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Let’s be honest—most of us secretly judge people for little things, even if we know we probably shouldn’t. Maybe it’s how someone talks, dresses, or acts in public. These small things might not matter much, but they still catch our attention.
We asked the Bored Panda community to share the things they quietly judge others for. The answers are funny, honest, and super relatable. Scroll down to see if any of them match your own!
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#1
Having a ton of children because "God gives them to you." I find these families selfish and ignorant.
Final score:
75points
B 4 months ago
Oh, you'll absolutely LOVE the novel 10:59 by N. R. Baker. It's a thriller, but it contains facts that are scarier than any fiction. Exponential growth is going to wipe our species out sooner than anything else, and why? Ignorance. In the 1960s Martin Luther King Jr warned of the dangers, and at that point the Earth's human population was HALF what it is now. It's simply unsustainable, yet we go on breeding like the world will expand along with us.
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#2
If you commit crimes against children.... I will judge you.
If you commit crimes and use religion as an excuse... I will judge you.
Final score:
65points
#3
People who voted for Trump.
Final score:
64points
#4
Emotional abuse and bullying against their children.
If things get worse, I'd probably step in.
I did it once, in a subway station. The mother kept insulting her 8 y.o. girl for being "bad, ugly, and an idiot". I snapped at her: "Why are you doing this to your child?! You're setting her up for a life of mistreatment!"
Then, to the little girl: "You're smart and pretty, and you deserve to be treated right. Never forget that."
As I was leaving, I heard the girl's voice: "I'm smart and pretty! I'm smart and pretty!!"
Final score:
61points
#5
I totally judge parents on their kids' behaviour! 9 times out of 10, if I think your kid has awful behaviour, your behaviour is awful as well. In the end, I don't blame the kids. But yeah, I do judge the parents.
Also, people who brag about not having read any books in their life. A lot of silent judging from me.
Final score:
58points
#6
Their manners. They don't have to be refined and perfect, but the basics. Wipe your feet, don't burp/pass gas at the table, be polite and respectful, say please and thank you.. etc... I know when I'm at someone's house and they start burping loud at the table, I never wanna go back. I don't want to hear/see/smell/taste your nasty gastric issues. It's disgusting and I can't even pretend it isn't.
Final score:
49points
#7
Chewing with their mouth open. Especially crunchy food. Also, not respecting personal space.
Final score:
42points
Margaret Wartime 4 months ago
This is why I don’t get all the tiktok videos of people eating. They take huge bites and then chew loudly and sloppily while sauce is smeared all over their lips and it makes me want to gag - like wipe your mouth, ugh. I love food videos and the algorithm hasn’t yet picked up that I only want to see the food, not a close up of some lady’s inflated lips smacking and chewing and covered in sauce. 😂 🤢
#8
I know I shouldn't, but I secretly judge people on appearance.
For example, if a group of teenagers are wearing jogging outfits and baseball caps while they sit outside a fast food restaurant and smoke and litter and swear at passers-by (as seen in every British town and city), I find it very difficult not to think they're complete trash.
Or if people wear layers of make-up and designer clothes and pout their plastic lips for a camera while standing in places like ex-concentration camps, I can't help but consider what shallow, disrespectful, narcissists they are.
And if a loud-mouthed, brightly coloured bully changes his country's policies to disenfranchise the poor while he and his cronies get richer, again, I can't help wondering why that idiot is possibly allowed to continue unchecked with his power trip.
Final score:
41points
#9
Loudly religious people or performative religious types.. They want to be seen as good people doing good things but they're really just judgy hypocrites. Some of them are using religion as a grift to extort money from other folks. MANY of them are edging up on being christo-fascists with dreams of remaking the USA in their image.
Final score:
40points
#10
People who don't pick up their dog poop. ERRRR!!
Final score:
39points
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
100% agree with this. I just want to add one thing: Parks that require you to pick up your dog's p*o, but then allow people with horses. Those horses leave mega dumps all over the place, and nobody has to clean them. Why do this rich jerks get to leave their massive horse turds along the trail, but my dog's dookie is offensive. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to pick up after my dog, and I do it, even when there's horse dung around. I just don't get how that unfairness makes any sense.
#11
Their basic literacy: can't spell, can't construct grammatical sentences, can't punctuate, can't read beyond primary school level (if that), no critical literacy ( eg can understand use of figurative language and symbolism, ability to evaluate argument, can't distinguish between fact and opinion), can't construct basic written texts.
Final score:
38points
Sue 4 months ago
As a former grammar & spelling N**i, I've learned not to judge that type of thing, unless it is their job to do that sort of thing. I've known very intelligent people who could read well & figure how to fix complicated mechanical & electrical problems that they have never experienced before, but their spelling was atrocious. Now I judge the people who judge them, including myself. I'd rather have the person who can fix things or create things than someone who has the intelligence of my computer spell checker & auto reader & can be replaced by a computer. Authors are notoriously bad about spelling & grammar. Great grammar & spelling will get you a job as an admin to make corrections for people who make a lot more money than they do.
#12
- reading yellow press 'newspapers'
- constant trash talking about other people
- not being able to distinguish between emotions and facts
- saying 'God wanted it that way' as an excuse for doing nothing to solve a problem
- saying 'academic medicine is so bad for you' or something similar, being a huge fan of homeopathy
Final score:
31points
#13
I judge parents who walk into classrooms and moan about how it's everyone else's fault their little darling has awful behavior. Only to hear them swearing, being obnoxious and letting their child get away with it all because they don't want to be mean by saying no, and putting in boundaries. It's called being a parent. You are your child's first teacher.
Final score:
29points
Dolevaal 4 months ago
So much this. I work in kindergarten and I see that too much. SET YOUR KID BOUNDARIES. Yes, its hard to see them cry, yet boundaries are orientation too bc the child cant know how the world is working. With no boundaries you just make stuff harder für your kid bc kindergarten and school will set them aswell. Of course there should also be room for freedom and compromises. But keep in mind that raising a kid will also be hard work. You dont want that? Well then maybe dont have a kid.
#14
Carrying a Stanley cup, those stupid viral stuffed toys, or wearing anything plastered with designer logos. That kind of conspicuous consumption will make me judge you.
Final score:
27points
#15
I know it's wrong and bad of me, but I just can't help silently judging Disney Adults.
Final score:
27points
#16
Grammar and spelling. Retired teacher here, and I own my snobbery. Also handwriting. I've come to respect people more if they have legible *and* intelligent-looking writing. I've lost respect for people whose handwriting looks childish.
That said, I used to judge people for talking country, but have grown out of that snobbishness. Dialects and idiomatic speech are unique, and spoken conversation is and should be far different from written text.
Final score:
22points
Binky Melnik 4 months ago (edited)
Being both a software quality engineer and an editor (so I’m a double anаl-retentive аsshole), I usta practically pitch fits about bad grammar, but at some point, I became able to differentiate between bad grammar and someone whose first language isn’t English. At that point, I was able to relax about the latter group and not only cut ‘em some slack but also cheer ‘em on in my head because they’re learning something crazy-hard and doing a damned fine job of it!
#17
Super revealing clothing. I see so many (younger) people--predominantly girls and women--wearing practically non-existent clothing: Why bother getting dressed at all if your junk is still going to hang out? I fully believe people should wear what makes them feel good/comfortable, but you can't seriously tell me that short shorts that give severe camel-toe front wedgies is actually comfortable (not to mention pretty trashy looking. Not everyone wants to see your vúlva).
Final score:
17points
Panda McPandaface 4 months ago
So you "fully believe people should wear what makes them feel good/comfortable" as long as it makes you feel good and comfortable as well?
#18
Taking children while they obviously can't handle them/don't have the money/lack of brain/all of the above.
Obviously everybody should be following a course about children before they have them. Because in the end, the children end up in the same situation.
Final score:
17points
#19
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and just generally bad writing. If I can do these things well, it’s not that hard.
Final score:
16points
#20
When people talk about how they waste money, especially if they don't make a lot. Some of my friends brag about how wasteful they are, like laughing about impulse buys on Amazon, getting thousands of dollars worth of ink work, etc. They also want me to discuss my finances, but I just can't discuss it without my judgement coming through. And I can't even look them in the eye if they get a surprise expense like a sick pet and can't afford it.
Final score:
15points
Littlemiss 4 months ago
Heard this the other day. Got a female dog, didn't get her spayed. Their unfixed male dog got the female pregnant. They are complaining about how much its going to cost to have her spayed and get rid of unwanted puppies. Gee, which came first?
#21
I know it's already been said before, but grammar and speech. I know in today's communication abbreviations are somewhat needed due to limited space. My nit is that my brother will make-up ones I have no idea of knowing, and his spelling is horrendous. When conversing personally, I absolutely hate when not using the correct tense or phrase. A coworker habitually says " I seen", instead of " I saw". It drives me nuts when people sound unintelligent.
Final score:
12points
zububonsai 4 months ago (edited)
"I should of..." I literally looked into a grammar book to check if I had learned "I should have..." wrong in school (English is my third language), like , maybe there IS a "should of"? Spoiler: there isn't. It's just the invented/misheard version of "should have".
#22
People who claim to need welfare and get government-funded housing and various financial benefits, etc., and claim they can barely exist on it, yet still manage to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
Final score:
12points
M O'Connell 4 months ago
I've seen over the years that most substance abuse is a substitute for absent mental health care. If smoking is how you get through the day, perhaps consider that you have an anxiety problem and that other types of medication might help you more.
#23
I judge myself for judging people based on their clothing, even though I'm often right. For example, I saw a woman who was clearly dressed in a way that she wasn't from the city. White trash. She stopped to fix her hair and tug her too-tight top down in front of a shop window. It was a funeral home window with tombstones and urns on display. Tasteless. When I got within passing distance, under her white, see-through, too-tight skirt she was wearing a black thong. Still makes me shiver. It's nice to be wrong, by the way. I had to sit next to teenage boys on the bus and they looked like typical troubled teenagers. They talked the whole way about how they were worried about their obviously depressed friend and were planning a game and pizza night together to cheer him up. Oh my heart, how touching it was. I know that judging others is part of risk assessment when moving around in public places, but sometimes I'm unnecessarily mean inside my head.
Final score:
10points
#24
Using SNAP to buy nothing but junk food, especially when they have kids. Pop, chips, donuts, etc.., but no fruit or vegetables, not even a bag of potatoes.
Final score:
8points
Michael Largey 4 months ago
But it's ok for a rich person to use their Trump tax cut to buy nothing but junk food, especially when they have kids. Pop, chips, donuts, etc.., but no fruit or vegetables, not even a bag of potatoes.
#25
Teeth! The first thing I look at when I go on a dating site.
Final score:
8points
SadFatTortilla 4 months ago
I used to have a MAJOR hang up about that. I had very nice naturally straight teeth. But at 37 I had a child and he took all the nutrients from me and my teeth just started to fracture all the time. Also missing 2 side front teeth from being punched in the mouth while having a lip ring in. I'm poor and american so won't be seeing new teeth any time soon.
#26
Wearing gym clothes when clearly not going to the gym
Final score:
7points
#27
Facial piercings. You might look good in spite of them, but never because of them.
Final score:
7points
#28
I am really bad at shopping cart judging. Like, if someone's cart is full of soda, junk food, ultra-processed food, etc. I am standing there thinking my god, treat your body better and buy real food. That junk is poison. And the people buying stuff like that always look so unhappy, too.
Final score:
6points
M O'Connell 4 months ago
We really shouldn't do that. Its impossible to know what someone's shopping patterns are. I'm often the guy pushing the cart full of junk food, because the store that sells cheap junk food and canned goods is separate from the store where I get my fresh meat and vegetables.
#29
Not being able to agree to disagree. Look, the world would be a boring place if we all thought alike. It's absolutely ok to disagree about something with a friend, CO worker or family member. It's not ok to be demeaning or treat someone who doesn't see it your way with respect.
I'm a firm believer in socks. When talking about a potentially volatile subject, speak about it with all the emotion you would put into buying a new pack of socks. By keeping the emotion in check, it's easier not to want to argue your position or feel you have to defend it.
Bonus points if you're able to see the other guys point of view, and slaps on the back if you're able to admit that or perhaps learn something new!
Final score:
5points
#30
I try my very best not to be judgy, but one thing I don't think I'll ever be able to not judge is if they're on welfare just because they can't be assed to get a job or 'work is below them.'
Not talking about people who have disabilities and so can't work, or single parents that don't have the time to get a job. I mean the ones who turn down jobs so they can smoke weed all day or talk about how smart they are but somehow "can't" get a job. I had a 'friend' that was like the latter, and she was also very much "work is below me." Yeah, because Jobseeker is something to which one should aspire.
Final score:
4points
Michael Largey 4 months ago
People who think work is below them are more likely to have been given a trust fund than welfare.
#31
I know I shouldn’t, but when people my age or younger talk about dating and s*x. Like they’re minors. I have no right to judge them for living their life and I know that studies aren’t everything, but a lot of the people near me wish to crack one of the toughest exams in my country yet they spend all their time going after others. I hate my way of thinking honestly.
Final score:
2points
#32
There are some accents that are like scratching a chalkboard for me. I will get uncomfortable enough to leave if I can. I will not say which accents they are, because this is my hangup and I know it's dumb.
Final score:
2points
#33
Tattoos. My personal belief is that graffiti does not even belong on abandoned buildings, much less human beings. (FYI - mama brought me up right and I would never comment, sneer or otherwise reflect my opinion when I see people with tattoos, but it's a good thing no one can read my thoughts.)
Final score:
1point
CD Mills 4 months ago
I have zero tattoos, I'm a needle-phobe. I couldn't care less if someone has visible or a lot of tattoos. I will wonder about the folks' maturity who have facial tattoos, that never seems like a wise choice. But otherwise, why would I care? Your tattoos won't stop you from any service I need. The X-ray Tech has no problems taking an X-ray if they have tattoos, same as a baker, a therapist or a bank employee can function perfectly even if they have 'graffiti' on them. Someone is a bit of a tightarse.
#34
Footwear.
Men wearing shoes without socks, Crocs on the street. Worst offense is drivers in flip flops or open toe sandals.
Trousers too short to reach shoes or even ankles - obviously no socks.
Those are my judgments on mankind.
Final score:
-2points
What do you think ?
R Dennis 4 months ago
I don't understand the downvotes. It is a perfect example of something you secretly judge people for even though you know you shouldn't. The top vote getters, as of now, are things people absolutely should be judged for... have an updoot to help counter the people missing the plot.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 4 months ago
Chewing gum audibly. Or any loud chewing (unless you have a disability of course).
R Dennis 4 months ago
I don't understand the downvotes. It is a perfect example of something you secretly judge people for even though you know you shouldn't. The top vote getters, as of now, are things people absolutely should be judged for... have an updoot to help counter the people missing the plot.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 4 months ago
Chewing gum audibly. Or any loud chewing (unless you have a disability of course).
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