# Why do people make fun of you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904 "2001-01-07T22:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/21 "2001-01-08T15:32:00Z")
People make fun of me because: - My handwriting. I print everything if I expect others to read it. Lower case letters are just miniature upper case. I write really small (about typewriter print size). - I like shopping and chocolate (apparently unusual for a guy). - I bowl left-handed. - I carry a pocket watch. - Various mannerisms and catchphrases. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/22 "2001-01-08T15:49:44Z")
ummm, 'cuase I’m a dork? I just make it very easy to be picked on. I don’t mind, as long as people are smiling 🙂 I don’t things too personally. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/23 "2001-01-08T17:14:33Z")
Because I am a tremendous geek and a spaz. I beat my older sister playing air hockey because my reactions made her laugh so hard. Because of my slightly chipped front tooth (getting it fixed, so HA!) Because when I get drunk in bars, I tell guys that hit on me that I am a certifiable genius and that they couldn’t handle it. This has become a whole routine with my friends. Because my whole apartment is like an Escher drawing. Because I nearly pooped my pants, literally, in Central Park. Because I like weird stuff - clothes, music, boys. Because I can recite the lyrics to 75% of pop songs recorded before the year of my birth, but couldn’t name 75% of the music/artists from the last one or two years. Because I used to have a unibrow. Because I can’t swim. Because I was nine before I learned how to ride a bike. Because I had Velcro shoes when I was eleven. But most of all…because I am 25 years old and don’t know how to drive. Taking the written test Friday, wish me luck! ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/24 "2001-01-08T19:02:07Z")
[list] [li]I never wear skirts or dresses[/li][li]I wear my hair in the same style every day[/li][li]My bookbag is covered in white-out writing and colory plastic stars[/li][li]My handwriting is kinda funny and I dot my i’s with X’s[/li][li]I slouch a little[/li][li]I’m on this website a lot[/li][li]I have to squint to see far away when I’m not wearing my glasses[/li][li]I wear a lot of rings[/li][li]I don’t wear makeup[/li][li]I act like a child too often[/li][li]I take a tin Monopoly lunchbox to school[/li][li]I write on the soles of my shoes[/li]My pants get big at the bottom and one pair has ribbons trailing out from the sides to the floor ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/25 "2001-01-08T19:11:40Z")
People at work make fun of me (though not too much, thankfully) for the messy condition of my office. I have a friend who mocks me for being honest. It’s actually pretty malicious on her part. She’ll pull something (like using an expired student id to get a discount–which she doesn’t need–to get into a non-profit museum). I won’t do the same, and she’ll sneer “Oh yeah, you’re the ‘The Honor Queen’ aren’t you?” She’s some friend. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/26 "2001-01-08T19:19:06Z")
My appearance. And I am a ‘Know-It-All’. (Look, I just read and retain a lot of what I read, dammit.) **CrankyAsAnOldMan** put this sign on your desk: I am not a slob. I am ‘differently organized’. **Guinastasia** , “drunken dolphin” - that is so funny! The imagery of an inebriated Flipper - “Yo Sandy, Sandy! Yeah, you! Wassa’ madder, don’cha shpeak English? Oh, neither do I. Look, I’m tryin’ t’ tell ya, Bud’s got himself trapped in another %#$\*@in’ cave again! Damn, mished the hoop and landed on th’ dock again.” ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/27 "2001-01-08T20:00:42Z")
I’m skinny I’m balding I drink too much I have no woman I sold out to The Man[sup]TM[/sup] I’m half blind I am forever coated in cat hair My hang over symptoms include hives The primary reason is that I am quick to mock others. There’s more, but this is enough. **Deiket** , you’re dating **Jester**? Bwah ha ha ha ha!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/28 "2001-01-08T20:04:29Z")
They don’t make fun of me… at least I don’t really have friends to do so so how can they? Some of the things listed are like me though… ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Eohippus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Eohippus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eohippus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/29 "2001-01-08T20:58:06Z")
Everyone who ever made fun of me was mysteriously transmogrified into a slug. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/30 "2001-01-08T21:05:40Z")
i look tooooooo young. i’m 25, but last month i got carded entering the Mall of America by myself (i think you need to be 16 in order to enter after a certian hour.) i just wanna karate chop everyone who says, “you’ll appreciate it when you’re older.” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/31 "2001-01-08T21:11:59Z")
Because I’m verbally dyslexic. Way too often I use the exact opposite word from what I mean. If I’m cold, I’ll say it’s hot in here. I think I have a tumor… that must be it… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/32 "2001-01-08T21:13:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > **I hold my pens in my fist rather than in my fingertips like most people do.** Was I the only one who had to read that sentence twice? As for me, I have broken my nose several times and it is no longer straight. ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/33 "2001-01-08T22:15:39Z")
I’m a republican and I live in Detroit. (go Wings!) I wear dress shoes instead of sneakers. I’m in the Gay-Straight Alliance at school. I’m conceded as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Anake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Anake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anake)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/34 "2001-01-08T22:16:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\*Some people who know me well make fun of the weird celebrities I’m attracted to. (That’s only when I bring it up and basically force it down their throats, though.) \*\* I can sympathize with that. I have my various interests all over on my folder (one of those folders with the clear plastic over it so you can put pictures on it). Currently, I have my Andy Kaufman Collage over my folder and I get plenty of strange looks. Other times it might be Twilight Zone or my Clockwork Orange Collage. I don’t mind so much because I’m not ashamed of my interests, but I do wish people would be more open minded. I used to get made fun of terribly for my underbite, at one time I ran home crying (seventh grade, and I never cry but they were calling me “Fish” in the worst ways). I also get teased in one of my classes for listening to Weird Al. The “popular” snotty kids of the class tease me about it because I told them that was what I was listening to during our bus ride to a community college for a field trip. They snickered about it and still do. From, Anake ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/35 "2001-01-08T22:23:34Z")
Being “Canadian” (i’m NOT! I never HAVE been! Just because I like Canada and I eat maple candy and I say “about” funny…) Pronouncing the “L” in the word “walk” Occasionally lapsing into vaguely-Southernism ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/36 "2001-01-09T02:45:23Z")
I’ve been picked on for so much. It usually boils down to my looks, however. Whether it’s what I’m wearing, or my hair style/colour, the shoes I wear, the music I lsten to, the people I choose to associate with. Whatever it is I do, I get teased for it. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/37 "2001-01-09T13:38:14Z")
When I was younger I was usually made fun of because my musical taste. Dead kennedy’s, sex pistols, circle jerks. I remember being in Jr. high when uplift mofo party plan came out (red hot chili peppers) and the tape fell out of my locker. The girl next to me thought I was a retard listening to a band named Red Hot Chili Peppers. $100 says she is a RHCP fan now. Funny how things work out. Now I get made fun of for saying wooder instead of water and breafast instead of brea **k** fast. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/38 "2001-01-09T13:44:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Goose \* > \*\*I’m conceded as hell. > \*\* You mean conceited. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. 😉 (The self-proclaimed dictionary of my workplace.) (Who me? I’m not conceited. Not one little bit…) ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/39 "2001-01-09T15:53:33Z")
I moved to Boston recently and all my city friends make fun of me because I came from a small town. Y’know the cliches; When I have to get up early - “Time to milk the cows, Mark?” When I’m getting ready for a date - “Is she your 1st or 2nd cousin’?” I’m really getting sick of it!!! -Oh yeah, and because I enjoy sex with sheep. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904/40 "2001-01-09T17:02:40Z")
My sisters tease me for being “ferocious”. Everyone teases me for being **really** neat and organized. And, um, for being obsessed with Babylon 5. [sub]Shut up. It’s a good show.[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-make-fun-of-you/48904.md?page=3)