Users repeatedly describe the app as slow, crashes, stinks, fail and "is always loading".
It is neither a surge, nor a swash, but a kind of slow, crashing, groaning, shrieking sound, in which sharp silvery tinkling mingle with the low, thunderous undertone of a rushing tempest.
However, the various stages of buying it – wondering if you can afford it, wondering if the health benefits are worth the enormous price, the slow crashing wave of unstoppable middle-class guilt as it goes through the checkout, and then the crushing realisation that you don't actually even really like the bloody stuff anyway – undoes this moment of glory in an instant.
Letting non-experts take over our kitchens produces a slower crash than letting them take over the cockpit.
It's a slow motion crash, but it's a crash just the same.
It was a slow train crash.
The rest was essentially used to keep servers idling and ready in case of a surge in activity that could slow or crash their operations.
There was a wave of optimism at its potential, followed by the horror of watching the slow car crash of the reality.
Like a very slow car crash, choking off whole motorways with wave upon wave of twisted, jagged metal, this DWP chaos just keeps piling up.
So begins a chronicle of innocence turning slowly into disillusionment as Charlie Henschke's life becomes a kind of slow car crash of addiction, alcoholism, sadness and physical ill-health.
