# My tastes and preferences are superior to yours. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578 "2010-05-24T15:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/21 "2010-05-25T11:43:08Z")
What’s this here ‘_hoi polloi_’ you done been talkin’ bout? Around here we speak **English!** ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/22 "2010-05-25T13:38:22Z")
The “hoi polloi” are those whose feces are more odoriferous than my own. Mine has been licensed by Johnson and Johnson for the basis of a new Glade Plug-In. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/23 "2010-05-25T13:40:39Z")
I always figured the collective conciousness of the SDMB would eventually become self aware. Apparently it named itself Elmwood. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/24 "2010-05-25T14:25:21Z")
I would have thought the OP was self evident in regards to… ME. 🆒 Actually, I’m with those upthread who think that we all do this to some extent; it’s just a matter of picking the right subject matter or behavior. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PsyXe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@PsyXe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsyXe)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/25 "2010-05-25T15:18:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Who is this Chuck Norris person? Is he some sort of _famous_ individual? Because I deliberately avoid knowing about that sort of thing. Only the hoi polloi bother with that. Sez you, who uses an article with hoi polloi. Those of us who are cultured and superior enough to know Greek know that hoi _is_ an article! 😛 This is fun! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/26 "2010-05-25T15:34:05Z")
> [@PsyXe](#): > > 😛 > This is fun! Oh, dear. Sticking your tongue out is vulgar. So common, darling… Obviously NQOK. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578/27 "2010-05-25T15:44:09Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > My tastes and preferences in food, music, literature, television, and other visual and performing arts are correct, and thus superior to yours. I am also far more open-minded than you, and more open to new experiences. If you have dislikes for a certain kind of food, music, or something else, you’re just a closed-minded, intellectually challenged and suspect individual that I can only pity. There are things I dislike too, but that’s different, because I can’t imagine anyone liking what I don’t like. Thus, my dislikes are correct, and more justified than yours. Meaningless, for the sports team from my city/region is superior to the sports team from your city/region. In a contest between them, my local team will score more goal units than yours. You shall be shamed by proxy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tastes-and-preferences-are-superior-to-yours/540578.md?page=1)