It's another opportunity to spare a thought for Mr. Shaw.
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Spare a thought for their mutual friends and family members.
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SPARE a thought for the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service.
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You've got to spare a thought for the White Walkers.
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So spare a thought for the shivering North Korean soldiers.
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Spare a thought for newborns who cannot shiver to keep warm.
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Spare a thought for poor Robert Pattinson, awkwardly positioned between them.
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But spare a thought for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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If so, then spare a thought for Scottish farmer Melanie MacLean.
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But please, spare a thought for Viola Davis and her poor body.
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Opinion Columnist Won't you spare a thought for America's medical debt collectors?
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Spare a thought for his underlings, whose iPhones buzz at 4am every morning.
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Just spare a thought for Jessica Chastain, though: Is this a Samsung thing?!
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Spare a thought for everyone who got a Dick Smith gift card for Christmas.
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"I want to spare a thought for the officer who got injured," said Hidalgo.
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Critic's Notebook Spare a thought for "Suburbicon," as it swiftly vanishes from America's megaplexes.
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If you're in love with anything avocado-related, spare a thought for New Zealanders.
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Ben is ready to be the boss, clearly, but spare a thought for his parents.
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The op-ed page is unbearably white—spare a thought for Charles Blow—and predominantly male.
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It can't be fun, but one surely has to spare a thought for TV host Ray.
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Travel delays are never fun, but spare a thought for those travelling through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
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When considering Mr Trump's performance, one should also spare a thought for outside investors in his projects.
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But spare a thought for your sister at the "welcome home" feast that's given in your honor.
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If you thought you were having a bad day, spare a thought for New Zealand politician Steven Joyce.
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SPARE a thought for Brammer, a British supplier of bearings and other industrial gear for factories in Europe.
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But spare a thought for your great-great-grandparents, off to the pictures, more than a century ago.
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For anyone who's ever complained about being delayed in an airport, spare a thought for Hassan Al Kontar.
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Insofar as it's warranted to feel pity for triple-A video game developers, spare a thought for Arkane Studios.
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Just spare a thought for the Fox assistants who will be picking feathers off their desks for weeks to come.
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The British political class seems able to spare a thought for them only just before or just after general elections.
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So spare a thought for Michael McElwee from Darwin, Australia, whose house keeps being visited by randoms looking for pizza.
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If you thought your wages were bad, spare a thought for any woman working in hospitality, cleaning, retail, or care.
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Temperatures have plummeted across the eastern United States, but spare a thought for McAllen, Texas, where the drop was precipitous.
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Enjoy the party pics below, and spare a thought for the poor, unfortunate souls who weren't on the guest list.
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LONDON — When you're thinking about the potentially chaotic implications of Britain leaving the European Union, spare a thought for Stan.
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But spare a thought for Floris van den Berg, the guy in this photo—because he won't see sunlight for months.
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But spare a thought for Volkswagen's Matthias Müller as he watched the gauge of value leap by 4.5% on April 163th.
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As you're looking for Jupiter this week, spare a thought for NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is exploring the giant world right now.
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But spare a thought for people who do, many of whom get appalling service from train firms and airlines around the world.
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Ricciardo, who has largely avoided the mechanical issues that have affected his team mate, was able to spare a thought for Verstappen.
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And while your hard-earned money may be taking a hit, remember to spare a thought for the ridiculously rich among us.
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So spare a thought for Louis Theroux, who has more than a few people who've inked his very famous mug on their bodies.
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ON MAY 14th, as Emmanuel Macron takes up his duties in the Elysée Palace, spare a thought for what he has already achieved.
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"I would like to spare a thought for the families of those who have waited for this moment for so long," Parly added.
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But every summer, I spare a thought for goths—a community that, in my mind, doesn't seem equipped to deal with high temperatures.
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Any death of course creates aftershocks among those closest to the deceased, but we rarely spare a thought for those on the fringes.
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If you think the U.S.-China trade war is a problem for smartphones and 5G, spare a thought for autonomous and connected cars.
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As the royal couple flex their muscles as global citizens, spare a thought for all those from Africa whose choices are far more limited.
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But if you think Styles, who will be starring in his own Carpool Karaoke this week, had it bad, spare a thought for Jenner.
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And, shockingly, the "thrifties" did not even spare a thought for the 17% living in absolute poverty in the prosperous post-modern EU democracies.
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However, it should also spare a thought for the other kind of bloodshed in Congo—not least because it makes tackling Ebola much harder.
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So spare a thought for Team GB this week, who discovered a little late that carrying identical red luggage is a recipe for airport confusion.
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Won't anyone spare a thought for Louis C.K.'s poor movie "I Love You Daddy," one of the many victims of his choice to abuse women?
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So amid Europe's relief at Emmanuel Macron's win in the first round of France's presidential election on April 23rd, spare a thought for places like Siemiatycze.
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"While Mr. Nilekani may not personally face issues because of this foolishness," he said, "spare a thought for common people whose Aadhaar details have been leaked."
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - If some swimmers consider second place to be first of the losers, spare a thought for Ethiopian Olympic debutant Robel Kiros Habte.
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Pity those struggling in a second language—but also spare a thought for those many monoglots who have no way of knowing what they are missing.
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If you find yourself matching with a farmer, spare a thought for the inflexible nature of their job — it might not be that they're not into you.
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If you think times are bad at Apple, spare a thought for HTC, the once king-of-the-hill phone maker that continues to struggle very badly.
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But spare a thought for me, the girlfriend who has spent two years dealing with the repercussions of this apocryphal "common knowledge" that women loved big dicks.
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Perhaps the most arresting essay is a previously unpublished piece in which Mr Singer urges readers to spare a thought for the poor, benighted turkey during Thanksgiving.
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So — after the celebration parties of the winners, after the balloons and bands, after the champagne and confetti — spare a thought for the losers in the coming election.
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IF THE current crop of Whitehall mandarins think they have their hands full negotiating an exit from the European Union, they should spare a thought for their predecessors.
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If pushing a domestic cat out of your asshole sounds like a remarkable feat of tenacity and endurance, spare a thought for the macrosomial Olympians of this world.
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He could spare a thought for Greek 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas, who managed only six games against second seed Nadal in the other semi-final on Thursday.
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You might want to spare a thought for the world's richest people, who managed to lose a huge amount of money last year — $2 trillion to be exact.
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And spare a thought for pension funds which see the value of their equity holdings fall while the value of their liabilities (discounted by bond yields) has risen.
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While the Bank of England and European Central Bank wrestle with their policy problems, however, spare a thought for the Bank of Japan and its bond-buying hangover.
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But spare a thought for the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station, above, a mountaintop research station in Armenia that tracks exploding stars and the cosmic weather they produce.
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Isle of Mull Journal ISLE OF MULL, Scotland — Anyone who has despaired over home improvement should spare a thought for Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean of Duart and Morvern.
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Spare a thought for the woman who recently wrote to Heather Havrilesky of The Cut's "Ask Polly" column with the most chilling and absurd story about her partner's parents.
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If your ride or hot dog order doesn't arrive quite as fast as you'd hoped this holiday, spare a thought for the logisticians trying to make it quicker next time.
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Saleh Khashoggi is reportedly forbidden from leaving Saudi Arabia: Spare a thought for Khashoggi's son, banned from leaving Saudi Arabia, who had to go and do this today pic.twitter.com/HyTA896LwF
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While the athletes of the world wow us with their physical prowess, let's also spare a thought for the women undertaking Olympian tests of endurance in changing rooms across the country.
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Spare a thought for Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman AND Notting Hill, Margot Robbie in The Big Short, Julianne Moore in The Kids are All Right, and Al Pacino in Scarface.
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And spare a thought for the Samsung owners in your group, who'll still have to deal with an even more ridiculous character that puts lettuce between the cheese and the patty.
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But spare a thought for these tennis fans, who stuck it out at the Australian Open as a match between Garbine Muguruza and Johanna Konta in the tournament's latest start ever.
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Spare a thought for the pension funds in the face of all this; falling equity prices and bond yields (discounting liabilities at a lower rate) means that deficits will increase sharply.
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Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — Every time you sit and curse the constructor while you are wrestling with a tough crossword, spare a thought for what they go through making it for you.
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The next time you're at a festival, lying in your tent and trying to keep its ceiling from collapsing, spare a thought for the people staying sober to keep you safe.
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Too much turkey and stuffing and pumpkin pie and sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce, and then later, you might spare a thought for the peculiar affliction of the holiday season, the bellyache.
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But spare a thought for the possibility that, as you judge the media's coverage of the Democratic primary, we have a lot less to do with the outcome than we used to.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It used to be said Andy Murray required broad shoulders to carry British hopes at Wimbledon but spare a thought for Kevin Anderson — a lone standard bearer for a whole continent.
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Image: Stuart RankinIf you think you had a hard time filling out pages of algebra at school, spare a thought for the three mathematicians who have just published the world's largest ever proof.
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If he did leave with it, if he did somehow get it past security and take it home, then spare a thought for the cruel ironic fate that will have now befallen him.
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So spare a thought for the people who had to keep an eye on a group of arachnids that appeared to be raining down over rural Brazil, thanks to hot and humid weather.
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AT A time of political crisis in South Korea, spare a thought for all the upstanding shamans, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, astrologers, numerologists, necromancers and fortune-tellers around Asia who risk being tarred by events.
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Spare a thought for celebrities caught in the chaos: young stars, like the sister-and-brother acting pair Dylan and Hopper Penn, found sitting in an otherwise empty front row at the Fay show.
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But once you acclimate to the format and find an anime you like, spare a thought for Eva — there's a good chance it paved the way for a thing you now love to exist.
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Spare a thought for the person out there in front of a laptop this month, trying to find the words to explain Megan Thee Stallion's 'hot girl summer' to a baby boomer newspaper audience.
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Next time you find yourself nursing a post-pub crawl hangover, spare a thought for the Black Country Ale Tairsters, a West Bromwich-based charity pub crawl group who just reached their 20,000th pub.
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Drink He's no seasonal superstar like Scrooge, but let's spare a thought for Krook, the unfortunate rag-and-bottle man in "Bleak House," Charles Dickens's great novel of the law and its tortuous machinations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - When the singles champions at this year's French Open each pocket their 25 million euros ($53 million) in prize money, they might spare a thought for the players who made it all possible.
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Spare a thought for iPhone 6s owners — some of whom have already had to go through the hassle of having their battery replaced as a consequence of a faulty batch which had caused unexpected shutdowns.
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Finally, spare a thought for that most tender of beleaguered souls, Andre 3000, who's probably still having night terrors about a tofu-related incident that went down at his local Whole Foods around a decade ago.
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The Takeaway: While this was a storm in a teacup (sorry, couldn't resist), spare a thought for the innocent bystanders in this whole thing: I could not have chosen a worse day to introduce my #TealIzzard meme.
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But spare a thought for Jason Wong, a Chinese businessman who dropped HK$68,000—nearly $8,800 US—on a 40-milliliter shot of Cognac, which he downed in front of cameras at the InterContinental hotel in Hong Kong.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of candidates, hundreds of parties, endless combinations of possible coalitions – spare a thought for India's pollsters, tasked with making sense of the country's fiendishly complicated politics ahead of a general election due by May.
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While Rachel's delight at the prospect of murdering Tara reminds us to spare a thought for Lizzie, the show's late child psychopath, the rest of the group is more or less not so much down with the idea.
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Spare a thought for 18-year-old Lee De Paauw, who was reportedly trying to woo his love interest, British tourist Sophie Paterson, according to 9 News, when he got bitten by a crocodile in Queensland, Australia, on Sunday.
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Bandai Namco turns the HTC Vive into a tool of terror If you think it's hard to set up an HTC Vive in your American-sized home, spare a thought for the people that live in regular Tokyo apartments.
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I just wish people would spare a thought for those who are on their own, because any period of lockdown or quarantine is going to feel particularly daunting if you have no other half to ride it out with.
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So spare a thought for Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot when they mount their bicycles in Brussels on Saturday to begin a 20143,480km route, including 30 mountain climbs, hoping to arrive in Paris on July 28 in a yellow jersey.
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Spare a thought for Bargemusic, though: Its artistic director and stalwart violinist, Mark Peskanov, joins the Semplice Players to celebrate with Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor, Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and Mendelssohn's Octet.
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LONDON — Before we get to the apocalypse implicit in the title of "Death of England," Clint Dyer and Roy Williams's furious play at the National Theater through March 7, spare a thought for the vocal cords of its tireless lone performer, Rafe Spall.
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As you make your way home from a turkey-filled weekend, spare a thought for some late birds that didn't even make it to the table: the fowl that jet-engine makers shoot into airplane engines to ensure your flight is a safe one.
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So with Corbyn closer to power than Le Pen ever got, spare a thought for the far left's actual 20th-century record, and remember that when history's arc bends away from liberalism and consensus, sometimes there's a commissar waiting at the end of it.
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"If the World Cup is to be harnessed for good, we need people to around the world to spare a thought for those people — in Syria and elsewhere — who will not be able to enjoy the World Cup since they will be preoccupied with their daily struggle to survive amidst war."
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So even when you get a goodie like "Dancing Queen," wherein a lot of tan and actual brown people gyrate in unison on landward boats, you can simultaneously admire a perfect pop song and spare a thought for the real boat-bound migrants who've perished in waters just like these.
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But I suspect that's typical of those of us who follow the tech market in the U.S. — we're so accustomed to being the first to see new technologies that we rarely spare a thought for those who don't have access to them yet, even in a neighboring market like Canada (as with the Google Home and Echo).
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For a segment on his Late Late Show, James Corden brought audience member Alex up on stage to join him for a round of his on-running "Live Tinder game," with the assistance of former Spice Girl Mel B. It must be pretty nerve-wracking for Alex, but also spare a thought for the men who get abruptly left-swiped into a giant pit of colourful balls.
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Here are a number of other tidbits I've learned in researching this story, some of which will likely make for compelling reading for other startups operating in the on-demand delivery space: Finally, we should spare a thought for the restaurants that ditched their own delivery drivers in favour of using Valk Fleet UK, many of whom will have learned of the startup's closing at extremely short notice and may have had to suspend their delivery service as a result.
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