Rebellious, stick-it-to-the-man, doesn’t give a shit what anybody things fashion trends that require an hour each morning to make it look like you just woke up.
-the use of “shall” instead of 'will"-sounds snobby to me
-wearing clothing with little labels (or animals) on them, this trend seems to be pushed by designers like “Ralph Lauren” (didja notice the USA olympic team outfits?-they had those enormous polo ponies on them).
I hate it when people that are atheists make a huge deal out of their non-belief or openly disrespect religion. I happen to be religious, but I don’t make a big deal about it or preach to anyone. That said, if I’m at a church and I happen to mention it to someone who’s an atheist, all of a sudden I have to explain myself, deal with open disdain, pretend to laugh at your insensitive jokes, etc.
If you don’t want to mock religion, please at least don’t pretend it somehow makes you higher class or more wordly. It just makes you a pretentious ass.
The 80s called. They want their pretentiousness back.
Or who say <insert cool city name> is their hometown, when the truth is that they were born there two years before their parents moved elsewhere, never to return.
Cuntish art and film students who think that their work is deep and has great meaning.
Vegetarian hippy Californian white bastards who are disappointed when I tell them I love eating meat. Just cos I’m of Indian origin, it doesn’t mean I’m fucking vegetarian.
What if I never lived there?
My mom grew up in a small town in Western MA and I used to spend a week of my summer vacation with my (favorite) grandparents there. I later found out both branches of my family had been there in the nineteenth century and many of them were deeply rooted in the town history.
I don’t go around saying I’m from there (usually it’s “DC by way of New Hampshire”) but it’s always been my favorite place and therefore I consider it my hometown.
Is that pretentious?
People of refined tastes who aren’t content to say that something is better, but that anything less is vile…as in “Hershey’s chocolate tastes like dog shit”, or “Applebee’s food is inedible” or “My friend offered me a beer in a green bottle, what should I have done?”
Along that same line, sports fans who feel that anyone but the champion is a “loser”.
You’re absolutely right - that’s one of the reasons I’m tamping down on that urge. I have no way of knowing why a person has the type of car they do. For what it’s worth, though, it has nothing to do with how PC I am. For the larger cars, it’s often resentment because I can’t see around them at a stoplight or if they’re driving up my ass, all I’ll see is this giant grill in my rearview mirror. With the little cars, I’ve got no excuse - probably jealousy more than anything else.
I generally go for the red wine. But those truly in the know seek out galleries that offer Open Bars.
I probably am.
Back in the 80’s, the joke in Germany was that the really, truly exclusive shirts had the Ralph Lauren emblem of the polo player on his pony, but if you looked really, really closely, the polo player was wearing a Lacoste shirt with the little alligator on it…
Along the same line as people trying to pronounce foreign words with an accent in English conversation, people who refer to someone with a foreign name while using the foreign pronunciation. Now, I have no problem with a sports announcer giving “Viacheslav Trukhno” the best try he can, because that’s how that person would say it. If you’re Ben Mulroney on E-Talk Daily and you’re saying Gabriel Aubry like “Gahbree-ELLE Oh-BREE” when Gabriel himself doesn’t say it like that, that’s pretentious to me.
People who claim that a cover version of a classic song can be in no way even comparable to the original without even bothering to listen to it. When Across the Universe came out I remember one of my friend’s art student buddies saying that he wouldn’t even consider seeing the movie or listening to the soundtrack because he was so certain it couldn’t be any good. It’s a song, dude. Lighten up.
People who insist on using whatever goofy phrase or term is in vogue in every conversation they have.
Serious question, has any cover version of “Across the Universe” been worse than the original? Because it seems to be the most popular Beatles tune to cover and to my ears the cover is always better than the original.
I have many musician friends who play rock for money and jazz for fun- and I am always floored when they state that their preference is for a light, random tinkling of some foreign relative of the xylophone over ANYTHING else, including gangsta rap (which I also don’t care for much).
Based on their intelligence and the breadth of their knowledge, I can’t argue with them- it must be something mathematical that I cannot understand, based on brief research…
Exactly!
I don’t get it, but one of the musicians I was referencing said the same thing- listen to what is not there- and another’s favorite activity is looking for bootleg jazz recordings in a couple of small shops in Tokyo!
Now THAT would be pretentious… if they ever talked about it except under direct questioning…
Overthinking? Moi? Of course I am.
On the other hand, the story is out there and the marketing team that developed the fish sticker had to know the backstory. I’m guessing that most bumper decorators know that it’s a secret symbol. The story would spread with the sales. I’d also guess that they get a little shivver thinking about proclaiming themselves to stand with the martyrs. Just a suspicion.
What does the FSM with the squiggles mean? Someone in my neighborhood has one- and I agree with the other sentiments stickered to the back of the minivan…
Flying Spaghetti Monster. Make sure you pronounce it “spa-GEH-tee,” not “spuh-GETTY” like the tourists. 