# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/121 "2013-04-14T19:14:30Z")
People who think that everyone else is dishonest are probably dishonest as well. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/122 "2013-04-14T19:21:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Parents who engage 6-year old kids in prolonged reasoning are deluded. I saw this yesterday. A young child was being a bit rambunctious on the sidewalk and his mother cautioned him to be “careful of others’ space, Jimmy.” She went on: “You have to respect others’ bodies and their personal space, Jimmy.” :rolleyes: > > It did, however, provide me with prolonged laughter at her expense. Meh. Telling a kid to respect other people’s personal space is like telling them to look both ways before they cross the street. Repeat it enough times and eventually it will sink in. She said “respect their space” while you might have said “watch it, kid” but either way the message is the same. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/123 "2013-04-14T19:49:00Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Same here…they went out of their way to make sure I’d never be spoiled. > > I don’t understand the “turn a corner and go into the closest lane”. That makes no sense to me. I turn every day at a light. When it’s green/clear I move immediately into the farthest left lane, because I will have to turn in a bit and I may as well move all the way over there now when it’s clear. > > Personally I hate when people turn into the closest lane and immediately swerve into the left lanes. Just be predictable. When I turn it is clear where I am going. And then I stay in that lane until I make my left. I don’t switch lanes on the way. I have the same kind of thing in my commute. The thing I hate the most is when, while making that right hand turn, the guy behind me passes me _in the intersection_ while we are both turning right, and takes the far left lane, forcing me into the right hand lane (which is not where I want to be). Gr . . . I guess my judgmental opinion is that people who drive aggressively, who tailgate, end up stopped in the intersection when the light turns red, leap-frog in busy traffic, and otherwise make me have to adjust my behavior so that they can get what they want are disgustingly selfish people, and I’m sure that kind of behavior manifests itself in their lives in other ways. ---
**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 14, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/124 "2013-04-14T20:55:18Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I am so onboard with many of these! I must be a\* real asshole!\* 😃 > > Smokers and gum-chewers should be beaten with pointed sticks. > > … What about those who smoke and chew gum at the same time? (And yes, I have seen it.) I always secretly hope they’ll make a mistake and either chomp down on their cigarette or inhale their gum. (hmm, this board needs an evil/scheming smiley. 😉 ) ---
**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 15, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/125 "2013-04-15T02:34:27Z")
People who always drive with their fog-lights on are inconsiderate assholes. People who allow their teenagers to get tattoos or facial piercings are terrible parents (wait - I’m not sure if that’s **overly** judgemental). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/126 "2013-04-15T03:08:57Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I think most people who say they have to eat gluten-free are just going along with a current fad and don’t have any physical problems resulting from gluten consumption at all. I do say “most” – I believe that celiac disease is a real thing. I just think that there are a lot of bandwagon-jumpers who like being trendy and are experiencing only psychosomatic improvements (if any) as a result of their dietary changes. What’s funny is that I avoided going gluten free because I thought it was faddy, still believe that I may not have the issues I seem to have, and resent the hell out of anyone else who appears to have gluten issues because I think it makes them (and by association me) look stupid. My husband thinks it’s pretty funny, and I was just ranting at him about it today, how I’m not sure it’s not just in my head. Where the fuck is my double-blind study?! ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/127 "2013-04-15T15:48:45Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Guys that wear porkpie hats are douchebags. > > Gimme a better word. On rare occasions I wear one, but to be fair, I seriously do refer to it as my douchebag hat. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/128 "2013-04-15T15:50:12Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > . . . > > Lifted? More clearance when off-road, where accessibility trumps safety at high speeds. . . . Agree on the rest, but this s a myh. The ground-to-pumpkin measurement does not change regardless of how high the suspension is raised. The only way to higher clearance is bigger tires. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/129 "2013-04-15T17:43:51Z")
Women with a “tramp stamp” are. Intellectually I know it’s not true, but that is my visceral reaction > [@InternetLegend](#): > > People who always drive with their fog-lights on are inconsiderate assholes. This one confuses me. Fog lights, properly aimed, should have less impact to oncoming drivers than headlights. Or is that just a pet peeve? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/130 "2013-04-15T18:06:51Z")
**People who are different than me are stupid.** Because how could they possibly know what it’s like to be me? **People who are just like me are really stupid.** Because they know what it’s like to be like me - and they still do it! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/131 "2013-04-15T18:16:22Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Women with a “tramp stamp” are. Intellectually I know it’s not true, but that is my visceral reaction > > This one confuses me. Fog lights, properly aimed, should have less impact to oncoming drivers than headlights. Or is that just a pet peeve? I assume “high beams” were meant. If not, I’ll add my own: people who do not turn down their high beams in the face of oncomming traffic, particularly when the can see I turned down mine for them, are assholes. Though I don’t think that’s overly judgmental … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/132 "2013-04-15T18:25:44Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I assume “high beams” were meant. > > If not, I’ll add my own: people who do not turn down their high beams in the face of oncomming traffic, particularly when the can see I turned down mine for them, are assholes. > > Though I don’t think that’s overly judgmental … 😉 People who have those multiple, small retina-searing blue headlights are pretentious ninnies. I’d like to have a mirror mounted in my car’s roof that I can deploy, James Bond-style, to concentrate and reflect the beams right back at them, vaporizing their skulls. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/133 "2013-04-15T19:19:22Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > I have the same kind of thing in my commute. > > The thing I hate the most is when, while making that right hand turn, the guy behind me passes me _in the intersection_ while we are both turning right, and takes the far left lane, forcing me into the right hand lane (which is not where I want to be). I promise you, cross my heart and hope to die, I will never pass you in the intersection. That’s dangerous! In fact the reason it annoys me so is when I get to the far left lane, often the guy on the right decides he’s going to cut me off without even a turn signal because OBVIOUSLY he needs to be in the left lane RIGHT NOW. There is room in front of me, so he does it, but I was just starting my acceleration! I promise I never pass anyone in the intersection though! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/134 "2013-04-15T19:36:40Z")
self deleted. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/135 "2013-04-15T23:18:25Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I have a bunch of idiosyncratic completely arbitrary rules for the use of numbers in writing (i.e. when to use 5 vs five). If you don’t follow them you’re either lazy, a bad writer, or just a plain moron. > > Surprisingly most people pass. plus one. ---
**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 16, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/136 "2013-04-16T01:59:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > plus one. Brilliant. I’m non+'ed. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/137 "2013-04-16T03:22:31Z")
People who whinge and carry on and cry about Facebook and Twitter and text messaging and how stoooopid those things are and how they will never use them and how they think people who use them are dumb/narcisstic/whatever are judged to be both assholes and too stupid to work any of the above. This goes in triplicate to people still whinging about using mobile phones. Fucking luddites. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/138 "2013-04-16T06:36:09Z")
People that say “anywho”. You might as well be a yokel, in my eyes. My students that are “too poor” to afford a $7.00 sketch pad, but had the money for fast food and cigarettes (and let’s not forget the iPhone). People with what appears to be randomly placed $5.00 tattoos. If you’re going to get a tattoo, get a nice one created by a professional. This especially is aimed at my design students. I wouldn’t want to hire you knowing you didn’t care enough for something so permanent. Adults that use U instead of you when it’s not necessary. You look like an absolute moron. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/139 "2013-04-16T10:20:02Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > Only children are mostly spoiled and self centered. Parents of only children are almost always overly involved and haughty. > [@Anaamika](#): > > i’m an only child… Me, too. You’ll be glad to know that my parents were neglectful and raised me without one ounce of entitlement. To much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391/140 "2013-04-16T14:48:49Z")
I hate it when media reporters say things that are grammatically incorrect. They are role models, for heaven’s sake. They talk about people ‘laying’ at the side of the road, how they should have ‘went’, etc, etc. I think these reporters should have been tested and ferreted out at their interviews for the job, and replaced if they just can’t get it right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-overly-judgmental-opinions/655391.md?page=8)