rigmarole

jaarittelu

ruljanssi complex Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.

Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?

1895 — In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some rigmarole about Paatalise (the stewards name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush. — w:Robert Luis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, s:The Valima Letters|The Valima Letters'', ch XIX

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.