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I realised I'm kind of silently ill-diposed to people who look a lot older than they are. I'm not proud of this. It's just a gut 'there not my kind of person' reaction.

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

diposed=disposed

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm jealous of skinny people.

― alex thomson, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate everything!

― Geoff, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there = THEY'RE.

I think your prejudice is most odd. Can you explain further?

― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, yes. there=they're and habour = harbour. What a debacle. And to think, another of my irrational prejudices is against poor spellers.

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I have that one too. I'm not sure I'd call it irrational.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox, not without resorting to amateurish self-analysis. Which, I'm not totally adverse to, it's just that I have 140MB of email to sort through right now.

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet most of that memory is used up by porn attachments.

― Pete, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Erotica' attachments, surely.

― Tom, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CDs sound crap.

― Neil Albini (nathalie), Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate 15 year-olds who look about 22 but I don't think it makes a lot of difference if you're, say 50 and look 55.

This thread is really crying out for someone to say something like "I think homosexuals are weak and shouldn't be allowed to drive in case they get distracted by looking at boys' arses and crash."

― Greg, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tarden must be busy.

― mark s, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, I don't have 'crazy prejudices'!

What I DO have is a set of less-than-charitable beliefs based on factual anecdotal evidence that seems to imply unpleasant character traits detectable in members of certain groups ('groups' = a plurality of individuals who share any one of the following: race, religion, gender, sexuality, country/region/town of origin/residence, height, weight, hairstyle, profession, etc.). Obviously it's going to benefit me to hide these as much as possible because it's uncool to let any of them on, so I can't reveal them here! But since I let them inform all of my thoughts and actions, they must be 'beliefs', not 'crazy' thank you!

― dave q, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who can't spell correctly. (Like whoever spelled this thread's header.)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tadeusz - I have already atoned for this sin. It was a typo, man, a typo [hangs head in shame]

O

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate peeps hoo bang on bout schpelling. Laik eet is zo impoutant.

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Instant gut reaction against anyone who reads the Spectator.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, but Robin, you don't think that's crazy (or at least you have made no attempt to rein in this prejudice in recent times!). Anyway, as someone else pointed out, *you* read the Spectator. Knowing your enemy and all that.

Another prejudice of mine: people with any piercing other than an earring.

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am scared of teenage boys. I assume they are all droogs who are looking to fuck over the faggot.

― anthony, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Men who wear white socks and sandals. When they also wear shorts and a shiny t-shirt, my head starts spinning around ejecting green goo all over the place.
People who obsess over pop and rock. Especially when they make a living off it.

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also: people called Paul. This way predates the current series of Big Brother. I should point out that Paul Strange of this parish is, I'm sure, a lovely man.

― Nick, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sunbathers in public parks, I don't like them, there should be a special force that places covering devices over their bodies. When I walk in the park I don't really want to see semi-naked people blistering in the sun and leaving piles of rubbish when they leave. I know mostly they are harmless and only trying to enjoy the sun.

― jel, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't really like Greeks, dogs, people who have pets, socially awkward people, sociable people, ugly people, guys who drink brightly colored alcohol, girls who don't flirt, girls who wear glasses, old people who aren't bitter, people who make small talk, girls who roll up their pantlegs, polite people, people from India, people who tip over 20%, people who drink skim milk, people with blue eyes, or guys with facial hair other than a beard or a moustache.

― Otis Wheeler, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eyebrows get Wheeler thumbs down shock!

― mark s, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate guys who come to my house after being all "yeah, that scene kicks ass" and then sit around dogging everything, getting up to look at my DVDs specifically to dog everything, dog my friends, act anti- social but then go sleep half naked with my gay friends, and dog on people who drink good liquor and venture beyond the vodka stakes.

So my only prejudice is Otis, then. Other than that I'm completely happy with everyone.

― Ally, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't remember dogging on anything this weekend. Did I really? I thought I was pretty jovial.

― Otis Wheeler, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate komodo dragons and elves

― Mike Hanley, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gothic punk kids who do school shootings.

Okay, not really. Hippies, though, I tend to be initially quite adverse to.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As Pete will confirm I have more irrational prejudices than most, including: people with no chin, people with dodgy noses, people with gnarled feet, mashed potatoes, girls called Charlotte, women who dress really badly (I forgive men who do), fat people who take up too much room on public transport (I mean grotesquely obese), people standing up on the bus when there are seats, people standing on the stairs on the bus (I am a stickler for the rules), people who drop litter other than fag butts, people who tut and wave their arms when I am smoking, and many many more (that I won't say in case I offend anyone).

― Emma, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

people standing on the stairs on the bus (I am a stickler for the rules)

God, yes! And I have no idea why this annoys me at all, but it does. Have you ever seen people stand upstairs? That's even more outrageous.

I like women called Charlotte a lot. But I have a feeling I've just been lucky.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ken! Bring back bus conductors and stop this bus madness before someone gets killed!

― Emma, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of all the nation's politicians Ken Livingstone is surely the one most likely to be spending his office time arsing around on ILE: good call Emma.

I third the people standing on buses and must also mention COUPLES HOLDING HANDS ON THE STREET and impeding my god-given right to walk faster. AND AND AND AND AND people standing on the left on escalators.

― Tom, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who block escalators. Canoodlers on escalators. Tourists (esp. Australians, Americans). People who make special orders in fast-food outlets. People who order weird drinks in pubs when it's your round. People who order Guinness when it's your round so you have to stand there waiting. Parents with pushchairs. Drug dealers who don't wake up before 4:30 PM. Late risers generally. People who are incapable of going anywhere by themselves and always need somebody with them. People who care about other people. Fuckwits who are scared of answering machines and don't leave messages. Anybody with ANY 'issues' about anything. People with feelings.

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah , couples are very annoying, wandering towards you joined at the hand and ignoring my death glares when I barge into them tutting loudly to myself. And snogging in public. Especially if they are making slurpy noises too.

Another public transport one: people who get on the tube without letting people off. If anyone does this to me I walk very hard into them in a casual sort of way, simultaneously sticking my elbow into their ribs and smacking them with my heavy bag. For the love of God, Ken, help us!

― Emma, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst pub sinner is the 'And' Man. He has finished ordering his round, the barperson returns with drinks. "And a gin and tonic." It is obtained. "And a Moscow Mule". While barista's back turned one of his witless friends has arrived in pub and brayed order. "Oh, and a spritzer." Grr grr. Surely no more. Right that's £14.24. "Oh wait, did I forget the Guinness?"

― Tom, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst thing about escalator-blockers and other Tube cretins is when you knock them over, jab them in the ribs etc., and they just give you a simpering smile in return. Mainly northern Europeans who do this for some reason. Also, all those people carrying 50 items of luggage on the Tube, if they're too cheap to call a taxi they should stay at home.

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone who has every had to wait in endless queues to buy fags on a Saturday evening will agree - gullible Lottery ticket buyers can fuck right off too!

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It irritates me when people turn my carefully worded thread about crazy prejudices into a thread about perfectly justified irritations of modern life.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Americans ahead of you in queues with their grotesquely egotistical ideas about customer service which actually means "I have the right to take as long as I want berating a wage-slave over something I'm too dense to understand, and fuck the poor saps behind me." Kneecap them.

Also really, how difficult can it be to work out how to use the BR ticket machines? Christ.

― Tom, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, you say that Tom, but have you tried the new touch screen ones at Finsbury Park? I had been wondering about what was going on because there always seemed to be a member of staff pressing buttons for a confused looking passenger. Now I'm no technophobe, but my friend challenged me to buy a ticket to Walthamstow Central on it, having spent 5 minutes trying to do the same earlier in the week. And it took me just as long as him. I can't remember the absurd, counter-intuitive sequence of menu choices you had to go through, but it really was a masterpiece of user-hostility. I think the designer must borne some kind of grudge against humanity.

I think it might have been taken out of service now.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Nick you are correct, the touch screen ones are apalling (though they do take Switch, a huge breakthrough). I'm talking about the ones with a button for each destination and a button for each ticket type which are about as intuitive as they come.

― Tom, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay Nick here's a prejudice - whenever I see people reading 'one of those books EVERYBODY'S reading', be it 'White Teeth' or 'Captain Corelli' or 'Memoirs of a Geisha' or 'Bridget Jones', I assume the person is really really stupid and boring, and if I ever (God forbid) end up talking to the person it will take a long time for them to change my mind, if ever.

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The London Underground touch screen ones are pretty good, I think.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another prejudice - when I go to somebody's house and it's tidy, I also assume the person is boring, stupid etc.

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(that's ME off the hook, then)

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave, I share your 'read other books please' prejudice. I read Harry Potter once (it's a long story) and felt I had to hide it when I was on public transport. Actually, that may have been because it had a picture of a wizard on it.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A co-worker used to come in displaying their copy of 'The Beach', I asked them what they thought of it and they said, "I can't wait to finish it so I can get started on Captain Corelli's Mandolin"

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave - they could just be living with someone who is boring and stupid. The book thing on the ube or bus I do constantly though - which means much popular lit I read seriously after the fact and begrudgingly end up liking.

I think people who buy Time Out any day after the Wednesday its dated are really dim.

― Pete, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really can't stand it when people pronounce the letter H as "haitch."

That SO annoys me. I'm annoyed now, just thinking about it.

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also hate loud neighboors

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate loads of things. But am I crazy to? Okayyyy, deep breath: escalator blockers (I have been known to growl 'move, tourist' to scare them), cafés that use that weird tomato/vinegar sauce hybrid instead of PROPER ketchup, spelling mistakes, Daddy's girls in the act of BEING a Daddy's girl, Bridge and Tunnel people, mullets and heavy metal teeshirts irrespective of irony quotient, floral dresses, ITV, fried chicken shops named after states other than Kentucky, anthropomorphised meat products eg. sausages with a happy dancing pig on them, wheatsheaf/cornucopia patterns on ANY kitchen appliance or receptacle, minicab drivers who try to push up the fare their despatcher quotes you, 'love' handles, loud Americans in central London (except for the hysterical Southerner who said, 'honey, it's not that we're lost, we just don't know where the hell we ARE'), obese people eating soft-serve ice cream in public, Kate Bush, 'geezer' films, market stall grocers who don't let me choose my own fruit and veg and massive logos on clothes and bags because, fuck it, they can pay ME for advertising my association with THEM if I'm going to serve as a human billboard.

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who say 'yourself' or 'myself' mistakenly thinking it makes them sound clever when it makes them look even stupider e.g. 'We would like to set up a meeting between yourself and us'.

― Emma, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ourself", however, is under-used, except by the Queen and the Borg...

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its nice that so many of you are saying how you hate obese epople . It really helps in our consoleing of a certian person.

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaagh, you're right, Emma...nasty, nasty jumped-up Aspirant Pleb speak for estate agents or people who say 'as yet'. There's also the person who writes out memos and signs off with 'THANX' or saying 'Ta'. At my very last service industry job I told off a supervisor for this, saying that people who wrote 'thanx' were rude fuckers who didn't think the people they were memoing deserved a REAL giving of thanks.

Also, I'll quote my grandfather: "AIN'T AIN'T a word and it AIN'T in the dictionary."

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cept since it IZ a word, it oughtta be

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, they put "minger" in the OED...

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what's an aspirant pleb?

― Alasdair, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who look like Snoopy. I know a person who looks like Snoopy, and it just isn't right. It's not that he looks like a dog, I can't quite explain it except something about him suggested Snoopy.

I have real and good reasons for despising this smug tosser, but the "looking like Snoopy" part is that which bothers me most.

― Nicole, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart Nicole.

'Smug tosser' though. This is 'woo!' for two reasons: r) Nicole is never normally this combative and h) get her with her anglicisms.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who smell like urine on trains and buses. People whose thighs squish onto mine when travelling on aforementioned trains and buses. People who talk on cellphones during movies. That's about it.

― p f. sloane, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry for posting twice but I had a 'moment'.

Large people on scooters (sort of electric wheelchairs but not really) who can walk. They entered into department stores and block entire aisles at a time. That sort of bothers me.

― p f. sloane, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

people who projectile vomit on the tube (whether they get me or not) especially when they give no warning and wake you up with their hurling. and yes, people who stand on the left hand side of the tube escalators are the devil's spawn. oh yeah, Radiohead and Pokemon.

― cabbage, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aspirant plebs are people like my former landlady who think it's posh or formal to use turns of phrase such as 'as yet'. Sample sentence: "No, I'm afraid I haven't organised a plumber to call AS YET." You speak to them every time you have to ring up a fucking bank hotline and they're the nasal-sounding ones trying to enunciate. They are also the people who keep the Artex makers in business. Bleurgh...

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like tourists who stand on the left on escalators cause they give me a rare opportunity to feel like I'm a real Londoner.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Friends' that only call when you can get them on the guest list. That taints them in my eyes (maybe after a month of doing it non- stop).

― p f. sloane, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"An history" - MAYBE THIS WOULD WORK ON THE EAST END BUT WHY IN PRINT??? Gah.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also hate the way people bunch together in the middle of tube platforms, are they really that stupid to realise that if they walk to the end of the platform they are more likely to get a seat? Not that I want them to walk to the end of the platform, as then I wouldn't get a seat. Sorry, if this was mentioned already!

― jel, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I simply don't like people that exude that annoying kind of confidence, regardless of what other qualities there are. Loud mouth people who think they are the life of the party, etc.

The funny thing is sometimes people say, "Oh, that Nude Spock, he's just shy. He's a nice guy." In reality, I'm not "shy" at all. I purposely curtail my ego so that people won't think I'm a clueless, self-obsessed, headstrong jerk unaware of my own faults and shit, like most of the other nitwits out there.

My advice to people with the ego stick up their asses: The act doesn't work, we're not fooled, we're not intimidated, we don't care and we're not impressed. It's kind of like letting a baby have his way.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't take art skool disco girls

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ban all nu-metal fans from all universities for life. You know how some 16-year-olds bang on about having 10 GCSEs and then they whip out a Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park CD? Well, fuck 'em. Fuck 'em forever and a day except even that wouldn't give 'em enough fucking, and confine them to 60 years' floor-cleaning in bloody Doncaster.

Oh, and all Finnish Limp Bizkit fans (I saw "Rollin'" was Top 10 there and wept on my Moomin books) should have been killed before Tove Jansson died. To think Finnish aspirational redneck Yankee jocks have outlived her! Christ, someone fucking hold me back (no way, I'm never gonna stop now). Also: aspirational plebs (with you on this one, Suzy), Essex boys, anyone with a glottal stop, all Sun, Star, Mail, Times and Telegraph readers, Chelsea fans, the list never bloody stops.

"Scabs that's only down with hip-hop only if convenient: KILL THEM!" (Company Flow, 1998)

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(and before you ask I only believe about half of the above: up to you to guess which half, though).

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, Mik e. *flutters eyelashes* See how crazy all our prejudices are?

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'll neglect the urge to mention co. flow's hiphop convenience factor.

― ethan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I harbour nothing! I am a man, not a marine dock!

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just out of interest, Suzy, what you're basically saying is that you don't like working class people that don't know their place?

― Greg, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another prejudice - when I go to somebody's house and it's tidy, I also assume the person is boring, stupid etc

Then you're going to think I'm the most interesting person alive at this point in time.

Otis: DID YOU DOG ON ANYTHING? Only just about every single thing that you could possibly dog on. At least you've finally seen the light, after the fish & chips thing: anything you get excited about is what actually should be dogged on, and that which you dog is actually what you should be doing. Opposites etc.

I hate it when people ask me 40,000 times "What's wrong?" or "Are you mad at me?" NO I AM NOT BUT IF YOU KEEP ASKING I WILL BE. A certain someone truly did call me last night to ask if I was mad at him for him asking if I was mad at him. I mean, what? My head is spinning. I have a prejudice against that, but not enough that I don't talk to the person anymore.

I would be prejudiced against people who look like Snoopy too, though.

― Ally, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, you've completely misunderstood me, Greg. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with anyone who wants to improve their situation, duhhh.

What I can't stand is people who can't acknowledge they are, or once were, working class, and put on Mail-reader airs to feel that tiny bit morally superior to the rest of us.

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I donut know why anyone should harberr an hatred towards people that look liek Snoopy. HE iz Kewt! My dog is an beagle. Really.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I was talking *completely* out of my arse upthread (but I suppose that's part of the point of a thread like this) in my lengthy rant, inspired by my rage against the tabloids on the whole Brass Eye thing. Ignore what I said, business as usual, etc., etc. ...

(still hate Limp Bizkit but their being Top 10 in Finland doesn't make me think it's any less beautiful any more than their popularity in, say, the Dorset Stour Valley detracts from its beauty for me)

I think Greg's being too hard on Suzy, though I think it's easy to react that way to her postings (hell, *I* have, as I'm sure we all remember only too well). If anything, she's hit the nail on the head as to why I simply dislike the Sun but *loathe* the Mail. At least the Sun knows where it stands, generally: it isn't hideously, hilariously neurotically snobbish.

I find everything Suzy mentions irritating, and my greatest gripe with New Labour is that it is too neurotically tabloid-pleasing middle-class and not interested enough in individual rights and freedoms and, yes, its working-class roots (I'm sure Austin Mitchell speaks for more of his constituents than Tessa Jowell speaks for hers). Surely that ends this discussion?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wasn't accusing, just asking a leading question.

― Greg, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I agree with Suzy and Robin re: 'aspirant plebs'

They're the people who because they think it's common to say "me and..." always say "...and I" even when "...and I" is incorrect and they should be saying "...and me"

Why does that annoy me so much?

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're just an irritable person? No problem, James, join the club :).

(though I can understand it's probably a little petty)

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I should have said Hyacinth Bucket, eh? For a while a few years back I thought my landlady was a thinner version of same, with FREE! just-in- case Christianity added at NO EXTRA CHARGE!

If you've ever read John Waters' brilliant essay collection Crackpot you will be familiar with the piece 101 Things I Hate. Inspirational! Other things driving me nuts include that ultimate fashion schmuck, Donatella Versace, groupies, travelling couples who wear matching jumpers or sweatshirts (I'm With Stupid x 2), those headsets receptionists are forced to wear, fake queue pressure at clubs, pompous gits who say 'Modom' in shops, loyalty cards (just give me the fucking discount and keep your mitts off my trolley details), Richard Dreyfuss, Scientologists, supermarkets' own Asian/Oriental dishes, managers in Happy Eater/Denny's type restaurants (ooh, moustache AND visible brief line SO ATTRACTIVE simultaneously on anal, power-hungry dweebs), subservient women, pineapple or sweetcorn on pizzas, lager and bouncers in tuxedos.

― suzy, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

supermarkets' own Asian/Oriental dishes

Dude, $2.99 for a POUND of chicken chow-mein at Safeway! I lived off that shit for a long time, and I don't even much like chinese food. I'm not sure whether this is irrational, but people who walk around talking on their hands-free cellphones look like the biggest tools. I can understand why this might be useful in the car, but these idiots look like they're having a conversation with an imaginary parrot perched on their shoulder when they're walking around. It's about the stupidest looking thing you could do.

― Kris, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one that really gets me, more than the haitch thing, more than "...and I" thing is when people use mutiple exclamation marks when they write. For a long time I was completely against the use of exclamation marks at all but I'm gradually coming round to the idea that occassionly they can be used justifiably.

Hey! It's OK to use one exclamation mark. But never use more than one!!!!!

Just look at it. Look. It's hideous. Get it away from me.

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who drink 'diet' drinks. People who love shopping for clothes. People who put the wrong emphasis on words (wrong = not the same as mine). People who leave plug sockets on with no plugs in them. People who wear kilts who aren't Scottish.

But what I hate about myself is the fact that I now spend so much time in London that when I go back to Glasgow and people are standing wherever they like on escalators (as they always have done) I get annoyed at them.

― Ally C, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's wrong with Doncaster?

I HATE PEOPLE WHO PLAY FUCKING ***DARTS***.

― the pinefox, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox, did a stray dart skewer the pub-sports-enjoyment section of your brain at an early age, rendering it inactive?

― Ally C, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love diet soda.

― Mike Hanley, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patrick just reminded me on another thread that I despise people unwilling to dance. It reeks of shiftiness and insecurity to me and I just want to kick people in the nuts when they refuse to dance.

― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You want irrational? Currently driving DG up the wall is the BBC advert for it's coverage of the proms - well not the advert itself, but the way Stephen Fry says "Stravinsky".

― DG, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LEAFLETTERS! Jesus Christ, LEAFLETTERS are the WORST thing BY FAR about New York City. I mean, HELLO ASSHOLES I DON'T want and DON'T need whatever WORTHLESS SHIT it is you're fucking peddling and INVADING MY PERSONAL SPACE to do it. That goes for the Jews for Jesus, the assholes standing on street-corners shoving Oddjobs or pizza joint or titty-bar leaflets in my face, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the whole worthless LOT of them. A painful, slow death to each and every one. And an especially painful and slow death to aggressive leafletters!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That the Boston Red Sox will win the World Series. i.e. justice will prevail, the wicked places be made plain, the crooked places straight. I am prejudiced towards a kind of squiffy liberation theology.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Modern music from Africa and many other non-Western cultures I greet w/suspicion. I am not proud of this, either. I think it's the context. It always seems to come up with some "world-music buff" friend or other geezer whose taste I already Know I Abhor. Not in any way that I would remotely be disposed to engage with it.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am obssesed with the aesthics of the ephmarael. I collect boxers of leaflet. Sex,buisness, event flyers. Its all good.

― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Not in any way that I would remotely" shd = "I'm never in a situation where I'd"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Y'all seem to find me irritating in a multitude of ways.

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone who defends the Coen brothers.

Also, I would love to send a squad of Italian riot cops up Upper Street on a Friday evening, telling them to attack everyone in sight.

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Melissa, everyone here would probably fall foul of one other person's crazy prejudice. You already know you are liked regardless of what people have posted, so what are yours?

I will quite happily defend the Coens, davey-q. What's your beef?

― suzy, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Mail-reader airs' = people who think they're intelligent as they can pick out all the 'references' in the Coens' films

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who pick the most inconvienent place to stop and chat, especially in Grand Central, or outside a subway entrance. People who play their disc-man loud enough for everyone within a 20 foot radius to hear, typically with crappy dance music. People who make "witty" comments during movies that consist of repeating what was just said or done on screen. Grocery store cashiers who leave their light on when they're closed. Loud, drunk people who ride the trains on weekend nights. Panhandlers who give you attitude when you apologize for not giving them money.

― bnw, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patrick just reminded me on another thread that I despise people unwilling to dance. It reeks of shiftiness and insecurity to me and I just want to kick people in the nuts when they refuse to dance.

This has been said before, but... what you're thinking implies that non-dancers are at all moments restraining this monstrous overwhelming innate urge to dance. They're not. I'm a lot more frequently restraining my urge to leave. If you find them (us) boring , now that is at least defensible.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who don't understand that you don't need an apostrophe before every final "s". People who don't understand that the "t" in "often" is silent. People who use more than one exclamation mark. People who say "basically". People who put the milk in first. People who use acronyms like "lol" and "imho" on forums.

Oh, and estate agents.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All motorists.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who don't understand that the "t" in "often" is silent.

I can't possibly let possibly annoy me - I would be annoyed far too of'n if I did. I mean you've got to let pronounciations change over time even if you're more snippy about meanings evolving. But yes, since I learned this truth about ten years ago (from some old Penguin history of the English language), I have delighted in hearing people who are otherwise obvious sticklers for correctness carefully pronounce the 't' as if it makes them sound better spoken. Even my dad didn't realise it was silent, and he's obsessive about such things. My mum took great pleasure in saying "Gosh - you didn't know *that*!".

Dictionaries give both pronounciations now, which is always the death knell for points of pedantry.

― , Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'possibly let possibly'? Like I have said before, I'm better steering clear of pedantic talk until I learn to write properly.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dictionaries give both pronounciations now...
Sorry, it's too good to pass up mentioning (in the context of spelling vs. speech re: "often") that the word is actually pronunciation.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yadda Yadda. My above posting re: pedantry is even more relevant now. Fuck that 'pronunication' shit anyway. Sounds like some evil phonetic spelling tyrant got hold of it and had his wicked way.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Nick, relax. I'm just being a pedant for fun. Today, anyway. I'll tell you what I am prejudiced against and that's Breakfast. Who can possibly eat at that time of day? It's a conspiracy thought up by Kellog's, I'm convinced.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh I dunno, Reynard. Doncaster's just a convenient synonym for "no hope, no intelligence, no ideas". More so than, say, Helsinki, at least.

I hate the very *sight* of a dartboard so I'm with you there ...

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am relaxed. This could turn into one of those infuriating "Stop shouting!"/"I'm not shouting" arguments that they do so well in the movies.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This has been said before, but... what you're thinking implies that non-dancers are at all moments restraining this monstrous overwhelming innate urge to dance. They're not. I'm a lot more frequently restraining my urge to leave. If you find them (us) boring , now that is at least defensible.

I do find them (you) boring, which is worse than what I originally said - being insecure is something easily dealt with. Being a wet blanket isn't. Stay home, you're ruining everyone else's good time.

Wet blankets are my biggest prejudice.

― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Totally irrationally, I hate collared T-shirts. What are they called? Polo shirts?

BENETTON! I fecking hate Benetton. This must be a "crazy" prejudice because I'm not usually bothered one way the other about name-brands.

And Nick. For God's sake stop shouting and relax.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another one...people who put on airs of intellectual superiority, who then go on to ignore any question or comment that challenges their worldview. It's simply irritating. Not as irritating as looking like Snoopy, but if you happen to look like Snoopy and play at this type of condescending wankery, you should be very careful around me.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I A.M. P.E.R.F.E.C.T.L.Y R.E.L.A.X.E.D

I am totally with you on Benetton (spelling - ha!). I think it's ingrained from growing up in the 80s. That stupid logo. All those pastel colours. Also those adverts didn't help.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK I'm now going to hang myself. For some weird reason I had in my head you had typed 'Benneton'. Goodbye cruel world.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

>>> Doncaster's just a convenient synonym for "no hope, no intelligence, no ideas".

My god, that's harsh. Is no-one ready to stick up for Doncaster?

I have never been to Doncaster, which may be why, for me, it's a convenient synonym for glamour and fascination.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I A.M. P.E.R.F.E.C.T.L.Y R.E.L.A.X.E.D

New lexicographical rule:
Caps plus full stops = not shouting but whispering firmly with near- total self-control and wishing you could be shouting at the annoying bleeder who won't stop needling you.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't Doncaster the teen pregnancy and STD capital of the UK? Or did I get that from the Book of Spurious Facts about Northern Towns?

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can you send me that book? I think I could find a use for it.

Nick - goodbye. I suppose I'm never going to get any of those bloody questions answered now.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once went to Doncaster to look at a car with my dad. Vauxhall Senator. Cowboy outfit. He wanted a Lotus Carlton really so he stuck with his Saab. Doncaster's a pretty standard Yorkshire town of that size, I think. As such, it's fine.

― Greg, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Irrational prejudices? I used to have an irrational prejudice towards people with more money than me. I still am, to some degree. I have no real explanation for it, either, because I didn't come from a financially-troubled household.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't Jeremy Clarkson from Doncaster?

― DG, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I'm ridiculously prejudiced against people with LESS money than me, as I automatically think they'll ask to borrow some, or steal it. This isn't a very large group of people, however.

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People with 'angry' eyebrows. People that don't laugh at the orange-for-a-head joke .

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that=who, obviously. ( quiet, Frank Kogan ).

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that = perfectly grammatical, mitch

[FK actually seems not to have lucked on ILE quite yet, luckily for his precious free time]

― mark s, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...
Beware of lurkers.

― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...
People who smell a bit eggy.

― Nick, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...
People with American accents just sound really stupid to me. Not all kinds of American accent, though, and not a southern accent either. It's this accent that a lot of American students at my university have, and for some reason it just makes them look really idiotic in my eyes.

Of course as soon as I start to get to know them, I forget all about the accent, it's just an initial thing.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You think you've got problems. People with South African accents sound really stupid to me, and I have one and so does the rest of my family.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Upon meeting one, I almost always assume that a Hutterite person is out to cheat me.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I confess to thinking that very, very good-looking people are not as good in bed as ordinary-everyday looking people. I attribute this prejudice to the belief that I think they think they don't have to try as hard, whereas someone who feels that perhaps they're not especially good-looking will try to make up for that perceived shortfall with a special little something extra.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"a little something extra" = "Would you like fries with that, baby? Oooh, yeah!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

teenage punks

teenagers who WHINE about their CARS. take the damn BUS, you overprivileged brats.

people who brag about their stuff or accomplishments

people who always say "how are you" as if they're visiting a sick person in the hospital

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I am so guilty of the second one!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

send it over HERE to ME and then i'll be happy and you can whine about the bus :P

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

When I am asked what kind of music I like; when I am asked if I am reading a particular book "for class" (even though I am not in school); and.. the worst thing, ever.. this is my BIGGEST PET PEEVE.. I hate co-workers who ask you to complete impossible tasks with such casualness. The advertising director at my work does this to me all the time, and it drives me up the wall. i.e. "Oh, hey Mandee! How are you doing? Oh! That reminds me! I need you to enter in thousands of numbers into a complex database that I am going to have you create yourself, with no guidance.. and.. yeah! Anyhow, gotta get to lunch!"

― Mandee, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"a little something extra" = "Would you like fries with that, baby? Oooh, yeah!"

Or...

"a little something extra" = "Would you like to supersize it?"

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

People with American accents just sound really stupid to me.

But DUDE...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Beardy beardy beardy beards. But you all know that.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Blond men. I mistrust them.

― isadora, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

People who whistle to muzak in supermarkets

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Blond men! That's another one I have...I harbor many, I'm afraid. And also people who look like Snoopy, but this has only happened to me once.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Can any person actually physically resemble Snoopy? With that nose?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I cannot stand passive-aggressive business language and especially when people who use it in business carry it over into their everyday conversation. I know that's a very Thom Yorke answer, but I get violent whenever I read something thanking me in advance for my cooperation before I've even agreed to cooperate.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

It's more a case that the face just had something weird about it that somehow put me in mind of Snoopy -- he didn't actually have floppy ears or a dog shaped head per se.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I also hate it when people don't use their caps lock keys. That's just an irrational, reactionary pet peeve coming from a former copy editor (and a very fast typist), so don't take it the wrong way.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

But Snoopy didn't even have a dog-shaped head. He has a peanut-shaped head.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

This kid just has a normal head though.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

People who smile to themselves give me the willies.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Perfect gift for ESOJ -- bedroom wallpaper featuring nothing but the cover from Aphex Twin's Richard D. James:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c945/c945106800a.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh, RDJ has such an endearing smile.

In fact, if anyone's thinking of getting me a present or something, that poster is exactly what I'd like.

Haha.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I think your next webcam photo should be you approximating that look.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://nf.wh3rd.net/files/ilx/rdj.jpg

Almost...

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Aww, I could pinch those cheeks...

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew's cuddliness increases.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I am always willing to give any individual the benefit of the doubt, but when I see people with dreadlocks I am skeptical.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

andrew looks like a young douglas adams (and a very fast typist)

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

let me amend that... white kids from the suburbs who are students and think they are deep and wear dreadlocks make me skeptical.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with you on that, Aaron, although if a white guy has black dreadlocks (and has black/dark brown hair) it doesn't bother me. It's the blonde/light brown dreads that set off my "fucking idiot" alert.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I only wish I had Douglas Adams' talent (but not his heart problems). I do type really, really fucking fast. It's about my only real skill.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)

that ed guy has blond dreads. he seems ok

why is there so much blond bashing

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

for me it has nothing to do with the hair and everything to do with the attitude like... "I have dreads and I am such a non-comformist."

I guess what really gets on my nerves are people who put so much effort into looking like rebels that they forget to, say, rebel. But I don;t want to seem snooty... some of my best friends have seemed like a member of the above group initially.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Excellent thread revival, Andrew! Now do Aphex Twin as "Windowlicker"

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew's cleavage isn't that voluminous, but his bikini collection is to die for.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Non-tennis watchers, people who use the phrase "munchies" (eg. food), people who enjoy Bod on a camp level, people who harbour crazy prejudices.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

You know those buskers who dress up and don't do anything but stand still? They're *everywhere* and they're so fucking annoying. Standing still is not a skill! It's not busker-worthy! How hard would it be to learn how to make balloon animals or something? Ooooh, you're not moving....that must have taken *years* of practice at the academy of street performance. Even worse are the yokels who are just dazzled by it like they've never seen anything so stunning in their lives. Oooooh.....get the camera, honey, this here fellow's standing still!

I want to give them all a good kicking.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I mistrust ppl who only like pop music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean 'not other music' or 'not other things in life'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

not other music though you could say not other things too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't dislike other forms of music. I just don't feel I've got into them yet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

OK. it is 'crazy' prejudices on the title of the thread.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah - I'm not arguing with you. I was just pondering. Ignore me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't arguing either...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Shall we have an argument about this?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

OK. don't expect swift answers. i work and post but if you want...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

DG enjoys Bod on a physical level < / v.ancient ILE gag >

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

people who say "basically" all the time.
people who are "in to" 10-pin bowling.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, essentially, you could say I'm in to 10-pin bowling. Basically.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

*bang*

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The horrible thing is I think I do say 'essentially' and 'basically' way too much. I'll try and correct this.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

you should try.

the bowling bit was a joke...right?

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

People who refuse to admit that they look like Howard Stern.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

That everyone from Slough is a wicked witch, esp if they pretend they are from WINDSOR when WE KNOW THE TRUTH.

― haha (starry), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

you've really done it now, Dang. i have just splurted echinacea tea OUT OF MY NOSE!

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops, sorry about that. (At least it wasn't out of your shiny metal ass.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a crazy prejudice against: people who talk about dieting all the time, couples that look like twins, anyone with lots of money, preteens who dress all slutty and wear lots and lots of makeup, and single folk with SUVs.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

DANG!! PERRAY!! ;)

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't stand people who look at stuff in my house, I mean like pick up a postcard and glance at it and put it back. I know they're not even reading it but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH, I hate this so much. Picking up anything and messing with it, it fucks me off so much, one of my best friends does it all the time and every time I bottle up my rage. It's very unhealthy and I know when I do eventually lose it he'll go "what? you never mentioned it before" and look very hurt. Anything like this annoys me. In fact I also hate going shopping with people, not a prejudice, I just really hate people seeing me decide what clothes or whatever else I want to buy. Also hate when someone is in my house and asks can they have something to eat, don't mind giving them the food by any means but hate someone looking around the kitchen at various stuff. I am very private I guess. These are not all crazy prejudices but I started with a rant....

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

sarah is bang-on re. couples who look like twins. horrible. about dieting, too, but the worst thing is when someone goes on-and-on about how big they are and how they're on a diet and then eats shit-loads of chocolate and crisps because they "can't help it". i don't eat lots of crisps or chocolate and i'm not even on a fucking diet.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

What a brilliant thread!

I had thought - until I read all these posts - that I was a very laid-back, happy-go-lucky sort of girl, yet I find myself nodding in silent agreement at most of these prejudices. I must have a lot of hidden anger. *sigh*

I also have a bit of a problem with tattoos, and people who pronounce "th" as "v". I also harbour a prejudice against men who wear white socks, drive souped up Ford Cortinas with whiplash aerials, go-faster stripes and fluffy dice and who drink halves of lager and lime, and who have girlfriends called Julie who work on the make-up counter in Boots. This is not about anyone in particular, just a general stereotype. Also I become deeply irritated by misplaced apostrophes.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes misplaced apostrophies ca'nt be helped.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"People who obsess over pop and rock music. Especially when they make a living off it."

hah well I'm never going to make a living out of it so that lets me off nath's year-old hook! ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate strangers.

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a crazy prejudice against the West Midlands. I'm sorry. I can't help it. So does the Earth apparently.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

People who care enough to get upset about newspapers, people who say 'the whole [insert x] thing', this thread [tho' that's not crazy since the thread is a seething arrant pompousness].

― david h (david h), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

one thing that has been bugging me for about ten years is instances where the word 'partly' is used instead of its locically superiour compatriot 'partially'. partly sounds like across between portly and parsley. i don't want to drink partly skimmed milk. i want to drink PARTIALLY skimmed milk.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

the whole business-speak thing drives me bats, too. i always feel like people who talk that way in their everyday lives must not be very well-read (i mean they've read, but most of what they've read is garbage like tom peters and 'fast company' magazine), nor do they have much of an inner thought-reflex.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

People who read Fast Company and take it seriously! Yes.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i am not from slough but i am from windsor. i hate people who are boring.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

people who insist on towards instead of toward. grr.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

people who chew gum constantly. it makes my insides itch watching people chomp away at a wad of nastiness like that.

― amy (amy), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The bowling was a joke. I hate people who bowl. Why do they bowl? We will never know.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

one thing that has been bugging me for about ten years is instances where the word 'partly' is used instead of its locically superiour compatriot 'partially'. partly sounds like across between portly
and parsley. i don't want to drink partly skimmed milk. i want to drink PARTIALLY skimmed milk.

Yes, but would you drink some portly parsley if it was partially skimmed by a logically superior compatriot???

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Thursday, 10 October 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

People who really really really like whipped cream.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 10 October 2002 07:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I was at a software-type conference near Coventry on Wednesday. The host company had two staff greeting us on arrival. One was a balding bloke with a beard, glasses and in basic casual clothes. One was a tall, elegant, beautiful blonde woman, exceptionally classy in dress and voice. Turned out as the day went on that he was the PR person, she was the technical expert. I've mentioned this to a few people since, and this surprised all of them too - they said they'd have made the same initial guess. Well, except one, who wondered if I had asked her why such an attractive woman would be a programmer (no, I obviously didn't ask that, or think of it).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 October 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

People who get on the bus at tea time with chips - they should be made to give everyone one, it's not fair!
Old people who go shopping on a Saturday afternoon, they've got nothing to do all f*cking week! Why Saturday?

― Plinky (Plinky), Friday, 11 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i totally feel the apostrophe thing. i can bear it on an individual basis, but can't stand it when a shop/company has a professional ad or poster or something, telling us all that they have "many new product's in stock" or something. "try our new chicken dipper's!".

no thanks. in fact, i will head straight to the next nearest chicken place and buy their(')s instead.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 11 October 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm irrationally prejudiced against people i decide fancy themselves. i'm not even clear what criteria i use to decide if someone fancies themselves or not, but once i think they do it takes a lot to make me stop hating them.

― angela (angela), Friday, 11 October 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray for apostrophe rage! I would join the Society but they probably don't want members whose written English generally resembles Molesworth starting a fire in a BASIC compiler, even if it is semi-deliberate.

Oh, and hooray for Angela's post, too, although I can't work out whether I decide they fancy themselves before I start hating them or whether I do so to rationalise the hatred. (Ooh, I'm getting angry just thinking of certain people who've repeatedly sneered at me and blanked me in the past: people who think they're better than me because I look like a tramp; people who think they're better than me because they can be malicious to everyone they meet and still get laid every night; people who think they're better than me just because, er, they're better than me... GRR.)

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 11 October 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...
I realized today that when some tells me they scuba dive I immediatel think: twunt.

Please somebody on ILE tell me you enjoy scuba diving so I may be disabused of this crazy prejudice.

People who drink 'diet' drinks. People who love shopping for clothes. People who put the wrong emphasis on words (wrong = not the same as mine). People who leave plug sockets on with no plugs in them. People who wear kilts who aren't Scottish.

I am Ally C's ideal irritant.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 27 February 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 February 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i have all kinds of prejudices but i'm convinced they are a) not crazy and b) not hypocritical, both of which they are.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

THINGS I HATE: People who type in all caps, just to get attention* People who listen to only one kind of music, or worse...only one band like Slipknot or something, and then swear they love the art, and know everything about music* Smelly people* People who pretend to be all bitter at the world just to have something to make them "interesting" * Daddy's girls* Momma's Boys* Boys in general, I find that most are complete assholes* Boys that wear flip flops with jeans* Abercrombie and Fitch people * Tiffany people* Hot Topic People ('id love to tell those assholes that hot topic is owned by the same people who own claire's hahahaha) * People who insist "the simpsons" is the greatest show ever* people who insist "star trek" is the greatest show ever.* people who come into my restaurant and order something on the menu and substitute EVERYTHING, usually making it really disgusting*
I know I have more, but that's all for now! Cheers!

― Lola Falana, Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)

houses that look like people

― minna (minna), Thursday, 27 February 2003 06:19 (twenty-three years ago)

People who put those damn "My kid is an honor student at <_____> school" bumper stickers on their cars. I mean, what about all of the kids who don't make the honor roll? Are they not worthy of mention? It's really a mean thing to do to the majortiy of the kids. I do like how some of the schools are now doing the "All kids at <______> school are honored" or something along those lines much better.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 27 February 2003 08:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who displays the Confederate flag or some variant thereof is a complete idiot, redneck, ignorant boob.

But I know that some aren't. But they're rare. So my prejudice is therefore justified as being a generally-true thing.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 27 February 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I form associations about places based on the people I meet online, which accumulate over time, and if there are weird coincidences ("hmm, everyone I've met from Boise is a KISS fan"), I tend to unconsciously assume other people from that place will follow suit ("... Boise must be MAD about KISS!")

This has often led to prejudices against the west coast in general, Seattle specifically, and New Zealand, but all three of those are fading. Somewhat.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god, Ms. Laura!

That just reminds me. I went to this show on Monday night, with this band whose "schtick" is to dress up like rednecks, all baseball caps and string wifebeaters and Lynyrd Skynryd hair and shit and play bad heavy metal. Yes, they are English, they are as English as you can get. Anyway, their singer was wearing a Confederate Flag t-shirt as they set up. I just stared in abject horror. When I finally got up to leave, a friend of mine asked me what had me so rattled. I pointed out the shirt and she - a reasonably well educated and culturally aware Brit - was just like "Huh? What? Why does that bother you?" She did not know the symbolism behind it, and what it stood for, and the cultural implications of such a symbol, and she said that she was friends wth the band, and in all likelihood, they didn't either. I was just outraged. I'm not sure which is worse, wearing it KNOWING what it symbolises, or wearing it in total ignorance as some kind of cultural kitsch.

Anyway, that's my rant for the day...

― kate, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I blame Bobby Gillespie.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The sad thing is, that's probably true.

At least Bobby G had the excuse of being filled full of dope by reactionary revisionist Memphis smack dealers to blame for his stupidity...

― kate, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
I also hate it when people don't use their caps lock keys.

haha well i've obviously gotten over this.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

My crazy prejudice: stupid people, stupid people who think they're intelligent, and stupid people who are just smart enough to con others (usu. not that bright in their own right) into believing they're intelligent.

Also, women. With some exceptions.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Overhead lights.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with all the misplaced apostrophe hatas. There is a guy I work with who always writes c'ant instead of can't. Every damn time. It makes me think he's a bit retarded or something, which is cruel.

But when I see something like "fish and chip's" on signage on a shop, or "your a winner!" (or whatever) in a TV COMMERCIAL, then I get really mad. How can people get it so glaringly wrong on a professional ad? Argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

stupid people who are just smart enough to con others

*huddles in corner*

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I take every opportunity to mention this, Trayce. A sign within a greengrocers in North London: Asparagu's.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

People who have my bad points. I can't bear that. Why can't they sort themselves out?!?

Also, people who can't be argued with, and are too stupid to even understand that they might be wrong. Though that also comes into the above category.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps what ever they are belong to Aspargu?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a mistrust of vegans - im not sure why.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to, too, until I realized they weren't actually a cult of Suzanne Vega-worshippers. I mean, not ALL of them.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I started writing all my hates down and realised after about two pages that I have problems. Big ones. So for now I'll just say that I hate people who wear gold jewellery: take it off fucko, I don’t care that it clearly cost £20,000, no-one give a fuck that you're happy to splash out that amount on a trinket that looks nasty and screams pisspoor taste.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate Jews.

Hah ha! I'm just kidding.

No... actually, I'm not kidding.

Hee! Gotcha again.

No really. I'm serious.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

A local restaurant has a Ladie's Night.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

All my crazy prejudices are reverse-engineered by means of impeccable logic into complete sanity.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I dislike people who are always sketching single eyes in the margins of their notebooks.
I also dislike people who make themselves at home wherever they are. There was a girl in one of my classes who always sat with an extra chair pulled up in front of her so she could rest her feet on it, and just looking at her made my skin crawl.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People who have my bad points. I can't bear that. Why can't they sort themselves out?!?

Oh god yes.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

A good friend of mine hates men who are prematurely balding (he is in his 40s and has a full head of hair). He recently refused to talk to David Cross for this reason! I don't get it.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

People on message boards who don't realize they should only remain lurkers but insist on posting occasional one-liners or pictures that really aren't all that funny or relevant or insightful, or at least not nearly as funny or relevant or insightful as they think it is. Oh wait...

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Prude, you do keep a low profile!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, Martin, Asparagu is a very common name in the western portions of Bhutan (pronounced "Ahz-prog-you"). I find your ethnic insensitivity appalling.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird: I thought I'd mentioned on this thread my whole thing about getting directions from Nigerians.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh, here it is.

I just did some googling and found a Nigerian guy talking about direction-giving problems, too. Only he puts it down to his contention that the English walk way faster than Nigerians -- because of the cold -- thus throwing off all sense of scale.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

(NB: I consider this whole thing a "crazy prejudice" -- i.e., I don't actually think Nigerians give bad directions. But if they did -- haha -- I think it would best be explained by some alternate logic and method of direction-giving that's not quite as accessible to westerners. Actually, I know there's been a decent amount of research done on the Yoruba system of mathematical logic, which is apparently completely baffling to westerners at first.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I do not like Asian cabdrivers. They invariably take the worst route and my fare costs $1 more than it should. If they are so good at math why are they driving my cab?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Bitches be crazy.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

People.Who.Do.Their.Entire.Month's.Banking.At.The.Goddamn.ATM.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

After last night's reading I have decided that I really really fucking hate earnest political poets. Made me want to go eat a McDonalds and pick a fight with a tiny country.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:11 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...
I realized yesterday that I am prejudiced against people who I see reading Ayn Rand novels.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I am irrationally prejudiced against people who hold views that I used to have that I now consider to be irrational prejudices.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am prejudiced against those who never defend their own candidate, but mercilessly attack the opposition

I am also prejudiced against people who hunt for sport - what pussies.

and white kids who act / talk / dress 'black.' that one's more of a pet peeve than a prejudice, I guess

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

asian kids who act/talk/dress "chicano"
polynesian kids who act/talk dress "aleutian"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it's a prejudice (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

you never hunted sperm whale before, you trendy fukk!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I fuckin' love NA today. It's like looking in a mirror, only with a hairpiece.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And your girlfriend is named Sarah...weird.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, I also have a crazy prejudice against myself.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not so much that i don't like native americans as that i find them insufferably boring and it's caused me to feel a spot of resentment any time they're brought up. i do recognize how incredibly awful they had it and that they deserve far more than we give them now. but fuck it i hope to never ever hear anything about them ever again.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

obviously not a "first nations man" then

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Native americans were possibly the most destructive peoples in history when it came to the way they decimated indigenous wildlife.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

how so?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i think I disagree with you there. They were easily the most resourceful hunters, everyone knows that.

more from me:

Not a huge fan of anyone who's 'orthodox' anything

Never had a conversation with a self-proclaimed 'feminist' that didn't end with me walking away, having demolished her argument completely, muttering to myself "what an idiot"

Oh and I find I have very little patience for fat black women in the service industry. And neither do you.


― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely not a first nation's man... unfortunately...
how about compulsionory things you feel but can't help and feel guilty about c/d?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What, like spelling?

(Found another one of my irrational prejudices!)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm going to tiptoe slooowly away from this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The diversity of large mammals was exceptional in north america; early settlers qwuickly wiped out all the famous mammalia of yore, sabre tooth cats, mammoths, etc. etc. Richard Leakey discusses it eloquently in his book "The Sixth Extinction". it's not a value judegement per se, so no defensiveness required.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, North American Indian tribes almost completely wiped out the buffalo after they mastered horseback riding, because they got bored of only bringing down a handful at a time and decided it was more fun to just chase entire herds into steep ravines, among other things.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair, that does sound pretty fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm prejudiced against people who drive Excursions and Hummers (and whatever the Chevy equiv. of an Excursion is). I can deal with the smaller land-yacht SUVs (Expeditions and the like), but when you've moved on to having your SUV based on either a military platform or industrial trucks, you've gone way too far.

I'm also prejudiced against people who make their little cars look silly with giant spoilers and graphics. It's not tasteful, it's not well-designed, it's not performance-enhancing, it's not unique - it's just ugly and trendy.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The diversity of large mammals was exceptional in north america; early settlers qwuickly wiped out all the famous mammalia of yore, sabre tooth cats, mammoths, etc. etc. Richard Leakey discusses it eloquently in his book "The Sixth Extinction". it's not a value judegement per se, so no defensiveness required.

early American settlers are not the same as Native Americans, since they predate the latter cultures by, what, 20,000-odd years?

Uh, North American Indian tribes almost completely wiped out the buffalo after they mastered horseback riding, because they got bored of only bringing down a handful at a time and decided it was more fun to just chase entire herds into steep ravines, among other things.

I always thought it was more due to guns and the advent of the railroad, since large herds of buffalo lasted well into the 19th Century. And horses weren't native to America, either, so in a sense one could maybe blame Europeans for that, too (if it really matters).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

What, like spelling?

(Found another one of my irrational prejudices!)

-- Dan Perry '08 (djperr...), September 13th, 2004.

oh come on that wasn't a spelling error. that was a total lapse of reason.
and i'm wearing a bandaid too. i am exempt.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i always thought it was the european settlers with the guns and whatnot that cleared the buffalo off their farms and ranches. In any case, it's more likely that Native Americans didn't do it themselves because there wasn't enough of them in any one place and they didn't have the firepower, rather than cause they were spiritual people who were one with there buffalo bretheren.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

from this site which describes the wipeout of American biodiversity 11,000 years ago by the arrival of humans:

"The American Buffalo (also called American Bison; taxonomically correct name = American Plains Buffalo) was brought almost to extinction by overzealous hunters. In the 1800's, about 65 million buffalo roamed the prairies of the Great Plains. Herds were described up to 25 miles long, containing 12 million animals. Possibly the high population was a result of the elimination of other large herbivores that competed with the buffalo for food and space. Native Americans hunted the buffalo for thousands of years without making a dent in the population."

"The great buffalo slaughter started with the arrival of settlers from Europe and especially the railroads in the 1860's. As the railroads pushed west, huge numbers of buffalo were killed for meat and hides, and to starve out the Native Americans. A representative of the Intertribal Bison Cooperative describes the buffalo slaughter as a calculated military strategy designed to force the Native Americans on to reservations."

anyway, back on to the hating.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I looked through this entire thread and found my favorites.

"obese people eating soft-serve ice cream in public"

"People who smell a bit eggy."

"I can't stand people who look at stuff in my house" (I hate this one too... when my sister arrives at my apartment she immediately starts looking through my closet and through my drawers for TREASURES and it drives me bonkers).

"People who really really really like whipped cream."

"houses that look like people" (I'd like to see this)

"I dislike people who are always sketching single eyes in the margins of their notebooks."

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"obese people eating soft-serve ice cream in public"

why does this remind me of a david lynch movie?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 13 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

cause you watch a lot of movies?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

people with kids. extrapolate list of "pet peeves" as you see fit.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(disclaimer: i know that not everyone with kids is a dipshit and that some parents are pretty cool.)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've definately got a thing against passive, overweight, white people on cell phones.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If they were aggressive would you like them?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I just hate asthmatics and men who play their fucking guitars in coffee houses on saturday afternoons. That's it!

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

people who go to coffeehouses, full stop.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(yes, mandee)

and I've also got a thing against korean women driving. This ruffles a lot of feathers, but I totally admit that it's a prejudice.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've mentioned it before on ILE, but I was hit by a Korean woman who had a very shaky grasp on the rules of the road (she pulled out onto the main street that I was on from a side street and thought I had to stop). She knew of at least two body shops to which she took me to get my car's damage assessed. Apparently she was known by the staff at each place. She paid me off in cash, $500.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

guys with obviously plucked eyebrows (unless they're draq queens)

― dan (dan), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Drag queens (unless they have obviously plucjked eyebrows)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Women with extremely short hair.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hair with extremely short women.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys who have a lot of "product" in theirs.
Guys who wear tight shirts with xtra short sleeves to show off their biceps, which they work on every day after work.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Scare quotes have never been so sinister!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

those last two aren't really that crazy, though.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

people who go to coffeehouses, full stop.

i know, right? how dare they want a place to sit down and drink their coffee? pretentious assholes.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I think all extremely successful people must be boring.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "I know, right? How dare they procreate and raise their kids!"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate women.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I often assume that people with dreadlocks are hippies

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that's more of an assumption, but it's a negative one

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that's right. Many are drug smuggling rastas, and others, just plain old dirtbags. Be fair, rainy, be fair.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

my dad.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

having had extremely close friends who are korean my entire life, i admit to the middle-aged asian woman driver fear. i spent many rides throughout the years fearing for my life, as a friend's mother muttered curses under her breath and wove in and out of traffic.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

very true, roger.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Children - I don't think I even really liked them when I was one. They're just awkward, you know, what's their deal?

Nu Metal fans*, as stated above; don't feel agressive towards them, just a bit wary, cuz it's very likely that we won't get along.

* isn't it odd how there still isn't a real term for this sub-culture, even tho they're as easily identifieable by their look/clothing as mods or hippies or punks or b-boys or whatevah?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

teenage boys. i'm very prejudiced against them.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) Just call 'em Juggalos - then, you can take a 'kill 'em all, let god sort 'em out' approach to it

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren, that's just common sense!

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lauren hates me.

And so, apparently, does Rainy.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, i thought of you as i hit submit and almost added an "except for my precious ian johnson."

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

aww, thanks sweetie! i exclude you from my "i hate women" statement.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the neil labute finance-fratboy-misogynist kinda guy

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I will stick with my blanket ban on teenage boys, I still haven't gotten over high school trauma.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Just call 'em Juggalos - then, you can take a 'kill 'em all, let god sort 'em out' approach to it

Dude, I think that the average member of this category these days wouldn't even know who the fuck Insane Clown Posse are! Or at least not beyond "oh yeah, those guys Eminem dissed".

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the neil labute finance-fratboy-misogynist kinda guy

but this is maybe more appropriate for the "people that need to be rocketed into the sun" thread.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel, yr probably right. (sigh) they grow up so fast, don't they?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

otm, jbr, otm.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Children - I don't think I even really liked them when I was one. They're just awkward, you know, what's their deal?
Nu Metal fans*, as stated above; don't feel agressive towards them, just a bit wary, cuz it's very likely that we won't get along.

* isn't it odd how there still isn't a real term for this sub-culture, even tho they're as easily identifieable by their look/clothing as mods or hippies or punks or b-boys or whatevah?

-- Daniel_Rf (filosofiaebolacha...), September 14th, 2004.

big-pants-wearing motherfuckers?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

wallet chainys?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm trying to recall if i've ever met someone who smells vaguely "eggy."

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh... fuck, i just remembered a serious one:

people who wear lots of Axe deodorant creep me the hell out.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it odd how there still isn't a real term for this sub-culture, even tho they're as easily identifieable by their look/clothing as mods or hippies or punks or b-boys or whatevah?

doorslammers

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it odd how there still isn't a real term for this sub-culture, even tho they're as easily identifieable by their look/clothing as mods or hippies or punks or b-boys or whatevah?

doorslammers

-- dog latin (doglati...)

I'm a big fan of 'latent homosexuals,' myself.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought they were just nu-metallers or fagged-up bogans

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...
A combination of pet peeves and prejudices...


... I hate it when people sing the wrong lyrics to songs (one of my best friends does this constantly)

I hate it when people walk cats on leashes.

Poor spelling drives me insane, especially from people with expensive educations.

I hate designer handbags. What does your $1000 bag do that a $20 one can't?

I don't like Oprah. Smug is only charming up to a point.

Germans make me vaguely uncomfortable.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

I nominate this thread for the "consistently funniest thread ever posted on ILX."

At the moment, my crazy prejudice is anyone in "Marketing". Wait, that's not crazy at all. It's perfectly sensible.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)


I hate designer handbags. What does your $1000 bag do that a $20 one can't?

It's not about function anymore, it's about status. Of course it's ridiculous because maybe half of the girls who have a Balenciaga or Chloe probably had to save up to buy that handbag. If I would use handbags more often, I'd probably buy more expensive bags, but I rarely if ever use'em so why bother, right?

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

I use purses all the time but am more than happy to stick with my $20 purse, which has lasted me a long time, and another purse that cost $12 that I adore so even though it's kinda fraying and aging. Carrying around a purse that is going to be worth more than the contents of it seems like madness to me. In fact, I will have to say that one of the things that irritates me the most about a person is if said person carries around a purse with some sort of special status attached to it. This is rooted in high school years, back when it was the "in" thing to carry around Dooney & Bourke (a company I STILL hate to this day) purses that cost about $150 back in 1995. And you KNEW they or their parents worked their asses off just to get those purses, and it was TOTALLY foolish as that school was very theft-happy and you had to keep close tabs on your stuff if you still wanted to keep it all by the end of the semester.

Other crazy or not-so-crazy prejudices I harbor include (i.e. I really dislike the following): people who drive around and talk on their cell phones at the same time, people who spend FOREVER at the ATM (luna OTM here), Oprah and her followers, people who think Ty Pennington is attractive, people who hate dogs, people (mostly women here) who think size 14 automatically = fat (well, sure, if you're 4'10", but there are people out there under 6' tall for whom size 14 = perfect), people who wear/like animal print stuff, people who wear a lot of loud jewelry (certain members of my family excepted), the practice of double dipping, large families (unless they're from multiple births, e.g. the McCaugheys, or from multiple adoptions), people who think life is one big joke, eyeglasses hatred, children who have to run everywhere, screaming children (as in screaming ALL THE TIME), people who leave heaps of food behind at buffet places, bad tippers, The Gap, Donna Karan, people who never use their turn signals (there is no excuse), Santana, mariachi music, people who are over the age of 30 who think the only "evil corporation" out there is Wal-Mart, celebrity worship, CBC News, goth poseurs who think that goth = devil worship or mopey depressiveness and ruin it for people who actually love the goth aesthetic (one of my very good friends is a "real goth" -- she is as sunny as they come), celebs who got famous without doing a damn thing other than being attention whores, sun worshippers, people who undergo a shitload of unnecessary plastic surgery, and people who salt their food without ever tasting it. That should do it. Oh! One more -- Home Depot employees, who don't know a damn thing and are harder to track down than Bigfoot is. I had to tell an employee there that yes, a certain bit of toilet hardward DID exist and felt a mixture of smug and flabbergasted when I was able to track it down at Ace Hardware Supply. There. That's it.

― The Edge Of America (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Toilet hardWARE. Not hardward. That would be a hard word (heh) to define. ;) And I should be fairer to the people who think Ty Pennington is attractive -- they probably watch "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" with the TV on mute and thus haven't yet been turned off by his constant screaming.

― The Edge Of America (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

oth poseurs who think that goth = devil worship or mopey depressiveness and ruin it for people who actually love the goth aesthetic

Hahah I soooo agree with that one Dee! ;D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

1) swimmers who refuse to dunk their heads underwater for fear of losing their contacts or mussing up their hair

2) people who hold onto the treadmill handrails while running -- especially if they set the incline to 10% and lean back as they run

3) people who whip out logical fallacy accusations in non-academic debates

4) athletic-style chronometer wristwatches, like this one:

http://www.worldwatchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/chopard-mille-niglia-gt-xl-chrono-speed-black1.jpg

5) fratboy types who wear the above

6) fratboys

7) people with tiny fingernails

― The Vamps of '28 (unregistered), Monday, 3 November 2008 07:18 (seventeen years ago)

Woah, I never realized it before, but I share your #7. I just want to grab their hands and push their cuticles back.

― Dan I., Monday, 3 November 2008 08:54 (seventeen years ago)

Smugly middle class fuckbags

― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 09:06 (seventeen years ago)

How do 'smugly middle class fuckbags' manifest themselves?

― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

Apart from using phrases like "manifest themselves"?

― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

Hey, I'm not proud, the theme was crazy prejudices, right?

― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)

I'm always prepared to be proved wrong on this, but I've never met anyone in my life who drives a Range Rover who isn't a complete and utter tosser.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Monday, 3 November 2008 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

Also, old men who drive in hats. Not necessarily tossers but always bloody dangerous.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Monday, 3 November 2008 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

i assume that nice people never get laid

― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

Laid people never get nice, neither.

― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

dirty italians. can't trust any of them

― burt_stanton, Monday, 3 November 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

Also, old men who drive in hats. Not necessarily tossers but always bloody dangerous.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Monday, November 3, 2008 4:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

old men in hats are one of my favorite things!

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

people who talk through their teeth

― 888 (ice crӕm), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

Pregnant people. I'm still convinced it's catchy.

(This one dates all the way back to high school, probably.)

― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

I am suspicious of women who wear jewelry of Black Hills gold. It means meth or child abuse or just mild meanness lurks somewhere.

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

Holy poop:

http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/gear/1Black-Hills-Gold.jpg

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

I generally think poorly of any woman named Tiffany.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 3 November 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

I am crazy prejudiced against anyone I went to junior high or elementary school with. All giving me PTSD and shit if I see 'em.

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

teenagers. i hated most of them while a teenager too, i think it's similar to abbott's post above.

― Maria, Monday, 3 November 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)


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