Back in 2007, I asked people what they would admit to being hypocritical about. We have some new folks here, so I’d like to ask the same question. Of course, don’t let that stop the SDMB vets from answering again.
What am I hypocritical about?[ul]
[li]I piss and moan when people butt in front of the line to ask a question or obtain a ketchup packet, but my question is more important, and getting that ketchup will only take me a second.[/li][li]I won’t hesitate to lean on the horn if you cut me off, but if I’m in a hurry, I’ll do it to you in a heartbeat.[/li][li]As an American, I think we are far too prudish a society and basic, non-sexualized nudity should be embraced. However, would I ever let my own family see me naked? Hell no.[/li][/ul]
You?
I’m very scornful of the snobbish “oh, x is so popular, I’m totally not going to watch it” attitude. Yet I really think I would enjoy South Park, loved the movie, and have basically never watched it entirely because I remember it exploding into popularity and being irritated by said explosion.
I bitch about drivers in a hurry who speed around me. However, I also get impatient with some slow drivers.
I scorn people who want to go to Japan just because they like video games and anime. However, I’m not much better, since really I just want to go to the trendy Tokyo wards and check out conbini stores. I have a weird thing for them.
I talk about the hard work ethic I inherited from my family, but I spend too time on the internet at work.
I’m tired of all these cautions. Every label, every instruction says avoid this and be weary of that. Today I was reading a news story about stuff floating to the US west coast from the Japanese tsunami and some ‘expert’ advised beachcombers not to touch anything they thought ‘‘might be toxic’’.
I hate it when my coworkers disappear for 20 minutes at a time but I’ve stood around for hours talking to my friends when there weren’t any managers around.
I’m all in favor of legalizing prostitution, but when my sister had to resort to it to get her daughter some school supplies & clothes, I really didn’t like it.
I’m constantly on my little brother and littlest sister about their weight, when I don’t do much to watch my own.
I detest hearing others swear (except in movies), yet I swear I like a sailor.
I’m constantly urging others to go to the docs when they’re sick/injured, but I have to be vomiting blood, severely bleeding, have a major bone broken, or be delirious before you’ll see me near one.
I’m for the legalization of pot, but jumped all over my sister when she smoked it.
Outside the club on New Year’s Eve, I complained to my boyfriend about how all the drunk girls in their short skirts and stripper heels were skanks. It soon dawned on me that although I wasn’t drunk, I also was wearing a short skirt and stripper heels. And had spent half an hour with my tongue down his throat inside the club.
Ah yes, the ol “everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot and everyone who drives faster than me is a goddamn maniac” mentality. I, ah, admit to doing that myself. Then again, I live in Dallas, where some people routinely do 100+ mph on the highway and old folks routinely do 20 under the limit everywhere else. So there.
I don’t think having a crush on someone unsuitable is hypocritical - these things do not answer to logic at all! Acting on it and thinking you’re justified in doing so (while everyone else who does it is a scumbag) would be hypocritical.
Other people’s clutter is “junk that’s in my way.” Mine is purely practical stuff that I haven’t yet found a spot for. And I hate dealing with procrastinators, so you can guess why I’m poking around on message boards… Nothing else important to be done (unless you count the piles of clutter that I should be putting away, the laundry, mopping the kitchen, etc.)
