I know we aren’t here to argue, but I think that you get to keep your vacations for longer than most items you could buy. Pleasant memories are generally worth more than stuff that you end up throwing away and forgetting about.
Never been married, but I guess it would be truer for marriage, although in fact I’m probably prejudiced against people who spend tons of money for their marriage (given the topic of this thread I have no reason to even try to justify the contradiction).
My wife and I got married on the cheap. Her brother was in the National Guard, so we were able to use one of their armories for free. The minister was the one from her mother’s church, and performed the ceremony for free. We got married on the 4th of July (my attitude was “why have a reception? There’ll be drunk people everywhere!”). We honeymooned about an hour and a half away, in the Cincinnati area. We went to the Newport Aquarium and the zoo in Cincy, and had an absolute blast.
Conversely, one of my best friends is getting ready to get hitched for the 2nd time, and the reception is going to be at The Muhammad Ali Center. It just seems a bit…much for my wife and I. Not that we don’t wish them well, and we’ll certainly be there, but I can certainly see your point.
My current prejudice is guys who drive BMW 3series are un-dateable. Drive an old Corolla, drive a BMW 5series, I don’t care. If you drive a 3series I am going to label you as either an immature nitwit or a conversational void. Either way, not worthy of my time.
If you use “lol” in any non-ironic context you instantly lose about 500AP (arbitrary points). Especially if you’re an English major, you should just know better then.
People who go to renaissance fairs …
People who eat on the subway….
Work of any kind….be it menial or corporate…or far worst volunteering to help those less fortunate… I just look at people with jobs with such distain….
People who try to do “cultural relativism” with ridiculous comparisons. “You think Unit 731 was bad? Well, the US put people in internment camps.” “You think Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot were evil? What about the US propping up Ortega?” Come on!
Young enlisted military families with high-end SUVs, iPhones, LED TVs, high-end accessories, etc… while having 2+ kids. I feel my Third Amendment is being violated as my taxpayer dollars are quartering these undisciplined idiots.
So you just tag all of those beavers for free then, eh? :rolleyes:
Uh oh, I love my Diet Coke, just had two of them at a Chinese restaurant Saturday night.
I assume you’re a member of the British aristocracy, circa mid 19th century?
My irrational prejudices fall into three broad categories: what one drives, television choices, and juvenile personal habits.
If you drive a Buick sedan, I assume you can’t drive worth a damn and that you’re old. If your car has “Educator” license plates (available in Georgia, and I assume other states,) I assume you can’t drive. If you drive a Hummer, I assume you can’t drive and that you’re a jerk. If you have Florida license plates, I assume you can’t drive nor read road signs nor maps, nor can you follow simple directions. (Seriously, on that last one: Hotel guests commonly ask me how to get back to the interstate. You can see the interstate from the lobby. To go south, turn left out of the drive, and take the first right. To go north, turn left out of the drive and take the first left. People have me repeat that umpteen times, write down the directions, show them on maps, etc. Often, I step out of the front door and point. Sometimes they still want me to write it down. Usually these are folks with Florida educator plates on their Buicks! :D)
If you ask me about the latest episode of American Idol, Big Brother, Survivor, etc., I will assume you are a low-brow idiot. (Of course, that doesn’t stop me from being sucked into entire days of America’s Top Model marathons… but I watch ironically! As per the OP, it’s definitely not rational.)
If you tell me that you only eat chicken nuggets and fries, or that you can only eat steak with catsup, or that you don’t eat vegetables, I will think that you are an unadventurous Mama’s Boy or Girl, and that your parents indulged you to an unhealthy degree. If you are a grown man who never removes his baseball cap, I will assume that you are hiding your bald spot or trying to hold onto your teenage “glory days,” and that it’s all downhill since. If you are a grown woman who talks in a teeny little baby voice, I won’t take you very seriously. (It’s okay if you use a tiny little sing-song voice if you’re talking to babies or pets. Not if that’s how you answer your office phone.)
What I’ve learned from this thread:
Apparently there are people out there who judge me because:
I still think I have a pretty good, fun life, and I’m happy if you do, too, even if you are a smoking, baseball-cap wearing hip-hop fan.
Scholarship usually means not paying very much. Not like I’ve mentioned that before… 
Your attention to details amazes me. :rolleyes:
So, you’re saying I’m right.
I judge you for being a cry baby who cares what people online think. Most of these people, if not all, you’ll probably never meet in person.
This isn’t a thread about being PC. This is a venting thread. If these things make you happy, you should’t care what other think.
New prejudice: People who take online communities too seriously.
People who are too sensitive.
People who drink milk. Milk is just gross.
I’m not saying anything. I don’t care what the straight dope, a place of community college goers and teachers, think of the education I got at a university. Just as most pedigrees don’t care what barking mutts think. 
Fine, think less of me if you wish, but consider this. (Also this is Canada, slightly different, but not THAT different)
I had high grades in high school and recieved bursaries and scholarships (but not a full ride all expenses paid) to a 4 year university, changed majors, went to another one, decided that I was not going to make a living at anything I was interested in studying and opted not to finish. I worked for two years and decided to go back to school and take nursing.
I could have gone to University. I had the grades, I would have only had to take core courses because all my electives would have been covered. But I CHOSE to go to community college because general wisdom then was “the college program gives you more hands on practical experience.” Also, I wasn’t sure I’d stick with it, having changed majors and schools previously.
I know I can learn theory. I know I have good study habits, was in the top 10 of my graduating class in high school and made the Dean’s List 5/6 semesters in College. I chose to get the more practical experience and for a a long time most of the employers looked more favourably at college RNs rather than those with a BScN.
Now the college program has been phased out and I am completing my BScN by correspondence. I am “grandmothered” in as a Registered Nurse, but I do want the letters behind my name, especially since I am now in management. I could have got that over with more quickly if I had gone the degree route, but really, even though doing my degree work at night, on-line, is sometimes annoying, sometimes tedious, and takes time from my family, I would not have done it differently.
Ask yourself: do you want someone who has practical or theoretical knowledge, someone with lots of extra physiology courses who knows all the compounds that make blood clot or do you want someone who has applied hundreds of bandages and can do it quickly and well.
Another thing about degree programs when technical, applied or community college programs exist, it drives up the price of labour and the cost gets transfered to the consumer, taxpayer or whomever ultimately pays. But hey, by all means insist your plumber, widget installer, telephone solicitor, have their Bachelor’s degree. Since you went to such a fancy dancy school I’m sure the extra charge will be no problem?
Say what? You’re a temporary substitute teacher?. I am a college graduate and have never ever been without a full time job when I wanted one, except for 4 months between my mat leave ending and a new fiscal year starting. Oh and I had no student loans to pay either, not from my college fees.
Hey there, I object to this in all of the serious types of ways. I drive my ginormous 2500hd chevy 4wd when it snows and when I’m pulling my ginormous airstream down the road. At all other times I’m blowing past you and cutting in front of you in my Beemer. Which do you prefer? Now that I think about it, I’m prob’ly insane too. never mind
Ok, I’ve got to call you on this one. Many private and prestigious public universities have transfer policies with community colleges. You take the right courses, get good grades and you are automagically accepted into the “good” university for your last two years and get your degree from the “good” U at a significantly cheaper price. What’s not to love? No sob stories.
New here, huh?