Irrational prejudices you hold

[T'Grinch]

My own prejudices? I feel uncomfortable when I'm amongst groups of people different than I (which also includes groups of young people of my own ethnicity).

Why? I feel threatened. I know that sometimes people who won't do anything bad individually will do something when in a group - ranging from cat-calls to remarks to in worse cases, assault.

It's unnerving to me and that is my irrational prejudice.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I was going to say I didn't have any real prejudices but than I realised that I try to avoid catching the "Bogan Bus' i.e. the bus that goes through my neighbourhood on its way to a large housing department development a couple of suburbs from where I live.

I certainly hate catching this bus inwards as my the time it gets to my stop it is usually so crowded and I have to stand. If I catch a bus from a different route someone usually gives me a seat.

I had to catch the 'bogan bus' the other day. I had to stand. What annoyed me the most was the father with a small daughter and a bag who took up a triple seat. If it had been me I would have put the bag in the luggage rack, put the child on my knee and freed up two seats. But this bogan seem to be total oblivious to anyone else's needs.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

If I see a couple performing a PDA, even if they are friends of mine, I get really annoyed and are prone to ignore them.

Yeah...I REALLY don't like to see that. I don't even care whether it's hetero- or homosexual...I HATE seeing PDA. I mean, get a room!

 

[Captain_Nick]

When I catch buses or trains (touch wood that I will never have to again) I look for the people with bags on the seat and get them to move the bags so I can sit there, just to ruin their day.

 

[Gaith]

When I catch buses or trains (touch wood that I will never have to again) I look for the people with bags on the seat and get them to move the bags so I can sit there, just to ruin their day.

Riding trains is one of life's great pleasures. I don't do it nearly often enough.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I absolutely love riding trains but it IS a bogan field trip through certain stations. As long as people aren't drunk and intimidating it makes for some good stories. I always try and be nice to the teenage mums and say something sweet about their (usually quite foul looking) toddler. However I think I have higher tolerance than most. I can talk to just about anyone and often do but my friends recoil in horror at "those ferals".

 

[Captain_Nick]

Give me an empty express and a long journey and it is almost as good as driving there. Fill the train with stinky commuters - and I mean fill the train, so there's no standing room left - and chuck in 25 stops before you reach your destination, and you may understand why I prefer to face traffic.

 

[Gaith]

Fine, but that's not what you at first said, now, was it?

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I catch buses or trains (touch wood that I will never have to again) I look for the people with bags on the seat and get them to move the bags so I can sit there, just to ruin their day.

Riding trains is one of life's great pleasures. I don't do it nearly often enough.

I would probably enjoy riding trains - unfortunately Tasrail doesn't have any regular passenger services.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Fine, but that's not what you at first said, now, was it?

Repeating what I said the first time would be a bit redundant dont you think?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Nick you just have to shove harder to get a seat at your point of origin. All seats will be in use so you might as well make sure it's your backside on one of them. Then you can sit back, hold a lavender scented handkerchief to your nose and listen to your ipod.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

When I catch buses or trains (touch wood that I will never have to again) I look for the people with bags on the seat and get them to move the bags so I can sit there, just to ruin their day.

Riding trains is one of life's great pleasures. I don't do it nearly often enough.

I would probably enjoy riding trains - unfortunately Tasrail doesn't have any regular passenger services.

That totally sucks. I'm generally in a bad mood if I have to take a bus.. well it makes me car sick quite often. Our much maligned train system has awesome coverage, you can get just about anywhere (except those new fringe suburbs but there is no reason to go there unless you liver there.)

 

[Mr Silver]

Lets see...

Smoker: Check
Tattoos: Check
Likes Dogs: Check
Of Multi National Descent: Check

You people must absolutely hate me

As for my prejudices. I have a real issue with people who go around talking in slang with a heavy regional dialect. There is something really "I don't care, i've given up on doing anything worthwhile and thus, I will go around acting like a douche and sounding uneducated" about it. Thats just my first impression, when I actually get to know someone like that, most times I'm wrong and I enjoy that, because if I had the ability to judge books by their covers, life would be pretty boring overall.

Props on the honesty and the absence of flaming because of it. Its a really cool thing to see, especially on the Internet

 

[Captain_Nick]

Lavender is one of my favourite scents How did you know?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

That's another one that I absolutely cannot stand: smoking. I find it physically distressing to be around (headaches, coughing, etc.).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I HATE seeing PDA. I mean, get a room!

Yeah, I know, I hate it when people are punching cellphones or BlackBerries in public.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I can't even remember seeing PDA in the last year. Unless you count holding hands or a kiss goodbye.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

If I see a couple performing a PDA, even if they are friends of mine, I get really annoyed and are prone to ignore them.

Yeah...I REALLY don't like to see that. I don't even care whether it's hetero- or homosexual...I HATE seeing PDA. I mean, get a room!

It depends on the, uh, intensity of the particular action. I don’t mind seeing couples affectionately nuzzling, embracing, or briefly kissing in public. When they start ass-grabbing or playing tonsil hockey, that’s a different matter.

It’s also largely a cultural thing. To quote Joni Mitchell, in France they kiss on Main Street. Of course, in France they piss on Main Street.

Oh, and who coined the term “PDA” anyway? Must have been a woman. No man thinks Public Displays of Affection are a topic important enough to deserve its own abbreviation.

 

[RoJoHen]

While I absolutely hate that I feel this way, my job at TGI Fridays caused me to really dislike black people in a restaurant setting. I don't have a problem with any kind of people, but if black people come in to my restaurant, I get really annoyed. 95% of the time they come in, refuse to make eye contact with me, mumble quietly into their menus when they're ordering food so I can't make out a word they're saying, complain when their already-burnt steak "isn't well done enough," and then leave without tipping (or hell, sometimes they leave without even paying their entire bill!).

I'm sure it's a regional thing, as most of the black people in this area live in the poorer parts of town, but it's still damn annoying. Way to perpetuate stereotypes, folks. It's so bad that our black servers don't even want to wait on their fellow black patrons!


Oh, I also hate girls with pompadours.

 

[BlobVanDam]

Guys with long hair who don't look like they're in a hair band or are an ancient warrior. If you aren't a Viking with an electric guitar you should have normal hair.

I have long hair. I guess I'm somewhere between nerdy crazy scientist and viking (I do have a full beard). Is that acceptable?

Many many years ago I had that attitude towards tattoos. I have read that something like 1/3 of Australians between certain ages have a tattoo. Australia is apparently one of the most tattooed countries. I don't know how accurate it is but I do know that as seemingly every other person I know from 20 to 50 has one I have gotten completely used to them and no longer have any negative associations unless the tatt itself is negative.

That doesn't make tattoos more acceptable to me. It just makes me think less of Australia. (I guess I can add another prejudice)