Things that make you immediately stop reading something

The (generally clickbait) articles that use a headline like “People You Thought Were Dead” or “You Won’t Believe What Joe Celeb Is Doing Now!” They don’t know what I think or believe. Asshats.

“No offense, but . . .”

means:

“I’m about to say something offensive.”

Can be safely skipped.

Unironic use of the following:

“The gender wage gap…”

“…by James Patterson”

“Toxic masculinity…”

“White supremacy…” (to describe life in 21st century America)

“Alt-right adjacent…”

“Big Pharma…”

“Deep state…”

“The MSM…”

“The globalists…”

“Check your privilege…”

“…being dragged on Twitter.”

“<pundit> DESTROYS <pundit>”

More like “Stop listening to something” but on podcasts whenever the host has a “What have you been drinking” discussion on anything that isn’t a podcast about drinking alcohol.

Yes I really want a true crime podcast to take a 20 minute break talking about whatever IPA they just tried.

Gross misspellings or word confusion. For example, when a news article uses “breaks” instead of “brakes” in describing a vehicle accident, how am I supposed to believe anything else in the article?

In message boards, excessive use of multi-quotes.

“I’m a nihilist. Convince me existence is worthwhile but keep in mind that none of your replies matter to me.”

Sooner or later, someone will lose patience and get a warning for telling the OP to just go fucking kill himself already.

This is more of an in-person peeve but I heard a book version today on NPR: they were reviewing a kid’s book where the kid at one point is encouraged to demonstrate their high five, and the next line is telling them how horrible they did and they should put some enthusiasm into it next time.

I would have stopped reading there. I hate when people ask you to yell something along with them and then always say “I can’t hear you, do it again!” Have you ever heard someone say “that was great! I was going to ask you to repeat it again but that was so amazing I don’t have to!” It’s gotten to the point that when someone asks a crowd to do something I refuse because nothing I could possibly do would satisfy them.

Atm machine, vin number, pdf file, etc… redundancy. I might continue to read a bit more, though.

Full stop - anything that cites Google search to prove they’re right, name-calling and gross mis-spellings.

I cherish posts by people who are not native English speakers - you can tell by the syntax and word choices. I observe less apostrophe abuse and gross mis-spellings in their posts, also.

All of the above, do not occur in books and articles that I read, so for those, when the author goes on and on with wordy descriptions, I have to make myself concentrate because that information will be important later.

Nitpick: PDF is short for “Portable Document Format”, so “PDF file” is not a redundancy.

Didn’t you just misspell misspell? :wink:

Citing anyone who is known to be totally biased on the subject. You are not going to change my mind about homosexuality by citing Paul Cameron .

“ginned up”, “Democrat Party”, “Beltway”, “chattering classes”, “shill”, “white privilege”, “detox”.

There’s a longer list of buzzwords that signify useless tripe, but my eyes are already glazed over enough by citing those.

An appeal to religion. “According to Leviticus…”

Anything with a passive-aggressive beginning like “Let’s see who cares enough to read this . . .” Not. Me. Same with anything that ends with an exhortation to share, especially “I bet you won’t share this” Let me help you win that bet!

Anyone who says something is “Very, very . . .X” or even worse never finishes the sentence at all. Buy a vocabulary!

“Libtard.” It’s code for “I’m an ignorant yokel who parrots things I don’t understand.”

Citing Breitbart.

The combined mention of one’s Christianity and money.

The phrase “I’m not political.” You live in a Democracy; this affects you and you affect it. Pay attention.

How do you feel about people yelling at a crowd, “Throw your hands in the air, throw your hands in the air, and wave’em like you just don’t care.”

As someone who describes his views as more libertarian than liberal or conservative it’s frustrating seeing people say that find the word “libertarian” to be triggering. Having said that I have hard time taking anyone seriously who uses(or references) Ayn Rand to defend the beliefs. I despise her and her influence on both the Libertarian and Republican Parties has been destructive to both. I also have hard time taking anyone seriously who insist “free markets” are the solution to every problem. Health care, “Free Markets!!”. Infrastructure need repair, “Free Markets!!!” . This is why I am NOT a member of the Libertarian Party.

I’d especially hate that: what if I want to wave them like I do care?

That’s givin’ 'em the 411 info!

Anyone who spins the Bible.

St. Paul said women speaking in church is a disgrace.
Yeah, but he was only talking to one particular church in that passage.

If it doesn’t apply to all Christian churches, why is it in the New Testament?