28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them

Mark Twain once famously said “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” That statement is scary for a number of reasons, most notably because stupidity is infinite, and thus the experience can be absolutely annihilating when you start digging deep into the whole thing.

This has become the premise for a now-viral AskReddit thread where people shared their best real-life examples of how to never argue with a person so far lost in the vast infinity of stupidity that they themselves shall never be able to comprehend how wrong they are.

You can hear about it by scrolling below, but be warned, you might leave this article with a headache.

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them For a short while, I worked as a line cook at a Cracker Barrel, and there was a little saloon style door that led to the staff section (kitchen, bathroom, etc). There was a staff only sign on the door, above the doors, and on the wall behind the doors at eye level.

Usually if someone from the customer side comes in, they said, "Coming in" before opening the door, so they didn't hit anyone, but of course customers didn't know that.

So when this dude opened the door and hit a waitress carrying a ton of drinks, we were reasonably upset with him.
He said, "You should really put a sign up."
We showed him all the signs, and he goes, "That seems a bit excessive."

GreyFoxHound1 , Ryslan Бойко Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I was listening to a podcast once, and the host articulated something profound in a very well-stated way. He said (I paraphrase):

"I will never argue with a flat-earther, or an anti-vaxxer, or any of those people. The reason is because that these people have made that into _their whole identity_, and they are prepared to address any possible argument I could come up with. And because I care about facts and truth and they do not, my only possible response would be '...uh, I'll have to look into that, I don't know off the top of my head'. It doesn't matter that their response is incorrect or based on faulty research or has been rejected by the scientific community or whatever; by the time I discover that, they will be long gone and talking about how they won another debate."

This is it in a nutshell. If you argue about an issue with someone who has made _that one issue_ into the core of their persona, you will lose unless you are someone who has made arguing against that issue also into the core of your persona.

Of course I know that Andrew Wakefield is a liar and a scammer and of course I know that Apollo astronauts placed retroreflectors on the Moon which can be used to prove that they went there and that their photos of the spherical Earth are real, because I've done enough research to convince myself. But have I done enough research to convince someone who refuses to be convinced? And someone who has also done that research and come up with plausible-sounding nonsense to counter each of these arguments? Why would I waste my life doing this?

kiwi_rozzers , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Not my story but once my friend (friend A) was having a friendly (turned sour) debate with another friend (friend B) about how sometimes people just don’t have a choice, in the context of, they can’t just choose to live a frivolous life because of their family background etc.

Friend A proceeds to say, “what about starving children born in Africa, it’s not like they had a choice.” To which Friend B answered....”WHO ASKED THEM TO BE BORN IN AFRICA? JUST DON’T BE BORN THERE.”

That’s when we knew.... :—)

ulaef , Roberto Nickson Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I’m showing my age here but I used to work for an estate agency, and we had sales offices set up at the site of large new housing developments. Our primary method of communication was fax.

One of the sales associates telephoned our office to say that the fax machine had run out of paper. No problem, I said, one of the guys is coming your way later for a house tour, I’ll give him a box of paper to give to you.

We then had an almost 20 minute long argument when they kept insisting “NO, YOU JUST SEND ME A BLANK FAX BECAUSE I NEED THE PAPER, IT WILL JUST COME OUT OF MY FAX MACHINE.”

It was like trying to nail jelly to a tree. Difficult, irritating, and it achieved nothing :)

BettieKat , Porapak Apichodilok Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them My good buddy wrote his capstone thesis on something about Islam. The dude spoke Arabic, is smart as hell, a history nut, and consumes books like they are skittles.

Anyway, he got into a long debate on Reddit with someone. He started showing sources, teaching the guy, etc. Anyway, he was about 500 words into a mega retort when he decided to actually look up the dude’s posting history. Turns out that dude was a "Drink Your Own Urine" evangelist.

I feel like that is Reddit in a nutshell.

bappypawedotter , Toa Heftiba Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I grew up Jewish in Oklahoma. I ran into this a lot.

Had a classmate in middle school try to convince me that Christianity predates Judaism.

I told him, "But Jesus was Jewish."

His response: "Exactly!"

No irony. Totally genuine. Conversation over.

Ninjewdi , Pixabay Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Once worked with a guy who, by his own admission, got his rocks off by picking fights. He'd start an argument over the smallest thing. If you said it was white, he'd say it was black, just to try to start something.

The one that always stood out for me was the weather app competition. One day he asked me what temperature it was, so I read it off my weather app. He got all offended, because his weather app said it was a couple degrees warmer.

So he decides we're going to have a weather app competition. He was going to chart what our apps said the temperature was, and at the end of the week, whichever one was closest to that day's high would be the winner. And the loser would have to start using the winner's app.

To which I said, "What is your f*****g problem?"

So, yeah. For the first few days, he'd make a big performance about marching into my office, recording the temperature off my app, jotting down some notes, and walking off.

This started on a Monday. He gave up after Wednesday. Either because I was winning, or he was disappointed because, despite his best efforts, I just did not give a f**k about weather apps. Or maybe the boss told him to stop because I filed a complaint that this was bordering on harassment.

originalchaosinabox , Gavin Allanwood Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I used to argue a lot with my sister when we were kids. She would do this thing where she would say something, and then I would reference back to it literally a minute or two later to prove a point and she would say “I never said that” or “that’s not what I said”. Absolutely impossible to argue with someone who will just deny having said things that could hurt their argument.

Also, trying to change the course of an argument if they feel like they are “losing”. A coworker once called me an idiot for doing something “incorrectly” when I was actually doing it the right way. When I politely explained to them that the way they suggested doing the task didn’t actually work, they started asking “why are you getting so angry?? I was just trying to help” etc. So now we’re arguing about whether I’m angry or not instead of the right way to complete the task.

themightypianocat , Roberto Nickson Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Not saying my mother is an idiot but boy does she lean hard on some stupid beliefs.

For example: I bring up that European countries have universal healthcare (Sweden is a good example) and she immediately fires up the *"but they're taxed to death to pay for it"* argument. In my research, a US resident gets taxed about 12% more (42% on income) than a Swedish resident (30% on income).

Arch27 , Efrem Efre Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them When I tell people to just reboot your computer and it will fix all their problems and yet they wont because they said if you wait long enough it will shut down, when in reality it only goes to sleep. Then when I tell them they have to completely shut it down they look at me like I'm an idiot and say they did. I tell them it seems like it but it only went to sleep. They argue back.

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them My mom complaining how my generation wouldn’t know how to do anything if it wasn’t posted on the internet. I simply responded, “Well, what else is that generation supposed to do when the generation that raised them didn’t teach them how to do anything?”

Keep in mind this while I’m moving files from her old Windows 8 laptop to her new windows 10 for her via flash drive. She can’t figure it out because “windows 10 is totally different!!” Obviously, it’s not.

hevnztrash , fauxels Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Working retail. Especially when I worked in the tech shop od a computer store. Trying to convince someone their $500 laptop is never going to be a gaming system no matter how many of the very few replaceable parts we throw at it can be exhausting...

MOS95B , Czapp Árpád Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Brexit is a classic example of this. It was always an extremely stupid idea and they managed to beat enough of the population down to make it reality.

Come_The_Hod_King , freestocks.org Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them When I was a child a teacher argued with me about how my name is pronounced. Some sports guy had a first name that was spelled the same as my surname, and I guess that was the only acceptable pronunciation regardless of what little ten year old me tried to tell her.

yaiyogsothoth , RDNE Stock project Report

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Abigail Snyder 1 year ago

A-a-ron!?

106points

AwkwardTurtle965 1 year ago

Jay-quellin

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

Osha-hennesy

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Tee Rat 1 year ago

Ba-la-key

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago

C'mon people!!! Be nice to De-Nice... XP

12points

JNo3277 1 year ago

Insubordinate! And churlish!

9points

leendadll 1 year ago

Met a guy last week who told me his name was A-a-ron! I had a good laugh and said that I like key & peele too!

7points

Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

I love all your comments, that reminded of that brilliant skit!!

5points

Persephone 1 year ago

D-nice!

5points

Fresh Big 1 year ago

Dee A Reea

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CP 1 year ago

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

On the first day of class, I would tell my students "If I get your name wrong, please correct me. If I keep getting it wrong anyway, don't say to your self "I must be nothing and no one to him." Say to yourself 'He'd old and stupid' and keep on correcting me."

13points

Colin 1 year ago

I tell mine that if I get it wrong then tell me how your mum would say it when you are in trouble.

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Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago

I will never understand teachers trying to tell kids their names are pronounced wrong or spelled wrong (or in my case, that my whole name is wrong).

10points

Angi 1 year ago

I had a teacher refuse to call me Angi because it's spelled wrong. I now laugh and think about him everytime I see the commercial for Angi.

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SkyDragonAerial (Aro/Ace, Cassgender) 1 year ago

One of my Hebrew school teachers insisted, for a whole eight years, that my name was spelt with an 'ie' at the end, despite both me and my parents ALWAYS writing 'y' at the end for everything. This was also despite me going by my Hebrew name in her classes! So, hi, Morah, it's still a y at the end of my name! (And it's not even my full name, it's a nickname.)

8points

Crazy Cookie 1 year ago

That’s annoying. Hey just wondering, what exactly is cassgender? I just want to be more informed im not judging (I could google it but most things make more sense from a real person)

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Nayla Kanaan 1 year ago

I had someone try and gaslight me that my name wasn’t my real name I’ve seen my birth certificate it is most certainly my real name

7points

LocalLizard(He/They/Xe) 1 year ago

Had a sub do this in 8th grade, found out 3 years later he was fired because he didn't let a kid use an inhaler saying it was "just another fancy vape".

6points

Billy Harrelson 1 year ago

I get that a lot. My legal name, as it is on my birth certificate, is Billy. Same as my father before me. I have had people call me William and I correct them and they get all offended like "well it's short for William". Sure, but it's not my legal name and mine is not a nickname. I'll accept Bill, but only my father-in-law calls need that.

6points

MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago

Mine is Jessica, I had an English teacher in middle school that insisted on calling me Jessie. I repeatedly said my name was Jessica. When my mom decided to call the school about it, she continued to call me Jessie but the a nasty tone. I can't stand to be called that to this day (I make exceptions for some people)

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Coyote Osborne 1 year ago (edited)

I didn't even have that difficult or uncommon a name when I was a kid, and I'd have teachers try to convince me that they knew better than I did how it was spelled, or what it actually was. Watched a 3rd grade teacher bully this kid who went by "Pat." It was short for "Patton," and she insisted it could only be short for Patrick, so his name was Patrick, and she insisted the rest of us could only call him "Patrick". She proceeded to call this kid "Patrick" for half the year, until she did it in front of the kid's parents at parent-teacher day, and they politely explained she was mistaken, that their child was named "Patton" because his grandfather served under general Patton. The teacher proceeded to argue to them that either they had named him wrong, or they were just covering for their kid's lies, because parents will never admit when their darling angel is a liar. She did this in front of all the parents and kids present. The parents did not think that was funny.

4points

Betsy Ray 1 year ago

Long past time for her to have retired.

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Paul Neff 1 year ago

Name pronunciation is completely arbitrary, based on the named individual's preference.

3points

Wondering Alice 1 year ago

My nephew had this problem. A teacher was most insistent all the kids in the class had to pronounce the name how he considered it correct. My nephew was upset so his dad went in to talk to the teacher. Teacher insisted if you give a child a Greek name, you must pronounce it how Greeks do. He refused to listen to my BIL that he himself is Greek and it's my nephews first language, so you might think they know.

3points

Nancy Marine 1 year ago

I had some genealogy idiot try to tell me I was mispronouncing my own last name, which is how we'd always pronounced it for, I don't know, several generations?

3points

- 1 year ago

"I stand corrected, as does my father and his father before me and his father before that and his father..." (or mothers if they handed down names, too). Kind of like the begats in the Bible, but going backwards and sadly inspired by an even more backwards idiot on auto-correct.

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Elchinero 1 year ago

see-ann

3points

Stephen Lyford 1 year ago

Friggin' Steph Curry. Because of him, I've had this resurgence of people who think my first name is pronounced like "Stefan", when it's pronounced "Stephen" like Stephen King.

2points

Ur worth it 1 year ago

Same thing with my first grade teacher! They insisted my name was three syllables when it always has been and always will be four. So annoying.

2points

Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago (edited)

I had one of those. We were doing a name study (Catholic school. MOST of us were named for saints) and she said, "Michelle ANNdrea is a pretty name". I told her my middle name is pronounced "AWN dray uh" and she f*cking argued with me. This was sixth grade so I was about 12 and told her that since my Mom had pronounced it that way MY WHOLE LIFE, I was pretty sure I knew how to say my own name.

1point

Gg 1 year ago

My last name is rare in the US. It's pronounced the same everywhere except a group of em in NYC/Southern Connecticut. There are even 2 pronunciation guides on Google for those from NYC. I went to a casino and they said whoa are you related to this guy NY pronunciation? I say no, pronounce it the other way from wherever. Guy corrected me every time I said my name and made a point to say the name over and over and over.

1point

ConstantlyJon 1 year ago

Is that Rev/Senator Raphael Warnock?

1point

KittyGaming 1 year ago

One YouTuber I watch is named Illisa pronounced Allisa but she had a teacher once who literally renamed her on the spot to Gayle. Also I'll upvote whoever knows the channel name.

1point

Pie 1 year ago

I got in a fight with my 8th grade science teacher on how to spell my name. Jean. She told me it was Gene. For one, gene is a boys name and Jean is a girls name, and, for two, its my name you crazy person. I can spell it xylz and tell you its pronouned jean and you can't tell me I'm wrong.

1point

tabithapaquette98 1 year ago

Dude, I think I know how MY Own NAME is pronounced!

1point

April Pickett 1 year ago (edited)

A teacher did that to my daughter in 1st/2nd grade (her name was spelled wrong). Want to guess how fast I was in her face?

0points

Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago

Same; In college, I had an advisor who mispronounced my last name when I first sat down. I did that thing where you say it correctly. She repeated back to me the wrong pronunciation. I just let it go at that.

0points

cadena kuhn 1 year ago

This seems to happen allot. Not so much the sports part but I to have had to argue the pronunciation of my own name

0points

Old Roadie 1 year ago (edited)

Circa 1950s: When I found seashell fossils in the Arizona desert, a teacher told me someone obviously went to the beach and brought them back for me to find. So I checked the rest of my neighborhood. They were everywhere! Mom took me to the library and taught me about the ancient sea that once covered the American southwest. So... teachers are not infallible. You have the freedom to teach yourself... don't rely too much on the internet, and avoid Wiki and Snopes.

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them My brother in law loves to have "debates" where he just wants to hear himself talk to make himself feel smarter. His arguments include "I haven't heard of that before, so it must not be true" and pulling argument points from YouTube videos on the topic because he "doesn't read, why would I when I can get the info faster from a video?"

He sprays paint as his career and has never been to college but took calculus in high school and that is his proof he is smarter than everyone else. When it is brought up all he says is "oh yeah, I remember calculus, it is as easy." What is it about? "You know... Calculus. Easy stuff."

I stopped engaging him on his debates when he just claimed everything was a government job and everything was "fake news, didn't see it on YouTube."

dinoaids , Timur Weber Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them was arguing with this dude about something math-related. he didn’t know how to read a study which involved statistics. claimed he was in multiple AP math classes. tried saying that i “probably don’t even know basic integration”. gave me a common integration problem. he wrote it but forgot the minus sign, making it unsolvable. i pointed it out and he edited the comment to make it correct. told him that some people can see when you edit comments. he claimed that he just capitalized a letter. on and on and on…

SaturdayNightCity , Monstera Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them A driver fell asleep at the wheel for a brief moment. The passenger noticed the car drift into the oncoming lane and exclaimed ‘Jesus Christ’ in fear. The driver woke up and turned the car back to their lane. It was impossible to have the passenger (and their whole family) admit this was not evidence that Jesus himself saved them. I was exhausted by the end of that conversation.

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them So many times.

So, I'm on my condo board, again. Sigh. Because being on the board means a lot of dealing with idiots. The worst thing is, they aren't normally stupid people, most of them, until they focus on some minor issue.

Anyway - sensor for the lights in our laundry room failed. We replaced it. I get a knock on my door from an owner, who I'll call Bonnie,because f**k Bonnie.

Anyway, she's upset because the sensor still isn't working properly. Now, the issue is the lights won't turn off.

"I stood in there for 15 minutes, and they didn't turn off! It's wastes electricity!"

"Bonnie, the sensor keeps the lights on as long as somebody is in the room. And you were in the room. So, the lights couldn't turn off. "

that's teh condensed version - so, after about ten minutes of her not grasping that being in the room means the light sensor won't turn them off...

Well, the laundry room is in sight of my condo. So, when we hit the ten minute mark, and she's not in the room but instead, in my face... the lights go off. And I point that out.

"I thought you said you would be a good president!"

thank god she's now so "scared" of me she wouldn't say s**t with a mouth full.

Squigglepig52 , Brett Sayles Report

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72points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Had an employee sign a NDA about an upcoming art installation that had investors. He told everyone. He argued with me the NDA only meant he couldn’t disclose anything with the people in the company.

BosskHogg , Scott Graham Report

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Ok - this'll get buried, but it was and still is hilarious to me.

Waayyyy back in the day I was a bill collector for travel trailers and mobile homes. This woman had promised to mail her check for the payment, and lo and behold it doesn't appear.

So I call her, and reference back to our prior conversation I say "You promised you'd mail this to me, and it never arrived." this wasn't particularly contentious. It more along the lines of "I thought we had an agreement and now I'm dissapointed."

So this woman, who was probably 30, really dumb and kinda country says to me "I did mail it. But the post office figured out that I didn't have enough money and sent it back to me so it wouldn't bounce."

My sarcastic reply: "I don't understand how that could happen."
She responds, completely sincere "I don't understand it either."

Literally wordless after that one

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64points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Trying to get an old person to understand new technology when they have already decided against using it.

My grandmother refused to use the stacking washer/dryer in her retirement apartment because it was "too complicated." Same buttons as the one at her previous home, just in a slightly different place.

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60points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Someone posted an article that provided direct evidence against what he was claiming. Pointed it out and he said "I didn't know it was in that article or I wouldn't of used that one"

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I thought I had a no-lose argument going up against someone who believes in homeopathy.... I left the discussion feeling like I lost somehow :(

Edit: Appreciate all the comments. Some very funny replies! Just a quick clarification, I was specifically referring to homeopathic dilutions as far as the argument/discussion went.

I "felt" like I lost because I was dumbfounded by their argument and realised quickly that it was a belief system that I was up against and didnt want to waste either of our time (the person being a naturopath that my wife used to go to). They had obviously had this argument many times and had various convoluted responses to all your standard points. Essentially, they had more experience in this argument than me.

Thankfully, that interaction resulted in my kids no longer having to take so much "medicine" which was my main issue because I could see that it was eroding their confidence. Sure, its just water so it cant do any harm right? Wrong, it meant every time they saw the naturopath they would come home with a whole new set of ailments and the eventual thinking of "what is wrong with me??". There was never anything wrong with them.

MehhicoPerth , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

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57points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Even though they're wrong they'll still carry on the argument and then when you've convinced them they'll say yeah that's what I said trying to make you look the fool.
Had plenty of arguments like that.

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them People who tell me they "feel like" something is or isn't illegal, when I know they're wrong but insist they know what they're talking about. For the record, I'm not a lawyer yet, but I'm about to start my final year of law school, AND my undergrad is in Legal Studies. In one particular instance, I took a very specialized course that taught drone law. The person I was this with kept telling me I was wrong because they "felt like...."

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I had a coworker for a few years. I tried and tried to give him advice on doing a job that I had been doing for years. He repeatedly told me he didn't appreciate my advice, that he had won awards in his past job and to stay in my lane. Finally we did a project together and he admitted that I really did know what I was talking about and he actually thanked me.

But he continued to gaslight people and be a narcissist

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52points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them I work at a club where the bouncer gives you a card when you enter. The card has multiple lines with squares on it, each one being a different drink (vodka, gin, tequila, etc) and the barmen just make an X on the drinks you order. All mixers are free except Redbull. At the top of the card there's a line that reads "Redbull mix". It's also the cheapest thing on the card.

I've had a customer order a "Redbull mix" and literally argue with me for about 10 minutes demanding that I serve it while I calmly explained to them that line is only a mixer and they actually have to order something else. They eventually asked for a manager that just told me to mark it and serve them a shot of Redbull. The look on the customer was priceless. They were as pleased they "won" the argument as they were disappointed paying 2,50€ for a sip of Redbull.

SaintSirius88 , Jesper Brouwers Report

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42points

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28 People Online Made Fools Of Themselves By Picking An Argument With Someone Much Dumber Than Them Anytime I've tried to explain marginal tax rates to an employee.

Mo-Cance , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

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40points

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Tams21 1 year ago

These posts are a perfect explanation as to how the likes of Trump and Boris Johnson were elected. My head hurts.

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Tams21 1 year ago

@Sherry I don't mind it if people have a different opinion to what I write but I very much do mind when people tell me that I shouldn't write something. I'll continue to "drag political figures into the mix and write anything else I feel is relevant to a post.

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barbara ray 1 year ago

Try Reddit- very liberal and one sided

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Sherry Marie Golden 1 year ago (edited)

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Lana Lana Banana 1 year ago (edited)

Dude in an elevator sees my tat that's written in Armenian and asks me what language it is. I tell him. He replies, sounding genuinely stoked: "Oh you're Armenian?? That's cool! I'm Turkish! We're neighbors!" For those of you who don't know...the two countries are indeed neighbors, but the Turks tried to commit genocide on the Armenians in 1915 and stole a ton of the land. Not very neighborly if you ask me.... I don't have anything against modern day Turkish people, but...like...that's like a German telling a Jew "You're Jewish? How cool! I'm German!" There's just certain things people shouldn't say...lol

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago (edited)

I honestly don't see the problem. Like a German can't say that to me (Dutch) because of WWII. Still a fact he's my neighbour

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Seedy Vine 1 year ago

“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to sh!t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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Darius Strolia 1 year ago

My dad used to tell me that bad drivers were in a hurry to meet their accident. So just give them the way on. I just feel there's immense road foolishness. Let it go.

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CatLady 1 year ago

I hate it when people keep moving the goalposts in an argument and then try gaslight me that they're not and I just didn't understand what they were saying. Um, I've taken multiple advanced classes in rhetoric. I understand language extremely well. And in an online argument, there are screenshots so gaslighting is useless.

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Sally Close 1 year ago

My rule is to never do battle with an unarmed opponent!!!!

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SheHulk 1 year ago

I had a roommate in uni who studied literature, and I studied microbiology. I once said that I thought that science students had better general knowledge than humanists because they were more exposed to culture, read fiction and so on. I was kinda trying to provoke her, but she then replied that science (every field) did not count as general knowledge! I was stunned and did not try to argue with her, realising it was pointless. We did not remain friends. I still am amazed by the number of people who think that science is trivial and boring.

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

Had a customer at the pub I used to work at who we nicknamed "Encyclopaedia" I was serving him one day and we got into an argument about how you can get done for DUI on a bicycle. He was adamant you couldn't and I literally had another customer going "I've been done for DUI on my bike". I got the whole bar involved, including my managers, and he ended up storming out thinking he was right. It was so much fun

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago

Here you can get fined for being drunk in public. Won't happen though until you're a nuisance

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Kevin Hickey 1 year ago

Had an argument with someone that "gasoline would cost more if we (the U.S.) changed over to the metric system, because 4 litres cost more than a gallon". Sadly, if we ever do switch to the metric system, they will probably raise the price of gasoline to pay for the transition and then he'll claim that he was right.

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago

Maybe that's what he meant but you just didn't understand it?

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two-sided llama 1 year ago

my friend group is complaining abotu something veery stupid and i don't know if im the wrong one here. two of the friends in my friend group like to do backflips of swings at max height ,but one of my teachers saw that and gave them a talk and banned them from doing that. i always felt like it was way too dangerous so i didn't care that she banned them. the next day these two friends are very mad at one of my teachers. they start comparing BACKFLIPS of F*****G SWINGS at MAX HEIGHT to cartwheels and other gymnastic things another group of girls are doing. they are sayign things like " we doing backflips ( of f*****g swings) in a safe manner ( not safe at all) and they are doing f*****g cartwheels and they are banning us such a sexist school ( not)" " they can fall on their head and paralysed too ,but they are getting mad at us" "we wouldn't be doing backflips of swings if we didnt knwo how to land ( my mind: dude you cna still get hurt badly by something even if you a professional)

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two-sided llama 1 year ago

comment countinued: i try to say their arguments are insanely stupid ,but they are like " you don't have to disagree with everything i said" ( coming from the guy who once said bill gates can give everyone a billion dollars and still be a billionaire) " STOP F*****G DISAGREEING". am i right here. if i am, am i good friend for disagreeing. should i ignore them

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Tams21 1 year ago

These posts are a perfect explanation as to how the likes of Trump and Boris Johnson were elected. My head hurts.

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Tams21 1 year ago

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barbara ray 1 year ago

Try Reddit- very liberal and one sided

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Sherry Marie Golden 1 year ago (edited)

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Lana Lana Banana 1 year ago (edited)

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago (edited)

I honestly don't see the problem. Like a German can't say that to me (Dutch) because of WWII. Still a fact he's my neighbour

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Seedy Vine 1 year ago

“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to sh!t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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Darius Strolia 1 year ago

My dad used to tell me that bad drivers were in a hurry to meet their accident. So just give them the way on. I just feel there's immense road foolishness. Let it go.

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CatLady 1 year ago

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Sally Close 1 year ago

My rule is to never do battle with an unarmed opponent!!!!

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SheHulk 1 year ago

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago

Here you can get fined for being drunk in public. Won't happen though until you're a nuisance

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Kevin Hickey 1 year ago

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Roland Nijveld 1 year ago

Maybe that's what he meant but you just didn't understand it?

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two-sided llama 1 year ago

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