Yet, I remained, through the indignities, the outrages, and the general descent into lousiness.
Since then, the indignities have stacked up at such a rate it feels like a tragicomedy that Blackpool's motto on their club crest is "Progress".
And post-9/11, the torture-porn subgenre, spearheaded by Saw and Hostel, placed viewers in the position of prisoners, held below ground, off-radar, subjected to dreadful indignities.
He wrote about guilt and sin, raged about indignities and poked back at the hypocrisy of the prisoner's dubious ethical code ("I have seen sex offenders attacked. Almost always they're the weaker ones. I've seen big, muscular and capable rapists walk the landings with impunity").
We also liked how they featured Patricia's own words to tell the story of the indignities a lack of sanitary towels and tampons creates.
Such are the indignities of political old age.
On October 18th workers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system began their second strike of the year, for four days forcing tens of thousands of commuters to suffer the indignities of sitting on a bus or shivering on a ferry.
Mr O'Hanlon points out that America's warrior president is currently suffering one of the biggest indignities imaginable being out-thought by a bunch of "Baathist dead-enders".So has Mr Bush made a fatal error in deciding to brand himself as a warrior president?
Even a year ago, "The Inbetweeners Movie" sent its hormone-addled central foursome on holiday to a Greek island.In some respects "Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa" follows in this tradition as its plot is far more hair-raising than the character's usual parochial indignities.
In 1887, as part of a drive to have rape treated more seriously, America's Christian Temperance Union cited the "frightful indignities to which even little girls are subject".
Mr Timberg says he escaped the worst of the indignities heaped on veterans because of his conspicuous injuries.The mental scars of Vietnam have not wholly healed, he reckons, but America has largely moved on.
