This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.

No, the new caring world of sustainable, recyclable, organic food gets the sustainable, recyclable, organic packaging it deserves and we must select from ranks of hessian bags marked with stout, sans-serif faces from a simpler era – packages that have been designed to within an inch of their lives to say “undesigned”.

2002, How can the daily theft of hundreds of thousands of creative products be wholly ignored - and even technologically enabled - while the theft of even one product in the undigital world is publicly condemned? — Peter Chernin, press release 19 November 2002, News Corporation

I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood.