Strange prejudices you have

P.F. Chang’s food has (or used to have) a ton of sodium. People who eat there a lot probably have high blood pressure, or will.

The bigger the portions a restaurant serves, the worse I think the food is for you. If the restaurant advertises large portions and/or low prices, I assume the food is probably bad as well as bad for you.

People who can’t shut up about how they don’t drink caffeine or alcohol, or who don’t eat sugar, or don’t watch TV, or are on a diet, or whatever, are sanctimonious and boring. This is not all people who don’t do those things, just the ones who can’t seem to avoid talking about it. I keep kosher, but I’m perfectly capable of having a conversation without mentioning that. You should be able to do the same, whatever your dietary or lifestyle restriction.

People who tell me they are a member of a religious denomination that emphasizes preaching to others. When I find that out about somebody, I immediately start trying to think of how to get away from them if they start proselytizing to me.

People who major in the physical sciences or math are smarter than people who major in engineering, and people who major in engineering are smarter than people who major in other stuff. Lots of people (but not all people) who major in liberal arts or business are looking for an easy major. People who are looking for an easy major are inferior to people who choose a major because it’s something they like or because they think it will get them a good job.

Technical people are smarter than manager types or “people people”.

People whose houses or desks are too clean are boring. I don’t clean very often, because there are so many other things to do that are more fun and interesting. Those people can’t think of more interesting things to do?

People who won’t have a pet “because of the mess/smell” are not likable. This doesn’t apply to people who are allergic to pets, just the neat freaks who can’t stand to see a cat hair anywhere.

People who don’t have books in their houses, or who don’t have many books, or who only have decorative “books by the foot”, are boring and willfully ignorant. When I come into somebody’s office or home, I always look at the bookshelf to see what’s there and get an idea what this person is like.

People who are mean to service personnel or non-vermin animals are not people with whom I care to associate.

People who choose to spend a lot of time, energy, or money on clothes or appearance are shallow. People who spend less time and thought on their appearance are more interesting and nicer.

People who choose to never travel outside their home country are “ugly Americans”, or the equivalent for other nationalities. This doesn’t apply if you would like to travel outside your country, but are too poor, or don’t have enough vacation time, to do it. But if you have no interest in travelling to a country outside your own, or consider the discomforts of long-distance travel too much to have foreign travel be worth it (assuming they would be no worse for you than for a normal person- this doesn’t apply to someone with a handicap, medical condition, or small children), you are boorish and boring.

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I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who make character judgments based on other people’s fashion choices.

Irrationally enough, given my previous statement, I automatically think less of any male (or any female over the age of 15) who wears pajama bottoms in public.

I’m irrationally prejudiced against liberals who hate all conservatives and conservatives who hate all liberals. For that matter, I think anyone who doesn’t disagree with their political party on at least one issue has no ability to think for themselves.

I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who care what anyone else eats or drinks. If you go off on a rant against vegetarians, or people who cook their steak rare, or people who drink Pepsi, or people who done like broccoli, I automatically think less of you.

I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who live in a small community in financial tough times, but drive to some other community to do their shopping (especially if they shop at Wal*Mart). Sheesh, people, if you don’t want to support the community you live in, why do you live there?

Call me when you can round up the cows or compete in a team penning event using a Prius.

I remember an amusing discussion I had when I was attending a community college (we called 'em “junior colleges” then) and my buddy was attending Stanford. He got into a class taught by the guy who wrote the textbook we were both using, and crowed about it for weeks. Turned out I was taught by a full professor with actual work experience in the field in a class of 30 students. He was taught by a grad student (the textbook author showed up to class TWICE in the whole semester) in a class of 300 students. Who do you think got more out of the class?

Interesting. I think the opposite. Especially when I’m waiting for that space. The driver who backed in can just pull straight out and go, while the one who pulled straight in slowly backs out (often back and forth, especially in larger vehicles).
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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.

Huh. Well, they’re both supposed to have on-board spellcheckers! (“Supposed to” meaning, “according to the various tech review sites I checked before making my prior post” and not “because it would be cosmically unjust for them not to.”) Chalk one up for ignorance being fought. This just makes my prejudice against people who misspell things even more irrational, I guess.

The funky thing is, if I load up Firefox here, which I can do, it does have a spellchecker. :confused: However, IE is the “default” (spits) browser and they upkeep IE much more than FF, so I just run with it. So for some reason…they disabled the spellcheck.

And you know what? Our internal message board is rife with spelling errors. :smack:

I will change my response to say that I just updated Opera and it does, in fact, have a spell checker. But the version that I used previously did not. So I guess it’s just IE.

I always suspect people who have too much porn on their computers are wankers.


Not that I’d know anything about that.

It was for a book. Really.

I will be perfectly honest; it’s hard to take your school seriously right now either, whatever it was. Sorry.

Edit window got me after I had already started to post, so add this to the bottom of the previous post:

ETA: Maybe post v7 IE has it, but no version I use or have used did. I do retract my statement of an earlier post being the elitist Firefox only thing, though, as I was unaware that so many other browsers had spell checkers. But there do exist browsers and versions of browsers out there that do not.

ETA2: My previous post, that is.

Just out of curiosity: I’m currently returning to college to pursue a degree related to my career. Where does a BA in Paramedic Science rank to you?

That’s fine. I’m not a cry baby, or a liar, like certain people. You don’t have to think highly of the UNIVERSITY I attended. I’m proud of myself and don’t care what you think. If I did, I’m woman enough to understand you’re entitled to have an opinion.

People who go into debt for anything other than education, a home, maybe a car, or circumstances beyond their control are stupid. Someone who goes into debt to buy a used car or an entry-level car is not stupid (assuming they need the car), but someone who goes into debt to buy a luxury car when they could pay cash for a less fancy car is stupid. People who go into debt to get “status” stuff are not only dumb, but shallow as well. People who go into debt to pay for something they don’t even get to keep, like a wedding or a vacation, are the dumbest of all.

People who can entertain themselves without involving other people are smarter than people who find being alone boring.

People who think high school was “the best years of their life” are losers.

I have prejudices against

  • Lexus drivers. But this isn’t irrational: they shouldn’t be allowed on the road.
  • People who have a big stick up their butt about smokers. I don’t smoke (though I used to), but I just can’t get on the bandwagon that says smokers are evil. But that’s not irrational.
  • People wearing cowboy hats or baseball caps. I cringe whenever I see them, especially the former. I think this actually is irrational, but I live in Texas, and am sick to death of the things.

And yet I would wager that you have mentioned “keeping kosher” (and your conversion to Judiasm) over 25 times here on SDMB in just the past year alone.

For awhile, you seemed to mention eating kosher every third or fourth post…

That was here, in threads where it was relevant. IRL, most people who know me probably don’t know I keep kosher. It mainly only comes up when choosing restaurants or going to dinner at someone else’s house. Or when someone asks me “what’s that” when I’m eating matzo at Passover.

You missed my point (or I wasn’t clear). I’m assuming the parent drove to the restaurant and that they shouldn’t give the signal that it’s okay to drink anything and drive. I’ve seen solo parents with kids in tow at a restaurant that that’s a bit off the beaten path, drinking multiple beers. Not good. It’s obviously different if the parent is with a non-drinker.

Interesting, in that it brought one to mind for me. I have this irrational prejudice against people who frequently travel/vacation. I can’t help having the sense that they’re just engaging in superficial pseudo-experiences just to impress others. If I want to experience another place/culture, I want to live there for at least 6 months.

Another irrational prejudice I have is dreadlocks. I think they’re nasty and automatically think less of anyone sporting them.

I think people with glasses are smarter than people without glasses.

This isn’t just irrational, it falls under the cognitive dissonance category. I grew up in a small Southern town. All of my family is Southerner as far as historically possible since time began in our terms. I was raised to hate Yankees and, in a way, I learned the lesson well and still do. It wasn’t all Yankees, just special categories of them especially Italian-Americans and the other loud and brash ones living in New York City, New Jersey, and Boston. If you asked me when I was growing up who I would not ever live it would be one of those places.

I ended up marrying into an Italian family from Boston and having kids that adore. How in the hell did that happen? I am a little murky on the details myself.

We are divorced now but I am still here and love my kids and will live here as long as it takes to raise them. My ex inlaws are the only family I have here and still treat me as such. I adore them. You would think this would be a touching story about different cultures coming together and loving each other by getting to know one another. Nope, I still really hate Yankees and Italian-Americans as an idea to the core of my soul even though I love many of the individuals that have done lots for me over the years. I can’t make much sense of it.

That only really works on TV and in the movies, that melding of the cultures, everyone becoming one big happy. It’s OK, and I know exactly what you mean. It’s OK for me to rag on Dumb Asses, but the Dumb Asses I personally know are good folks at heart, and I like them even though they can’t find the state they live in on a map. Still think they’re Dumb, but it is what it is.

Based on your grammar skills, writing ability, and totally irrational opinions, I’d guess you didn’t pay very much.