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| Are You an Elitist?; 18 Revealling Ways to Know For Sure | |
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| Jacaranda | Sep 14 2008, 12:55 PM Post #1 |
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Are You an Elitist? Oh well, I read. I'm hopelessly tagged now. |
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| Bill | Sep 14 2008, 01:06 PM Post #2 |
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Before even clicking the link, let me just say that you're dan right I'm an elitist and I make no apologies for it. I listen to the Beatles, not the Bay City Rollers. I am an elitist. I read Douglas Adams, not Jacquie Collins. I am an elitist. I read the Age, not the Herald-Sun. I am an elitist. I watch Lateline, not A Current Affair. I am an elitist. In short, I want quality, nor mediocrity. Anyone got a problem with that? |
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| FamousGroupie | Sep 14 2008, 01:08 PM Post #3 |
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Not at all, but I read the Herald Sun, and watch a Current Affair (and Lateline). What does that make me? |
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| Bill | Sep 14 2008, 01:23 PM Post #4 |
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Aspirational?
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 03:18 PM Post #5 |
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Good one Lisa. I agree with 11, 14, 15, 17 but it doesn't make me an Elitist. One word can't describe the complexity of my being. ?????? |
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| maccascruff | Sep 14 2008, 05:10 PM Post #6 |
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I shop at Whole Foods and am a vegetarian. I am an elitist My furniture is a mixture of things I have been given or purchased since I ventured out on my own in 1974. I am an elitist "17. You are, for some godforsaken reason, absolutely convinced all the way down to your most profound sense of what is divine and truthful in this strangled world that violence and bloodshed are rarely the answer, that the irrefutable spiritual laws of the universe confirm that like attracts like and even at a quantum level there is a profound pull toward a divine, benevolent dynamic equilibrium, and therefore constructing a malicious national policy of torture and surveillance and pre-emptive aggression merely shames the better nature of the human animal and invites a particularly violent energy into the national bloodstream and poisons the human heart as it creates nothing but more turmoil and unrest and hate in the world. Man, only an elitist jerk would tolerate a ridiculous run-on sentence like that." eltisit me |
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| BeatleBarb | Sep 14 2008, 05:35 PM Post #7 |
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I've been to Whole Foods and can use "acumen" in a sentence. Boy, I'm doomed. |
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| beatlechick | Sep 14 2008, 06:41 PM Post #8 |
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sh*t, I couldn't get the first paragraph AND I don't think that I am dumb. I also do shop at Whole Foods, can speak some foreign language, would like to burn a man but never been to a burning man. I also can use acumen and know what a strap-on is! I guess I'm doomed to elitism. Damn proud of it, too!! |
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 08:26 PM Post #9 |
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I'm just a good ole boy who likes French chardonnay, caviar and Haagen Dazs Mayan Chocolate ice cream. Sort of an 'everyman', if you will. I will take the quiz after football...erm...I mean my polo match.
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 08:33 PM Post #10 |
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A glass of Moët et Chandon Sir? |
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 09:24 PM Post #11 |
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Si, could you bring the whole bottle along with some caviar to my bedroom around midnight?
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 09:25 PM Post #12 |
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Nat will do that Sir, don't worry.
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 09:54 PM Post #13 |
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Maybe you could bring the Moet and Natalie could bring up the caviar plate? Also some fresh fruit and cheese with crackers would be nice...
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 09:59 PM Post #14 |
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Tropical fruits, Aged Swiss Cheese and Italian hand-rolled crackers?
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 10:21 PM Post #15 |
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That sounds perfect! bring these:
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| Deleted User | Sep 14 2008, 10:45 PM Post #16 |
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Yellow watermelon? I never saw one before. Where are they from? |
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| Bag O' Nails | Sep 15 2008, 12:03 AM Post #17 |
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A columnist from the San Francisco Chronicle. That says it all.
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| Jacaranda | Sep 15 2008, 12:29 AM Post #18 |
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What does it say Heidi? That he lives on the West Coast and is a professional writer?
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| Bag O' Nails | Sep 15 2008, 12:36 AM Post #19 |
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The SF Chronicle is notorious for it's liberal points of view. I was hoping this was just a fun quiz....
Edited by Bag O' Nails, Sep 15 2008, 12:37 AM.
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| Dorfliedot | Sep 15 2008, 01:26 AM Post #20 |
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I guess, I am none of them. |
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| Bill | Sep 15 2008, 01:52 AM Post #21 |
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How come it's okay to diss San Francisco but not Anchorage? I'll tell you where there are more taxpayers. |
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| maccascruff | Sep 15 2008, 01:54 AM Post #22 |
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The answer is because the San Francisco Chronicle is -- whatever that is supposed to mean. |
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| Mia Culpa | Sep 15 2008, 04:35 AM Post #23 |
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Am I an elitist? I used to live in Alaska, so no. I now live in Israel, so yes. I went to school in California, so yes. I've fired weapons, so no. I don't even know what whole foods are, so no. I'm not impressed by Obama's speeches, so no. I've used a hammer, so no. I'm religious, so no. I don't read the New York Times, so no. I've read San Francisco newspapers, so yes. You want to talk guilt for 2000 years? You guys have nothing on us. Do I talk like a normal person? Normal to who? Do I speak a foreign language? Foreign to who? Have I travelled to exotic lands? Exotic to who? The author of this article is clearly not an elitist. But he desperately wants to be. |
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| Bag O' Nails | Sep 15 2008, 06:41 PM Post #24 |
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| Bag O' Nails | Sep 15 2008, 06:42 PM Post #25 |
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I live in CA; you don't have to tell me!
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| Deleted User | Sep 15 2008, 08:04 PM Post #26 |
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Thailand. I figured you could swing by on your way to Russia for the caviar and France for the Moet.
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| beatlechick | Sep 16 2008, 12:07 AM Post #27 |
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Ah but why swing by Russia when you could just smell it from Alaska?!?
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| Deleted User | Sep 16 2008, 01:50 AM Post #28 |
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Actually, I just get that $5 jar of Black Lumpfish caviar from Krogers and I can't tell the difference because I have never tried the real thing. I hope I do one day... Damn! I just got that joke.
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| Aimee Wilbury | Sep 16 2008, 12:11 PM Post #29 |
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I talk like a geek. What the hell is Whole Foods? My furniture is all cheap laminate stuff. I think I know what a strap-on is, but I'm not quite sure. I don't drink. I also don't smoke or do drugs. I never go to dinner parties. I'm Canadian. I have hammered various things, including my thumb. Accidentally. I don't know if I am religious or not. I can't speak anything except English. I don't read the New York Times. I don't believe in bloodshed, but I have been known to punch people who were being jerks. |
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| beatlechick | Sep 17 2008, 01:07 AM Post #30 |
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hehehe.......... |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Sep 22 2008, 07:14 PM Post #31 |
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I AM THE BIGGEST JOHN FAN!
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I`m an elitist! I`d go straight for the Absinthe. A little wormwood does a body good.
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| Deleted User | Sep 22 2008, 07:20 PM Post #32 |
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| Deleted User | Sep 22 2008, 07:57 PM Post #33 |
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Ditto the Second. |
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| ~LovelyRita~ | Sep 22 2008, 08:15 PM Post #34 |
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I dated an elitist, does that count? |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Sep 22 2008, 08:33 PM Post #35 |
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I AM THE BIGGEST JOHN FAN!
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shoe betcha!
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| Bill | Sep 23 2008, 01:55 AM Post #36 |
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It depends. Did you get a second date? |
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| ~LovelyRita~ | Sep 28 2008, 11:56 PM Post #37 |
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[rant]lasted about 2 months actually. He was quite amusing, coming up with great lines like: "I've decided I will no longer consider myself "a writer", I don't want to be confined to words on a page. From now on I would prefer to be labeled "an artist"." I essentially convinced him to go vegetarian, which he brags about (another way for him to feel superior to everyone else) and when I mention that it was due to my influence all he'll admit is that "you may have helped put the idea in my mind" and implies that he most definitely would have become one without me. He grew out this ridiculous beard just to stand out from the "populous". He also wrote a short story about our relationship that will be published in the campus literary magazine this fall. That'll be one to look forward too; I can tell you right now who's going to come off in a better light, and it ain't gonna be me. If anything I think he made me an anti-elitist. I'm all for individualism (what I found attractive about him in the first place) but the elitist "holier than thou" attitude is really f*cking annoying.[/rant] Edited by ~LovelyRita~, Sep 28 2008, 11:57 PM.
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| Mia Culpa | Sep 29 2008, 05:28 AM Post #38 |
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That's not an elitist. That's a w*nker. |
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| otlset | Sep 29 2008, 07:16 PM Post #39 |
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Does the ability to walk on water mean anything? It was all over the bathroom floor this morning... |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Sep 29 2008, 10:45 PM Post #40 |
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Happy to agree with you on this one, Mia. There's nothing wrong with being smart, refined, appreciating less-than-universal art and, basically, having good taste. It's when the supposed 'Elitist' tries to make everyone feel stupid for not appreciating the things they do, that when the 'Elitist' tag becomes understandably negative. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 30 2008, 02:02 PM Post #41 |
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Thanks for the compliment Andy.
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| Deleted User | Sep 30 2008, 02:08 PM Post #42 |
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What a supernatural power you have. Next time make a video of your unique experience and post on youtube. It's not everyday you see a person walking on water, barefoot. Oprah will call you, I guarantee. You should buy some rainboots so you can show your fashion way of walking on water. You will be elitist for sure.
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| ~LovelyRita~ | Sep 30 2008, 07:53 PM Post #43 |
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I actually think the term elitist has a pretty negative connotation no matter what. I see it as meaning someone who purposefully alienates themself from society on the basis of superior intellect. I prefer the term "intellectual". |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Oct 1 2008, 10:48 AM Post #44 |
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Well, when you consider the actual definition of Elitism (and an Elitist is one who believes in Elitism); Elitism - The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. I think that 'intellectual' is a much better description, although that term isn't without negative connotations. You can guarantee to get others riled if you proclaim yourself an 'intellectual' - unless you are in the company of other self-proclaimed intellectuals, of course. Conceit of one's own intelligence often walks hand-in-hand with arrogance, in my experience. |
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| Mia Culpa | Oct 2 2008, 03:52 AM Post #45 |
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Not at all. |
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| Mia Culpa | Oct 2 2008, 03:53 AM Post #46 |
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Nothing bugs me more than a pretentious snob. Except rocket attacks. |
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| Mia Culpa | Oct 2 2008, 03:56 AM Post #47 |
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That's why the Obamites are trying to turn it around. Instead of trying to show they're not elitsts they're trying to change the definition. |
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| Bill | Oct 2 2008, 04:03 AM Post #48 |
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What's wrong with having an elite candidate for an elite job? |
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| pythonesque | Oct 5 2008, 08:58 AM Post #49 |
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not sure if im a elitist or not.possibly. i prefer real ale to bland fizzy lagers. i prefer docs/history to reality tele, i prefer "real" music to manufactured pop(does that incl.the monkees?) i prefer interesting bios to bios of "celebs" who have no talent and have only been around for 5 minutes, do i sound like a snob? hope not.im not a toff.east end working class roots and all that,blah blah blah |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Oct 5 2008, 10:00 AM Post #50 |
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I'm with you on all of those points. Hail to the elite!
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| Bill | Oct 5 2008, 10:57 AM Post #51 |
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Some people cal you the elite. I call you my base. |
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| maccascruff | Oct 5 2008, 06:08 PM Post #52 |
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This Obama supporter prefers the term intellectual and professorial. |
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| ~LovelyRita~ | Oct 5 2008, 09:35 PM Post #53 |
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Yea, that's the irony of people claiming Obama comes across as egotistical and elitist. What is he supposed to come across as? You can't really be modest when you're running for president. I think most people want the most capable person in America to have that job, yet they insult the candidates for trying to convince them of such. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 5 2008, 10:03 PM Post #54 |
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Rocket attacks from pretentious snobs are absolutely the worst.
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The elitists only attack poorer countries. |
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