After all, as both a former and prospective host of MTV's Punk'd, they obviously have an affinity with abject dreadfulness.
The Toon might even register only their third win of the calendar year against West Ham, who have been abject themselves since suffering a dreadful thrashing in the FA Cup at West Brom in February.
He says the ONS figures show that the coalition's attempts to control migration have been "an abject failure".
Lamb has made no attempt to hide his anger at the slow progress, acknowledging the programme has proved an abject failure and describing it in an interview with the Health Service Journal as "utterly hopeless" and his "most depressing and frustrating task".
"She looked at me with this look of abject terror – this horror, this disgust, this revulsion – and she screamed," he told the ABC.
This is an abject national failure on every possible level.
Not having breakfast is a surefire downward spiral to abject misery, hence the genius of this week's theme.
The evening sun had barely dipped behind the OCS Stand; the boos rang out, fueled by the booze, but hardly unjustified after an abject display from some highly compensated players.
Confronted by media power, political leaders were not always so abject.
Hence the inquest, hence the fuss, hence the hospital's abject apology and the CQC's official statement.
It is something we might rather have than not, since people generally prefer not being in abject poverty, but wealth does not make a fundamental contribution to human happiness.
