stupid little things you're a snob about

I'm not a fancy $300 fountain-pen kind of guy. But I hate crappy, half-dried-out ball points, and if offered one when filling out a form or signing a receipt, I'll take an extra minute or two to dig something better out of my bag.

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I've never seen that movie film...

title says "stupid little things", doesn't it?

YUCK, SKANKY.

xpost eww Trayce wtf. It's one thing to apply some lipgloss or something but good god.

Oh yeah then she ate her lunch, as well. The hell.

i confess, i do this when i'm in a hurry to get somewhere and i think i need to look presentable. i have a habit of procrastinating to the last second before i leave, so i keep my makeup in my purse.

it doesn't seem gross to me when other people do it -- being on a bus or train where people are eating (esp. smelly food) is where i get grossed out.

Yeah, I know -- when I googled that up I was all "the hell?" I remembered Gene Hackman and that was about it!

for me this is only snobbish-inducing because they tend to look so much better before they start - before you looked a bit knackered, now you are ORANGE and the assumption ppl (er ok me) make about yr iq is that it's low. and also wtf, you're going to WORK, where you go every day, what do you do when you want to look like you're wearing makeup? perhaps i am a crap girl and have missed the point, but ffs.

that's not snobbish!

i used to feel this way but now i know how common it is to be typing on the internet while you're multitasking. i consider myself a good speller/typist but sometimes my brain is somewhere else. probably a signal that i should be concentrating on the more important thing.

eek, but I totally call movies "movies"! What if it is a movie rather than a film? Movies is just a fun word. If someone asks me to go see a film with them, it seems quite serious. And then they're, like, "yeah, I hear '40-year-old virgin' is hilarious! So you're in then?" So, y'know... movie. I also used to talk about wrestling non-ironically when I was into watching wrestling (before the days of no cable tv). oh well.

That said, I am a snob about 549849 things, a lot of them about (other people's) clothing, eating habits, and dumbness. I'm getting better though.

I'm sobby about:
the word "snobby" -anyone really use it?
people with tattoos
people that wear perfume / aftershave. just be clean.

agh, must stop for fear that b/c I don't post often and now am posting a list of things I'm a snob about that ilx will get the "wrong idea." (haha, more later.)

FWIW, I don't think this is a snobby thing, it's a goddam hygiene thing.

I'm snobby about people who don't read and people who not only listen to talk radio, but repeat it word for word.

pork, usually. i know that when i eat cheap chinese food i'm not getting high-grade goods. i can live with that.

I also inspect silverware before I use it

ew, yeah. at home, even if the silverware IS clean, i give it an extra rinse just in case.

feel free to revive the "don't put 2 spaces after a period" thread.

that's not stupid at all, it's a good point and one we had to make really hard to my own employers who literally hadn't updated their website since 1998. turns out we had jobseekers never even apply because the site was so bad. good for you!

It's a great movie. Saw it when it first came out in the theater as it coincided pretty well with my "great military defeat" phase of history reading I went through when I was 11 years old.

Much of my petty snobbery revolves around language and spelling issues. The word "irregardless" is like nails-on-chalkboard to me and I automatically react badly to people who use "thru" instead of "through," and "loose" when they mean "lose."

Also, the punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks.

not always. exclamation marks go outside! so do semicolons.

they do that in some places here too -- "philly rolls," they call 'em.

exclamation marks go inside quotation marks when the quote itself, or the title itself, contains an exclamation mark. semicolons usually go outside. I think, though, it's pretty obvious I was talking strictly about the habit a lot of writers had/have of putting periods and commas out and not in.

correct.

But not as many as RJG.

"david berman, of the band, the silver jews..." (the comma after "band" denotes that the writer is referring to exactly ONE band in the piece, and that the band has already been mentioned without name)

vs.

"david berman, of the band the silver jews..." (no band that berman is a part of has been mentioned prior to this sentence)

a graduate school dean just sent me a form letter typed in comic sans. i was pretty taken aback. nothing says higher learning like "the funny font."

I wouldn't say they were skanky. They ruin the idea of what make-up is and it just seems something I would never do in public. It's so exposing. They're not s'posed to show they apply their make-up. They ruin the mystique of it. Also, the lipstick is almost always applied in a horrendous I-need-glasses kinda way.

Wrestling fans

Read Barthes.

I don't know, half of what is mentioned here - such as clipping nails in public and so on - don't seem snobbish to me. Maybe that says more about me than...

What I do hate a LOT is men wearing sandals with white socks in'em. EW! But that's not me being snobbish, that's geezers dressing F*U*G*L*Y*. :-)

i don't care whether the people on the train think i have any mystique!

This does piss me off, especially when people then call me to try and find emails that they've "lost". See also: people who empty their email trashcan religiously, who then call up and say: "I deleted an email about six months ago - is there any way to get it back?"

documents saved on desktop

...but I do this myself if it's a file that I need to edit at least once a day or more - things like: spreadsheets of available disk space, printer usage, etc etc etc

(the Printer Usage spreadsheet I have to maintain every day is due to an ongoing war with a Branch Manager who thinks his office needs Special Treatment because of the amount of printing they do. In actual fact his printing levels are very much less than what he claims, and rather less than several other departments; but if we're going to say "don't worry, he's exaggerating hugely" to the Board, it helps if we have the numbers to prove it)

White sports socks is probably the thing I'm most snobbish about. Unless you're actually exercising, there's NO excuse. In fact, I'm snobbish about socks in general, but white sports socks are definitely the worst.

Let me state it in another way: I think make-up should be applied in a toilet or bathroom, not in public. I think it's somewhat pointless to make yourself prettier when everyone's looking. :-)

Altho hrm sometimes that can be hot.

Oh what was my point again? Gar :)

this is not stupid at all! i am a total sushi snob. not as bad as gygax though. but ugh i hate 95% of sushi in new york. california rolls? month old fish you're passing off as ultra-fresh sashimi? blegh

I learned not being a snob about sushi after having to eat with chopsticks in a French restaurant in Japan. HILARIOUS. It's like the equivalent of california rolls. ;-)

omg no, i wish. i have been to megu though. on someone else's tab, of course. though i went to asiate on the 35 floor of TWC on a business lunch thing, and the girl i was eating with had the sashimi appetizer. then the busser came to ask if she was finished and she said yes, but she left the piece of santa barbara uni untouched!! and the busser took it away before i could grab it. i almost criwed

what the fuck?

My answer is... bad washing up. Ugh! I hate when things aren't washed up properly. I have actually been known to take things out of the drying rack and put them back on the dirty dish side if my housemates have left weird films or specks of stuff on them.

Another thing she did that annoyed me: used the word 'books' to mean 'magazines', and pronounced it with a long "ooh" sound.

Mmmmm, brandy butter.

AAAARGH, otm!

i was trying to remember this when talking about petty language frustrations with someone the other day. this drives me fucking nuts. it is NOT THAT COMPLICATED

Do people who only watch "films" also only listen to twelve-inch long-play record albums?

FOR FUCK IS SAKE??

for the sake of fuck. cursing for people who don't believe in god but know that fuck exists.

First used of "motion pictures" in 1905. The verb "to make a movie of" is from 1899.

it's not because "movie" is a new word, it's because to me it sounds like a word for thick people. objectively i know it's not - please do not start having a go at me for saying all people who use the word "movie" are thick, i know this is not true - but since when was the way people react to language objective? it just sounds like a stupid word to me, like babytalk. and i remember being talked to in babytalk when i was very small, and getting really pissed off about it - "i am not stupid, i am just very small. stop talking to me like that or i'll puke egg all down your front." (and then i did, ha ha.)

Well, humph! Emsk! See if I ever ask you to go to the movies with me again! (I wanted to see Stoned, as well, since we enjoyed Dig! so much but I guess you won't want to see the movie with me.)

you didn't ask me if i wanted to come to the movies, you asked if i wanted to come and see dig! ;)

Even if English is your second language? :-(

My boyfriend does this and it drives me nuts. He just washes one dish at a time under the time. Which is more wasteful?

I would insist on doing all the dishes myself but fortunately my disdain for washing dishes outweighs this snobbery.

Fuckers.

"mzui, you're gunna be very embarrassed when they find that shotgun."

ie, when they find the proof that... oh never mind.

http://www.teenvogue.com/images/advice/040830adfa.jpg
Like those. There are better examples, but Im just not finding them with my short attention span.

actually "people that say" is more correct. it's like the which/that argument. "people, who say the world is flat, are wrong" (people are wrong, and by the way, they say the world is flat) vs. "people that say..." (the subset of the population saying the world is flat is incorrect).

but as i said, MORE correct.

In addition to initiating efforts to fine-tune the existing technical controls, it might be worthwhile to enforce the respective security policy via a complimentary operational control(s).

FUCK YOU

that's grim!

you mean like on ilx?

*ducks*

2) Fucking stirring all the food into one big pile on your plate -- I do this with about the last quarter of any cake/pie/brownie served with ice cream.
3) Drinking out of cans -- I'm probably not alone in doing that pretty regularly.
4) People who like monkeys -- Hooray for monkeys!
5) Not filling the sink up to wash dishes -- Why would I waste water filling the sink up in order to create some grease-topped bacterial stew? I'd like the dirt to go down the drain ASAP, not hang around on the unwashed plates for a while first.
7) Mall-based hair salons -- I grew up getting my hair cut at the mall, mostly because it was one of few nearby places where they knew how to cut black people's hair.
8) Cheap electronics -- I just bought a stopgap $19 CD player this morning, but that bit me on the ass when I stood up to leave the subway and learned that it's unplayable while walking.

IT'S OVER ROBYN IT'S OVER

God, yes. See also my "proper way to wash up" post.

I hate that shit.

Things I can get snobby about: music, cooking (process more than cuisine...like, clean as you go you fucking slob), the minutiae of various outdoor pursuits.

I really cannot fucking stand it when people brush their teeth in public bathrooms.

I thought you said you didn't like cheap shoes.

Just kidding.

Mind you, sometimes there are good reasons to allow inefficiency when there are other benefits to be gotten out of the situation (for instance, leaving the lights on at night because you want the house to feel warm and inviting even though you might not be actively using that room right now), but in that case I hope to have weighed the options and purposefully CHOSEN, not just flounded into something.

Jaymc: I'm really not all about headphones -- I usually just spend around $50 on something like these relatively-cheapo Sony phones. To me, even just these guys sound shockingly better than iPod buds. (It's the mdrv300; the 250 sounds significantly worse, and if I were spending $129 on headphones I'd venture the 700s would be the best buy of them all.)

http://www.turntablelab.com/headphones/pics/sony-mdr300.jpg

Ally: I'm confused! Regular headphones are usually better for your ears -- the sound's not all compressed and vacuum-like in your ear canal, like with earbuds. Unless you mean they hurt your actual ears, like the outer flesh part, in which case okay, you might need some kind of non-traditional wrappy thing. I mean, wear earbuds, by all means; it's cool. I'm not snobby in the sense that I think everyone should have awesome expensive German headphones -- I'm snobby in the sense that I'm baffled very few people pay any attention to this whatsoever (or if they do, it's just to buy the new cool impressive-looking dealybobbers).

Yeah I wore Kenneth Cole shoes for my wedding and they were probably the most uncomfortable pair of shoes I've ever worn.

-- bingo (thebing...), November 16th, 2005.

you waking people just don't understand...

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i can see if your up all night, but christ this 14 hour bullshit has got to stop man.

what the hell's wrong with sleep anyway? If your body needs it, take it.

oh, people who wear TEVAS drive me nuts.

yes, sam my father is bi-polar.

can I ask you why someone else's e-mail inbox is YOUR business? and why you make assumptions about why it is 'organized' that way? I personally leave things in the fucking inbox until I am DONE with that project and it no longer requires that attention. I have documents I am currently working on saved on my desktop, too. My computer is no one else's goddamned business - I organize in a way that works with my brain.

i think some of you more 'judgmental' types really ought to explain what on earth happened to you in childhood that you base your 'impressions' of people based on these little things. it reeks of corporate culture.

(and, omg, Nabisco, these are "stupid little things," they're colourful character quirks! We can get past it all!)

my snobby things:

1. people who cut the nose off a lump of cheese
2. people who pass the port the wrong way
3. people who lay the knives in the wrong order on the table
4. people who don't leave the bottom button of their waistcoat unfastened
5. people who think lemonade is an ingredient for a spritzer

i'm sure there are many more, mostly (as above) food and clothing-related.

I mean, some stuff, like being annoyed at people who call attention to themselves by doing all of their personal hygiene on the bus...that's reasonable. But the shoe stuff, or how someone organizes their personal space - that's personal, no one is 'inflicting' those 'habits' on you.

There is nothing reasonable about snobbery! That's why it's snobbery. You chiding people about it is like yelling at someone for not liking blue cheese.

(a) Everyone openly admitting that it's a stupid little pet peeve and they're just being unnecessarily snobby about it, or
(b) Harboring stupid secret annoyances as if they actually are important?

OTM. Working in a Real kitchen shaped me up right quick. This is why it drives me crazy to watch my roommates/friends cook dinner or wash the dishes. No other task gives me the same kind of uncontrollable Back Seat Driver syndrome.

I do hate Outlook, TOMBOT - how did you know? Guess I'll never make it in corporate snootyland.

Being snobby about shoes I don't understand.

Being snobby about your FUCKING HOBBIES is widely regarded by both hobbyist and non-hobbyist alike as actually being human nature. To wit: would you fault a carpenter for being snobby about his tools ("I know what I like.")? Ditto computer users, cyclists and Magic card collectors. (see also headphones)

"Guess I'll never make it in corporate snootyland." EXCELSIOR!

I was kidding! They are quite expensive. Not Manolos, but then I doubt you'd want to prance around in high heeled shoes. ;-)

Being snobby about shoes I don't understand.

I love comfortable shoes that look nice. And yes I know brands/labels (or whatever you wanna call it) *overprice* it, but I'm willing to pay more for a nicely designed shoe. The finish does matter (so my repairman tells me). I think it also adds to an outfit, whereas cheap shoes somehow make an outfit less beautiful.

Outlook is great if you want the same accounts but with different reply addresses. Mail (in OSX) doesn't have that ability as far as I know. Bummah.

Whether you're snobbing on people for shoes or for being snobby, it's still the same fucking horse, dude. How's the view?

...that said, the SHIT that came through my ski shop last winter was unbearable. HOW CAN YOU STRAP THOSE TO YOUR FEET? THEY ARE MADE OF FOAM OMG.

That said, it's just foolish to associate having pet peeves with "[having] it far too easy in life" when there's no logical connection (unless you're suggesting that we should all strive for the make-do mentality of, say, Depression-era survivors who hoard things, which just isn't healthy). For instance I'm a little manic about turning off lights and not running water unnecessarily because those actions COST MONEY and WASTE NATURAL RESOURCES, both of which would earn me a lot of grief from my dad. Lots of people above could give similar lines of reasoning, and so on.

I have to say, the shoe thing is relative -- I often see Nine West or some brand that I scorn being promoted on What Not to Wear or similar makeover shows, and they look FINE on the participants. But I know that, with the amount of walking I/we do around here, they'll hurt me and/or wear badly, so I'll take a pass. If I drove everywhere, I might think otherwise.

Nabisco: I will carry a freakin' glass in my purse for you, I will buy the expensive ice cream for your cake hysterics, I will help you smash you cheap walkman with mine in smashing joy, but the monkey thing, especially in German, is a worry.

Actual ears and head. I don't know what it is, it can cause excruciating pain if I wear them for longer than 20 minutes/half hour at a time, sometimes less than that. I do pay attention and try to purchase higher quality earbuds, but really a high quality pair of regular headphones would just kill me :(

And people who describe themselves as "Bubbly".

'Whatever dude, it's all the same.' No, it's not. If you have nothing better to do than bitch about other people's stuff, you clearly suffer from a lack of perspective as to what is worth complaining about. And then there are the beefs which have an undercurrent of 'understood' moralism about them, i.e., 'don't 'those people' know they're not supposed to do that?'

For the record, my desk is not and never was messy. But I suppose that for people suffering from pathological narcissism and other bullying complexes, neither it nor my hair could ever be 'clean' enough. And 'outdated' headphones, like Steve Bartman wore...well, they sell them in the store downstairs - sorry.

Mhwahahahaha. *Wipes eyes* Okay, that thought process does OCCASIONALLY take place, but usually it does the bare minimum of rescuing Person C from your shit list and giving them a chance to be totally cool in some new way that you wouldn't have thought of and will appreciate when you get to know them blah blah blah. Best case scenario is that even once you are friends, you WILL STILL WISH Person C file would something -- ANYTHING -- in an orderly fashion, you will just like him in spite of his messy habits.

Let's never be friends.

If anybody's looking at my desk they better be prepared for a swift kick in the nuts.

I said "tolerance increasing"!!! (mostly b/c people are really sensitive about this, I've realized.) I do like gorillas and marmosets already! Moving on from there.

13) while I am always thankful to be served beer, I prefer the regular pint glasses, not those really tall skinny ones that make me think your bar is stupid, no matter how cool the music or nice the decor.

Being from Canada, we generally sound similar to Americans, but spell like the British. I firmly believe that the letter "u" belongs in the words "colour", "odour" and "favour", for example. I also hate it that the version of MS Word I use at work used to always highlight the British variants as being incorrect until I added them to the custom dictionary.

mine are the mdrv150 (significantly worse than "significantly worse"), and for cheapo phones that i don't expect much from i rather like how they sound! sure i could go more high-end but i have bad luck with headphones breaking and if i have to keep replacing them i don't want to spend more than $30 or $40 in one shot. i've had these for less than six months and i've already used the krazy glue on 'em twice.

Hi. This is me. And I don't even cook for myself at home, which just makes my BSD syndrome all that much more stupid.

well it was smelly! and i know how to make it not-smelly! what would you do?

gem, sorry about this...

Main Entry: tor·tu·ous
Pronunciation: 'torch-w&s, 'tor-ch&-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French tortueux, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus twist, from torquEre to twist
1 : marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : WINDING < a tortuous path >
2 a : marked by devious or indirect tactics : CROOKED, TRICKY < a tortuous conspiracy > b : CIRCUITOUS, INVOLVED
- tor·tu·ous·ly adverb
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::passes the port the wrong way::

;-)

These days I ask for a server with a science degree, fallback to commerce. Arts or social is right out.

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I look down on trolls who lack subtle and sophisticated behavioural science techniques to stimulate reactions from their audience.

kingfish that's not a small thing

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Too true

Usu only ask for my coffee baristas to be chem majors instead of arts/humanities majors

Think most baristas these days bloody need chem degrees tbh

Shitty breakfast sandwiches and which one is the best