And quite right, too: unlike so many shows of its ilk, First Dates doesn't bombard you with gimmickry, instead winning you over with unflashy authenticity.
What are those forced to work unpaid for 30 hours a week for up to six months a year on workfare schemes (in order to maintain £73.10 weekly jobseeker's allowance) to make of some of the figures that bombard us daily?
RT, the channel formerly known as Russia Today, addresses the outside world, while state television channels bombard Russian-speakers with denunciations of the "fascists" in Kiev.
In a truly chilling scene, the Prussian commander calmly announces to his generals the plan to bombard the Danish line with solid cannon fire for six hours and then send in 12,000 soldiers to finish the job.
I won't bombard you all with an exhaustive list of stories about the leadership in our news wrap this morning - I'm going to assume, given the readership yesterday, that you are across what happened, more or less.
Since Thursday hackers have been hijacking web traffic intended for Baidu, the Google of China, and redirecting it to bombard two pages run by GitHub.
Companies large and small have all sorts of online functions, from customer support to the tracking of software bugs, that bombard them with alerts and queries so anything that helps them deal with these more efficiently is worth paying for.
When that became ineffective, distributed DoS (DDoS) onslaughts conscripted thousands of virus-infected computers, known as zombies, to bombard the target system with bogus requests from many locations at once.
Yet that has not stopped his campaign from continuing to bombard voters with advertisements depicting Mitt Romney as a devious, tax-dodging outsourcer, hell bent on raising taxes on the struggling middle class, gutting popular government programmes and undermining women's rights.
Now that all the schools have been wired, once-shy pupils have begun to bombard their teachers with questions and even complaints.
Last year the Supreme Court restricted the scope of such business-process patents, but not by enough to satisfy critics.Big technology companies complain of "patent trolls"—companies that buy lots of obscure patents and then bombard alleged infringers with lawsuits.
