Who doesn't like pointless lists, where people rank things in a self-indulgent way? It means that the person doing the ranking gets to be as self-important as they want to be. Plus it means that everyone else gets to take offence because that person knows nothing. What an idiot.
Who doesn't like the neatness of pointlessly putting things in alphabetical order? Everyone likes things in an order, right?
So let's run with this. Let's take an alphabet and fill it with pointlessly ranked things. Shall we start with Cities? Seems like a good place to start. Does mean that we will need more rules.
What is a city? Should be nice and easy. In the UK the Queen has a list. But that list includes places like St David's that are barely villages. So we can't use a formal definition. I feel like to be a city a city needs to feel like a city. Does that make sense? Ideally it would have some level of international significance, but just a certain city-ness will do me.
Do we need more rules? I've got to have been there. That one's obvious. It would not be anywhere near self-indulgent enough otherwise.
No English Cities? Let's throw that in.
Only one city from each country? That feels like a rule I may get bored of and just start ignoring.
Oh and my decision is final. If I accidentally cause offence by saying that the city you live in isn't as good as, say, Bamako. Not my fault, you should live somewhere better.
Let's do this...
Who doesn't like the neatness of pointlessly putting things in alphabetical order? Everyone likes things in an order, right?
So let's run with this. Let's take an alphabet and fill it with pointlessly ranked things. Shall we start with Cities? Seems like a good place to start. Does mean that we will need more rules.
What is a city? Should be nice and easy. In the UK the Queen has a list. But that list includes places like St David's that are barely villages. So we can't use a formal definition. I feel like to be a city a city needs to feel like a city. Does that make sense? Ideally it would have some level of international significance, but just a certain city-ness will do me.
Do we need more rules? I've got to have been there. That one's obvious. It would not be anywhere near self-indulgent enough otherwise.
No English Cities? Let's throw that in.
Only one city from each country? That feels like a rule I may get bored of and just start ignoring.
Oh and my decision is final. If I accidentally cause offence by saying that the city you live in isn't as good as, say, Bamako. Not my fault, you should live somewhere better.
Let's do this...
