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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
How about people who think that taking AP classes make them better/more intelligent than people who don't? I almost got in a bitch-fight once in high school because of that.
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Agreed. AP doesn't mean smarter, it's just a different kind of learning environment. I found it meant more discussion and it meant more sharing of your thoughts. I was always annoyed with people who just regurgitated something, most of the time it was taken completely out of context. I guess I should change the wording "People who pretend to have original thoughts annoy me. Sophists make me angry. And most of the time, it is these people who launch themselves into the conversation, as if they need to win a battle that isn't even being fought."
That annoys me. And Snowy, I think you'll notice the "I hate being spoken down to". I'm not elitist; I just hate phony intellectuals. High School didn't weed them out, which annoyed me to no end because I wanted to enjoy coming to school; most of the time it felt like an obligation for me because I had to sit through some sort of crazy opinion about how Tess of the D'Ubervilles was comparable to Gravity's Rainbow (I'm pretty sure that person just wanted to throw out a strange and random title and author that sounded obscure but I had read both pieces and called her out on it. She had no reply). University tended to oust those crazy pseudo-Pynchon fans pretty quickly.