mr.arrison wrote:people with post-surgical harelip/cleft palates.

in my experience, always 100% cocks. assholes of the highest order, even the children. I elaborated here

I want to desperately be proven wrong. I know it is harsh, and there could be some people here that I converse with on these very threads with the "joaquin phoenix lip"

Richard Hawley is awesome, and has a harelip.

i have prejudice with the douchebag look. of course some are good people.
also, people that smoke too much pot.

simmo wrote:- Anarchist Trustafarians who live off Daddy's money

YES.

"Ya, I'm like totally making it on my own."

FUCK RIGHT OFF

simmo wrote:- Anarchist Trustafarians who live off Daddy's money

This would be in my list too if it's allowed. I'm not sure it should be because you are judging a chosen characteristic - the person has chosen to be a hypocrite so it is it a prejudice (in the racism/sexism/ageism sense of the word) to think badly of them?

If we are including prejudices against life choices then my list would be way too long.

I think it's a serious question to examine one's own irrational prejudices and a slightly uncomfortable one too.

For me I have irrational prejudice against two groups.

The ginger and the gypos

When I say Gingers I don't mean strawberry blondes but real red heads. In my experience they always seem to have a real attitude problem.
Of course this is recognised by me as unreasonable so I bury it deep until the carrot top kicks off cause of some minor slight like you didn't give him any change for his bus fair or whatever at which point the word 'ginger' just pops into my head as like a full explanation for the aggression.

Gypos I'm a bit more unreasonable about partly because I reckon the prejudice is a bit more reasonable. I'll talk to gypos and reckon you could have a real good party with em if you were recognised and introduced by an insider. However, even in those circumstances, I wouldn't trust em with the steam of my grandmothers piss. If you're not one of em they'd fuck you over as soon as blink.

Oh - and people who cough or sneeze without putting their hands over their mouth. Filthy fucking bastards. One day you're going to kill people with your filthy bad manners. I mean really - how hard can it be?

Oh and I suppose a prejudice against people with prejudices is probably a healthy - if smart arsed - one to have.

white people with dreadlocks

Earwicker wrote:Gypos I'm a bit more unreasonable about partly because I reckon the prejudice is a bit more reasonable. I'll talk to gypos and reckon you could have a real good party with em if you were recognised and introduced by an insider. However, even in those circumstances, I wouldn't trust em with the steam of my grandmothers piss. If you're not one of em they'd fuck you over as soon as blink.

I really would like to have a positive experience with Gypsies. Really, seriously. All the negative encounters with gypsies I've had have left me with gypophobia. I'm not proud of it, and recognise it's a prejudice. But really, I've only seen nastiness and cuntery from all gypsies I've ever had to deal with - especially in business.

Feel free to take me apart on this view - I admit it's a prejudice and I guess it makes me a cunt. But fuck 'em.

Simmo has also told me in the past how he hates all 'blacks'

Jews, Gareth. It was the Jews.

I am positively and irrationally prejudiced towards Scandinavia, especially the Finns - I've never met one who I didn't instantly take to and who wasn't delightfully loopy. I'm generally ++ towards the Scots too, their directness and use of language is very appealing to me.

And going the other way..

You! young man with Bullmastiff! I most likely think you're a bit of a dick.

itchy mcgoo wrote:Chakra-aligners

Ding! ding! Anyone whose talk is of 'energy' and crystal babbling fools.

And Devendra Banhart.

Earwicker wrote:When I say Gingers I don't mean strawberry blondes but real red heads. In my experience they always seem to have a real attitude problem.
Of course this is recognised by me as unreasonable so I bury it deep until the carrot top kicks off cause of some minor slight like you didn't give him any change for his bus fair or whatever at which point the word 'ginger' just pops into my head as like a full explanation for the aggression.

this cracked me up, and i agree. i don't know what it is about redheads.

i'll also add the vietnamese and cambodians to the list. i know it's not right... my best friend is half cambodian/vietnamese... but... well, there ya go. i blame my mom, who has an irrational ethnic bias against asians other than the chinese, japanese and koreans. but just recently she started eating vietnamese food, which caught me off guard. we both used to hate vietnamese food, in fact she discouraged me from eating it. now she acts like it never happened which leaves me feeling like the lone racist in the family. well, that's not true. she still doesn't trust black people.

and i've got a thing about puerto ricans. sorry, don't stab me.

Drug takers who don't talk about anything but being on drugs.

Pill heads who start every sentence with 'mate' and end it with 'yea?'.

All organised religion (though I have no problem with people believing in god.

Kids who hang around outside McDonalds all day.

People who smoke in moshpits.

People who make extravagent arm gestures whilst viewing art works in a gallery (as if waving you arms around makes you look like you understand why the piece of shit you're looking at is 'art').

Kids who hang around inside McDonalds all day.

People who ask loads of questions but don't leave any time for you to answer any of them.

People who stand near you and stare like they want to talk but won't speak.

Assholes who play shitty dance music (or any kind of music) on their tinny mobile phones on the train/bus.

Work colleagues who always talk about wanting to quit their job but never do. Shut the fuck up.