Oh, I second this one…my family members are even worse, it tends to be “I want a cappuccino” or “gimme a cappuccino”. And, of course, no thank you is given when the item is received. And the biggest offender is my mommy, it makes me want to slap her.
hides my delicious ramen noodles behind my back
You are unworthy if…
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[li]Your taste in music is limited to a single genre–even if it’s a good genre.[/li][li]You own a t-shirt with the logo of a clothing company on it.[/li][li]You have ever worn flip-flops away from a pool or beach.[/li][li]You don’t have the math skills to calculate a tip in your head.[/li][li]You use foreign words and phrases without understanding what they mean.[/li][li]You read only fiction (or only non-fiction, or only magazines, or only anything else).[/li][/ul]
This being the Pit and all, I suppose I can inform you that this opinion isn’t elitist at all. It’s ignorant. You clearly have no idea what farming actually is, nor do you realize the education, skill, and training that goes into doing it well.
And not wanting to live in one of those smog-ridden, overlit, dirty, graffiti-filled, noisy, crime-filled masses of sweaty obnoxious humanity that you call a city is a sign of intelligence and class. If you could take a look out the (unlocked) back door of my house at the beaver ponds, creeks, trees, mountains, and critters and say you’d rather look at neon signs, gang tags, and garbage in the streets, then you’re beneath me.
(Yeah, that second paragraph is an over-the-top rant, but it felt good.)
Rats. I guess that freshly-restored 1966 Mustang convertible would just make me a loser, then. sigh
I am distressed to report that in the last six months I have encountered two (that’s right, two) restaurants that refused to cook a steak anything less than medium. Obviously, I won’t eat at either one anymore.
And if you wear it with the bill backwards, so it doesn’t even perform its intended function of shading your face, make that 40 points.
If you mention to people how much money you gave to a charity, then it wasn’t a charitable donation. It was just showing off.
If you can name a soap opera character or a teen star, you don’t belong in an elitist thread.
D-List? I was barely aware of the existence of a B-List. I had no idea there were lists below that.
This is an elitist thread, George. Spit it out. If you don’t have a fundamental understanding of science and the scientific method, you’re just not ready for third grade yet. If your understanding of probability and statistics is so pathetic that you buy lottery tickets on a regular basis, you have more in common with a platypus than you do with a human. Therefore, if you’re a creationist, you belong more on the bottom of a muddy creek than you do in an actual school.
If your first language was Java, you’re a simpering child barely off your mother’s breast. Real programmers started on FORTRAN – or assembly language. Hell, if you haven’t toggled a bootstrap program into a computer using front panel switches, you don’t understand what’s really happening in that little box you’re using.
Well color me poor.
The difference is pretension.
I stick extra GOTO statements in my code to keep “structured programmers” from messing with it. You can’t mess with what you don’t understand.
Some of you guys are amateurs. Go and have a read through any of the “Policy” talk pages on Wikipedia and you’ll see some serious elitism; to the level of “If you don’t have access to a University Research Library your edits and contributions aren’t welcome” in at least one case that I’ve seen. :eek:
My first computer shipped with an actual keyboard and video output instead of a few front panel switches and some LEDs, in other words: it was actually useful. Other than that, you’re right.