Although the government has abolished some of the most pointless, new ones keep cropping up.
This covers all sports, obviously, but none more so than what might be called the decorative ones: synchronised swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, and the most pointless sport of all – the one in which pointlessness has been raised to the level of an art form – figure skating.
He will watch the performances of his last two victims, Bernard Hopkins (45) and Roy Jones Jr (41), when they square off for one of the most pointless and delayed rematches in boxing history on Saturday week, and conclude that, if he needs the money – and who doesn't, as they say?
Even at the most pointless of social media events, one can generally expect five to ten percent of their RSVP'd audience to show (at least, that's been my experience when throwing last-minute birthday parties).
SCOTT -- And also "The In-laws," which is one of the most pointless exercises.
I also think it has one of the most pointless taglines - why is it seriously playful?
Joe Romm, founding editor at ClimateProgress, wasn't at all impressed by AP's move, describing it as "one of the most pointless – if not most senseless" in the history of the AP Stylebook.
So, with my own inadequacies in mind, here are some of the most pointless gameshows of all time, each one an example of the different traps well-meaning producers endlessly fall into.
One of the most pointless and depressing scraps in pop history meant that, at the height of their fame, they split into two factions, releasing two Left Banke singles almost simultaneously, the fey Ivy Ivy (by Michael Brown and hired hands) and She May Call You Up Tonight (by the rest of the group).
As for the post-debate spin room, the rise of the machines there cannot come soon enough, not least because one of the most pointless and toxic spaces in modern public life could be sanitised, and turned into a sort of automated precinct, where political protocol droids would move methodically about, the pretence that any of this is in the public interest having been humbly eradicated.
