The Lions won their final four games to finish a bearable 6-10 last season.
The range of the contraction extends from a perhaps bearable 3-5%, expected in Malaysia, to a barely supportable 15-20% in Indonesia.
With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some of the crew went on to the ice surrounding the ship in all directions and killed time by making igloos.
According to BBC forecasts, temperatures in London, which reached 36.7 degrees in some areas, will be much lower - peaking at a much more bearable 23 degrees in the late afternoon and evening.
Thanks to a few days of rain, the afternoon temperatures had dropped to a bearable 88 degrees, but at night, he worried, they could fall into the low 60's.
KM That the shuttle buses ferrying journalists and fans from Glasgow 40 miles away managed to find a shortcut on the final morning, cutting the journey to a bearable 60 minutes.
It's cheaper than having dinner at one of the square's restaurants, where they charge €4.50 for a glass of water because "we don't serve tap water in Belgium", but where you'll pay a more bearable €20 for a huge barrel of delicious moules-frites and a romantic view of the wintry square.
But arriving at a bearable 40-hour work week, cycling on into forever, strikes me as more of a failure than a win.
Mark Grant says that it is important to ask helpful questions about whether the chronic sufferer thinks their treatment is satisfactory or if they think their pain is bearable.[4] He suggests that people rarely ask these open-ended "helpful questions" that would help the chronic sufferer to open up and really talk.
Low intensity: scores 1 3; High intensity: scores 4 5; Bearable suffering: scores 1 3; Unbearable suffering: scores 4 5.
Suffering bearable: scores 1 3; Suffering unbearable: scores 4,5.
