# 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:** 4
**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 31, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/61 "2012-01-31T19:28:54Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > If you feel ignorance, intolerance, bigotry are worth boasting of, ( in any small measure, privately or publicly ), then you deserve to know I am harshly judging you, though my continence and attitude may not reflect it. You pee on ignorant people sometimes? šŸ™‚ > [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > \ > I am getting a lot of negative snap judgements. I understand that negative snap judgements are useful. But Iā€™d like to hear more about the positive ones, the ones that indicate to you that someone would be worth getting to know. If someone is reading science fiction, I usually think Iā€™d like to get to know them. If someone gets my jokes, I think Iā€™d like to get to know them. If someone speaks respectfully and positively about other people, I think I will like them. > [@Eve](#): > > People who cannot spell are stupid. > > Which I \*know \*is not always true, but it is hard to get it out of my head that people who type ā€œalotā€ or mix up ā€œyourā€ and ā€œyouā€™re,ā€ or ā€œtoā€ and ā€œtoo,ā€ are pretty much idiots and I need never pay them attention. I find it saves a lot of time in our perennial fluoride debates to just disregard the arguments of people who canā€™t spell ā€œfluoride.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/62 "2012-01-31T19:49:50Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > If I hear someone rip on another person over their appearance, that tips me off that theyā€™re an asshole. > > Tattoos on face or neck = personality disorder. ::coff coff coff:: ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/63 "2012-01-31T20:20:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Local car dealers do this, and I hate it. If I buy a car or truck from John Smith Chevrolet, I donā€™t want ā€œJohn Smith Chevrolet [Chevy bow tie] [city and province]ā€ 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. Iā€™ve refused to sign any paperwork unless they take even that small discreet sticker off. Nothing goes on my paint, especially advertising for their business without being paid for it. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/64 "2012-01-31T20:48:25Z")
If they donā€™t have good teeth, you donā€™t care about yourself and are probably poor. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/65 "2012-01-31T21:03:38Z")
> [@Snow\_Pea](#): > > This is really nothing to do with anything except your own low self-esteem and the assumptions you are making about what other people are thinking about you. Sorry, but not really relevant to this thread. See, this leads me to make the snap judgement that youā€™re a control freak and **FlyByNight512** likes to sneak-brag about her tits. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/66 "2012-01-31T21:28:20Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > ā€¦I am harshly judging you, though my continence and attitude may not reflect it. You urinate on them? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/67 "2012-01-31T22:16:00Z")
She \*refrains \*from urinating on them, despite her inclination. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/68 "2012-02-01T00:21:09Z")
Thereā€™s a guy Iā€™ve known for several years, and I took an instant disliking to him the moment I met him . . . for no apparent reason whatsoever. In the ensuing years, heā€™s never done or said anything to warrant any dislike, but I still dislike him. And a while back, I discovered that just about everyone else who knows him feels the same way. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/69 "2012-02-01T00:50:22Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > Oh great, another sanctimonious and judgmental holier-than-thou person. I could care less about people like you! I definitely make snap judgments about people who fly off the handle with little or no provocation. I could _ **not** _ care less. šŸ˜‰ Oh, and people who canā€™t take the trouble to use apostrophes correctly. Itā€™s not brain surgery. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/70 "2012-02-01T01:23:04Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I am assuming he has whooshed you, as only someone who had not read or understood my post would say something like that, and I am sure Neuroman is \*much \*more attentive than _that_. Oooh, an insult phrased in such a way that it has to be accepted as a compliment. I like you. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/71 "2012-02-01T01:31:37Z")
I come to grovel before by betters, humbly begging your forgiveness for my heinous spelling error. It clearly undermines my point entirely and your are right to make much of it. A thousand apologies offered, I will strive to never, ever err again. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/72 "2012-02-01T01:37:02Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I come to grovel before by betters, humbly begging your forgiveness for my heinous spelling error. > > It clearly undermines my point entirely and your are right to make much of it. > > A thousand apologies offered, I will strive to never, ever err again. You mean, after the one in this post? Aw, cā€™mon, weā€™re just joshinā€™ ya. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/73 "2012-02-01T01:38:01Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I come to grovel before by betters, humbly begging your forgiveness for my heinous spelling error. > > It clearly undermines my point entirely and your are right to make much of it. > > A thousand apologies offered, I will strive to never, ever err again. No oneā€™s making fun of you. It created a funny unintended meaning and people ran with it. At the very worst, people are just taking the piss, if youā€™ll allow the expression. Thanks for the book suggestion, Iā€™m reading it right now. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/74 "2012-02-01T03:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > You mean, after the one in this post? Aw, cā€™mon, weā€™re just joshinā€™ ya. And Iā€™m just joshing back, guess I should have added the smilie, huh? Also I included the spelling error just to egg you on!šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/75 "2012-02-01T09:30:30Z")
When I see a hot girl wearing sexy form fitting clothes I assume sheā€™s [del]a slut[/del] secure in her sexuality and Iā€™d like to get to know her better. People reading books in public = intelligent Loud talkers are automatically pegged as attention whores. ---
**Author:** ![Snow\_Pea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Snow\_Pea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snow_Pea)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/76 "2012-02-01T17:09:12Z")
People who watch ā€œprofessional wrestlingā€ are knuckle-dragging morons. People who take their kids to the above should have said crotchfruit removed from the home. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/77 "2012-02-01T17:41:36Z")
Iā€™m not sure if this counts as a snap judgment, but it definitely takes me longer to warm up to a woman if sheā€™s clearly more attractive than I am. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/78 "2012-02-01T17:56:26Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > If they donā€™t have good teeth, you donā€™t care about yourself and are probably poor. Or you are British. \ ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/79 "2012-02-01T18:17:49Z")
Someone who wears casual, outdoorsy clothes and doesnā€™t seem overly concerned with their appearance is probably down to earth and easygoing. A young person who is seriously trying to make it as an artist is brave and interesting. Sadly though they donā€™t always turn out to be interestingā€¦ A young person who is openly religious is probably very strait-laced and not very cosmopolitan. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099/80 "2012-02-01T21:07:20Z")
I think itā€™s safe to say that people present themselves as they wish to be seen, whether itā€™s their clothing choices, their hair styles, their accessories, their body alterations, or their actions. One might include speaking and writing in there also. Based upon that, I will form opinions based upon an initial impression, although I do make an effort to withhold judgement until I get to know an individual. However, numerous facial piercings strike me as an attention-getting ploy, as do numerous and outrageous tattoos. As one of my sisters has 19 tats, I can attest that at least for her, it is truly attention-getting. This is hard to describe specifically, but when it looks as if someone has tried too hard to put their ā€œlookā€ together, I get the impression said person is insecure and a slave to what someone else says is the correct ā€œlook.ā€ And anyone who speaks loudly and ignorantly and is damned proud of it is automatically an asshole as far as Iā€™m concerned. I canā€™t define the line between having strong opinions and being a jerk, but I know it when I hear it. Finally, whenever I see anyone drunk and out of control, whether running amok or puking in the gutter, I can only think: ā€œWhat a bozo.ā€ Apologies to Bozo for that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-snap-judgements-do-you-make-about-people/611099.md?page=5)