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35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Colour. It sounds weird but anytime the colour of something comes up and someone tries to correct me.

I’ve been a commercial printing press operator for 20 years. I can spot VERY subtle differences in colours that most people can’t.

Edit:
The upvote is orange.
The dress is blue and black.

Final score:

240points

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Tams21 2 weeks ago

While I don't doubt this particular person's ability, I don't buy into the "I've been doing something for X years so I must be really good at it" idea. I've met experienced people in a number of professions who either lost the will to do a good job or couldn't do one to begin with.

45points

dontbadgerthewitness , Alena Darmel /pexels Report

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them I’m going to date myself here but I was in undergrad when the video game Halo was released. I never really played video games, but at the time I had a boyfriend (I am a girl) who was really into it. We played. A lot. Even went to some college based tournament games and did well.

Fast forward some years later and my husband and I are at a house party. Someone turns on the Xbox and was looking for a 4th for Halo. My husband volunteers me. The guys were visibly not thrilled but played along. I wiped the floor with them. Eventually they decided to team up 3 against me. Still destroyed them. The whole party ended up crowding around us to watch. It was a great night. :).

Final score:

231points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago (edited)

When Halo first came out, I was a young angry angsty hormonal teen girl whose mom had just married a strange man with 3 teenage sons and moved us all into the same house. I suddenly had 3 stepbrothers I barely knew under the same roof. I was having a Bad Time™️. But one stepbrother asked me if I wanted to play Halo with him one day. The two of us ended up playing Halo 1 and 2 all the way through together. The other older stepbrother played Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 on PS2 with me and we both ended up good enough to do songs on Expert mode together. We actually mildly damaged the living room floor with our stomping hahaha. The youngest stepbrother played GTA (San Andreas I think?) with me (and got it taken away when his dad found out what kind of game it was hahaha). We all had super smash bros and Mario kart tournaments together regularly. We bonded over video games. It made me feel more safe and accepted into our newly blended family. Halo will always have a special place in my heart because it was the beginning of it all ❤️

139points

persad_power , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

There’s a well-known cognitive bias that continues to rear its head everywhere. The Dunning-Kruger effect essentially means that people tend to think that they’re smarter and more capable than they really are due to a lack of self-awareness.

“Low-ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their capabilities,” Verywell Mind explains. “If you don’t know something, you also don’t have the ability to recognize that you don’t know it.”

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Kinda the reverse, for me. I’m a physical education teacher and I had a student that took a pretty bad tumble in class. Hit her head on the wall. Pretty clear concussion symptoms. So we get her stable, call mom & dad to come get her.

Dad shows up & I start going through the concussion symptoms and treatments with him. Letting him know that a doctors visit is probably in order. Blah blah blah I keep going on and on about concussions. He just politely nods and thanks me.

He takes daughter and leaves, and I see my principal standing behind me and he can barely contain his laughter. Turns out dad is an emergency room doctor. And he just sat there while his daughter’s gym teacher gave him medical advice.

Final score:

192points

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Corvus 2 weeks ago

At least he was patient and polite.

208points

littleredhoodlum , Mikael Blomkvist /pexels Report

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Female mechanical engineer. My life is pretty much people challenging me on things I'm an expert on.

Final score:

184points

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Jane 2 weeks ago

That must get old; maybe some day.....!

53points

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them I have perfect pitch.

It's not a thing I can turn off, notes simply ARE a pitch clear as day, much like how red is clearly distinct from green.

Anywho, music class in junior high. Teacher explains that Mozart had perfect pitch and walks over to the piano, plays a note and says "and just by hearing it, he'd be able to tell you what now that was... now can any of YOU do that?"

At the time, I honestly had no idea this was rare. Raise hand, teacher with a smug look points and me and is gobsmacked when I answer correctly with note and octave. Figures it's pure luck so does it again and asks me to face the other way. I answer correctly again.

Tries it with chords, sequences and two hands worth of notes. Still right every time. Ends with me playing back a short sequence after listening to it blind.

That day, I learned that perfect pitch is actually kind of rare.

itskayguys , Pixabay /pexels Report

Final score:

162points

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cerinamroth 2 weeks ago

My friend in choir had absolute pitch (actually what is described here) and she said it was more annoying than cool. Although that might say more about my singing voice 😉 No but honestly she used to say every time she spoke to someone she knew what note they were speaking at, every supermarket jingle, every beep, the dial-up tones for the internet… everything.

56points

Philip_Anderer , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

You’ve likely witnessed the Dunning-Kruger effect in person more times than you can count. It happens whenever someone speaks about a subject they know practically nothing about with lots of authority. They might sound confident and charismatic, but when push comes to shove, all they’re doing is sharing their opinions rather than facts. Furthermore, they might be regurgitating half-remembered conspiracy theories and social media gossip.

People who score lowest in grammar, humor, and logic tests tend to be the ones who overestimate how well they perform on them.

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them While I was in high school I was the reigning city fencing champion, in both the youth and adult tournaments. My high school decided to do a school-wide fencing unit for Phys. Ed. and the coach they brought in to teach all of the students was my actual coach. During my classes, my coach naturally brought me up to help demonstrate the various moves, but for some reason one of my classmates didn't understand that I wasn't chosen at random. He started talking s**t about how I looked like I didn't know what I was doing, and how he could probably kick my a*s in a duel. Now, he actually was pretty good for a guy who'd never fenced before, and at the first opportunity to actually have a bout, he decided to have a go at me.
I picked him apart and did not give up a single touch, and used the opportunity to practice my parry and ripostes (I admit, I took a bit of sadistic pleasure in thoroughly beating him).
Afterwards, my coach made a point of congratulating the other guy for doing so well against the city champ, which changed his attitude considerably.

Final score:

153points

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Pamacious 2 weeks ago

Excellent

46points

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them I have a PhD in genetics, and I’ve published multiple papers on viral vectors spreading in large populations.

Every f*****g anti-Vaxer and COVID conspiracy theorist. I’m so sick of it.

Also, when someone I met at a social event found out that I work in a genetics research lab, he asked the following question:

“If two white Americans go to China and have a baby there, will it come out Asian?”

I was so shocked that I actually spit out my drink.

flyzapper , Artem Podrez/pexels Report

Final score:

150points

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LaserBrain 2 weeks ago

The spit-take, captured in the wild!

50points

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Trivia. I know all sorts of weird random facts.

One day a co-worker said, “If you’re so smart, why don’t you come down to the Legion’s trivia night?”

I am no longer welcome at the Legion’s trivia night because of how badly I beat everyone.

Final score:

140points

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Gustav Gallifrey 2 weeks ago (edited)

Similar happened to me and my wife on a cruise holiday. We won so many of the morning trivia competitions that we had to cease competeing, as there was murmurs of 'fixed' and 'rigged'. Hey, it may be my fault that my head is full of useless information, but it's not my fault that you're so ill-informed.

72points

Better self-awareness doesn’t come easily. It takes a consistent and focused effort to change your mindset and self-perception. It won’t happen overnight.

It’s usually not a pleasant feeling to realize that you’re far from an expert in something you thought you were great at. But this humbling experience doesn’t have to be a negative one if you use it as fuel for your personal growth.

#10

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them The property management company for my homeowner's association insisted that I had received emails that I never received. So I asked them to prove that I had received them. They said they're sure I received them.

I'm a software engineer and at the time I had just finished an enterprise email delivery system (like an in-house Constant Contact). I knew the rules of the CAN-SPAM Act by heart. I KNEW exactly how their system worked.

So this real b***h of a property manager said "I know how email works. You wouldn't understand." I mentally did the arrogant knuckle crack and started to explain - very methodically - how email delivery works and how they'd track various actions. I spent about five minutes detailing my credentials and why I was absolutely certain they had never sent me the emails they alleged I received. When I was finished, the HOA board just agreed to waive the fines.

-aged-like-wine- , Lukas/pexels Report

Final score:

120points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

HOA’s sound like such a nightmare. Has anyone ever lived in a good one?

58points

#11

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Not me but my friend used to ride a unicycle as a kid. He worked construction and they were working at a house that had an old unicycle

The other workers tried riding it and immediately fell off. My friend walked over to it and inspected the unicycle like it was the first time he ever saw one them said it didn’t look that difficult. They all laughed at him and he said he thought he could ride it. Eventually one of them bet him $100 he couldn’t ride it. He jumped on it and immediately rode down the street.

char92474 , Robert Miller/flickr Report

Final score:

105points

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Mr.Li 2 weeks ago

Did he get the 100bucks?

34points

#12

As someone with a history degree - basically everyone thinks they know it better than you. It's endless.

History repeats itself, and those who study it are doomed to helplessly watch it repeat itself.

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Final score:

98points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

And we are currently watching certain eras repeat themselves. What a time to be alive. 😬

57points

MarkHirsbrunner , Tima Miroshnichenko/pexels Report

What areas do you see yourselves as experts in, dear Pandas? Has anyone who had no clue what they were talking about or doing challenged you in your area of expertise? How did you react?

What are some knowledge blind spots that you have that you’re aware of? Share your thoughts in the comments. And remember—always stay humble.

#13

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them By no means an expert (I'd probably rate in the 1500s), but I've played chess since I was a small child and was the best player in the middle school chess club. The guy who owned the pool hall me and my juvenile delinquent friends hung out in was talking about how dumb kids are these days and said he bet nobody in my group of hoodlums could play chess. I beat him soundly, then again in the rematch.

Final score:

97points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

I once won my high school’s DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, the arcade game where you stomp on the arrows to music) competition. Mind you, it was a remote rural high school in the middle of nowhere where the nearest traffic light/McDonalds was 300km away, so only 1 other kid had ever played before. But I still won. 😅

23points

spliffwizard , Ricardo Martínez González/pexels Report

#14

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Not quite this but I tried to learn piano years ago, i bought a keyboard and learned the first movement of moonlight sonata but it was literally all I could play

I had just started a new job as a chef in a fancy hotel, had been there maybe a month and was at the Christmas party, I sat at a piano and the head chef pointed me out, laughing and said "look at splifflizard, you cant play the piano", I thought I'll just act confident and play the only thing I can so was like "yeah i can.. I've played for years" and he said "oh really? Play moonlight sonata then", couldn't have gone better. He was gobsmacked and I never told anyone there that I was actually c**p at piano except that one song lol.

Final score:

95points

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Ace 2 weeks ago

There's a big difference between being able to hit the right notes in the right order and actually 'playing' a piece though.

24points

dabbit-secondus , Alena Darmel /pexels Report

#15

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them I used to play fighting games competitively all over the world. Never made one of the top slots but I could usually hold my own. One of my best game was Super Street Fighter 2.

Went to a bar by work one day and they just so happened to have an SNES set up with SF2. I order a drink, pick random characters and just f**k around for a bit. Some guy comes in and immediately starts bragging to his date that he’s the best SF2 player ever. I asked him to play some games against me and offered to buy him a drink if he could beat 2 out of 3. Twelve games later I am completed hammered and he finally gives up and leaves. Still don’t remember getting home that night.

Final score:

94points

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Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago

I (41) take classes at the local community college. They have a couple of N64s set up for the students to play on. I was never a console gamer, but my ex-husband always has been. He came in once to give me a ride, and while waiting for my class to get out, started playing one of the Mario racing games with some of the kids. He completely wiped the floor with them.

24points

#16

I wouldn’t say I’m an expert at push ups but I’ve worked in the fitness industry for 20 years and workout myself fairly regularly. Doing 20 push ups isn’t anything to me. I was at a party that was attended primarily by what I would call hipsters. A guy (who had been drinking a fair amount) challenged me to 20 push ups as fast as possible for $20. I won and got $20. Then another said he would do the same bet if we went right away (I guess thinking I was kinda tired). I beat him and got another $20. A few minutes later another guy did the same bet. It was an easy $60.

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Final score:

76points

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Michael Danhauer 2 weeks ago

I was 11. I weighed 60 lbs soaking wet. I missed a lot of school that year so on the last day my gym teacher is doing grades and says I never did my 1 pull up for the year and Ill fail if I don't. Whole class has to come with as he takes me to auxiliary gym to use pull up bar. My classmates are riffing on my physique because Im so skinny. They think I can't even do 1. My teacher says you got 1 minute give me a pull up GO! I leap to the bar and start ripping them off like nothing. By the end of the minutes the class is chanting the count along with my teacher. 34 in one minute. I broke the school record. Guess it helps to have a pull up bar in your game room to keep me and my bros busy while waiting for our turn at video games. Ill never forget everyone's shocked faces.

52points

HatfieldCW , David Jackmanson/flickr Report

#17

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Medieval Faire, 2002. Carnie running the fencing game picks me out of the crowd for being tall, and challenges me to a free bout against "The Master". Not a lot of people fence, so his gambit probably worked most of the time, but when he handed me that saber, I handed him his a*s.

Final score:

71points

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Robert Cosgrove 2 weeks ago

I was the youngest pilot in Pan Am history. When I was four, the pilot let me ride in the cockpit and fly the plane with him. And I was four and I was great. And I would have landed it, but my dad wanted us to go back to our seats.

35points

#18

Not an expert but after having to deal with a chemistry teacher in middle school who basically hated me for no reason, I had to put extra effort in the class so I was really good in that class.

So this one time in high school a mean girl hid my test. I got call to the principal's office to inform me they couldn't find my answer sheet even though lists showed I attended class that day, anyway I went to the TI office, search my answer sheet through all the groups (I'm talking a class of 500+ people).
Since my exam wasn't found the person in charge of the department started bitching at me that I did it on purpose because probably I knew I was failing and I told her, well give another test I'll do it and she thought that was big red flight because probably I just memorized all the answers blah blah. I told her "just give a bunch of exercises, and I'll solve it right here right now, I bet my entire grade on this, do you really think I planned to spend all the week looking for that test".

So she goes and gives me 10 exercises I scored 10/10.

**In. Your. F*****g. Face.**

Safe to say I don't know s**t about chemistry anymore lol.

PSA: I found out what happened to my test because the girl was bragging about taking my test and throwing it to the garbage, later that year.

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Final score:

71points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

Mean girls suck. One just got elected to the US presidency.

72points

MrJakeEpping , U.S. Army Cadet Command/flickr Report

#19

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them When we were having a couple drinks on friday after work, I was challenged to a shooting, by a colleague. Little did he know I've been shooting air rifles competitively ever since I was thirteen. Not to say I am the greatest, but I've made it to the national finals for my country multiple times, and came third and sixth. I have all the special clothes and gear and such you need to make it to such a level.

The next day, saturday, we showed up to the range i always shoot at. Its not a day I usually train so not many people recognize me. I beat his a*s left right and center that day. Out of 600 points, he scored about 200-250 if i remember correctly. I got about 580 which was about average of what I used to shoot.

He had to buy me a fancy bottle of whisky and now we shoot every two or three weeks together. Fun times

Im sorry if its hard to follow, English is my second language.

Final score:

70points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago (edited)

I’m a weirdly good shot, for someone who has astigmatism and strabismus (I technically only have full vision in one eye and I don’t have 3D vision). Once in Ukraine I was given 2 shots of homemade vodka and the chance to shoot a poster of Putin 30ish yards away. I got him right between the eyes 😊 (please don’t arrest me CSIS)

35points

#20

This happens to me alot. I had the unique situation of working in manufacturing in China for 7 years. I moved back 3 years ago and constantly have people explain to me why manufacturing could easily come back to the states. I emphatically tell them they are f*****g high.

Xazier Report

Final score:

61points

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The Darkest Timeline 2 weeks ago

All the “America First” idiots who want the illegals kicked out so they can have the alleged high-paying manufacturing jobs they inexplicably believe Trump will “bring back” by imposing tariffs are beyond delusional

76points

RyanDaltonWrites , Ivan Samkov/pexels Report

#21

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them A beginning writer asked some advice about a basic drafting method, so I offered my point of view. Some tough guy decided to butt in and say that what I said was proof I’m not a “real writer” and it was obvious I would never be published. At that time, the second or third book in my trilogy was about to be released. I asked the guy not to tell my editor that I wasn’t a real writer.

Final score:

54points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

If you write, you’re a “real writer.” I truly don’t know what other criteria you need.

37points

#22

I’m an academy award winning sound mixer and almost everyone on film sets think they know my job better than me.

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Final score:

54points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

Boots n cats n boots n cats n boots n cats

12points

SPP_TheChoiceForMe , Michelle Hofstrand/flickr Report

#23

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Someone once tried to insist that our state didn’t sell alcohol on sundays.

I’ve spent over a decade working in restaurants and am also an alcoholic, which she knew about but still insisted on arguing with me about it.

Final score:

54points

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KatSaidWhat 2 weeks ago

South Africa used to have a no booze on Sunday rule - not sure if that still stands, I've lived away for 20+ years. But as the alcoholic progeny of alcoholics, I could tell you where every shebeen in town was.

12points

marti14141 , International Fund for Animal Welfare/pexels Report

#24

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them Well I am a veterinarian and I know how to prevent fleas.

(Them) “My dog is itching and it’s not fleas”

(Me) “ Ok but your dog is infested”

(Them) “...it’s not fleas”

..run comb and show them hundreds...

The doctor in Happy Gilmore ... I empathize

Edit:

Well this got busy.

Flea prevention starts with giving flea preventatives. Off brand stuff does not work. You bite the bullet and get name brand stuff.
Personally I like bravecto for cats (topical) lasts pretty much 2 months.

For dogs I know from experience that oral meds work better than topicals. I like nexguard, simperica trio or seresto collars. With nexguard and the seresto you need to add heartworm prevention because those don’t have it.

Final score:

53points

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Cee Cee 2 weeks ago

My old vet insisted on Bravecto topical for my dogs. One absolutely hated it. First time he sulked an entire weekend. I'd have to go down to the bottom of the garden to get the tube out of the foil. If he'd heard he'd go and hide. He's on Simparica oral now but I still have to hide it in a chunk of Baby Bel or slice of turkey.

14points

#25

Pool water treatment isn't very difficult even for the average joe. Trust me, you do not need to pay someone $100 a month to treat and clean your pool. I love to listen to the sales people at Leslie's (local chain of pool supply stores) "educate" me and their other customers. I got into a polite discussion about algae one time and I was told that I was wrong. I explained that I knew what I was talking about. He asked what I did and I responded "industrial water treatment." He's very nice to me when I go into the store now.

IslayHaveAnother Report

Final score:

53points

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Donna Peluda 2 weeks ago

I used to look after the neighbours pools when I was 12 years old. Not rocket science.

9points

#26

A friend of mine challenged me when I said the dusty bits on the floor below their air conditioner was because they needed to clean the filter. They insisted that it was ash coming from outside through the air conditioner because of fires that had been going on nearby. It was a split system AC, I work in HVAC. At least once I explained how their unit worked they conceded.

Final score:

50points

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Pyla 2 weeks ago

People get good advice and ignore it

5points

#27

Guitar Hero. Work held a Christmas party at a venue and set up the game for fun and prizes. I was the second oldest (47f) person there. All the younger employees were going ham and having a great time. I wasn't going to play until the prize was $500 for last person standing. I walked away $500 richer and also a legend. 🤘🤪.

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Final score:

48points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

Be a guitar hero, got stars in his eyes 🎶

8points

Conscious_Tea , Universal Pictures Report

#28

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them My roommate who took a psych 101 class at a prestigious university told me, a masters level therapist, that the movie Split (with James Mcavoy) was an accurate depiction of “multi-personality disorder.”.

Final score:

43points

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reuben kift 2 weeks ago

I hate that movie for this reason alone. The film/tv industry hardly ever portray mental illness accurately. Or they portray people with mental illnesses as violent nutcases. Not that there aren't a few out there, but people who suffer from mental illnesses are more likely to hurt themselves more than anyone else. That, or they are the victim. Would it kill them to bring in a psychologist or someone like that to advise them on what the hell mental illness looks/feels like? They have contributed so much to the stigma of mental illness.

46points

#29

Went to a couples night once and the guy had wall to wall movies and framed posters in his basement, super into it. Mentioned I used to be a movie nerd but not so much anymore. He challenged us to a movie trivia board game, kinda in a condescending way and I tried to politely decline but my gf insisted we play. They went first, missed the question then we ran the table. Never heard from them again.

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Final score:

41points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

I’m sorry I don’t get what “missed the question and then we ran the table” means 😅 help pandas?

4points

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#30

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them I'm no expert but people never assume I can play Pool. I grew up with my parents going to the pub, so as an early teen would play ALOT of Pool and got pretty good.

There's been a number of occasions where I've got us a round of drinks or stuck it to some knob who's hogging the table.

ifitwasonlytrue , MART PRODUCTION/pexels Report

Final score:

39points

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Cee Cee 2 weeks ago

I'm 72 F and was taught how to play pool by the Irish guys in a local pub we drank in. I got really good. I am still really good much to the amazement of onlookers. I also ride a classic Triumph Bonneville.

40points

#31

Lemme see:

Krull. The arcade video game. A guy tried to hit on me at a house party by challenging me to a game but he knew he had made a mistake when I said, “Sure, I haven’t played in a while.”

It was my boyfriends’s house, and his game.

We still had fun playing though.

mrsxpando Report

Final score:

38points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

As a millennial, I challenge all of you to Mario kart

16points

#32

Hula hooping: They resorted to throwing stuff at my hoop, because I kept going like the Energizer Bunny.

Wondertwig9 Report

Final score:

37points

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cerinamroth 2 weeks ago

I 100% approve of this image!

10points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#33

My father in law challenged me about the capabilities of DVD. Specifically he claimed that you could only have widescreen video (not 4:3) on a DVD disc.

At the time I was employed as a DVD author. I authored the very first commercially available feature on Scenarist. I am literally acknowledged in the first edition of "DVD Demystified" as an expert. I had already by that time personally authored literally hundreds of DVD's with 4:3 video.

He knew all of the above at the time, yet still insisted I was wrong.

gcm6664 Report

Final score:

35points

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Panda McPandaface 2 weeks ago

Some people are just twats and deserve all they get.

25points

#34

I hesitate to say "expert" but compared to this person I was a savant. I did a few papers throughout school on GMOs for some presentations so while I am not an "expert" I know more than a random Joe, especially at the time.

Well I remember getting into an argument with a stereotypical college hipster about how "unnatural" GMOs were and how we should stop using them. Just your usual buzzwords "chemicals are bad" and the like.

Being able to systematically shut her down until it became "I don't *feel* like they are safe." Was pretty nice though. And for the record I don't generally revel in this sort of thing, but if you could hear the tone she used....I think you'd understand.

Monteze Report

Final score:

33points

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cerinamroth 2 weeks ago

Der Ton macht die Musik as we say in German (the tone is what makes the music). I sympathise!

15points

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#35

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them A former coworker challenged me to a cheese eating competition at an office get together. Little did he know I f*****g love cheese and am the type of person to eat shredded cheese straight out the bag at 3am. He wimped out after 15 cubes of cheese from the deli platter while I basically cleared my whole section.

-eDgAR- , Lina Kivaka/pexels Report

Final score:

30points

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Ace 2 weeks ago

Sooo much wrong with this. Cheese lover eating pre-grated cheese out of a bag... *shudder*

26points

cerinamroth 2 weeks ago

When you’re an addict, sometimes you debase yourself 😉

24points

Tiger 2 weeks ago

What do you eat your pre-grated cheese off of, a marble throne?

8points

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Pandemonium 2 weeks ago

At least it wasn't out of an aerosol can

3points

Jac Carr 2 weeks ago

Cheese is my soulmate; I agree

3points

Alyce 2 weeks ago

So, you're one of those gate-keeping cheese snobs? Cheese is cheese; it's all awesome.

2points

csaclint 2 weeks ago

you're thinking of the hipster style cheese lover who insists on telling you the temperature at the farm the day the the cow was milked to make the cheese. In all situations, hipsters suck. OP is the type of cheese lover who just enjoys eating cheese.

2points

Pernille 2 weeks ago

I agree Ace, now taking a bite out of a wedge of brie, or an entire camembert that is ok.

2points

8bwm85y69x 2 weeks ago

The gatekeeper of cheese loving has arrived folks! 'Real' cheese lovers would never eat grated cheese. Can you imagine??? GRATED cheese? Horrific. Certainly the strongest sign of end times I've seen! Poor Ace, must be hard for them to keep up with policing all self-proclaimed cheese lovers!

5points

roddy 2 weeks ago

A gorging contest. Why do these even exist? People would be in better health with a fasting contest.

2points

Anonymouse 2 weeks ago

Best commercial ever - "Behold, the power of cheese" and the pedestrian sees the cheese in the window and just runs into it! I so identify with this

2points

Stina Kolling 2 weeks ago

Fyi: if you stand in front of the fridge with the door open and eat shredded cheese straight out of the bag, you are being a cheese goblin. If you are eating bites of cheese straight off the giant block, you are being a cheese kobold. Those are the official terms. I don't makes the rules, I just follows 'em.

1point

Riley Quinn 2 weeks ago

And he poops 2X a week.

1point

Mad McQueen 2 weeks ago

I love cheese too. That would be an easy win.

1point

Brian Droste 2 weeks ago

I like cheese myself, but don't consider myself a cheese expert. On the other hand I have a friend that really likes cheese. He is willing to try different cheeses.

1point

Funhog 2 weeks ago

"...while I basically cleared my whole section" and then it took three days for my whole section to be cleared.

1point

Robert Beveridge 2 weeks ago

15 cubes? I had bariatric surgery three months ago and I could STILL do that without much effort...

0points

Regina Holt 2 weeks ago

Who wimps out at 15 cubes of cheese? There is no limit to cheese, eat it until it is gone, that's the proper way to eat cheese.

0points

Son of Philosoraptor 2 weeks ago

They used to have "who can take the biggest bong hit" contests in my dorm. If I recall correctly, I always won.

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Janissary35680 Premium 2 weeks ago (edited)

I've done this with pizza. :-) Also check out a Damon Runyon story titled "A Piece of Pie".

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#36

My dad once tried to argue with me about what tampons were made of and how they worked. Given some very basic anatomical differences between the two of us, I finally won the argument, but it was way more discussion than it should have been.

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

Cotton and rayon, mostly. They just soak up blood, they’re not that complicated.

2points

#37

A pub in my city was doing a Lord of the Rings pub quiz, and me and my friends were all going. One of my friends ended up on his own team for various reasons, and in the week leading up to the quiz kept gloating like "we've got this guy on our team, he knows EVERYTHING about Lord of the Rings, you guys are gonna LOSE!"

Now, I'm a big fan of the Lord of the Rings, and Tolkien generally, which is why he kept saying these things.

Come the day of the quiz, my team left the answers largely in my own hands. We won. Of the 47 questions asked, we got 47 correct.

My other friend? Second, yes, but he spent the entire time after the quiz looking sour. He didn't speak to me for at least a month, and even then when he finally did he still brought up the quiz.

Stay salty, bro.

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Lewis. 2 weeks ago

Recently took my daughter to a Disney pub quiz. She is 6 years old and has an extremely obscure knowledge in this area. Average age was approx 30-35. Some very serious teams as you can imagine. I sat there with my beer whilst she answered all the questions. 1st place. $100.00.

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#38

I was making small talk during a tech support call once and we got onto music. I had mentioned I was a huge Pink Floyd fan. What I didn't mention is that I was almost exclusively raised on Pink Floyd. And he was like "what are you 25? Name me two albums that aren't the wall or dark side"

The minute I mentioned Ummagumma he knew he f****d up.

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Paul C. 2 weeks ago

Once got chatting to a bloke who said he was a Springsteen fan. I said proudly, I've seen him 6 times!.... He'd seen him over 80 times! Including a number of times in New Jersey. Jealous, Moi?

4points

#39

Excel. I built a complicated but highly effective Excel Workbook to calculate the how to price parts for a top customer of ours. I labeled it, added a legend and color coded things for users. The user just needed to input the part type, material and target price. It would auto-calculate everything you needed to submit a quote. The sales manager from another factory hated it and refused to use it. He said it pointless and a waste of company time. We got into a lengthy argument over it. He ended up proceeding without using it and ended up submitting conflicting prices to the customer. The customer noticed we were adding additional profit to certain parts and we lost a lot of business. I sent him a screenshot of what he should of used with my "pointless document" and asked if he'd like me to teach him how to use it. I managed to salvage the relationship with the customer but then left the company not long after for a better position.

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Brian Herold 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't surprise me to hear that he deliberately refused to use it specifically so he could mess with the quote and hoped the customer wouldn't notice.

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#40

Star Wars Battlefront 2, the original version.

I knew that game inside and out. It reached the stage where I would be given every penalty possible whenever playing against someone else in order to make the match fair. Even then it was like 70/30 odds I'd come out on top. Eventually I just realized I stopped dying and would make it the whole match without respawning once. I learned just about every single little trick to give myself an edge, all the things you can interact with, the best places to hide and set traps, the best and quickest routes to each place, the less frequently went too places, where all the health and ammunition droids were, how to quickly destory those things on the enemy side, how to repair them quickly on my side, the most efficient way to kill the enemy troops and progress from command post to command post. This was like the only game I played as a kid and it showed.

So to say the very least I was very happy when my cousin was acting all arragant again at his skills and challenged me to a few games to prove I'm trash.

Final score:

17points

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Carla Phillips 2 weeks ago

This is me with resident evil 1.

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#41

Far from an expert. Far from proficient. But I've been told Jiu Jitsu doesn't work by several froggy drunk dudes. It works. It always works.

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17points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

Interpretive dance works against froggy drunk dudes 😂

19points

#42

My gym class was doing a 2v2 volleyball tournament. Our class had a lot of students so there were two teachers, and those two teachers said that whoever wins the tournament would go on to play against the teachers and if the students won, the teachers would throw a pizza party for the students.

My friend and I were both actual volleyball players, but the teachers didn't know that and we decided not to tell them. We won the tournament, and then we proceeded to play the teachers. Before we started the game, the teachers made a point that they had never lost in all their years of teaching. We proceeded to beat them 15-1.

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17points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

How many Pink Floyd fans does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to live in the darkness.

3points

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#43

I was helping my mom and stepdad with their taxes many years ago, and since they had purchased their home during the tax year, I asked the standard questions. When I got to the part about 'paying points,' I asked, but then said, "I'm pretty sure you didn't pay any points." My stepdad said, "Of course we did, most people do." We went back and forth a bit. He seemed to think that the comission paid to your real estate agent was also called 'points.' It ended when he said, "Craptastic, just because you worked in a real estate office, doesn't mean you know everything about real estate." One of my responsibilities was literally to prepare the settlement statements.

Final score:

16points

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#44

Solving a rubik's cube. My friend bet me 10 bucks, he could solve a cube faster then me. He solved it in 1 minute, me, 30 seconds.

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15points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 weeks ago

Took me 2 years!

6points

#45

My father trying to explain to me how computers and the Internet work, after he's called me over to figure out why his computer and internet aren't working.

edit: spoiler: It was because my mom downgraded their TV package, and they must have accidentally turned off the audio wifi, since the video wifi was still working fine

edit edit: My dad's understanding of electronics stopped evolving in the 1990s. He knows that plugging the DVD player in involves a 3-pronged cable - 2 for audio 1 for video; I'm guessing he thinks the internet works the same way. So being able to see YouTube but not hear it means that the audio stream is out, because the Cable Company and also Trump somehow, and it is CERTAINLY not the fault of his ridiculously complicated home stereo setup that requires 4 remotes to operate.

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14points

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oktopus 2 weeks ago

Audio wifi??

7points

#46

Not an expert, or even certified, but there's a specific kind of cargo parachute called a Small Airdrop Training Bundle. I can pack these correctly and by the book in less than 15 minutes. I was challenged by someone who had 5 years experience on me to see who could pack the most in an hour. I had 6 while he was trying to argue with the quality control guy (who has been packing parachutes for 20 years) over how correct he did step 3. I had a good day beating the guy who just so happened to be the worst rigger in the world.

Final score:

14points

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Antonia 2 weeks ago (edited)

I don't care how fást you are. Doing it correctly is far more important

9points

#47

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them A foreigner acquaintance was talking to me in my native language, and I corrected him. It was a very simple word, but he was like "ohhh are you sure?" and kept insisting. Yes, is a very simple word, I'm sure and is not like you're taking a degree in said language. Kinda pissed me off.

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14points

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Ace 2 weeks ago

Tricky one this - to correct or not to correct? I've been living in foreign parts for decades,, French and German speaking, and working with people of many different languages. You need to be careful, is all I will say. Not everyone is open to 'criticism'.

6points

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#48

35 Times People Got To Show Their Expert Knowledge When An Idiot Challenged Them It was honestly like a movie. When I was in college you were limited to only a few guest passes so it was pretty common to ask people on your floor to sign in friends. So late at night while we were playing Mario Kart someone knocked on our door to ask us to sign in their friends. We didn’t really feel like going down stairs and dealing with that so we hesitated. That’s when he said if I beat you in Mario Kart will you sign them in? We of course agreed. Little did he know we played every day all semester long. He was really convinced he would be us. We placed 1st 2nd and 3rd and he ended up in 12th. We still signed in his friends though.

Final score:

14points

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Funhog 2 weeks ago

So, their friends just patiently waited around in the lobby until the game was over? How long was that?

3points

#49

He wasn't really challenging me but I brought up to my ex that I really wanted to paint something on the back of the denim jacket my dad gave me. My idea was to paint that really gross zombie from Return of the Living Dead because I adore him. Ex told me to find a stencil for it and he could do that. I remember telling that I could most definitely do it on my own. After all, I've been drawing and painting since I could hold a pencil. I wouldn't say I'm the most amazing artist but I'm pretty decent at what I do.

He, in a very patronizing tone, told me I should paint it on like a scrap piece of canvas first to make sure I can get it right. I explained to them that I already was planning on that. Obviously I wasn't just going to smear paint on my only denim jacket.

So, I sat down and painted it on a small canvas and it turned out even better than I could've imagined. Pretty sure spite made me work even harder at getting down the details. I showed him and I remember seeing the look on his face. He was trying to find something wrong with it but he couldn't. The next day, he asked if I would paint something on his leather jacket for him. Also, when we broke up, he kept my painting.

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14points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

He sounds like a tool

6points

#50

I wouldn’t say an expert but cycling. My younger brother has a personal vendetta against me. Tried to tell him riding 100 miles not easy. He said man I can do 100 miles.I was like ok i stay with you the first 50 miles, he didn’t make it pass 10. LOL!

Edit: He literally pissed me off calling cycling s**t. I mean he literally said that s**t easy.

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10points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

During Pokémon Go Summer (2016 I think?) you could hatch eggs by walking, but not by car - but a bike was slow enough. I biked EVERYWHERE with my boyfriend and our “buns in the oven.” It was actually amazing for both our mental health too.

3points

#51

We lived in a non-English-speaking country. I was in a restaurant with my (now) ex. It was a really hot day and I sort of jokingly said I wanted 'warm water' for a drink: I said it in English to him. He snapped at me in our first language saying I was gross for wanting to drink 'worm water'. I had to explain to him in our first language what I just said, and he asked me (very angrily) why I was pronouncing it all wrong?

'Wahm water!' He told me it was pronounced, not worm water. It's spelled with an 'A', so it should be pronounced as so.

It was a stupid thing to argue, but I knew him well enough to know that it was a hill that he was willing to die on. So I proceeded to tell him that English is my favourite subject in school, I consistently scored excellently at the subject, and will be graduating Bachelor's Degree as an English Major (this was years ago). If anyone at the table should know how to pronounce a simple word as 'warm', it should be me. I pronounced each 'warm' and 'worm', and told him how each word did not sound the same as it was spelled. Hearing what 'worm' phonetically sounded like weirded him out. He was stubborn and insisted that he was right, and I had to remind him again of my qualifications.

Final score:

10points

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cerinamroth 2 weeks ago

Haha, I’ve had chats with Germans like this! It’s not ‘curry’, it’s ‘carry’. Also when I tried to tell them that an Amsel is a blackbird in English (I emphasised the fact that it’s all one word). They didn’t believe because there are other birds that are black.

5points

#52

No expert or "master'' electrician, but had a guy demanding I put can lights in his house without cans. these were not the canless kind either. he just straight up didn't want to pay for cans, even bought the lights by the pallet on some massive sale. real cheap a*s who wouldn't listen to anything I said about safety, legality, etc. I walked out and told him good luck with his inspection.

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9points

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Ace 2 weeks ago

Recessed ceiling lights, for those like me not familiar with the term. Normally use a different type of bulb, the fittings can't just be surface mounted.

8points

#53

Anytime someone wants to play me at Smash Bros. I'm nowhere near good enough to go toe to toe at major tournaments, but I can hold my own at local tournaments and usually end up in the top 5 out of 20-30 players.

Which when I go to a party or hang out at a friends house and they get cocky about their skills usually ends in them getting angry by the end of the night and never wanting to play Smash with me again.

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8points

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Hazel Sage 2 weeks ago

My little brother once won a church-wide Smash Brothers tournament when he was like 10. The pastor, who had been expecting an easy win for himself, threw a hissy fit and the next year the tournament was 18+. We eventually left that church because the pastor was so toxic.

3points

#54

Oh yes I get to share this story.

Me and my buddies in 7th/8th grade LOVED Goldeneye. We had "sleepovers" where we spent every waking second from 5pm until 9am the next day playing, no sleep at all. We were convinced we were the best, but had no real proof because we were only playing against people in our school. Big fish, small pong type scenario.

Fast forward about 6 or 7 years, my college holds a Goldeneye tournament. Haven't played it in years, obviously. Well there was a giant problem: my friends and I always played with inverted pitch on. The issue was that Goldeneye, in multi-player, doesn't let you select different control styles for different players. Everyone has to play with the same control scheme, so I was stuck with my controls being "upside-down".

I still won the tournament. I got absolutely rocked in the Mario Kart tourney, but I had my Goldeneye badge.

Edit: I'm being told that I'm a big dummy and you CAN individually set the controls. So for some reason I wasn't able to in the tournament, but I remember the timed mines round was absolutely bonkers as a result....

Also I'm not changing my spelling mistake regarding a body of water.

Final score:

5points

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Tiger 2 weeks ago

007 Nightfire on PS2 was a huge part of my childhood. My sister and I were obsessed, along with Morrowind and RuneScape and Kingdom Hearts and multiple Final Fantasies and Mario Kart and Halo etc etc…. Ahh the good ol days

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Traveling Lady Railfan 2 weeks ago

I was at our local model railroad store, picking up some paints and supplies for a layout. (Admittedly, you don't see many women in a model train store) Some guy I didn't know was looking through a magazine for sale, saw I was wearing an onr t-shirt (Ontario Northland railway) and started talking about this article in the magazine and have I read it, and you should read it.... And I said smiled and said "Thank you very much, I'm really pleased to hear that you're enjoying that... I wrote the article". And he looked at the byline and he looked at me and he looked back at the magazine and he walked away.

23points

Brian Droste 2 weeks ago

Lol lol.

5points

Gustav Gallifrey 2 weeks ago (edited)

There was a young man in China, who was making declarations on an internet forum about China's 'historical claims' to the South China Sea. I questioned the accuracy of some of his claims. He responded, 'what would you know about it?'. OK, lad, you as ked for it. I have a degree in maritime history, with a focus on population, development, and patterns of trade in the Western Pacific. I took his arguments to pieces, and probably told him more about the South China Sea than he ever wanted to know.

11points

Rachel Pelz 2 weeks ago

I read a newspaper article about that recently. Like, they confused the name of one island and claimed it...and only found out afterwards where that island is actually located. Or something similar, I'm no expert. Sounded funny though.

1point

Alexander Luna 2 weeks ago

I've written a few books (not successful) but one was about certain travel experiences. A guy at a party happened to say he'd read that book without knowing I'd written it. He claimed the writer didn't know what he was talking and had obviously never been to these places. I corrected his opinion.

6points

veryvenasaur 2 weeks ago

I had a teacher who I didn't like much read my poem aloud to the class and proceeded to talk about what it meant. I politely said that I think the author would disagree, and they said in a very condescending way, "Well I'm the English teacher." And I just smiled and remarked, "Yeah and I'm the author." I feel the need to clarify this wasn't a published poem it was something I had shared with the school librarian and the librarian had shown it off at a teacher meeting. I actually still have it memorized so if there's any interest I can add it.

5points

Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 weeks ago

i'd like to hear it, veryvenasaur. :-)

2points

Mari 2 weeks ago

How many times people are explainig me how to make a dish or to bake a cake. They think they know better because they followed a year of cooking lessons. I am a hobby chef, I never followed lessons but I am cooking and baking at least 3 hours a day for the last 20years. I have a huge collection of cookbooks, I am always trying new recipes and food from around the world but for them I am just a simple housewife.

5points

Mimi M 2 weeks ago (edited)

No worries - I'll volunteer to come over and taste-test your recipes and report back to them!

4points

Roland Nijveld 2 weeks ago

Is darkmode back yet? No? Ok, I'm off again. #FreeDarkMode

3points

General Anaesthesia 2 weeks ago

Because of the "show comments" button to read comments under each post on Android tablet, you can't just click on the link in notifications to read people's replies to your comments, either. Every change in the site breaks something somewhere else That's not an invitation to subscribe either.

1point

Panda Guy 2 weeks ago

I do it daily. After selling auto parts for 35 years there's little I haven't seen. My favorites are the ones who don't know the correct name of the part they need but argue with you about it. I really love the looks on their faces when I bring the part to the counter and it has the exact name I was calling it printed on the box.

2points

Petra Schaap 2 weeks ago

in the middle of my pac man addiction, i was going on a trip to the States. Somewhere during a Greyhound trip we were stuck on a bus station all night due to snow, and people started chatting with eachother. A guy gave me a quarter and said "you know Pac Man over there?" (meaning Europe) i said "you're sure about this?" I kicked his a*s 5 times in a row and then he gave up :-D

2points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 weeks ago

I dare anyone to beat me on Tetris. I really mean it. Except for my incursion in the professional level I have never been beaten https://profile.playstation.com/MrBalls-

2points

Traveling Lady Railfan 2 weeks ago

I ❤️ Tetris!!! (But I won't dare to beat you!!) Congrats!! I bet you have amazing spatial acuity skill that translates to real life

1point

R Dennis 2 weeks ago

I started working in restaurants at 15. Decided a few years (dishwasher/cleaner/food prep) in that I didn't want to cook. By 19, I was in management and did weekly and monthly inventories. In my 30s, I was working at a quickserve restaurant teaching a new manager how to do inventory. After showing him the proper way for several months, I started doing it my way: kick, tap, shake the boxes and move on. He said you can't do that or your numbers would be off. I gave him a copy of an inventory sheet told him we would both inventory the same storage shelf (50 items) and compare our answers. I finished in about five minutes, he finished in 20. When we compared numbers, we had the exact same answers.

2points

Gatorraid 2 weeks ago

I'm no means an expert on either things but I am the sort that gets underestimated because of my weight and simple manner of speaking and thinking. Weight story- So in my school football (the British kind not the American one) is the major sport to play in as well as that track running thing where you hand each other batons after a lap or so. These two had more people participating in, more than basketball, cricket or volleyball. Now I'm always benched or not chosen as an option because to everyone's eyes I was a liability. Don't blame them for thinking that way, I was packing 85 kilos at the time. But during the holidays I decided I had enough of sitting in the sidelines so with my brothers I practiced my reflexes and ran a lot. My weight didn't change much but my reflexes were on par with a cat (not literally) and I could run much faster than most in short bursts as stamina was still a major problem. (Rest of story in replies)

2points

Gatorraid 2 weeks ago

Now I'm back in school and some students wanted to really impress a girl so he and his friends decided to hold a short sprint with one another (he was the fastest of the group) but then saw me and probably thought "Heh maybe adding him would make me look better too" so he called me over and pretended to ask politely me to join in. I saw what he was doing but said yes anyway. As soon as "GO" was shouted I left all of them in the dust but the douche still close behind me. Everyone swarmed me and asked how I was so fast (I was still visibly panting like a dog 🤣) but before I could answer I saw the overconfident boy just slumped over in shock. The next day as a football match was going on one of the goalkeepers in my team got torpedoed by the ball to their crotch and had to sub in with me. No one even tried to hide their groans and laughter as I was heading to the goal post. I loved the faces they made when our team didn't lose a single goal after I joined in.

6points

Upstaged75 2 weeks ago

These are all just humble brags.

1point

MSNY22 2 weeks ago

So what? Let people feel proud of their knowledge or abilities or that one moment they got to show it off. We am get enough negative feedback in life.

0points

Korrie Broos 2 weeks ago

A friend of mine was the Chief of the Navy. He retired and wanted to get a skipper his own private little fishing boat. But required a civilian skipper's licence. Attended the "Schipper school" and told no one about his naval career. he had the civilian guy teaching him about skippering a boat and the sea etc. He found it quite amusing.

1point

zerofoxgiven 1 week ago

I work in aviation as a female. Since I'm the one handling the phone and e-mails for our international airport, most of our contacts think I'm only a kind of secretary and assistant and I'm only sitting on my ªss in the office the whole 12 hours shift. Then they find out that the woman who replied to their e-mails is also the same one who is up close with the airplanes and their crews and handles the fuel service, cargo handling, passenger security and so many more things. I love it.

0points

nuberiffic 2 weeks ago

Got picked up by the courtesy bus for a music themed quiz night at a local pub, two women on the bus turned to me and said, "just to warm you, we've been studying music trivia and watching spicks and specks (Aussie music quiz show) all week." So I had to respond, "just so you know; I have a bachelor's degree in music, and am a professional musician and music teacher". Yes, we won.

0points

BookFanatic 2 weeks ago

Had a guy explain to me how to use our catalog to look up a book. I've worked at a library for over 20 years. Then he said he usually uses "the Google." Sigh.

0points

Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago

I work as a medical biller, like went to school and have my associates degree. The number of people who try to argue with me what HIPAA is amazes me.

0points

Insomniac 2 weeks ago

I'm qualified to teach Shakespeare at undergrad level. I know my Bard. I'm also an aspiring fiction writer (among other things; ADHD). This more successful fiction writer within my FB circle corrected me on a phrase, saying "REAL writers say it this way." Knowing he was digging at me because he does that, I pointed out why I have enough credentials to identify as a writer, my way was perfectly grammatically correct and that a more famous writer than any of us, Shakespeare, said it my way. Then he threw this tantrum, like "Jesus, Insomniac, do you get paid to argue on the Internet? Why do you have to make a big deal out of nothing? You really need to learn when to shut up, because nobody cares!" Dude, you started the conversation. Not my problem you're wrong. Of course, he never told a man when he was wrong... he only went after women young enough to be his daughters. Tough fellow.

0points

Vinnie 2 weeks ago (edited)

I have an opposite story. When I was 8, I named all the planets in the solar system. My parents were convinced I had a bright future as a scientist. Nope, I just learned to recite 9 words (hey, this was before Mickey Mouse's dog was demoted to a dwarf planet). My mother is gone, my dad is still around and deeply disappointed in me. I understand he had dreams for me and still does, but you can't live vicariously through your 60-something kids.

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Traveling Lady Railfan 2 weeks ago

23points

Brian Droste 2 weeks ago

Lol lol.

5points

Gustav Gallifrey 2 weeks ago (edited)

11points

Rachel Pelz 2 weeks ago

1point

Alexander Luna 2 weeks ago

6points

veryvenasaur 2 weeks ago

5points

Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 weeks ago

i'd like to hear it, veryvenasaur. :-)

2points

Mari 2 weeks ago

5points

Mimi M 2 weeks ago (edited)

No worries - I'll volunteer to come over and taste-test your recipes and report back to them!

4points

Roland Nijveld 2 weeks ago

Is darkmode back yet? No? Ok, I'm off again. #FreeDarkMode

3points

General Anaesthesia 2 weeks ago

1point

Panda Guy 2 weeks ago

2points

Petra Schaap 2 weeks ago

2points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 weeks ago

I dare anyone to beat me on Tetris. I really mean it. Except for my incursion in the professional level I have never been beaten https://profile.playstation.com/MrBalls-

2points

Traveling Lady Railfan 2 weeks ago

I ❤️ Tetris!!! (But I won't dare to beat you!!) Congrats!! I bet you have amazing spatial acuity skill that translates to real life

1point

R Dennis 2 weeks ago

2points

Gatorraid 2 weeks ago

2points

Gatorraid 2 weeks ago

6points

Upstaged75 2 weeks ago

These are all just humble brags.

1point

MSNY22 2 weeks ago

So what? Let people feel proud of their knowledge or abilities or that one moment they got to show it off. We am get enough negative feedback in life.

0points