Cycling's contribution to Team GB's medal haul at London 2012 suggests he wasn't exactly wasting his time.
After leaving school she went to the London School of Economics – a period she now regards as a failure if not exactly a waste of time (she took a third in economics).
One answer, of course, would be that doing that would be an implicit admission that the Cameron government has just wasted two years doing exactly the wrong thing.
It was, however, difficult to determine exactly how much waste was produced as they did not weigh the waste produced (Mukombachoto 2006, personal communication).
The discussion began with an attempt to define exactly what zero waste means.
Of course, public sector workers know exactly where the waste is in their services: but they also know the futility of raising them as areas of concern.
Although it is not clear where exactly the faecal waste that has been collected ends up, it can be safely assumed that most of it pollutes fields, rivers and tourist beaches as most of it never reaches a treatment facility.
British consumers admit that they are confused about exactly what household waste they can recycle, a new poll reveals, with plastic wrapping, mobile phones and disposable coffee cups at the top of their list.
"Say thank you to the nice man who wolf-whistled!" "Smile at the frat boy who's date-raping you!" I want my daughter to be tough, to say no, to waste exactly zero of her God-given energy on the sexual, emotional and psychological demands of lame men — of lame anybodies.
