Snobbish men and my HATRED for them!!!!!

"Políticos embriagados
Dançando em guetos arruinados
E os profetas desacordados
A te ouvir" --Skank Tanto (I love this song)


Oh my god.. 4 posts in a row. I've been glued to my chair for the past couple hours. Ugh. Last one!


So, I signed up for Okcupid. (www.okcupid.com) It's a site that I heard about a couple of years ago, and they give all of these crazy quizzes. The REASON I signed up was just to take tons and tons of quizzes just out of sheer amusement. It is also, though, a place where people can post a pic of themselves and create profiles and chat with other people, whether to meet new friends or for possible dating in your area, or whatever. But the quizzes are awesome like "What Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor are you?" and "What would be your job if you lived in the 1400s?", "How effective is your gaydar?" and other random, useless quizzes that are a ton of fun to take just to get the results. So I've taken TONS of quizzes. Probably 100+. Anyway, as I was signing on (I was bored and looking for cheap amusement), there is a section that says "so and so really liked this quiz" or "so and so just added this to his/her profile" etc. And one was this guy who had just added "Pallas" to his profile and I was thinking 'ooooh!!!', so I clicked on his profile to read more about him. For those of you who don't know, I had taken 5 years of Latin in school, and 'Pallas' is actually a name for the goddess of wisdom, 'Athena'. And I thought that his reference was perhaps to that, but it wasn't. It was to a band called 'Pallas'. But I found that out after reading through his profile. But READING through his profile I discovered that he's working on his PhD in quantum chemistry, and he speaks english, russian, french, czech, swedish and ukrainian, and said that if anyone speaks any of the latter four that they should message him. In addition, he made some comment about "From my country...blah blah blah" And so I was curious as to where he is from. SO (though I don't normally EVER message random people), seeing as how I love chemistry (especially organic chem), have a knack for languages and an affinity for foreigners, I wrote him an email through Okcupid, but in French. And just talking about whatever stuff. I found out that he has been living in the states since 2002. He is from Ukraine and his family still lives there. I also discovered that his french is much weaker than he'd made it sound to be. Too bad that we don't have more languages that overlap, because I'd love to practice mandarin or portuguese with him.

In any case, I was talking to him and OH MY GOD is this guy a snob. Like...ridiculously so. I'm not sure I've met anyone like him. He whines about how he came to the USA to practice english and he speaks english better than anyone here (he english is flawless, and he does have impressive vocabulary), he talks about how everyone is stupid and he's sick of talking to unintellectual people. And then he talked about this cute Peruvian girl (in my opinion she's cute, but he terms her as 'OK') who has become enamored with him, who he can't stand even hanging out with because her intelligence is so inferior to his own. He said he has TWO friends in the states, but all the rest are from Quebec or Belgium or Ukraine or some other place in the world. I asked him if he ever misses his family and he said "No. I have grown out of their social class. I have nothing to even talk to them about anymore." I think my jaw about dropped on that one. He feels he is better than his parents and too good for his parents.

Then he continued to talk about how he loves chess and philosophy and criticism. He talked about how he is a stark atheist and how people who believe in any religion are so stupid and beneath him. He has a contempt for a religion and he pities religious people. He then remarked that he listens to "intellectual music", and only 1% of the world actually listens to intellectual music and unless someone is truly intelligent that person cannot enjoy that music. He commented on how Americans are fat and have a poor sense of humor. And the USA needs to be like Europe and develop more subways and public transportation so that people can get more exercise and stop using cars for everything.

He talked about his theses and about how he is going to sell some idea to google for $100,000,000 and be rich. He said he will only date girls who are beautiful, very intelligent and rich. He continued to say that the USA is an awful place to live and if the economy were better in other countries he'd move immediately. He said that it is imperative that people learn how to speak french and read french literature and he will not converse with people who cannot speak french. I mentioned sports and he completely dismissed them as as "unworthy of an intellectual's time and attention". He then said that he does not watch American movies because 95% of them are worthless crap, and he has "no patience to seek a few decent ones among the still formidable remaining 5%."

I used the word "fun" (I said something like: "Oh, that should be fun.") and he very nearly had a heart attack, saying that he was going to pick on me for the rest of the night because I use such words as "fun". He said "Mmmm... when I have to talk to my parents I talk about about the expenses of living in Atlanta, and that pleases them." That's stupid. No one talks like that. That pleases them?!?!? NO!!!!!!!!!!! THEY THINK TALKING ABOUT EXPENSES IS FUN! FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, perhaps 'fun' would not go in that case. Perhaps, rather, they enjoy hearing about the costs of living in Atlanta, or they find it amusing. Yes, 'fun' is perhaps not the word to fit in that sentence, but I will say it anyway. FUNNNNNNNN. Expenses are fun! They are chill in da hood, yo!

He talked about how when he was 14 he was chosen among just a few kids in Ukraine to work on different ways to make LSD. I had mentioned that I learned how to make heroine through an organic chem class, and he commented, saying, "LSD is about 100 times more difficult to make than heroine. Anyone can make heroine." Ummm.....

He concluded the conversation saying that by talking to me he can tell that I'm not very intelligent but I seem nice enough so he shall continue to talk to me for the time being. WTF?!?!?!?!!???? I can say that I have NEVER in my life so much regretted knowing french. I have never in my life been more patriotic than I am now, and now I want to spend hours on end watching American movies... that is, after I spend a few hours playing sports. He's given me utter disdain for anything European. I now refuse to touch a chess board with a ten foot pole. I cannot believe someone like him exists. And if I were his parents I would be ashamed to have him for a son, not the other way around. Ugh.