The way preps think. It says, "I'm better than you, and I don't care about you or what you have to say. So shut up." Most people don't even notice they have aquired a prep mentality, and it is most often seen as bitchiness. It's the prep mentality - not the way some one dresses - that makes someone preppy and/or a prep.
It's not that I hate preps, or think they're bad people, but it's the prep mentality that make me mad.
by WhatareyouTALKINGabout March 4, 2010
Get the prep mentality mug.Guard mentality is the mentality of a person on a defense oriented state of mind. He (or she) interprets sentances stated towards the person in a negative or insulting manner.
by Operator May 13, 2004
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My island mentality forces me to shit down the throats of every foreign riff raff that dares to offend. Consider yourselves warned, before you consider yourselves smoten!
by Gumba Gumba May 29, 2004
Get the island mentality mug.To my phone company: You reassigned this phone number to me 6 months after you took it away from the deadbeat who didn't pay his phone bill. Why can't you understand that it's no longer his phone number? Just because you can't find him, is no cause to harass me!
Another person to his phone company: Of course I received your message that the replacement for my broken phone is ready to pick up - just as soon as I got the replacement phone and checked for messages.
Me to the Yellow Pages publisher: Of course I wanted to be listed in the yellow pages under my business name. You offered me a listing in the Yellow Pages because I'm listed as a business in the white pages didn't you? Do you see anyone else listed in the Yellow Pages by their personal name?
Another person to his phone company: Of course I received your message that the replacement for my broken phone is ready to pick up - just as soon as I got the replacement phone and checked for messages.
Me to the Yellow Pages publisher: Of course I wanted to be listed in the yellow pages under my business name. You offered me a listing in the Yellow Pages because I'm listed as a business in the white pages didn't you? Do you see anyone else listed in the Yellow Pages by their personal name?
by Downstrike November 11, 2004
Get the corporate mentality mug.Pertaining to the mindset many people have, the need to be near other people (even strangers), often at the disappointment of the strangers/foreign group.
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Parking your car in a space directly next to another, when the entire lot is empty. Also may be used effectively to describe a group's behavior when choosing a spot on an empty beach. If they lay their blanket within a few feet of you, they have demonstrated the herding mentality.
"Did you see where they just put their blanket?! It's practically on top of ours and the ENTIRE beach is empty."
"They totally have the herding mentality."
"Did you see where they just put their blanket?! It's practically on top of ours and the ENTIRE beach is empty."
"They totally have the herding mentality."
by grrrrretaa! August 10, 2009
Get the Herding Mentality mug.When you know that you lack any/everything needed to get a female, but you accept it whole heartedly.
When your looks, personality, ect, are lacking and you make up for it with an optomistic view of yourself, hoping that will change others opinion on you as well.
When your looks, personality, ect, are lacking and you make up for it with an optomistic view of yourself, hoping that will change others opinion on you as well.
I have to use the "Eric Mentality", I kno I'm ugly, that's why I'm nice to girls. Than I hope for the best.
Look at this guy he must have that "Eric Mentality", he knows he can't get her number, but he keeps talking hoping she will change her mind, even though his looks aren't going to change. lol
Look at this guy he must have that "Eric Mentality", he knows he can't get her number, but he keeps talking hoping she will change her mind, even though his looks aren't going to change. lol
by magicbumm328 January 29, 2010
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