some years back I got annoyed over my girlfriend's mocking my efforts to speak French and German as a waste of time. I decided I wanted a girlfriend who shared my interest in speaking other languages, so I dumped my current girlfriend. When she asked why, I told her "because you only speak English and I want a bilingual girlfriend." She went apeshit over that -- how dare I have any standards and blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile she had thrown fits over the fact that my job at the time only paid 80K per year USD (which is well above average btw). If we have any standards, we're evil, but they're allowed to have absurd standards.