For reasons I don’t understand, something about the internet drives its authors to crank out list after list after list about… stuff. Lists feel like the second-most prevalent thing on the internet – after porn and before stupid captioned pictures of animals. I don’t get the appeal. In fact, I dislike lists. Here’s why:
- Lists create a false sense of comprehensiveness, especially when the number of items in the list isn’t a multiple of five. The only rational reason that a rundown of ‘Thirty-Seven Hot Young Volleyball Players’ would exist is that a thirty-eighth could not be found. This is coming from a guy who never sets an alarm or microwave to any time ending in a five or zero. Continue reading