It's amazing having a great girl singer calling you a scumbag and a maggot, but at the end the song turns into a high-stepping waltz.
Conceived over a year and written in just over a week, it follows dulled housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) and her scumbag husband, John Peter Gallagherr), as John has sex with Ann's sister (Laura San Giacomo) and Ann falls for Graham, John's college friend.
"Everybody is a scumbag," says Rengan, and they laugh.Mr Rajaratnam, a risk-taker in his trading, took the same approach to fighting the government's charges against him.
He abused the foreign minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, as a "scumbag" of "criminal" lineage.
When Dan Loeb went for Sotheby's, its then chairman branded him a "scumbag".
Going by a wholly unscientific personal straw poll, it is twice as high-risk to be mistaken for a Conservative activist than anything else, indicating that the work of detoxifying the Tory brand is incomplete.Here in Birmingham I have been shouted at twice, once as a "Tory", once as a "Tory scumbag" (plus lots of violent swearing).
It said: "Our communities are being ripped apart - by Russian oligarchs, Saudi Sheiks, Israeli scumbag property developers, Texan oil-money t***s and our own home-grown Eton toffs.
She gave a rather brilliant description of the archetypal case: a member of the comfortably rich deciding not to give money to the poor, but to comfort himself instead with a Twitter rant calling Michael Gove a "vile, reptilian Tory scumbag", before popping off for a caramel macchiato with some pals from the BBC.
The 15th victory of Joshua's unblemished professional career avenged his defeat to the same opponent when they clashed as amateurs in 2009 and will taste sweet after having been branded a "scumbag" and "fake" by Whyte in the build up to their rematch.
Meanwhile, on the big screen, he is invariably cast as "the Arab scumbag" (his words, not mine).
And since we can't expect people to treat each lover as a potential scumbag, the law has work to do.
