Stupid Stereotypes and Clichés that annoy you?

[tkioz]

I'm not talking about the big ones, like gay people talk with a lisp, or stuff like that, I mean the little ones that you run into in every day life that just plain piss you off.

My personal pet peeve is how some people react when I buy bottled water at a cafe or milk-bar, I know the stuff is no better for me then tap water (exception being that time I spent in Adelaide, as drinking that tap water is like drinking battery acid), but you know what? Sometimes I don't want sugar or caffeine I just want fresh refreshing water, I don't want milk or softdrink, just people sneer at you and start making hippy jokes about how you must expect it to be extra natural.

So what a little stereotypes that annoy you?

 

[Queen Michael]

The idea that manga = big eyes. The amount of manga sans big eyes is so large that you could spend your entire life reading it.

 

[Legion]

If you show any signs of sadness you are "emo". Apparently everyone was cheerful before kohl eye-liner was invented.

If you don't like football (soccer) you are gay, which is odd considering the all-male players hug and kiss each other every time their team scores a goal.

Playing computer games is anti-social (even if it is online with friends) whereas sitting with a group watching TV in silence is not.

I am sure there are many more, but you said minor ones.

 

[Vampire cat]

That because I'm not afraid of losing money, or not afraid of things I do going to shits so I have to start over again. There seems to be a general fear in people of losing money they have. I like doing new and exciting things, like save up a lot of money and try to open a business, or a webstore. But when it doesn't go so well and people see I remain calm and don't really mind losing the money I invested they ALWAYS assume I'm lazy or that my dad payed for it... Which pisses me off, I worked hard for that money and I'm NOT lazy! I just don't think money is the most important thing in the world, and losing it only means for me that I'll need to get more. Which isn't all that hard if you think for a bit.

*throws rock at money-loving people*

If you show any signs of sadness you are "emo". Apparently everyone was cheerful before kohl eye-liner was invented.

If you don't like football (soccer) you are gay, which is odd considering the all-male players hug and kiss each other every time their team scores a goal.

Playing computer games is anti-social (even if it is online with friends) whereas sitting with a group watching TV in silence is not.

I agree with every one of these =3. I adore guys that doesn't like football cause so many football-loving people are completely consumed by it. And people will think I'm "emo" cause of the way I dye my hair... Get lost! I wish the term "emo" would die and it would once again just become a way to describe a particular type of music.

 

[StrangerMouse]

The "New Zealenders fornicate with sheep" stereotype pisses me off. Seriously, how did that come into being? It just seems arbitary.

 

[Rusty pumpkin]

the thing about fat people being stupid. sometimes when i go to a restaurant the waiter decides to explain every damn thing, "this is a fork, this is a spoon" oh yeah? and this is the F*cking knife im going to stab you with! asides from that, whenever i have the misfortune of sitting next to someone who thinks im a moron, i tend to ask "are you a narcissist?" at which point i get to watch their awkward confusion that the "moron" knows a word they don't. and also the if your tall, you play football. im about 6 foot, and whenever football is mentioned my parents, people i don't know and avoid afterwards, and teachers comment on how i would be a great football player. asides from me being a pacifist, i hate competitive sports, and i dont like football even more than other sports.

 

[Jonesy911]

that all people who talk with a southern accent are stupid. i don't talk with a southern accent, but ti's so stupid! i want to see a guy with a southern accent start talking about quantum physics, and make a British guy feel like an idiot! (no offense to any Brits, but it's sort of an American stereotype that people with British accents are super smart) beyond that the false concept that graphics aren't important.

[HEADING=1] THEY ARE [/HEADING]

Similarly, in England there is a north/south divide and a very strong stereotype in the north that southern accents are idiotic too and vice versa. Also, graphics aren't important.

 

[Palademon]

That because I'm not afraid of losing money, or not afraid of things I do going to shits so I have to start over again. There seems to be a general fear in people of losing money they have. I like doing new and exciting things, like save up a lot of money and try to open a business, or a webstore. But when it doesn't go so well and people see I remain calm and don't really mind losing the money I invested they ALWAYS assume I'm lazy or that my dad payed for it... Which pisses me off, I worked hard for that money and I'm NOT lazy! I just don't think money is the most important thing in the world, and losing it only means for me that I'll need to get more. Which isn't all that hard if you think for a bit.

*throws rock at money-loving people*

If you show any signs of sadness you are "emo". Apparently everyone was cheerful before kohl eye-liner was invented.

If you don't like football (soccer) you are gay, which is odd considering the all-male players hug and kiss each other every time their team scores a goal.

Playing computer games is anti-social (even if it is online with friends) whereas sitting with a group watching TV in silence is not.

I agree with every one of these =3. I adore guys that doesn't like football cause so many football-loving people are completely consumed by it. And people will think I'm "emo" cause of the way I dye my hair... Get lost! I wish the term "emo" would die and it would once again just become a way to describe a particular type of music.

I also agree. And I don't like football and people think of me as an attention whore because my casual face looks so unemotional that it's depressing to other people, even though I don't go around to everyone complaining.

The "New Zealenders fornicate with sheep" stereotype pisses me off. Seriously, how did that come into being? It just seems arbitary.

I thought that stereotype was for Welsh people. My friend is Welsh and he loves using that joke on himself.

I personally hate that when Americans try to stereotype me, an English guy, they even mix up the English stereotype with the Australian stereotype. Well, "ello mate" to them aswell.

 

[MrNickster]

If you are a bassist then you are a useless, talentless and pointless addition to any band. I usually hear it from guitarists who've been playing for 6 months and think they're hot shit.

Cliff Burton, Steve Harris and Victor Wooten are all deeply disapointed in them.

 

[cynikles]

Studying Japanese makes you an 'otaku.' Annoys me to no end.

 

[end_boss]

Whenever I mention that I enjoy watching pro-wrestling, they always check to make sure that I know it's fake. In all fairness to them, up until the movie "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke, most movies depicting pro-wrestling have either depicted it as real, or having fans believe it's real, or both.

Actually, the more I think about it, the stigma that surrounds pro wrestling produces so many stereotypes that it makes me angry. Wrestling fans apparently are uneducated and stupid, some people insist that wrestling is fake to the point that the wrestlers never ever suffer a legitimate injury, people accuse wrestling fans of watching it only for homoerotic imagery, and so on and so forth.

I do have to admit, though, that sometimes I will see WWE on a TV screen in a bar with people who are pretty neutral to wrestling, and their presence sometimes allows me to view wrestling with a certain objectivity, and WWE and TNA are actually getting pretty ridiculous. The Nexus angle is doing incredibly well and is the only thing keeping me going on RAW, but so many gimmicks are absurd, so many storylines are embarrassing, and how can anybody - including fans - take something seriously when they even treat themselves as a joke?

 

[end_boss]

If you are a bassist then you are a useless, talentless and pointless addition to any band. I usually hear it from guitarists who've been playing for 6 months and think they're hot shit.

Cliff Burton, Steve Harris and Victor Wooten are all deeply disapointed in them.

Really? I've only heard of the drummer as being the butt end of talent jokes.

 

[end_boss]

wrestling has been homoerotic for about 2000 years

That's seriously the only thing you got out of the entire post?

 

[deus-ex-machina]

The bias some folk have towards young parents, which must mean anyone who isn't in their 30s and have a full career under their belt must be scum and belong on Jeremy Kyle's chat show.

I get this problem, since I'm only 22. I can be with my daughter and because I look younger, I get some horrible looks sometimes. Best thing is, I'm really a nice guy and probably completely different to what they think I am.

Sure, some young parents are scum, but not all of them.

 

[Thebabyboom]

Now this isnt for everyone just mainly everyone i know and everyone from my course at college but why are there so mainy typicle gamer geeks why are they always full of spots skinny as fuck always listen to death metal or what evere u call that bullshit and are always hatefilled and lonley also they have really annoying laughs and they always feel the need to watch anime or some japanese toss

 

[end_boss]

Now this isnt for everyone just mainly everyone i know and everyone from my course at college but why are there so mainy typicle gamer geeks why are they always full of spots skinny as fuck always listen to death metal or what evere u call that bullshit and are always hatefilled and lonley also they have really annoying laughs and they always feel the need to watch anime or some japanese toss

Yeah, I could tell by reading your post that you're in college...