What snap judgements do you make about people?

[Cat_Whisperer]

@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?

@MichaelEmouse

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I am getting a lot of negative snap judgements. I understand that negative snap judgements are useful. But I’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 I’d like to get to know them.

If someone gets my jokes, I think I’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 “alot” or mix up “your” and “you’re,” or “to” and “too,” 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 can’t spell “fluoride.”

[Beastly_Rotter]

@PandaBear77

If I hear someone rip on another person over their appearance, that tips me off that they’re an asshole.

Tattoos on face or neck = personality disorder.

::coff coff coff::

[Orionizer]

@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’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.

[LurkerInNJ]

If they don’t have good teeth, you don’t care about yourself and are probably poor.

[VinylTurnip]

@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 you’re a control freak and FlyByNight512 likes to sneak-brag about her tits.

[Beastly_Rotter]

@elbows

…I am harshly judging you, though my continence and attitude may not reflect it.

You urinate on them?

[DianaG]

She *refrains *from urinating on them, despite her inclination.

[panache45]

There’s a guy I’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, he’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.

[panache45]

@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.

Oh, and people who can’t take the trouble to use apostrophes correctly. It’s not brain surgery.

[MichaelEmouse]

@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.

[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.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@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, c’mon, we’re just joshin’ ya.

[MichaelEmouse]

@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 one’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 you’ll allow the expression.
Thanks for the book suggestion, I’m reading it right now.

[elbows]

You mean, after the one in this post? Aw, c’mon, we’re just joshin’ ya.

And I’m just joshing back, guess I should have added the smilie, huh?

Also I included the spelling error just to egg you on!

[EvilTOJ]

When I see a hot girl wearing sexy form fitting clothes I assume she’s [del]a slut[/del] secure in her sexuality and I’d like to get to know her better.

People reading books in public = intelligent

Loud talkers are automatically pegged as attention whores.

[Snow_Pea]

People who watch “professional wrestling” are knuckle-dragging morons.

People who take their kids to the above should have said crotchfruit removed from the home.

[The_wind_of_my_soul]

I’m not sure if this counts as a snap judgment, but it definitely takes me longer to warm up to a woman if she’s clearly more attractive than I am.

[MLS]

@LurkerInNJ

If they don’t have good teeth, you don’t care about yourself and are probably poor.

Or you are British. <d&r>

[YoudNeverGuess]

Someone who wears casual, outdoorsy clothes and doesn’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 don’t always turn out to be interesting…

A young person who is openly religious is probably very strait-laced and not very cosmopolitan.

[FairyChatMom]

I think it’s safe to say that people present themselves as they wish to be seen, whether it’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 “look” together, I get the impression said person is insecure and a slave to what someone else says is the correct “look.”

And anyone who speaks loudly and ignorantly and is damned proud of it is automatically an asshole as far as I’m concerned. I can’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: “What a bozo.” Apologies to Bozo for that one.