# What unshakable prejudices do you have?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 6, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351 "2006-07-06T12:25:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/21 "2006-07-06T14:59:21Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#):
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> Did your impression improve as you got to know the young man? I’d be surprised.
On infrequent occasion, my opinion has changed to wondering why this ostensibly intelligent and/or personable young man chose to look like a moron. But any such improvement in my estimation would be negated by the application of a backwards-facing baseball cap.
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### Author:  [@rhiannon777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhiannon777)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/22 "2006-07-06T15:14:51Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> For me: Anyone who drives a Hummer is an asshole.
One of my favorite bar games begins when we enter the parking lot and notice a Hummer. Then we get to play “Who’s the Asshole.” So far, it has never taken more than two guesses to pinpoint the Hummer’s owner. I feel this is confirmation.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/23 "2006-07-06T15:25:11Z")
I instantly and forever despise any person who spits in public, unless they exclaim immediately afterward, “Oh my goodness, a bug just flew into my mouth!”
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### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/24 "2006-07-06T15:25:35Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#):
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> Me too. Hey, let me tell you a fun story:
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> The owners of the company I work for (husband, wife, and daughter) all commute to work. Daddy drives a Lamborghini with a V12, Mummy drives a Hummer, and sweetums drives an Escalade. They leave from the same house at the same time, do their ritual motorcade of ostentatious waste, arrive at their destination at the same time, and then…
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> …park in the only three designated handicapped spots, until they do the whole thing in reverse at the end of the day.
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> Ouff!
Call the traffic authorities and tell them there are three people who consistently park in the same three handicapped spots every day. Then take pictures.
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### Author:  [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/25 "2006-07-06T15:28:30Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
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> Use “lol” in a sentence, and your intelligence drops a notch in my eyes. Confuse your homophones, and it drops some more. But I won’t think you’re _stupid_ until you go out of your way to misspell words like “knoe,” or use SMS-style abbreviations like “any1,” or tYpe Lyk dIS, or use excessive CAPITAL LETTARS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!11eleventy.
Hear, hear!
I’m 100% with you on this one. When I was using Lavalife, and now when I’m giving advice to friends who use online dating sites, this is the first filter I use.
In this day and age, when typing is one of the main ways we communicate to each other (e-mail, dating sites, blogs, forums) if you aren’t willing to put forth the effort to at least use proper punctuation and perhaps a capital letter here and there (or turn off your caps lock, for God’s sake), I have a hard time shoving down the urge to scream, “MORON!”
But the main thing, the thing that drives me the MOST crazy, is the 5,000 exclamation points, turning into ones when your shift-key finger gets tired, after every sentence. I shunned a friend of mine away from a potential date on Lavalife when she e-mailed him, and the first sentence was, no word of a lie:
“hi!!!11 how r u???”
She was 26. God help us all.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/26 "2006-07-06T15:34:06Z")
I wish I knew who to credit with this, but the following is my view on prejudice:
_I’m not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally!_
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/27 "2006-07-06T15:45:06Z")
People who don’t read or own books: I will eye them askance.
People who _brag_ about not reading books: It’s okay with me if they die.
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/28 "2006-07-06T15:58:25Z")
Basically everyone poorer and less successful than me is a loser. Everyone wealthier and more successful than me is an asshole.
I should point out if you hate Hummer driving cellphone talking assholes, then it’s working. People drive those things so people they wouldn’t associate with anyway will dislike them even more.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/29 "2006-07-06T15:58:52Z")
> [@Sublight](#):
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> People who whistle or \*\*snap their fingers \*\* to call anyone but a dog. Assholes.
I just found out that my father does this to my mom. :eek: She suspects that he also runs over the rumble strip on purpose if she dozes off during their long-distance car rides. Jackass.
I have a prejudice against people in the military. I keep it to myself because it’s not for me to hurt someone else, I just can’t understand the decision.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/30 "2006-07-06T16:02:24Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> For me: Anyone who drives a Hummer is an asshole.
A qualifier to this, please. Any **civilian** who **buys** a Hummer is an asshole. That PFC driving one in Iraq right now may or may not be an asshole, but it wasn’t his choice.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/31 "2006-07-06T16:03:13Z")
> [@msmith537](#):
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> I should point out if you hate Hummer driving cellphone talking assholes, then it’s working. People drive those things so people they wouldn’t associate with anyway will dislike them even more.
So…what kind of vehicle do you drive? 🆒
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/32 "2006-07-06T16:10:24Z")
I’m ashamed to say that I think that if a man is really handsome, it follows that he’s automatically an asshole. I know that it’s an unfair assumption, but this thread is about prejudices.
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/33 "2006-07-06T16:17:17Z")
> [@Bertie Wooster](#):
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> Folks who tend to use the terms “Amerikkka” or “sheeple” in arguements, especially non-political arguements, are too goofy to take seriously. There are other terms which come close, but those two imediately make me ignore a writer, or for “sheeple”, a speaker.
Let me add people who constantly compare everything to George Orwell’s “1984”. They may be right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. It just seems so cliched to me. It’s almost like Godwin’s Law. Anytime there is a discussion about the goverment, more than likely the terms “Orwellian” or “Big Brother” will be evoked.
Ironically, Orwell’s first rule of writing is: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
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### Author:  [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/34 "2006-07-06T16:23:06Z")
Smokers and gun owners. 'nuff said.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/35 "2006-07-06T16:25:57Z")
> [@teela brown](#):
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> I’m ashamed to say that I think that if a man is really handsome, it follows that he’s automatically an asshole. I know that it’s an unfair assumption, but this thread is about prejudices.
You know that commercial where the gutsy girl pays for “a couple of shirts” for the guy behind her at the dry cleaning drive-through? I’m always a little skeeved out cuz I’m thinking, all you know about him is he is obviously handsome. That can’t be good!
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### Author:  [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/36 "2006-07-06T16:51:17Z")
I am unreasonably prejudiced against people who make much of their being ostracized for being geeks, nerds, whatever… and then in the same breath rant and rave against “jocks” and “popular” people.
Immediately moves them into my twit file.
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### Author:  [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/37 "2006-07-06T17:04:26Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> You know that commercial where the gutsy girl pays for “a couple of shirts” for the guy behind her at the dry cleaning drive-through? I’m always a little skeeved out cuz I’m thinking, all you know about him is he is obviously handsome. That can’t be good!
I’ve seen this commercial. One day I hope that instead of “a couple of shirts”, the clerk will say “a red sequin dress and a pair of opera gloves.”
😃
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/38 "2006-07-06T17:08:05Z")
> [@Lightray](#):
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> I am unreasonably prejudiced against people who make much of their being ostracized for being geeks, nerds, whatever… and then in the same breath rant and rave against “jocks” and “popular” people.
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> Immediately moves them into my twit file.
That kind of reminds me of this thread. LOLLER!!! 😃
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### Author:  [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/39 "2006-07-06T17:08:43Z")
Introverts-in real life. On the internet, they don’t bother me at all, unless they act superior about it.
People who have limited life experiences…and think it is OK!
People who are married to their jobs.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/40 "2006-07-06T17:11:32Z")
People who think people who own firearms are any different than they are.
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