It's that moment when you find yourself stuck lying in bed after a pointless night on the tiles, preparing for another lethargic unsatisfying day, and ask: "What's the point, is this all I'll ever amount to?" Paul Lester just made Savages NBOTD so I won't end on Husbands, and a couple of weeks ago Martyn Young nabbed AlunaGeorge, Jessie Ware, and DIIV, so I'm going to stick with another oldie.
Anything, anything to break from the script for what is shaping up to be the most pointless, predictable Oscar night in living memory.
Therefore, delaying the review until just before opening night is pointless.
But Mike Brown, LU's managing director, described the latest strike as "cynical" adding: "Services are operating on virtually all lines this morning despite the pointless strike.
It was cheerful and pointless; it summed up the night.
But let's face it, if you're not blessed with supermodel looks, then dressing up in the Saturday night sense is pointless at a festival.
If they're not, it's absolutely pointless (as I learned alongside most people last night).
"It's diverting, a little sad, a little boring, full of geeky macho posturing and ultimately pointless, much like a Wednesday afternoon in a comic-book shop".
Less than an hour after the vote, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, went to the Senate floor and declared: "The bill passed by House Republicans tonight is a pointless partisan exercise.
The secrecy seemed a little pointless at 7 30 on Sunday morning, when most of the people gathered to watch the Streb performers bungee-jump off Millennium Bridge, in front of the Tate Modern, were journalists and photographers.
Yes, the Republicans were correct to laugh at one of the president's own gimmicks on Wednesday night: a symbolic and pointless spending "freeze".
