Pointless!
By Steve Sharp
Every weekday evening, just before the news, Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman host the ever-popular Pointless tv quiz show. On Saturdays there is a celebrity version which last weekend featured BBC sports journalist Mike Bushell and news presenter Kasia Madela.
The pair ploughed their way past the head-to-head and into the final sweeping aside the competition.
Their question to win the money for their charities was “Which are London Underground Stations up to 5 stops away from Tottenham Court Road?”
Pointless answer. CHANCERY LANE.
Of course, the team at Chancery Lane use the station and all knew it was correct, but was it pointless? It was!
We were quite chuffed to see our company name advertised on BBC peak viewing. (Even though the answer was about the station, named after the street, from which we take our name.
Pointless. Chancery Lane. Never!
What IS pointless is worrying about managing your income in retirement, because we are here to deal with it for you.
This got me wondering about really Pointless things, and I discovered that Messrs Armstrong and Osman had written a book featuring The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World.
Here are a few….
Cushions on Beds.
Before you can get into bed you have to remove them and put them on the floor, because there is nowhere else for them to go. When the bed is made in the morning you put them back on the bed and never see them until bedtime!
4 A.M.
The most pointless hour to be awake of the 24. You are either awake far too early…or far too late.
Internet Passwords.
In the early days, one was a good thing, but now you have loads and the ones you did know got changed to something new because you can’t use the same one again. So, you write them down. And what’s the one thing you should never do with passwords? Write them down.
Receipts.
When you make the smallest of purchases in a newsagent or anywhere and use contactless to pay, you are always asked if you need a receipt.
As Armstrong and Osman observe, “If I buy a house I need a receipt, if I buy a Twix I don’t.”
Steve