# Your overly judgmental opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391 "2013-04-11T12:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/41 "2013-04-11T20:11:32Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Hipsters = douchebags. Wait, that’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. Amen. Also, all of them are going to have their little urban adventure and move to the burbs in five years. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/42 "2013-04-11T20:21:54Z")
People who are staunchly inflexible in their opinions are, de facto, just plain wrong. I’ve felt this since I was a teenager listening to people arguing either side of the Vietnam War, the economy, morality in films, which English version of the Bible is acceptible , ad nauseum. ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/43 "2013-04-11T21:04:09Z")
Here is another one, this one is bad: \*\*Children have a right to happy parents. If you have a child, you forever loose your right to be unhappy. Also, if you are innately unhappy, you should refrain from having children. Children will not make you more happy than you are by nature. \*\* (I’m not bashing the clinically depressed here, which I understand can strike at any time, although I do question the wisdom of natural depressives having bio-kids. I’m bashing chronically miserable bastard who are forever going on about all the stuff that’s making them miserable. Children internalize that shit, and will blame themselves.) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/44 "2013-04-11T22:27:11Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Anyone with their pants hanging off their ass and their shorts showing is an idiot. This. A thousand times this. The farther down the pants are, the more an idiot you are. If your pants are hanging so low that it looks like you’ve dropped a load in them (I’m looking at _[you](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2291630/Pull-pants-Justin-Bieber-Pop-stars-low-slung-look-voted-worst-fashion-faux-pas-century.html)_, Justin Bieber!) you are a supreme idiot. People who use “chatspeak” (particularly things like “u” and “ur”) are not worth my time to communicate with. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/45 "2013-04-11T22:34:18Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > This. A thousand times this. The farther down the pants are, the more an idiot you are. If your pants are hanging so low that it looks like you’ve dropped a load in them (I’m looking at _[you](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2291630/Pull-pants-Justin-Bieber-Pop-stars-low-slung-look-voted-worst-fashion-faux-pas-century.html)_, Justin Bieber!) you are a supreme idiot. > > People who use “chatspeak” (particularly things like “u” and “ur”) are not worth my time to communicate with. Oh, good, it’s working. As an old coot who remembers the 60’s, I understand that kids/teens wear their hair and clothes in ways that irk adults just because they know it irks adults, and this, in their eyes, sets them apart from the repressive establishment. Doesn’t matter if it makes no sense and looks idiotic. Anymore I just smile and say, “Ah, youth!” After all, once upon a time long hair and jeans were signs of decadent immorality and social decay. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/46 "2013-04-11T23:09:06Z")
Homeless people who smoke inside subway stations should be fined, put in jail, or thrown out of the subway forever. They shouldn’t get a free pass to smoke in non-smoking areas just because they’re less fortunate. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/47 "2013-04-11T23:14:24Z")
Overly opinionated people have an inflated sense of self and usually talk too much. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/48 "2013-04-11T23:38:39Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I bet. I was amused, though, when I was watching an episode of Top Gear UK yesterday when they went to India, and they showed cars pulling up with the swastika blazened on them…I mean, it’s still a significant religious symbol over there. No one made any note of it. I kind of wished the presenters had said something, but it’s not their purview. But yes, anyone who has one inked on their bodies deserves a hairy eyeball. Heh, I have an amusing lawyering “war story” based on this. One day, many years ago, I was working as an articling student for a lawyer who did municipal law. He gets a call from a fellow who is very upset because, for reasons he does not understand, the local municipal board is acting with quite incredible rudeness and obstructiveness concerning his application to build a community centre in his community, and he has no idea why. Perhaps it is racism? The fellow is a recent immigrant from India, and although he speaks English, it is with a noticable accent. Allegedly, all his contact with the Board was through correspondence - he’s never had a face-to-face meeting with them, or even talked with them on the phone. They turn down the most simple of requests, make rude comments, and generally give the impression they don’t want him or his communty centre in the community. Why? We met with the guy, and the answer came apparent pretty quickly - his community centre was called something like “The Vedic Aryan Centre” and its symbol, used on the letterhead he used for correspondence, was … the swastika. Pretty obviously, the people at the municipal board had NO clue what and who these guys were, and assumed they were some sort of White supremecist Nazis! 😃 [Ironically, the man himself was from South India and quite dark-skinned]. They had mistaken “Vedic Aryan” for “Aryan nation” or the like, and the swastika really sealed the deal. Once the board was informed that it was dealing with new Canadians of Indian ancestry, and not Nazis, suddenly everything went more smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/49 "2013-04-12T00:34:02Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Overly opinionated people have an inflated sense of self and usually talk too much. Well when I have a good idea I just feel like it would be a crime against the world _not_ to share it with as many people as possible. It’s really selfless, if you think about it. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/50 "2013-04-12T00:45:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I’m the opposite… > > Gun grabbers are whiny pussy crybabies who should have been hit as a kid. They live in so much fear that they are a danger to themselves and others and should be locked up. “Gun grabbers”? Seriously? Okay, I think I’m safe in assuming that if anyone makes cartoonish strawmen out of any contrasting political stance, they might just be under-informed and closed-minded. Or just ignorant, and proud of it. That goes for anyone using the terms “Repugnican”, “Libtard”, and the biggest red flag would be calling everyone but yourself “Sheeple”. “Gun grabber” might be a notch below those. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/51 "2013-04-12T00:46:40Z")
Complainers in general. Such a drag. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/52 "2013-04-12T00:52:26Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > **People who homeschool their children are fundy wingnuts.** > > One of my work colleagues homeschools her kids, and she’s actually pretty normal – not overly religious, not out of touch with contemporary culture, not condemnatory of public schools, etc. > > I don’t know why she is homeschooling or what makes her think she is qualified to homeschool, but that’s a whole 'nother issue. My sister and brother-in-law homeschooled their daughter. They are atheists. > [@Incubus](#): > > My arguement against homeschooling is the lack of training required on the parent’s part to homeschool. I’m not a certified professional teacher; what makes me think I could reliably teach my own kid K-12? I could no more homeschool than I could teach someone to fly an airplane or play a saxophone 😛 My brother-in-law is a high school science teacher, and my sister has a Ph.D. in molecular biology. They were pretty qualified to teach their daughter. In any case they did a good job. Their daughter is now in college and doing very well. This really goes to the heart of my answer to the OP: I try not to be judgemental at all, because I never really know what’s going on in anybody’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/53 "2013-04-12T01:02:31Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > What sort of ear gauge? A pressure gauge does have some utility, in folks with chronic eustachian tube obstruction and middle ear effusion. A fluid level gauge could be useful for that too. But an amperage or bit-rate gauge would be pretty stupid. The ear, being one of the body’s primary data input ports, might be very appropriate to equip with a bit-rate gauge, wouldn’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/54 "2013-04-12T01:14:49Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > If you don’t hit your kids now and again they are going to grow up to be whiny pussies who won’t get a job as is still living with their parents well into their thirties. > > Gun grabbers are whiny pussy crybabies who should have been hit as a kid. They live in so much fear that they are a danger to themselves and others and should be locked up. Brilliant. _Sike!_ ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/55 "2013-04-12T01:22:05Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > People who turn a corner and go into any lane other than the nearest lane going in the correct direction. Sub-humans. Yeah! Especially if they don’t signal. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/56 "2013-04-12T01:34:12Z")
I think severely obese people going in to Pizza Hut are lazy, gluttonous slobs. It seems to be _all_ that go into these places (I live near a Pizza Hut and regularly frequent businesses located nearby) too. I can’t help it; I think these thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/57 "2013-04-12T01:53:01Z")
Mmm…Pizza Hut. ---
**Author:** ![TXRebel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@TXRebel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXRebel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/58 "2013-04-12T01:55:34Z")
When I see someone ahead of me in the grocery store using their food stamp card I judge the groceries in their basket. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/59 "2013-04-12T02:43:03Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > i’m an only child… Me too. And my mother was so concerned I’d be ‘spoiled’ that she made me feel like a useless piece of crap. I guess that’s spoiled. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/60 "2013-04-12T02:51:50Z")
I try not to be judgmental of people with facial piercings but such decorations absolutely disgust me, as in viscerally revolting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391.md?page=4)