Right, but…you do, right? 
Does this mean I actually got the teams name right? (that should tell you something)
Strange. I much perfer hardbacks, because they can be opened more than 90 degrees without damaging the book (or, at least without me noticing any damage), unlike paperbacks which will crease, and because hardbacks will close properly after use, without the cover curling outwards. I take them with me on the bus and don’t need to worry about the cover getting folded when stored (I always remove a dust jacket while I’m reading it though).
I agree with this. In my opinion, creationists are missing out on the most beautiful and wonderous things in nature.
What specifically bugs you about introverts? I ask because I myself have a propensity to pester the hell out of the introverts I know for such MAJOR offenses as “not speaking up on their own behalf”, “being unwilling to carry a conversation”, “not sharing their feelings openly”, etc. I just don’t get how the two introverts in my family circle can continue to exist without pouring out their hearts or souls but primarily their minds in a continuous manner, like us extroverts. And given my lack of understanding, I have to pick and pick at these folks like a scab until I basically piss them off. I can’t seem to help myself.
I’d have to say, however, that my biggest prejudice is against people in the psychology field. Everyone that I have ever known, dated, been friends with, associated with, or to which I have been loosely related in that field (psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, teachers, psych nurses, students, etc) has been a serious crackpot him/herself. And of course, by virtue of their knowledge of the science, they alone require no help or intervention.
Unreasonable? Perhaps. But there it is.
–Beck
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Oh, and D_Odds, why is booing a positive thing for you? I seriously don’t get it.
I hate rap and hip-hop. That is, I appreciate them as poetry, but music they ain’t. When, oh when, are they going to die?! And take country with them?!
Yeah. That’s it exactly with me, NO interest in respecting the cues of my two favorite introverts in the world. I just gotta “reform” them somehow! I’d LIKE to knock that behavior off. Can’t for the life of me bring myself to do it.
I’m sure I am the reason they powerfully dislike extroverts. Ouch.
–Beck
Hmmm, unshakable prejudices…
White trash neighbors (they have tires on their trailer house roof)
People who hate people who like guns 
People who just have to jet their boats as fast as they can (jet skis too)
Motorcyclists who wear sandals/shorts/no helmets (DH and I call them Organ donors)
Smokers who insist on smoking in cars with others who are non-smokers
Smokers who smoke around their children
Smokers who flick their butts–fires start that way, and it’s just plain rude and wrong to litter like that
People who are stuck up about how slim and in-shape they are
And not so much that I’m prejudiced against them, but more that I just don’t understand how they can possibly think that way:
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Inspired by this thread, people with STDs. I don’t prejudice against them in any way, but I could never date a person with any type of STD.
Oh, also, people who dress “hip-hop” styles. Seriously, what are you thinking?! Ok, I used to wear baggy pants and the like, but there is no need to have a shirt that draps to around your knees or pants that rest on your knees.
You don’t boo a single play, or a single loss. You boo when you get a continued poor effort. For example, the $17-million dollar man couldn’t get a clutch hit for the month of May. When the expectations for your team, set by the team’s owner, is to fully own first place, and when the highest paid ballplayer in baseball is doing less to put you there than the rookie brought up 3 weeks ago, NYers let that player know their dissatisfaction. It wasn’t that A-Rod missed one clutch situation. It’s that he missed a whole month of them. NYers expect their Yankees to win 162 games a season, and anything less than another ring is a let-down. On the other hand, I root for the NY Islanders (hockey) to just make the playoffs (they didn’t). Different expectations.
I’m male, I played basketball in high school, and neither I nor any of my teammates were like that. Granted, it was a really small school where people didn’t care that much about the team, and we were the only boys’ sports team at the time (apparently the school now has football, baseball, and soccer, any one of which I would have killed to play in HS!) and the girls’ volleyball team (probably the hottest girls’ sports team in San Diego at the time, which I know because I traveled with them and volunteered for them and saw all the others) didn’t give us any special treatment…so we would’ve been a pretty largely exclusive in-group if we had shut everyone else out.
That said, we didn’t have a very cohesive team unit, so make of that what you will…
That’s the most unabashedly racist statement I’ve heard in a long time.
Is there a relative preponderance of one-track minds in the SF/fantasy scene, or do they stand out because obsession with boring things is usually not the only social skill that that often-isolated group lacks? Do you not find that hobbies such as sex, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, TV watching, and cat care have an equal (if not greater) number of such single-minded bores?
That’s human nature. There was a fascinating article several years back in Discover about the human fear response to near misses, and it noted that it’s really common for crash and near-miss survivors to feel an extra heartbeat or two when they see things that were around at the time of the incident–similar looking cars, the same intersection, someone wearing a yellow shirt at the street corner, the nearby stores, etc. It’s thought to be our spinal cord’s way of saying “Hey! Look out! You’re going to get hit again!”, which of is how we learn to freak out and flee the scene when we hear a rattlesnake.
:eek: Wow. There are no words.
Every time I see someone with a tattoo in Japanese I wonder if it really says something really nasty about them and they have no idea.
What if they live in the Bronx? (Everywhere else, though, yeah, I agree with you.)
Most male hikers I know are solitary types, and a lot of people like being alone when they commune with nature. What kind of “no good” are they up to?
I think anyone who brings kids to a bar/pub is an asshat and needs to learn the difference between adults-only activities and quality family time. How fucking difficult is it to hire a babysitter? Bringing kids in would ruin a bar’s atmosphere for the adults IMO, because the bar is supposed to be the last public bastion of shameless vice indulgence and bigmouthery, and dirtymouthery as well. Probably not good for the kid, either.
Not true. You’ve got a number of consistently decent sports teams in the Upper Midwest, but I know a little something about awful teams and I’ve seen plenty of face-painters for them.
Actually, it does. It would if you had lived in Cleveland or Cincinnati, too.
I know I have unreasonable prejudices, but I do hope that none of them are unshakeable; that is to say that for every prejudice I have, I either have met someone who I was able to like despite their belonging to “the group”, or I believe that it’s possible that there is someone like that out there. Also, I tend to be forgiving, and to try to look at the other person’s point of view as much as possible. For most of the things other people have listed (e.g., “people who drive Hummers/use Bluetooth cellphone earpieces/wear socks with sandals/etc. are assholes/morons/stuck-up”), I know people that I like who do/are those things.
Having said that, I do form strong opinions (prejudices, yes) based on certain things, such as:
smoking - tends to make me think a little less of a person; sorry about that, I can’t seem to stop from feeling a sense of disappointment at best if I find out someone I like or admire smokes, and if I know they smoke immediately upon meeting them, I’m less likely to make an effort at giving them the benefit of the doubt). I don’t argue with your right to smoke, any more than I want you to tell me what I can or can’t do to myself. I just have a very negative reaction to cigarette smoke itself, and project it on the people who produce it by sucking on a cigarette.
people who (usually/always) speak too loudly - I hate noise, for one thing, and for another, it just seems to me like either an intrusion into my “space” or a childish desire for attention.
obesity - yes, I know it’s unkind, and I do feel a bit guilty, but at the same time, I just am repelled by it.
extreme forms of clothing/hairstyle/makeup - anything that shouts “LOOK AT ME, I’M SO DIFFERENT/COOL/etc.” Whether it’s ghetto/hiphop/gangsta (I can’t tell them apart), goth, punk, skinhead, redneck, drag queen, whatever. Not that I’m against personal expression, because I’m not. I certainly don’t want everyone to dress the same. I’m just saying that if you are dressed in an extreme fashion, I will form certain conclusions about you. Doesn’t mean I’ll consider you any less of a worthy person based on just that, but I’ll be more “on guard” around you until I get to know you, because you will have triggered something in me that makes me feel a certain way.
poor grooming/hygiene/personal care - just ew.
people who sit in the elderly/disabled passenger area of the light-rail, who aren’t elderly or disabled, and won’t give up their seat immediately when someone who is elderly or disabled boards the train - assholes, pure and simple.
people who always turn every conversation around to the subject of themselves - solipsistic bores. :dubious:
Fundamentalists of any stripe.
People who oppose firearms ownership or in any favor its prohibition for non-felon adult citizens.
People who don’t follow/observe history.
Hip hop “music”.
Anyone who sports the “gangsta” look.
Anyone with extensive tattooing, particularly on the neck or face.
Anyone who turns to the government for security or solutions to social problems.
Anyone who makes race an issue either through opposition to a race or espousing a right to entitlement for a given race/group.
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I get my news from many sources (and TV is down on the list a ways), but I watch Fox News every once in a while. It is not my primary television news source, but I watch it.
My news prejudice is for people who think they are informed when they get most of their news from Jay Leno/David Letterman monologues of from The Daily Show.
I guess that’s me. I don’t drink alcohol - at all. I have no problem with those that do, unless they get falling down stinking drunk every weekend.
Agreed, and I’ll add people who catagorically hate an entire genre of music.
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There is one that I can go with too. I feel myself cringing when someone tells me they are a morning person. I don’t like morning culture. I associate it with doddling around, drinking coffee etc. Real people should be having profound thoughts at 2 am and then sleeping to a proper hour. I would mow the lawn at midnight if I could. Morning people always try to present it as a virtue as well as though evil things go on after 10 pm).
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Morning person here. Sorry, Shagnasty, I was raised where I had to get up before dawn to feed the livestock, and never fell out of the habit. I’d like to think I’m not a jerk about it, and I don’t ever think I’m better than a late riser.
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Several people here have mentioned public spitting. Hating people who spit in public is NOT an irrational prejudice. It’s disgusting, and unless I missed a memo, completely socially unnacceptable.
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I am probably going to be castigated for this, but I have been known to spit in public. But it is when I run in really, really rural areas, and then its into the grass. If you all will still be my friend, I’ll try to change.
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Watching the World Cup reminded me of one of mine: people who put their hand on their “heart” when the national anthem is played.
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Whaa? What are you supposed to do to show your respect? Maybe it’s just a local cultural thing, but I would be surprised if someone didn’t around here. If I may ask, where are you from, Kevegan?
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Anyone with a pro-life sticker on their car - I peg them for intolerant, fundamental a-holes.
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Agreed, but I also peg people with pro-choice stickers as intolerant, reactionary a-holes. Basically, there are a lot of bumper stickers that seem to hame no purpose other than to antagonize. I hate the whole lot.
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People that have car stereos that can rattle my windows when I drive nearby are insensitive clods that don’t even like good music.
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Hear, Hear. I believe that the quality of your taste in music lowers in direct relation to your desire to “turn it up and share it with the neighbors”.
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People who don’t drink alcohol or caffeine for religious reasons (though I’m usually OK with them after a while as long as they don’t act like I’m doing something wrong when I drink those things, or preach about how those things are bad)
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Don’t drink alcohol, coffee or use tobacco for religious reasons, but I don’t elieve I have or ever will look down on those who don’t do the same. (I don’t like to be around cigarette smoke, though.)
I hope we can all still be friends, though.
I’m not sure how I miffed the coding. Any mod who could make me look less foolish?
Heh. You pass, Reloy3. Should’ve added “primarily” to the Fox News, too.
I’m aware that it also refers to any resident of Ohio. But most people that would say it were specifically referring to the sports team and made it clear that’s what they meant.
There are certain accents to which I respond with unreasonable prejudice. This includes the redneck-y drawl that many people have where I grew up* and the accent here in my new home in the Ohio/PA area.
*This would go with a previous poster’s theory that it is often that which we fear we might be that we dislike. I worked hard to shed an identifying accent and it is probably why I have this snooty and stupidly prejudicial response.
Anyone who has emotional reasons to believe that the whole global warming idea is a conspiracy.
Just out of curiousity (and perhaps a slight sense of masochism ), I feel compelled to dig a bit deeper.
I notice that all your prejudices are aimed at classes of people except for your “hip hop” listing. I was hoping you would clarify whether your feelings are directly solely at the music, or also at anyone who listens to it.