It's reconfigured the English high street and sired an unfathomable number of taxi rides, break-ups and hangovers in the process.
The global obsession with the game allows them to get in everywhere, their voices soundtracking awkward cab rides, break-ups and trysts, a fixture on the evening news, finding their way to you via Apple earbuds, scratchy handheld wireless radios and booming from pub cinema systems, infiltrating millions of hungover bedrooms every Saturday for the late kick-off livestream.
It pleased me to see all these cruel rides broken.
John Bishop went with GoLearnTo.com on a three-day horse-riding break in Lanjaron, from £317pp (flights not included, transfers, etc extra).
It is often served in a stainless-steel cup and, along with some people-watching, makes a perfect post-train-ride break on a hot day.
Surfing, sport of riding breaking waves toward the shore, especially by means of a surfboard.
The ride broke every bone in Hedeman's face below the eyes.
That ride broke a girl's arm and he refused to give me testing that I knew could be done.
Jaws is often credited with starting "tow-in surfing" — riding breaks so enormous that you need a Jet Ski to tow you in.
Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983 when at the age of 32 she and four male crewmates blasted off aboard space shuttle Challenger.
Guilt-ridden, broke, and desperate, he takes on the job of full-time caregiver to Trevor Conklin, a teen-ager suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
