# 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:** 16
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/301 "2011-02-16T18:04:31Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Not internationally. > > I’d like to point out that I recognize this prejudice as irrational, if only due to its sheer _impracticality_. Oh, okay. FWIW, I’ve lived abroad three times, twice for over six months. (The third time was for two and a half months.) It’s definitely a really different experience from going somewhere for a week, and much more culturally rich. But it’s also extremely difficult and I wouldn’t want to judge someone for not being able (whether financially or emotionally) to get through that sort of experience. Going somewhere for a week can also be a pretty cool and rewarding experience, even if it’s not as meaningful. They’re just two different things. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/302 "2011-02-16T18:06:28Z")
I’m very prejudiced against helicopter parents. They drive me insane. The father who won’t let his children walk the two blocks to their school because he thinks it’s safer in the car . Bleh. The mother who insists on staying the whole time during her kids’ after school science enrichment because she doesn’t trust them being left alone (with 5 other kids) with the male teacher. The parents who won’t let their child play alone in their own front yard because ‘you never know’. These types make me irrationally angry. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/303 "2011-02-16T18:11:16Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > People who order their steak rare. At a very basic level I can not believe anyone actually likes that. I find it so repugnant that deep down I think anyone who does it must be a poser. There is a certain element of (men especially) people who do it because they think it’s “cool” or what “higher class people” or “tough guys” like. But I’m sure the majority of them just really like that flavor. Although I can’t imagine how or why. > > Still, if they order it rare, my gut reaction is to label them pretentious. wow! am almost 180 degrees opposed! To me people who order steak well done really don’t like meat just beef jerky! Black and blue for me every time ( although I love carpaccio I could never eat steak tartar) ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/304 "2011-02-16T18:31:56Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > People who order their steak rare. At a very basic level I can not believe anyone actually likes that. I find it so repugnant that deep down I think anyone who does it must be a poser. There is a certain element of (men especially) people who do it because they think it’s “cool” or what “higher class people” or “tough guys” like. But I’m sure the majority of them just really like that flavor. Although I can’t imagine how or why. > > Still, if they order it rare, my gut reaction is to label them pretentious. Huh. Color me surprised that anyone would imagine such things from the way someone orders their meat. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/305 "2011-02-16T19:28:42Z")
Just thought of one. I have a prejudice against people who buy “luxury” cars new. I feel like they have more money than sense. I can understand buying a new car, because hey, you really do have no idea how well a used car was maintained a lot of the time, and sometimes the warranties are worth it, especially if you can pay for most of it up front, but a car is a depreciating asset, and it just doesn’t seem worth it to pay many times more for something that is essentially only there to serve the function of getting you places. Also, the bigger the vehicle, the smaller the penis. If you drive a giant pickup on jacked-up tires, you’re hung like my pinkie toe. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/306 "2011-02-16T19:45:30Z")
> [@manila](#): > > wow! am almost 180 degrees opposed! > > To me people who order steak well done really don’t like meat just beef jerky! > > Black and blue for me every time ( although I love carpaccio I could never eat steak tartar) I like the taste of meat. I don’t like the taste of blood. Blech! 😉 ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/307 "2011-02-16T19:50:58Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > 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. Oh, I’ll respond this time, because you managed to rephrase things so that they make a bit of sense. Of course, your premise is completely flawed. (a) Don’t sidetrack things by talking about “my money’s worth.” In that one particular subject, **I got a better education** at junior college than my friend at Stanford because I was taught by an actual tenured professor with a PhD in a class of 30, while he was taught by a grad student in a class of 300. In case you care, the subject of the class was data structures. (b) Community colleges are cheaper because they get state funding, not because they’re worth any less. (c) What you pay for things is not the same as what they are worth. If I charge you $5,000 for a cubic zirconium set in copper and it doesn’t make it worth more. Conversely, If I sell you a new Ferrari for $5,000, that doesn’t make it worth less. (d) The first two years of college are largely consumed with classes that don’t require world-class experts as teachers. Why pay $20,000 to learn English 101, Trigonometry, and World History when you can get it at a community college for $2,000 and transfer the credits? However, since the thread is about _irrational_ prejudices, I’ll admit that your attitudes about colleges definitely qualify and yield the point to you. Good job, **Trubie**. You’ve contributed an excellent irrational prejudice. > [@Trubie](#): > > I suppose that junior college degree was in communications. Although, it seems like it was in passive agressiveness. Since you’re so anxious to get attention that you’ve [Pitted yourself](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597333), please keep the personal attacks to that thread. I’ll be more than happy to respond there. ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/308 "2011-02-16T19:53:53Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Also, the bigger the vehicle, the smaller the penis. If you drive a giant pickup on jacked-up tires, you’re hung like my pinkie toe. Just for the record, I bought a giant 4WD pickup with huge tires because itty-bitty pickups won’t pull a loaded trailer full of horses or cows. And they’d get stuck in the mud behind the barn. And they wouldn’t have the ground clearance… I have an irrational prejudice against city people who judge the whole bloody world against the norms for their particular city or circle of friends. ---
**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, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/309 "2011-02-16T20:14:24Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > You find the right classes in the [Articulation Agreements](http://www.citytowninfo.com/education-articles/community-colleges/community-colleges-and-articulation-agreements) that are made between 2 year and 4 year schools. Ignorance fought. 🆒 I mean to say, the other classes are just bullshit. Well, the right ones are, too. ---
**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, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/310 "2011-02-16T20:16:45Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > My community college and my 4-year university (which I got into straight out of high school) had one of those agreements. I took all my General Education requirements at CC and my major and minor courses at the 4-year school. The transferring courses had the same course names and numbers at both schools. All I missed out on was the 200+ student lectures taught by TAs who didn’t even have their postgraduate degrees yet, which is how those low-level courses work at the 4-year universities. And my law school accepted both just the same, and despite the fact that I went to monkey school for a couple of years, somehow felt me deserving of a full-ride scholarship. And now I have my dream job. \*\*Clearly, I have gotten something out of my terrible education that you have not. \*\* > > Also, I am not the same person who posted about the President attending CC, so if you were coyly referring to me upthread, I’d hope that you work on your reading comprehension before you attempt to teach others with your Bachelor’s degree. Not true, I will have a job in my choose profession at a younger age than you did. Even you admit, community college is monkey school. 🙂 ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/311 "2011-02-16T20:20:14Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > It’s not about that. It’s that this is a community and you aren’t making any attempt to be part of the community. Your opinions are not so unique or special that we need to hear them above all else. Then, why are people making a stink about them? If you don’t care, ignore me. I often say niceish things and give useful comments when possible. One thread isn’t the scope of my “membership”. I’m a guest. Guest are allowed to make themselves feel at home. Unless the hosts are rude. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/312 "2011-02-16T20:21:49Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:308, topic:571296”] Just for the record, I bought a giant 4WD pickup with huge tires because itty-bitty pickups won’t pull a loaded trailer full of horses or cows. And they’d get stuck in the mud behind the barn. And they wouldn’t have the ground clearance… I have an irrational prejudice against city people who judge the whole bloody world against the norms for their particular city or circle of friends. [/QUOTE] Heh. This is getting a bit TOO rational, mate. The anti-big truck thing is based on the number of city folk who drive these monstrosities and flat out don’t need them. They are legion, and they are indeed annoying. ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/313 "2011-02-16T20:25:10Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > Why do you keep saying that everyone on this board went to ‘inferior’ schools? I think you’ll find that this board tends to be more educated than most, and many members went to well regarded 4 year universities - including many people in this very thread. You can’t just keep dismissing everyone elses opinion as sour grapes when they have no personal reason to feel defensive about community college. Well, you can, but surely your ‘real’ school taught you better than that. > > Incidentally, did you ever take an English class? It is required of all undergrads at both universities I’ve attended, and let’s just say I don’t see a lot of evidence of it in you. No, I didn’t have to take the English class because I did so well on my AP test. So, I recieved the three credits instead of having to waste 15 weeks of my life. 🙂 I don’t spend my time checking errors on here. I don’t care what grammar nazis think. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/314 "2011-02-16T20:30:24Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:307, topic:571296”] Oh, I’ll respond this time, because you managed to rephrase things so that they make a bit of sense. Of course, your premise is completely flawed. (a) Don’t sidetrack things by talking about “my money’s worth.” In that one particular subject, **I got a better education** at junior college than my friend at Stanford because I was taught by an actual tenured professor with a PhD in a class of 30, while he was taught by a grad student in a class of 300. In case you care, the subject of the class was data structures. (b) Community colleges are cheaper because they get state funding, not because they’re worth any less. (c) What you pay for things is not the same as what they are worth. If I charge you $5,000 for a cubic zirconium set in copper and it doesn’t make it worth more. Conversely, If I sell you a new Ferrari for $5,000, that doesn’t make it worth less. (d) The first two years of college are largely consumed with classes that don’t require world-class experts as teachers. Why pay $20,000 to learn English 101, Trigonometry, and World History when you can get it at a community college for $2,000 and transfer the credits? However, since the thread is about _irrational_ prejudices, I’ll admit that your attitudes about colleges definitely qualify and yield the point to you. Good job, **Trubie**. You’ve contributed an excellent irrational prejudice. Since you’re so anxious to get attention that you’ve [Pitted yourself](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597333), please keep the personal attacks to that thread. I’ll be more than happy to respond there. [/QUOTE] I never attacked you. I wanted to see what type of degrees are offered there. I assume it’s think people making minium wage would need to know. I assume being PA is one. So, don’t beat someone up while working two jobs. 🙂 You can feel you got a better education, but I don’t know how one can really be educated at a community college. If you don’t want to take certain classes, you could always take AP courses which most high schools offer. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/315 "2011-02-16T20:30:48Z")
Hopefully, **Trubie** , you will eventually mature enough to base your sense of self-worth on something more substantial than what college you attended. Heck, I’ll let you in on a little secret: Not only did I attend a (_gasp_) community college, but I _never finished_! I got a good job offer and quit. Yet, somehow, I ended up with a teaching credential in computer science, guest-lectured at U.C. Berkeley, chaired panels for the U.S. Department of Education, wrote over 20 books (one of which is currently used as a college textbook), and got a patent for some of my work. And you know what? None of those things affect my feeling of self-worth. They aren’t what I _am_. They’re just some stuff that I _did_. They are no more or less important than the hundreds of other things I’ve done. I’d enjoy being able to go back to college and get an degree someday. But it wouldn’t make me one whit better or worse than I am now. And I certainly wouldn’t lord that degree over people who didn’t have one. There are many millions of people who went to four-year colleges just like you did. Some are idiots. Some are brilliant. Many went on to get advanced degrees. There are also people much smarter than you went to junior colleges, or no college at all. You really need to let this stuff go. ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/316 "2011-02-16T20:33:17Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > You can feel you got a better education, but I don’t know how one can really be educated at a community college. Hint: that’s because you know absolutely nothing about community colleges. And as for the AP classes, I took classes at the University of Colorado while I was in high school because high schools in the 1970s didn’t offer AP classes in computer programming. Then I went to a junior college because it was cheap. 😉 ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/317 "2011-02-16T20:39:44Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:316, topic:571296”] Hint: that’s because you know absolutely nothing about community colleges. And as for the AP classes, I took classes at the University of Colorado while I was in high school because high schools in the 1970s didn’t offer AP classes in computer programming. Then I went to a junior college because it was cheap. 😉 [/QUOTE] That’s just another excuse, it’s cheap, but if you want to drop I’m willing to drop it. I honestly didn’t start this shit storm. I stated an opinon and everyone got mad. There’s lot of things that could have applied to me that people said. I didn’t read them and say “I have that/I do this… SMASH! :mad:” like others have. Hell, I didn’t even get made when someone said outright they didn’t like me. I like myself enough to not care what people think online. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/318 "2011-02-16T20:41:06Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I assume it’s think people making minium wage would need to know. F-. Edit and resubmit. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/319 "2011-02-16T20:43:22Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > Hell, I didn’t even get made Does that mean you’re still unmade? :dubious: ---
**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, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/320 "2011-02-16T21:03:38Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > Does that mean you’re still unmade? :dubious: Maybe. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=17)