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Paperback. The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalised sexism, racism and homophobia in the WRU, bad financial management this book examines key events from the 1980s to today which have brought Welsh rugby to its present crisis. The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalised sexism, racism and homophobia in the WRU, bad financial management this book examines key events from the 1980s to today which have brought Welsh rugby to its present crisis. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions, here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, so here is another crop of entertaining examples, so that the rest of us can learn from other people's mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense! Accompanied once more by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection helps to prove that worse things really do happen at sea!

Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother’s best friend for as long as she can remember. Not that he’s bothered to notice. Despite several mortifying attempts at seduction and a decade’s worth of unrequited pining, nothing Phoebe does seems to make any impact on the man she’s obsessed over since her bra-stuffing days. She knows it’s time to let him go, though just the thought is nearly enough to shatter her... Nathaniel “Nate” Knox has only ever seen Phoebe as one thing: forbidden. There’s a darkness in Nate, the kind you can’t avoid after years working in special forces and private security. He’s no good for anyone — especially not someone as sweet as his best friend’s little sister. He knows he can’t have her. Not ever. Even if she makes him feel things he barely recognizes... Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed. When an unforeseeable series of events sends Phoebe stumbling headfirst into danger, there’s only one man who can protect her. Though, in his quest to save her life, he may just break her heart...

The animal kingdom teems with pets and wild beasts whose outrageous, ridiculous or mortifying actions have brought embarrassment to all creatures big and small. These wacky troublemakers deserve the ultimate dishonor and notoriety-as members of the Pets Hall of Shame. There is no actual museum or building dedicated to animal absurdity. If there were, it would probably stretch several blocks to accommodate all the awards and memorabilia for the goofs and gaffes, bloopers and blunders that dogs and cats and other pets have committed over the years. Without such a gallery of disgrace, this book attempts to name and shame a recent sampling of the wackiest, head-scratchingest (yes, that's a made-up word so don't use it in your next book report), scatterbrained moments perpetrated by pets. Among the two-legged, four-legged, finned and winged creatures inducted into the Pets Hall of Shame are: the delinquent doggy duo who went for a joyride alone in a pickup truck and crashed it into a riverbank... the wacky pet kangaroo who stole women's underwear off of clotheslines... the impish kitten who turned on the water faucet full blast and flooded an entire animal shelter... the hungry bear who broke into a bakery and devoured two dozen fresh pies-and then grabbed two more for take-out... the foolish Chihuahua who climbed a tree, then had no idea how to get down and had to be rescued by the fire department... the pair of pet llamas who sparked a wild chase-carried live on nationwide TV-involving cops, lasso-twirling citizens and pursuers in golf carts... and the crazy canine who swallowed 22 live rounds of ammunition. (No, he didn't go out with a bang; he was fine after surgery.) Animals now have a place to claim some fame from their shame.

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.   Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.