I’d say that quote-responding then forbidding others from doing the same is kind of [del]pretentious[/del] mean.
Oooh. I got one. Using strikethough the way I just did is pretentious!
(Yes. I’m done now.)
Don’t get started on who’s mean and who isn’t. I know someone is going to be on my block list.
To follow up on ITD’s post, let’s look to Google’s define funcion:
It’s pretentious that one believes s/he can redefine the word as “things I don’t like or wouldn’t do”, as is throwing a hissy fit when called upon it.
And while now they have true competition, for awhile iPhones could do things no other phone could do, and they did it well - better than all the other smartphone competitors. They are still the only phone that seamlessly combines an iPod with a cell phone. YaraMateo, you also didn’t address where the line is drawn. Is anything other than the free phone one can get with a plan pretentious? Is the Camry more pretentious than the Corolla, and are both more pretentious than the Hyundai/Kia equivalents?
Some people try to use their phones to “to attract notice and impress others”. There an iPhone CAN be pretentious using YOUR definiation. Am I done defending my opinion of pretentious? Or my opinion always to be OVERLY explained and defended? If does, I don’t have to be a member here.
And that’s what people have been saying. The iPhone isn’t pretentious by itself. It is the how the owner acts in regards to the iPhone. For others it is just a phone and an iPod combined.
And don’t fucking threaten me with your membership. I could not care less if you stay or if you go. If your going to post stupid shit and complain when called on it, this isn’t the place for you.
If you’re going to harass me then I quit! You’re stupid and a douchebag.
You forgot that my mother dresses me funny.
Which brings to mind the question: if “crudités” is pretentious, shouldn’t “douchebag” be as well?
Only when written or spoken as douchébag.
I am not an “ex-pat.” I am an ex PAH tri ayte, thank you very much.
But since some people have a chip on their shoulders about it, I’ll do my little expat dance now. Expat expat expat, I’m an expat, neener neener neener!
Mmmm, perhaps I’m being insensitive to people I’ve never met who have sensitivities over a wholly neutral and commonly-used word, apparently because of some internalized anger and self-doubt surrounding their own life experiences. And who’d be roundly laughed out of any expat pub in East Asia for expressing their views.
Nah! Expat expat expat, I’m an expat, neener neener neener!
Ok, here goes:
Guy 1: Ordinary Coworker
Guy 2: Knows everything Coworker
Guy 1 (talking in a group of senior managers at work):
“We’re going kayaking this summer”
Guy 2: (walking by and eavesdropping): "What kind of kayaks did you get? If you haven’t bought yet, I can tell you the best one to get. Also, I can tell you where the best places are, etc. etc. (know it all)
Guy 1: Looks like we have us a sexual intellectual
Guy 2: Sexual intellectual?
Guy 1: A fucking know it all
All senior managers start cracking the hell up and Guy 2 gets pissed as shit!
I have never been more tempted to change my screen name than I am right now.
Ah, the Alex Trebek Rule.
Moving thread from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.
Speaking for myself—often as a habitual contact lens “wearer” I chose to wear glasses when I am in a rush in the morning, have an eye infection, or I am out of contacts and too broke for new ones. I have awful eyesight and I like contacts, but if I decide to wear glasses then I’m wearing them, for the whole day because I couldn’t tell you who walked into my office, if I had no corrective vision assistance. BUT, I do get the feeling people think I am being pretentious when I wear my glasses, which is aggravating and I have to explain why I am in fact wearing glasses.
PugDog23, it may be generational or maybe its because I sometimes wear contacts, but my first thought would be that either (a) you visited an eye doctor the other day for the first time or (b) you had problems with your contacts.
Does this mean YaraMateo is gone?
Good. He was pretentious.
I did visit the eye doctor two months ago, but my first visit to an eye doctor was 12 years ago. And yes sometimes I do have contact lens problems. I also speak French, is that a problem, oh and I use an Iphone.
D. Odds: what do you find pretentious?
Ooh, I’m going to see if I can sound pretentious while maintaining a strictly plebian lifestyle:
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[Frasier Crane accent] Oh, welllll, Jan-Jan and I were going to summer at the lake, but our only manual sports car is in dry dock, and it’s SO hard to tote the necessary cases of that insouciant little Pinot we just have to have… we may just have to tell the help we’re staying in the city. ::sigh::" [/accent]*
(It’s all true, though the lake is just down the block, the manual is a Toyota, and the Pinot is 2-Buck Chuck, and the help is our kids)
“I don’t do Windoze” [“Winblows”, etc. etc.]
Or, in response to posts requesting help with Windows/Internet Explorer/Office - “get yourself a real OS/Browser…that’s why I don’t use any M$FT products hur hur” I’m a full time Linux user and developer, but other “open source” nuts who take a condescending tone like that gives us a bad name. I use Windows or OS X or anything else when it makes sense.
+1 for “I don’t even own a TV”
“We went on vacation in [third world country]. We always stay away from the major cities and hang out with the locals. You get such a better feel for the place like that, unlike all the tourists in their tour buses.”
Hyper corrections: “He reserved a room for my wife and I”, “Please forward the document to myself”. My boss does both of these almost daily.
Using a five-dollar word where a fifty-cent word will do the job just as well or better - “leverage” or “utilize” instead of “use”.