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30 Times Unaware People Challenged Someone That Was Actually An Expert In That Subject Matter, But Realized It Too Late
It's hard to imagine a more rewarding experience than being challenged to something by a person who doesn't know you're an expert at it. It's right up there with bringing a child into this world and becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
Recently, a redditor who goes by the nickname Struedolf asked people who were in this position to tell their stories and oh boy, did they respond! From an archer forced to compete with a bow and arrows to a construction worker blamed for property damage, these are just a few priceless examples of the nearly 23K responses Struedolf's post has received. Scroll down to check out more and don't forget to upvote your faves!
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#1
I guy I went on a date with tried to serenade me with his okay piano skills. He was incredibly patronizing to me and tried to explain to me what the notes were even when I told him I’m also a pianist. So after his endless explanations I asked him to move over on the bench so I can try to play. I’m a two time Carnegie Hall pianist. He never called me back afterwards. Worth it!
Struedolf decided to ask redditors this question after something like this happened to them. To Struedolf's delight, they were on the delivering end. "I didn't really expect my post to receive this much attention so I was kind of shocked," Struedolf told Bored Panda.
However, the abundance of comments made it clear that it's a topic people want to brag about. And why wouldn't they? If someone spends 10,000 hours perfecting a craft and it brought them a pleasurable moment, it's their right to tell the Internet about it.
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#2
A buddy mine was at a concert in bad seats and started complaining about it via twitter. All of a sudden the band starts reading some tweets and calls my friend up to sit on stage for a couple songs. They sit him at the piano and during the next song, they jokingly go "ok piano solo!" The crowd laughs for a second but then my buddy just starts jamming out, as he plays piano in his band. Talk about dream moment getting to play with your favorite band
Faith Nicole 5 years ago
So how did a band know somebody was tweeting as they were playing instruments/singing? But however they knew, i watched that video and wow! That guy knows how to play
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
This story reminds me of the story where a 19 year old Scott Halpin took over from Keith Moon in a 1973 Concert. Moon had passed out after taking tranquillizers to calm down. The drugs worked all too well, not least because the tranquillizers actually ended up being PCP. to calm his nerves and after the roadies failed to get him conscious . When Pete Townshend asked the crowd, "Can anybody play the drums?" Halpin mounted the stage, settled into Moon's drum kit, and began confidently playing the blues jam "Smoke Stacked Lighting" that soon segued into "Spoonful." It was a way of testing the kid out. Then came a nine minute version of "Naked Eye." By the time it was over, Halpin was physically spent. The show ended with Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Scot Halpin taking a bow centre stage. And, to thank him for his efforts, The Who gave him a concert jacket that was promptly stolen.
"Reading the stories really was an amazing experience," Struedolf said. "It was really fun to go through everyone's responses and if there was anything I took away from it, it would be to not challenge people to something not knowing how good they are at it."
So there you have it, folks. If you want to establish your dominance by competing with somebody, at least try to figure out beforehand if it's not you who's going to be mopped.
#3
I was a competitive swimmer for 14 years, including 4 years of NCAA, but I'm on the shorter side so people don't assume I was any good. Was at a friends house on a lake one summer, and a macho guy challenged me to race to a buoy in the middle of the lake, to prove... something, I guess. The lake is deceptively large, about a half mile across, so I warned him that if he isn't a strong swimmer it could be dangerous. He was running out of gas after about 2 minutes, so I offered to let him off the hook, but he insisted he would finish. I went to the buoy and was swimming back when I found him floundering, so I lifeguard swam him back to the house. His ego took a deserved hit that day. Don't get cocky around water, even if you think you're a strong swimmer.
JXXXF 5 years ago
I have a similar story after a rather boozy lunch. Some obnoxious guy got a bit too drunk and started challenging people to swim to a raft and being rude to everyone who refused. Saying the loser pays the other table's bill. Eventually I got a bit sick of his attitude and took him on. I got to the raft before he was even half the way there then proceeded to hold him while he threw his guts up so that he wouldn't fall in and end up drowning. When we got back to shore a while later, I got him to pay the $2200 bill and he started bragging about working in finance and that I must just have way too much free time. Guess who started his first day at the bank I worked at a few days later and who he was working under... yours truly. Needless to say he didnt last long.
Angeliki Chris 5 years ago
I was a competitive swimmer for 5 years at the time, and i entered a competition at my friends hometown. I was the only girl and the smallest person there, so all the boys were making fun of me. Guess who won the cup and gold medal! 20 years later and I still remember the feeling! :D
bv7hearts 5 years ago
Love this one. I've always been a very strong swimmer, but most people assume I'm not athletic because I'm overweight. Family was at the Outer Banks vacationing when a huge undertow pulled us pretty far out. No lifeguards around so I swam each of my cousins in one at a time, four of them, and then my Aunt. I slept for almost 17 hours straight that night.
Bent. O. Jensen 5 years ago
"Only a fool doesn't fear the water" Danish poster about behaving safely when bathing. Danmark has about 600 islands with a lot of beaches.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Alcohol is a factor in about 50to 70 percent of all adult drowning deaths. Don't drink and swim or go out in the boat.
Joshua Seaman 5 years ago
This one feels like less of a "got ya!" and more just sad because the dude was literally in danger because of his ego.
Jacques Lacroix 4 years ago
Knowing how dangerous this was for the other guy, should you not have refused and be the bigger man?
#4
I’m a teacher so people try to tell me how to do my job all the time (parents, kids, politicians, etc). How’d it turn out? Welcome to my world, f**kers. Home schooling is a b****, isn’t it? Your kids are kind of horrible, aren’t they? Lessons aren’t that easy to plan, are they? Meanwhile, I’m drinking a beer at 10am while grading the assignments I posted last week.
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
For all of you who are hating on the OP. Click on link under post (Motocrossx23). It will take you to the original reddit site, where he explains further that this is satirical. Here's a quote from him: "Parents, this was meant to be satirical: please do not think for a second that we as teachers do not appreciate and sympathize with you all during this ordeal, especially those who are working still!"
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Even if was satirical, it's truth! Everyone knows kids act different at home than at school and honestly if I wanted to home school my kids I would've when they were in kinder. Not my get down. I send my kids to school to be socialized, and let a professional teach them.
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chickiethehen 5 years ago
my mother was a middle school teacher, and she quit her job because of this one kid in class that was ALWAYS disrespectful to her, and brought her to tears because he kept doing it, and he got no punishment at all, because of his parents agreeing that is my mother's fault that he was like this. gosh this is why "be respectful" is a slogan right now in schools!
Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)
Honestly I completely understand them. During my last years in school, my classmates and I noticed a strong shift in the way teachers and students interacted. The younger students were disrespectful in ways we never would dream of being, even to the nicest teachers. Parents would defend their kids' terrible behaviour and blamed the teachers for everything. There are terrible teachers as well, I've dealt with my fair share of them, but in my experience nearly all the problems come from the students, because of bad parenting.
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
So four years ago I decided to go back into education and get myself a degree. As such, there was like a 10 year age gap between me and most of the class. Jesus... Christ... I could have murdered them... I can't imagine the amount of money they'd have to pay me to become a teacher.
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Katinka Min 5 years ago
It's the truth. If people can't deal with it, let them hate on the OP. They are just showing their idiocy.
Zarih Sundberg 5 years ago
We teachers don't. Maybe now the parents will back off and learn to trust the professionals. It is hard work and kids are not angels.
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
I am constantly saddened and surprised about the # of my step kids teachers who (back in the before times, long ago) thanked and congratulated me for being involved in the kids scholastic life. Every. Single. One. Told me that they were very surprised when, during P/T conferences, I turned to 6th/7th/8th and 10th/11th/12th grader and said, "Ok, you said xyz about abc assignment/ class/ other person, the teachers is right here, tell me the truth. In front of them." They said they were even more surprised when I told Nth grader to stop lying AND apologize to the teacher for being a disrespectful lazy asshat in their classes. The kids and teachers both realized really quickly that I don't take BS from either side. You treat my kid unfairly? My kid screws around in class, lies about HW, tests, and class behavior? I'll listen to both sides and whomever is in the wrong WILL make amends.
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Christina Uhlir 5 years ago (edited)
There are "parents" who know exactly what school should do, what community should do, what the government should do for their children......but they don't know what they should do for their children, except to teach them everything wrong and destructive to their children's lives and the lives of those around them. My pediatrician wanted to sterilized 75% of human population.
Catherine Todd 5 years ago
"I’m a teacher so people try to tell me how to do my job all the time (parents, kids, politicians, etc)." ROTFL - I actually DID - AS A FORMER TEACHER - LAUGH OUT LOUD!
#5
When working as a teacher I beat a lot of students in Pokémon battles, cause they didn't think of me being like 15 years ahead of them in fighting experience. Noobs
Vanta Black 5 years ago
"I've had this Blaziken since before you were born. You were too cocky, kid. Detention."
Catherine Todd 5 years ago (edited)
"... 15 years ahead of them in fighting experience. Noobs!" Hahahaha!
#6
Wasn’t me, but there’s a story about an old geotechnical engineer who used to work for the company I work for. Several senior staff had to attend a meeting with the client, and some government regulatory staff who were being awkward and not approving the design. This geotech guy is pretty much quiet the whole meeting. Throughout the discussion, the government guy keeps referencing this research document and shooting down anything anybody suggests. Near the end of the meeting geotech asks government guy if he has the research paper with him. He responds yes and places it on the table. Geotech asks government guy who is the author of the paper? Then slides over a business card. Turns out it’s geotechs own paper that government guy has been referencing to defend his argument. Government guy went bright red and apparently approved the design the same day
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
Hoist with his own petard! For those for whom English is not your first language; the explanation can be found here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Thank you for this one, but honestly, there are probably many millions of people who do have English as their first language who do not understand this.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Not me either, but a student was required to give an oral report on a topic of Archeological study. She chose a study of salmon bones from a know Native American site. Seems the author ran experiments to see if the fish were cooked before they were discarded or if they were part of a ecological event. While this student spoke in front of the class, she says "Who ever this author is had no idea what he was doing..." and so on. Little did she realize the author was the professor in the classroom. She got a passing grade, but just barely..not because she insulted the professor, but because she had no other research to support her theory that the experiment was flawed.
Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
Something similar happened with one of my colleague when I was an auditor, but from the other side. The engineer from an audited company said that he thinks the auditor misunderstood what the standard actually says. You can guess who wrote that said standard what he supposedly misunderstood....
Laugh Fan 5 years ago
Government wasn't approving the expert's design and yet used the expert's own research for his argument.
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#7
A neighbor on my block in Brooklyn challenged me to a pizza bake-off. I recently catered pizza for my daughters school and word got around the neighborhood my pizza was pretty darn good. My first thought was, "this guy is a Brooklyn native, my pizza will be s**te compared to his!" But there was something about him bragging that I couldn't resist the challenge. He talked up how pizza was in his blood, how his dad ran the pizza place around the corner years ago. I remained silent and let my skills answer for themselves. I got a buddy to let us use one of Baker's Pride ovens at his restaurant. We even had total strangers try our pizzas. Every last person chose my pizza over his. I never mentioned to him that I've worked in pizza places almost every day for the last thirty years. I never mentioned that when I'm not working at a pizza place I'm making pizzas at home at least once every two days. I never mentioned that at nine years old I knew that I wanted to be a pizza man. Here I am 45 and getting ready to start my own pizza business.
Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago
good luck, too much bad pizza out there....
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Sue Bentley 5 years ago
I love this. I grew up making pizzas at my dad's pizza shop in Detroit. Don't tell me about pizza, show me. I started working there when I was 12, the legal age for a family member. We had 8 kids and we all had our first jobs there and learned how to work. Even the little ones got paid to fold boxes. This was during the downturn in the auto industry about 1970. My dad sold used cars and was losing income. He is a first generation Italian immigrant. He had 10 people to feed. We survived. I love the Italian culture and value of family.
Catherine Todd 5 years ago
Best pizza story yet and made me smile smile smile! Want to come to your pizzeria when you open!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
@Bored Alchemist, it is a very different story if you are the one suggesting a game or if someone else is bragging about how easily they will beat you. It is not the same, that is why your comment has been downvoted.
#8
Not me but a while back a guy I knew from church growing up posted on facebook something about Crusades and medieval Christianity. A girl responded and gave x, y, z reasons why he was wrong. The guy responded back with you don't know what you are talking about, you need to do your research and linked couple of youtube links of armchair historians/pastors. She hits him back with a dozen or so academic sources and let him know that she was 3 years in a PhD program studying medieval history.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Why refer to her as a "girl" and not a "woman" or "young woman?" Very condescending to call her a "girl."
Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
Depends on your social group. I know in the 90s their was a whole strand of feminism that abhorred the use of 'girl' for grown women, comparing it to the restricted sense in which we use boy. But honestly now in my social group it is normal to call anyone a boy or girl. Both have come to distinguish gender not age.
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Ronnie Beaton 5 years ago
There was a story I read on Facebook a couple of years ago, about how some ignorant fool was getting his undies in a bunch about a WWII set video game that *dared* to feature female secret agents, and we were to "Read a history book!" He was promptly shot down in flames by several people suggesting that "Yes. Please DO read a history book. Try reading one about the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and while you're at it, here's the names of three of SOE's female agents - Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, and Noor Khan."
Michael Banyai 4 years ago
Nice. It is sufficient to crash a lay-man, but more often than not, is the taught stuff very-onsided.
Kerryn Thomas 4 years ago
Similar thing happened to me on Facebook. Someone was spouting pseudoscience regarding fat calories and suggested I do my research when I called her out. I have a post graduate degree in dietetics
Jeff Bryant 4 years ago
Happens to me all the time as a PhD. It's very rare people change their minds or debate respectfully when I contradict them on my field of study. They try to delegitimize my doctorate, or the school I went to, looking for anything to make me feel insecure. They will suggest I must be deep in debt and broke etc.. It's predictable.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Worked with a guy who had "discovered" this new life philosophy and was constantly spouting it at me. I'm like dude - so not interested in your opinion. Oh no - it wasn't an opinion, it was a FACT. He kept coming at me trying to "explain" this new found knowledge. He kept saying, "You just don't get it". I tried to ignore it, but one day I just snapped. "Listen, you stupid cult follower - I do GET IT. I completely understand what you're saying, I just happen to think it's a complete load of horseshit". Shut him up for DAYS!
Ryan Malone 5 years ago
This literally happens everyday on the internet in almost every chatroom..
#9
I once challenged a girl who was a friend to foosball, not knowing she grew up with a table in her house and older brothers. I even, jokingly, put money on the game. Well I learned a bit about humility that night.. the icing on the cake was when she drove me to an atm to get her the money
Theodore Theodora 5 years ago
My fav part about this story is that the person who got shown up is telling the story--a nice change of pace from the others! It shows that the writer *did* learn from the incident. Way to go, OP.
Joshua Seaman 5 years ago (edited)
Was she a friend to foosball? For some reason my mind wanted to parse it that way :P
Umgreg Universe 5 years ago
Normally, older brothers are really competitive. The OP would have plenty of the to practice because the brothers would probably want to keep playing it to either enjoy beating her at it, or to try to get better to be able to beat her. And this is coming from a girl with older brothers, not someone stereotyping.
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Parmeisan 5 years ago (edited)
I actually thought this post might be about me for a minute! About a year ago I was at a group event at this place with arcade machines, pool, foosball, basketball hoops, batting cages, pretty much everything. I'm not generally good at physical-type activities and just had fun failing at basketball and baseball and doing okay at air hockey. Then we did a mini foosball tournament and I completely dominated... it never occurred to me that growing up with a foosball table in the house and playing it a lot with my 2 older brothers might have made me actually kind of good at it! We didn't play for real money though.
Susann Campbell 5 years ago
So you turned into a nice guy after that experience? I hope you did if you did .
#10
My wife and I were taking an evening cruise for adults in Portsmouth Bay. The ship drove around the shipyard, where my submarine and several others were stationed. My wife and I are having a quiet drink when a really loud know it all starts spouting misinformation about each submarine we are driving by. Calling them all the wrong class, wrong names, etc. When he literally points to my submarine and says "and that is a 637 class" my wife finally speaks up and says "actually that is a 688" . The guy gets all gruff and says "well how would you know?". My wife smiles, hugs my arm and says sweetly "That's my husbands submarine, it is the Minneapolis St Paul, SNN-708." He turned beat red while his date laughed.
Hans 5 years ago
I know that because I am bestestest and know everything.
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It's actualy the "SSN-708" not the "SNN-708" but let's chalk it up to a submarine. I only know this because I googled the submarine .... I know squat about submarines
Victor Botha 5 years ago
Didn't know that ships drove around, I thought they sailed or cruised.
Dave In MD 5 years ago
The number is just the Hull number of the first sub of each class. It is just a shorthand way of referring to the class. The 688 class is referring to the SSN-688 USS Los Angeles class of attack submarines.
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Catherine Windsor 5 years ago
Nope! Every sailor knows that ships don’t "drive"! They "cruise"!
Hayden Cave 5 years ago
Why do you own a submarine? That seems like a really random thing to own.
Christopher Thompson 5 years ago
Twin Cities Pride right there, I saw a component of that come through MSP!
#11
I once went to a museum with my sister and her friend, who I hadn't met before. We got to the Greek art bit and her friend started telling me how she was super into Greek myth, and I thought that was cool, because I was, unbeknownst to her, doing a Master's in it at the time and also keeping a blog of myth retellings, which was pretty popular, and it was a relief to have something in common with this stranger. She then got weirdly haughty and told me she probably knew more myths than I did, so, being polite, I didn't challenge her on it and just asked her to tell me her favourite, so that we could have a conversation about it. She proceeded to tell me the myth of Daedalus and the minotaur. I asked her how she'd heard of that one, because it's fairly obscure. She told me she'd read it on a viral blog post on a blog about mythology. It was my blog.
Alex Fierro 5 years ago
Huh, is the myth of Daedalus and the minotaur really obscure? I've seen it pop up in a bunch of places.
Deborah Brett 5 years ago
Theseus and the Minotaur is well known; Daedalus and the minotaur is the prequel, about Queen Pasiphae and the bull. It's not obscure, but is less widely known.
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Kristof De Smet 5 years ago
Daedalus and the minotaur is hardly to be called obscure... We were taught about that myth in secondary school (something like high school) in Belgium when I was about 15
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago
"told me she probably knew more myths than I did" ... B******t alert!!!!
Sarah Tate 4 years ago
The Minotaur/Labyrinth is actually really well known, as are Daedalus and his son Icarus. Not obscure at all...
Jayne Kyra 5 years ago
Daedalus and Icarus was one of the first myths I ever heard and read about before my passion for mythology was ignited. Is it truly considered that obscure? I would be glad if someone would chime in with their experience regarding this.
#12
Co worker - “I’m pretty good at running, I run every day. I could probably beat you in a marathon.” They didn’t know I used to be a pro runner. Ran under 14 minutes in the 5k, sub 29 in the 10k, and under 15 hours for 100 miles on trails. Won a national title even. So I agreed to run with them and jumped in the local marathon with no training. I took the prize purse and made myself a few hundred bucks and took everyone out for beers with it. Was an interesting next Monday at work.
Jovita A 5 years ago
Knowing that world record for 5K is 12:51 and 26:24 for 10k, I hope he's not just bragging about his numbers...
Cristina S. 5 years ago
This could be any of my husbands coworkers. They are all very nice & unassuming and pretty much all of them have participated in multiple marathons, triathlons & bicycle races. But you wouldn’t know by just talking to them.
Pippa Runs 5 years ago
Always admire a fast trail ultra runner who can also run on road really fast.
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago (edited)
Total b******t. "I could probably beat you in a marathon." ... "The local marathon" etc etc ... LOL. Give me a break!
#13
Astronomer here! So if we were to just meet on the street, you probably wouldn't guess I was a scientist (I am a woman who enjoys dresses when the weather is nice), and this was doubly true when I was a few years younger in my 20s and single. Especially at bars. So at the end of college I was doing a summer internship in Mountain View, California where if you went out there'd be a lot of Google boys who would literally sometimes wear "Google" shirts so you'd know they're extra obnoxious. I remember getting stuck chatting with one, and when he asked my major he sneered with the "do you really know the subject?" attitude. And ask me if I knew how the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle was. And when I explained his 20 questions, said "it's probably not so hard because they go easy on women because they don't want to scare them off." Then he proceeded to tell me about a lecture he attended in Mountain View that he'd been lucky enough to visit, as a Google employee, by Jill Tarter who runs the SETI Institute. And proceeded to tell me about the Allen Telescope Array they were building in northern California because I "might not know about it." I gave him a minute for his spiel but then said I actually was working for Jill that summer at the SETI Institute, on interference mitigation for the Allen Telescope Array. And did he want to hear what she was really like, or see some pictures from the ATA site? I'd also just met Frank Drake, and he was really nice! Oh man, was that guy not happy! But hey at least he stopped talking to me like right after.
Cindy Crowell 5 years ago
Sounds like he was suffering from correctile dysfunction; AKA premature explanation
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
"boys who would literally sometimes wear "Google" shirts so you'd know they're extra obnoxious." I Laughed Out Loud.
Craig Humphreys 5 years ago
We must have met. I worked with Frank, Jill, Seth, and the whole crew there at SETI. I was the lead signal processing engineer during the Arecibo deployment period.
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
Craig, go track her down on the OP linked to toward the top of the page! Her username on Reddit is "Andromeda321" so search out the post by her and post over there what you posted here as a response to her comment. Maybe she'd be down to reconnect with an old friend!
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Laurie Pierce 4 years ago
Used to love the talks at SETI one I remember vividly were some young people from the start up Space X :)
Catherine Todd 5 years ago (edited)
Great story... what a perfect putdown with REALITY for an obnoxious a*sh*le! Got what he deserved!
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
uhg, yes. everything thinks because you're a "feminine female" that you don't know "ungirly" topics. god forbid someone be desirable and smart. nah you can't be smart, too pretty for that.
#14
Not me but my brother & best friend. We were in Baltimore for a baseball weekend in 2009 and hanging out at a bar across from Camden yards. They had a Silver Strike bowling video game. At our local bar back in Boston we had one as well. I’m decent at the game but my brother and buddy were F**king amazing at this game. Bowling 300 games and what not. So two dudes are playing this game and drinking. We ask them if we can play when they’re done. They ask if we want to play them. We said sure. My brother and buddy destroy these guys. Like it wasn’t even close. These dudes said it was a fluke and they wanted a rematch but this time for a round of beers. Again, annihilation city. But they kept wanting to play, to eventually win a game. No lie, after THIRTEEN ROUNDS OF BEERS they finally gave up. They were great guys. We saw them the next day at the same bar and they walked up to Us with beers in hand already and said “rematch”. To this day we still hang out with them whenever we go to Baltimore. And to this day, they have never won.
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago (edited)
Real sportsmen are like the cannon fodder in ancient wars.They just live longer. Useless for many things but give them a simple task like hitting a ball with a lump of wood and they're fine.
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This one is cool, because the "other guys" seem nice too... Just a little bit competitive! :)
Elina Kuusisto 5 years ago
I'm just impressed you survived 13 rounds of beers, and came back the next day
Susann Campbell 5 years ago
This is so good that it feels like good friendships start out weird and end up forever just on pretense.
Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago
It's good to have good competition, even if they always kick your a*s.
#15
Went with a big group of college students to a bar. I was challenged by a cute little girl (and by that I mean she was maybe 95lbs, 4'11") to a drink contest with a pint of beer. I'm 6'1", 200lbs, so I just chuckled and agreed to it. It seems like I had just enough time to tilt my head back to start chugging when I hear her empty glass hit the table. Turns out she had the ability to just open her throat and pour the beer down. We dated for about six months after that. Seriously.
blugeagua 5 years ago
Yeah...... right. Because that is most important in an actual relationship. And the guy wouldn’t return the favor.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
Thank you for the conversion. Makes much mores sense to me now
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
An old family friend of ours used to go out drinking, about same weight and same height but she'd challenge everyone to shots or drinking games, whoever was still standing paid the bill. She'd take anyone on, and she would always be the last one standing. She never did tell anyone she had 3 kidneys.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
She may have had as many kidneys as they can possibly come, she still only has One Liver and One Brain that surely must have taken a beating. Alcohol is metabolized in the liver and "Compared with men, women develop alcohol-induced liver disease over a shorter period of time and after consuming less alcohol. In addition, women are more likely than men to develop alcoholic hepatitis and to die from cirrhosis" https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa46.htm
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asura king 5 years ago
hey i can do that thing with the throat! i'm not old enough to drink though...
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
And when you do hit legal drinking age, please start slowly. Give your liver time to build its tolerance.
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Rebecca McManus 5 years ago
Used to know a German girl like that, funniest thing was she didn't drink alcohol normally, s every time she did that she was completely plastered on one bottle
Jenny Counter 5 years ago
My husband can do this. It's crazy to watch him do it with a bottled water..."drink" it like it is nothing.
#16
Someone at a bar bet me there were only 30 days in a particular month. $20 if I could prove them wrong right then (pre-cellphone days). I was born on the 31st of that month, showed them my drivers license
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
The familiar "30 days hath September, April, June, and November... etc." is one of those sayings that is often misremembered.
Maximilian Stern 5 years ago
In Germany we use our knuckles and the grooves between them as a mnemonic device. Knuckles are the months with 31 and grooves with 30 days.
Sarah Anderson 5 years ago
My Mom taught me that way too. I'm in the U.S.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
That's like the question: How many months have 28 days? Most people answer "February". Um - ALL OF THEM have 28 days.
Origami Chik3n 5 years ago
I'm guessing that someone didn't know how to "knuckle" count the days of each month.
elfin 5 years ago
There's a mnemonic for how many days in a month. Use the back of your hand without the thumbs. There's a knuckle, ditch, knuckle, etc. pattern. Count each month in succession, starting with January on a knuckle. When you come to July (last knuckle), start over with August on a knuckle. Every month on a knuckle had 31 days. All the others don't. They have 30 days except for February. You're on your own with that one.
#17
Mine’s kind of dumb, but I think it still counts. At work I’m kind of the Google Sheets “expert” and I make lots of tools for different departments to use. Enter “new guy” who needed to collect, aggregate and display a bunch of data. My boss was like, “Send Wish a calendar invite so you can tell her what you want and she’ll set it up for you.” New Guy was having none of that and insisted he was going to do it himself. Well, a week later, he finally has this s**tty sheet that doesn’t have half the information we need, and we have to have the numbers for the State by tomorrow. So my boss asks me to fix it and new guy is like, “Yeah, okay, that’s not really possible. This is is a good as it’s going to get!” Two hours later, I send them both a fully functional and automated sheet that does everything we need, and we’ll be able to use it indefinitely, which means next time (and every time) the stupid state report is due, it will already be done. New Guy was like, “I would have added that in if I’d had more time.”
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago (edited)
I can relate. I've been a professional bookkeeper for almost 30 years now. A client wanted a report that the accounting software could not do. I told him I could create the report, but that I would have to export data into Excel and that it would take several hours. Bear in mind, I have used QuickBooks since its inception (I was one of the first testers). He insists the report he wants can be created. I just stood up and shoved my desk chair at him. "Oh, really? F*****g show me how". Of course he stutters like the idiot he is "Well, I don't know". EXACTLY. That's why I AM the bookkeeper and you are not. Because I know what I'm doing. He called our CPA, whining, and the CPA confirmed the program was not designed to create the report he wanted. I charged him 12 hours of overtime for creating the Excel spreadsheet I had offered in the first place. Dumbass.
Pamela Blue 4 years ago
He would have added it in two hours after saying "that's as good as it gets?" What an a$$hole!!
Katinka Min 5 years ago
Her name is Wish? Well, isn't that the perfect name for a colleague who can do all that tool stuff. :-)
#18
A local mall had a portable climbing wall with a “make it to the top and win $100” side. The route was actually pretty challenging. As I walked by the guy asked me if I’d like to try “nobody has made it to the top, you think you can do it buddy” At the time I was ranked top 12 climber in my age group and kind of laughed to myself. After taking my $100 I then proceeded to call the rest of my climbing team and one by one they went to the mall and claimed their $100 After the 4th person they guy got suspicious and took the sign down. We later told him we were all Nationally ranked competition climbers and he got a good laugh. The company who owned the rentals was the one who lost the money, he just worked the booth and wasn’t the one who lost the prize money.
Vladimíra Matejová 4 years ago
this reminds me of me and my brother coming to an open door day of one of our TV stations. they had a big bottle of cocacola there as a climbing wall. there were two routes and nobody was able to get to the top. me and my brother looked at eaxh other and i took the right one and he the left one. were at the top in few seconds. everyone looked at us puzzled. we spent all our childhood climbing trees like monkeys and jumping from one to another 🤷🤣🤣🤣
#19
Basketball.
I'm a very unassuming looking guy. 5'8", 150 pounds, not a tattoo to be found. But back in the day, I was pretty athletic and could hang in games with fringe D1/semi-pro guys. But I can't emphasize how much I didn't look like it at all.
Anyway, in college, hanging out in someone's room, it came up that I play a bit and some dude I didn't know started running his mouth about how he could destroy me. Just wouldn't stop talking. I gave him every out, until it basically became personally offensive.
Other guys were a bit tired of this ***hole hanging around, and they knew I could play, so we all trooped over to the gym, late as f**k in the dead of winter, so we could settle things.
11-0 the first game. Not sure if we played after that, but I remember it was 11-0 because I made sure to not let the guy score. And I'm a pretty mellow guy and usually would have laid off and let him score a couple when it was clear that I was better, but this guy was a real ***hole, so I just clamped down on him start to finish. I blocked a ton of his s**t.
He stopped hanging around nearly as much after that, so I was kind of a hero to the rest of the guys. Like St. Patrick. Drove that snake out of our nation.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
I have a buddy that is only 5'6" but dude can straight up ball, Spud Webb style. My buddy can dunk too. A guy I worked with met me and my buddy for a beer one afternoon. Talk of basketball came up and my buddy simply says, "I got a little game...just a little." Coworker starts going in about how "little" his game is and laughs some. This turned into a 1 on 1 challenge. Not only did my buddy keep coworker from scoring even once, he dunked on due twice. After he dunked the first time, coworker said there was no way he do that again. That's when dunk number two arrived. I enjoyed every bit of that and really enjoyed being able to give coworker grief any time it seemed appropriate.
Laurie Pierce 4 years ago
good on you but use a better analogy. . there were never any snake in Ireland :)
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
It's the first word of the post. Literally. Says Basketball. First word you read. Right there. First. Word. Basketball.
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#20
I found myself in a discussion about vaccinations with an antivaxx couple in a fkn smokers area of a bar.
I'm a scientist.
I tried every logical, emotional and personal plea but they ended up getting mad, telling me to get f**ked and walked off. My friends that heard it said I put forward a good argument and they walked away because they lost. Sucks because we all lose when they don't vaccinate their kids yeehaw
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
I'm now going to end all of my rants and serious arguments and things like these posts with "yeehaw"
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
Maybe it is time to stop berating the anti-vaxxers? Not that I agree with them, quite the opposite, but I do believe that they are victims in a very ugly game. Blame Facebook. Blame Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, and every other social media site. But mainly Facebook. They know damn well that it is disinformation but Zuckerberg and all the rest of the big shareholders have made mountains of money out of it. A much more sinister side of this is if you care to look at it as an opportunity to analyze how one could go about to convince swathes of otherwise normally knowledgeable people to believe in, and vehemently defend the most ridiculous and so obviously false ideas. Even to the extent of putting their own children in danger.
Marnie 5 years ago
There is definitely money (and likely power) in it. The online stuff is a huge problem, but note that it didn't start there. My sister was convinced not to vaccinate about 25 years ago by some church she started going to. My two other sisters did an intervention and talked her into vaccinating, so she stopped with that nonsense after 3 years and got her kids caught up.
Load More Replies... Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
Bet you anything you like they will be the first in the queue in their area if a vaccine for the Corona virus comes out.
Jayne Kyra 5 years ago
I used to be ashamed of the scars on my left arm from vaccinations (happens to some people, like my mum). Now, in the era where common illnesses that one can be vaccinated against are killing young and old, I am proud to have those scars. My mum loved me enough to want to protect me.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
They probably also bought into the tobacco industry's long time argument that there was no "proof" that tobacco caused cancer.
Peter Roman 5 years ago
It is the additives and preservatives added to keep tobaccos fresh longer and the pesticides used to preserve crops that has increased the risk of cancer from cigarettes and it’s because these known carcinogens are being trapped by the tar.
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Kurt Rhoney 5 years ago
Sounds like a bogus story without any real reference points to it at all. Vaccine propaganda when vaccine injury payouts in billions from the government continue on to this day.
#21
My landlord tried blaming me for damage to the kitchen cabinets but didnt know that im in construction and am very familiar with home building codes. They placed the cabinets too close to the stove and the glue that held the laminate had melted.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I was living in a small town, driving an '84 Honda Accord I'd inherited from my brother. During a drive home from the store, the dash lights came on and the car quietly died. I knew what was wrong as the car had experienced the same problem 4 years earlier. The timing belt had slipped off the reel. I called a mechanic in town and asked them if they could come get my car and replace the timing belt and reel. He said "why would you say it was the timing belt." I explained the symptoms and how it had happened before. He proceeded to argue with me and I finally said "Just come get the car!" An hour after they got the car, I called him. "So what seems to be wrong with it?" In a meek voice he says "timing belt."
Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Same car, same mechanic. My car kept dying at stop signs. I knew it was because the car was flooding out...I could smell the fuel. But I wasn't sure what was causing it. Mechanic looks at the car for 15 minutes and say "It's a bad carburetor." Confused I asked "How?" He said ..."Oh..it's probably bent metal..we'll have to replace the whole thing." I look at him and said "Yep..not buying it. I'll take my car back." Little did he know my Dad was a diesel mechanic for 33 years and taught both of his daughters how to work on their own cars. I knew that a carburetor can't have bent metal unless metal gets in it somehow...and that's where fuel filters come in. I also knew that rebuilding was cheaper than replacing it. I took it to another mechanic...when I told him of the other mechs diagnosis, he laughed.
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My nephew challenged me to Super Smash Bros Ultimate once. Once.
Allison B. 5 years ago
When my son got a switch his uncle came over to play SSB with all of us (since he too had a switch). No one could beat this man haha, my fiance is a gamer and couldn't. Everyone in the house tried, we would even do 3 vs 1. He would take us all out, every single time... we tried this on multiple occasions... we gave up for good playing with him 😂
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
Reminds me of when I was around 12 and my 18 yr old sister' boyfriend came over. We had an Atari that I played for hours everyday. I asked him to play Asteroids with me and he laughed like it was so cute that I thought I could beat him. Kicked his ass hard.
#23
Just graduated as a teacher and I’ve been working as a Casual Relief Teacher. I play lacrosse which is a small sport already and even smaller here in Australia. I tried out for the last World Cup team and made it to the final cut. I was team teaching with another teacher who worked at the school. Before the period he spoke to me and said “hey mate, we are doing lacrosse today. It’s a bit of an odd sport and hard to teach so just wait over there and then you can just help with supervision and discipline.” then walked off. Being a CRT from an agency, didn’t really know how to speak to him/speak up. I tried to speak to him and say that I played but he didn’t give me a second so I just listened and did my thing. Few minutes into the start of the lesson I grabbed a stick and ball and just started to work my around the class giving them pointers and hints. The way he was teaching was completely incorrect and I didn’t want to say anything so when the kids broke off into groups, I kinda just taught them correctly. He pulled me over at a drinks break and asked how I knew so much/good perform the skills. I told him how I play lacrosse and my playing history. He asked why I didn’t speak up and say anything and I said I tried to tell him. Anyway, I ended up running the rest of the class and even ended up sitting down with him and going through the correct and easier way to teach the game and skills.
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
That's great that the teacher ended up being "teachable" and wasn't a douche about a younger person being more skilled than him.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Hopefully, he also learned that instead of taking for granted that 'other people' know nothing about nothing, it is a much better idea to ask them if they what they know about what is at hand.
Load More Replies... *sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
At least he wasn't salty about it towards you and was willing to learn from you lol
#24
People say all kinds of random s**t how weather and climate functions. I’m a meteorologist in disguise—work as a data scientist but has a Master’s and a PhD in meteorology. When I politely (and gently) inform them how things actually work, people are usually super interested to know more. But occasionally I got something like “Oh yeah?! And how do you know?” Well, I have published several papers on the matter, would love to discuss it all night. So far, they’ve all backed down after that.
Daria Z 5 years ago
I love meteorology, and would happily discuss it with (or listen to) a pro :)
Gregg Bender 5 years ago
Me, too. I used to be a SAWRS aviation weather observer and I'm currently a SkyWarn volunteer. I'll buy dinner just to talk to him/her.
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Carolina Fernández González 5 years ago
I'd be telling him "How do you know? Please tell me more"
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Form an orderly queue behind me. I want to listen to this person :)
Deborah Orr 5 years ago
Can I be your friend? I love weather and never tire of watching the weather channel or any of the documentaries they put out!
#25
I’m really good at archery. My friend and I rented him a bow at the local range and he wanted to bet me beers for every round. I told him repeatedly no, you will not win. He could probably get lucky if we did one arrow shoot offs but he wanted to do proper three arrow rounds. He insisted. I drank for free all night.
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Something similar happened a couple of years ago at a reenactment festival I was part of - some Bulgarian guys who were reeancting Byzantine warriors set up an archery post and they were loudly challenging everyone. Then a husband and wife dressed as Mongol raiders walk by, take one look at the guy issuing the challenge and one at each other then both of them shoot their whole quiver into the middle of the target without even stopping their walk. Turns they had just come from Ulanbataar where they both took the gold in the traditional Mongolian horse archery championships...
#26
My Uncle challenged Jack Nicklaus to a golf game in college, without a clue. The humiliation burns him to this day
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Bob Barker, also an avid golfer as well as game show host, had a game on The Price Is Right called The Hole in One. Contestants guess correct prices to items to earn a line closer to the cup in order to sink a golf ball and win..usually..a car. During the commercial break, a father pipes up and says his 2 year old son can sink the ball from the far line in one shot. Bob invites him on stage, sets up the shot...and the kids sinks it in. Bob is impressed and as the father what the kid's name is. The father says "Tiger..Tiger Woods."
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
Nope, never happened. He WAS on the Mike Douglas show when he was two though. They set him up to putt against Bob Hope and Hope was joking about betting him a nickel. Hope lost.
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#27
I’m not a great swimmer but there was a time when I would do laps for literally hours. I would go slowly to make sure that I had the energy to do the time I wanted to. This kid challenged me to race. I left him so far behind it was funny. He though he was about to humiliate me in front of his friends.
#28
Some Japanese client that studied in France asked me for a translation job but wanted to change all my sentences to prove she was better than me at my own mother tongue. She ended up writing something grammatically correct but that sounded so horribly sexual that if you tried and googled the terms you would only find porn and erotic novels. I had to tell my boss she was forcing me to write porn (because it was for a mascara brand that was supposed to be sold in France) so he could stop her and after that she stopped trying to best me
Colin L 5 years ago
French is quite subtle sometimes... frequently in French you can "verb the noun" so "le cuisine" (the kitchen) and "cuisiner" (to cook) are pretty obvious. Don't try it with "un baisé" (a kiss).
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Kay Sexton 5 years ago
i do voiceover jobs for various entities in the US (mostly phone prompts for prisons, medical things, social security, state benefits, etc) and i CRINGE at the translations they send me, to the point that i want to quit. one of the rules about voiceovers is you cannot change what's written, even if it's wrong/doesn't make sense/ isn't properly translated. i once got paid 4 figures to basically say words that made absolutely no sense when strung together. imagine calling in for state benefits help and hearing a jumble of word vomit but never actually getting any help. yikes.
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago (edited)
My French teacher who also spends a lot of her summer holidays in France and obviously speaks French like a native was on a train to Dublin from her home here in Sligo when this incident happened. There were 2 French tourists on the train and they took one look at her and started making cruel comments about her appearance. When she was 3 my teacher pulled a saucepan of hot milk off the table and badly burnt her face and arm. She still has the scars to this day. She listened to what these 2 women were saying to her talking in French as they thought she wouldn't be able to understand them. When they were finished she addressed them her perfect French saying " I am sorry that my appearance disturbs you so much that it makes you forget your manners or is it the fact that you are so naturally rude?" She proceeded to tell them of her childhood accident . The 2 women didn't know where to look . They got up quickly muttering an apology and went and sat in the next carriage.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Many cultures have euphemisms that wouldn't be known to people who had never lived there. I adopted the curse "¡Coño!" from my Venezuelan wife. There it is used like English speakers use "Damn!" I did not know until I was around Guatemalans that it is literally the "c-word" and I got some very shocked looks when I said it.
#29
Chess. I'm a Chess master. I think when people hear that they're like 'oh he's really good at chess', but what it means is that I've played in international tournaments and beaten other masters and some governing body has given me a title. Anyway, I get challenged a lot by friends who think they're pretty good. What they don't realize is that your average 'pretty good' player is getting destroyed by your average tournament player. And your average tournament player is getting destroyed by a master.
Amparo Rodriguez Bogosian 5 years ago
My bf plays chess (1900 or so) and he's always reading, learning and watching matches to improve his play. He even tried to teach me... only when I met him I realized that knowing how to move the pieces doesn't mean you know how to play.
Gregg Bender 5 years ago
I once a Grand Master. I refused to play him because I knew he would stomp me like a bug. RIP, Dave.
Peter Roman 5 years ago (edited)
Beat my local public high schools entire chess club in fourteen minutes on my first day of tenth grade. The captain told me to stick to swimming and please don’t come back. The teacher cried and asked me how, I told him I attended a high priced private school in our area for many years and chess was one of the mandatory “sports”. Also my dad taught me to play speed chess at 6 and I was beating him by 8. They said if I wasn’t going to take it seriously and help teach the other students how to play I shouldn’t be a part of the team. I told him it’s his job to teach it’s my job to win. Quit chess found girls joined the military became a man, stopped worrying about being the best at anything after watching better men than me die for nothing.
Ajay Ghosh 5 years ago
Homey you’re bragging about beating novices at your hobby. Instead of talking about beating the novices, you should probably focus on retaining that title. Also..........it’s chess. Everyone just take a knee cool guy.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Marnie, chess is the game of civilized people, a game of strategy and skill. Try it, why don’t you?
#30
While not a pro, I'm pretty darn good at poker. The church I was at had a Poker night and I was just going to watch. They insisted I join the 25 cent game. Came home with $200 and they decided to never have a poker night again.
Jarrod Nichols 5 years ago
Yes. Catholic church. I literally got cussed by a priest in church playing poker. My friends never let me forget.
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
This reminds me of the song the Spanish Train by Chris de Burgh :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnaUvPoiTfQ
Don't Look 4 years ago
uhm, you probably missed the point. You don't have to keep playing and winning.
Jackie Nettleton 5 years ago
They were probably trying to raise money for either necessary repairs or charities and thought this would have been a good way to engage the congregation.
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
And the person who made the comment stated they were there "just to watch"; it was the others who pestered them into joining in.
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I dated a guy in college who was incredibly book smart - working on his master's with the intention to pursue a PhD. I was doing the good ole 5 year plan for college and quite content with my level of brain power compared to his. What he underestimated was my fondness for word games, especially Scrabble. I like to think I'm quite good. Well, in the 3 years we dated, we only played Scrabble once and I beat the s**t out of him. The icing on the cake was when I got a 50+ word score for playing one letter. He literally wiped all the letters off the board and had a mini hissy fit, claiming that I cheated. I got out my trusty Scrabble dictionary and proved his loss.
JuJu 5 years ago
If he isn't throwing fits on a regular basis, it's no reason to dump someone. We all have our idiosyncrasies.
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I have studied memorization techniques and mnemonics. I decided to have a bit of fun with my teacher. He wanted us to write down a list of 20 items. He was the type of guy to quickly call you out for not paying attention in class. I sat there memorizing the list in my head (knowing full well he would see me not writing anything down). He chewed me out for not taking notes - as predicted. He took the bait. I said I "have it all in my head". I KNEW he would call me out the next day and have me recite the list. The next day he turns to me in the middle of his lecture and has the biggest smug smile. "So RollerDerby88, what were those items from yesterday?" I immediately proceeded to list them in order without hesitation. Then listed them backwards. His smile grew bigger and bigger and the rest of the class was cracking up!
Kristof De Smet 5 years ago
Had a teacher try this on me once too. Little did he know that I studied the same course before. Everyone in the classroom started applauding... he wasn't.
Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
I had a teacher do this in a test as I knew the subject very well I did not bother listening so he called me out told me I would never be any good at the subject. After the exam he nearly choked when he read my result of 100% I loved that day.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
When I was diagnosed with Diabetes, I was sent to a dietician. She was very smug the whole visit. First thing out of her mouth was I had to eliminate all white foods. I said "Wow..haven't heard that one in a while. So I'm supposed to cut out egg whites, cauliflower, tofu, Great Northern Beans, ..." She stopped me back pedaled and said "Well, not all white foods.." Then we moved onto fruits. "You can have half a banana, but no citrus fruit." I said "Why not?" She said "Well when your blood sugar is low, what do they give you?" I replied "Orange Juice." She looked pleased as punch. I said "And, each glass contains about 2-3 oranges..without any of the benefit of the fiber and usually has added sugar to boot. Meanwhile..a whole orange has less calories than that half banana you mentioned. (Pause) I think I'll be ok." Grabbed my things and left. The clinic tried to charge me for the visit. When I explained I wouldn't be paying and why, they removed the charges.
#33
I would never go as far to say that I'm a fencing expert, but I have been fencing casually for about 5 years total, and consider myself pretty good for someone who's casual. A new person came to our fencing practice and demanded of a few men that we do a king of the hill style match up. I couldn't tell exactly what it was, but I could smell the toxic behavior rolling off of him when everyone declined but he continued to insist we do it. He somehow fixated on me, and I decided I'd give it a go on a normal 15 point bout. Initially I always fence one style, in order to test out my opponent before switching to a style to trump theirs. So the first few points I see him cheering himself on as he established a 1-2 point lead. By 4-2 in his favor, I already figured out all the flaws in his fencing style, and proceeded to get the next 10 points without losing one round. I could see the guy fuming at the end when I beat him 15-5. It was a good feeling.
Keisha Washington 5 years ago (edited)
not only did you beat him 15-5 but you also beat him back into his mothers basement
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I fence, but I’m not that good. I’d want to fence this guy though to see if I could learn a thing or two
#34
Not a physical challenge but I sell building materials for a living (think Home Depot but for guys that build skyscrapers and stadiums). There has been many occasions where an old man with zero construction knowledge tries to lecture me on what I do for a living.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
When working in retail or with people as customers, one thing you learn really quick is everyone and their mom knows more about your job than you do even though they have no experience in that field.
#35
Everyone thinks they are amazing at Mario Kart. They used to be good as a kid and think they still are. I played 2-4 hours everyday in undergrad (a couple years ago). I raced in local and school tournaments and won most of the time. I was within seconds on several course records. I have every course memorized and know exactly when to brake on every turn. I don’t play much anymore, but anytime somebody sees my Mario Kart painting (I won it at a local tournament), they tell me how amazing they are. I’m happy to absolutely destroy them. It’s an otherwise useless skill.
asura king 5 years ago
reminds of when i had to stay in the hospital for an extended period of time(month and a half) and we would play mario kart all day every day and i went from a total noob to someone who could play decently, not as dramatic improvement but it was fun.
Nicki 5 years ago
Same! My sons friends would come over and play Mario Kart and my son would ask me to play one of his friends and his little pre-teen friends would tell me how they were gonna beat me and laugh. What they did not know is that most of the consoles in our house (PS4, Xbox ,Switch and WiiU) are mine and I have been playing video games since the Atari days. So when this 40 year woman beats their a$$, they are in shock lol!
#36
For reference, this is clay pigeon shooting, kinda known as trap in the south. Well, I'm from a rural area and not exactly super "southern" so when I'd go to other trap fields to practice different conditions there's always be a smartass or two try and place a bet with me. This is definetly an old money sport with some of the guns going upwards of 5,000 dollars. I had an old bt-100 that we got in a trade for lead shot and some cash on the side, while not cheap, it was still much "lower" than other peoples guns and people would take that as me being a newbie. They'd learn pretty quick though, since the team I was one went to the Nationals almost every year from 11 to 18. It was always funny because some would be good sports but others would throw an absolute fit. I saw a guy damage a 10,000 Perazzi because someone else beat him before. Even funnier part is there was a guy from the county next to us who could blow us out of the water and he always shot with an 870 pump from Walmart.
Keisha Washington 5 years ago
And the 'tool' is the arrogant looser who cry's and stomps off
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#37
I’m a mechanic, this happens on a daily basis. one of my favorites from messing with a buddy. I was helping him fix his truck in my garage for free. By helping, I mean I was fixing his truck for free. Me: your MAP sensor is bad Them: pretty sure it’s the plugs or wires. Me: no, your spark is fine, fuel pressure is fine, Air is fine. Your fuel regulation is the issue, which is why there is fuel in your oil. Them: you sure it’s not the spark plugs, how do you actually know? Me: hands them a spark plug still hooked up to the coil wire and presses the remote start button Then: WHAT THE F**KING HELL MAN! Me: spark is fine isn’t it? Them: how much is a MAP sensor?
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
This is funny! For anyone who hasn't figured it out, the mechanic activated the spark plugs while the friend was holding them, which shocked his hand.
#38
I was visiting Kyoto a couple years ago (I’m an American) and my wife and I walked into a tiny bar which had 5 people in suits laughing and talking in Japanese. We instantly knew that this was not a tourist bar and felt pretty out of place. The bartender spoke the most English so I asked him what his favorite Shochu was, and things got a little more comfortable as we drank and the whole bar tried to talk to us. Someone mentioned Mario Kart and I said “yeah yeah” - so the bartender points to an old super famicom in the corner and apparently I have accepted the challenge. I smiled to myself and my wife thinks it’s funny because I used to have some skill at this game. Bartender selects battle mode and... the guy is f**king phenomenal. I haven’t played in a few years and he buries me in less than a minute. The whole bar is laughing and I’m a little stunned. We’re on to the 2nd of 3 rounds. I destroy him. 3 balloons to 0. Everyone cheers except the bartender. 2 shots were put in front of me and I throw one down. Round 3. We’re down to one balloon each and I swear it’s the longest battle round of all time. I’m sweating. Shell, dodge, shell, dodge. I have him in my sights and I fire. I miss - the shell bounces off the wall and I self-KO. The crowd goes wild. So that’s the story of how a self-proclaimed Mario Kart expert embarrassed himself and his country in a small bar in Kyoto. We drank a lot and made a lot of great friends that night that we’ll never see again.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
this is single-handedly the most intense war story I will ever hear. Such emotion.
#39
While I'd never claim I was an expert, I used to be pretty damn good at pool. My aunt and uncle had a pool table downstairs and my parents fir a variety of reasons would go over regularly and spend all day there. There was nothing else for us (me and my brother) to do so we just played pool all day for years, eventually we got bored and saw that he had a book on trick shots so we started doing that for fun. Never really mastered them, but they made for really good practice in understanding how to get the ball to do what you want. So anyway, for my buddies 20th birthday he wanted to go to a pool hall and invited a ton of people. Then he told he it was going to be a tournament, drinks for individual games, and a 50/50 type of deal for the winner (he gets half regardless because it was his birthday), insisted I come and I caved eventually. Get there, first game, they break, and that was the only shot they got. Rest of mine were pretty similar. At the end I just looked at him, "told you not to invite me..." Found out after that a bunch of them had never even played pool before, felt pretty bad so I took the money and bought everyone drinks with it.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Good on you! Weird of your buddy to be a pimp, taking half the winnings.
#40
I had my ex-fiancee's little brother challenge me to a game that he was "...The master of." The game was Halo: Combat Evolved. "I play this all the time, so I'm gonna kick your ass." He squeaked. "Choose any map you want." I replied. He chose 'Hang 'Em High'. After loading in, I stood there for about a minute or so. He chuckled as I 'fumbled' with the controller. "Its been a while since I've played this..." I say. Unbeknownst to him, I had played that game every day since I got it when it released. And by every day, I mean every day. I played Halo into the ground, every difficulty and by the end I was just goofing off on Legendary with self-imposed challenge runs like "Only Covenant Weapons" or "Pistols only". It was fun. He beelines for the rocket launcher and the sniper rifle. I take the pistol... And then proceed to open a can of whoop ass on this 13 year old that I still like to reminisce about to this very day. Sniping an angry squeaker half-way across the map using only a pistol, you can imagine the enjoyment. We only played the one time.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Too bad the child was so rude. He could have learned something and had fun.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
This tbh sounds really fun lol. Your ex's little brother probably shouldn't be swearing at you though haha
#41
My brother had claimed that wind parks in Germany were massively unpopular with German citizens and barely producing any energy compared to the German coal industry. I had just finished my thesis on that very topic.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
According to Wikipedia, "In 2019, a quarter of the country's total electricity was generated using wind power". I hope it continues to go up since Germany still has a way to go but all 84 coal plants in the country will supposedly be closed by 2038.
My O My 5 years ago
Don't know if the numbers will go up. There are so many regulations on where it is allowed to build even one of these wind power mills that there is basically no place left to build them legally
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#42
This guy trying to be a major alpha at any interaction with another male challenged me to a distance race, saying they could run longer than I could. I knew they weren't a runner at all but they did not know I run ultramarathons and had recently set the course record in a 50 mile race. Well I said sure and we set out the next morning at 6am around a track with 3 of our mutual friends watching. I just trailed behind him by like 20 feet at a casual pace. That way he'd always be expending energy trying to put distance in between us. Surprisingly he kept that up for like 4 miles (which is a lot for a non runner). I eventually ran up to him and stuck with him for another mile talking about my running accomplishments and how this was a stupid thing to try and be better at. Eventually our friends wanted to leave and said it was the last mile so I was like "if you want we can run in together." He agreed. But then the very last lap started he said "sorry but I'm gonna win" and tried to speed up to pass me. I was like "okay you stupid b****" and dropped my pace to like a 4 minute mile and came in like 150 meters ahead of him. He was full of excuses and challenged me to a sprint a few days later. I also completely rekt him at that. Just give it up dude you don't have to be "alpha" all the f**kin time
Final score:
19points
#43
My dad was into video games before they were really a thing. He had a Magnavox Odessey, intellivision, etc... In the 80s you could rent Nintendo's and games from video stores. He would do this when he visited and I would almost always smoke him at whatever game. I didn't see him that much, but he was visiting and decided to rent one and the game Double Dribble (old NES basketball game). It was pretty new at the time and he knew I didn't really like basketball. He played it all day while I was in school and when I got home he challenged me to a game. The look on his face when his 10 year old son beat him by 20 points or so was priceless. My friends and I basically rented every game when it came out and I had played this one a lot. I mean, it's sports but it is still a video game. I was good at games. Karma time is now my teenagers can regularly beat me at just about anything.
Eric Lafleur 4 years ago
We bought Super Mario 3 for my sister when it got out. She went through it in about 30 minutes, on her first try, without losing points and sh.t. Mario was running, jumping and flying the whole time and I barely got to level 3 after hours of dying...
#44
We had a golf work outing and he challenged me at golf. Now I've played golf my whole life, I also played in highschool and have played at public courses every year since. He did not know this. The first hole, he gets to witness a 200 yard drive down the middle, he tries to play it off like I got lucky but no, every hole after that was the same. He drank alot after the first couple holes. He, to this day, refuses to say I won because we didn't keep a scorecard..
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Good piece of information about that coworker's/boss's character. Use it.
#45
This kinda qualifies. Not me but my brother:
He works for a scientific instrument company as a technical expert in gas chromatography. He and his colleagues went to a trade show to show off their new instrument.
A couple of German scientists come up, ask a bunch of questions, breaking the conversation intermittently to speak to each other in German. Little do they know, my brother is fluent in German. He lets them talk amongst themselves until one of the Germans says (in German) “I bet this one is just as s**t as the last one.”
To which, my brother replies, in German, how it is not in fact s**t because they’ve done a tremendous number of improvements.
The two Germans, now stunned that they’ve been caught, politely thank my brother and apologize and walk away.
The ultimate, “No, f**k YOU” way to have handled that in my opinion.
Rick 5 years ago
I find it so RUDE when people talk in a native language about someone or something in a disparaging manner (and I mean talking normally for everyone to hear, not a quiet conversation amongst themselves). It just smacks of ignorance and arrogance.
Dónal Ó Murchadha 5 years ago
Nothing rude about speaking your native tongue. Rude is rude no matter what the tongue
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 5 years ago
A friend of mine went to Tokyo on a student exchange program. On a particularly bad day, she was on the train complaining about Japan and how she wanted tot go home. The gentleman who was sitting near her, got up to leave and told her in perfect English "It's not so bad here. Just give it a chance." Fast forward several years and my friend is in Seattle on a public bus. These two Japanese ladies are complaining about the area and how horrible everyone is." My friend got up to leave, turned to them and in perfect Japanese said "It's not so bad here, just give it a chance." Both women were mortified.. "You speak Japanese?" She replied "A little bit." And the women laughed.
#46
Camped out for tickets to The Phantom Menace. Guy in a group behind me challenged everyone to Star Wars Trivial Pursuit for money. It got to my first turn and I ran the board and won without anyone else getting to go. I felt bad so I didn't even take his money. He still accused me of having memorized the cards to cheat. Nope, just seen the original trilogy dozens of times all my life
Carol Emory 5 years ago
My brother would have smoked him. Every year there would be a running of the original Star Wars trilogy in Seattle...and every year, he'd attend. When the next trilogy came out..they had all day marathons of the movies. Challenge accepted. He also read, ate, breathed and recited Star Wars at every chance. Never ever challenge my brother at Star Wars anything. I learned that lesson the hard way....lol.
#47
Ping pong. I was hanging out with a girl I was seeing at the time and they had a ping pong table near the bar. Two guys were playing and making a big show about how good they thought they were- grunting, rolled sleeves, the works. When I handed them back a wayward shot, I made a comment about how it looked fun to play. They said that I could get the next game after a guy that was waiting, but their “rule” was anyone that they added in the queue to play and lost had to buy drinks for everyone else. About 6 people total were playing. I played competitive ping pong in a league back in med school, and even placed highly in some New York City championships. I still play every so often in my current city, and have won a few tournaments here as well. Played possum in the beginning, went down 4-1. Won 21 to like 7 or 8. Didn’t have to pay for a drink or give up my spot until my date was ready to go. No one even made it out of the single digits.
#48
I'm no professional sprinter, but I'm pretty fast. Fast enough to never have lost a sprinting challenge. One day a new guy at my old job (now a good friend of mine) told me he could run faster than I can so I gladly accepted the challenge (the length was about 60m). I let him start half a second before me and then proceeded to overrun him around 10 meters before the finish line. He was so surprised he tripped and ate the asphalt. We had a good laugh despite his minor injuries
togcrewsc 5 years ago
I've never lost a sprinting challenge either... I've never done one! ; j
PotterHead 5 years ago
same here. My sister and friends like to challenge me but I know i´m super slow and extemely clumsy. I know better than to run.
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A tinder date bet me dinner that I couldn't beat her in smash. I've been playing competitively for around 6 years, so she ended up paying for dinner.
#50
Kind of similar: I told a guy at work that I could play guitar. He didn’t believe me and challenged me to learn and play Minor Swing in 2 weeks. Nailed it in the time frame, performed it at work. I had only accepted to perform it to him (I’m a bit shy and don’t like performing!) but there were no meeting rooms free. Had to perform in front of the whole office. Not my idea of fun. It went well and he/they now believe I can play a bit.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Only one question with this. Why would they doubt you can play guitar? If anyone tells me they can play an instrument, my instinct would be to believe them until proven otherwise.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
Yes, it is a pretty weird thing to doubt. There are plenty of people who can Play an instrument. Now if they said they played concerts with this-and-that group and were holier than thou, I would ask for proof. But otherwise, it is just a nice things to know about someone.
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Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
It wasn't even a week since I had an argument with someone on facebook under a covid-19 article. In the end (after I linked her several research) she claimed she is right, because she graduated as a medical doctor. On facebook. Where I saw her profile saying she is confectioner. She sure hadn't checked mine which says I have a master degree from biotechnology...
blugeagua 5 years ago
It’s especially annoying when it’s the attitude of men treating women like that. Some guys just don’t see women as human beings for some reason and don’t think we can be as good in the STEM world, again for some strange reason.
Korrie Broos 5 years ago
I have a friend that is a retired Admiral, he took warships around the world etc. But for civilian boats, the navy qualifications do not apply, so if you want a have a small skiboat etc, you need to get a new licence. He ended up sitting thru all the classes about radio procedures, weather, etc etc without any one of the lecturers knowing about his previous naval qualifications. And the civilian exams are not as strict as the naval exams.
Daria B 5 years ago
This one sounds like me, an Istrian, taking beginner level Italian classes in my graduate year in university in Korea. Italian is literally my native language (besides Croatian). But, what could I do... Had to satisfy the curriculum of obligatory subjects, so....
Load More Replies... Val 5 years ago
Not a challenge, but a funny story. When I was 19, I was with my cousin (16y) at a bar. He asked me what I wanted to drink, I said I wanted a beer (you must be over 16 in Belgium to drink alcohol). He went to the counter to ask for two beers. I just took a sip and suddenly the bartender came up to me and grabbed my glass. He yelled that I was underage and not allowed to drink alcohol (I look very very young) and my cousin answered "no she's 19!". He didn't believe it, so I said "You wanna bet for 100 Belgian Franks?" (100 Franks back then is the equivalent of about 20 Euro these days). He agreed and I showed him my ID. He turned pale and excused himself, went behind the bar and came back with 100 franks AND another beer.
nanashi 5 years ago
my nephew told me he learned just learned to play chess and I asked if I could play with him thinking I could beat this 6yo even though I'm not that good with it, but I thought I played a lot more than he has so what can this kid do to me. he beat me effortlessly. my brother (kid's father) told me when he said "just learned to play" meant he had spent the entire few months prior playing nothing but chess, obsessively.
Pamda Panda 5 years ago (edited)
I had a guy at my gym try to tell me my tattoo is Japanese, and he would know because he studied Japanese. My tattoo is in fact, Chinese. I would know because I studied Chinese and Japanese and had a friend who is an accomplished Chinese calligrapher write the quote I wanted so the tattoo artist could trace it.
Avery Day 5 years ago
That almost top my experience of a native European telling me how living in Malaysia is like. I was born and bred there.
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D. Pitbull 5 years ago
These are satisfying ... because the pwn'd people at least have the minimal awareness to sulk/storm off/laugh due to being caught out - meaning they are admitting they were wrong. What happens to many of us - is that you get condescended to, you show all the degrees, the research papers, even evidence from other experts (you know... in case the person just refuses to submit to *you* in particular 'cuz it's you)... and they STILL insist that you're an idiot or "buying into some hollywood bs" or "You just guess lucky".
Bruce Mills 5 years ago (edited)
I am an engineer for a company that sells airborne cameras. There is a forum dedicated to debunking UFO and other similar claims that I usually just lurk on. But when so called experts come out and claim something is unidentifiable, when it was recorded on a camera system that I personally tested, and they are misinterpreting what the overlay readings mean, I cant help but chime in and shut them down. How they are the 'go-to' for visual phenomena is beyond me - wouldnt you ask the people that sell the systems first to explain any unusual lighting effects?
Viviane 5 years ago (edited)
For me, it depends on what's at stake. A neighbour gave me career advice when I was job hunting. It was way off the mark, but she meant well, so I thanked her. In another situation, my then boss was giving the wrong information to a client, so I contradicted him. He told me afterwards never to contradict him in front of a client. I can understand how he felt, but he could have either consulted me beforehand or asked me to explain things to the client.
Load More Replies... Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
It wasn't even a week since I had an argument with someone on facebook under a covid-19 article. In the end (after I linked her several research) she claimed she is right, because she graduated as a medical doctor. On facebook. Where I saw her profile saying she is confectioner. She sure hadn't checked mine which says I have a master degree from biotechnology...
blugeagua 5 years ago
It’s especially annoying when it’s the attitude of men treating women like that. Some guys just don’t see women as human beings for some reason and don’t think we can be as good in the STEM world, again for some strange reason.
Korrie Broos 5 years ago
I have a friend that is a retired Admiral, he took warships around the world etc. But for civilian boats, the navy qualifications do not apply, so if you want a have a small skiboat etc, you need to get a new licence. He ended up sitting thru all the classes about radio procedures, weather, etc etc without any one of the lecturers knowing about his previous naval qualifications. And the civilian exams are not as strict as the naval exams.
Daria B 5 years ago
This one sounds like me, an Istrian, taking beginner level Italian classes in my graduate year in university in Korea. Italian is literally my native language (besides Croatian). But, what could I do... Had to satisfy the curriculum of obligatory subjects, so....
Load More Replies... Val 5 years ago
Not a challenge, but a funny story. When I was 19, I was with my cousin (16y) at a bar. He asked me what I wanted to drink, I said I wanted a beer (you must be over 16 in Belgium to drink alcohol). He went to the counter to ask for two beers. I just took a sip and suddenly the bartender came up to me and grabbed my glass. He yelled that I was underage and not allowed to drink alcohol (I look very very young) and my cousin answered "no she's 19!". He didn't believe it, so I said "You wanna bet for 100 Belgian Franks?" (100 Franks back then is the equivalent of about 20 Euro these days). He agreed and I showed him my ID. He turned pale and excused himself, went behind the bar and came back with 100 franks AND another beer.
nanashi 5 years ago
my nephew told me he learned just learned to play chess and I asked if I could play with him thinking I could beat this 6yo even though I'm not that good with it, but I thought I played a lot more than he has so what can this kid do to me. he beat me effortlessly. my brother (kid's father) told me when he said "just learned to play" meant he had spent the entire few months prior playing nothing but chess, obsessively.
Pamda Panda 5 years ago (edited)
I had a guy at my gym try to tell me my tattoo is Japanese, and he would know because he studied Japanese. My tattoo is in fact, Chinese. I would know because I studied Chinese and Japanese and had a friend who is an accomplished Chinese calligrapher write the quote I wanted so the tattoo artist could trace it.
Avery Day 5 years ago
That almost top my experience of a native European telling me how living in Malaysia is like. I was born and bred there.
Load More Replies... D. Pitbull 5 years ago
These are satisfying ... because the pwn'd people at least have the minimal awareness to sulk/storm off/laugh due to being caught out - meaning they are admitting they were wrong. What happens to many of us - is that you get condescended to, you show all the degrees, the research papers, even evidence from other experts (you know... in case the person just refuses to submit to *you* in particular 'cuz it's you)... and they STILL insist that you're an idiot or "buying into some hollywood bs" or "You just guess lucky".
Bruce Mills 5 years ago (edited)
I am an engineer for a company that sells airborne cameras. There is a forum dedicated to debunking UFO and other similar claims that I usually just lurk on. But when so called experts come out and claim something is unidentifiable, when it was recorded on a camera system that I personally tested, and they are misinterpreting what the overlay readings mean, I cant help but chime in and shut them down. How they are the 'go-to' for visual phenomena is beyond me - wouldnt you ask the people that sell the systems first to explain any unusual lighting effects?
Viviane 5 years ago (edited)
For me, it depends on what's at stake. A neighbour gave me career advice when I was job hunting. It was way off the mark, but she meant well, so I thanked her. In another situation, my then boss was giving the wrong information to a client, so I contradicted him. He told me afterwards never to contradict him in front of a client. I can understand how he felt, but he could have either consulted me beforehand or asked me to explain things to the client.
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