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127 Reasons Why You Are An Idiot: And How To Be Less ... Idiotic
Do you think the world is going to shit? And that manners are being thrown out the window? And that common sense and common courtesy are becoming uncommon? And that you are now dealing with idiots that bit too often?
You are not alone.
We are all collectively treating each other worse than ever before. We talk to each other like dickheads. We drive like wankers. We leave piss on the toilet seat. We shake hands as if they’ve turned into floppy fish. We treat money as the be-all and end-all.
Yann thinks this is down to us slowly losing touch with our own humanity. In other words, we care more about ourselves than the person next to us.
Sure, capitalism and technology are partly to blame.
But at the end of the day, if we don’t start treating each other a little better, we’re all truly fucked. There’s no way in hell we’ll be able to work together long enough to resolve the catastrophic problems coming our way.
To that end, ‘127 Reasons Why You Are An Idiot’ is chock full of 127 hilarious, sweary, sarcastic, hard-hitting rants about everyday things that everyday idiots do , with quasi-serious, tongue-in-cheek exercises to help idiots be less idiotic.
Rants
Queue cutting
Cancel culture
Buying rounds
Splitting the bill
Holding the door open
Ignoring reserved seating
Treating pets as humans
Tailgating
Reclining plane seats
Taking the mick
Conspiracy theorists
& many more!
No one is innocent of being an idiot, including you. It is impossible to read this book and not realise at least one or two ways you’ve started to not give a shit about your fellow human.
Yann hopes that, instead of being a little bitch about it, you’ll use all the reality checks you’ll receive to become a better person who is more aware of how their actions affect others.
Guaranteed
Fucks Zero
Legitimate Reviews
“Brilliant!! But it can’t go on our best seller’s list because most of our readers are idiots”
– Some shit newspaper
“Bought for my idiot friend. Was a prick, still is but at least he knows it now!!”
– An idiot
“The perfect stupid gift for my boyfriend/husband/dad/brother!! They can be a right wanker!”
– Wanker-loving idiot
Get the book now, you muppet. Yann doesn’t care whether you buy it as a Secret Santa piss-take for colleagues, a really stupid gift for Christmas, a birthday present for people you don't like, for bloody Mother’s and Father’s Day, or just because you like books taking the mick. Just buy the thing and start your journey towards being less of a prick.
You are not alone.
We are all collectively treating each other worse than ever before. We talk to each other like dickheads. We drive like wankers. We leave piss on the toilet seat. We shake hands as if they’ve turned into floppy fish. We treat money as the be-all and end-all.
Yann thinks this is down to us slowly losing touch with our own humanity. In other words, we care more about ourselves than the person next to us.
Sure, capitalism and technology are partly to blame.
But at the end of the day, if we don’t start treating each other a little better, we’re all truly fucked. There’s no way in hell we’ll be able to work together long enough to resolve the catastrophic problems coming our way.
To that end, ‘127 Reasons Why You Are An Idiot’ is chock full of 127 hilarious, sweary, sarcastic, hard-hitting rants about everyday things that everyday idiots do , with quasi-serious, tongue-in-cheek exercises to help idiots be less idiotic.
Rants
Queue cutting
Cancel culture
Buying rounds
Splitting the bill
Holding the door open
Ignoring reserved seating
Treating pets as humans
Tailgating
Reclining plane seats
Taking the mick
Conspiracy theorists
& many more!
No one is innocent of being an idiot, including you. It is impossible to read this book and not realise at least one or two ways you’ve started to not give a shit about your fellow human.
Yann hopes that, instead of being a little bitch about it, you’ll use all the reality checks you’ll receive to become a better person who is more aware of how their actions affect others.
Guaranteed
Fucks Zero
Legitimate Reviews
“Brilliant!! But it can’t go on our best seller’s list because most of our readers are idiots”
– Some shit newspaper
“Bought for my idiot friend. Was a prick, still is but at least he knows it now!!”
– An idiot
“The perfect stupid gift for my boyfriend/husband/dad/brother!! They can be a right wanker!”
– Wanker-loving idiot
Get the book now, you muppet. Yann doesn’t care whether you buy it as a Secret Santa piss-take for colleagues, a really stupid gift for Christmas, a birthday present for people you don't like, for bloody Mother’s and Father’s Day, or just because you like books taking the mick. Just buy the thing and start your journey towards being less of a prick.
411 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2022
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14 people want to read
About the author
Yann Somou
1 book4 followersYann Somou (an anagram of “anonymous”) is the foul-mouthed, frustrated author of 127 Reasons Why You Are an Idiot – a sweary, sarcastic takedown of everyday idiocy. He stays nameless to strip away ego, forcing readers to face the uncomfortable truth: we’re treating each other like shit. His rants tackle everything from limp handshakes to moral decay, arguing that if we can’t even be decent to one another, we’ve got no hope of fixing the actual crises – climate, capitalism, you name it. He swears not for shock, but because “Pick it up, you dog-shit-leaving wanker” works better than polite bollocks. Born in the shittiest of years that was 2020, Yann’s writing is a “fuck you” to apathy – and a hopeful nudge towards compassion. Just don’t idolise him. He’s not your guru. He’s just not a complete wanker. Probably.
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December 2, 2022
A sweary book of rants created with the aim of helping people do better.
Yann Somou has a lot of thoughts, and within the 120+ rants in ‘Don’t Be Stupid, Idiot’ he’s shared a great deal of them with us. Broken up into sections like Manners, Politics, Money, Travel and Sport the author takes aim at a range of topics from one-upmanship to not voting with “[Pointless] exercises” at the end of each rant essentially recommends actions that may be seen as obvious common sense to some, and to others … well, it may be a good thing they read the chapter.
Each expletive embellished rant is directed at a “you” that is guilty of the topic at hand, whether they’ve not taken a few seconds out of their day to hold a door for someone, or frequently wears ripped jeans. There’s even a link at the end of each chapter so you can send the rant via text message, telegram or WhatsApp to someone you feel it applies to, if you feel entitled. The holiday season is coming up, with possibly lots of gatherings, whether they’re work Christmas parties, family meals or nights out among friends and acquaintances. Whatever the event at least one of these subjects will undoubtedly come up and this book will either have prepared you with a eloquent, if sweary, line of argument to utilise, or give you food for thought beforehand.
This is a uniquely presented collection of arguments. Acerbic? Yes. Blunt? Definitely. However each argument is mildly entertaining in its ferocity, simply constructed and easily engaged with, in a tone that emphasises the underlying obviousness of common sense.
Yann Somou has a lot of thoughts, and within the 120+ rants in ‘Don’t Be Stupid, Idiot’ he’s shared a great deal of them with us. Broken up into sections like Manners, Politics, Money, Travel and Sport the author takes aim at a range of topics from one-upmanship to not voting with “[Pointless] exercises” at the end of each rant essentially recommends actions that may be seen as obvious common sense to some, and to others … well, it may be a good thing they read the chapter.
Each expletive embellished rant is directed at a “you” that is guilty of the topic at hand, whether they’ve not taken a few seconds out of their day to hold a door for someone, or frequently wears ripped jeans. There’s even a link at the end of each chapter so you can send the rant via text message, telegram or WhatsApp to someone you feel it applies to, if you feel entitled. The holiday season is coming up, with possibly lots of gatherings, whether they’re work Christmas parties, family meals or nights out among friends and acquaintances. Whatever the event at least one of these subjects will undoubtedly come up and this book will either have prepared you with a eloquent, if sweary, line of argument to utilise, or give you food for thought beforehand.
This is a uniquely presented collection of arguments. Acerbic? Yes. Blunt? Definitely. However each argument is mildly entertaining in its ferocity, simply constructed and easily engaged with, in a tone that emphasises the underlying obviousness of common sense.
September 3, 2022
I got the kindle book for free, during an offer, but honestly I would have been more than happy to have paid money for it. I saw the title and was dead set on me not being another idiot. Boy was I wrong! I think everyone can relate to at least a few chapters and everyone know a few people whom the some of the chapters might be about. Yann has hit the nail on the head with this one. Yann can we be friends?
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