@suzianne saidYou getting all het up about humorous remarks that went whoosh over your head ~ or because your own sense of humour has been incapacitated by your perma-scorn ~ is about as pointless a kind of posting as there is.
No, I said any MORE pointless things, not the same old, same old pointless thing. Old dogs CAN learn new tricks, you just refuse to.
@ponderable saidSports commentary includes a lot of these pointless remarks. Perhaps the purpose is simply the avoidance of dead air.
A pointless thing I have heard numerous times before a final game:
"Both teams have come a long way and want to win this."
Question: How high is the probability that anybody gains a new infromation or a new insight from that?
@ponderable saidAgreed.
A pointless thing I have heard numerous times before a final game:
"Both teams have come a long way and want to win this."
Question: How high is the probability that anybody gains a new infromation or a new insight from that?
If the commentator had said 'neither side wants to win this' that's worth saying.
But all we get is platitudes.
@the-gravedigger saidAsking whether popes poo in the woods is OK.
Agreed.
If the commentator had said 'neither side wants to win this' that's worth saying.
But all we get is platitudes.
But then asking whether bears are Catholics AS WELL is pointless.
@the-gravedigger saidBut a rocking horse might have a wooden bonus hole rather than a pecker. Stop repressing female rocking horses with your presumptuous microaggressions.
Is it ok to ask if a rocking horse has a wooden pecker?
@fmf saidDang, I need to be re-trained.
But a rocking horse might have a wooden bonus hole rather than a pecker. Stop repressing female rocking horses with your presumptuous microaggressions.
At work some people were put on a course to stop them using sexual innuendos.
The bosses secretary couldn't go so I offered to fill her slot.