Same old same old

"Yeah you were a kid last time I saw you. Heard you'd got flagged. What you doing now?" "Same old, same old," I reply.

"People get so tired of hearing promises, promises and promises, and then when they get elected it's the same old, same old," Browning said.

Most basically, this is the same old-same old — visionary artist struggles successfully to realize his particular vision, gets famous, gets laid, gets in trouble with the whole celebrity thing, tries to escape the demands of his exigent fans . . . ends up sort of beloved, sort of intact, but sort of unfulfilled, too.

Pending future revelations, I'm going to assume that the present is like the past, and that this is more of the same old same-old.

But it does make a cultural difference - and you need pioneers like Robin who recognise the benefit of doing that rather than perpetuating the same-old-same-old.