There have been 32 recorded accidents over three years at Alton Towers, it emerged on Saturday, from a guest being rushed to hospital after hearing her "neck crack" on the 60mph Rita ride to an employee falling into a water trough.
From Newcastle's Bridge Tavern to London's Palomar, some of Britain's best trough joints are now run by ex-club promoters and DJs.
Way above the Tasman Sea, a gigantic high-pressure system moved slowly, while to the northwest an intense tropical low butted against a great monsoon trough that stretched over the north of the continent.
In creating this "Gary Barlow" character, who raises money for charity while simultaneously trampling our shared values into the urinal trough, was Barlow in fact (like the comedy of Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais at its best) holding up a mirror to society, magnifying our hypocrisy through the lens of his own actions?
Of the original Ashes squad Stuart Broad is injured, Jimmy Anderson visibly exhausted, Alastair Cook in the worst trough of his career, Matt Prior dropped and Kevin Pietersen, who received little support from Giles on the day he was announced in a provisional squad for the World Twenty20, in a kind of unspoken international limbo.
"I think we've hit the low and we've definitely moved out of the trough.
The increases in national output since the economy reached its trough in 2009 have been largely the result of a bigger population and an increase in the workforce.
It's simply that in both these cases, the sustaining interactivity was for the most part founded on the use of mature technologies, long deglamorised and long settled into what the technology-consulting practice Gartner refers to as the "trough of disillusionment".
Amsterdam's Ciel Bleu restaurant (cielbleu.nl) has just been awarded its second Michelin star - and that means Hotel Okura Amsterdam now has three places to trough featured in the Michelin guide and 75% of the capital's stars.
His energy levels peak and trough; they're at a high when he's demanding "some pimp music" for P.I.M.P. or being lap-danced by his coterie of dancers during his gentlemanly Akon collaboration I Wanna Fuck You, and at a low when mumbling through chunks of boudoir R&B or when possessed by the ragga Lion within.
"ABC Ultimo is a bloated bastion of broadcasting bureaucrats who have had their snouts in the public trough for far too long.
