• dud, fish, fuckup, lame duck, lunk, lunkhead, twit
• helplessness, impotence, inability, inability to do sg, incapacity, inertia, inertness, paralysis, powerlessness
• stand around like a spare prick at a wedding, stand around like a spare prick at an orgy
• beyond recovery, beyond retrieval, irreparable, past retrieval, unredeemable