I recently found out that something I have long loathed actually has a name, which makes it much neater and easier to consign to Mordor.
What I am talking about is what, in US sitcom script meetings, they apparently call "Hugs 'n' Learning."
The pernicious phenomenon can be seen in all kinds of places, and I blame it for some of the unnecessary changes in the LotR movies.
Oh and while I'm at it, the little pillocks who broke into my car this week can also go and spend some time with Sauron. Instead of breaking the window to steal my stereo, like normal well-brought up little hoodlums, they pulled off the door handle and jemmied the lock, destroying the driver door and thereby consigning the car to a week in the garage.
Oh, and Disc 14 of my 18-cd set of the narrated Fellowship of the Ring was in the stolen cd player, rendering the whole, extremely expensive set useless.
