if you like talking about other people's "preconceptions," in fact if you pretty much use the word at all, you are an idiot, agree/disagree?

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― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

you're prejudiced, man.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

just needed to let off steam

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

pot, meet kettle?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

pot IS kettle

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds like a bit of a pedantic criticism to me. Sure, you can't literally know another person's "preconception" of something, but you can make reasonable inferences.

Unless you're trying to say that people use the word improperly.

pre·con·cep·tion Pronunciation (prkn-spshn)
n.
An opinion or conception formed in advance of adequate knowledge or experience, especially a prejudice or bias.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't see why this is true

i mean you can use the word some insufferably pompous ways, but it's perfectly applicable in some situations, no?

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― v (sleep), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i knew i'd open up a whole pot meets kettle of fish

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

to repeat, was just venting

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

you must admit though that people who like this word a lot tend to think they're smarter than everyone else

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"there's a fish in the coffee pot!"

http://www.lynchtown.com/immagini/TP-Pete.jpg

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fostercare/art/roberts20pq.gif

― caitlin oh no (harbl), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't like this word either. also "half-baked notions"

― caitlin oh no (harbl), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

look, disagree with slocki all you want but you gotta respect his right to have an opinion

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, but I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. And that's the beauty of democracy.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

at the end of the day, irregardless of whether or not i agree with you, i'll defend your right to say it.

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

also, if you don't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a free country.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You've got a point. I have to admit.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

IMHO.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

But you can't come to me with all these preconceived notions and ideas about what words and expressions people should or should not be using. You have to come with an open mind -- that's where real dialogue starts.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link

irregardless?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i was biting my tongue on that one cause i thought it was meant to be funney?

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S NEVER FUNNEY!!!!

(okay, actually, it is)

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

FWIW.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys ever vaporize pot in a kettle? seems pretty tight.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i was biting my tongue on that one cause i thought it was meant to be funney?

meant to be, yes. gimme a little credit.

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

iternets is cash only

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link

internets even! my card gets revoked.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.theevilempire.com/musings/images/05212003.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 28 December 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that thinking about people's perceptioonosssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 28 December 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"you cant come in here spouting universal truths unqualified and use my toaster"

― bb (bbia), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

this is the way my brother talks

― m coleman (lovebug ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

you know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. you can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. but you do not get to watch my fucking television set!

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

let's not get into a debate about semantics, there are real issues at hand

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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