Cool, huh? Useless trivia aside, this video is actually tremendous.
It may be the argument runs that I can be said to choose a course of action at the conclusion of a process of deliberation, but there seems to be no choice involved when, in the heat of the moment, I toss the useless pen aside in frustration.
Maitland's language feels simultaneously authentic and modern: "Move aside, you useless pail of piss," etc. Invigorating.
He leads what might be called a functional existence, in that he chooses the way of maximum ease, casting aside the useless baggage of display by which many men seek to impress others.
"She believes, as I do, that it would be wonderful if these nonviable embryos could be used to give hope to others suffering from life-threatening diseases rather than cast aside as useless," he said.
The precious thingamajig, now useless and worthless, he tosses aside; the handy little box he keeps.
As families finally lay hope aside like a useless weapon, accepting that those missing are gone, communities face an enormous challenge: how to comfort, and raise, all the children who lost a parent -- in some cases their only parent -- in an event of epic dimension.
Setting aside the now useless degree in humanities you spent six years of high school preparing for, you got a job working 72 hours a week in a pub, and your mum considered it an achievement that you were making enough to pay rent, subsist on ramen, and not have to move home.
Underneath them my ravaged body felt drained of all energy and goodness, a useless husk I wished I could throw aside.
"Peale's machine gun" was put aside by Mint staff as useless soon after its introduction.
