Following the flop of electoral reform, these contests are the most significant constitutional change the coalition is introducing – far more important than the tedious House of Lords reform that looks likely only to bring in more party jobsworths.
He said our questions showed we were "adopting a specific agenda" rather than being fair and balanced, and that a programme "explaining the workings of the EU" would be far more beneficial "than a tedious BBC hatchet job".
But most enter office with money, and those who don't know they can make far more doing far less tedious jobs.
The coach was right, but of course, he could not have known that Krayzelburg's career would take a route far more circuitous than the exhaustive, tedious back and forth of a swimming pool.
Clive Tyldesley, an appallingly influential figure when it comes to making tedious things seem far more important than they actually are, has taken up the cudgels for "You've got to have Crouchy in the starting line-up".
For a critic, the question of how listeners acquire and consume new music can feel tangential or tedious — it's far more exciting, after all, to talk about the music itself — but the two topics are once again becoming inextricably intertwined.
Rovers are great, they do amazing science, but it is a lot more tedious process – they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.
The mystery Primark labels are a far more acceptable narrative than trade unionism because they fit the tedious stereotype of Asian women – helpless, passive and in need of saving by western people.
