Amen. Also, all of them are going to have their little urban adventure and move to the burbs in five years.
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.
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.)
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, 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.
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.
Overly opinionated people have an inflated sense of self and usually talk too much.
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.
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.
“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.
Complainers in general. Such a drag.
My sister and brother-in-law homeschooled their daughter. They are atheists.
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.
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?
Brilliant. Sike!
Yeah! Especially if they don’t signal.
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.
Mmm…Pizza Hut.
When I see someone ahead of me in the grocery store using their food stamp card I judge the groceries in their basket.
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.
I try not to be judgmental of people with facial piercings but such decorations absolutely disgust me, as in viscerally revolting.