# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/341 "2011-02-17T18:30:44Z")
That all Asians are horrible drivers. I know it’s irrational and not true but whenever I see an Asian driver, I automatically drive more defensively. In my defense, all my Asian friends **are** terrible drivers. Another is English speaking Americans who pronounce foreign place names in the foreign accent of the place. Drives me nuts, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/342 "2011-02-17T18:34:40Z")
> [@breaking-reality](#): > > …women who shave their eyebrows only to draw them horribly back on… Shave them entirely? Deliberately? Cripes. I always thought that that kind of Scary Fake Eyebrow was the result of either a drastic mistake at the stylist, or some kind of Creeping Eyebrow Baldness. How can they stand it? Eyebrows keep dust and whatever from falling all the way down the forehead into the eyes! But yeah, drawn-on eyebrows are horrible, often right over into the Uncanny Valley. ---
**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 17, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/343 "2011-02-17T19:23:51Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > Thanks Mr. Wombat Robson. Today you are that cool ass doper. 😃 You’re very welcome. And that line is now my .sig! > [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > - People who read horoscopes or believe in conspiracy theories. People who _read_ horoscopes don’t bother me at all. Heck, I do it myself sometimes. I do, however, have an abiding prejudice against people who _believe_ horoscopes. Even worse: people who believe what they read in a fortune cookie. ---
**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 17, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/344 "2011-02-17T20:00:54Z")
Women whose bleached hair matches their skin tone look low-class to me. This is usually because both the hair and the tan are fake, although I’m sure it occasionally occurs in nature. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/345 "2011-02-17T20:03:43Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:343, topic:571296”] You’re very welcome. And that line is now my .sig! People who _read_ horoscopes don’t bother me at all. Heck, I do it myself sometimes. I do, however, have an abiding prejudice against people who _believe_ horoscopes. Even worse: people who believe what they read in a fortune cookie. [/QUOTE] I believe my fortune cookies. I once got one that said, “Travel bodes well for you in the future.” Low and behold, _ **within the year** _ I went on vacation. ---
**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 18, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/346 "2011-02-18T06:07:21Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > I believe my fortune cookies. I once got one that said, “Travel bodes well for you in the future.” Low and behold, _ **within the year** _ I went on vacation. You might be right. I had one once that said I should keep my friends close. I misread it and thought it said, “You should keep your friend’s clothes.” I sold the clothes for $40 and got another dinner. The fortune that time said, “You need to read more carefully.” ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/347 "2011-02-18T07:00:40Z")
I automatically judge people who use the word ‘like’ a lot. I’m not sure that that is an \*irrational \*prejudice per se, but it seems dumb because I know I say it too. I actually make a real effort to control it, because I know it sounds dumb, but it seems to have infiltrated the speech of everyone in my generation. Also, contrary to the person back on page one who judged adults for drinking pop, I tend to judge people who have to order alcohol \*every \*single time they go anywhere. Again, I know that’s kind of irrational because I have no evidence that they drink all the time at home or anything, but I tend to think ‘Christ, can’t you do anything without drinking?’. > [@Sunspace](#): > > Shave them entirely? Deliberately? Cripes. > > I always thought that that kind of Scary Fake Eyebrow was the result of either a drastic mistake at the stylist, or some kind of Creeping Eyebrow Baldness. How can they stand it? Eyebrows keep dust and whatever from falling all the way down the forehead into the eyes! Some women definitely shave them off. Others wax them so much that only about 5 hairs are left. Either way, the people who draw in their eyebrows always seem to make them really excessively arched so that they look surprised all the time. I have no idea why you’d want to do that. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/348 "2011-02-18T09:14:19Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Any adult who orders a soft drink at a restaurant (at supper, during non-work hours) automatically goes to the bottom of my list. Pop is for kiddies. What should a teetotal (now there’s a word you don’t see much these days) adult drink at a restaurant? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/349 "2011-02-18T09:25:42Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I think that people who ride motorcycles without helmets are 1) stupid and 2) have a death wish. Wait, how is that a strange prejudice? Specially if they do ride with a helmet - hanging from their elbow. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/350 "2011-02-18T11:14:31Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I think that people who ride motorcycles without helmets are 1) stupid and 2) have a death wish. I must disabuse you of this terrible, irrational prejudice! Doctors call folks like that ‘organ donors.’ These folks ensure a steady stream of spare parts for those who need them, yep. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/351 "2011-02-18T15:05:11Z")
for closure > [@Trubie](#): > > Hell, I didn’t even get made when someone said outright they didn’t like me. [“…to be a member of a Crew, you’ve got to be 100% Italian, so they can trace all of your relatives back to the Old Country.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQCW02Tbxc&feature=player_embedded) I’m sorry I missed the chance to say that while Trubie could still read it, but as for the rest, well maybe it was John Belushi that said it best: “Seven Years of College Down the Drain.” 😉 I have a strange prejudice against the drivers of pick-up trucks & work vans on highways and I tend to steer away from them. It always seemed to me that either it was someone elses truck, so they didn’t care what they hit, or that it was fully depreciated/expensed/written off, so they didn’t care what they hit. ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/352 "2011-02-18T23:14:10Z")
For some reason, people who hit the snooze button/don’t get up when their alarm clock goes off strike me as lazy. What’s the point of setting the alarm for a specific time if you’re not gonna get up then? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/353 "2011-02-18T23:43:06Z")
> [@Kemanchi](#): > > What’s the point of setting the alarm for a specific time if you’re not gonna get up then? Some people are difficult to rouse. Hit them with a single alarm and they/'ll fumble it silent and simply fall back to sleep. Repeated alarms that must be silenced have the effect of cumulatively punching through their somnolence and gradually getting them up. I once knew a young woman who deliberately set her alarm a half hour early so the routine of silencing it two or three times would get her up. I can pretty much be fully alert and lucid in a couple of minutes of an alarm, without bothering with medication ( i.e. caffeine ). But I’ve met far too many people who don’t function that way, including my step-mother and both of my step-siblings, to assume that’s the norm. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/354 "2011-02-19T02:37:55Z")
> [@Kemanchi](#): > > For some reason, people who hit the snooze button/don’t get up when their alarm clock goes off strike me as lazy. What’s the point of setting the alarm for a specific time if you’re not gonna get up then? Are you my wife? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/355 "2011-02-19T02:44:29Z")
> [@Kemanchi](#): > > For some reason, people who hit the snooze button/don’t get up when their alarm clock goes off strike me as lazy. What’s the point of setting the alarm for a specific time if you’re not gonna get up then? I will swear on a Bible (or other religious type text of your choice) that snooze button minutes are equal to other minutes x20 for the bonus. I can go into full REM sleep and have individual dreams in each 9 minute cycle. It is very important for some of us to do that. People have all kinds of weird sleep brain patterns. I feel like absolute hell and can barely walk if I have to wake up and start functioning immediately. It is documented in multiple sleep lab studies for me so don’t think everyone works the same way you do. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/356 "2011-02-19T02:48:01Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I can pretty much be fully alert and lucid in a couple of minutes of an alarm, without bothering with medication ( i.e. caffeine ). But I’ve met far too many people who don’t function that way, including my step-mother and both of my step-siblings, to assume that’s the norm. I literally have to step over two cats to get into the room that has the alarm clock to hit the snooze button. The cats are not amused (and hate my taste in music). ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/357 "2011-02-19T04:15:47Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I will swear on a Bible (or other religious type text of your choice) that snooze button minutes are equal to other minutes x20 for the bonus. I can go into full REM sleep and have individual dreams in each 9 minute cycle. It is very important for some of us to do that. People have all kinds of weird sleep brain patterns. I feel like absolute hell and can barely walk if I have to wake up and start functioning immediately. It is documented in multiple sleep lab studies for me so don’t think everyone works the same way you do. Ah, yeah, true. I’m the type where a deep, long sleep is best, but I can still get up quickly from an alarm. I used to run every morning and had to be up for a strict schedule at like 4:40 AM, so I guess my body’s still geared that way. I also can’t sleep past 10AM on the rare days when I might have that option, go figure… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/358 "2011-02-19T06:15:36Z")
Oh yeah, I’m prejudiced against people who use the word “methinks”. Methinks it makes you look like a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/359 "2011-02-19T11:47:21Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > A newly developed prejudice (just this week in fact) for me, people who make a big deal about eating asparagus with a fork are arrogant morons who in a just world (not this one) could be beaten with an etiquette book (perferably opened to the page that says asparagus has long been considered a finger food). It’s funny, I just watched a werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost eating asparagus with forks last night on [Being Human](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595680/), well, not the ghost, apparently she is incorporeal and doesn’t, or can’t eat. Anyway, they were just cramming the spears in whole with forks- these were pretty substantial asparagus too, about pinky size. Didn’t really seem sloppy, or wrong, or even uncouth, it just seemed practical with the tool available. Although, I wonder how the Ghost Girl, Meagan Rath, who happens to be a Canadian from Montreal felt sitting between these gullet stuffing, fork and asparagus swilling Americans? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/360 "2011-02-19T22:47:05Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Women whose bleached hair matches their skin tone look low-class to me. This is usually because both the hair and the tan are fake, although I’m sure it occasionally occurs in nature. Dark haired, dark eyed, olive toned women (and some men) who dye their hair blond. Jessica Alba, Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, and umpteen thousands of civilians. No matter how skillful a job, there is something ‘off’ - they look greenish. And those dark staring eyes under a mop of bleached hair - just doesn’t look right. Because for some reason it’s been decided blond is “in”, and by golly, a perfectly lovely brunette Italian or Latina is going to be “in”, too. (The opposite, light haired women who go inky black, well, that looks fake, too - Katy Perry!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=19)