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Mothers who have jobs outside the home and who make snide remarks to my wife like "oh, you don't work?" or "so what do you do during the day?"

A big, hearty FUCK OFF to all of those bitches. My wife works harder than any of them, and deep down, they know it.
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Darth Wong wrote:"so what do you do during the day?"
Tell your wife that next time she hears that, she should answer "tougher work than you."

It's not perfect, but it handles most of those style of questions.
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Darth Wong wrote:Mothers who have jobs outside the home and who make snide remarks to my wife like "oh, you don't work?" or "so what do you do during the day?"

A big, hearty FUCK OFF to all of those bitches. My wife works harder than any of them, and deep down, they know it.
--Not that it is any of my business and don't answer if it is too much of an intrusion, but I would like to know what a person that has no job (paying job or school) can actually get done these days. My mother says her mother would literally spend all day cleaning the house nearly everyday. However, with all the technological advances there just isn't time these days.
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Nova Andromeda wrote:--Not that it is any of my business and don't answer if it is too much of an intrusion, but I would like to know what a person that has no job (paying job or school) can actually get done these days. My mother says her mother would literally spend all day cleaning the house nearly everyday. However, with all the technological advances there just isn't time these days.
Ever tried raising kids?
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Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Well I'm also a victim of prejudice, every time I talk about my racial background or country of origin I'm always getting resentful remarks about me being a playboy who is going to steal everybody's women with my good looks and extremely sexy accent and manners.

Being stereotyped sucks 8)
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Darth Wong wrote:Ever tried raising kids?
--Takes nearly every second to handle the little ones eh? Is it possible to get much else done (assumming 2 kids 5-12)? Clearly I don't know anything about raising kids (except trial by fire is best where possible and not damaging).[/quote]
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Takes nearly every second to handle the little ones eh? Is it possible to get much else done (assumming 2 kids 5-12)? Clearly I don't know anything about raising kids (except trial by fire is best where possible and not damaging)
They don't give you any rest. It's low-level work but it is constant, and in the younger ages, it's nearly 24 hours a day. You can't perform any task which takes your full attention for more than a few minutes at a time, because then you can't supervise them. If you supervise them constantly, they won't hurt themselves or each other and they will be engaged in constructive activities, but you won't get anything done. Catch-22. And it's psychologically exhausting.
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Darth Wong wrote:They don't give you any rest. It's low-level work but it is constant , and in the younger ages, it's nearly 24 hours a day. You can't perform any task which takes your full attention for more than a few minutes at a time, because then you can't supervise them. If you supervise them constantly, they won't hurt themselves or each other and they will be engaged in constructive activities, but you won't get anything done. Catch-22. And it's psychologically exhausting.
--Well I know I hated daycare and can appreciate the sacrafice. What do you think of rotating child care during the week between say 3-5 different parents?
--I'm currently of the opinion that public school (in the U.S.A. anyhow) is a complete waste of time until university. Are you of the same mind or is there another solution (Catholic school isn't much better and they hated me anyhow).
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People who say things like "What bad thing happened to you?, I'm sorry that you lost your faith, or I'll pray for you" when they find out I'm an atheist.
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Originally posted by Darth Wong:
They don't give you any rest. It's low-level work but it is constant , and in the younger ages, it's nearly 24 hours a day. You can't perform any task which takes your full attention for more than a few minutes at a time, because then you can't supervise them. If you supervise them constantly, they won't hurt themselves or each other and they will be engaged in constructive activities, but you won't get anything done. Catch-22. And it's psychologically exhausting.
I hear you. I don't know how my wife does it sometimes.

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My mom couldn't find Daycare so I wound up auditing a lot of classes with her.
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- anyone that spits when they are talking.
- anime followers.
- military/police/guard etc. hate their guts.
- stupid customer support staff/bank tellers.
- anyone that wears bagy pants, pants that knee etc.
- computer illiterates
- goths, body piercing, tatoos etc.
- people who don't give it their best approximation with the given recources even if there is no way of getting the correction solution.
- internet users who talk big, but there is no way to proof their claims.
- "PC" BS and politicans, ALL liars!
- extremely religous christians.
- liberals, is there no end to their reign of terror as majority government. I'm not saying another party will do better but they aren't helping so it's worth a change...
- those patriotic assholes after 9/11 why don't they STFU and move on!

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Specialist wrote:- anyone that spits when they are talking.
- anime followers.
- military/police/guard etc. hate their guts.
- stupid customer support staff/bank tellers.
- anyone that wears bagy pants, pants that knee etc.
- computer illiterates
- goths, body piercing, tatoos etc.
- people who don't give it their best approximation with the given recources even if there is no way of getting the correction solution.
- internet users who talk big, but there is no way to proof their claims.
- "PC" BS and politicans, ALL liars!
- extremely religous christians.
- liberals, is there no end to their reign of terror as majority government. I'm not saying another party will do better but they aren't helping so it's worth a change...
- those patriotic assholes after 9/11 why don't they STFU and move on!

more to be added.
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Darth Wong wrote:
Takes nearly every second to handle the little ones eh? Is it possible to get much else done (assumming 2 kids 5-12)? Clearly I don't know anything about raising kids (except trial by fire is best where possible and not damaging)
They don't give you any rest. It's low-level work but it is constant, and in the younger ages, it's nearly 24 hours a day. You can't perform any task which takes your full attention for more than a few minutes at a time, because then you can't supervise them. If you supervise them constantly, they won't hurt themselves or each other and they will be engaged in constructive activities, but you won't get anything done. Catch-22. And it's psychologically exhausting.
I definitely have more respect for parents after working as a camp counselor this summer. Between 6 and 30 kids, usually from 8am-6pm, and one autistic and one EMH. I don't think I was able to stay awake past 8pm that whole 7 weeks.
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Foreign college professors who don't bother to learn how to speak clear, colloquial American English (after living in the United States of America for FIVE YEARS, this bastard still hasn't learned that he's hard to understand or tried to take corrective measures!!!) and expect their students to understand their just-stepped-off-the-boat accent. If I ever have to hear about instonciating a messur again, it's not going to be pretty.
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BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:People who say things like "What bad thing happened to you?, I'm sorry that you lost your faith, or I'll pray for you" when they find out I'm an atheist.
Well, it's either that or "DIE HEATHEN!!!" :twisted:

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Fanboys, Tolikenites and Anime fans especially. If you like it, that's great, but quit jumping on my shit if I don't agree with you that it's the pinnacle of all literature or better than fucking or whatever, and don't get your panties in a knot because someone doesn't like it.

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Teenages who think that because they're not slack-jawed yokels, they're smarter than the rest of the fucking world.

Pseudo-nihilist goths always manage to come off as whining brats. "The world sucks. Everyone sucks except me."

Wiccans. I KNOW I'm going to get flamed for this, but I've had my fill of teenage girls telling me their religion

A) Is the oldest religion in the world
B) Is the source of all other religions
C) Is totally unique and didn't borrow any elements from anyone (tell a Hindu that Wiccans invented Karma)
D) Has been totally ripped off by every other relgions (again tell a Hindu that Hinduism stole Karma from Wicca)
E) Is as logical and rational as athiesm
F) actually works.
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RedImperator wrote:Teenages who think that because they're not slack-jawed yokels, they're smarter than the rest of the fucking world.
Given the state of the rest of the fucking world, I'd say that would be an accurate assesment on their part. :mrgreen:
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RedImperator wrote:
Wiccans. I KNOW I'm going to get flamed for this, but I've had my fill of teenage girls telling me their religion

A) Is the oldest religion in the world
B) Is the source of all other religions
C) Is totally unique and didn't borrow any elements from anyone (tell a Hindu that Wiccans invented Karma)
D) Has been totally ripped off by every other relgions (again tell a Hindu that Hinduism stole Karma from Wicca)
E) Is as logical and rational as athiesm
F) actually works.
Those children are speaking false religion. They have no idea what the Pagan religion is. Just ignore them or tell them to go to their local bookstore and get a real book to learn about the religion.
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Another thing I am prejudiced against: polotically correct scolds who automatically assume that absolutely, positively 100% of everything that the United States does is irredeemably evil. They automatically stick up for every despotic tyrant regime, make excuses for shits like the Taliban and other craphounds in the world.

Of course, none of these jerkoffs will actually go to live in places like North Korea, Iraq, whatever. Oh, no-- they want to stay in the US and sip cappucinos and drive their minivans or SUVs and wear their fashionable clothes-- but it amazes me how the people that once circulated internet petitions about the Taliban's treatment of women and others (people who once demanded that the US 'do something' about it) suddenly start screeching from the rooftops about how the tyrannical US is bombing the Taliban, who 'only want to defend their culture'.

I just want them to stay in the suburbs and STFU.
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Wow. I think I read every single post in this thread, and I didn't see anyone say anything against fat people. Judging from some comments in past threads (like the airplane seat thread) and the fact that most cultures have been poisoned by Hollywood, Playboy, supermodels, etc, I find it hard to believe that no one is prejudiced against the overweight, especially you guys to women.

As for me, model-handsome guys. I automatically think they are supreme assholes and blow them off before they even have a chance to speak.
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Oh yeah and the media.

During this overrated Sniper killing(I swear slow news year...) we get sensationalism out the wazoo

I mean people suddenly became scared for their lives.(Of what?!...oh wait I forgot if a kid in DC dies by a drive by that's par for DC but a death in surburbia now that rates)

And then the media bringing up all this shit as if suddenly these people deaths got more and more special. Seriously I watched as reporters claim this such and such death was the most tragic to date. I was think I'm sure the six kids who'll never see their father again are truly feeling that way about this woman. All death is tragic...they don't trate on how bad it gets...oi.

And then of course we had round the clock coverage...basically a moron going..."well we know found he's using this caliber of weaponry...and MAY...that's right MAY be using vehicular transportation."

Seriously I usually am disgusted by the media...but seriously this was literally something local blew up national dram because it was surburbia, and not downtown DC...and that sickens me.
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People that say all American Indians are drunks. That pisses me off.

People that say all Indians are rich. That also pisses me off.

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A good majority of the populace annoys me in some form or way. Closed minded individuals I rather dislike. Extraordinarly closed minded individuals I try to not associate with.
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Black people who feel that if you don't follow the stereotype, your ethnicity is in question. Do you have any idea how many times I've been accused of "Talking White" when I don't use slang.

Non-blacks who, despite not having taken a single step in a black man's shoes, act as if everything is perfectly fine, and blacks should stop complaining.

Conversely, Black people who take racial(and non-racial) matters too seriously, and think things are worse than they are.

Most rappers after 1997.

And yes, a majority of White People.
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