"These films show a patently criminal act as something pretty harmless," said Iswarya V, a drama researcher whose petition against "the glorification of stalking" is gathering momentum.
The most spectacular of these is Klein herself, a Cambridge academic who strikes others at first sight as "a pretty harmless old don," like her creator.
Geko at first disapproves of the boys' plan but soon finds himself explaining international sports -- "two civilized nations fighting over a ball" -- to the bemused abbot, who decides that it sounds pretty harmless, as long as there's no sex involved.
Max appears somewhat costlier too, sleeker, as does 99 (leggy, pretty, harmless Anne Hathaway).
As addictions go, art books are pretty harmless except for the storage problem.
As A&E admissions go, it was pretty harmless, and I didn't worry about how people would perceive me afterwards.
But, as vices go, I think lipstick is pretty harmless.
Which, as one early poster noted, was a pretty harmless contention to get incensed about, really.
He once described sangria as "cheap, easy to make up and pretty harmless — so that you can drink a lot of it without falling down".
As ways of passing the time go, it seems pretty harmless to me.
