Little prejudices you harbour

Short men all wish they were taller.

Hot women think everyone wants to do them.

Most office workers are malingerers. 

Young women who smoke are more sexually available. 

Hardship makes people in other countries noble. 

No real prejudices. Maybe bluffers, call them liars if you like, just be effing honest. If you're an investment banker, fine. I you're a builder, then fine. 

If not, you will get found out.

Then you've lost my respect.

Fair enough but seems to be a prejudice with no foundation.  I can fully understand why you may conclude lawyers are too unimaginative or too risk averse to do something more interesting but it seems perverse to draw the conclusion their problem is lack of intelligence.  Having spent half a life time in the legal profession I would say lawyers are for above average when it comes to intelligence (some exceptions obviously) but lacking in many other attributes which mean they follow a career that many of them do not particularly enjoy.

Love how this has turned into a snooze fest about how unreasonable the above prejudices are 

yes we know that's why they're called 'prejudices' not 'assiduously researched and tested theories'

But there is a foundation: I have met many lawyers and most of them can't do maths for starters.

Heh, I remember being in Court when a judge, two QCs, two juniors, and two partners instructing them, could not work out a simple interest calculation.

Anyone who refers to anything as "chavvy" or uses the word "chav" as an insult is a f*cking bell end.

That's not me citing a prejudice of mine btw, it's a fact.

Repeating some of the above

Weirdos:

only children

35+ not married or in a relationship (unless divorced I guess)

adult martial artists

non drinkers (absent a health reason or short term gym fix or something)

obsessive sports fans (usually football fans (ie the type who only talk about football, who listen to all the podcasts and then try and shove whatever theory they’ve heard that week about Chelsea’s formation down your throat - often adult full kit w**kers))

 

 

If you use a dryer sheet and fold straight out of the dryer you don't need to iron 

"need" is flexible anyway - I don't iron, and anything that really must be is sent to the laundrette 

Women who care too much about their appearance are more trouble than they are worth.

And men who do more than keep themselves clean and neat are not to be trusted.

People are only suspicious of only children because we are happy with our own company and never drank the kool-aid that says you have to be surrounded by people all the time.

I have literally never met an adult who wears full football kit for leisure.

Wearing a replica shirt as a t-shirt is of course different, and entirely acceptable tbh

Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western liberalism, both in the socio-cultural way it is implemented/practised and its doctrinal shortcomings. 

- anybody over the age of 25 who talks about which school they went to. 

- anybody over the age of 30 who talks about which uni they went to
 

- anybody who takes pride in wearing an expensive watch

 

(sorry RoF but trufax)

I have literally never met an adult who wears full football kit for leisure

i went to Miami once, lots of fully grown men wearing full basketball kit during the day

odd

No books in the house = psycho/narcissist

New car buyers = thick and unhealthy because they probably eat porridge for the next 2 years instead of healthy food

People with very loud voices = chav

 

 

 

People who think being able to do maths is the key demarcator of cleverness aren't very clever. nb: I can do maths.

My brother in law always buys new cars. He's worried if he buys a nearly new one, it might have been "thrashed". He thinks if someone has over revved it during the running in period then it'll be scarred for life and need a new drivetrain at 40,000 miles. He doesn't seem to realise there's basically nothing you can do to break a modern car by driving it, unless you drive it into a lorry. I say if you want to burn five grand, actually get hold of the notes and burn them in your garden. At least that's got KLF kudos.

Clients who don't welcome your comments on business aspects of a deal are probably idiots who won't take proper notice of your legal advice anyway.

many runners/joggers don't have the hand eye coordination to succeed at more interesting sports

people who sip from water bottles on public transport are a bit precious

talking about cooking is properly dull as are all cookery tv programmes

Men with goatees are just eurgh.

White people with dreadlocks don't wash or brush their teeth regularly, if at all - even though I know it is ludicrous, this particular prejudice

is so ingrained in me that I will always try to give them a wide berth because I'm so sure they stink. 

Grown women with very long hair are pathetically clinging on to their childhoods, and should grow the feck up.

Sucking your thumb as an adult means you are a repellent combination of needy, exhibitionist, and maybe a bit retarded.  Adult men who suck their thumbs should be forced to donate their genitalia to medical science, so maybe someone can work out what the fvck they had them for.

Men with sensitive nipples are absolutely guaranteed to be amazing in bed.

Petite women are probably annoying.

People who say they like football but don't support a specific team are proper wrong 'uns.  See also: people who don't have TVs.

Women with cracked phone screens are incredibly high maintenance and to be avoided at all costs.

Building on Sailo's one:

Anyone who does recreational marathons / triathlons / ironmans / tough mudders is an absolute tede who has nothing else of interest in their life.

Only children are a bit odd and entitled. 

People who are too into religion are wrong 'uns and are compensating for something. 

People who are really into fitness are dull. 

People who are into these weird infantilising things in adulthood (like the cereal killer cafe) are likely nonces. 

People who don't drink are boring. 

 

"That's a real conundrum if the man with sensitive nipples also has a goatee cru."

Surely, the universe would never be so cruel as to taunt me that way.  Would it?  * screams into the void *

’many runners/joggers don't have the hand eye coordination to succeed at more interesting sports’

As someone to whom this applies, I confirm that it is true. I also don’t have the foot coordination, which is a shame because all the running means that my strong legs could probably kick a ball out of the park (whether I wanted to, or not).

”   ’ave it! “

Have to agree - I totally understand the atheists - but don’t understand the vitriolic rage they reserve for any mention of faith or organised religion - like they’ve all been personally affronted, very recently. 

I’m not surprised that loads of rofers hate religion, although I don’t. I was thinking of starting going to church actually. Church of England obv so there isn’t too much pressure to believe in God.

Yeah the spittle-flecked atheistic vitriol on display here is hard to read tbh.

 

Believing in the supernatural in Britain in 2021 with the kind of education you all have access to means that your brain is underused or wired funny. Sorry not sorry.

Yes, to the religion prejudice.

Anyone who says “pacifically” instead of “specifically” or misuses an apostrophe in an email (where it’s an obvious choice and not just an autocorrect typo) automatically moves down a rung in my estimation.

Same for anyone who very clearly pronounces “listenin”, “speakin”, “doin” etc, even when speaking in a formal/ official capacity or making an official statement. I know it’s a prejudice but it just sets my teeth on edge. 
 
Any person who calls their parents mummy and daddy as an adult without it being done in a jokey way is a spoilt brat/ imbecile/ mummy’s boy/ daddy’s girl and probably a high maintenance nightmare or one who has many ishoos.

"Lawyers think they know about everything. 

Lawyers think that other jobs are easier/inferior to theirs (apart from medicine and proper science). "

TB - you might as well admit, as one lawyer told me, "lawyers save the world through our work". I couldn't help but wonder how empty her life must have been. Of course, I suppose I never got round to appreciating how important lawyers are as I haven't been one my entire life. Thank goodness. 

+1 for the prejudice against obsessive runners/triathletes/cyclists who deep down believe they have a chance at some kind of greatness.

I speak as having been obsessive runner in my late 20s and early 30s - it filled a gaping sense of loneliness in London and career frustration. But boy did I become a fixated boring twot, moaning about splits and training sessions that weren't up to scratch.

I solved the problem by quitting law, fathering a child and turning to drink.  

 

TB - you might as well admit, as one lawyer told me, "lawyers save the world through our work".

Making the world a better place, one shell company at a time...

I don’t think I have ever seen, heard or read somebody using “pacific” instead of “specific”. I suspect that the adults that did this learned that others considered them stupid at least 10 years ago. I’ve just heard this complaint too many times for it to have continued to evade anybody. 
 

The idiots who conflate “refute” with “deny” are still out there. They will remain out there because they are genuinely too stupid to understand the difference between the two. Several ROFers will read this and think to themselves “But there is no difference! I’m not the problem”.

I like cru’s list!

op said something about all hot women think everyone wants to bone them - surely all heterosexual males between 12 and 95 do want to bone them? 

Strong dubtun here from unk, channeling a bit of the old days.

I'd add that I assume absolutely anything a lawyer says about the merits of any other occupation or profession is absolute bollocks. It's rebuttable, but rarely is it rebutted.