# What Are Your Superficial / Snap Judgement Criteria? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125 "2005-02-21T04:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/101 "2005-02-24T21:57:04Z")
Bumper sticker politics…especially 17 bumper stickers announcing a million different opinions. Completely healthy, hot women who get boob jobs and then just end up looking cheap rather than naturally pretty. I gotta admit that I judge people who act like they absolutely had to become a stripper to get through college, like an on-campus job, private loans or FAFSA couldn’t have been a completely feasible, alternative solution. Drug addicts. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/102 "2005-02-24T23:22:58Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > [hijack]However I’d be willing to give \*I Know This Much Is True \* a try if people can say why it’s a good read. (Perhaps a thread in Cafe Society?) > > [hijack over] Without wanting to start a whole new thread, I hated _She’s Come Undone_, but I loved \*I Know This Much Is True \*. It’s been a couple of years since I read it, so I couldn’t tell you exactly why I liked it so much, but I do remember it was much better than the other one. It’s about twin brothers, one of whom is mentally disturbed (bi-polar, IIRC), and how they both deal with the illness. I think it was told from the POV of the brother who isn’t mentally disturbed. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/103 "2005-02-25T13:04:53Z")
Thank you, **Bibliocat**. I also listened to She’s Come Undone, and though I don’t remember it all that clearly, I do recall that the main character was very unlikeable. However, Wally writes well enough that I still think him capable of doing good work; She’s Come Undone just wasn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/104 "2005-02-26T08:06:59Z")
> [@MizQuirk](#): > > I can NOT understand how anyone can get ‘take/bring,’ and ‘come/go’ wrong! It is so obvious that if you’re going away from where you/we are now and carrying something with you, you’re going and taking, and if you’re coming here to where we are now and carrying something with you, you’re coming and bringing. > > I take a pretty dim view of anyone I’m listening to who hasn’t figured that out yet. > > Heard in a face-to-face conversation on a late-night talk show taped in California: “The next time you visit Europe I hope you’ll bring me with you.” :wally > > And another thing – people who say they’re waiting ON something to happen, when what is meant is they’re waiting FOR it, or for someone to show up, or whatever. Unless they’re waiters or waitresses or clerks, of course. They’re the only people I can think of who wait ON. > > Newscasters seem to be becoming most infected with this virus lately, often reporting that they’re waiting ‘on’ more information about this developing story. :smack: Add “different than” instead of “different from” to that list. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/105 "2005-02-26T08:28:10Z")
I am an avid reader, but I don’t own gobs of books because I move _a lot._ I own about 20 all together - a couple of cookbooks, a few books on Buddhism, my dictionary, etc. - but usually, when I’m finished with a book, I either trade it or donate it and then buy a new one. Just because you’re not a book _owner_ doesn’t mean you’re not a book _lover._ ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/106 "2005-02-26T18:05:06Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > This might be a hip-hop thing. > > Erykah Badu > Jay-Z > Mystikal > Ludakris > Kommon > J.Lo > P.Diddy > India.Arie _ **Common** _ and _ **Ludacris** _ and a stage name is not a hip-hop thing. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/107 "2005-02-26T18:39:57Z")
- Any kind of sticker on your car that didn’t originally come with the vehicle (public vehicles are exempt). This includes magnets, as well as those damn fish. - When someone asks, “how come you’re so quiet?”. You ask me this, and we may never speak again. Conversation is a two-way street, don’t expect me to do all the talking. And not everyone is boasting extrovert, so please, just shut up already. - When people whom are married, and/or have kids, they ask you do to things because you have so much free time. Because what could I possibly be doing if I wasn’t married or didn’t have kids? :rolleyes: - People who _buy_ DVDs, only to _never_ watch them ever again. When I walk into someones house and see a shelf with hundreds upon hundreds of DVDs (some still shrink wrapped), I start to count them in my head with an average of $10 a piece. Those thousands of dollars would’ve benefited something much more worth while, IMO. Not only that, it’s a waste of space. Don’t get me wrong, I love movies just as much as the next person, but I don’t need to own ALL of them. - People who genuinely feel that because you haven’t gone to college, you lack the skills to do anything. Or are unable to have a work ethic due to a lack of education. I’m sorry, but you’re baking major isn’t going to do shit for your credibility, or ability in the real world if you feel you’re above those who did not attend college. I’m not saying that college is bad, a lot of good hard working people have benefited from it. But just because you went there, doesn’t make you a messiah, nor does it give you the right to step on the little guy because you have a degree. > [@Large Marge](#): > > People who don’t speak properly, i.e. using double negatives and other improper grammar. No, I don’t mean minor, common errors like split infinitives; I’m talking about things such as: “I done got me some at the store,” or, “He ain’t got no reason to do that.” > > I just can’t get past it. It screams “uneducated” and “ignorant” to me and makes it very difficult for me NOT to prejudge everything that comes out of their mouths. They could be Yale educated for all I know, though in my experience that’s been a rarity. - People who think like this ^ ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/108 "2005-02-26T18:47:23Z")
All jumbled up, but anyway - I’m likely to judge the following negatively: -\> People who push their (religious usually, sometimes political) agenda within 5 minutes of exchanging hellos -\> People who can’t seem to understand that other people might not like the same music/movies/food/sports as they do. -\> People who share TMI or harangue you about their problems when you don’t know them yet. -\> Men with shaved heads -\> Women with all their hair tied back tight, into a bun or ponytail -\> People with a “my country’s better than your country attitude” (apart from some sporting rivalry). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/109 "2005-02-26T19:25:46Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > - Any kind of sticker on your car that didn’t originally come with the vehicle (public vehicles are exempt). This includes magnets, as well as those damn fish. Hmm. I’ve always thought that about people who can’t be bothered to remove the dealership sticker from the back of their car. ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/110 "2005-02-26T22:07:49Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > -\> Women with all their hair tied back tight, into a bun or ponytail ? 😕 ? What does that have to do with anything? You have obviously never had to deal with long hair during a lecture class, or exercise, or… well… anything, really. It says nothing about my personality, other than that I will sometimes put comfort before fashion. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/111 "2005-02-27T00:44:43Z")
In my experience, women who have their hair like this most of the time tend to be more uptight and stuffy than the average. I realise it’s not consistently true–that’s why it’s a superficial judgement. ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/112 "2005-02-27T01:21:38Z")
Is it any updo that bothers you, or only the super-tight poor-girl’s-face-lift buns/ponytails? Seriously, this is fascinating. I had no idea people were judged by their hair. What about the bald guys? ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/113 "2005-02-27T01:33:34Z")
> [@fessie](#): > > How can you have nothing on your walls? Put something on your wall already! How can you live that way? What do you look at? You just sit there staring at blank walls all day? How can you do that? > > Go to Ikea, buy a poster, get a nail and a hammer, and fix this situation. > > Really. > > If I go to someone’s home or business and there’s nothing on the walls, it makes me really uncomfortable. I won’t go back if I can help it. > > I don’t want to even read about your blank walls. I’m getting creeped out sitting here just thinking about it. Put something on your damn wall. Grab a shoe and put some footprints on your wall if you’re too broke to buy a poster. Smear some ketchup and chocolate sauce on there. A little relish, for texture. > > I don’t want to read about blank walls. > > Sheesh! I can only guess by this response that I spend quite a bit less time at home than you do. To me, my home is a place to sleep, grab a shower, eat when convenient, and store stuff. I can’t say that I ever just sit and look at my walls. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/114 "2005-02-27T02:07:28Z")
Food/book/music/movie snobs. People who don’t watch/own TV and think those that do are brain dead zombies. Smokers. A woman who smokes might as well be oozing syphillis from every pore. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/115 "2005-02-27T02:20:52Z")
> [@brickbacon](#): > > _ **Common** _ and _ **Ludacris** _ > > and a stage name is not a hip-hop thing. No, but this style of stage name for this genre of music is asbolutely a hip-hop thing. But thank you for correcting me on the spelling of **Common** and **Ludacris.** Dunno what I was thinking. **Scribble.** Well I said, upon reflection, it may be more applicable to women I my family (and a few I’ve dated.) That certainly lets you off the hook for “nuts” but it you ladies are still picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky, picky! ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/116 "2005-02-27T07:29:49Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > \ > > - People who genuinely feel that because you haven’t gone to college, you lack the skills to do anything. Or are unable to have a work ethic due to a lack of education. I’m sorry, but you’re baking major isn’t going to do shit for your credibility, or ability in the real world if you feel you’re above those who did not attend college. I’m not saying that college is bad, a lot of good hard working people have benefited from it. But just because you went there, doesn’t make you a messiah, nor does it give you the right to step on the little guy because you have a degree. > > > [@Large Marge](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Large Marge > > People who don’t speak properly, i.e. using double negatives and other improper grammar. No, I don’t mean minor, common errors like split infinitives; I’m talking about things such as: “I done got me some at the store,” or, “He ain’t got no reason to do that.” > > > > I just can’t get past it. It screams “uneducated” and “ignorant” to me and makes it very difficult for me NOT to prejudge everything that comes out of their mouths. They could be Yale educated for all I know, though in my experience that’s been a rarity. > > - People who think like this ^ You have made an unfair assumption. I said that I make superficial/snap judgments about people (this is the point of the thread) based on their use of the English language. I didn’t say that I thought people who didn’t go to college lack the skills to do anything nor that they lack a work ethic. When someone speaks as though they’re uneducated, the assumption is that they _are_ uneducated. I don’t think it’s that much of a reach. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have intelligent ideas or original viewpoints deserving of consideration or action. My point was that I prejudge them because of their inability to speak properly, **despite** what they may have to say, intelligent or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125/117 "2005-02-27T15:26:22Z")
The college bit and your quote were actually unrelated, it just so happens that I put your quote below it. But I see how you could have interpreted your quote to be in comparison to the college thing. But anywho, your quote triggered a Superficial (insignificant) / Snap Judgement in my mind. Don’t take it personal, because my snap judgements are just that… they go away. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-superficial-snap-judgement-criteria/291125.md?page=5)