But slowly, entrepreneurs are prising it out of the hands of crime gangs.
So we prised it out and googled it, and it turned out the lightbulb would be, like, £8 to replace, plus P+P, or something absurd like that, and the bulb itself was guaranteed for ten years, but we were only on a one-year contract, so we just… didn't replace it, because it didn't feel like our problem enough.
Mr Darling's memoirs confirm for the first time a widely rumoured story that Mr Brown tried to prise him out of the Treasury in 2009 to put Mr Balls in his place.
He apparently cannot wait to get away, and Arsenal are said to have offered £40 million to prise him out of Liverpool's grasp.
Even though it meant he would barely play a game, and would eventually be forced to train with the kids in an attempt to prise him out of the club, he simply honoured his ridiculous contract by showing up to training every day and then going home to practise his Scrooge McDuck swan-dives.
And that, after Westwood had lived in the same tiny council flat for 30 years, Kronthaler finally managed to prise her out of it by buying a house and doing it up.
Only in 2000 was it finally prised out of Los Pinos, Mexico's presidential residence.In this section Fresh face, same old party As high as an elephant's eye Dashed expectations ReprintsNow it is poised to take it back.
$158.4m (price ranking: nine) Paintings like this don't come on the market very often, for Klimt's jewelled sarcophagus-like portrait of one of his many Jewish patrons in fin de siecle Vienna hung in that city's Belvedere museum until it was prised out of this major public collection by law.
If you can prise yourself out of the depths of your armchair, there are possibilities.
They also suspect the municipality of denying them services, to prise them out by stealth.
