That HTC is touting the stylus for its Flyer tablet as a wonderful feature is
risible on its own — outside of those with very specific uses, nobody should ever need a stylus in 2011.
Not exact matches
Some in the Canadian banking establishment regarded its generous interest rates
on deposits — they began at 4 %, at least double that offered by Canada's dominant Big Six banks — as
risible folly.
would expose this woman's premies for the
risible speculations of a confused person's take
on plain straight forward scripture.
For Brown to suggest that what is now needed is a law to make his own policy happen twelve years
on is utterly
risible.
Pressure Group, OccupyGhan, has bemoaned what it describes as
risible fines imposed as a court sentence
on 13 members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force, for storming the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, and manhandling the regional security coordinator.
Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, said: «It is
risible to pretend that the SNP could defend Scotland
on a budget just 7 % of that from which Scotland currently benefits.
There's the
risible idea that humans are rational, and the dubious notion that we would be capable of the
on - the - hoof calculations of probability, even if we could access all the necessary information.
That moment is
risible in a way that's rare for these from - toil - to - triumph movies, whether it's about the welder who exotic - dances
on the side or the exotic - dancer who wants to weld.
All of this would be tasteless enough as is, but a third - act plot point involving Lydia being molested or even raped (the film keeps the specifics unclear) by her caricature - of - a-hillbilly father (Paul Sparks) causes Trust Me to become truly
risible, particularly because Gregg treats the reveal with the subtlety of a slasher flick jump - scare, as Howard's peering eyes are accompanied by shrill, ambient noises
on the soundtrack.
Moore is in this storyline too, in slightly
risible old - age makeup, showing up to fill in Ben
on all the missing details of his life (to explain further would be to spoil the movie).
Those games never really took themselves particularly seriously, but Wildlands, with its
risible bugs (oh so many bugs), and limited cookie - cutter gameplay piles po - faced grimness
on top of scripts stolen from the office bin of a Narcos knockoff.
Also to claim a warming
on the basis of a multi-decadal oscillation back to the 1970s (when the temperature had been falling since about 1940) as some sort of significance, is beyond
risible.
On one side are people like Thomas Karl and Thomas Petersen, the hapless NOAA scientists given the unenviable task of producing that
risible paper last year which did its best to deny that the Pause was a thing.
And relying (as the IPCC does)
on self - assessment to attest to its quality is
risible.
On the one hand, we have some dude named Steve Postrel, who's so bleedin» sure that access to oil had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, that he confidently claims that the very notion is «
risible.»
What put me off for so long from accepting this, was the
risible arguments from sites like «skeptical science» and the innumerate rants of so many commenters
on sites like this one.
The idea of atmospheric CO2 causing such a measureable change
on the scale of the world's oceans is just
risible.
(More
on Hunt's
risible Wikipedia searches at The Guardian here.)