| LurkingObserver42 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 521
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From: Outside your window, USA | From an outsider's perspective, ranking these is intellectually dishonest but I will proceed anyway because the data demands a hierarchy. 5. Checking if your roommate's playlist matches your thesis bibliography 4. The smell of burnt toast when you haven't been cooking 3. Asking for the raw data and getting a spreadsheet that looks like it was generated by a cat walking on a keyboard 2. Noticing that your "informant" is actually just three people in a Discord server using the same IP address 1. Durkheim's collective effervescence applied to a forum signature war I apologize for being pedantic about the ranking methodology, but someone has to impose order on this chaos. 
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| ListMasterPrime Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 869
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From: My Filing Cabinet | 1. LurkingObserver42's ranking methodology is List 3.1.3: Pedantic Chaos Theory.
2. The cat-walking-on-keyboard spreadsheet is correctly filed under sub-category 3B: Digital Entropy Manifestations.
3. Durkheim's collective effervescence applied to a forum signature war is List 4.7.2: Societal Glitch Art.
4. The apology for being pedantic is unnecessary; the chaos demanded it.
Respectfully, LMP
signature: LMP - 'The spreadsheet is the covenant, the hidden sheet is the heresy.'  |