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Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗
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People who make you wait around for them.
Unbending opinions.
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Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
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Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
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To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
Laziness and procrastination.
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