No high-street boozer is complete without a flickering telescreen behind the bar, broadcasting a constant dribble of Sky Sports, Sky News and pointless FTSE figures.
Pointless job number 5643.
For example, a new Porsche 911 Cabriolet 4S is coming for next year, and Mercedes is in the midst of updating the SLK, so talking about the old cars is semi-pointless (sales figures of the 2003 SLK and 911 Cabriolet are down for precisely this reason; people want the new ones, not the old ones).
I would rather have the option to customize what apps I want in this screen, as I find Smart Tips to be pointless once you figure everything out, but at least you have the option to disable it completely.
Lineker said it was pointless to put a figure on the number of international goals that the 29-year-old could score but he predicted it would be "into the 60s".
Mainstream churches do not teach that Jesus' return is imminent, he said, because "Jesus suggested it was pointless to try to figure out the timetable".
"Why waste more time on pointless speculation," the masked figure on screen said, interrupting the Q&A session.
Attempts to evaluate the academies' success as a homogeneous category are a waste of money, and arguing over the figures is pointless.
But the baseball stats — the on-base percentage, wins above replacement, and all those other high-concept figures — are pointless if they simply verify empirically what the old-timers already intuit by chewing on their chaw.
"The figures are pointless and we shouldn't bother with them any more," said Jenson Button, which is true but the reality is the sport needs to find a way to control costs that does not impact on the spectacle it is selling – perhaps by deducting constructors' points – and it needs to do it right.
I figure it's pointless beating around the bush and ask him to tell me what all those men were doing living in outhouses on his property.
