The 100 most pointless things in the world / Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman

Acknowledgments -- Introduction to books -- Cushion on beds -- 27-30 December -- Jukebox Musicals -- Pandas -- 4 a.m. -- Answerphone messages -- Extended warranties -- Wind Chimes -- TV shows spin-offs -- Inappropriate caravan names -- One penny coin -- Sharing packs -- News music -- Palindromes --Disposable razor research and development -- Charges at ATM machines in service stations -- Ready-salted crisps -- Dictator's pet -- US States -- Wearable blankets -- Duty free shops -- Restaurant advertising themselves when you're already eating there -- Novelty songs -- A pointless rant about grammar -- Double checking -- Customer feedback -- Body hair -- Animal hybrids -- Things hanging from pub ceilings -- Answering questions on twitter -- War -- Toaster settings -- Bad films -- Toner -- Internet passwords -- Pointless shopping list -- Unadjustable spanners -- Celebrity biographies -- Explaining rules on episode 400 of a quiz show -- Signs -- Instinctively clutching your valuables when walking past suspicious-looking youths -- Old-skool hand-driers -- Traditional wedding anniversaries -- Baby vegetables -- Knick-knacks on chat show sets -- Noughts and crosses -- Things and crosses -- Things that pretend they are gravy but aren't -- LinkedIn -- Asking questions about classical music or poetry -- Luxembourg -- Restaurant loyalty schemes -- Pet goldfish -- A pointless walk -- Pointless things you can do in 100 seconds -- Game show hosts -- Things hanging from rear-view mirrors -- CVs -- Ties -- Receipts -- Cobblers -- Weird hobbies -- Fake soundtracks on nature programs -- Chip forks -- Cashier number 3 please -- Over-complicated hotel showers -- Mickey Mouse -- Persuading British people to speak foreign languages -- Reading out viewers' tweets on TV and radio -- Support bands at gigs -- Bank card security codes -- Twix -- Mascara innovations -- Christmas number one singles -- Wooden toys -- Unnecessary bloody Mary ingredients -- Dramatic pauses on TV talent shows and reality shows -- Home gyms -- Pilots' briefings -- Those long words that doctors use -- Baby on board stickers -- Online reviews -- Mime -- Milk labeling -- Phone boxes -- Terrible movie taglines -- Being fourteen -- Poems that are just things written down that don't rhymes (also rail replacement services - this is essentially two pointless things for the price of one) -- Shouting at football on the TV -- Charity strolls -- 98% of everything in an instruction manual -- American words for English food -- Telling tall people that they are tall -- Keep calm spin-offs -- Zoo 'filler' -- Central African Republic -- Male grooming -- Queuing in cinemas -- Being number 2 -- Saying everything is pointless -- Answers.

"The world is full of pointless things. From rail replacement bus services to chip forks. From war to windchimes. From people who put cushions on beds to people who read the bit they write about the book on amazon. Look around you right now. See how many pointless things there are in just this one shop (or this one school playground if you’ve picked this up at a car boot fair)… Just about the only thing that isn’t pointless is you. You look amazing. Join Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, the hosts of BBC1 quiz show Pointless as they take you on a journey through The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World. Filled with play-along quiz questions and unlikely facts, their hilarious collection of musings on some of the most pointless things found in everyday modern life is the perfect blend of the obscure, the fascinating and the downright silly."