LOL wow. I told Joel that I wouldn't care if our kids swore, and he told me that I better not swear around our kids... Hmm...
Swear words in my house were never an issue as long as they did not have animate direct objects, hence: F! I just stubbed my toe! = perfectly allowable F you for leaving the door open and making me stub my toe! = completely beyond the pale. My friends were always shocked at this.
It was quite the opposite at my house. My mom even got upset if we used the word "sucks." Though there was one time (in front of all of the extended family on my dad's side) that I said "f*** you" to my dad (he deserved it...trust me), and my mom was totally on my side...that was an odd moment.
I'm on board with the misbehaving children bit. I work retail, so I've had to deal with my fair share. Children taking a stepladder (on wheels) and using it like an old man's walker, with the parent not so much as looking. Then running away with the thing when I finally tell the parent. Children putting their hands inside of the tanks (a petstore) and trying to grab fish. Not only is that something I can get in trouble for (parents yelling at management because child is all wet...) but they're terrible at it. I haven't seen one catch one yet. Smacking the glass. Fish don't like it. Cats don't like it. Hamsters don't like it. I wonder if they'd like it if I penned them up and beat on the glass in front of their face. GRRRR. And then there are the tamptrums. Simply throwing themselves on the floor because mommy dearest won't spend $60 to buy them a new pet. When they already have 3. Which they don't take care of. And they have no idea how to keep happy. But it honestly comes down to the parents. They can't raise their kids right--so THEY should deal with all of the garbage. Stop bringing them out in public until you all get it right. Just stay home and get food thrown at you, chairs knocked over, and crying fits because you wouldn't make mashed potatoes AND curly fries for dinner. Deal with your own children, stop making everyone else do it for you.
I work retail, too, so I feel your pain. Add to that list: I used to work at Toys R Us, and one day my manager saw a little kid run out the front door and into the parking lot (our store was right next to the freeway. Like climb over a small brick wall and there you are. Freeway.). He went out and got him, brought him back in to his (completely unaware that any of this had happened) mother. He told her what happened, and she got mad at him. Not even kidding, she got our corporate number and took down his name so she could complain about him. He told her that if he hadn't gone and gotten her kid, he could have gotten hit by a car and said that when she complained about him for potentially saving her kid's life he wanted her to make sure she had his name spelled right.
Me too. I never heard about whether she ended up calling or not. But I guess if she had called they still wouldn't have said anything to him about it. What are they gonna do? "Marshall, we had a woman call and complain about you saving her child. Please don't do that again." Come on...
There should be an exam before people are allowed to raise kids, but that's a whole different (and very touchy, I imagine) subject... This thread has got me realizing just how much of a "snob" I am. If anything isn't to my tastes or preferences I kind of shut off. Sure I'll go along to your poorly planned and executed party, watch that lame movie, struggle through that ridiculous book, eat your funny tasting chili, but I'm not particularly happy about it, and if I seem to be, it's a sham. I'm a horrible person. I need to change my ways or else hermitism is looking like a good life choice.
I agree. You need a license to drive, why not to raise a kid...but anyway... I know what you mean. Even before this thread, I was kind of starting to notice exactly how snobby I was about some things...and yikes. I don't know how people still hang out with me sometimes.
i don't know, i think going along with something you think is lame is being a good friend/guest/etc, not snobby. it's the refusing of something, insisting you are above something that makes snobby happen. for example, going along to see a movie that's lame because your friend wants to see it is still good. on the other hand, making fun of the friend (in an unfriendly way, of course) and outright refusing to do/eat/go along with something because what it is she likes, you think is lame is snobby. ETA: which means, rory, you're not being a snob
Well, in China...you not only have to do a written exam, you must be 24, married, and granted permission/given registration card by council before you may become pregnant (the one time permitted). Your workplace has a yearly 'quota' of babies. There are 'granny police' to watch you and make sure you don't become pregnant illegally...if you do the **** really hits the fan....And there are many more regulations that I won't go on about here. (I was soo pissed off this didn't come up in my Geog exam )
Hey, thanks, glad you don't think so. I'd rather be labeled a good friend than a snob any day, and I suppose that's one way to look at it. But I just can't help but feel like a jerk, though, knowing (or imagining probably) that if I'd picked the movie/party/book/food/whatever, it'd be so much better. Maybe that's not really being snobby, but it's not very open minded either. Then again, I think I'm allergic to change.
0.0 i lived in china for almost a year and have never heard that rule.... i only know that learning the sex of the baby before it's born is illegal (because too many parents were aborting their female babies - because if you can only have one child, then they want a boy) but also, the 'only one child' act has been revised so that now, if the man is an only child and the woman is an only child, they're allowed to have two kids.
Kangaroos, didn't know that about the only child exception, but then the info we learnt is about 5 years out of date :rollseyes: Yeah the ratio of boy to girl babies at one point was 117:100...not a coincedence. After the Sinchuan (sp?) earthquake the rule was relaxed for all the parents who lost children. But they are VERY strict. Like forced abortions/sterilisations for unauthorised pregancies. (though forced abortion is illegal since 2002, it still happens) When I was first told all these rules, like the exam and 'permit card' I didn't believe it. But the Government has no choice, the pop is 1.33 bn even WITH the rule.
yeah, i was in china during that earthquake (far from me, though). it was amazing to see the vast difference of news available in china and news given outside... scary, the difference... one thing most of the foreign news stations didn't report was the actual estimate dead (also unreported in china, but the people of china automatically knew - just like they all know that their gov't is corrupt beyond repair). meaning, there are a lot of people in the countryside not registered with the government (second and third borns that were unregistered because parents couldn't pay the tax to have them). so whatever number dead was reported, it was actually significantly higher. @ rory, nothing snobby about having your own taste in things!
I seriously cannot stand DJs who use Ableton. Like, what the hell? What is wrong with physically mixing tracks using the machines? And why do they have to cave to Ableton when vinyl and CD have worked so well for years? I think they just want to be cool and on the edge. And some DJs use it because they are new, and they heard from that web site you dont have to learn to beatmatch with Ableton. News flash: if you dont beatmatch you are not a proper DJ, and if you are at a club level and dont know how to beatmatch (cause of Ableton) something is f***ed yeah thats my snob rant
Ableton is this software they charge like $800 for and its killing the scene imo. http://www.ableton.com/ cause people download illegal versions and call themselves DJs, and it mixes the tracks for you. its click mixing. and that makes me mad, and the other vinylphiles, cause it took us like a year to mix and theyre just coasting with a mouse I was taught by vinyl DJs. I dont know how to DJ any other way. I'm a purist, like my mentors. I get it from them. I didnt mean that DJs who dont beatmatch are not real DJs. but I think all DJs should learn it at least. I mean actually learn, not click "automix" tee hee
I agree. I mean, what if their computer goes down or something and they end up needing to do it by themselves, without their software? It sounds like a useful thing to know, even if you're not going to use it every day.
Computers do crash, y'know. And they do in clubs. It happened to Paul Van Dyk one time. It was all over the dance forums. (he's one of the world's most famous dance artists, #1 hits in Europe n stuff) I heard he was playing this club in New York, sold out show, couple thousand people, and bam - nothing, then the Windows start music he's not the only one either vinyl is different because its PURE and LIVE and if you screw up your mixing everybody can tell. same for CD. maybe they like Ableton cause it covers mistakes? I just dont think there's any musicianship involved in automix, or brains really.
i am a snob about humor. im not even that funny...i mean some people think i am, but some people probably dont. but when people make jokes that arent funny and then laugh really hard, it just makes me not like them. and by "bad joke" i mean something like a gay joke, or someone twisting your words and trying to say you are creepy. gah, my friends do that to me all the time. when people act like idiots in regards to humor, i cant help but judge them. the saying "small minds are easily amused" is probably one of the things i say most. after writing this I know wonder why I have any friends. also im a snob about computer lingo. i dont really care that much about puncuation or anything, as you can most likely tell, but i really dont like when people are like "LOLZ DO U WANTZ 2 GO TO THE MOVEES 2NITE" it makes me cry, then die.
Movies, books and music. I'm pretty private about it though as I don't like getting in conflicts and being personally antagonized.
I think one of my biggest pet peeves is when people say "u" instead of "you." I don't know why it drives me so crazy, but it does. Every time I see someone do it, I lose a little bit of respect for them... And I'm a snob about people who drink and then drive. I'm very hardcore about having a designated driver, so it really bothers me that people, especially people who go out with me, don't care about getting sloshed and then driving home. Also, it bothers me when people give me a hard time about not drinking while we're out. I'm sorry if it bothers you that I'm not even willing to have one drink, but I know my limits. You do not. Please don't harrass me because I'm being responsible.
that sounds like a good thing to be a snob about. im a snob about people that call me a prude just because im not disgusting. or "holier than thou" just because I AM more holy than them. just kidding.