Or maybe it is because we are better at football - and hopeless at long-distance running.
And their press releases are hopeless at translating the arcana of bank regulation into concepts that most can understand.
Why should Dresdner, wondered Kleinwort, when it was clearly hopeless at investment banking?
Maybe, perversely, because Britain has been so hopeless at fashion in the past.
The Danes aren't much on defense, and they're hopeless at exacting revenge.
"I think the message that I'd like to give to the family is that, although things might seem dreadful and hopeless at the moment, in both of the incidents that I was involved in, I was released and also the Royal Irish soldiers were released safely as well, " he said.
"They thought that we were hopeless do-gooders at best, " he recalls.
More likely, however, you will end up like me and my friends, picking at fries and feeling hopeless.
Despite the danger at the back West Ham might have been level at the interval, but for a hopeless air shot from the rusty Benni McCarthy.
At the Christmas Day party, I have the hopeless task of organising the games for excited children - and parents - until rescued by the arrival of Santa Claus.
From a seemingly hopeless position, the ball was lumped into the penalty area before falling at the feet of Santana just a yard from goal.
In such places, the least hopeless course may be to ensure as wide a measure of democracy as possible at the lowest local level (for instance, in last weekend's Bosnian town elections, whose results are not yet clear).
But Prof David Elliott, co-director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the Open University, said a single barrage was "pretty hopeless" in energy provision terms as it would only produce power in two bursts during a 24-hour period.
Now I'm proud of the fact incidentally, I mean you know I know I get a lot of brickbats on this, I'm absolutely proud of the fact that we've got successful entrepreneurs, that we've got disaffected Conservatives who look at the state of the Conservative Party, say that's hopeless, that's incapable of governing the country properly and support the Labour Party.
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Navigating the conditions we find ourselves in can be unpleasant at best, and at worst, it can cause one to feel anxious, depressed, hopeless, fearful, and ineffectual.
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The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains.
" What's more, this Nietzsche of capitalism opined: "Man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of their brain.
Lady Thatcher's performance at European summits could sometimes inspire the sort of awe you feel when an enraged terrier mounts a hopeless attack on a doberman.
Caplan said while he doesn't know what happened at Memorial he believes doctors can be driven to kill but only under the extreme stress of a hopeless situation.
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