What are you admittedly hypocritical about?

[Agent Foxtrot]

For me, I hate hate hate it when people talk on their cell phones while driving. However, I was in the habit of doing it myself for a year or two until I got my Bluetooth device.

I very much hate the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, yet I'm guilty of buying clothes and products from companies who employ sweatshops in third-world countries. I also shop at Wal-Mart.

Most of all, I hate hypocrisy in general, but as you can see, I'm guilty of it myself. Everyone is. What are you hypocritical about?


Adam

[gigi]

The way society should do more about the poor and suffering and then I sit home and don't do anything about it.

[Lamar Mundane]

I am a fierce social libertarian, but I love it that my state has pretty much banned indoor smoking.

[SiXSwordS]

I loathe people who ask me a question — especially at work where I have to answer — and then disregard what I tell them and do what they want to do anyway.

Gunther How do I get to the airport?
ME Take the freeway to exit 112A.
Gunther I don't drive on the freeway.
ME Oh, then take Hwy 7 to Hwy 19 to Airport Rd.
Gunther Airport Rd. is too busy, I think I'll just take a cab.

But I frequently ignore my bosses answers to questions and do what I want anyway; or worse yet, I argue with him about his answer until he tells me to do what I was planning to do all along.

[Agent Foxtrot]

Huh. I thought this thread would generate a little bit more response. Dopers love threads like these...

[Queen Bruin]

I'm a environmental type and I live 75 miles from where I have to be every morning. When my husband and I commuted together, it was around 200 miles/day.

I justify it by telling myself, hey, at least it's a PZEV compact and I won't be driving much during the summer. But I'm still a hypocrite.

[Hampshire]

I loathe the attention the media gives to the likes of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Linsey Lohan, etc.
However, I must be paying attention since I know more about their current status than I do about more pressing matters.

[AuntiePam]

Originally Posted by Agent Foxtrot

Huh. I thought this thread would generate a little bit more response. Dopers love threads like these...

I came up with a bunch, but then I realized they were behaviors I was judgmental about rather than hypocritical. I don't think I tell people to do things that I wouldn't do, or that I do things that I've said are wrong. I have a live and let live attitude, mostly as a reaction to a controlling mother and first husband.

When you're not very critical of others, it's easier to not be hypocritical.

Wait. I thought of one. I've been critical of people who don't read outside their comfort zone. I loves my comfort zone!

[Audrey Levins]

I've been known to bitch about people who don't take their job seriously, or who perform it poorly, but I've had whole days at work where I do the same.

I can't stand it when somebody needs to make a left-hand turn on a busy road and I'm stuck behind them. When I am the one who needs to make a left hand turn I mentally shrug at the irritated people behind me. Sorry, suckers!

Drunk people irritate me unless I am one of them.

I hate talking on the phone so I don't often answer mine, but I dislike it when my call goes to voicemail.

I find excessive excitement over sporting events tedious and annoying, particularly in a bar. I display excess excitement when the Spurs are playing, and I always watch them in bars.

I dislike hypocrisy but I enjoy it myself.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Agent Foxtrot

For me, I hate hate hate it when people talk on their cell phones while driving. However, I was in the habit of doing it myself for a year or two until I got my Bluetooth device.<snip>

You do know that you're still talking on your cellphone while driving, even if you're handsfree, right?

Mine is driving. I rant about other drivers, and I do most of the stuff that they do. It's different when *I* do it, though; I always have a good reason why *I* need to do it. to myself

[Alan Smithee]

Originally Posted by Agent Foxtrot

Huh. I thought this thread would generate a little bit more response. Dopers love threads like these...

Well, we say we do....

[Sapo]

cell phone while driving here. Every time I see someone being an idiot at the wheel, I think to myself "I bet that jerk is on the cell". Yet I have no trouble calling or answering mine. I have all kinds of excuses. Most my calls are 20 second deals for "I am on my way". And I know I am a very good driver . And when I talk, I am more likely to lose track of my conversation than of the road. And, and, and.

[Agent Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by featherlou

You do know that you're still talking on your cellphone while driving, even if you're handsfree, right?

Well, yes, but handsfree allows me to focus more of my attention on the road. Plus I drive a stick, and yes, I have been known to have the phone in one hand while the other hand moves back and forth between the steering wheel and the shift knob.


Adam

[Napier]

>Well, yes, but handsfree allows me to focus more of my attention on the road.
I read that studies show handsfree phone talking is as big a distraction as holding a cellphone to the head while driving, and both activities have the same numerical effect on accident rates (about the same as a 0.1 blood alcohol content, IIRC). The speculation is that the problem is your brain is participating in a conversation with somebody who isn't in the car, and the background or premise implicit in that conversation does not include operating a vehicle in whatever situation the vehicle is in. So, having a conversation with somebody sitting next to you does not have this effect, because they are aware of the vehicle too. The cell phone conversation itself, and not holding the phone up, is the problem.

My hipocracies include believing that foriegn nationals should have the same right to live where they want that I have, while I actually enjoy the fact that I was born American and get to live here. And also believing that the more sentient animals shouldn't be raised for meat, but I still eat them. Though I'm a bit confused about this last one because the ones I'm eating would actually not have been born in the first place if it weren't for the farming industry.

[Hypno-Toad]

Originally Posted by featherlou

Mine is driving. I rant about other drivers, and I do most of the stuff that they do. It's different when *I* do it, though; I always have a good reason why *I* need to do it. to myself

That's me right there. I hate jerks who weave through traffic so they can be first at the red light. But then I get annoyed at the slow guy in front of me. I seem to think that everyone else is a jerk while I'm the one with a good reason for my actions. It is fun, though, seeing circumstances conspire against a Mr. Impatient. Like when he changes lanes back and forth but ends up getting stuck in a very slow lane while the other lane zooms along and he can't get into it.

On a more academic level, I'm a hypocrite when it comes to gun control. I think handguns and automatics should be restricted to military and law enforcement. But I would totally love to sit in a quad-.50 and tear some shit up! Firing a cannon would be awesome, especially if it results in massive destruction. I call this one academic because I know I will never own a firearm or fire a machine-gun.

[Bobotheoptimist]

I'm an ordained minister, a practicing Druid, and an atheist.

[Dunderman]

My diet.

I find the meat industry to be morally wrong, and therefore I find supporting it with my wallet to be morally wrong. I used to only buy meat that I was satisfied was produced by means I considered moral. Then I had a colectomy which led to a bunch of dietary restrictions, making it difficult (but by no means impossible) to continue that lifestyle. So I didn't, but I should.

[Staggerlee]

I consider myself a feminist, politically (I am male), but quite often find myself shirking household chores or procrastinating until my girlfriend has done them.

[Plan B]

Competence. I think incompetence is the most immoral thing there is. Think dentist, surgeon, car mechanic, kindergarten teacher if you're not convinced. I'm usually compulsively competent about my work; I do more and better than my peers most of the time.

But not always. And that's when I'm a hypocrite.

[Dung Beetle]

I'm another who is theoretically against the eating of meat, but I do it anyway. I tell myself that it's this darn family of mine; if it weren't for them, I could give up meat properly. I did do it for a couple of years, and it was difficult.

I buy cage-free eggs, though!

[jsgoddess]

I say things like, "Why do these damned (fill in the blank) want to control people's LIVES?"

And then I say things like, "There oughtta be a law..."

[Wee Bairn]

I love to piss and moan about other employees fucking off, yet here I am, at work, fucking off...

[ForumBot]

I like to complain about careless drivers. But my driving history shows that I'm not a particularly good driver, myself.

I am very adamant about never stealing, but sometimes I sneak a peppermint. You'll never catch me, sucker!

[Revtim]

I see the need for a military, but I would never recommend joining the military, to anybody.

They need to order up a clone army I guess.

[gigi]

Originally Posted by Alan Smithee

Well, we say we do....

Originally Posted by Hampshire

I loathe the attention the media gives to the likes of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Linsey Lohan, etc.
However, I must be paying attention since I know more about their current status than I do about more pressing matters.

I hate the way the paparazzi operate but then I break down and buy the magazines that fund them. And why do I know the names of stars' pets and children?

[Hypno-Toad]

I remember what George Carlin said about other drivers:

"You ever notice that people driving slower than you are idiots and that people driving faster than you are maniacs?"

[Pithy Moniker]

When driving I hate when I get passed on the right side, but I'm guilty of it more often than I'd like to admit.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by gigi

<snip>And why do I know the names of stars' pets and children?

I don't quite understand that either. I suspect this might be another hypocrisy of mine - I don't think I go out of my way to read magazines or watch tv that focuses on celebrities, but I know everything about them, too. I don't suppose I'm getting that information by osmosis. Maybe it's like country music. I hate country music, and try to avoid listening to it, but somehow I know most of the songs when forced to listen to it.

[Yag Rannavach]

Nothing. When I recognize that I'm being hypocritical about something, I modify my behavior(either changing how I act, or what I say) so that I am no longer hypocritical about it.

[Shodan]

My belief that the US government should do nothing that is not explicitly assigned to it by the Constitution, and my support for the space program.

And I don't even like Tang.

Regards,
Shodan

[TroubleAgain]

Originally Posted by featherlou

I don't quite understand that either. I suspect this might be another hypocrisy of mine - I don't think I go out of my way to read magazines or watch tv that focuses on celebrities, but I know everything about them, too. I don't suppose I'm getting that information by osmosis. Maybe it's like country music. I hate country music, and try to avoid listening to it, but somehow I know most of the songs when forced to listen to it.

I think it is a form of mental osmosis. YOU're not reading or watching the shows, but either the shows are on in the background somewhere, or you're seeing the covers of the magazines at the doctor's, or you overhear conversations....that's how I pick most of it up. I know all about Paris, too, but not because I actually give a crap.