a half on crutches, he’s doing all right, thanks. For now. 100K Russian casualties are also part of his dark legacy.
Everyone around here has gone batshit crazy over the eclipse. Only 94% totality where I live, so it was mildly interesting to see it get pretty dark. Been through an eclipse once before, and was fairly disappointed at the result given the hype even back in the 1960s. It’s like voodoo, ting tang wolla wolla bing bang as per the witchdoctor.
But it’s cold hard tolen cash that Zelensky handed over to Charles Rex of Blighty for a storied spot of the English countryside. No doubt Voldomir will check on his tenants down the local pub, if one still exists. Pubs have died off in Blighty due to Covid and high energy prices.
Ze has property in Miami and Italy as well, plus others I have no idea where or care about. Mrs Ze is no doubt the property manager. Once living outside of Kiev, he’d do well to avoid itinerant Russians disguised as gypsies or gas board inspectors checking the meter. Should keep him on his toes until the inevitable occurs. Helicopter crashes at Highgrove. And that’ll be all she wrote.
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In England, would they call him Charlie instead of Chuck?
The most plausible explanation that I saw for “Chuck” as the diminutive of Charles is the Dutch origins theory. In most European languages, “Charles” is actually “Karel” or “Karl”. In Dutch there is a diminutive suffix “ke” (like regular German -sche or -chen), so “Karl-ke” simplified to “Kak-ke” somehow becomes “Chuck” in American English.
This seems highly plausible to me, there are many Dutch words and placenames especially in New York State. There are also Pennsylvania Dutch. They would be the ones who would start calling a Charlies by the diminutive nickname Chuck.
“Chucky” of course is a joke, riffing on that horrible American movie about a murderous doll.
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Could Chuck/Chucky be influenced by the Cree Amerindian language? According to Wiki: “Sometimes colloquially called “groundhog” or “whistle-pig,” the woodchuck receives its common name from a Cree Indian word, wuchak, used to identify several different animals of similar size and appearance….” A small groundhog or woodchuck seems to capture something about Chucky Schumer’s approach to politics pretty well, doesn’t it?
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I have to admit that Chuck Schumer looks like a woodchuck, however I find the Cree etymology implausible. I’m still gonna go with the Dutch-origins Sharl-kee to Chucky theory.
Oh, and speaking of pronunciations, thanks for your remark about Gloster. I appreciate your defense of your fellow Americans. The reason I was worried is because I have heard some Americans pronounce Worcestershire sauce as the way it is spelled, instead of just “Wooster sauce”.
Hm… that just made me hungry for a steak….
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The steak sauce folks obviously aren’t from New England! Actually, many in MA pronounce Worcester as “Woost[shwa].” Btw, American personal and family names are often difficult for me, and I have to ask the person herself/himself. As for famous people, there is some difference among sportscasters and fans about the correct pronunciation of the last name of famous and recently fired Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. Most sportscasters pronounce the last syllable of his last name as “check,” but others say “chick.” Does his name mean anything in Russian? I believe it is Slavic, since his grandfather was Croatian.
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It seems like a deformed spelling of an originally Slavic name. The original Polish (if Polish) would have been something like Beliczyk. The root /bel/ means white in all Slavic languages. -chik is a typical Slavic suffix, most often encountered in Czech or Polish names. Also spelled -czak or -czik. As far as I know, the semantic content of this particular suffix is diminutive/affectionate in nature. For example, Russian “golub-chik” – “little pigeon” (affectionate).
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Much appreciated. Japanese has a suffix -chan, just like -chik, though I can’t think of one in English, but, knowing Japanese, I can nevertheless feel it. Hmm, how about -let, as in wave /wavelet, star/starlet, river/rivulet, piglet, statelet, booklet, etc. But -let is obviously a loan from French/Norman.
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Yes, it would be Charlie. When our family first came to Canada way back in ’59 we found that the one syllable name Charles was in fact pronounced as the two syllable Charruls in North America — quite grating to the ear with a US midwest accent. No wonder someone came up with a shorty nickname version, and Chuck isn’t bad. I know several Chucks, but poor old Big Ears over in the UK has always been just Chahls to me. And about 50 million English — the Scawts have their own way to pronounce the name, more like the North Americans, but they of course think highly of their own Bonnie Prince Charlie from almost three centuries ago. He marched off to set the Sassenachs straight and make himself King of Great Britain as a Stuart. And gloriously failed.
Woostersherr Sauce gets the Yankee every time, even though Gloster Mass is pronounced correctly around its home environs. And New Hampshire isn’t mauled as Hamp-shire, whose short name in England is for no known reason Hants. But all places have their favourite mispronunciations from the written word, like Hueston and Noo Yawk and Joysey.
Too bad it’s considered bad form to call VVP Vlad. He sure looks like a Vlad to me and not an Ivan.
My favourite word of all time is buoy. Happily pronounced as boy for eons in GB, it somehow became boo-ee in North America. Strange, because you’d think the transliterationists would have called it buh-oy, but oh no, they transposed the u and o due to, one supposes, being dyslexic. or perhaps Johnson himself got it wrong and it should have been spelt bouy.
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I like the word buoy as well! A few other favorite English words of mine:
hoof [which for some reason makes me laugh]
emporium
chitin [pronounced “chittin” not “kite-in” !]
scurvaceous [I think I made that one up myself, it would be the adjective of scurvy, as in one who has scurvy]
and lots of others…
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It’s a good thing that Charles isn’t fat, because then you’d be calling him “King Chunky.”
Writing that made me flash back to Chunky brand candy bars. Did you ever eat any of those? They were made of chocolate, shaped like pyramids with the top cut off, about 4 cm square at the base, and the interior held nuts and fruit chunks. I haven’t thought about them for years. They weren’t amongst my Top 10 faves as a kid — 5th Avenue bars with an almond on the top were #1 for me — but they weren’t bad.
I feel fortunate to have grown up as an American kid when one could go trick-or-treating without needing armed escorts for protection, and come home with a bag that was brimming with sugary deliciousness. The American candy environment was amazing in the 1960s. Brutain’s (sic) mass-market candies are supposedly made with recipes that surpass American stuff, and Switzerland/northern Italy is full of top-quality high-end chocolates. But as far as being pretty darn good and having heaps of it that are mostly affordable for everyone, the U.S. is tops. How sad that kids today — especially the millions across the world living in fear of their lives — won’t have such good candy memories as my generation did. As much as the state of humanity revolts me now, I recognise that I had an exceptionally good time of it when I was a sprout.
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I have seen the Chunky bars in some stores, believe it or not. They are not everywhere, but you can still find them in some remote country stores and things like that. I think I tried one once, but didn’t like it, because I don’t really care for raisins and fruit in conjunction with chocolate. Nuts, yes (especially almonds). Fruit, no. The fruit should be on the side!
My favorite chocolate is the Swiss Lindt brand milk chocolate. When it comes to American candy, I like the traditional Milky Ways and rollos, things of that sort which combine chocolate with caramel.
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Not a linguistic expert but, I don’t think of Charlie as diminutive, it’s just more friendly Charles. That said, unless somebody told me to use the friendly version of their name I’d stick with the formal name until asked not to.
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As for Zelensky, he may think he’s going to live like a rich man but, I think he won’t live out a decade with his thirty pieces of silver…no…he’s too inconvenient, one of DC/London’s 3LAs will bump him off and blame the Russians. And if I was Russia…I might go along with the 3LA’s “narrative”…while superimposing on top of it…hmmm.
Anonymous Kremlin Official: ”yeah well…we had to penetrate both CIA & MI-6 to pull off the hit on Zelensky but you know, sometimes..you do what you gotta do…point being he’s dead…guess the 3LA’s weren’t up to the task of keeping their puppet from having his strings cut…huh? “
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I’m not sure of the exact origins of the suffix, but I am pretty sure that the suffix pronounced [-ee] is a semantic diminutive in English and American. As in Bill/Billy, Dick/Dickie, etc. But not sure of the morphological descent, like I said. Probably some other Germanic suffix.
On thinking about the “Chucky” thing, I believe the chronology would have gone something like this: The universal European name “Karl”, pronounced “Charl” for some reason, then add the Dutch/German diminutive -schie or -kee and you get something like “Charl-kee” which morphs to Chucky. And then, by back-build analogy, people assume the non-diminutive form is Chuck. Which is where you get people like Chuck Norris.
The European name “Karl” by the way (or Karol or Karel) is the origin of the Russian word “Korol”, meaning “King”. It comes from Charles the Great, or Charlemagne. The Germanic version “Kral” was borrowed into Common Slavic, and the Eastern Slavic dialects (via pleophony) morphed this word to “Korol”. Charles was considered such a great person, that even his very name came to mean a king. Just like the name “Caesar” became Tsesar, or Tsar.
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As I said; “Not a linguistic expert”
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That’s okay, I love you anyhow.
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Or, as Radio Yerevan might say, “in spite of..” or maybe “because of…”
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Yalensis, thanks for your concern, but please rest assured that Americans also pronounce Gloucester as “Gloster.” I lived in MA for several years and visited Gloucester MA many times. Btw, the majority of of fishermen there are now Portuguese-Americans.
As for the totally unacceptable Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhie nuclear facility, I think they may represent attempted blackmail activity by president Volodomor. The US recently forced Ukraine not to attack Russian oil refineries, since that would raise the price of oil, so the attack on the nuclear power plant may be an attempt to force the US to give Ukraine — and especially the president of Ukraine — more money or else. This blackmail may, however, backfire, and the US may seek to change Ukrainian presidents, er, Führers, since Zalensky formally ended his legitimacy as prez as of April 1. He was required to hold an election in March, a deadline he blocked by instituting martial law, but his martial law edict will end on May 20, so after that time his duties will have to be carried out by the head of the Duma — unless Zelensky pushes through some further emergency legal trickery. Apparently popular support for Zelensky is plummeting, so the US may try to change horses in midstream, a very difficult feat indeed. The question of Zelensky’s legitimacy is very important, and I would like to hear more about how Ukrainians and Russians think about this huge problem.
As for High Priced House, it obviously shows Zelensky’s bad taste and his desire to be king of Ukraine forever in absentia. It’s often said that both Zelensky and Budanov are MI6 agents, so the purchase of this royal house is probably more evidence supporting that theory. I wonder where Budanov will buy his mansion or apartment in London. It’s too bad Garcia Marquez isn’t around now to write a book about Zelensky with a title like “No One Writes to the Sticky-Fingered Janitor” or something like that. I think Zelensky would be safer, however, in Miami Beach. Then again, that might be a bad idea. Many Americans might demonstrate in front of his Miami mansion and point out to him that he bought it (and High Priced House) with money paid by American taxpayers. Remember Bunuel’s film “Beggars’ Banquet” (“Viridiana”), in which poor folks feast in a rich man’s mansion?
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“Rich man’s home” should be “rich person’s home,” since the home belongs to Viridiana by the end of the film.
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I haven’t seen the Bunuel film, but it sounds like fun.
I totally believe that both Zel and Budanov are MI6 agents, so it would make sense that they would settle in London eventually. I think they would be safer there, than in Miami Beach, which is swarming with Cubans.
It is factual that Zelensky also purchased a lot of real estate in Israel and settled his parents there. But they may not want to stay, now that things are getting so dicey. I am sure that King Chucky’s old mansion has enough space for everybody to co-habitate in comfort.
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Also don’t miss Bunuel’s “Secret Pleasures of the Bourgeosie.”
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Yalensis, I’m shocked beyond words.
But…… If King Charles has flipped Highgrove, fondly remembered by “citizens of the Commonwealth” as the family residence of Charles and Diana, to Mrs Zelenska ( it’s being called Russian disinformation in some U.K. papers), then count this as one of the final acts of a pathetic king in complete servility to MI6 and its chief Sir Richard Moore (former ambassador to Türkiye). King Charles ( Please forget “Chuck”.It is entirely American) just doesn’t have the necessary regal aura that his mother commanded – for the 70 years of her reign. (Whatever her personal proclivities, she remained aloof towards the optics of propaganda).
The U.K. is a failed state with a monarchy degraded beyond redemption and no sense of national identity beyond a distorted historical militarism.( Remember the “Global Britain” campaign? I didn’t think so).
I like the outrageous gall of George Galloway, the sleuthing of Kit Klarenberg, the braininess of Dominic Cummings, and Russel Brand’s ability to popularise alternative politics. However, look at the lying, mean, monolithic machine of state that they oppose.
U.K., France, Germany. We have a problem.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/08/meet-centuria-ukraines-western-trained-neo-nazi-army/
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Well said.
Charles and Camilla lived at Highgrove, which he purchased only back in 1980 as a run down country mansion and estate.
About a decade and a half ago, Charles was an organic-gardening ecofreak, and we in the Commonwealth got an hour long TV show, showing him bumbling around Highgrove tending his cucumbers and greenhouses where he grew special versions of rocket or arugula and 99 other unusual things, some edible, some not, some floral. Liked to put his gumboots on and walk about in the muddy muck. Nothing much was ever said about the cost of renovating the house from top to bottom and adding a few flights of Georgian fancy to its exterior — one must recall that Charles also fancied himself a rather grand architect as well for some decades, freely advising London on how to proceed with planning and style and the zoning required. So Charles was a free-spending organic gardening architectural ecofreak. Who paid for Highgrove’s upgrades? Well, the Duchy of Cornwall most likely, which is what Charles “owned”. The top of the Royal Family was never short of a bob or two, while the hangers-on lived in rundown flats and enjoyed the nightclub scene to keep the gossip rags going.
And with no sense of proportion, in that TV show, Charles went on about his gardening activities at Balmoral, the Scottish outpost of the Royal Family, where Liz had her Corgis and horses, besides the ones at Windsor Castle as well. Sitting in Highgrove chawing on some salad, Charles pointed out that some of the greens had been flown down fresh that day from Balmoral to complement his Gloucestershire produce. Very non CO2 friendly, but that didn’t seem to faze Charles, who found the whole idea of gardening and cultivating special seeds just beyond compare and well worth it. His legacy for Blighty, as it were.
Faced with a person so out of touch with just about anything the majority of his country”men” experienced in real life, but believing he did understand and that he himself was a good chap at heart, one could say he has lived in a galaxy far far away. What MI6 and shouty Americans thought about his flogging off Highgrove to Mrs Zelensky likely never crossed his mind. His life is coming to an end, and he couldn’t care less who bought the place. Its magic is gone for him. Spooks trying to get his “ear”? He could not care less what they think. Not in the slightest. What are they going to do? Try to frighten him? How?
Now, will Mrs Zelensky keep the acres of greenhouses and organics and floral displays going at Highgrove? With 30,000 visitors annually gawping at its magnificence? Or let it return to being a ratty old property as it was pre-1980? With a Ukie/MI6 bodyguard behind every shrub? Who knows?
I don’t believe anyone here has the slightest clue what it’s like to be really rich, let alone what it’s like if you have a few hundred million tucked away and fawning sychophants catering to your every whim. Not for them being insulted by sulky over-qualified Starbucks staff trying to pay off college loans on $15 per hour, learning how to order pre-digested barf at a McDonalds kiosk, or running the gauntlet of CCTV surveillance at Walmart self-checkout, where millions are spent trying to prevent the theft of even a single kaiser bun by starving homeless folk and suburban housewives alike.
Sure, the UK is a hollowed-out husk of its former self. How’s Australia doing? Better? Really? Kanada is shot, and the US is riven by by internal disputes. Europeans are lost and wandering. Perhaps it’s time for the great reset where humanity is all but wiped out, and in four or five thousand years gets to repeat the cycle of futility that is at its core, human existence.
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Thanks for another nihilistic rant, Beluga. I can’t really top it, but I just wanted to mention one thing in regard to the CCTV-Walmart situation, and all the millions of dollars spent to prevent shoplifting. I don’t know if it’s the same in England or Canada, but in America some hungry folks have found a good way to eat for free without being arrested: They simply wander around the aisles of a grocery store and, in full view of the surveillance cameras (in the store I use there is also a surveillance robot who meanders about watching people with its beady robot eye), they take something off the shelf and eat it. Like a package of cookies, for example.
There is some kind of loophole in the law, I reckon. Whereby it’s not considered theft or shoplifting if the thief don’t actually remove the product from the store. Like, they will eat the product, toss the wrapper to the floor, and just shamble out of the store. And store security won’t go near them or touch them, so they totally get away with it, since they didn’t technically break a law.
Just something to be aware of, in case it ever gets to that point…
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Dear Australian Lady: I am so sorry to have shocked you. Like any fine English lady with the vapors please grab the smelling salts and you will feel dandy again in a second.
I mean, maybe it IS just Russian disinformation. But, on the other hand, the Russians grabbed this story from that English tabloid. But now that the beans have been spilled, maybe the sale will be aborted to create plausible denial. In which case, our little green friend must find himself a different hovel to settle in. Here is my suggestion:
Our deposed King will roam the English moors, accompanied only by a crazed beggar named Poor Tom, and his loyal, blinded Earl of Gloucestershire. Who insists, every time he meets a new person: ”Please, it’s pronounced GLOSTER!”
Eventually our intrepid trio are caught in a huge lightning storm and flash flood. Drenched to the bones and shivering with cold, the miserable band find some scant refuge in a rickety shed, where they will rage at the world and the unfairness of fate….
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Ha ha, I like your flights of fancy, yalensis. Let’s remember Russia is now commercially ruled by Yandex, a combination of Google, FB, Amazon and yes, Uber all rolled into one. Oh and the Urals are flooding out, backwards upstream. Well, whaddya know …
Of course, wandering the English moors, a feature of Cornwall/Devon and Yorkshire north, King Ze will meet earnest hikers as the place is rife with them, and everyone already knows how Gloucester is pronounced, but not how to spell Volodomir without IOS or Android autocorrect. Meanwhile, AI fills the airwaves with Elvis versions of old Rolling Stones songs with orchestral backup. The disconnect from reality grows ever more complete. Perhaps we can have ChatGPT present pseudo-sentient orange peelings writing philosophical tomes on ancient Greek literature, with an app included. I like the idea of a talking pineapple myself, Dolefully singing old Micronesian songs with ukelele and bamboo-stick accompaniment on Jamaican steel drums. “Canada must not lag behind on AI,” warbled the birdbrain Trudeau yesterday. Quite what AI will do to fill potholes on highways is never discussed, nor how to really prevent wildfires. But virtually any fantasy may be indulged. How about rewriting the Bible in the style of Upton Sinclair?
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Rewriting the bible like Upton Sinclair? Now thou dost challenge me, Sirrah!
Well, it’s a big project, that goes without saying. But we can start with Leviticus 3:14
KJV: ”And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards.”
Upton Sinclair version: ”The Levite priests aimed at the people’s hearts, but by accident they hit ’em in their fatty inwards.”
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What the British term “Russian disinformation” is really Russian trolling.
And those Russians are wickedly good at it. They’ve weaponised humour.
We will make you laugh! It will only hurt a little bit!
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It just hurts a little in the ribs!
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