One of my own.
Young people (high school or thereabouts) who are absolutely fixated, for years ahead of time, on joining the military, are to be avoided. This is just based on my own experiences: of the four I knew in school like this, one had major abuse of authority issues, one got his kicks shooting up people’s cars, and the other two are currently serving lengthy jail sentences for crimes committed while in the service.
Okay, I know it’s called a dishwasher, but it’s really just a dish sanitizer.
I’d say most of them are just dealing with something they don’t have much experience with. That makes them easy to take advantage of, for those who are unscrupulous.
I would agree about avoiding contractors that use religious imagery in advertising. One of my prejudices is that people who flaunt their religion in situations where it’s not necessary to do so are not really serious about that religion (see earlier post). That kind of emphasis on style over substance isn’t, IMO, a good sign in a contractor (of course, I have no experience with contractors- I could be totally wrong here). And it could be worse than that- they could be deliberately using the religious imagery to gain people’s trust and make them not want to speak out against a religious person if the contractor does a shoddy job. (If a contractor were using religious symbols for that purpose, I’d call that desecration of the symbols, and think it was much worse than a Darwin fish could ever be)
Ummm… you do know that toxoplasmosis is only transmitted by contact with cat feces, right? You can’t get it if a cat just comes near you- you get it from cleaning a cat’s litter box or gardening in dirt that has been used by cats as a litter box. What’s more, you can’t get toxoplasmosis from cat poo unless you eat some of it- you’d have to have contact between your unwashed hand and your mouth after contact with cat poo. You’re probably at least as likely to get toxoplasmosis from infected raw meat.
Wow. I’d probably be absolutely reviled if many of the posters here met me in person. I fall under so many of the categories expressed in this thread…
I buy hardcover books exclusively, and will always pass on a softcover, even if it’s something I really want to read. I have every book I’ve ever owned since the Ninth grade. I never loan my books to anyone, nor will I ever throw away, sell, or trade one.
I can’t stand cats. I’m not in love with dogs either, but I absolutely despise cats. They creep me the heck out.
I’ve never had a drink in my life, not for religious reasons since I’m anti-religion. I just never had the desire. Since I’ve gotten a little older I just don’t see the need to start. . .plus the stuff smells really bad, especially beer, which has a kind of uriney odor to me.
I’m married to my job . . .well, that’s what my wife says anyway.
I don’t think much about my predjudices, until threads like this are born 
I’m a morning person. . .not because I necessarily want to be. It’s just that over the years I’ve realized my day simply works out better if I’m up at the crackety-crack of dawn.
I wear glasses and prefer them over contact lenses. My wife believes I look adorable without my glasses. . .I believe she’s delusional.
I don’t like to shoot guns. I went hunting in Anchorage with my dad twice. Tried it, didn’t like it. Hey, I gave it a shot. 
I’ve never changed the oil in any of my cars in my life, have no idea how to do it, and have no interest in acquiring that tidbit of knowledge.
I went to NYU, and yes, I consider myself reasonably bright, though in the interest of full disclosure I must admit to being a bit artsy.
My predjudices. . .
I believe people with more than 3 cats are mentally unstable, and probably filthy. Their level of filth increases exponentially, in my assessment, with each additional cat over 5. I would never willingly enter the home of someone with more than 3 cats.
I have a tendency to consider those who are religious, especially Christians, to be somewhat less than optimally intelligent. If, during the course of conversation, someone begins to quote biblical scripture, whether in response to a query or as a counter during a dispute, I mentally dismiss them and find it difficult to mask my disdain from that point.
I find people who don’t read for the sheer enjoyment of it a bit odd.
Smokers. I mean, come on. it’s 2006 for goodness’ sake.
Science fiction enthusiasts who have no idea who Hari Seldon is.
I’ll jump on the bandwagon of those who believe BMW owners are pretentious wannabes. I’m embarrassed for them, since it seems they don’t have the sense to be for themselves.
Tattoos on women. Blech! I asked before and I’ll ask again. . .aren’t tattoos done at this point? I mentally reduce a woman’s potential IQ by five points for every epidermis-saturating ink splotch she sports.
I believe people who get their perspective on world and national events from FOX News should be kept away from sharp objects and prohibited from bearing children.
Nascar. 'nuff said.
Women who have banged their feet up through years of abuse by wearing shoes that don’t fit, or fit poorly, yet insist on displaying those gnarled monstrosities in public by wearing sandals and flip-flops. I’m not against women’s feet. I just don’t like having my eyes drawn to a living Picasso with candy apple-red painted toenails.
I am utterly disgusted by people who discriminate against anyone because of race or sexual orientation.
People who don’t believe racial discrimination exists and is still commonly practiced in the US make me sick.
People who believe women should be forced to bear children against their wills should be locked up and never released.
People who want to force women to bear children, even if doing so endangers their lives, should themselves be put to death.
I believe the Promise Keepers are a bunch of patriarchal whackos with brainwashed, Stepfordite wives.
Dittoheads.
ID Proponents/Creationists/YECs. I actually put YECs in the “I’m stupid and proud of it” category, along with adherents of astrology and psychics.
Men with ‘short man’ complex. . .only because I’ve had a few too many unpleasant experiences with these insecure, overcompensatory weasels.
People who derive joy from others’ pain or discomfort.
People who refuse to admit when they’re wrong.
Anyone who justifies any aspect of the Iraq war.
Bush apologists
People who misspell the word ‘prejudice’ and post late to resurrected threads
Not to mention people who insist that the white Christian male is the most discriminated-against person on Earth. I once deconstructed this view point-by-point with examples in the letters section of my college newspaper (I can probably scare it up fairly easily if anyone’s interested) but these days I just roll my eyes.
Wow. How many books do you have? If I’d never gotten rid of a single book since the 9th grade, we’d have to buy a second house just to store them all. You like every single book you buy enough to keep it forever? You must have good ‘bookdar.’
Are you equally prejudiced against men with tattoos?
I can’t speak for Onomatopoeia, but I view men as nothing more than mobile obstacles, whereas women are works of art to be admired. So, while I might find an armful of tattoos distasteful on a woman, on a man I simply wouldn’t notice them (unless he was hitting me with his forearm across my nose).
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An eyeglass place here, “For Eyes,” often has sales - I got my current pair of glasses AND a pair of prescription sunglasses for a total of $99 plus tax. IMO if you’re paying $200 for a pair of prescription sunglasses, it’s your own fault for not shopping around.
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Actually, I guess that’s an unshakeable prejudice of mine. People who complain about how expensive something is, when they could actually have gotten it for much less with 10 minutes’ worth of phone calls/surfing. If you’re not going to bother comparison-shopping, pay the full price and suck it up.
As a note: if it takes a ridiculous amount of time OR one has to jump through eleven different hoops to get the “better deal,” it’s obviously not a “better deal” at all.
Yes, my ‘bookdar’ is pretty good :), but yeah, it’s a sickness. My basement is an absolute fire hazard, an organized and catalogued fire hazard, but nonetheless… 
No, I’m not. For some reason, perhaps it’s because I notice and pay attention to women more, it really bothers me. I can look at a man who has a prominent tattoo on his arm and not notice it unless it’s pointed out to me, yet I always notice an exposed tattoo on a woman, no matter how small it is.
Mentally unstable? I said it drove me crazy when my cat had kittens, but I didn’t realize it made me mentally unstable. That’s a prejudice, all right.
I wouldn’t own one today (I’d rather support the U.S. economy), but I bought a BMW in Germany when I was young. It was an excellent car. I bought it because I liked it. That makes me a wannabe…what?
I believe that anybody who gets their news from only liberal sources (e.g., CBS news) or only conservative sources (e.g., FOX commentary) is simply reinforcing their own prejudices without learning anything. Anyone who watches Fox and CBS should be applauded.
I think people should be able to wear whatever shoes they like in public (we’ll skip the “dress-up” event controversy for the moment).
What’s a YEC?
Any aspect? That reminds me. I have a prejudice against people who see the entire world in black and white.
YEC = Young Earth Creationist
See, we all learn something about ourselves from time to time :). And since you say it drove you crazy when your cat had kittens at least you realized there was a somewhat urgent threat to your mental stability. I presume you distributed all the kittens to foreign parts as soon as you were able. . .as any sane person would
Come now. The BMW is today’s Cadillac, and just as embarrassing.
Eh, they both spout dumbed-down pablum. One of the many pronounced differences between the two, however, is FOX spouts vitriole- and obfuscation-laden, dumbed-down pablum.
Well, yeah, I guess. It’s just so hard not to gawk at the twin mash-ups whenthey’re coming straight at you
a Young-Earth Creationist
I don’t see the entire world in black and white. The Iraq war, however, is. From A to Z there’s no justification for anything we’ve done there, with the exception of perhaps the reactionary steps taken in abysmally weak, half-hearted attempts to fix what we broke, and even in that we screwed up.
People who have never been outside of their home country are, at best, ignorant, and, at worst, narrow-minded and prejudiced against anyone who is different from them. People who have never been outside their home state/province are the same, only more so.
People who never travel except to visit family are ignorant and boring.
(I give you a pass on those things if you are a kid still living with your parents or too poor to travel.)
Anyone who is prejudiced against other races or really thinks one sex is inferior to the other in this day and age is willfully ignorant. That means that most of what they have to say on other subjects isn’t worth consideration.
Anyone who thinks Christians are discriminated against in the US is delusional or doesn’t understand what discrimination is. It’s not discrimination if you can’t enlist the government in your campaign to spread your religion to those of us who aren’t interested. We can’t get the government to help us preach our religion or lack thereof to you, either.
Anyone who tries to convert others to their religion or lack thereof (unless the person has come to them expressing an interest in converting to the religion) is a narrow-minded jerk.
Swoon! Anne, would Mr. Neville be okay with me asking you out on a date? . . .of course my wife would chop me into bite-sized chunks, but it’d probably be worth it! 
I’m flattered , but no thanks.
People who are a member of the religion they grew up in, have never questioned any beliefs or practices of that religion, and know nothing about any other religion (or atheism) are boring, and not really sincere in their faith. How could they be, if they haven’t ever considered any alternatives? If you’re afraid that learning about other faiths is going to destroy your or your children’s faith, that means you don’t really have faith in your religion.
People who don’t want to know anything about religions other than their own (or atheism), and atheists who don’t want to know anything about any religion, are narrow-minded and willfully ignorant.
In my experience, atheists tend to be very interested in others’ belief systems. I think it’s a desire to understand what makes the ‘true-believer’ tick, at least it is in my case.
In mine, too, but TWIAVBP, and there is probably someone, somewhere, who grew up as an atheist and isn’t interested in learning about any religions. I don’t think any religion, or even religion in general, has a monopoly on narrow-minded and willfully ignorant people.
I dated someone in high school who knew very little about Christianity (his family were non-practicing Catholics, he was a neopagan) and wasn’t interested in learning. Not not interested as in “I don’t want to be a Christian”, but not interested as in “I don’t know much about Christianity, and I don’t want to know anything”. I lost some respect for him when I learned that about him.
I was going to name my daughter Allegra until that damn allergy stuff came out. And it became clear I wouldn’t be having any children.
Anne Neville, just how much should one attain. I’m an atheist. I know a good bit about Catholicism, somewhat less about Judaism, much less about Islam. Beyond that, I’d be lucky to be able to give a single, coherent sentence on any other religion. I wouldn’t know the difference between an Episcopalian, a Lutheran, a Baptist, a Protestant, and an Unitarian. Should a responsible atheist know the differences between each of these? Should I be studying all of these religions, or can I continue to spend my time understanding complex financial instruments (my work) or reading on other subjects I find more enjoyable? Should I be prejudiced because someone who only keeps their money in the bank doesn’t understand how to account for and measure the performance of cross-currency swaptions?
It’s one thing if someone refuses to learn anything about any subject that doesn’t include 11 huge guys running into each other every Saturday or auto drivers who only know how to make left turns. However, there are many, many more subjects other than the doctrines of religion that I’d like to learn about.