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I correct people about everything. I'm a total smart ass. | |
Stop being a smart ass. | |
I'm VERY elitist. It's not even about something specific, when someone says something I don't agree with I can't help but talk down to them. | |
I am elitist by admission and I believe that, in a way, most people are. For example, I'm a huge movie junkie. I will probably only keep three movies on my hard-drive, and I already have three. 2001: A Space Odyssey, There Will Be Blood, and F' For Fake, which are my three favourite movies of all time (so far), make up pretty much what passes for my movie collection, because I get the feeling that no other movie that I know of as of yet deserves to share their company in my collection. Similarly, I have a playlist that I call 'hardcore awesome' (got the idea from a friend of mine who has a playlist of the same name) in which I place only the most unique, dork-awesome music tracks that I have, like stuff by Gogol Bordello, Secret Chiefs 3 (check those out; highly recommended), and Manowar. Even my favourite band, Iron Maiden, didn't make it there because they aren't eccentric/unique enough, which is admittedly elitist on my part. | |
Why? Being a smart ass is fun. | |
I absolutely hate the trad vs sport argument (its a climbing thing). Basically its 2 different ways of protecting yourself when you fall, most people accept and live with both, leaving it to your personal choice. Theres always that minority of trad climbers who for some reason think their above everything else and start raving about how their all 'true' climbers and all this sort of crap. Its really annoying, especially since they climb generally easier stuff anyway! | |
"Because someday someone bigger than you is going to beat the smart ass out of you." That's what my mother told me 25 years ago and it still ain't happened. | |
I'm trying to correct you. I'm just being a smart ass. :D | |
It's not really elitism when 99% of people out there are borderline retarded. | |
Cycling. People that don't know a Headset from a Bottom Bracket annoy me intensely when they try and talk technical. Even more so when they drop a lump of rust and galvanic corrosion in my lap and expect me to fix it for nothing. Usually I tell these people exactly how stupid I think they are then I tell them what's wrong with their bike. | |
I can't tell if that is sarcastic or not... (not sarcasm) Anyway, I don't think I'm all that elitist, but PC gaming is better than console gaming, and people who disagree are stupid and have never really played a PC game. (That first part was sarcastic. Second part; not so much.) I like to think that I'm not elitist, but when I look at myself from an objective standpoint, I'm an elitist bastard all the way. | |
My biggest elitism, not that I have many, but still biggest, is the knowledge that I would be a much better national leader than most people, definitely better than the fuquits in charge today. I could really fix up my nation, some people won't be happy, many won't be happy at first, but when crime drops, government spending is better controlled, and all the minor annoyances of daily life start to disappear, you'll thank me. A dictator is often thought to be synonymous with an tyrant. It's not the same thing, and dictators (tyrant or benevolent) get shit done. I want to be your tyrant. | |
Grammar generally. But in the city i live in, barely anyone can even pronounce a word properly, so much to the fact that a book has been published so vistors can understand half of us entitled "The book of hull speak" | |
I always feel an insatiable urge to berate someone if their spelling or grammar is incorrect when typing, though I usually only do so if it's exceptionally bad. This in itself annoys me, but I can't help it. Also, whenever I see someone dancing in place to the latest rap song that they love, I can't help but feel superior to them as I listen to my mainly rock music. Ironically, I'm also a fan of alternative rap/hip hop, so I tend to feel hypocritical after the superiority dies down. | |
I'm the anti piracy advocate here. I yell extensively at anyone who justifies stealing shit from people | |
>Evolution (especially against a creationist) Here's a somewhat simpler way of doing this http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/ (just follow the numbers): | |
Amen. Although I, personally believe that they aren't stupid, the problem is that they're misinformed...and they like it like that. Anyway, People call me an elitist because I believe that people should have to take a test (similar to a citizenship test) before they can vote. Turning 18 and being born in the country doesn't make you competant, nor informed, and I don't want my leaders determined by some uninformed proletariat who's voting for a candidate because his family has been voting with the same party for over 100 years. "The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." | |
People that pirate things, such as games or music, annoy me. What really annoys me is when they justify it and berate me for being a "corporate pawn" and make me out to be the morally incorrect one.
That may just be one of the single greatest ideas relating to the voting system that I've ever heard. I must remember it. | |
Such a test would not be a bad idea. | |
The Irish second-level education system. It sucks. Could have done it better myself, etc, etc. | |
Finally, someone who agrees with me. (I'm in a rather conservative neighborhood, not many people like me as a political person) Edit: Incidently, the idea has been tried in the States before, but the system was abused to keep people from voting for reasons other than knowledge (race). Thus, the idea has acquired a stigma. | |
Oh yeah? We'll I'm the liberal twat, and I'm better than you, you corporate flunkey.... freedumb!!!! just kidding. anyway, i'm elitist when it comes to science. I'm allowed to be, because I got a phD, and you didn't. And I like to call people on it when they spew pseudo- and preconceptual-science. | |
I was going to say, the south did that. There's just no way you could make a test that would be completely fair. This also slants the power to the wealthy who have the leisure time to be educated. The problem is that right now the media anti-informs people by focusing everyone's attention elsewhere. It's also a problem that our system forces you to side with whichever of the 2 sides shares the most of your beliefs. You can't be for libertarian economics and gay marriage/abortion because you can only vote for one party's candidate. I think it was Churchhill who said "Democracy doesn't work, it just works 5 times better than anything else we've tried" | |
I'm too good for elitism. Petty little pseudo-intellectuals with something to prove. Pah! Let them wave about their flacid little members of half-understood learning while I placidly stroke my engorged staff of superiority. I shall never need eat the biscuit. What? It's true. | |
Such a test is a great idea in theory, but the people who would set such a test would probably be partisan appointments. So the test would consist of one question, possibly along the lines of, "George Walker Bush: Great President or the Greatest President?". Also, everybody knows that the left wing are lazy and apathetic, so a test would be disadvantageous to the communist side of politics. | |
I only look down at people who empower themselves with their ignorance. | |
It this kind of elitism that annoys me and it seems to be fairly pervasive on the internet. This belief that the individual is superior because they have a different viewpoint or have read an article about the subject etc. It seems that whilst people are keen to condemn others they wilud never admit their own flaws. By the number of people around here who claim to be so superior to the rest of society the escapist is some kind of magnet for world's greatest minds | |
God dammit! I was supposed to be the one who's supposedly above elitism! | |
It's the world's greatest 'Think Tank'. Quickly, we should start trying to solve all the world's problems! | |
I think it's pervasive everywhere. Most people no matter how IQ defficient or actually slow they are, believe that most people besides themselves are morons. It's probably just a side effect of our heliocentric subjective existence but you would think that so many people have heard this sentiment from others that the statement should be considered pointless and ironic. | |
Case in point. | |
i dont think i am elitist, however i think i am above the elitist because i dont take every chance to be a smart ass and act superior to everyone (which i know i am doing now, i hardly ever do this). i just dont find it makes you feel good or anything it just pisses the people you are being elitist to off, so to all you elitist's take it easy | |
the greatest flaw of the average man is the consideration that he is better than everyone else, especially when only exercising it through bureaucratic measures; e.g. smart asses who correct spelling and grammar errors as if it was the end of the world if someone misspelled the term YOU'RE. people like that like to create a reason for themselves, and usually the outcome is just as bad as their own mind is. the real elite is actually keeping quiet and working for more meaningful causes than a world society to end all spelling errors. if you think you're an elitist, you've got to prove it. i might add that while IQ certainly has its say in this, there are different forms of intelligence. | |
Last I reviewed the dictionary; "elitist" quite basically meant someone who believed himself superior to his peers (not necessarily, mind you, someone who actually was superior). My point being - some believe. I know. Thusly I can straddle myself high above you petty elitists, and throw peanuts at you from my lofty perch. Ha! | |
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I'm sure we've all encountered some form of Elitism at some point in our lives, whether it was in an everyday conversation or on these very forums. My question to you is, What topic gets the best of you? Is it politics? Technology? The Mundane? Anything at all? I speak of things that if you hear someone say speak incorrectly about the subject matter, it irks you to the point that you must speak up and say your piece.
Mine would have to be things involving video games(how typical eh?). Its not that people can't talk about video games in front of me, but when you have those people that think the Japanese are light years ahead and have the Playstation 5 already, I can't help but speak up. (Yeah...this happened to me when the PS2 came out *sigh* people these days)