Which misconseption annoys you more?
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I'm taking Philosophy next year, and whenever I tell people that, they look at me like a fucking Messiah, because everyone round here has the philosophical depth of a brick and to them, it's as mysterious as the magic flickering thing that cooks our food. We call it fy...urr, I think. Anyway, we accused the bloke round here who showed us it of witch-craft, and ironically burned him at the stake with his own fire.Ultra-Chronic Monstah said:1.) That all white people that listen to hip-hop want to be 'gangsta'.
2.) All Philosophy students are just lazy and need to do a 'real subject'. Sorry, by 'real' do you just mean 'harder'? I don't see how taking analytical chemistry will blow open the world of opportunity for you...
(No offense to anyone studying analytical chemistry)
In all seriousness, I am taking philosophy, and nobody (save the fat version of me I am friends with) has taken the piss.
As for the white guys thing. I hate rap, and pop and stuff (especially gangster culture in modern times) I listen to 90s rock.
I like 20th century gangsters, though, with their stylish trilbies.
(I had a picture to show which would illustrate my hatred of "gangstas", and went to hell and back to find it, but alas, I return empty handed.
I feel like I'd like to make the same distinction of iPods and MP3 Players. I've never owned an iPod, namely because I don't need the same amount of Gigs that's on my effing desktop just to hold my music, but I hate how every time I have to speak to my parents on this subject - and they're about as oblivious of technology as you can get - they insist on calling both my MP3 Player and theirs an iPod.Griffolion said:
Also, though it's kind of a douchebag annoyance, I hate the whole "Mac vs. PC" argument. Yes, it's been said to death, "PC means Personal Computer. Macs are Personal Computers." I won't get into that. I just hate how everyone who has a Mac treats it like it's some godsend, and always say how they'll NEVER revert back to Windows. I have a buddy who's got everything from Apple except an iPad - and despite him denying it I know THAT stupid piece of tech is only a year or so away from being in his grasp - and I regularly have to rub my eyes in exasperation as I tell him about this awesome new game I just found, and how it'd be awesome if we could both play...oh, wait, he has a @#$%ing Mac. Scrap that thought.
It's not so much butchering, to me, as a lack of empathy or sympathy with said classes, and assuming that a policy that works well in the upper class and with large corporations will have similar effects all the way down the food chain. To me it's just flawed logic, and isn't actually malicious. As far as I've seen conservatives tend to paint in very broad, high contrast strokes, if you'll forgive the metaphor.wammnebu said:
I work in a shop in the UK that sells souvenirs to a lot of American tourists, and sheer number of idiot Yanks who refer to our country as 'Yerp', (you just try saying Europe in an American accent, you know that's what it sounds like) it's just obscene.
Please, Americans, you need to learn geography, world history and English and you need to do it quickly, before another of your precious generations grows up as ignorant and self-centred as the others.*
*Disclaimer, I do not, in any way, believe in or condone the view that all Americans are ill-educated, poorly spoken, over-patriotic, emotionally expulsive, overweight, overpaid, bigoted God-botherers. However, in the same way that not all Brits are uptight, prudish, backward thinking, arrogant Royalists, it is the few that dictate the stereotype of the many.
Please, Americans, you need to learn geography, world history and English and you need to do it quickly, before another of your precious generations grows up as ignorant and self-centred as the others.*
*Disclaimer, I do not, in any way, believe in or condone the view that all Americans are ill-educated, poorly spoken, over-patriotic, emotionally expulsive, overweight, overpaid, bigoted God-botherers. However, in the same way that not all Brits are uptight, prudish, backward thinking, arrogant Royalists, it is the few that dictate the stereotype of the many.
Oh I agree. The past 100 years have been terrible! looking at the US, in the 1910's we had WWI, the 20's had prohibition, which lead to a spike in organized crime, the 30's had the great depression, WWII in the 40's, in the 50's we had the korean war and abortion was illegal meaning women would often die on their kitchen tables trying to have one at home. The cold war, the vietnam war, racism, homophobia, I don't know exactly what time period these people are talking about when the refer to the "good old days," but I have noticed that they all seem to be wealthy, white, christian, heterosexual men.Tsalmaveth said:
If anything, this is the best time to be alive in the past century.
I know, right? Often it was just a slip of the tongue, country and continent sound alike, most conversations treat Africa as a single entity, so on...but some people really just did not believe me. I do live in Texas though, which has the brightest and dumbest people in the U.S.xXxJessicaxXx said:
Ready to have your mind blown even more? Counties have different laws. That's right buddy, it's a triple threat set of laws. County, State, and Federal.standokan said:
OT : I'd have to say thinking Europe is a country. That's quite a massive amount of ignorance there.
Even more of a threat! There are different laws for different counties and even cities as well!Atheist. said:
Ahhh let me guess, another one who votes conservative simply because of issues like abortion while ignoring their extreme corporatism, refusal to increase taxes under the crisis, destruction of the social services and social nets as well as pushing for the commercialization of every governmental sector.wammnebu said:
You do know they don't care about issues like abortion at all right? When they were in power there wasn't a single bill passed or suggested to address the matter, they just pick the rhetoric up in between presidential sections to harness votes, then promptly forget it exists.
Still you haven't answered my question.How do you rationalize all they are doing? Look at the U.S., salaries for middle and lower class have remained stagnant for 30 years while the top 5% flourish, the worst health care and public transport of all the developed nations and every single legislation passed is done with disregard to the middle to lower classes (ban obamacare, support for removal of minimum wage, the Wisconsin fiasco, cuts to science and arts departments, citizens united ruling,endless war support with the exception of people like Ron Paul, etc).
Its cool not to pay attention in school. According to that, I'm not cool D:bdcjacko said:
Probably someone who thinks Europe is one big country. I've never even been to Europe and I know that its a continent and not a country. I mean, people not knowing laws vary from state to state is annoying, but not as annoying to me as people who think that about Europe.
OH. MY. GOD.Dana22 said:
That is something that pisses me off SOOOOOO hard. I didn't ace a semester of biological anthropology to be told by some fundamentalist redneck that I think we evolved from monkeys.
ummmm...Mimsofthedawg said:
anyway, OT: I'm more annoyed with the misconception about state law, but only because I live in the US again... and I constantly have to argue about the legalization of certain things, and how it's already happened many places in the states. Even places where it's legal to own "assault weapons". Go figure.
Internationally I don't really care -_- just find it amusing.
Though, the one thing I hate most of all (and understand how the stereotype and/or misconception came to be) is that all people that enjoy classical music, play classical music, compose classical music only like just that type of music and are stuck up pretentious jerks that would never be associated with anything "low class" or "risque".
I play the violin. I love classical music but if you were to look at a collective database of music I have, the least amount of music on there is classical music. And no, going to a concert does not have to be a "high-class" venue. Quite honestly, I'm there to put on a good show, I don't give half of a rat's ass whether you show up butt naked with a beer hat on your head that says "*insert sports team of your preference here*". Or, for that matter, that you shouldn't clap between movements. Hell, I actually do enjoy it when people clap in between movements, makes me feel like I'm doing a good job so far. And if you ever see a classical concert scheduled near you, don't be afraid to shy away from it because you don't think you're high class enough for it (or that you have come to the thinking that you hate classical music all together, it's a huge genre, odds are you're bound to like something) we enjoy seeing faces there and putting on a good show like any other thing and sometimes when you've seen enough movies, monster truck rallies, *insert preference of sport here* games, and stage performances, it's like a breath of fresh air that you may actually thoroughly enjoy.
tl;dr: musicians, people that enjoy classical music, composers, conductors are normal people too.
Though, the one thing I hate most of all (and understand how the stereotype and/or misconception came to be) is that all people that enjoy classical music, play classical music, compose classical music only like just that type of music and are stuck up pretentious jerks that would never be associated with anything "low class" or "risque".
I play the violin. I love classical music but if you were to look at a collective database of music I have, the least amount of music on there is classical music. And no, going to a concert does not have to be a "high-class" venue. Quite honestly, I'm there to put on a good show, I don't give half of a rat's ass whether you show up butt naked with a beer hat on your head that says "*insert sports team of your preference here*". Or, for that matter, that you shouldn't clap between movements. Hell, I actually do enjoy it when people clap in between movements, makes me feel like I'm doing a good job so far. And if you ever see a classical concert scheduled near you, don't be afraid to shy away from it because you don't think you're high class enough for it (or that you have come to the thinking that you hate classical music all together, it's a huge genre, odds are you're bound to like something) we enjoy seeing faces there and putting on a good show like any other thing and sometimes when you've seen enough movies, monster truck rallies, *insert preference of sport here* games, and stage performances, it's like a breath of fresh air that you may actually thoroughly enjoy.
tl;dr: musicians, people that enjoy classical music, composers, conductors are normal people too.