Do You Have a Moron-Deal Breaker Point of Reference with people?

MyLove4Satan

While I do not go around constantly judging people - as I am not a Christian - I still find myself using a person's particular taste in something as an indicator that myself and this individual will never be friends and I never want them near me.

For me the ultimate sign of someone being a moron I never want near me is they think Mrs Brown's Boys is good TV.

fortwilliam

Religion.... if they allow some religion dictate how they live then they instantly drop in my estimation and are not for me.

veryangryman

Buys a lotto ticket/scratch card more than once a year. Bonus points when they hold me up in the shop.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058239391/do-you-have-a-moron-deal-breaker-point-of-reference-with-people

I think you do go around judging people, deciding who is a Moron. And you are in good company here with the Can't Stand, Most Annoying Voice, Biggest Idiot and more threads where people are being judged all the time.

o1s1n

If someone indicates to me that they in any way believe in astrology or the supernatural that's a massive indication that they are not the kind of person I'd chose to go for a pint with...

silliussoddius

Conspiracy theorists.

Westernyelp

Uses 'of' in place of 'have' when writing

Donald Trump

Depends how hot she is

sully123

Doesn't recycle

griffin100

Wear an English soccer jersey when a grown adult / full county GAA kit when on holidays.

Shao Kahn

Hive-mind liberal morons!

Especially the type who are inclined to bully others into falling in line with their group-think consensus.

It really should be recognized as an official mental illness. Perhaps they will come up with a cure one day... we can only hope! 😆

km991148

And also Hive-mind right wing morons!

Especially the type to regurgitate nonsense from the right wing press that uses their power to bully marginalised groups.

Maybe one day there will be a cure :D

km991148

May as well stick down people that view the word in binary/ black and white. R vs L etc - there is no nuance anymore... but this is turning into a(nother) rant thread really.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852492#Comment_118852492

Tribalistic zealots may be the term you're looking for.

Dial Hard

People who seem to think not having read a book since school is something to be proud of.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852214#Comment_118852214

Just using your username and numerology, it would be easy to work out that you feel that way.

You also don't believe in tasseomancy, especially the beer version (divination by the pattern the beer leaves on your glass), so there will be no pint in suggesting that for when you head to the pub...

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058239391/do-you-have-a-moron-deal-breaker-point-of-reference-with-people

Gender pronouns in bio

fryup

conspiracy theories - when they start talking about 9/11 being staged, and 5G being mind control or vaccines make you sick --> i'm out of here

People who don't like any sports whatsoever. Or people who don't drink without a good reason.

El_Duderino 09

Inability to listen. When you're chatting and you listen to them for a while, and when you speak they latch onto something you say and they're off again. Im sure we all do it from time to time so it's not a straight red card, but it's red flag

theguzman

Covid being all conspiracy, NWO, Anti-Vaxxer, anti-Ukrainian refugees and of these Gemma O'Doherty fringe far-right types. Bunch of stone mad lunatics, and really damaging what can be genuine points of debate. Any sort of equally leftwing extremists can go take a running jump before I'd associate with them.

Jequ0n

The ones who leave a shop to stop right outside the door without realising that they are blocking everything.

MyLove4Satan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852214#Comment_118852214

The supernatural is just stuff science does not understand yet. I am into it. I find it wonderfully interesting in fact.

MyLove4Satan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852794#Comment_118852794

Coivd is not all a conspiracy, but more and more people are seeing it for a mega media hype for -sinister no matter how you look at it - government control and corporate profits that it most certainly is. Sorry but there is something very dodgy about certain elements of it beyond virology. Several governments around the world lost the run of themselves and openly came close to fascism when they thought they had a chance for it. This alone is deeply troubling.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118853203#Comment_118853203

That’s such a Ophichius thing to say.

Ardillaun

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058239391/do-you-have-a-moron-deal-breaker-point-of-reference-with-people

A lot of people I meet in Canada think this is standard Irish humour so I have as much hope of changing that as getting them to pronounce my name correctly. I’ve got friends from the entire political spectrum here. A loudly pro-Trump relative began to wear me down after the third day when I made the mistake of debating with him. Can’t say any viewpoint is a non-starter. It’s cold and we need each other.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852734#Comment_118852734

They might not want to say tho, so how do you know if someone has a good reason?

85603

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118853203#Comment_118853203

Ok bit random, but anyway.

http://www.upsocl.com/positive/a-brain-scan-revealed-that-this-university-student-didnt-have-a-brain-his-head-was-filled-with-water/

sully123

Likes Dubai

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118851726#Comment_118851726

I used to think that way until I got older. A lot of people are guided by nothing at all, and many people are guided by impulse only and live fairly valueless lives.

I understand Ireland's difficult relationship with the Catholic Church and what was/is a pretty doctrinaire religion, but many people of faith do amazing things off the back of it - and faith communities are very important to millions (billions?) of humans worldwide.

Live and let live, there is always an underlying good message at the heart of the major world religions if you peel away what's on the surface and some of the dogmatic and ambitious that give religion a bad name. And there's at least an attempt to set the flawed world of man to rights in most faiths.

I see sheep

People who say "thanking you",

ThePentagon

If I find out they're an enthusiastic Sinn Fein supporter, I tend to assume the worst 😬

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118854142#Comment_118854142

People who say "guesstimate". A guess is a guess, an educated guess is an estimate - a guesstimate is nothing. I will literally stab anybody who uses guesstimate in my presence.

Also people who don't know the difference between literally and figuratively

Your thread title isn't great. So, yes.

Not quite. There are things that will cause me to raise an eyebrow, roll my eyes, or just wonder about the person.

None of those things really matter to me when it comes to having a connection with someone though. My past experiences have taught me and continue to teach me that people are surprising and amazing.

My deal breakers lie within your character, mainly how you treat other people. I can understand almost any behaviour...have compassion for your experiences...that doesn't mean I want you to be part of my life.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118852480#Comment_118852480

Can I just say that I have saved the quote you use for your sig. I love it. It's hopeful and beautiful.

Hah, empty vessels for sure.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118854319#Comment_118854319

It is a lovely quote though.

Or at least it is for me.

Anyone who calls social housing "free houses"

Or gives out about "single mothers popping out babies for the benefits".

Both qualify as moron points of reference to me.

RobbieTheRobber

As soon as someone uses the word 'woke' as an insult I know I am dealing with an easily lead fool.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118853406#Comment_118853406

He did have a brain. It was compressed and displaced "slowly" by the accumulating fluid

thefallingman

IF someone has a northern Irish accent i just can't listen to it for long it's horrible, also people who are clearly in love with themselves

TheIrishGrover

OK OK. OK. Left, Right, Binary, Non-Binary, Male, Female, Other, In, Out, Up, Down... I think there is a line that we can ALL agree on. Without prejudice . I think we call ALL agree that it is perfectly acceptable to point at, laugh at, ridicule and be prejudiced against.....

Flat Earthers

MyLove4Satan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118854853#Comment_118854853

Sorry, but you got that the other way around.

People who are 'woke' are nothing more that vacuous skin jobs filled with an ideology exclusively poured into them by a small segment of socially engineering uber ideologues. I have yet to meet a single 'woke' person who has any opinion inside them which actually originated from within their own cognition. Not one.

RobbieTheRobber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118855822#Comment_118855822

The main reason I really use the word woke is to describe something being changed from a sleep state.

But well played on identifying yourself to me. 🤣

Strumms

People who use phrases like ‘ sleep state ‘ yet criticise others for mentioning one of the greatest cancers on society, woke and wokeness :p

JimmyVik

So I am an Athiest and am a cyclist. Though I am not a Vegan.

If I hear a Vegan talking about being a Vegan, An Athiest moaning about non Athiests or a Cyclist moaning about motorists they are immediatly chalked up as gobsh!tes. Nobody actually cares that you are a Vegan, a cyclist or an Athiest but you and your little sounding off circle. Lete everyone else be who they want to be without having to bend to what you want them to be.

RobbieTheRobber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118855917#Comment_118855917

🤣🤣🤣

Another one in the wild!

Needles73

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118854195#Comment_118854195

I think you will find guesstimate is in the dictionary “an estimate based on a mixture of guesswork and calculation.”

Quitelife

Any of the Woke crowd ( social democrats crew in particular and a share of the new Sinn Fein crowd) who seem to be only looking for something to be outraged by ...if they start on about Binary genders etc FFS

RobbieTheRobber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118856029#Comment_118856029

Isn't this a circular logic fallacy?

You are outraged by people being outraged.