# What snap judgements do you make about people? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099 "2012-01-29T18:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/21 "2012-01-30T06:23:25Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Local car dealers do this, and I hate it. If I buy a car or truck from John Smith Chevrolet, I don’t want “John Smith Chevrolet [Chevy bow tie] [city and province]” emblazoned across the back window. John can put a small, discreet sticker on the back of the car, but nothing else. Especially not on the windows. I had a small, discreet dealer sticker on the trunk of my car when I bought it seven years ago, and the first thing I did was peel that sucker off - no one is paying me to advertise for them, so they get NOTHING! If I went to pick up the car and it had the dealership’s name emblazoned across my window, I would demand that they remove it on their dime. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/22 "2012-01-30T06:26:10Z")
A person who says “to be honest” is not to be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/23 "2012-01-30T11:00:01Z")
If you dress like, and try to appear as a dangerous thug, I will treat you as one. Visible tattoos and redneck(-ishly) adorned trucks are both evidence of immaturity. But I rate the redneck slightly higher (he can repaint his truck). ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/24 "2012-01-30T11:28:39Z")
I really do feel bad about this, but any L.A.-type kardashian-esque voice inflections pop up a big ‘avoid this person’ flag in my head. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/25 "2012-01-30T11:56:33Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > I assume anyone wearing velcro shoes has a double-digit IQ. 50% of the population has a double-digit IQ. You should know that, being on the Dope, where everybody has an IQ of 195. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/26 "2012-01-30T11:58:43Z")
Tight jeans and heels = promiscuous Long, talon-like fingernails = mean and superficial ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/27 "2012-01-30T12:45:13Z")
I rapidly place other men into “douchebag” and “non-douchebag” categories based on dress and mannerisms. Anyone found in the former will not receive much of my attention, nor time. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/28 "2012-01-30T14:34:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I assume someone with “nuts” hanging from the back of their truck is not very confident in their masculinity. I once saw a man driving down 6th Avenue in a huge Humvee, with a bushy Castro beard and smoking an enormous cigar (the driver that is, not the Humvee). My first thought was, “he must have the smallest penis in New York!” ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/29 "2012-01-30T17:39:55Z")
Are you sure he wasn’t Castro? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/30 "2012-01-30T17:43:43Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Are you sure he wasn’t Castro? Maybe the emasculation was so severe he was singing castrado. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/31 "2012-01-30T17:48:04Z")
- People who write poorly (particularly those who use a lot of “chatspeak”) are not very smart, or else they’re kids who don’t know any better. I have a hard time respecting people who can’t write at least adequately. - British accent: intelligent (this excludes Cockney accents, which I still like, but to which I don’t immediately ascribe intelligence) - Women dressed tomboyishly: A woman I might get along better with than the “average” woman - Men/teens with their underwear hanging out of their pants: morons. This is particularly true for guys in basketball shorts and tighty whities. Ditto guys who sag their pants down so far that the seat rides down somewhere around their knees, even if their shirt is long enough that I don’t have to look at their skivvies. - Anybody who likes Jackass movies: not our kind, dear. ---
**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 30, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/32 "2012-01-30T18:11:34Z")
People who praise Jesus for things they have accomplished on their own (such as narrowly missing a traffic accident due to quick reflexes). Give yourself some damn credit. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/33 "2012-01-30T18:36:56Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I rapidly place other men into “douchebag” and “non-douchebag” categories based on dress and mannerisms. Anyone found in the former will not receive much of my attention, nor time. White sunglass frames will immediately cause me to place you in the “douchebag” category. White glasses frames will do that, too, but they’re not as common. > [@Eve](#): > > I once saw a man driving down 6th Avenue in a huge Humvee, with a bushy Castro beard and smoking an enormous cigar (the driver that is, not the Humvee). My first thought was, “he must have the smallest penis in New York!” We were hanging out around the front of a restaurant after having dinner with a group last summer, and a guy came roaring out of his parking spot and proceeded to screech on down the street, revving his engine and making a huge racket and smell from his hot engine and tires. I yelled, “Too bad about your PENIS!” after him. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/34 "2012-01-30T20:12:30Z")
Guys with the crotch of their pants hanging down around their knees = not even in the same zip code with cool or intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/35 "2012-01-30T20:19:26Z")
If you pronounce “ask” as “aks”, I peg you as lazy or uneducated, or both. I’m comfortable doing this since everyone I’ve ever met that prounounced it that way was, as I came to learn, either lazy or uneducated, or both. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/36 "2012-01-30T22:51:00Z")
Any guy who talks with a high pitched lilt in his voice (i.e. stereotypical gay speech pattern) must be gay. I met a guy at work just the other day like this, and immediately assumed he was gay. Later on during conversation he mentioned that he has a wife… but I still can’t shake the impression that he’s gay! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/37 "2012-01-30T22:56:22Z")
That people who wear their hair in dreadlocks must be pot smokers. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/38 "2012-01-30T23:07:52Z")
Men with buzz cuts are thuggish, brutal, and untrustworthy. Women in headscarves/hijab are brave. People who say they never lie cannot be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/39 "2012-01-30T23:14:46Z")
Middle aged women wearing tribal jewelry and birkies went to a liberal arts college and graduated in the humanities. They are not dangerous. Buff young people wearing skintight athletic clothing (the branded kind) have uninteresting minds. Teenagers who speak in a nasal monotone are without merit. Anyone who looks deeply into my eyes when introduced must be treated with great caution. Men who wear Carhartt work jackets and boots will be nice to me, and will be of practical use. People who look hispanic (I live in California) will probably not completely understand what I just said, but they’ll pretend they do. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/40 "2012-01-31T01:52:36Z")
My snap judgement is that I’ll be snapped-judged. If they’re more affluent, I’m a loser; if of more humble means then I’m “The Man.” if I’m in an outgoing mood I’m a pompous middle age boor. If introspective or simply of low blood sugar then I’m obviously a creepy old guy. Any stranger exhibiting friendliness is either retarded or a predator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099.md?page=3)