Moving on...
I hate Hannah Montana/Milley Cyrus, whichever one she is at the time, I hate them BOTH. She's annoying and I hate the sound of her raspy man voice.
Another thing I hate...
I hate waking up early. Noon is a good time to wake up I think, but other than the weekends, that never happens.
Uhhh...
I hate the pink and black combination people are STILL doing. Get over it, that was sooo 8th grade. I hate when people tie the bottom of their pants to their Vans with the shoelace. It looks dumb, buy some skinny jeans.
Lastly, (well I mean there's more, but I don't want to go on for too long)
I hate multiples of 5. It's kind of weird, no, wait it is, but let me give you an example. On the microwave, people usually put their cook time ending in either a 5 or a 0. Most people I know do this. But what about those numbers in between? They have been surpressed for as long as I can remember and so I believe in inequality so I give those numbers a chance by putting in 23 seconds, 47 seconds, 1 minute and 19 seconds. I know they feel left out when it's always 5 and 0 being pushed so I've come to despise the multiple of 5 race and I've taken it upon myself to form "The Coalition of The Other Numbers".
WOW. Wtf am I saying?? lol, I don't even know, this is ridiculous, buuuut, I really do push the other numbers. I think it's like my minor case of OCD because I can't, even if I wanted to use the 5 or the 0, I feel compelled to make the cook time end in something else.
I don't have a coalition though, nor do I hate the multiple of 5 race lol
& that's my list of things I hate =)
I'm with you on the number 5. You're not insane. Perhaps 1 minute, 14 seconds is precisely the best time setting for that frozen burrito. There's nothing magical about the number 5, except that we like symmetry, and we like things to match our numbers of fingers and toes on each limb.
ReplyDeleteBut there's another number that's given this sort of special treatment, for no good reason at all, and if you teach writing (like I do), it really starts to nag at you: There is NOTHING magical about the number three.
But -- and this is particularly true when I teach business writing classes -- everything in a paper seems to come in sets of three: I get three reasons, of course, but also three parts to a plan, three bullet points, three key facts, three verbs ("We will create, distribute, and implement a plan to increase revenue"), three verbs and three nouns ("We will create, distribute, and implement a plan to increase revenue, marketability, and productivity"), and so forth. The abuse of three is rampant. I am overjoyed when I get papers that say things like "there are two chief reasons" or "I will compare four possible solutions," simply because they indicate the author is not imprisoned by the number three.
So there's my rant, which you may consider to be an inspired tribute to your own post on the number five. ;-)
- Gray Scott