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Things I'm prejudiced against *
Some of these are silly. Some of these I have a reason for and others I don't understand myself. Merely in order of how they came to mind...
1. New England: My best guess is that this is the Southerner in me speaking. I can't stand any sports teams from that area. I do have a liking of the whole This Old House crew and New Hampshire's independent streak, but otherwise my knee-jerk reaction is to not like it.
2. Florida: Also ties into my Southern heritage. I don't care that it borders AL and GA, FL IS NOT part of the South. You will only see me cheering for Florida when they are playing a team outside of the SEC.
3. Manly men: I've always been tall with a big frame...yet always was a little effeminate and much more interested in being friends with girls than boys. Teasing and picking fights with me is my primary exposure to "manly" males.
4. "Home cookin'"/Meat & Three: I was raised with a varied international diet. When my mom did prepare meat and veggies, I never cared for it at all. I've suffered through many lunches and dinners at meat&3 and it takes a lot of arm twisting to get me to agree to eating at those places (Cracker Barrel and Blue Plate are purely for breakfast).
5. Email forwards: The first thing I do when I see a fwd'ed email is to either go to Snopes to verify (okay, most of the time it is to document why the fwd is bogus) or roll my eyes and delete.
6. Contemporary country music: I love bluegrass, roots country/americana, and pre-Garth pop country (Kenny, Dolly, Randy Travis). But I don't care for Garth, Tim, Faith, or any of the "hats." I'm not even going to go into Shania.
7. Lowe's Home Improvement: Although I tended to go to Home Depot more often, I gladly went to the Lowe's on S. Parkway after moving into my house. But every single visit involved some sort of customer service complaint, so I stopped going and will now only visit a Lowe's after I've been to Home Depot. I maintained this stance even while my mil worked at the Lowe's in Hampton Cove for a while.
8. The Big 3 in Detroit: The only "American made" car that I've enjoyed driving was my '92 Saturn. It was pure joy for the first 8 years. During that time Saturn was normalized into the GM fold and I could tell the difference at the dealer. Meanwhile, I've loved the imports that JD's had (mucho love for Honda).
9. suburbia/city sprawl: Drive 45 minutes or more to work? Live in a n'hood where the only way you can tell if someone is home is if there's a car in the driveway or garage? Impossible to walk or ride a bike to stores? No. Not for me. That life upsets my stomach. This also feeds into...
10. Los Angeles: This has next to nothing to do with Hollywood and everything to do with the LA attitude, life w/o seasons, earthquakes, city sprawl, and how people who "escaped" to LA see the rest of the country.
11. KMart and WalMart: Dirty stores filled with rude people clamoring for cheap merchandise on sale.
12. Hendrick Motorsports (Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson): While I may still have lukewarm feelings for Little E as he settles into the team this year, fellow NASCAR fans will not see me cheer for Jeff and Jimmy.
13. Microsoft: Whenever I can find a way to do something via another vendor/open source, I do it.
* My definition for "prejudiced" for this post is that these are things that I automatically will side against or avoid without wanting to (externally or internally) debate my feelings/reasons.
1. New England: My best guess is that this is the Southerner in me speaking. I can't stand any sports teams from that area. I do have a liking of the whole This Old House crew and New Hampshire's independent streak, but otherwise my knee-jerk reaction is to not like it.
2. Florida: Also ties into my Southern heritage. I don't care that it borders AL and GA, FL IS NOT part of the South. You will only see me cheering for Florida when they are playing a team outside of the SEC.
3. Manly men: I've always been tall with a big frame...yet always was a little effeminate and much more interested in being friends with girls than boys. Teasing and picking fights with me is my primary exposure to "manly" males.
4. "Home cookin'"/Meat & Three: I was raised with a varied international diet. When my mom did prepare meat and veggies, I never cared for it at all. I've suffered through many lunches and dinners at meat&3 and it takes a lot of arm twisting to get me to agree to eating at those places (Cracker Barrel and Blue Plate are purely for breakfast).
5. Email forwards: The first thing I do when I see a fwd'ed email is to either go to Snopes to verify (okay, most of the time it is to document why the fwd is bogus) or roll my eyes and delete.
6. Contemporary country music: I love bluegrass, roots country/americana, and pre-Garth pop country (Kenny, Dolly, Randy Travis). But I don't care for Garth, Tim, Faith, or any of the "hats." I'm not even going to go into Shania.
7. Lowe's Home Improvement: Although I tended to go to Home Depot more often, I gladly went to the Lowe's on S. Parkway after moving into my house. But every single visit involved some sort of customer service complaint, so I stopped going and will now only visit a Lowe's after I've been to Home Depot. I maintained this stance even while my mil worked at the Lowe's in Hampton Cove for a while.
8. The Big 3 in Detroit: The only "American made" car that I've enjoyed driving was my '92 Saturn. It was pure joy for the first 8 years. During that time Saturn was normalized into the GM fold and I could tell the difference at the dealer. Meanwhile, I've loved the imports that JD's had (mucho love for Honda).
9. suburbia/city sprawl: Drive 45 minutes or more to work? Live in a n'hood where the only way you can tell if someone is home is if there's a car in the driveway or garage? Impossible to walk or ride a bike to stores? No. Not for me. That life upsets my stomach. This also feeds into...
10. Los Angeles: This has next to nothing to do with Hollywood and everything to do with the LA attitude, life w/o seasons, earthquakes, city sprawl, and how people who "escaped" to LA see the rest of the country.
11. KMart and WalMart: Dirty stores filled with rude people clamoring for cheap merchandise on sale.
12. Hendrick Motorsports (Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson): While I may still have lukewarm feelings for Little E as he settles into the team this year, fellow NASCAR fans will not see me cheer for Jeff and Jimmy.
13. Microsoft: Whenever I can find a way to do something via another vendor/open source, I do it.
* My definition for "prejudiced" for this post is that these are things that I automatically will side against or avoid without wanting to (externally or internally) debate my feelings/reasons.
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Lowe's up here is a hell of a lot better than Home Depot, so I stick with Lowe's.
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Vanessa
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when we lived off of s. pkwy, it was home deopt...now that we are in five points, i have to go with lowes (much better service, etc)
#9 = completely agree! (old houses yay)...haha have you ever seen the show weeds?
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The wife and I enjoy watching Weeds. It's strange; we'll let two or three get on the DVR and then HAVE to watch all three because we gotta see what happens next. But after having to wait a week or whatever for a new episode, we get too much time to contemplate the show and start moaning about some of the odd choices and twists. Then we start to watch another one and keep going until we run out again.
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ooooh i love that show so much. hehe andy and i stream it online and needlesstosay we watch half a season in one sitting. we are all caught up now and wondering if it was the actual end or if they'll have a season 4.
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I understand that Showtime agreed to another run. Whether the writers strike will hamper that, I dunno.
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