Most of you will never know the pain of being 23 hours into a 24-hour download... and then a call comes, though.
@sjvn On reflection a more precise, relatively modern equivalent might be when you're torrenting something with only one seeder with little bandwidth, and after a couple of days you're at 97% when that seeder disconnects and never comes back.
@pieist It doesn't The more things change, the more they stay the same.