Some considered routine diabetes check-ups "pointless" if there was no direct symptomatic improvement as a result.
I was much more disturbed by little picky defects, like the pointless shot up to the bridge before the reporter goes into the hospital.
I still think it's a little pointless going up against iTunes nowadays, but if we can tune in a stream a few Warner songs for free here and there, why not?
It's pointless turning up for an interview totally unprepared.
Gareth Fitzgerald has something to say for himself: "Okay, I know the result is the be-all and end-all, and English cricket has to treat each and every game as a valiant struggle against overwhelming odds, but this 'milking' of Benn, Gayle and presumably Nash when he shows up is pointless.
With television viewers missing what's actually happening thanks to a director who would rather show them a pointless close-up of someone scratching their nose in slow motion or a half-arsed replay of a half-chance.
But that peak was several years in coming: the Lemonheads had formed in 1986, and their debut album, 1987's Hate Your Friends, was a brittle, sometimes awkward punk-rock record whose main purpose was to remind you how good Hüsker Dü were – there were pointless punked-up covers (Amazing Grace) and unconvincing hardcore exercises (Rat Velvet).
But lately Spicer has been scoring own goals, getting into pointless dust-ups and burning his political capital with all of the fervor of a pyromaniac.
It can also assure a more rational approach to the use of diagnostic methods, less pointless doubling-up of such and pharmacological prescriptions that are more in line with the clinical situation and patient needs.
Don't just use a typical pick up line, add something either personal, funny, dirty, or just plan old pointless to change up your usual line.
