He is an unromantic loser, living with his old father in a rundown cottage, single, childless and poor.
Never let the loser live it down.
The nation's biggest housing winners and losers live only 80 miles apart in San Francisco and Stockton, Calif.
Peep Show (Channel 4) follows on straight after and has many of the same ingredients - two men, sad losers, living in squalor.
In leisurely, good-humoured, minutely detailed novels, Richard Russo dealt with blue-collar losers living in decaying Northeastern towns in The Risk Pool (1988), Nobody's Fool (1993), and Empire Falls (2001), but he also published a satiric novel about academia, Straight Man (1997).
Zoe Williams uses our research on sharing to talk about how nuclear families and couples are seen as the norm, and people who choose to live alone are often, after a certain point in their lives, seen as "losers" (Living alone is pricey, but all households have their cost, 7 July).
It is still his suggestion that nearly half the American people he seeks to represent are losers living off the government, that will continue to resonate here.
The film zooms in on Martin Lomax, a let's not mince words middle-aged, near-mute, asthmatic loser words middle-ageds dickhead of a mom and feeds live insects to his pet centipede while sasthmaticeeeee".
The film zooms in on Martin Lomax, a – let's not mince words – middle-aged, near-mute, asthmatic loser who lives with his dickhead of a mum and feeds live insects to his pet centipede while saying "Eeeeeee".
It stars Jack Black as Jerry, a shambling, logorrheic loser who lives in a trailer and idles his days away in a local video store owned by Mr. Fletcher Danny Gloverr) and staffed by the benevolent Mike (Mos Def).
