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.
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.
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.
Add “different than” instead of “different from” to that list.
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.
Common and Ludacris
and a stage name is not a hip-hop thing.
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.
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).
Hmm. I’ve always thought that about people who can’t be bothered to remove the dealership sticker from the back of their car.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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. 