Then where do you get new napkins? :eek:
Day-time talk shows. You actually watch Regis and Katy? Dr. Phil? Good Morning America and The Today Show?
I’ve seen some of their shows (and a slew of other morning-to-afternoon drivel), and if that’s your cup of tea there is a long way to go before I’ll take anything you say seriously. Not impossible, but you’re starting out with the “vapid” box checked.
People that continuously get speeding tickets. One or two, I can understand. More than that tells me that you are really not someone I have much in common with.
People that continue to drive after their license has been suspended and/or without insurance. That, to me, is so ignorant, risky, and irresponsible, that I don’t even want to know you.
Ditto the socks with sandals thing. And people that wear fanny packs.
At this very moment I am in a very “lively” argument with several people on another forum who all insist there is nothing wrong with the cash-pyramid (Ponzi) scheme they are paying in to. They are all convinced that there will be no losers and the majority of the participants will make a profit. You can quote the mathematics at them and point out that since 2006 these schemes have been declared illegal here in the UK , but it goes right over their head.
All I can say that they have either been brainwashed or they are the organisers of the scheme and are desperate to recruit “new blood” into the scam so they at least can get their payouts.
People who keep their houses filthy. Filthy like my roommate would have it–sink permanently full of dishes, splatters of God-only-knows on every available surface, the sink a disaster zone, and the living room full of beer bottles.
Similarly, people who play video games more than two hours a day.
Girls who wear leggings.
People who shove to the front of the line to get on the bus.
People who sneer at me for being a morning person, or who whine about me not wanting to go with them to the bar until two in the morning, or the diner until five, or stay up watching movies all night. No thanks, I like sleeping when it’s dark and getting up when it’s light. Thanks for the attitude, though.
You must hate going to the movie theater.
Not a chance. I was able to get a mathematics minor by tweaking a couple of electives but a double major if one of them is engineering will set you back six years where I went to school.
I work with someone like this. He’s smart, competent, hard-working, and good at his job… but still pretty much lives like he was in high school. In his defence, he’s saving up for med school, but even then blows several hundred dollars a month on shiny things.
There may be a bit of resentment on my part…
If I could bum at my parents still, I could pay off these students loans in FIVE YEARS and still have money to blow. Stupid expensive city with stupid expensive rent.
Totally agree, more than anything else.
It drives me nuts. Last night was my brother-in-law’s 50th birthday. He has ALS and is now in a chair. He managed to quit smoking for 4 month, but resumed because my sister couldn’t quit. And Kansas City, MO, where we all live, in has outlawed smoking indoors, the party was at some “private club” in Lee’s Summit in the middle of nowhere. 90% of the people there were smoking. I was shanghai’d into videotaping, and this morning my freaking camera still stinks of smoke! My brother and me were gasping in fresh air as we finally managed to escape the party.
Homeopathy - how could anyone know the theory and still believe it is beyond me.
Astrology - see homeopathy.
Or did you mean things that aren’t inherently stupid, but still cause me to lose respect for the person?
Fashion - I have no interest in it and wear clothes until they pretty much fall off my body - or until my wife sneakily throws them away when I’m not around. I understand that it is a huge business employing millions of people and many fine people care about it deeply. But I can’t help thinking that anyone who cares as much about the new fall fashions as I do about music is a fool. I enjoyed the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” but found the majority of the fashion featured in the film hilarious.
Drinking - I just don’t get it. Suck down a substance that makes people more stupid? Most people are stupid enough all on their own without any help.
Sports - Playing sports is one thing. It’s good, healthy exercise. But watching? I don’t get it. Especially these guys who know more about the career of some sports figure than they do their own children. Ironically, the majority of my income comes from working for a sports bar.
See, and now I feel guilty for passing judgment. I have personal issues about kids living with their parents, because it can ruin families. If my grandmother hadn’t been so deeply in denial about her 30-year-old son’s severe issues with responsibility, respect, and drug addiction, he might still be alive. Instead she let him live rent free in her home, dropped everything to bail him out of jail, bought preppy shit for him and his children, made excuses when he cursed and physically threatened her, and screamed like a rabid harpy at anyone who dared to suggest he was anything other than Perfect. He killed himself last year, left behind two young children, and when we weep, it’s not for the person he was, but for the person he wasn’t.
Combine that sad reality with the fact that I wouldn’t know a loving and supportive family if it kicked me in the face, and you can see where my ire comes from. Tragedy combined with bitterness. I’m sorry.
I think that’s fairly atypical. Many EE programs, IME at least, require so much math that it’s almost the same set of courses for the double major. My impression was that you had to know as much math as a math major to function in an EE enviroment.
And once you got it, what would you do with it? Unless you’re racking up academic points in order to go to a good grad school, or shooting for a really specific job that could use it, it’s not going to matter. Those who are hiring junior engineers want an engineering degree. Getting your EIT would help. If you have the time, get that done before you graduate.
Going into the same field of work as one’s parents. Either working for the same big company that your parents did, or the spawn of academics following them into academia. Perhaps unfairly, I tend to write those people off as having a tremendous lack of imagination about what to do with their lives.
Acting as though, having successfully negotiated adversity, one is entitled to denigrate others who have not had to overcome such obstacles. It’s like inverted snobbery.
Yeah, I know that there are people who go through life with every advantage and remain totally clueless about how much easier their life has been because of it. There are also plenty of us who are well aware that our lives would have been a hell of a lot harder if not for material or emotional support from family, friends, etc.
Your classmates may well have been coming late to the realization that they were going to have support themselves. That doesn’t make them losers in and of itself. You had to do it earlier than they did. That, in and of itself, doesn’t make you some kind of superior person.
People who try to tell me they have a system and can beat the house gambling. Any time anyone says they always win so much playing black jack/roulette/craps/whatever I have to majorly fight the urge to roll my eyes and declare them an idiot.
I don’t mind people who gamble. But accept that it’s entertainment and stop pretending that you’re consistently beating statistics over the long run and doing something that millions of others can’t. :rolleyes:
This is somewhat ironic because I used to play poker for a living, but that is a statistically beatable game. Ahhhh rants.
I’m an ME. Two years of lower division math and a year plus of upper division math. My experience may well be atypical. The ladies in the office were sick to death of explaining to incredulous parents that their kid wasn’t bullshitting them, it really was a five year program.
I’m not so sure that it was “inverted”.
Let’s add, people who think others are losers for living at home, and they think this because they know someone who lives at home, no job, doesn’t help with anything, and they apply that to EVERY adult who lives at home (ex. those who had to go back due to financial reasons to get back on their feet, or those helping elderly parents).
On top of that, people who think they’re out at 18, “toughing it out”, doing the “daily grind” somehow makes you this magical human being that gives you this wonderful insight into being “responsible”… not realizing the number of adults who cannot take care of themselves that are completely on their own since they were 18 too. A lot of them over extended themselves into debt, bought huge McMansions, and are now defaulting left and right. Responsible! :dubious: I do not in the slightest buy the argument that you must somehow have hardships to “understand”, “get it”, or “be responsible”. It’s a lot of bullshit to anybody who can rationalize this. Don’t get me wrong, there are things and experiences that will solidify your place in life, absolutely. For example, being a soldier. Only a soldier can understand what it’s like. Experiences a solider has can make him or her responsible. Moving out and being on your own? NOT REALLY THAT SPECIAL, a lot of people do it. And there is no evidence that you are, or will become responsible just because you move out at 18.
It’s not a “living at home problem”, as much as it’s a “responsibility varies” between all walks of life issue, whether you live at home or not. There are a ton of people, “on there own”, who really suck at life. Yet someone who doesn’t mind staying at home, doesn’t have drama with their parents, helps out around the house, helps with bills… is somehow the “loser”. Just because someone you know is a big slacker while living at home, doesn’t apply to everyone who lives at home.
I guess you and cwthree could try reading my apology. Or not. Since we’re all here to judge others anyway, why does it matter why people feel the way they do?
People who sneer at other people’s means of earning a living really bother me, especially in today’s economy. People find themselves doing work that they may not have normally chosen to do, but I admire them for working hard and paying their bills. I’ve seen “professionals” look through some of the guys working as couriers and it’s hurtful to be judged wanting.
I think less of people who say they have no time to read.
Reverse snobbery (not related to the discussion previously in this thread) will make me think you are just a jealous idiot. I live in a town that has a reputation for being wealthy. Is it? Not that it’s important, but we aren’t all rich here, least of all me. My idiot sister lives in the more blue color town next door and, when noting the baskets of live flowers hanging from the light posts downtown, she commented “rich assholes!” She had the same comment in our Shaw’s Market (a very run of the mill grocery chain) when she realized they were playing classical music on the Muzak. If a little recorded classical music and some impatiens are that infuriatingly impressive to you, I will think you are stupid.
I started writing my post before your apology appeared (got pulled away in the middle of writing, hence the delay). Apology accepted.