Andrew Terry, a Jones Beach lifeguard, learned this lesson painfully last summer when a jellyfish stung his left eye during a swim.
The team has lost in the finals of the European competition two of the last three years, most painfully last year to Chelsea, when the final was played by luck of the draw on their home field in Munich.
In "Merrily" – which uses reverse chronology to explore the dissolution of a triangular friendship – hindsight is painfully 20/20; in "Old Times," it is, at best, astigmatic and, at worst, downright hallucinatory.
ICI says the lorry strike will shut down all its plants by the end of next week.Companies have been learning painfully this week how much they depend on private road haulage and how vulnerable they are to organised nationwide picketing which has spread much further than the original dispute.
Within Europe, as Germans never cease to point out, investors are not worried about Mrs Merkel's prudent government, whose predecessor restructured the economy painfully ten years ago; the problem is a loss of confidence in less well-run, unreformed countries.But do not get too sympathetic.
The first biographical sentence of the NFT's notes contains only one slight error, but this hoary chestnut has already misled several generations of Anglo-American viewers: "Born illegitimately in Copenhagen in 1889 to a poor and abused mother who died painfully two years later, Dreyer endured an arid childhood within a strict Lutheran adoptive family".
For as the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe showed so painfully last year (around 5m barrels of oil were lost as a result of BP's Macondo blow out), both parties need to give some reassurance that they will be doing their utmost to prevent and minimise any environmental mishap.
The Republican-heavy turnout in 2010 set up the resulting story: as Obama has found out all too painfully this year, elections have consequences.
This couldn't be more painfully obvious today, or this week.
For the ship's design, the artist Ragnar Kjartansson, drew upon Icelandic, Greek, and Venetian ships, then twisted that composite by pulling inspiration from the party boat in the painfully dated 1935 film Remember Last Night.
