# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/101 "2011-02-15T02:55:24Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Cut out the cat fight. Not everybody gets a full ride to a four year university for a whole host of reasons, many of which do not include being stupid. For these people, a two year school that leads to a four year or advanced degree isn’t a bad idea. There’s so much stigma around two year colleges that people often feel the need to load themselves up with a mountain of student debt, and for what? To ultimately earn the same degree(s) anyway? > > -MOL, who got a damn-near full ride to an outstanding private university. I’m not fighting with anyone. It’s not my fault I did something many others couldn’t do. Just as it’s not my fault if others want to attend a real school and are too lazy to look for scholarships and other things. They have scholarships for lefthanded people. So, if you find your ninche, you could go to school for free. I don’t consider community college real school. I’m entitled to my opinion. If community colleges were on par with real schools why do many of them NOT reuqire ACT or SAT scores? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/102 "2011-02-15T02:55:30Z")
I am prejudiced against posters named “Trubie”. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/103 "2011-02-15T02:59:09Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > It’s not my fault I did something many others couldn’t do. Just as it’s not my fault if others want to attend a real school and are too lazy to look for scholarships and other things. They have scholarships for lefthanded people. So, if you find your ninche, you could go to school for free. There are so many things wrong with this. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/104 "2011-02-15T03:00:35Z")
I found my ninche and now I am going to go bust some heads with it. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/105 "2011-02-15T03:02:41Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I’m not fighting with anyone. It’s not my fault I did something many others couldn’t do. Just as it’s not my fault if others want to attend a real school and are too lazy to look for scholarships and other things. They have scholarships for lefthanded people. So, if you find your ninche, you could go to school for free. > > I don’t consider community college real school. I’m entitled to my opinion. If community colleges were on par with real schools why do many of them NOT reuqire ACT or SAT scores? :rolleyes: Apologies for derailing the thread, but if a community college isn’t a “real” school, what is it? A fake school? Again, words means something. A school is an institution of learning. A community college is an institution of learning. Therefore, it _is_ a school. “School” is a value-neutral term. Just like “music” and “art”. I know a person who attended a community college. He also graduated from two Ivy Leagues. He also happens to be the president of the United States. But I guess he’s not smart like you are. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/106 "2011-02-15T03:05:34Z")
You know the President? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/107 "2011-02-15T03:07:19Z")
AIR QUOTES! Hate 'em! As soon as someone uses them I start snickering inside. I see the arms go up, the index and middle fingers bending, and I silently scream “NoOOOooOOO! Don’t cheapen yourself this way! Stop! Stop!” ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/108 "2011-02-15T03:07:51Z")
Ninché. Doesn’t that sound like a quaint little village in Mexico or some place? ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/109 "2011-02-15T03:08:22Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > (I also think a person who has a wholesale hatred of an entire genre of music is pretty narrow-minded. I don’t care for country music in general, but I can name a few songs that I really like and can even belt them out as twangy as the black girl in me will let me. Because of this, I don’t feel the need to bash the genre..even though I won’t let the tuner land on a country music station for longer than three seconds. Unless, that is, one of “my” songs is playing. :)) > . Conversely, people who only listen to one genre of music and just completely dismiss any style of music that isn’t ‘theirs’ tend to annoy me. They’re often very narrow-minded about everything else, too. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/110 "2011-02-15T03:08:24Z")
I think vegetarians in the US are bandwagon jumping jerks and/or crazy animal people. Oh wait, are we not sharing the ones that are true? Hmm, ok how about: People who say they “hate math” are actually too lazy and/or stupid to be decent at math. Dang, another true one… Wow I suck at this. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/111 "2011-02-15T03:10:22Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > You know the President? :eek: I shook his hand twice when he came to Richmond. Yes, you read correctly. TWICE. I had to beat Michelle off with a stick. She didn’t want me “knowing” her man so much. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/112 "2011-02-15T03:10:33Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Girls with tattoos are skanks and whores. I don’t care where on your body it is, even a little butterfly on the ankle makes you look like a slut. > > Piercing anything but your ears means you aren’t interested in being a productive member of society. I don’t take it quite that far, but I admit that I do think less of people, especially women, who have tattoos. > [@TheMerchandise](#): > > I am suspect of people who choose\* not to own pets. Walking into an apartment without a cat or dog or _some_ creature is like walking into an apartment without a refrigerator. > \*That’s _choose_. If you live in the dorms or with your folks or your significant other has severe allergies to every animal ever to walk/crawl/swim/fly upon the work… fine. I suppose. But you should still express a longing to own a pet, even if you know it cannot be realistically fulfilled. I guess I’ll counter yours by admitting that I believe people who own pets are not quite as concerned with cleanliness as they should be. I avoid households with pets and, yes irrationally, believe they’re odor laden. > [@campp](#): > > I’m not too crazy about religious people, ESPECIALLY Christians. I know we all have our own belief systems, but once the crazy talk starts, I just automatically put them into the category of “totally confused and easily manipulated”. Yeah, Christians kind of give me the creeps when they look at me with a straight face and begin speaking about their god as though it’s real. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I readily admit some of these are highly (if not wholly) irrational. 😛 > > I think less of a person who… > > - completely abstains from drinking alcoholic beverages. (The only exception would be recovering alcoholics.) Wow. It bothers me that you’d judge someone for this. I’ve never had an alcoholic beverage in my life. > [@Tahssa](#): > > Anyone who walks around with a blue tooth device in their ear should be shot on site. I will never understand why this bothers people. I don’t use a Blue tooth receiver because I can’t stand anything in my ears, but I simply can’t understand why someone would become upset by someone else minding their own business rapt in conversation. Now that, to me, is irrational. > [@Tahssa](#): > > Athiests are mentally retarded and need to shipped off to Antarctica to live with their intellectual equals the penguins. You mean the people who are grounded in reality? The ones who don’t believe in and talk to imaginary beings? Those retarded people? > [@Superdude](#): > > People who pronounce the _t_ in “often.” I don’t necessarily think less of people who employ this pronunciation, but I do find it jarring. > [@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. I used to think exactly like you, until I went to a client conference where everyone was fed the same thing, and I didn’t have the option of refusing the dish. I figured I’d suffer through it and try not to gag and embarrass myself. I took one bite of the fillet and, I have to tell you, it was like I’d never had steak before that moment. I absolutely could not believe how good it was. I was like Squidward after having his first Crabby Patty: “_~~All the wasted years. Waaahhh._” Heheh. I’m proud to say that I’m a convert and will never eat a well-done steak again, if I can help it. My prejudices: - Black Republicans / Gay Republicans - Why anyone would voluntarily be a member of an organization that actively and constantly campaigns against their interests, besides self-hatred that is, is beyond me. - Smokers who have no intention of quitting - I mean, come on, already. You either don’t know it’s killing you, or you know and don’t care. Either way, you make me nervous. My irrational prejudice: - People who only speak one language - As I said, irrational. I know most Americans only speak one language, but I do tend to place monolinguals in the lazy category. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/113 "2011-02-15T03:11:17Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > AIR QUOTES! Hate 'em! As soon as someone uses them I start snickering inside. I see the arms go up, the index and middle fingers bending, and I silently scream “NoOOOooOOO! Don’t cheapen yourself this way! Stop! Stop!” When I want to add emphasis, I use jazz hands. They’re like air quotes, but festive. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/114 "2011-02-15T03:11:24Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I don’t think think it’s strange or irrational, but others tell me it is, I’m very prejudice against anyone who attends/attended community college. As Chris Rock said, they call it community college because any crackhead in the community can attend. You can bitch fit about me feeling this way and tell me a sob story, I’ll still think less of you. I have degrees from the Universities of California and Michigan and have never been a full-time community college student, but I’ve taken seven classes at three different community colleges in three states. (Two of those classes were transferred to my regular universities for credit toward my degrees, the others were just for fun.) In general, I found the level of my courses and my classmates to be quite high. If you want to say it’s irrational, go crazy, but that you’re defending your irrational prejudice is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![mike\_ahndembroak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mike\_ahndembroak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike_ahndembroak)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/115 "2011-02-15T03:14:53Z")
People with horses, why is it whenever someone starts to make good money the first thing they buy is a horse. It’s 2011 we have cars and highways. and worse yet are those that don’t have room for them so board them at some stable on the other side of town, whats the point behind that? ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/116 "2011-02-15T03:33:03Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > As soon as someone says “music” with quotation marks, I lose all respect for their opinion and any discussion we may be having is immediately over. They could be talking about hip-hop or any other genre, the sheer almighty dickishness of thinking that because you don’t like something means it isn’t music is a surefire sign that no further discussion on the topic will be rational or fair. Guess you’re talking about me since I did that above. Remember, though, that the topic of this thread is “strange prejudices you have.” Not “rational prejudices,” or “just prejudices” (if there is such a thing), or “fair prejudices”–it’s strange prejudices. So I was admitting that my prejudice against hip-hop isn’t cool, or fair–it’s **strange.** And yes, I’m an old fogey (53), but saying that because I don’t like hip-hop then I’m afraid of black people–well, that’s kind of irrational. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/117 "2011-02-15T03:35:06Z")
> [@mike\_ahndembroak](#): > > People with horses, why is it whenever someone starts to make good money the first thing they buy is a horse. It’s 2011 we have cars and highways. and worse yet are those that don’t have room for them so board them at some stable on the other side of town, whats the point behind that? Most little girls want horses. Most little girls don’t get them. So they get them when they grow up and get lots of money. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/118 "2011-02-15T03:41:43Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > Guess you’re talking about me since I did that above. Remember, though, that the topic of this thread is “strange prejudices you have.” Not “rational prejudices,” or “just prejudices” (if there is such a thing), or “fair prejudices”–it’s strange prejudices. So I was admitting that my prejudice against hip-hop isn’t cool, or fair–it’s **strange.** > > And yes, I’m an old fogey (53), but saying that because I don’t like hip-hop then I’m afraid of black people–well, that’s kind of irrational. My prejudice against the air quotes is also a bit strange and irrational so I think we’ve both stuck to the spirit of the thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/119 "2011-02-15T04:37:10Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I am prejudiced against posters named “Trubie”. That’s fine. 🙂 I’m not going to be a whiny cry baby over an opinion. Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trubie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/120 "2011-02-15T04:41:08Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Apologies for derailing the thread, but if a community college isn’t a “real” school, what is it? A fake school? > > Again, words means something. A school is an institution of learning. A community college is an institution of learning. Therefore, it _is_ a school. “School” is a value-neutral term. Just like “music” and “art”. > > I know a person who attended a community college. He also graduated from two Ivy Leagues. > > He also happens to be the president of the United States. > > But I guess he’s not smart like you are. People are getting too PC. You know the quality of community college and real schools aren’t the same. If a place wants to call itself a college and not take SAT/ACT scores, it’s not a real school. There are places called dogs schools. Are they not “real” schools? 😛 However, if you feel this defensive over it, maybe you have your own insecurties. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=7)