Not only is this an increasingly tedious argument, a dispute between people who basically like the same thing, but which is based around notions of control, provenance and cultural governance.
Not much will be changed by another Messi dribble, another round of applause, a reignition of the endlessly tedious argument about greatness and stature.
There are a few contrary voices in support of the Glazers' record, so the tedious argument does have to be joined with the fact that United have continued to be successful under their rule, winning four Premier League titles since 2005 and one Champions League, in 2008.
There are many reasons for applauding Vettel's win, and one of them is that it will put to rest the tedious argument over the seven points Alonso was allowed to keep after Ferrari had been found guilty of violating the rule against team orders during the German grand prix in July by ordering Felipe Massa to let him take the victory.
Since the author is basically saying, "Please share this article!" it should help avoid a lot of the tedious arguments about whether one publication is "aggregating" another site's content.
IT tends to slip into tedious arguments over which is the city that a sane person would want to avoid: the one where the streets are filthy and menacing and the people rude, or the one where high culture is a bean-sprout salad and where you find what Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" called "wheat-germ killers".
"Knotchers" already know how strongly someone feels about a topic, which I think helps prevent debates from devolving into tedious arguments about semantics or each other's stupidity level, as they often do on the Internet.
Talking of tedious arguments, the Dr Theo Zwanziger-Uli Hoeness ding-dong of recent days continued unabated.
Shakespeare's comparative invisibility during his lifetime has certainly posed intractable problems in the centuries since his death, as the eternal and tedious arguments over the authorship of his plays illustrate.
Mr. Isherwood writes: Shakespeare's comparative invisibility during his lifetime has certainly posed intractable problems in the centuries since his death, as the eternal and tedious arguments over the authorship of his plays illustrate.
Because observing this distinction would contribute nothing but a tedious duplication of arguments that would differ only trivially, it will be ignored in the remainder of the article.
