But when you're in a band, it is really hard to be halfway decent let alone be amazing.
We've both seen our share of dysfunctional relationships plagued by drug abuse, mental illness and infidelity, to name a few problems; we'd both all but given up on the possibility of meeting someone halfway decent, let alone someone who would inspire us to see beauty within and in everything around us, as we've experienced with one another.
And the very modest increases in social spending being proposed by the government don't seem adequate to the task of rebuilding a decent state, let alone a real republic.
They struggle to get five decent GCSEs, let alone have the chance to go on to college or university.
But the biggest flaw in using these apps is that there is simply no guarantee of a decent room, let alone a deal.
Also, they have no one to teach them and nowhere to lay their hands on a decent comb, let alone the panoply of gels, rinses, powders, liners and colors that spill from the shelves of the average American drugstore.
Eighteen months ago, the old covered market in Altrincham, on the southern outskirts of Manchester, was not somewhere you'd expect to find a decent lunch, let alone one of the most exciting food destinations in the country.
And the people responsible for doing this aren't the general public (who, let's face it, can't even be trusted to sort out a decent government let alone something as important as a music prize) but a wide-ranging panel of top music critics and editors.
I put it to him that consumers are not that interested in futurology - many of them want to know why they haven't yet got decent 3G, let alone 4G.
I can't fathom a decent human being, let alone Latino, support any of those things.
And use our natural facilities, too – how crazy is it to locate the mountain biking in Essex, a county with hardly a decent-sized hill let alone a mountain, rather than the Lake District, North Wales or the Highlands?
