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.
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.
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)
Huh. Color me surprised that anyone would imagine such things from the way someone orders their meat.
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.
I like the taste of meat. I don’t like the taste of blood. Blech! 
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, please keep the personal attacks to that thread. I’ll be more than happy to respond there.
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.
I mean to say, the other classes are just bullshit. Well, the right ones are, too.
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. 
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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, please keep the personal attacks to that thread. I’ll be more than happy to respond there.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
F-. Edit and resubmit.
Does that mean you’re still unmade? :dubious:
Maybe. :rolleyes: