It is a charming idea to present the Moon as a man with a silver crescent hat atop a lighthouse, and the North Wind as a crotchety married man in a rickety house with a complaining wife, a bickering couple who are nevertheless happy together.
And what really galls is not the songs themselves but the greasy way in which they are wrapped around crucial passages of action, to muffle any awkward transitions; thus, once Mark has armed himself with white lies, he strolls off to reassure all the other miserable folk we have encountered so far — old-timers, bums on the street, a bickering couple — with a smile and a word in their ears.
Mr Cameron's speech had nothing to do with Britain's place in Europe and everything to do with his leadership of a bickering and divided party.
He performed adequately, though he was mostly remembered as a failed chemistry experiment after the Americans, with several veterans bickering with Sampson, finished last among 32 teams.
But the latest United Nations deadline for a peace deal to end the civil war came and went on Monday with bickering over a unified cabinet.
And because it has a video, just released, which shows his bleeding, crying, tortured face with text messages pinging back and forth across the screen between a bickering couple, with one side writing "I wrote an album about you" and the other side replying "I don't care".
It all starts with bickering over a cup of sugar, but of course, it isn't about sugar.
And because it has a just-released video that zooms in on his bleeding, crying, tortured face as text messages ping back and forth across the screen between a bickering couple, with one side writing, "I wrote an album about you" and the other side replying, "I don't care".
And because it has a just-released video that zooms on his bleeding, crying, tortured face as text messages ping back and forth across the screen between a bickering couple, with one side writing, "I wrote an album about you" and the other side replying, "I don't care".
The former Olympic rower James Cracknell's attempt to rekindle his bromance with Ben Fogle by bickering their way across a desert with camels in tow doesn't count.
