stupid little things you're a snob about

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

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I've never seen that movie film...

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

YUCK, SKANKY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

that's not snobbish!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I also inspect silverware before I use it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being snobby about shoes I don't understand.

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

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

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

Being snobby about shoes I don't understand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And people who describe themselves as "Bubbly".

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

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

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

Let's never be friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

gem, sorry about this...

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Pronunciation: 'torch-w&s, 'tor-ch&-
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Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French tortueux, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus twist, from torquEre to twist
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::passes the port the wrong way::

;-)

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

Podcast audio quality, in meeting a minimum listenability standard

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

kingfish that's not a small thing

Xxp

Too true

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

Think most baristas these days bloody need chem degrees tbh

Shitty breakfast sandwiches and which one is the best