I have a completely irrational and baseless mistrust of bald men with goatees. I have no idea why - they just look to me like they’re. . . up to something.
I tend to thing religious people are kind of dumb. It’s strange because I actually know quite a few religious people who are in no way dumb and are very thoughtful and introspective about their faith. It doesn’t take a lot for me to make that mental adjustment from “dumb and religious” to “smart and religious”, but it is a prejudice I have.
I also think less of people who don’t like hip-hop and call it “music” with quotation marks. I tend to think they’re old fogeys who are scared of black people. I’m not actually sure that this prejudice is irrational.
ETA: Well, the part about being old fogeys. Not necessarily the part about being scared of black people. I’m sure some people who don’t like hip hop aren’t racist, but I still think they’re probably old fogeys.
And sometimes they are.
I fall into this category. I never could appreciate jazz. It doesn’t do a thing to me, doesn’t makes me feel anything. It’s only good for background music, in a restaurant for instance, as far I’m concerned.
For my part, anybody with a significant interest in sports (except people who actually practice this sport), like someone who simply mentions the next or last soccer game, immediately gets a minus 25 points on my appreciation scale.
Anyone who buys more than one bag of fold top sandwich bags is a dealer. Exception: if you buy 5 of everything, you own a convenience store.
In my gut I feel anybody with unearned vanity tattoos is a coward of shallow character deserving scorn.
pleads What about people having a bake sale!?
Whoa… that’s the strangest one so far in this thread as far as I’m concerned.
I just roll my eyes at people who talk about how rewarding pet ownership is. Companionship! Love! Give me a fucking break. You have a pet because humans find your company exhausting and you are too chickenshit and/or homely and/or poor to have a child.
Conservatives are inherently selfish people.
Women with tattoos have just made poor choices in their lives. They might be okay now, but they probably went through a rough patch.
Maybe but that I don’t see why I need to be sympathetic to that. I agree that women with ANY tattoos are skank weasles or at least were at one time. I have no idea why they feel the need to stop at a small heart on their ankle.
The conversion is done. They might as well become an apprentice crack whore giving blowjobs beside the road in the skankiest section of Skanktown on its darkest night because there is nothing left to lose. It is all the same thing.
I think it should be an inherited trait as well just like being Jewish (Tattooish?). If your grandmother or mother is one, then it gets passed down and there is nothing you can do about it so put on your best show when you first get discovered and put on an episode of COPS because that is the way things are headed.
I’m another who thinks bad things about a person who smokes. I’ll give someone a pass if they’re 55 years old or older, but if they’re in their 30s? No. They might the smartest, most charming person in the world, but I will tend to think bad things about them.
Girls in skinny jeans and Ugg boots, carrying a shiny shoulder bag and constantly gabbing on a cell phone. They just don’t ping on my “smarty-pants” radar. But they do ping on my “I want to look like an idiotic reality TV star” radar.
Texters. For every text you compose, you lose a cool point. Yes, it’s unfair. I cannot help myself though.
Facebookers, MySpacers, or any other social networkers. I know I’m not into that scene so I naturally don’t get it, but the thing is I don’t want to get it. It’s stupid. All of it.
People who wear their political or religious ideology on their sleeve. If I can’t have a five minute conversation without you revealing your belief system, then chances are I’m not going to enjoy being around you for long stretches. Even if we agree on most things.
People who are completely apolitical. It’s one thing to be a fence-sitter on a number of issues. It’s a different matter to not care about who’s the president or have no opinion about the wars we’re involved in.
People who let it be known that they hate a particular genre of music and think they’re cool by saying it is not art. Music is just like any other artform. You don’t hear people saying, “You know, I can’t stand the Bauhaus school! That’s not art!” Hip-hop is art, people. Just because you don’t like it does not make it not art–which is a completely value-neutral term. A person who does not seem to understand this drops way down in my opinion and makes me wonder how far along they went in school. (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. :))
Overly emotional people. I shouldn’t be able to know your mood just based on how you respond to a simple “yes or no” question.
Most people in this thread are just plain crazy, but the following two responses are hilarious:
My wife just reminded me that I have an irrational prejudice against yoghurt. In my 72 years I have never tasted it and I refuse to do so. The reason: it’s got a funny name!
Oh no, you have one based on a misperception. It is ‘yogurt’ and there is no ‘hurt’ in it. It is good for you. Enjoy!
I wish we had a like function, because I like this post.
Additionally, I frocking love love LOVE these threads. Everyone gets their passive-aggressive groove on and it is beautiful to see. Please please please, will someone bring up judging cat owners, people who take their shoes off inside homes, the lack of desire to eat curry or how to properly dress at weddings?
You know what I’m judgemental about? Human suitcases.
I have some very strange prejudices I can’t explain, but I certainly agree with many of the others:
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if you own an ocean going boat, you are both an asshole and idiot - they seem so pretentious and as an investment, they are about the worst thing you can buy. Yes, that even includes you with the ocean kayak too.
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People who buy fancy coffees, but insist on going to Peet’s or some other “non-Starbucks” place instead of just going to Starbucks if it’s more convenient. These are the same people who ‘refuse’ to shop at a Walmart out of principle because they want to promote small businesses. I hate you.
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People who want to eat at a P.F. Chang’s when Chinese food is the choice - I don’t know what it is about that restaurant, but it attracts every asshole with a bluetooth in his ear wearing a suit and that slicks back their hair. I avoid the place, and tend to avoid people who want to eat there instead of just about any other Chinese restaurant.
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If you listen to country music, for some reason I assume you aren’t as smart as you probably are. If you listen to ranchero/mariachi music, you are automatically an illegal alien. If you listen to rap sung by a black male singer, you are a trouble maker
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If you own a bike that has those weird pedals that require you to have special shoes that allow you to clip-in to them, you are lame. If you belong to one of those sponsored bike teams with the matching uniforns, you are also someone I can’t talk to.
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If your tastes for wine or beer are too specific, I’m going to think you are a snob about everything, including non-alcohol subjects.
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If you regularly go to see plays/musicals, especially those that are not well known, you will also be labelled a snob. Same goes for your love of non-Hollywood/ art-house movies. You may know where to get the best burger in town, but I’ll never believe your opinion, because I’ll assume you only go somewhere that the burger has goat cheese and truffles on it, even if it really is a great place to eat.
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.
No sob story here, but thanks to community college, I have no undergrad student loan debt. And thanks to the education and grades I got there, I got a full-ride scholarship to law school, so I have very minimal law school debt too. Who’s stupid now?
I’ll have you know that I don’t mind jazz at all, as long as it’s played where I can’t hear it.
Must confess to a long held belief that most jazz sounds like two out-of-tune garbage lids being whanged together ar random intervals.
I went to a four year university for free. I only had to “pay” for my books and grants covered that. So, I didn’t have to go to school with the baby mommas and crackheads you did in community college. I also had real professors. Community colleges cost less, among OTHER reasons, because you don’t need more than an MA to teach there.
If you couldn’t get a free ride to a regular college, let alone univeristy, I don’t think you should be calling others stupid. 
I have no debt. School related or otherwise.
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.