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Do you remember that Loony Tunes cartoon where there's this pathetic coyote who's always chasing and never catching a roadrunner?
What if I told you that the two-meter positioning that our current cell phones and our TomToms give us is pathetic compared to what we could be getting?
So they wanted to give him the humblest, meagerest, most pathetic title that they could think of.
Or, in my case, awkward and pathetic.
So imagine this scenario: I walk into one of your businesses, looking very awkward and pathetic, with a copy of my C.V. which I've covered in coffee, and I ask the receptionist to plug in this USB key and print me a new one.
In the United States, we know the pathetic figures: 18 percent of Americans approve of Congress and what they do.
Again, now we're past TED 1, but just around the time of TED 2, and what I'd like to mention here is, even though you could imagine intelligence in the device, I look today at some of the work being done about the Internet of Things, and I think it's kind of tragically pathetic, because what has happened is people take the oven panel and put it on your cell phone, or the door key onto your cell phone, just taking it and bringing it to you, and in fact that's actually what you don't want.
You become pathetic.
Well in India, we have a theory, which is very much accepted by the government bureaucracy and all those who matter, that poor people deserve poor solutions and absolutely poor people deserve pathetic solutions.
In the last year, more than a million people arrived in Europe in need of our help, and our response, frankly, has been pathetic.
And I think we all have memories of the famous pop groups who keep singing the same songs again and again, until they become obsolete or even pathetic.
Those of us in New York know there are some people in New York who are completely awesome, and some people who are pathetic, and if you live in Iowa, some people are awesome and some people are pathetic.
Old people are pathetic.
That's a pathetic number.
Failure should be a motivating force, not some type of pathetic excuse to give up.
And now it's a pathetic ruin and no one even knows what it was used for.
It's a pretty pathetic list.
Except all those pathetic losers.
Which is really ingenious, because we all know that T-Mobile is the most pathetic carrier.
They're talking about love and compassion and wisdom and enlightenment, but they are acting selfish and pathetic.
And he becomes interested in this dog because it's so pathetic, and it's trying to attract his attention.
I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4: it was like two snails in a mating dance.
The beginning, the middle, and the ending was pathetic.
I want the 99 minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie.
The current actors Lisa Ray (who's just good for squirming in Bombay Dyeing bedsheets) and John Abraham are pathetic, need basic lessons in acting.
Jack Frost 2 was a horrible, terrible, sadly pathetic excuse for a sequal to a great movie.
Pathetic way of combining action and rap.
Oh brother the plot of this movie was so full of holes it was pathetic.
The daughter is so pathetic and seemingly stupid that if she was mine I'ld slap her.
The writing was pathetic, and the dialogue was unbelievable.
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