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Aug 7, 2021, 12 tweets

Time for a pulp countdown now, and today it's my top 10 of modern sins for the professional classes!

Sometimes the only way to go places is by going bad...

At #10: the sin of grade inflation! "Thou shalt not refuse to deduct marks for spelling..."

At #9: the sin of Agile software development! "Thou shalt not hide thy poor interface behind claims of 'permanent Beta'..."

At #8: the sin of unsustainable travel! "Thou shalt not pay to plant a tree and claim it as thy carbon offset..."

At #7: the sin of inferring causation from correlation! "Thou shalt not hide thy methodology 'neath many annexes..."

At #6: the sin of approximeetings! "Thou shalt not say '7.30ish at Nandos' and arrive at ten to nine..."

At #5: the sin of AirB&B tax avoidance! "Thou shalt not claim thou did not know thy rules on income derived from assets..."

At #4: the sin of festival glamping! "Thou shalt not set thy feet within a yurt..."

At #3: the sin of Metro area living! "Thou shalt not buy new build on greenfield sites, nor claim complex part-equity schemes be homeownership..."

At #2: the sin of Google Calendar reliance! "Thou shalt not risk thy schedule on intermittent Wi-Fi..."

And the #1 modern sin is... the sin of VW camper vans! "Thou shalt not indulge thyself in Hipster Stay-cationing..."

That's it for my look at the sins of modern life. Don't let the Devil tempt you...

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