They’ve already had it done for them, by the Nazis. You think a Darwin fish offends people, try wearing a swastika.
I have absolutely no idea what your point is.
Anyway, people who are into anime are weird and probably sexual deviants.
I think his point might have been that the swastika was already a sacred symbol to several religions/cultures (though not Christians AFAIK) before the Nazis co-opted it.
More or less. The swastika has probably been irrevocably tainted by the Nazis, so any further attempts to “desecrate” it would really just be gilding the lily. And yes, the swastika is a sacred symbol in Buddhism, Shinto, and (I believe) Hinduism. So cry me a river for the Darwin fish to swim in.
To the point of this thread:
People who think Christianity is “under attack” in the USA are idiots with martyr complexes.
:dubious: Nice logic. Sorta like “my sister was murdered, so cry me a river for your sister who was only raped.”
Nope, I agree that no one should purposely show disrespect for what is sacred to another. Regardless of who’s done it before, doesn’t give anyone else a “pass.”
People who stick jesus fish on their cars are braindead fools who only want to advertise their religion on their mud-covered bumper b/c they think it makes them somehow superior to the average, faithless joe. My darwin fish is meant to make fun of these ninnies, not christianity in general.
That being said, the average church-goer is, at best, mildly unintelligent.
People who insist upon marrying eachother before the age of 25 are immature and deluded and will eventually get divorced.
Women who get pregnant before the age of 25 are immature and careless/selfish and will be terrible mothers.
All NYU students are artsy-pretentious and not very bright. In fact, the only reason I can see to GO to NYU is to surround yourself with people who are artsy-pretentious and not very bright (and proud of it).
Anyone who automatically proclaims “Great Gatsby” to be their “favorite” book are not well-read but want you to think they are.
Girls who shop at H&M are ninnies.
Anyone who spends over $200 on a handbag/shirt/pair of jeans/pair of sunglasses is in serious need of reevaluation of their priorities.
Young Indian-American women are always obsessed with the fact that they’re Indian (Indian from India, not Native American)
Young white men whose girlfriends are Asian are shallow and only looking for trendy arm candy.
Professional black women will have a chip on their shoulders.
People who say they’re “writers” but have yet to publish anything are, 99% of the time, full of shit.
Pontiac drivers are white trailer trash (very prevalent attitude where I’m from in upstate boondock ny)
Quebecois are horrible drivers (ditto)
I have more, but that’s probably enough for now…
My choice of “usually” was odd, looking back on it, and an exaggeration. But in my experience as a male between the ages of 15-30 who’s known a lot of women who claimed lesbianism between the ages of 15-30, the vast majority of the latter I’ve known were faking it for attention. I’m pretty completely traditionally-oriented, but I’ve done a sizeable amount of volunteering for LGBT causes in high school and college, and although I’ve known a lot of “real” lesbians between 15-30, I’ve known many more “lesbians” of those ages who obviously really weren’t, and/or have since admitted that they never were.
If you’re arguing that “they usually are lying” was a vast overstatement, I’ll agree and I apologize. But it’s not something someone just made up. A lot of straight men between 15 and 30 find lesbianism attractive, and so straight women of course have good reason to pretend to be lesbians (or, even “better”, bisexuals). Have you attended a California high school in the last 5 years? If you’ve been to a college party any time in the last few years, as well, you’ve probably seen “alcohol lesbians” who make out with each other for male attention. It works every time.
I have a near-unshakeable prejudice against people with an apparent compulsion to tell other people what they want/need.
Especially if it was the Nazis who did it. Sheesh…what kind of an argument is that?
Wow. The irony works on so many levels, that I’d be afraid I was being whooshed if someone actually told me that and I believed them.
fetus pretty well said everything I was going to say. Certainly, the vast majority of girls I knew in high school were into the whole “experimenting” faux-lesbian/bisexual thing.
Some of them really were bisexual 
, and some of them had worked out that if they wanted a guys attention, the best way to get it was to start making out with their best (female) friend in front of him.
It’s not so prevalent at University- at least not the one I’m at- because there’s a very active Militant Activist Feminazi Man-Hating Lesbian brigade that does a rather effective job of either scaring girls into being “straight” so people don’t think they’re MAFMHLs, or convincing them to give up on men once and for all and join the Sisterhood.
At any rate, my experience has been that any attractive woman between 16-25 who claims to be lesbian/bisexual is usually faking it to get some guy interested in her (ie, she’ll make out with another girl if drunk enough, but that’s as far as it will go).
Certainly, most of the girls I knew (and know) are genuinely are bisexual or lesbian make a point of NOT advertising it, because otherwise they get guys constantly hitting on them for a threesome.
Sad, but true, apparently.
And this is coming from a man who is rather fond of lesbian porn…
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Anyone who automatically proclaims “Great Gatsby” to be their “favorite” book are not well-read but want you to think they are.[/quote]
Actually, I kind of agreed with jobless82 here. Someone who tells me their favorite book is The Great Gatsby is like someone you take to Baskin-Robbins and who orders three scoops of vanilla. It’s like “OK if that’s your favorite, but have you really tried anything else?”
I believe that if you get all of your news from one source (or from only sources that agree with you), you’re uninformed.
I have a serious prejudice against people who care how other people dress, especially if they say it out loud.
Ditto people who judge others by the music they listen to.
I also can’t stand when someone bitches about the sad state of the economy in the U.S., but owns a German (or British, or Japanese, or whatever) car. Buy whatever you want, but if you can’t support your own economy, you should shut up about it. Ditto anyone who complains about the sad state of their local downtown, but shops at Wal-Mart or buys locally-available products online. You want a great local economy? Support it!
Ah, the great paradox of our times. It is the American Dream ™ to start up a business and become successful. But if you actually pull it off, you automatically become the bad guy. I have a serious prejudice against people who judge others by how much money they have. I have friends with much more money than I do and friends with much less, and I value those friends equally.
I’ll extend that: People who don’t teach their children gun safety. Period. Full stop. You may not own a gun, but that doesn’t mean your kids will never encounter one. Even if you live in a “gun-free” country, there are still guns out there.
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Big prejudice of mine I forgot to mention! Anyone who drives a diesel car is an insensitive jerk by definition. Why else would you inflict the stench and noise on everyone around you? (Note: I specified “cars” here. I understand diesel trucks. I own a diesel tractor. But with cars, you have an option!)
In my case, it meant I was going through chemotherapy.
Did you ever consider that we just didn’t want to wait for it to come out in paperback? Or that we might like re-reading that particular book, so we got the more durable hardcover format?
Oh, yeah. I have a serious prejudice against people who think it’s okay to be obnoxious and foul-mouthed just because they’re in a place that serves alchohol.
Yeah, because everyone knows a Prius would do just fine towing my 7,000-pound horse trailer or driving down my 1/4-mile driveway when it has 18" of snow on it. I have a hardcore prejudice against people who judge what other people drive without considering the circumstances.
This fits under my “get all of your news from one source” prejudice. If you don’t watch Fox news and a left-leaning channel, then you’re only validating your own beliefs. You want the full picture? Watch both!
FWIW, requirements for American diesel fuel are changing, and the smell will supposedly be gone because sulfur content will be lower.
I’ve never been in a bar, but there are lots of places that serve alcohol and that you can bring your kids to where adults aren’t expecting to unwind and enjoy adult priveleges without fear of offending someone and their child. These places are called restaurants.
Um, I’m not the one who brought up Hindus and Buddhists in the first place, and I’m not trying to give anything a “pass”. My point was that if you (generic “you”) wanted to pick religions that might appear sacrosanct to the folks who “desecrate” Christian symbols, as implied here:
it’s rather ironic to pick two whose religious symbol has been so thoroughly besmirched that not only does a large fraction of the world view it as an icon of pure evil, they also don’t know that it ever meant anything else. I can’t even imagine how it could be desecrated further.
Back to the thread topic: People who board planes before their row number is called (with the obvious exceptions) are self-important schmucks.
My point was that, since Gatsby himself had a library full of impressive books that he hadn’t even cut the pages apart on, for someone to toss out The Great Gatsby as their all-time favorite they’re either (1) the victim of their own irony, since you’d think they don’t read many books, or (2) someone with a dry, ironic wit, because they like a book about a guy who doesn’t read books but only namedrops them.
I love animals…except for monkeys.
I don’t know why. There’s something about them that irritates me. I hope a little capuchin never runs up and starts trying to groom me, because I’m afraid I would fling it far, far away. I want to like monkeys. I don’t know why I feel this way. Maybe I was maligned by a monkey in a past life or something. I do like apes, oddly enough.
Most of my prejudices have been pretty badly shaken.
Seriously. I was a lot more cocksure of myself years ago. I’m not sure why. Perhaps part of it is that without being an outright “devil’s advocate”, I tend to think a little contrary to whatever groupthink I’m exposed to. So I’ll be the one saying “surely not ALL Repblicans are evil…Lincoln was a Republican,” during a right-bashing session. After talking like that for a long time, I’ve started to think like that too. So now I consciously try to take things on a case-by-case basis.
I still have prejudices, it’s just that they’re all cowed and hangdog and don’t assert themselves much.
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Ah, so in other words, we were actually pretty much on the same page, and I was so close to being whooshed that it parted my hair. 
None of this has anything to do with my point. I asked if the kinnd of person who would desecrate a Christian symbol would also knowingly desecrate a Buddhist or Hindu symbol. The fact that someone else has desecrated those symbols is completely irrelevant to my point.
Back to the OP: People who are overly concerned about having a pure-bred dog, especially if it is the flavor of the month breed, aren’t really dog people.