As a Washingtonian (well, technically Arlingtonian), I view it as my God-given right to look down on tourists. People who stand on the left side of Metro escalators - those fools I despise as harbingers of Western Civilization’s demise.
Traditional Chinese characters and bo-po-mo-fo. I was quite snooty in college when I would write out exercises on the blackboard in traditional characters and none of my whitebread, simplified character-studying classmates could understand it. And they pronounced
我 as “whoah” 'cause they thought that’s the way it was “spelled” in pinyin. Dorks.
ETA: and in Asia, every American (IME) looks on every other random American they encounter in this foreign land as the biggest dork on the planet. Watch me as I order my Subway sandwich in Mandarin, n00b!
For 2 1/2 years my day job was editing 1/4 inch tape with a razor blade.
Editing in the computer for the last 12 years means I don’t have to go through the waste basket to find a particular piece of tape to fix a bad edit.
I have seen people edit 1 inch and 2 inch tape, but I haven’t done it.
Maintaining alignment on a 1 inch or 2 inch machine is something I learned a long time ago, but have forgotten because I haven’t used the skills.
In the mid 80’s I worked at a studio with Studer 2 inch and 1/4 inch machines and a discrete-wired Neve console installed by Rupert Neve and his wife. No printed circuit boards in the mixer, just wires, resistors, inductors, and capacitors. It was a great sounding 8058 console. I got spoiled. It was before the digital multi-tracks came out, and still to me some of the best recorded sound.
I don’t have golden ears like some audiophiles and engineers claim to have, but I can hear differences in sounds that many people don’t hear.
Thus, mp3 through earbuds or computer speakers is NOT a satisfying listening experience for me.
Right; I know what you’re saying…with analog, under the right circumstances/equipment, you can get a MUCH warmer, deeper, space-in-between-ier sound that makes digital sound like a cheap cartoon. No techhead argument can counter that.
I rarely get junk food anymore and won’t eat most things that come frozen in a box or that have been in a can for quite some time and still have a long shelf life.
It’s not just that I’m trying to eat healthier; it’s that the preservatives and other chemicals in the above tend to upset my stomach.
Also, I don’t bother with Wal Mart.
Computers are good for when precision is needed. I can find stuff in the sky by eye or with a telescope, but I prefer the precision of the computer controls.
Where does precision come in? Either you can find it or you can’t. Speed to find the object might be a consideration however. And to kick in an elitist twist, a person who can use a telescope well manually can use a computer to control a scope just a well a person who just uses a computer to control it. But the converse is not true.
Well it depends if you’re doing astronomy for pleasure or (ha!) profit. The telescopes I work with have fairly small fields of view for which, frankly, you need a computer. Yeah, if you have a telescope in your back yard, you probably don’t, but don’t knock all of us who guide our telescopes via computer!
Understood.
I am not knocking it. I am just saying you are arent DOING anything 
Its like having a computer controlled airplane you just sit in while it does everything. It may be fun in its own way, but it aint remotely the same as manual flying.
Hey, I am trying to be an elitist snob in the spirit of the OP. Quit clouding the issue.
In that case, of course I’m not going to DO anything for the stamp-collecting part of it!
Anime. But not dub vs. sub, but what series you are into. If your list of favorites consists of mostly televised in America anime or series made after 2000, I turn my nose down on you. Also, if you’ve never watched a horrible bajillionth generation fansub tape, you fail. Kids these days are spoiled. They just download hundreds of gigs of anime that they’ll probably never get around to watching. I remember when it was hard to get your hands on series. Before there were scanlations, people did text translations that you’d print out and read alongside the imported manga.
So basically, I look down on the kids who have always had an easy time of getting their hands on anime and complain about $30 a DVD for 6 episodes.
I’m especially interested in what happens in yaoi fandom once the new Ai no Kusabi OVA comes out. There’s going to be the people like me who remember waiting impatiently for their fansubs of the original to come in the mail and were thankful to have that, and the new kids that’ll bitch if each episode isn’t fansubbed and downloadable within 24 hours.
I don’t think it’s elitism if you don’t buy something because it upsets your stomach.
Real sci fi geeks like me don’t go to * Twilight *movies. Vampires don’t sparkle in the sun.
Sci fi geeks don’t go mainstream. We are with the dungeons and the dragons - not with you fluffy types that think Harry Potter is cool but haven’t read any of the books or seen Draco Malfoy or Neville Longbottom in person at Dragon*Con. And we know that Tom Baker is the best Dr. Who and what “all your bases are belong to us” is all about. And we understand the joke about how there are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary code, and those who don’t.
I’m more than a bit of a WoW elitist. I’ve been playing for 4 years now, I’m in a progression raid guild, and nothing bugs me more than people who simply won’t learn how to play properly and try to raid. Dammit, if you can’t figure out how not to stand in fire or follow simple instructions, please just don’t even sign up for the raid. You’re annoying the rest of us who are trying to get things done.
That said, I enjoy helping out newbies and it makes me feel good when I’m able to help somebody improve their gameplay with my suggestions (which I don’t offer unsolicited unless they’re trying to raid and have no clue about how to play their class…and even then I’m not obnoxious about it unless they are.) To me there’s a difference between “people who are new to the game and haven’t figured out how things work yet” (I used to be one of those–believe me, I understand!) and “people who are militantly determined to inflict their eccentric gameplay style on 9 or 24 other people who are trying to accomplish something.” It’s the latter that I’m elitist about.
Blu-ray. I will check if a Blu-ray version is available and go out of my way to rent it for every movie. I even have the latest season of South Park in its high definition glory. 
I started my collection in December 2007 and it has grown to almost 200 movies now. The whole time I’ve been building my collection, I’ve been thinking that others will follow and that it will become the next standard, but people seem to be slow to adopt it. My parents, family, friends, and girlfriend all have little to no interest in it. They all seem to think DVD is good enough. Which I can understand, since Blu-rays are so much more expensive, but why shell out for a 1080p TV if you’re only going to buy 480i content for it? :smack:
For me it’s private aviation. I still fly commercial from time to time, but I much prefer corporate/private aircraft. No security lines, no baggage claim, no boarding lines, no check-in kiosks, no connecting flights, no scimping on drinks or snacks.
It’s elitism at its best!
I’ve DJ’d alongside enough people using laptops to know that equipment has very little to do with it. Even at home through standard “dad’s basement” hi-fi speakers there’s a huge difference in sound between what comes out of my soundcard vs. vinyls through a mixer.
The oft-repeated contention that you need the “right” (i.e. expensive) gear to hear a difference between high quality MP3 and wax is a myth.
You win.
Better than going to see Bowling for Soup and being the only not-13-year-old-girls in the building. On the bright side, we had the bars pretty much to ourselves.
I was going to post some of my Elitist Views, but then I saw that this thread is for Elitism that you’re ashamed of.
I’m not ashamed of my Elitist Views at all, so you can all consider yourselves fortunate that this isn’t the thread for me to pontificate upon them.