Exercise In Futility Edit Meaning

1.

I. an action that is generally pointless and will have no effect.

II. A discussion that is useless in the bigger picture and in which neither party is actually right, even thought both sides of the argument try to win every time.

I. washing your car before a thunderstorm is an exercise in futility

Ia. trying to exterminate cockroaches

II. the unending fight over whether rock is better than rap.

See futile, retard, hamster wheel, pointless, cockroach