[He wasn't going to say ridiculous, so much as he was going to say useless, useless, USELESS. Or muda muda muda if you'd prefer.]

Oh my, when you put it that way...it sounds like a lot of words to say that you can predict anything. Unless you can't. And sometimes, who knows, it might even come true.

[...about the only way he could sound like more of a condescending jerk is if he suddenly aged seven years, became a vampire, and started talking about bread, sorry.]