I’m an atheist too, but that doesn’t mean I can’t respect that something is an important symbol to someone else. Maybe it is because I belong to a group that is often disparaged that I can have more tolerance for other people’s views.
But back to the OP and unshakable prejudices:
Adults who call their parents mommy and daddy are not fully mature.
My prejudices:
Conspiracy nuts. If you don’t believe we landed on the moon or you keep talking about how JFK is still alive, I’m going to think you’re an idiot. Sorry.
People who are stuck on what they like and don’t branch out. It’s great that you like techno music, but surely you can listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for five minutes without having a fit. People like this are…idiots.
People who are boy- or girl-crazy. They scream “idiot” to me too. I’d like to have a conversation with you without you interrupting with “OMG, he’s so hawt!!!” I hate that my eight-year-old niece has started to adopt this mode of communication. Not saying that children this young don’t have a sexuality, but I don’t think she knows what “hawt” is yet. Sometimes I don’t think grown-ups know either.
People who don’t watch movies/TV and read books. Believe it or not, people like this exist. They don’t get any references to popular culture, and whenever you tell them about something you’ve heard or read, they’re like: “How do you know about all this stuff?” I’m not going to say I think these people are idiots, because some of them are quite smart. But I do assume they’re boring, no-fun-to-be-arounders.
I thought of another one:
I know, controversial, isn’t it?
OK- I’ll throw one out
Grown people who talk to their mothers every single day (or close to it) are emotionally stunted and a little pathetic.
People with multiple bumper stickers, whether espousing views I agree with or not, are obnoxious. Even one bumper sticker is enough to seriously drop your stock in my eyes.
I automatically think less of anyone with extensive tattoos (the ones that look like sleeves) or tattoos on their hands or face/neck area. That’s not to say I can’t get over it in time, but the first impression is definitely there.
Oh, and the “furries” thing. Um … seriously, people do this? Really? It appears that I’m quite sheltered. And hoping to stay that way. I like it here. You know, where people don’t WEAR TAILS!
I think all the trendy boys and girls at my community college who wear camouflage wouldn’t be so eager to drop big bucks on it if they’d ever been ordered to wake up at 4:45 in the morning and throw on actual BDUs at light speed.
I also think people who aren’t in favor of handing out condoms in high schools before prom night are deluded.
I took one of these girls’ virginity. I agree that it’s usually a sham/phase/both.
Yup. So many really give off the impression of being “conservative” just to be different.
What if I said hip-hop is a great art form with lots of potential for musical beauty, but of the top 40 hip hop and r&b hit lists of the last five years I could probably count the real musical work on my fingers and toes?
The ones who really piss me off are the people who say that white American Protestants are the most discriminated-against people on the face of the Earth. I’ve run into a large number of these folks. There are no words.
People who go into debt are irresponsible and untrustworthy, unless it was really caused by external circumstances (for example, my friend’s mom ruined his credit before he was old enough to own a piggy bank) or immediately preceded by a significant change in socioeconomic status (ie rags to riches or vice versa).
:eek: People do this?
I so agree with this. I don’t have any political opinions that I could fit on a bumber sticker and when I see dozens of them I just think the person is probably a bit unhinged. Bonus points for “My other car is a unicorn,” or the fake Chief Seattle quote about the environment.
Here here! My car has had exactly one bumper sticker on it in its life, and that was from my Dad’s first campaign for schoolboard (which he won). When I see a car with 7 bumper stickers, I immediately assume that the person in the car is one of those annoying true believers who will throw paint on you if you vote for the wrong party. Idiots.
I’ve never heard of this “O’Reilly” but Rush is pretty awesome, once you get past Geddy Lee’s vocals. Pick up 2112 sometime.
My biggest peeve is people who drive SUVs but never actually do things besides go to work and back, or to the supermarket or pick up the kids from school!!! (and don’t bother with the whole “command” position crap - heard it, sick of it!)
not that enipla is one of those people … ::cringes and runs::
Seriously. If the closest you get to “off-road” is the gravel paved little league parking lot, you don’t need an SUV. Just get a minivan and accept that you’re a soccer mom.
Why? Your folks are your closest kin. They probably know most and care the most about you than anyone else.
Well then, for the same reason, I assume that all men between the ages of 15 and 30 who claim to be straight are lying.
Cars with bumper stickers I regard no differently from any other person that needs, for example, some overstated label on their clothing to indicate that they belong to some perceived clique in order to validate their self-identity. They’re the “low self esteem” people.
But cars with peeing calvin stickers? Deserve a baseball bat to their windows.
If your idea requires that almost every expert in the field you’re discussing be wrong, and they’re being published in peer-reviewed journals and have academic appointments and you’re writing on a message board, I will assume unquestioningly that you’re one-half step away from being fitted for the Foil Fedora, to wit. So, yes, I will be dismissing the occasional Galileo, perhaps one time out of ten million. Yeah, yeah, plate tectonics, blah blah blah.
Yeah. That didn’t really come out right. The clearly biased ones are the people that say “You don’t need and SUV to tow a trailer or haul stuff, just get a pick-up truck” :rolleyes: How it could posibly matter to these jokers whether I drive an SUV or a pick-up is beyond me.
I believe there’s a big difference between being a maverick thinker and being a wackjob. A wackjob rarely does research to back up their ideas. They get their “hypotheses” from the internet, television specials on Fox, drug-induced epiphanies, and gut feelings. Some of them are just paranoid in genearl.
When people asked Galileo why he believed all that he did, I’m sure he didn’t say, “I just have a feeling…” Conspiracy nuts often do this, and that’s why I think the majority of them are idiots.
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For some reason, girls get a bit of a pass on this one compared to guys, to me at least. A 21 year old female college student talking to her father on the phone and saying “Bye, Daddy” is fine IMHO. A man of the same age would sound dorky saying “Hi, mommy!”
I don’t know; if that’s the name you’ve always called them, why would you change? Of course we were raised to call them Mama and Papa, and switched that to Mom and Pop when we were maybe ten, but I plan to stick with what I’ve been calling them for 26 years.
As far as talking to my mom every day, I would but she’s long-distance and Pop controls the phone. :rolleyes: I’m her best friend and it might be cool to chit-chat every day with someone I’m close to like that.