Co-worker Hypocrisy

[molgrips]

Well by your own admission you're obviously a superior person than your friend because you bought a Prius.

If I were your friend I'd want you to do me a favor and just never talk to me again if you feel that way. It won't be his loss.

Its attitudes like yours that make me emberassed to own a Prius.[/b]

To be honest mate you've got no idea about my attitudes.. you wouldn't know me if you passed me in the street.

I'm not preaching, and I don't preach. I occasionally like to make people think.

I still talk to the guy, and he still talks to me. I rib him about his car because I know our relationship can stand it. OBVIOUSLY!

So why don't you just button it and stop making up ideas about what I'm like just so YOU'VE got something to feel superiour about.

[SW03ES]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(molgrips @ Sep 9 2006, 08:05 PM) [snapback]317136[/snapback]</div>

To be honest mate you've got no idea about my attitudes.. you wouldn't know me if you passed me in the street.

I'm not preaching, and I don't preach. I occasionally like to make people think.

I still talk to the guy, and he still talks to me. I rib him about his car because I know our relationship can stand it. OBVIOUSLY!

So why don't you just button it and stop making up ideas about what I'm like just so YOU'VE got something to feel superiour about.
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So I've got a reason to feel superior? Not preaching? HAHAHAHAHAHA

Lets take a look at some dictionary definitions.

"Superior"

5. Affecting an attitude of disdain or conceit; haughty and supercilious.
6. Above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune[/b]

"Haughty"

disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.[/b]

"Arrogant"

making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official.[/b]

You don't think passing judgement about the character of a person by the type of vehicle he chooses to drive, and insinuating that you yourself are of superior character and commitment to improving the environment simply because of what you choose to drive doesn't qualify under these definitions as arrogantly assuming yourself to be superior?

If you don't, then you REALLY qualify.

Not preaching?

"Preach"

3. to advocate or inculcate (religious or moral truth, right conduct, etc.) in speech or writing.
5. to give earnest advice, as on religious or moral subjects or the like
6. to do this in an obtrusive or tedious way.[/b]

I'd say you were certainly advocating a moral truth or right conduct in speech or writing, and taking from the responses you've gotten from some here I'd say you were doing it in an obtrusive or tedious way.

I occasionally like to make people think too.