10 Types Of People I Do Not Trust

Disclaimer: This list is incredibly arbitrary and not a reflection on the way I feel about you, friend, if you happen to be any of the aforementioned and are currently reading this. I love you, and I trust you unequivocally… PSYCH! You suck.
Aug. 17, 2011
#jayzisgreek

1. Female vegans/vegetarians

Look, I’m not being sexist. I love women. I love women’s rights. I’m pro-choice. But I am a woman and as such I know that for one week of every month, without fail, my body will cry bloody murder for red meat, even though I’m not a big red meat eater. Women who claim to be vegetarian/vegan either can’t read their bodily signals or choose to ignore them entirely. Either way I think they’re being ridiculous; the female body is a very fragile organism with such a finely tuned set of needs that it actually goes out of its way to alert your brain when those needs are not being fulfilled. The woman who wont drive 45 minutes to the only open McDonalds in her town at 5am when her stomach threatens to suicide over an unrequited love affair with a cheeseburger is not to be trusted. Having the willpower to overcome her instincts would make her a formidable opponent in both war and sex games.

2. People who aren’t ticklish

Again: too much self-control is not natural. If I fondle your neck, underarms, lower back, feet or knee pits you better be rolling on the floor laughing hysterically, gasping for air, and nothing less. I once dated a guy who wasn’t ticklish and after a six month saga it turned out that he had a live-in girlfriend of five years, and that his grandfather hadn’t actually died but was alive and well somewhere in Black Rock. It’s a long story but the moral is when you meet a man, tickle him; if he doesn’t laugh my best advice is to kick him in the nuts and run away as fast as you can because he’s probably a massive dick (this counts for women too, don’t be fooled; it hurts when you kick a woman in the nuts too).

3. People who don’t have Facebook

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE?

4. People with two first names

I know how this looks. Honestly, I do. But technically, TECHNICALLY, my last name isn’t George so back the hell up, Smuggy McSmuggle. In my mind, there are two reasons why people have two first names; firstly, because their awful stage mum wanted them to be a tennis player, so they’re literally trained to achieve and destroy from the moment they are squeezed from the womb (see: Dokic, Damir), which makes them frighteningly cutthroat. Secondly, it’s just sort of… weird. Do not trust the double first namer.

5. People who say ‘trust me’

My little brother always says this right before he’s about to  fart on or around me. Other people in my life who have used this line on me include (but are not limited to): cab drivers who don’t know where they’re going; street vendors in Spain who’s hotdogs inevitably gave me food poisoning; Greek people; cheating boyfriends; high school girls who were dobbing in Sally Whats-Her-Face for saying something about me that they actually said themselves; Thai guys trying to sell me leather (“same same, trust me!”); my Uncle Mark right before he puts his dirty socks on my face; Romanian gypsies (see below); talking butterflies.

6. People who don’t like fish tacos

Fish tacos are the best tasting thing in the world apart from bacon and feta cheese. I had a very disappointing experience recently when one of my favorite people ate half a fish taco before declaring that he hated it. It changed the dynamic of our friendship, but luckily he’s ticklish and has a regular name, so I cut him some slack. See also: people who don’t like the ‘taste’ of chicken (CHICKEN TASTES LIKE WHATEVER YOU PUT ON IT, FOOL); people who don’t like chocolate; people who don’t like ice cream.

7. People who don’t like Diane Keaton

Would you trust someone who didn’t like the most loveable lady on earth?

8. People who like Angelina Jolie

Would you trust someone who liked the scariest lady on earth?

9. Romanians who speak perfect English

This is not referring to my ex-boyfriend’s mother, I swear. In 2008 I was backpacking through Eastern Europe with my ex-boyfriend (a different one to the aforementioned) and we were trying to escape from Romania (‘escape’ is putting it lightly). We met some idiotic English girls at the train station who had met a Romanian man (gypsy) who spoke perfect English (the first person we had met 4 days who spoke any English at all) who had told them (in perfect English) that he knew where there was a bus that would take us to Bulgaria. Everyone else wanted to go with him and AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT I went along too. This was the first time anyone ever took all my money and threatened to kill and rape me before rough-housing my boyfriend and spitting in his face which, at the time, looked like a head butt. It was also the first time I ever pushed a 7 foot Romanian gypsy man to protect a much smaller English man, told a Romanian gypsy I thought was going to murder me to “fuck off and die in a hole” and peed in my pants a little.

10. Adults that don’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your”

There comes a time in everyone’s life when it’s imperative to be able to make this distinction. People who can’t are obviously completely twisted; if you don’t care enough for the most basic of grammatical skills, you cannot be trusted. TC mark

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612928768 Samie Rose

    Arbitrary negative comment so someone can call me a “Kat George hater” and then tell me “where’s your writing, then, you self-absorbed sycophant?”

    Seriously, though, I think this is a writing equivalent of the drunkest girl at the bar. She might be nice when she’s sober but right now she’s too loud, too overbearing, and too much a lot of other things. I want to like your writing, and some of it I think is alright, but a lot just feels forced and loud. If that makes sense.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363230138 Michael Koh

    Jesus Christ, I had like… 4 fish tacos last night. Coincidence? 

  • http://twitter.com/galette_rois Julian Galette

    I like fish tacos and Angelina Jolie. And I say trust me all the time, mostly before I get people to do something where I’ve left out important details like the fact that there’s about to be a blizzard or that there will be police.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001702321197 Sasha Jones

    Shut up, everyone–this is great.
    (Except for the title of #10 because the “that” should be a ”who”.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363230138 Michael Koh

    you stop writing

  • http://twitter.com/CassieYoung22 Cassie Young

    2,3,5 & 10. Awesome.

  • Tammy

    I don’t trust people who writes list of people they don’t trust. Just sayin.

  • frbldrbl

    The opinions of a late adolescent girl who probably puts ketchup on everything; thanks TC – you get better everyday.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612928768 Samie Rose

    Or worse, ranch!

  • UhOh

    “Spain *WHOSE* hotdogs inevitably”

  • UhOh

    “Spain *WHOSE* hotdogs inevitably”

  • frbldrbl

    ” Kat George has recently graduated from the putrid tan mixture of equal parts mustard and ketchup in the school lunchroom.”

  • Guesty

    ~fragile organism~

  • kat

    This post is funny if not taken seriously. 

  • Guest

    awkward considering number 10…

  • Anonymous

    This isn’t funny because it’s lazy.

  • http://twitter.com/SophieZhao sophie zhao

    hear hear!

  • Mashka

    Um ok. Sorry I think this is seriously so relative to personal opinion and not even funny as satirical as it may be attended. Diane Keaton? Really? Peaked in Annie Hall honestly the last thing I want to see is another Diane Keaton romantic comedy where she’s wearing a full skirt with a wide belt and crying about having menopause.

    Also don’t trust Romanian gypsies that speak English? Ok. All Romanians are gypsies, didn’t you know? Don’t trust any Eastern Europeans, ESPECIALLY if they’re educated and speak another language they’ll probably rape and kill you.

  • http://dirtyyoungmen.wordpress.com Maxwell Chance

    FISH TACOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Andrei

    at first you make the difference between romanian and gypsy, but the headline says that romanians who speak perfect english are not trustworthy. because somehow all romanians are gypsies. vampires, as well. i speak perfect spanish as well and i drink virgin blood. it’s not really anyone’s fault but yours that you would get in a car with a guy that promises to take you wherever. i’ve hitch hiked all of europe and nothing ever happened to me, so it’s gotta be you.

  • Joy

    Sometimes I like your writing, but mostly I just feel like you’re spitting out sub-par articles in an effort to match Ryan’s posting frequency. Hate to break it to you, but there’s only one Ryan O’Connell.

  • http://twitter.com/jkymarsh J. Ky Marsh

    Murder yourself.

  • http://twitter.com/jkymarsh J. Ky Marsh

    Nailed it. I’ve been speaking out against Kat for months now with very little support. She’s awful and desperately needs to stop.

  • breemeup

    Not a fan of the whole “women can’t be vegetarian” thing. But I guess I’m too much of a fragile organism to have a real opinon about it. ):

  • Chels

    but really though, WHY is everyone on Ryan O’Connell’s D? The reason it is easy for this girl to mock his writing is because his writing is not that truly complicated to mimic. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612928768 Samie Rose

    I am just not a fan of incredibly self-obsessed writing is all. I don’t think writing about yourself is necessarily self-obsessed but.. I dunno, just think there could be a lot more.

    Like the part about the Romanian man. If that really happened, I am so sorry she had to go through that but I just cannot see anyone being so nonchalant if the situation was half as serious as it was. And maybe that’s just her way of dealing, I can’t presume to know. If that really did happen, I’d love to hear a real, emotional account of it instead of offhanded jokes.

  • Chels

    There are so many things that piss me off in this article, starting with #1 because I am a vegan. But I admit it’s funny and the argument you make about forgoing cravings is absolutely true, I do crave meat but I have something else in my conscious that supersedes that. 

    I’m not going to be an asshole about this because I know what you were going for, and I think you pulled it off. 

  • Guesty

    I thought we were supposed to be crying bloody murder for Ben and Jerry’s on that magical week.  I’m so confused.

  • Guest

    People take some of these articles WAY too serious. Read them, enjoy them, and keep on living your life no biggie.

    This was FUN! I agree with you, Kat, in all of the aforementioned and have a J.Lo-ish body, two things I know you like/admire,  Marry me. 

  • a.

     ”Bleeding Out Of Your Vagina Makes You Crave Meat (Both Kinds)”

    ohmygod.

  • Allen

    This should just be posted on your personal blog/Tumblr instead here. 

  • Guesty

    But that shit’s so good with corn dogs.  

  • Damian

    I don’t think so. I like it.

  • Damian

    Good article, I agree with this list

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=641216758 Oweinama Biu

    This was and is funny. Ya’ll need to lighten the fuck up. Jesus! You are NOT invited to the ice cream social because you’re a downer!

  • Anonymous

    I have never ever craved meat when pmsing. I didn’t even think this was a thing.

  • Guesty

    That’s cuz you are an idiot

  • Anonymous

    I only disagree with number 1. I don’t crave red meat . . . ever. I crave anything else under the sun. AGREE about chicken.

  • Guesty

    Too bad your thoughts about the Romanian man didn’t actually happen :( 

  • Guesty

    She is the worst. Ok well Hannah Daly is the worst, but Kat George is right up there.

  • lc

    not to be sexist, but [enter sexist comment here]

  • http://somuchtocome.blogspot.com Aja

     The sad part is when you described full skirt with wide belt, I knew exactly what you meant.  You could also substitute that with pencil skirt and wide belt. 

  • http://thefirstchurchofmutterhals.blogspot.com/ mutterhals

    I went on a date with a Romanian guy, during the course of it he said, ‘I could kill you and no one would know.’ I assume he was joking because I’m still alive, but I can’t say I found that very endearing.

  • http://somuchtocome.blogspot.com Aja

    I object to the one about facebook.  The thing we non facebook users are hiding is that your life is much more awesome when you’re not reading random boring crap about people you don’t even really like in most cases.  That’s the secret.  Don’t tell anyone.

  • Guesty

    Hey, you’re not me.  You’re making it look like I’ve posted on this article like fifty times.  

  • Guesty

    I’m me bitch!!

  • Guesty

    =’(

  • Simog16

    YOU”VE ALREADY POSTED THIS ARTICLE

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11708842 Vicky Hibbard

     I got mugged in SF by a black dude. Does that mean I should never trust black men because ONE PERSON fucked me over? Sorry bout what happened to ya in Romania, but try not to be so bigoted. It just makes you look ignorant.

  • A.

    I love this, fuck the haters.

  • Donnerunbaiser

    Full article detailing the story of #9, please?

  • SarahW

    I cannot stop reading your stuff. I can’t read it in public because people react strangely to me crying from laughing so fucking hard.

  • http://ellesseserrano.blogspot.com/ Ellesse

    Deciding to disconnect from Facebook has nothing to do with ‘hiding’ shit, but it has everything to do with living life outside of an eternal time sucker.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6IFPDSFKEQJE2ZPP3ASE35MRL4 Laura

    Yeah, I don’t agree with #1. Did you ever think that the reason women are vegan and/or vegetarian is because they have a reason for it? Like wanting to be healthy or a passion for animals? Just saying. Red meat isn’t good for you. And honestly…when I’m on my period…the only thing on my mind is ice cream and other sweets. Not meat. Well, meat…but not the kind you were talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6IFPDSFKEQJE2ZPP3ASE35MRL4 Laura

    But I recognize this post is your opinion so I ain’t tryna hate.

  • Daily tc reader

    This is for real. Add:
    1) People who don’t like cheese. 
    2) No vegan in the world can be trusted, and any person who is vegetarian by choice.
    3) People who refer to feet as feets or shrimp as shrimps or deer as deers. 

  • Daily tc reader

    This is for real. Add:
    1) People who don’t like cheese. 
    2) No vegan in the world can be trusted, and any person who is vegetarian by choice.
    3) People who refer to feet as feets or shrimp as shrimps or deer as deers. 

  • http://imlikecocaine.wordpress.com/ Ana

    hmm…seriously, don’t be so judgemental about Romanians. gypsies, yes, they’re here, most of them annoy us, but don’t get all racist and generalize, please, stereotypes like these piss me off. yes, I’m a perfectly educated Romanian, I speak nearly-perfect English, it doesn’t mean I’m a psycho who keeps bodies of foreigners in the basement. I enjoyed the first part of the article, and then I saw the horrible thing you did there.
    And btw, where exactly did you go to, in Romania? there are lots of awesome places, and I’m not bragging, but pleaaase stop labeling everything.(I don’t trust judgemental people)

  • http://imlikecocaine.wordpress.com/ Ana

    oh hey. come here, let me murder you, while I recite Shakespeare with a pretty accurate British accent.

  • farquaaad

    Bacon, feta cheese, and a fried piece of fish would make for a great taco

  • Lily

    I swear you’ve already written this exact same article before.. Like i can’t put my finger on it but I’m seriously having de ja vu reading this

  • Anonymous

    ta.gg/55j

  • Guest

    this is terribly lazy and unfunny. 

  • george

    it’s on her blog.

  • george

    it’s on her blog.

  • george

    it’s on her blog.

  • Guest

    11. people who are too nice.  (you like everyone? really? you never feel like being an asshole, even for a second? really?)
    12. people who are passive-aggressive (either grow some balls or realize that no one cares and move on).
    13. people who feel the need to constantly talk about how they went to a “really good college that is practically an ivy.” (what does that even mean? this just comes off insecure)
    14. people who think medicare and medicaid are the same thing. (ummmm…)
    15. people who stereotype frequently and are shocked when someone else mentions an exception to the rule.
    16. people who brush up against you in a crowded subway car and then look at you rudely and say “excuse me!!” (uh, you’re the one who brushed up against ME…but I wasn’t going to call you out on it, cuz, you know IT’S RUSH HOUR IN A BIG CITY! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!?)
    17. People who write “lol” or “:)” at the end of 90% of the text messages they write (unless you are under 15 or trying to be ironic…unacceptable).
    18. people who say “yeah I hear dark chocolate is really good for you,” and then subsequently eat the whole bar and think they’re being ‘healthy’ (you passed 5th grade health, right?)
    19. people who take everything seriously/literally and have no conception of humor (unless you’re mildly autistic, i really don’t know what to tell you)
    20. people who update their facebook status daily describing mundane things they are doing or how awesome their boyfriend/girlfriend is (im sure whatever you’re doing/he/she is really great…but no one wants to see it in their facebook newsfeed every day)

  • Guest

    11. people who are too nice.  (you like everyone? really? you never feel like being an asshole, even for a second? really?)
    12. people who are passive-aggressive (either grow some balls or realize that no one cares and move on).
    13. people who feel the need to constantly talk about how they went to a “really good college that is practically an ivy.” (what does that even mean? this just comes off insecure)
    14. people who think medicare and medicaid are the same thing. (ummmm…)
    15. people who stereotype frequently and are shocked when someone else mentions an exception to the rule.
    16. people who brush up against you in a crowded subway car and then look at you rudely and say “excuse me!!” (uh, you’re the one who brushed up against ME…but I wasn’t going to call you out on it, cuz, you know IT’S RUSH HOUR IN A BIG CITY! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!?)
    17. People who write “lol” or “:)” at the end of 90% of the text messages they write (unless you are under 15 or trying to be ironic…unacceptable).
    18. people who say “yeah I hear dark chocolate is really good for you,” and then subsequently eat the whole bar and think they’re being ‘healthy’ (you passed 5th grade health, right?)
    19. people who take everything seriously/literally and have no conception of humor (unless you’re mildly autistic, i really don’t know what to tell you)
    20. people who update their facebook status daily describing mundane things they are doing or how awesome their boyfriend/girlfriend is (im sure whatever you’re doing/he/she is really great…but no one wants to see it in their facebook newsfeed every day)

  • 2firstnames

    i’m more than half these things

  • laura q

    You say you don’t trust adults who don’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your,” yet you demonstrate in item 5 that you don’t know the difference between “who’s” and “whose.” Clearly you don’t care enough for the most basic of grammatical skills, and can’t be trusted yourself.

  • anon

    dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumbbbb.
    Can this really be categorized as a thought?

  • blazingparakeet

    Never trust the Roma. Roma will get you.

  • Guest

    she IS australian, so maybe they/she uses who’s instead of whose or just doesn’t give a fuck bout it

  • Guest

    I see many number 19′s here in TC 

  • Guest

    1 week clean over here! Please, someone be happy for me?

  • Anonymous

    dude honestly when i’m menstruating i don’t even have an appetite. and when i’m heartbroken i don’t feel like eating either. multi vitamins and spinach and enough protein do the trick for me though to maintain some kind of equilibrium

  • http://www.twitter.com/mexifrida Frida

    #10 on Facebook makes me have a great urge to correct them.  
    I resist so that they don’t hate me forever.

  • http://twitter.com/vickstahs Vicky Nguyen

    Stab me for this later if you must, be you, madam, cannot be trusted either:
    who’s =/= whose

    Still, I liked this list very much and have printed it out and stuck it on my wall for future reference.

  • http://twitter.com/vickstahs Vicky Nguyen

    Stab me for this later if you must, be you, madam, cannot be trusted either:
    who’s =/= whose

    Still, I liked this list very much and have printed it out and stuck it on my wall for future reference.

  • http://twitter.com/vickstahs Vicky Nguyen

    Stab me for this later if you must, be you, madam, cannot be trusted either:
    who’s =/= whose

    Still, I liked this list very much and have printed it out and stuck it on my wall for future reference.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612928768 Samie Rose

    Might wanna go to the doctor to get that checked out.

  • C.

    Kat George please keep writing. Thank you. :)

  • http://imlikecocaine.wordpress.com/ Ana

    I don’t have to. They’re not “everywhere”, like some might think, I personally know…one Roma. 

  • http://twitter.com/LaurieCorona لوري

    Um girl, WTF with the *vegan* part?

    SO not true.
    I crave Doritos.
    Sincerely, a ~ fragile organism ~ ja.
    PS: The part of non-ticklishable* people is spot on though! ;)

  • Jo

    Ignorance is so sad.

  • Rel422

    Red meat actually increases cramps…and I can’t say I’ve ever craved red meat around my period. 

  • http://somuchtocome.blogspot.com Aja

    Happy for you!

  • Anonymous

    damn it, same here. 

  • Mashka

    oops. “as satirical as it may be *intended” 

  • Stellie Cat

    you’re and your. my biggest peeve.

  • Stellie Cat

    you’re and your. my biggest peeve.

  • poison ivy

    According to this list, I am shall not be trusted for I am too nice and I ‘lol’ too often.  

  • Lady

    I don’t have to inhale a cheeseburger in order to replenish my iron levels when I’m on my period. Trust me.  Soya-fuelled farts on you and on this article.

  • HELENA

    This is an awesome article and very funny (talking butterflies lol!) and some people who commented here need to chill out.

  • Neihniahwvn91

    It is interesting and hilarious. Great amusing article!

  • Dumbnutz

    Ugh. More self posessed narcistic nonsense. Go outside and get some fresh air u twit.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for writing this.

  • LavaRose

    This was fairly amusing to read. And agree about the romanian part, over half the eastern europeans cannot be trusted. And I live in Europe myself. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not stereotyping anyone, I had some great friends back in college who were from Poland, Bulgaria and Croatia and I loved them a lot! It’s just the other half that gives them a bad name. Gypsies to be exact. They’re everywhere and I never trusted them. They’re a bunch of backstabbers. Give them a hand and they cut it off, feed it to the dogs, steal all your money, rape you til your senses are nearly gone, take your house keys, emptying the entire place and threaten you to kill you and your loved ones if you even dare to talk about this to someone.

    I say don’t trust gipsies, even if they’re the last living thing on Earth.

    As for the haters; CHILL, PEOPLE! This is partially meant to be a JOKE! I mean, how can you NOT trust talking butterflies?!?

  • h-m

    “3. People who don’t have FacebookWHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE?”
    It’s not a what, it’s a where. We’re trying to hide in the ever-dwindling social space that isn’t occupied by privacy-invading quick fixes and image-conscious attention whores.

  • h-m

    However, I will concede that anyone who says “trust me” is not to be trusted, and the story about the Romanian who spoke perfect English was priceless.

  • h-m

    Stick with it. It only gets better.

  • Dpal9090

    do not trust GoD!

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