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My peeves

2024/6/10, 2024/7/1, 2024/7/8

Never has a list been so prone to indefinite expansion. I intensely, incessantly hate so much!

• Subliterates who type:
  • Commas, colons, and esp. semicolons misused interchangeably (if you can't differentiate between commaed punctuation and parataxis, learn)
  • (Most) sentences and phrases concluded with prepositions
  • Sentences initiated with punctuated adverbs and conjunctions (usu. though, and, but,)
  • Confused contractions, possessives, and plurals, esp. contracted plurals (if you actually type these, kill yourself now)
  • "Literally" misapplied as an intensifier
  • Black slang ("ebonics"/"AAVN") coined after the mid-'80s (if you unironically utter or type these, you couldn't sound or read dumber)
  • Unironic use of these
• Organized sports
• Sportsball subcultures
• Man dens
• Corporate journalists
• Animal abusers
• Advocates of needless circumcision
• Twee, talentless, and plagiaristic filmmakers:
  • Michael Bay
  • Luc Besson
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Sofia Coppola
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Stuart Gordon
  • Luca Guadagnino
  • Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Spike Lee
  • Jason Reitman
  • Gary Ross
  • Kevin Smith
  • Sophia Takal
  • Lars von Trier
  • Joss Whedon
• Whores
• Fuckboys
• Marketers
• Housing bubbles
• Anyone who mistypes Michael as "Micheal"
• (Most) white backgrounds
• Awful architects:
  • Le Corbusier
  • Frank Gehry
  • Thom Mayne
  • Jean Nouvel
• Milksops
• Philadelphians
• Slam poets
• Surgical addicts
• Fatuous fans:
  • A24's shills
  • Beatlemaniacs
  • Gridiron football fans
  • GTK 3's apologists
  • Joy Division's fans
  • Kanye West's sober fans
  • Michael Jackson's fans
• Wastrels
• Hipsters
• Hippies
• Vegans
• (sub-)Literary hacks:
  • Robert Christgau
  • Roger Ebert
  • Stephenie Meyer
  • Philip Roth
  • J. K. Rowling
  • John Scalzi
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Armond White
• Mumpsimuses
• (Supposed) self-identified Native Americans who look whiter than me, esp. in movies
• Anyone who dislikes Shunji Iwai
• (Ordinarily relationally failed and aging) radical feminists and pseudo-conservatives who conflate pedophilia and ephebophilia
• Sweatpants without pockets
• This obtuse, abusive, misogynistic, Zionist pedophile
• Cultists:
  • Evangelicals/Judeo-Christians/Christian Zionists
  • Scientologists
  • Talmudists
• Anyone who pesters me at an airport
• Baked "BBQ"
• Idiots who assume that I'm referring to Akira when I obviously mentioned Kiyoshi
• Influencers
• Horrible ideologues and political addicts:
  • Leftards:
    • Marxists
    • Progressives
      • Baizuo
      • Social justice warriors
      • Radical feminists/Anglo-feminists/Third- and fourth-wave feminists
      • Wealthy socialists
      • YIMBYs
  • Neoliberals/lolberts
  • Philistines prepossessed by politics
  • Rightards:
    • MGTOW
    • Moderate/mainstream pseudo-conservatives
    • National Socialists
    • Neoconservatives
    • Neo-reactionaries/Dark Enlightenment proponents
    • Zionists
• Modal textual editors (vi, vim, etc.)
• Sagging pants
• Thesauruses in which hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, metonyms, etc. are listed as synonyms
• Bankers
• Ultracrepidarian critics

© 2024 Robert Buchanan

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