It's Useless

[BigApplePi]

Your assignment is to propose something useless. But first you must show why the previous poster's proposal is NOT useless.

Start: Posting on this bulletin board/Forum is useless.

 

[Moocow]

Posting isn't useless because it's exercising our ability to articulate explanations or thoughts, as well as our reading comprehension.


The war on drugs is useless.

 

[nanook]

The war on drugs isn't useless, because more and more good people fall prey to it and therefore more and more people realize, that executive and judicature need some kind of ethical control, or else everything falls prey to the whim of money and power related interest groups.

most intjforum rules are useless

uhm this may be too hard, i cant urge you to look them up or anything ...

how about intjforum is useless ( i dont even mean that )

edit: @A22 you are right. wasn't that difficult after all

 

[A22]

INTJ forum rules aren't useless 'cause INTJs can't do anything without previously established rules

clothes are useless - when hot

 

[Beholder]

When the weather's hot - clothes can be useful for sun protection.
When the wearer's hot - um... I think I had someth- no, nothing.

Eating in a dream is useless.

 

[nanook]

eating mushrooms in a lucid dream works symbolically to open up the scenario [restricting exprectations] for new possibilities

i can't think of anything useless. or anything else. i'm hungry. uninspired brain is useless. when is lack of inspiration of any use?

 

[BigApplePi]

An uninspired brain is not useless. Just let one of those ENxJ's come along. They will fill your brain with stuff even more useless.

Voting for Presidential candidates.

 

[downsowf]

If everyone felt that their vote did not matter, no one would vote, and we would never elect a President. There have been many elections- not just on a local level- that have been decided by less than 100 votes. I imagine your point is that nothing will change regardless of who we vote in, though?

Newspapers (I know EditorOne will kill me for this one) are useless.

 

[Felan]

Newspapers aren't useless because they are great to put on the bottom of my bird cage and make cleaning that up much easier.

I is useless

 

[Cogwulf]

I isn't useless because we wouldn't be able to build big buildings without I-beams.


Electric hats are useless.

 

[speiss]

Electric hats are not useless because without them we wouldn't be able to literally light up a room and therefore make corny little jokes about it.

Lying to children is useless.

 

[Dapper Dan]

Lying to children can sometimes confuse them so much that they shut up.

The scroll lock key is useless.

 

[Je Pense]

The scroll key is useful for scrolling through thousands of INTP forum posts at 3 am.

Theatre is useless

 

[speiss]

Le théâtre n'est pas inutile parce qu'il nous fait occupés, nous donne quelque chose à faire. Aussi c'est marrant à voir des personnes agissent sérieuses quand ils simulent des autres.

Le français est inutile.

 

[Je Pense]

Le théâtre n'est pas inutile parce qu'il nous fait occupés, nous donne quelque chose à faire. Aussi c'est marrant à voir des personnes agissent sérieuses quand ils simulent des autres.

Le français est inutile.

Je m'oppose!

 

[Felan]

French is a great way to arouse much tingling in my spine and toes. In fact it's the only way in which I can feel my toes at all.

A page will ink spilled on it is useless.

Edited: I meant, "A page with ink spilled on it is useless"

And holy crap my brain must be in a melt-down. Ah well, French does that to me I guess.

 

[Je Pense]

French is a great arouse much tingling in my spine and toes. In it's the only way in which I can feel my toes at all.

 

[speiss]

Ah, tu penses?

^_^

A page with ink spilled on it is useless.

I made "will" into "with," because if it would just feel weird replying to something I knew.. meant something else...

A page with spilled ink on it is not useless because it either affirms or reaffirms the staining quality and color of the ink, and whether or not it's worth getting again.

Green heads stuck riding elephants forever in soon-to-be-forgotten forum posts are useless.

 

[Auburn]

Green elephant riding smilies aren't useless, because they add an element of humor to a post - that can be used to convey tone/etc better than just text.

Nihilism is useless.

 

[BigApplePi]

On the surface it would seem Nihilism is useless. (I take it not believing in anything.) It is useful because it marks an extreme. It gives a name to an extreme direction to which doubters are headed.

Thinking oneself to sleep.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

That is incredibly useful. While some may be kept up by thinking, my final waking thoughts often translate directly into the dream I experience shortly after.

Long term (generational) welfare support is useless and counterproductive.

 

[BigApplePi]

That's quite useful and has been many times. We strip you of your doctorhood and make you figurehead. You are now a symbol of who knows what to the country you rule,

YOUR MAJESTY!

Small talk.

 

[speiss]

Small talk is not useless because it gives everyone around the speakers more much-needed opinions about the weather.

Misspellings are useless.

 

[hitode-kun]

Misspellings aren't useless because they help identify the spelling nazis in the group.

Pencil sharpeners are useless. Knives are so much better.

 

[speiss]

Pencil sharpeners aren't useless because they keep fishermen sketching out at sea from hurting themselves.

Kitkats are useless.

 

[Auburn]

Blasphemy! O':

Kit Kats are the most delicous, scrumptious, mouth watering chocolates on the face of the planet! <3 They are a fountain of happiness! (and acne, for some, but that's beside the point)

puppies & rainbows are useless!

 

[lord methous]

Pencil sharpeners are useless. Knives are so much better.

off topic but very much agreed

puppies & rainbows are not useless as they give the F types something to show that they are F types.

French tanks are useless.

 

[speiss]

French tanks are not useless because they're something to carry all their white flags around in.

Spiky haircuts are useless.

And you're the blasphemer, Aubby!

 

[Auburn]

Spiky haircuts are useful for tickling helpless civilians until they wee their trousers. :3
(Don't ask.. c//c)

Trying to concentrate on writing is useless. >.<

 

[speiss]

Trying to concentrate on writing is not useless because it often results in a headache and therefore lets aspirin companies prosper.

Broken fans are useless.

 

[Words]

Use is subjective and dependent on value, and there are definitely strange people out there who likes broken fans. Maybe to an extent that they would rearrange the fans to create some innovative engineering in downtrodden areas, perhaps somewhere in India or some desert-like isolated community. Maybe there are also historically-relevant or antique fans out there. Value is also subjective.

This thread is useless, because use is subjective. Also, nothing is useless.

 

[perkins]

This thread isn't useless because it gives me something to do while watching porn (mental masturbation). Also, nothing isn't useless because without nothing there wouldn't be a something.

Big Macs are useless.

 

[kantor1003]

Big macs are yummy (!) and alleviate hunger.

Being chronically depressed is useless.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Depression has its uses. Some people, say that trials like that allow you to grow, and they are partially correct. It also gives you a different view of the world.

Rubbber chickens are useless.


edit: inntentional.

 

[BigApplePi]

Rubber chickens are useful because they provide food and sustenance for rubber people.

Edit: Oh. You said "rubbber chickens." Those are useful too. They provide employment for Spellling Nazi's.

Proselytizing is useless.

 

[Beholder]

Strictly speaking, for something to be useless, it must have no purpose or do nothing to further a cause. Therefore proselytizing isn't useless, because it converts people to your religion (which is probably useless, but that wasn't the question), which must be one's purpose, if one goes about proselytizing.

Trying to guess what happens in the afterlife is useless.

 

[speiss]

Trying to guess what happens in the afterlife isn't useless because it gives people things to sing about in churches and makes echoes that resound very prettily.

Porcelain Santas are useless.

 

[Reluctantly]

Porcelain santas are useful for creeping out little children and reminding people that have no one close to them of all the potential joy they are missing out on during Christmas time. This creates suicide, which is useful because it helps create jobs in a bad economy.

Anal sex is useless.

 

[Iamnotbutter]

Anal sex is useful when a partner has a loose twat or a penis.

VCRs are useless :/

 

[perkins]

VCRs are useful when you have a loose twat or a penis.

Tickle Me Elmo's are useless.

 

[Trebuchet]

Tickle me Elmo isn't useless because it was fun to watch parents fighting over preschool toys. And they may be good for psych experiments into negative emotions.

An electric slide rule is useless.

 

[BigApplePi]

An electric slide rule isn't useless because if gives me a good excuse to try to find something that doesn't exist. If I did find one, it could make me very rich.

Worrying oneself silly about global warming is useless.

 

[Felan]

Worrying oneself silly about global warming isn't useless as it reveals a greater problem of the difficulty of discerning the fullest truth from a mass of information of varying veracity. This problem that global discussion illustrates so poignantly is truly the greatest problem facing humanity today.

Discerning the fullest truth from a mass of information of varying veracity is useless.

 

[lucky12]

The "fullest truth" found at that time may as well be the real truth, it develops the current mass of information into smaller more specific subjects and eliminates those which cannot be proven to be true.

An imposed drinking age is useless.

 

[speiss]

An imposed drinking age is not useless because it gives kids who make fake identity cards better business.

War is useless.

 

[lucky12]

War isn't useless because it produces technology that can be converted to aid humanity instead of harm it.

Dandruff is useless

 

[Mythica]

Dandruff isn't useless because it provides jobs for people who work at dandruff shampoo companies.

Internet Explorer is useless.

 

[Zionoxis]

Dandruff defines a specific group of people to be laughed at. By defining such a group, the excluding group then feels better about themselves due to a temporary superiority complex. If you are looking to gain higher productivity out of a specific group, give them a little self confidence.

Black Holes are useless.

 

[lord methous]

internet explore is not useless as its good for downloading another web browser.

reality is useless.

 

[speiss]

Reality is not useless because the graphics make for a decent game.

Black holes as well are not useless because they give people a sense of panic and fear when they hear that their beings can slip away into nothingness, which in turn prepares them for the thought of death in general.

Dirty fingernails are useless.