40/5 Reasons Why I’m Right and You’re Wrong About Listicles

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sn’t comply with the program, which is why she is not perfectly happy. Not perfectly happy at all.IV: The Ten Commandments were not numbered, which was an oversight by God, or maybe Moses, but would you have skipped THEM if they were?The Odd <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number">Untouchable Number</a>: How do you order Chinese Food? Do you actually say the name of the dish? Can you even do that?6th: The problem is not the quantity of listicles, it is the quality of listicles. Most are sub-prime, like this one. And speaking of prime:00110111: Most listicles should stop at 5. If you’re going to ignore listicles, maybe you should start by ignoring those over five. I mean, if an author isn’t willing to

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cull their list down to five things they’re not really trying, are they? They’re just wasting our time because they can’t be bothered to separate their own wheat from the their own chaff.8: Unfortunately, cutting people off after 5 would mean you could never get to 8, and eight is one more than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two">magical number seven</a>, which, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%27s_law">Miller’s Law</a>, is the largest number of items that can be cognitively processed by most people. By the time the list runs to eight, most people will have forgotten one of the other items on the list, which means you can start repeating yourself without transitions, because transition words are for nOObs.</article></body>

40/5 Reasons Why I’m Right and You’re Wrong About Listicles

I read on one of those lists that you should always use an image. I made this myself! Isn’t it hideous? See, we DO need designers and should not give them grief about writing and reading design articles. Without them, the whole world could look like this.

8/8: Listicles are to the 20o0’s what the novel was to Victorian Europe

Two: Transition words are for nOObs.

3: I can help you and make your life better. Really. All you have to do is do everything I say. You will love it, I promise. I would tell you to ask my wife, but she doesn’t comply with the program, which is why she is not perfectly happy. Not perfectly happy at all.

IV: The Ten Commandments were not numbered, which was an oversight by God, or maybe Moses, but would you have skipped THEM if they were?

The Odd Untouchable Number: How do you order Chinese Food? Do you actually say the name of the dish? Can you even do that?

6th: The problem is not the quantity of listicles, it is the quality of listicles. Most are sub-prime, like this one. And speaking of prime:

00110111: Most listicles should stop at 5. If you’re going to ignore listicles, maybe you should start by ignoring those over five. I mean, if an author isn’t willing to cull their list down to five things they’re not really trying, are they? They’re just wasting our time because they can’t be bothered to separate their own wheat from the their own chaff.

8: Unfortunately, cutting people off after 5 would mean you could never get to 8, and eight is one more than the magical number seven, which, according to Miller’s Law, is the largest number of items that can be cognitively processed by most people. By the time the list runs to eight, most people will have forgotten one of the other items on the list, which means you can start repeating yourself without transitions, because transition words are for nOObs.