# Strange prejudices you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296 "2011-02-14T14:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/241 "2011-02-16T05:49:47Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > No, only because if I do you’ll know the state I live in. So, a state school then huh? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/242 "2011-02-16T05:50:16Z")
I’m finding it increasingly incredible that **Trubie** hasn’t been Pitted yet. Though, at the rate he/she keeps going, I have a feeling it’s not too far off. ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/243 "2011-02-16T05:52:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I’m finding it increasingly incredible that **Trubie** hasn’t been Pitted yet. Though, at the rate he/she keeps going, I have a feeling it’s not too far off. Is this a request? Lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/244 "2011-02-16T06:34:36Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I can’t take people who attended community college seriously. Sorry. I’m sure no matter how crowded or under crowded your classes were, you got a bang for your buck. You probably paid 100 or so for the class. You could have been taught by a monkey for the price of junior college, that sounds like the name of a place where SERIOUS education is going on, and still got your money’s worth. > > Let me ask you this. If you do all your grocery shopping at what ever store or chain you prefer and spend say 200 bucks. Let’s say I get all the say items, not brand or quality, for 40 bucks. Who got the better deal? :rolleyes: > > Another poster who dislikes me so much I won’t quote them and bother them :rolleyes: talked about how if one pays for college it’s waste at regular schools. The same poster who lied about a president attending community college. Do you ever think community colleges don’t love students? They don’t charge top dollar to save you money. They don’t charge top dollar because they can’t. No would pay 45,000 a year to go to community. :smack: > > You get what you pay for. I’m sorry, **Trubie**. I read this three times, and it’s just flat-out incoherent. Would you mind putting that “real” college education of yours to work and writing understandably? What I _said_ in my example was that I was taught by a full professor in a class of 30 in a community college, and my friend at Stanford was taught by a grad student in a class of 300. I got the better education in that case, regardless of the money. He got the prestige. That’s true. But it also loaded him with student loan debt and didn’t get him a better job. > [@Trubie](#): > > I judge you for being a cry baby who cares what people online think. [moderating] Please remember that you’re in IMHO and not the Pit. Direct personal insults and name-calling are not allowed. Attack the argument, not the person who made it. [/moderating] > [@Trubie](#): > > You’re such a genius. I can tell you’re high educated. Shitcan. Wow, your prose would make Shakespeare jizz in his knickers. :rolleyes: Taking one sentence of context. That’s NOT ignornant. > > I’ll smile knowing how heartbroken you are when I get a full time teaching position. Presumably, you won’t be teaching English. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/245 "2011-02-16T06:39:52Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I don’t like revealing personal details online. So, I’ll just say early 20s. This explains so very much. Right after college you have a lot of your identity tied up in your schooling. Eventually you’ll realize it’s really not so important - it’s just a choice you make with your life, and it’s not intrinsically better than other choices. Now, I do judge people who are seemingly entirely anti-education (and there are a few on this board who seem to think any investment into schooling is a total waste). But not everyone needs to, wants to, or can devote large parts of their time and finances to higher education. And I say all this as someone who went to a very well respected 4-year university on a full tuition scholarship and is now back at school, at another major university, doing graduate work (also on a full tuition + living expenses scholarship). ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/246 "2011-02-16T06:45:52Z")
I HAVE ANOTHER PREJUDICE I am prejudiced against people who like Primer. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/247 "2011-02-16T06:50:25Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > - I’m a snob because I like theater, especially esoteric/fringe theater I missed this irrational prejudice. Traditional theater is all sorts of awesome but I would give at least one limb to see a Grotowski production at the Polish Laboratory Theater. Damn you, Time! ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/248 "2011-02-16T06:53:36Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > …toss it right in the good ol’ shitcan, straightaway. Ever think he likes it tossed in the ol’ shitcan? ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/249 "2011-02-16T07:12:18Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:244, topic:571296”] I’m sorry, **Trubie**. I read this three times, and it’s just flat-out incoherent. Would you mind putting that “real” college education of yours to work and writing understandably? What I _said_ in my example was that I was taught by a full professor in a class of 30 in a community college, and my friend at Stanford was taught by a grad student in a class of 300. I got the better education in that case, regardless of the money. He got the prestige. That’s true. But it also loaded him with student loan debt and didn’t get him a better job. [moderating] Please remember that you’re in IMHO and not the Pit. Direct personal insults and name-calling are not allowed. Attack the argument, not the person who made it. [/moderating] Presumably, you won’t be teaching English. [/QUOTE] You just don’t like what I have to say. So, you don’t answer when I respond. I SAID for the price you paid, because community college is dirt cheap, you would have gotten your money’s worth if they sat a monkey in front of you. I also said, community college is cheap because they can’t ask for more. If they could charge more, i.e. if they were WORTH more, they could. I would ask you if you agree, but you’ll pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. I suppose that junior college degree was in communications. Although, it seems like it was in passive agressiveness. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/250 "2011-02-16T07:14:34Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > The more Christian-related paraphernalia on a vehicle, the worse the driver behind the wheel. The absolute worst are those with vanity plates that mention Jesus in some way… I saw a shitload of this in Florida. They don’t want to share the road with bicycles and one of these fuckers in a purple FORD Escort kept beeping at me because i wasn’t about to turn in front of oncoming traffic, led by a 30,000 pound trash truck that could crush me like a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/251 "2011-02-16T07:16:37Z")
Or because they’re usually in locations with lower property taxes, little to no dormitories or residence halls, and smaller administration and overhead, they can charge less while reaping equitable profits compared to four year universities. Economics wasn’t part of your curriculum, I take it. ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/252 "2011-02-16T07:19:34Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Or because they’re usually in locations with lower property taxes, little to no dormitories or residence halls, and smaller administration and overhead, they can charge less while reaping equitable profits compared to four year universities. > > Economics wasn’t part of your curriculum, I take it. You forgot to add they also don’t hire qualified professors. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/253 "2011-02-16T07:26:07Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I also said, community college is cheap because they can’t ask for more. If they could charge more, i.e. if they were WORTH more, they could. I would ask you if you agree, but you’ll pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. I suppose that junior college degree was in communications. Although, it seems like it was in passive agressiveness. By your logic, the most expensive colleges would be the best. That’s not true though. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the most expensive schools in the US are: Sarah Lawrence College……………..$57,384 Landmark College……………………..$56,500 Columbia U. School of Gen. Studies……$54,782 Wesleyan University…………………………$53,976 Columbia University…………………………$53,874 Johns Hopkins University…………………..$53,690 Georgetown University……………………..$53,591 New York University…………………………$53,589 Harvey Mudd College……………………….$53,588 Barnard College………………………………$53,496 Compare that to the top ranking US universities: 1. Harvard 2. Princeton 3. Yale 4. Columbia 5. Standford, UPenn 6. Cal Tech, MIT 7. Dartmough, Duke 8. UChicago ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/254 "2011-02-16T07:26:38Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > Is this a request? Lazy. Not a request at all. Just an observation. I’m prejudiced against people who jump to conclusions, with no evidence to support their allegations. ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/255 "2011-02-16T07:33:50Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Not a request at all. Just an observation. > > I’m prejudiced against people who jump to conclusions, with no evidence to support their allegations. I’m prejudiced against people who are all talk. If you have a problem with me go ahead and make a thread about me there. ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/256 "2011-02-16T07:35:30Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > By your logic, the most expensive colleges would be the best. That’s not true though. > > According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the most expensive schools in the US are: > > Sarah Lawrence College……………..$57,384 > Landmark College……………………..$56,500 > Columbia U. School of Gen. Studies……$54,782 > Wesleyan University…………………………$53,976 > Columbia University…………………………$53,874 > Johns Hopkins University…………………..$53,690 > Georgetown University……………………..$53,591 > New York University…………………………$53,589 > Harvey Mudd College……………………….$53,588 > Barnard College………………………………$53,496 > > Compare that to the top ranking US universities: > > 1. Harvard > 2. Princeton > 3. Yale > 4. Columbia > 5. Standford, UPenn > 6. Cal Tech, MIT > 7. Dartmough, Duke > 8. UChicago Can post their cost, too? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/257 "2011-02-16T07:36:04Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > You forgot to add they also don’t hire qualified professors. 🙂 Wrong. Even if I were to accept your supposition that only a PhD is an acceptable teaching degree, then the community college I attended for PSEO still beats out my university. Every class I had at the CC was taught by a PhD while at my university, several of my classes are taught by people with MFAs. A terminal degree, true but not a doctorate. ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/258 "2011-02-16T07:38:55Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Wrong. Even if I were to accept your supposition that only a PhD is an acceptable teaching degree, then the community college I attended for PSEO still beats out my university. Every class I had at the CC was taught by a PhD while at my university, several of my classes are taught by people with MFAs. A terminal degree, true but not a doctorate. This is the exception and not the rule. Most community colleges don’t require more than an MA and experience. Look at ads for positions in community colleges and look at the requirements. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/259 "2011-02-16T07:41:25Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I’m prejudiced against people who are all talk. If you have a problem with me go ahead and make a thread about me there. You’re actually not worth the effort it would take to get riled up about you. All I said was that I’m surprised that you hadn’t been Pitted, not that I had the desire to see it done. I don’t have a dog in the fight, so to speak, about the educational bias you have You’d figure someone who thinks as highly of themself as you seem to would have better reading comprehension skills. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/260 "2011-02-16T07:41:37Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I HAVE ANOTHER PREJUDICE > > I am prejudiced against people who like Primer. I don’t know what this means. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=14)