# What are you admittedly hypocritical about? (Version 2.0) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083 "2012-01-10T21:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/1 "2012-01-10T21:43:31Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/2 "2012-01-10T22:05:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/3 "2012-01-11T17:09:44Z")
I guess no one wants to admit hypocrisy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/4 "2012-01-11T17:49:26Z")
- 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/5 "2012-01-11T18:11:04Z")
I wish my teenagers wouldn’t smoke. They know it, and don’t smoke where I can see them, or catch them, but I know damned well that they do. I started smoking 30 years ago at age 11 and have no desire to quit. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/6 "2012-01-11T21:14:17Z")
I rant and rave about how the political party I am against is ignorant and won’t read “the other side’s” articles. I won’t read their side most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/7 "2012-01-11T22:28:10Z")
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’’. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/8 "2012-01-11T22:38:08Z")
I’m a parent. We do this stuff all the time. She’s 10, soon will be a teenager. It will only get worse! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/9 "2012-01-11T22:49:17Z")
Puns are marginally amusing when I make them, but not at all when anyone else does. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/10 "2012-01-11T22:56:20Z")
There’s only one person in the World with dreams so interesting that they need to be shared, and that person is me. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/11 "2012-01-11T23:00:09Z")
> [@Ephemera](#): > > Puns are marginally amusing when I make them, but not at all when anyone else does. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/12 "2012-01-12T03:46:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/13 "2012-01-12T04:40:29Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > There’s only one person in the World with dreams so interesting that they need to be shared, and that person is me. Substitute ‘opinions’ for ‘dreams’ and you have the reason why I post on message boards. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/14 "2012-01-12T17:58:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/15 "2012-01-12T22:11:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/16 "2012-01-12T23:39:05Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > 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’’. Wait … how is that a hypocritical thing? 😕 > [@kushiel](#): > > - I bitch about drivers in a hurry who speed around me. However, I also get impatient with some slow drivers… 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. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/17 "2012-01-13T01:19:29Z")
I believe 100% in monogamy, but I’ve gotten a crush on a married woman before. I would never act on it, though. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/18 "2012-01-13T03:34:18Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > I believe 100% in monogamy, but I’ve gotten a crush on a married woman before. I would never act on it, though. 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. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/19 "2012-01-13T04:24:40Z")
I’m hypocritical about my hypocrisy. I claim to be consistent in all things, but deep down inside I’m a mass of contradictions. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083/20 "2012-01-13T04:45:07Z")
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.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-admittedly-hypocritical-about-version-2-0/609083.md?page=2)