In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
He has the attention span of a hummingbird.
He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.
I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.
We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.