With nothing to do the other morning I flicked through the channels and started watching Baseball.

someone throwing a ball at a guy who invariably lets it go and then walks off or makes a run for first base

someone on first base is 2 metres off the post and the pitcher fruitlessly and continually tries to get him out

someone pontificates behind the catcher without any discernable reactions

Oh yeah, someone occasionally hits the ball

A rethorical question.......

Other pointless actions??

Other pointless actions??

Explaining a joke.

I don't buy the premise, at least with respect to baseball. The pitcher isn't necessarily trying to get the baserunner out, he is trying to keep him from advancing to second base primarily. If the baserunner gains second any basehit out of the infield will lead to his scoring.

I understand that those unfamiliar with the rules of baseball might find it a tedious pastime, but those who know the game find it endlessly fascinating and enjoyable. It helps if you played it in your youth as there a tremendous amount of rules and strategems.

Similarly, I've tried without success to gather enthusiasm for the game of cricket. Take those wickets for instance. I mean to say, what's the point?

Actually, I feel that way about all professional sports, but then I suppose if you are one of those who enjoy watching, then that must be the point.

Pointless actions that I fail to grasp include your man nodding yes dear at you and then, later when he realizes he has missed something important because he failed to listen, saying, "Why didn't you tell me?" Whats the point in this question other than to note one's own inability to listen?

Another pointless one: queuing numbers in the bank which nobody uses and nobody queues?

Another pointless one: queuing numbers in the bank which nobody uses and nobody queues?

Must be a different bank.

Khrung Thai Bank in Pattaya - if you don't take the ticket and turn up when it's your turn, you will not get served. I've had several crazy, red-faced, shouting farang discussions in there.

Now I use Siam Commercial, where you all have to get in line and queue.

what is the point in having 8 staff in 7-11 and only 1 person serving on the till why the other wander around the store like Zombies !

what is the point in having 12 ' Experts' in the television section of HomePro when not one even knowes the products?

What was the point of a thirty years of service police officer being forced onto the roof of a walk-way in Central Hong Kong today to grab a "Chicken Farmer" who was demanding the agricultural minister quits because he didn't get the compensation he thought he should have got for a cull to stop disease. Officer slipped and fell to his death. Protestor laughed, senior officers cringed, as they had forced him up there as it's politically un-correct to have people seen to be protesting in central.

I suppose I'll weep at the funeral

What is the point of voting or claiming your country is a democracy if the overwhelming will of the majority (80% +) is simply ignored.

"Even if you complain, no-one listens, so you might as well not bother"

Monty Python

Meant as suggestion, rather than observation...

Thanks very much

SC

t.v. correspondents !

why so many for each individual subject matter, especially the B.B.C. ?

well i know why and i am answering my own question, but who really wants to know if Kate Middleton farted whilst walking down the isle.

did Obama knock one out before giving the go ahead to take out Bin Laden.

who give a FF if Giggs has fcuked half of Wales anyway, hes only a footballer anyway for Christs sake.

and i couldn't give a toss if some bit of brass slap from Newcastle who happened to marry a footballer and found fame by being in a girl " group " not band, has had a falling out with that over self important <deleted> named Simon Cowell.

What is the point in having legs that break?

Nasal hair.

What is the point of having 4 teams of men playing a game called "American football"

A defensive team, an offensive (I like that) team.

Roughly 60 guys when in fact the ball is rarely kicked, and basically only 3 guys in each team ever get to touch the ball.

......... they play for 30 seconds, then have a rest........<deleted>

What is the point of having 4 teams of men playing a game called "American football"

A defensive team, an offensive (I like that) team.

Roughly 60 guys when in fact the ball is rarely kicked, and basically only 3 guys in each team ever get to touch the ball.

......... they play for 30 seconds, then have a rest........<deleted>

you forgot the special teams, thats another x 2. i suppose they are made up of the other 4 teams of offence and defence though.

I have now lost my first two attempts to provide a resopnse to this thread - simply disappeared. So it seems that there is no point at all. But briefly: Supermarket reshuffles, fly fishing (for Ian), product guarantees in Thailand (add to that elections in Thailand), Somtam, the 2nd/3rd/4th/5th blades in a razor, PBS, carbon taxes, burquas, snowboards, goldfish, Germaine Greer.

What is the point of having 4 teams of men playing a game called "American football"

A defensive team, an offensive (I like that) team.

Roughly 60 guys when in fact the ball is rarely kicked, and basically only 3 guys in each team ever get to touch the ball.

......... they play for 30 seconds, then have a rest........<deleted>

But what is the point of having grown men running around chasing a ball anywhere, no matter what shape it is? Why do grown men spend so much time hitting a small white ball with a club in an attempt to put it in a gopher hole? Why not just pick it up and put it in the gopher hole if the gopher needs it that badly.

Or, for that matter, what is the point of television in the first place? Who wants to buy all that crap they are trying to sell us? If I need a pill I'll ask a doctor. If I want to buy something I'll visit a store that sells what I want and listen to people who know something about the product.