Sharing the pain

A READER says he had to laugh when he heard a woman in a coffee shop in Glasgow at the weekend tell her pals: “My pain threshold is very low – like that of a man’s.”

Strictly Murray buddy

PRESENTER Caroline Flack, who won Strictly Come Dancing a couple of years back, is to make her stage debut in Crazy For You, which will be at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre in October.

Caroline once explained that tennis star Jamie Murray’s mother Judy was her chum during Strictly.

As she put it: “She was so funny, and took the mickey out of herself.

“When she had been slated by the judges, I’d send her a text saying, ‘Well done Judy. You were really good when you did that lift’.

“And she’d go, ‘Don’t lie. I looked constipated’”.

Pub talk over parenting

A GLASGOW reader passes on a comment from his mate in the pub at the weekend when how supportive our parents were was discussed. “When I was growing up,” said his pal, “my mum was always saying, ‘You can do it!’ “Just like when I was asking who was making the tea.”

It’s a Fitbit unnecessary

ARE you, like us, shaking your head when you meet people ostentatiously wearing these Fitbits around their wrists that measures the number of steps they take? We pass on the pure daftness of comedy writer Iain Connell, who comments: “There’s a garage in Possil that’ll add 500 miles to your Fitbit for a tenner.”

Fishy business for our lunch

WE kind of get where she is coming from as reader James Davidson passes on: “In Glasgow for the football and had a pre-match lunch in the Merchant City. Our table was served by a young very helpful waitress. We asked for fish and chips and she returned a few minutes later to say, ‘Sorry Sir, we’re out of fish. But we do have cod.”

Reading between the lines

TALKING of football, the curly-headed and much-loved Celtic manager Wim Jansen, who stopped Rangers achieving 10-in-a-row and signed Henrik Larsson, was back to see Celtic beat Motherwell on Saturday.

When Wim suddenly resigned from being manager it came as quite a shock, other than to one Diary reader from Bothwell.

When we asked how he knew before the country’s sports writers, he added: “He cancelled his papers last week at the local newsagents.”

Baby, that’s not a suitable film

GLEN Laker notices an advertisement for a ‘Baby Club’ film showing in a cinema, where mums can take their young weans, for the sado-masochistic film Fifty Shades Darker.

He imagines the conversation in a few years time when a youngster asks: “Mummy, tell me about my first cinema trip. What did we see together? Was it a Disney film?”

Post-truth epoch

A BEARSDEN reader following the news about President Trump, emails to ask: “Do you think that American kids will be bringing their report cards home from school, and when their parents start reading them the kids will be shouting, ‘Fake news!”