It was like using a knackered Nokia in the days of BlackBerries and iPhones.
Is that Marion Cotillard as a knackered depressive in the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night?
1am A knackered city clerk makes her way back to Ealing.
But would Nick Clegg really want to prop up a knackered, 12-year administration?
His voice is not great - he sounds like a knackered Rod Stewart - but he invests the number with genuine emotion.
In a knackered fuzz you could start to blame the foreign culture for making you feel this way.
Sheer cockeyed, cockney miserabilism with a budget beat, the song also features the immortal line, "Bury me outside like a knackered stallion".
So says the middle-aged presenter with the stern expression, fighting in vain like a knackered Luddite to hold back the tide of technological advancement.
But there are progressive opportunities, and this certainly qualifies: a point at which a knackered economic model is revealed for all to see as eminently fit for replacement.
And what if he gives the replacement away, too, to another kid, or a charity, or a donkey with a knackered hoof?
