Bullet Points

The most blood-curdlingly contrived use of bullet points is when a cretin tries to:

start a list of bullet points for which the leading phrase flows nicely into the first one;
but then the second one completely forgets about the aforementioned flow;
even worse, it sometimes starts an entirely new sentence;
or even worserer, it forgets the whole point of the list and starts flanging* on about something totally irrelevant;
isn't the sky a pretty shade of red today?

So can you remove any of the first few items from your list and still leave it scanning correctly? Can you? Well, then you're quite OK. Otherwise, you're asking for a quick bullet point to the head (not nice, we've been there, surgery was required).

* - Actual word