There are always intensely irritating people and turning their annoying habits into a game can make them more bearable.
And we are always being encouraged to come to terms with the past - a phrase that is used in this remarkable book always in inverted commas, always ironically - as though the past is always at least potentially bearable, and can save us from something.
The group was Yoga Made Bearable, not Make Yoga Bearable, and it was from Milwaukee, not Washington.
You could feel the cold, but it was totally bearable.
As long as there wasn't any child, it was still bearable.
It was only bearable, apparently, in ECO mode.
Ian Hyland, writing for News of the World, said that Tate "was almost bearable this week".
"The Chinese have always looked down on us, but it was bearable," says Abdurkhman Khadar, a native of the Xinjiang city of Kashgar and owner of a Kunming flatbread bakery.
Pain so commonplace was somehow more bearable.
"Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over".
