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No matter how smart and experienced you think you are, staying humble is usually a good idea. Arrogance, on the other hand, can backfire. Especially if you’re being all high and mighty in public. After all, you never know when you’re speaking to someone who may be much more knowledgeable and skilled than you.
Some experts took to r/AskReddit to share stories about strangers challenging them in the fields that were their specialty, only to be shut down. We’ve collected the most interesting tales for you to read, so keep on scrolling to check them out.
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#1
I have been wrapping my family’s Christmas presents since a very young age. It’s the perfect activity to focus my crippling perfectionism with my overall anxiety riddled self to create a beautiful masterpiece that would make anyone think twice about discovering the mysteries beneath the colorful paper and bows. I have just always loved to do it and my mom was more than happy to not spend hours wrapping presents.
Flash forward to the company Christmas party in my late 20s. We are split into teams to compete for random prizes, I am up for the next game. I had no idea what I would be doing. I see a big cardboard box, a neck tie, wrapping paper, scissors, tape and a bow....I know what’s about to go down and I am here for it!
It’s a blind present wrapping challenge.
My competitors start talking about how they can wrap presents fast and I sit there silently staring down that cardboard box knowing fully that the crowd is in for a show.
Blindfolds (neckties) go on, we have a partner that isn’t blindfolded that is supposed to give verbal directions. Just before the timer starts, I lean over to my partner and say quietly “are you ready for this?” And she just say “what?!” Bam, timer starts, partner tries to give directions at first and quickly realizes I’m way ahead of her. Before anyone else can even get their paper cut, I’ve got my box wrapped, taped, and bowed. I even folded the ends in ‘fancy’ to have the triangles meet. And that, my friends, is how I earned the most satisfying $10 Starbucks gift card of my life and earned the title of wrap-master.
Paul C. 1 year ago
My first boss worked in the office stationery business all his life (Clive Humphrey, great bloke). Good Lord you should of seen him wrap parcels. It was like watching an Origami Ninja. His paper was perfect, every time.
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#2
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.
Tams21 1 year 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.
Wendy Boustani 1 year ago
I don't think the OP is solely mentioning expertise; I think inherent in the claim is the idea that they have a natural talent for it which has been professionally honed. Same as with a chef or any other skilled craft.
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T J 1 year ago
When II was young I was painting stripes on a wall for a customer, She took one look at the red stripe left to shop for ribbon and came back with a perfect match for the red
My O My 1 year ago
I did that with hubby buying him a necktie in a matching colour to my wedding costume. That was so fun to see his face
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Tiger 1 year ago
I find it interesting because it’s kind of a question of whether your brain can adjust for the lighting or not. The dress is blue and black for me because my brain sees the rest of the photo and adapts for the colour of the lighting. If your brain can’t do this, you might see it as white and gold.
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Michael Adler 1 year ago
I'm a Neuropsychologist with a PhD and 15 yrs of experience. People are always trying to tell me about the symptoms and correct names of mental disorders anyway...
Camilla Koutsos 1 year ago
I’ve got extreme discernment where colour is concerned. I didn’t get it from a job. It’s just an ability I have.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I painted both interiors and exteriors, but interiors allowed me to be a Color Consultant, assisting my clients on proper choices based on the mood they were trying to create, the room layout, and lighting. I know my colors, and I know how to match them.
#3
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. :).
Tiger 1 year 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 ❤️
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
That's a great story and I smiled reading it. I had something similar happen but with laser tag. I was helping out a friend, she had her son's birthday party (nine 13 year old boys) they needed one extra player to have even teams. I said I'd play. They weren't thrilled, (some 'mom aged' lady) but how are they supposed to know that 20 years ago I played laser tag every weekend? I had the best time, and once we exited the first game and the boys saw the high scores, they all wanted to be on my team, then afterwards wanted to sit next to me at the table for pizza and ice cream. And that was so sweet. I had the best time with those kids on that birthday
Aboredpanda 1 year ago (edited)
This is exactly why I've always chosen Princess Peach when I play mario kart with men/boys who show me an attitude. I never, ever choose her, except for in such a situation. Nothing like crushing someone behaving a bit sexist with somethign extremely feminine, then relishing in their defeat, whilst also having taught them a lesson. 💅😉
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago (edited)
Peach has good acceleration, and good handling although not the greatest top speed. And yes, I think although there shouldn't be, there is something rather emasculating to some dudes getting beaten by a girl, with a pink dressed, long haired sweet looking princess raising her hands in victory on the screen. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Dating yourself? My favorite game in college was Lode Runner... on my Commodore 64.
Farnzy 1 year ago
My sister is CRAZY talented with Call of Duty and we played a lot. I was always the one who was walking into walls and somehow throwing grenades at myself, and she was running full-bore shooting guys left and right. Always top or next to top kills. Flash forward 10 years and the teenage and tween godsons ask if she wants to play and she plays dumb...until she blasts the trap outta all of them with no remorse. It was one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen. Kids were awestruck.
Binny Tutera 1 year ago
Back in college, played pool with my bf. He played in championships and really taught me a lot about the game. A few years later I'm in LA shooting a commercial for a retailer. We all go to Barney's Beanery. One of my coworkers knew I played pool so he put a quarter on the table- where a couple of guys from Hell's Angels were playing! My turn came up and the winner was smirking when he saw me (small female). Do I need to say I ran the table for 4 games until we (coworkers) had to leave.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I was a so-so pool player decades ago during my community college days but managed to play like a pro the one time it was needed. There was a rich guy from Saudi Arabia (may have been a prince, he was very rich but why he was at a community college I never asked). He and I would clash about womens rights. He challenged me to pool, claiming that men would always beat women at mens games. I managed to beat the pants off him for 3 games straight. I don't know what happened but I couldn't make a bad shot, I was even shooting ambidextrously. I've never been able to do that since but WOW, the look on his face.
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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.”
#4
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.
JJ 1 year ago
Or maybe dad was pleased that his daughter's gym teacher knew what they were talking about 🤷
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I think everyone acted in exactly the right way here! You drew attention to the fact that concussion requires medical evaluation and the parent/doctor acted with grace and listened to you without waving their credentials in your face. At least they know that you’re a good teacher and would have done the same for another pupil whose parent wasn’t a doctor. Well done!
Donkey boi 1 year ago
I imagine that if OP was wrong, the Doc would have corrected them. So I'm guessing OP was on point.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
I don't know about that moment, but the girl's dad probably thought later on that his kiddo is in good hands during PE.
Hans Georg 1 year ago
How should OP have known. If he wasn't corrected, he was at least correct.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
He may have just wanted to make sure you knew what you were talking about.
Kerensa Scott 1 year ago
I am a Sports Medic and I have had Doctors try to relocate a shoulder pitchside with no analgesia, because 'they re the expert' . Just because someone is an expert in one area doesn't make them an expert in all ;) . You did the right thing and covered your, and the school back by going through the protocol. Thanks for taking it seriously
#5
Female mechanical engineer. My life is pretty much people challenging me on things I'm an expert on.
Tiger 1 year ago (edited)
At my last car shop job, we had 3 mechanics. 2 were female, one lady was the 35 YO shop foreman and a red seal mechanic who has been doing this her entire life. The only not-female-mechanic was a 21 YO apprentice boy. It was depressing the amount of times I’d had to bring out the boy apprentice to explain things to customers because they didn’t believe our red seal shop foreman on account of her genitals.
Oscar Caramon 1 year ago
I'm electromechanical engineer. When in college I had two female classmates. They were almost the only girls in school. Frequently I heard comments about them saying most likely they were in school looking for a husband. Years later they proved they were in top of the profession. One of them is the coordinator of the Mechanical Enginnering Doctorate program in a research instititute while the other is very skilled in power system analysis for a big electrical company. They are married, and they don't need their husbands' income.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Tradesman here. I challenge all engineers, regardless of gender, because 90% of the time they're only 3 sentences away from suggesting something that only works in books or on a computer screen. A lot of engineers need to go back to playschool toys and figure out the square peg won't fit through the round hole.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of tradesmen on the other hand just think of getting their little thing done as quick as possible and forget that they live in a world where regulations, approved calculation notices, fireproofing requirements, building codes, maintainability and servicing specs, other tradesmen's stuff etc even exist...
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Camilla Koutsos 1 year ago
I used to build, service, and sell PCs. Same thing. My colleagues knew my skill though. It was the customers that underestimated me.
#6
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.
cerinamroth 1 year 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.
Bartlet for world domination 1 year ago
Choirs tend to go flat - people with absolute pitch are in the weirdest keys all the time :)
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Tiger 1 year ago
Perfect pitch is so fascinating to me (as someone without it). I do have synesthesia so musical notes have colours and textures, which makes it pretty interesting to eat some shrooms and lie back on the couch listening to music
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Once ended up in choir because I was dicking around with a mate before the teacher came in to see how high we could pitch before our voices broke... should have been watching the door...
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
I was introduced to music in middle school playing in orchestra. Did this through most of high school (dropped out due to an absolutely awful teacher and person). Played piano through a lot of this time as well for the past 17 years, I've been singing in a community choir. I'm still amazed when a director can hear one off-pitch note in a collaboration of other instruments and immediately determined what section or instrument made it. I can detect when something is "out of tune" and I can tell the difference in a major an minor chord, but anything else is a wild guess.
Tabitha 1 year ago
If I was that teacher, I would be excited and just tickled pink to find out I had another Mozart in my class on the day I was teaching them about Mozart. I mean, what a wonderful coincidence, and a perfect way to show your pupils what Mozart could do.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
There is a tremendous difference between having absolute pitch and being another Mozart.
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FluffyDreg 1 year ago
Meanwhile im here completely tone deaf. I can hear different pitches but have no way to identify them. Can't really identify notes either.
Kalikima 1 year ago
Same.. I know there are differences, I can hear the major ones, but it's impossible to identify them..
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Aileen Grist 1 year ago
I'm the opposite - my pitch isn't just imperfect, it's non existent. Can't follow a tune or hit the same note twice. Ah well
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Organs are tuned perfectly. Pianos get stretch tuned. There are also ancient tuning systems that came before equal temperament. So which tuning system do people with perfect pitch align with?
nuberiffic 1 year ago
No. Organs and pianos are both tuned to 12TET usually
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People who score lowest in grammar, humor, and logic tests tend to be the ones who overestimate how well they perform on them.
#7
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.
Paul C. 1 year ago
I used to play lower level Pro football and one weekend went to watch my Sunday clubs reserves (As Pro player, we weren't supposed to play Sunday league) They only had 10 players, so I couldn't resist playing. I scored four goals in the first twenty five minutes and offered to go in goal. I'm sorry I know it's bragging but it didn't help when I then saved a penalty.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
I’d like to know where this place is that a high school gym class can just do a unit on fencing
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
my english classmate is wondering why im grinning, so i showed them this, and they asked what site this is. im looking over at them now as i see them scrolling through the site haha
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
Ooh, I did this once in high school, only it was archery for me. I learned how to shoot on a longbow at Boy Scout camp, and I was really good at it. Anyway, one winter we had archery in the gym, and the football punks where screwing around. I silenced the room when I ran the table on the QB. Got a little respect from the team after that.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
My sisters and I did that while visiting our mother's side of the family back in the 70's. We were all swimmers on the Tacoma Swim Club team (D**k Hannula- coach) and we participated in a swim meet at the local pool. I, at least, was wondering why I won my races. I wasn't used to winning every race (my oldest sister had to explain to me that not every swim coach trained their swimmers the way we were trained).
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I didn't censor myself, Bored Panda did that with coach Hannula's name. funny.
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#8
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.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I would have, too. I would say the person must have been wasted to say something so dumb but unfortunately the depths of idiocy have once again been proven to run deeper than any of us could have imagined.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
That's like asking mothers to take a DNA test to prove the baby is theirs. Yes, this really happened.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
Not disputing you, just some cool trivia: in very rare cases, it's possible for a DNA test to say the mother is not the mother. See chimerism.
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Sunny Day 1 year ago
Yes, actually. It was born in Asia, therefore it is Asian. Just like "born in Africa = African" . Asia is a place, not a race.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
but if the person is asking if "it will come out Asian", the implication that they are wondering if their baby will look Asian is clear.
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#9
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.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year 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.
Tiger 1 year ago
Dolphins use unique whistles to identify each other and will respond when their name is called. Name another random fact below!
FluffyDreg 1 year ago
Cats do not meow to communicate with other cats, past a kitten calling to mom. Adult cats meowing is a learned behaviour because they realized it gets humans to respond more favorably to them.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
I am a pub quiz queen but never get turned away because they’re only too happy for someone to stoke rivalries!
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
I did that once not with a trivia night but at a summer camp. They thought it would be fun to do a harry potter trivia competition my opponent left in tears and I was never allowed to participate in HP trivia again. To bad they didn't do Pokemon Trivia Lord of the Rings trivia or Avatar the Last Airbender trivia I could have had an encore.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
'Useless information' is usually what a lot of peeps say when you know far too much random stuff, lol. But I always get asked to play trivia games (but lose if it's celebrities or TV shows - I prefer to read). I prefer trivia like: "Which is the biggest island out of Majorca and Minorca..." it's easy peasy compared to: "Who played Billy in the blah blah TV show", lol.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
At my local club one night. It's trivia. I sit out. Answer everything from my seat. Told I have to play the next month. Get a teammate. We wipe the floor. Same thing following month. I'm writing answers in as they ask them an only refer to teammate on stuff I just figure he should know. He always second guesses an gets it wrong. But win two in a row. 3rd time he's basically tossed the towel in. I drop last few just to give someone else a win. Missed last two due to a funeral an a ball game being on. Back this month to take back my crown. I'm a female btw an head full of random facts. I was going to go to jeopardy but could afford the trip.
Dar Mal 1 year ago (edited)
LOL...same....walked down to local bar for trivia night, not knowing it was TEAMS. So I sat there against 7-8 teams of 3-4 people. I won (luckily the questions were heavy on sci-fi and films that night). Winning first place, the team would be given 3 drink coupons per team member, so the owner gave me 12 (with the caveat I don't use them all on one night and that I tip!).
Paul C. 1 year ago
I love most types of music Rock, pop, but during the 60's I was a bit of a teenage Motown nerd. Wife and I walked into a local pub one night and a couple of friends were in the pub quiz, just as a Motown name the intro round came up. The 15 out of 15 correct answers, probably contributed to their winning the £20 First prize.
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
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.
CP 1 year ago
Mine was fine. No one goes online to brag and praise an HOA, they go online to complain.
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#11
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.
Karen Krause 1 year ago
No, he kept on riding and they never saw him again. He's a free spirit now.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
You know what we called people like your friend? A hustler. Wanna know what we did to hustlers that screwed us out of our money?
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
I had someone at the Renaissance Festival bet me I couldn't juggle. He said if I could do it for a minute he'd give me a private lesson in juggling clubs. That was a fun lesson. Whenever I see someone trying to juggle I like going up to them and saying "Oh can I give it a go?" and then proceeding to just have the time of my life practicing tricks. I do always make sure to tell the person I've been juggling for years and in my semi-professional opinion they're doing a great job.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I wished he would have rode on a two by four or a two by six. That would have make it even better.
#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.
Tiger 1 year ago
And we are currently watching certain eras repeat themselves. What a time to be alive. 😬
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
Like how America is going the same route as the Roman Republic on which it is based?
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I definitely don’t. Always been s**t at history and not ashamed to say so!
Mandy Fleck 1 year ago
Like how a big orange baby clown is in office again only now he's a felon as well
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
Now truer than ever. I'm glad I'm old and childless, because the world we're in right now is cycling through too many similarities from the 1920s-1940's. The kids don't deserve it.
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
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.
Tiger 1 year 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. 😅
ShaZam 1 year ago
nothing better than a dance off ... except maybe a street dance fight
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When I was younger I played competitive chess and was easily one of the top 10 in the state however as a woman everyone assumed I didn't know what I was doing so I started wearing sparkly pink eye shadow and glittery lipstick and dresses that would be over the top at a wedding. I loved walking up to the table all girly sitting down and absolutely pounding a sexist opponent into the ground. I had one person complain that I had given misrepresentative information about my abilities which assuming I'd lied about my rating would have been against the rules however the (female) head judge happily informed him that wearing girly clothes was perfectly legal and his sexism was his own problem.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
This just brought up a long ago memory. I played chess with a person several states away. Since this was before the internet and long distance calls cost money, we would snail mail our moves via postcards. One match could last months.
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
Similar story... Guy at work found out I played chess (it may have come up in conversation... don't remember). So he starts bugging me... almost daily. "When are we going to play? I've got a rolled-up board and pieces in my backpack!" Finally, after a couple of weeks of him bugging me, I said "Fine. Lunch time." So, I trounced him. Soundly. In probably 25-30 minutes. He spent the next few weeks demanding a rematch. (In a side note, he asked me "So... how many moves ahead do you think?" I said "I don't know... if I'm not seriously into the game... probably 3 or 4. If I'm concentrating on the game, probably 6-8". His jaw dropped. I mean, doesn't everyone think that far ahead?)
Chris Keller 1 year ago
Had a guy I worked with bragging how good he was in chess. I hadn't played in 30+ years, but I still remembered how to do a fool's mate, checkmate in 4 moves, it was awesome. I was never really that good, this guy was just a blowhard.
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
Not much of a player if he opens himself up for fools mate....
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Zaach 1 year ago
I never could 'get' speed chess but I was pretty good - I stopped playing b/c I would have needed to actually study to get better (I did get Fisher's workbook/chess book on end game - I sucked at open and mid-games but could not lose if I got to end game). I highly recommend anyone interested in upping their game to find his book
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I know how to play chess but I am not very good at it. I never played in tournaments o I don't know what my ranking would be. Probably lbe ike 200.
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
If you never played tournaments your rating would be 100 which is the number that represents unrated. Even if you are not good at it you should still play if you enjoy it chess is for everyone regardless of skill level.
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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.
Ace 1 year ago
There's a big difference between being able to hit the right notes in the right order and actually 'playing' a piece though.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
"I'm playing all the right notes. Just not in the right order." (Eric Morecambe)
Widdershins66 1 year ago
My dad's favourite, Morecambe & Wise. Check out their coordination in their "breakfast" gem 😂😂😂😂
Load More Replies... TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
this is kind of like a dream i keep having where i sit down at a piano and some kid told me to try to play a song, and i press all of the keys like i've never touched a piano in my life, then i tell him that i actually have only done one song on the piano, and as im talking, i start to play the first few notes to rush e, then i turn around and do the first section of it one handed, then finished the rest of the song(yes with both hands). keep in mind i can probably only play mary had a little lamb on the piano and thats it.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
That was the perfect request but there's a Huge difference between playing the piano and that. Theory and Practical grades to take not learnt by rote 😔
Richard Pennington 1 year ago
You probably played the first movement, which is slow. The last (3rd) movement is considerably more of a challenge...
#15
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.
Child of the Stars 1 year 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.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Alternatively, I used to shoot pool competitively (again, never a top player but I could hold my own). We had a tournament sized table in the student union building when I was in college, and I was just shooting by myself. A guy walks up to me and asks if he can play with me. I say sure, and we set up for 9 Ball. I let him go first, but he doesn't pocket anything on the break. So I then run the table on him. Then he goes "wow you're good, how about we play for $50 a ball". I laughed and said, "dude if you want to hustle somebody, you should start with something like $5 per ball, lose a few games, then try to desperately raise the price". He said sure, and we played two more matches for no money, and he kicked my butt both times.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
Smart not to take the bait. I know nothing about pool other than the obvious - basic angles and stuff. I once by sheer luck (and just a little bit of experience playing with friends in college) managed to win like 5 games in a row against a bunch of teenagers. I only had to stop because I sank the cue ball on the last shot of the last game. I just walked away with a "thanks". My playing would have looked sad to any really serious player, but those teens made me feel like the best in the world.
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Chris Przeklasa 1 year ago
My friend and I were experts at the Tekken series. Carnival came to town and Tekken 3 was there. Ridiculously humiliated and made a lot of money destroying anyone that challenged to play the game. Even let the opponents pick our characters. That week was amazing.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
If his date drops him over his video game skills, he's better off without her. If on the other hand, she sees that he's a good sport and has a good time, is not overly proud, and is friendly in spite of losing, that's a big win for him.
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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.
Michael Danhauer 1 year 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.
Pewpie Diaper 1 year ago
Somewhat similarly, I lived in a house with a bunch or roommates, and we had a single playstation with a copy of Gran Turismo. Within 10 feet of the tv, we had a weight bench, heavy bag, speed bag, and sparring gloves. In a very short amount of time, we were all physically ripped, really good at Gran Tursimo & beating each other up. People didn't mess with us at parties.
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DrBronxx 1 year ago (edited)
I remember when 20 push-ups was absolutely nothing. I used to do 100 every night before bed, with 200 situps. Our PE teacher used to give out 10 push-ups as punishments. Absolutely no problem. These days, once I lower myself in the first push-up, I am not getting back up.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I am 65 and retired. I my ever did much exercises. II might able do 1 pushup. Maybe 2 if I really push myself.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
A lot of people can do 20 faux-push ups where you don’t go all the way down and go really fast, using momentum to make the work easier
#17
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.
Robert Cosgrove 1 year 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.
Deedee 1 year ago
When I was 5 and flying for the first time my mom asked if I could go see the cockpit. The pilot showed me some of the controls and tilted the plane so I could see the sunset over the clouds through the window. He then let me push a button and sent me back to my seat with a small bag of candy for being a good assistant! Best flight ever!
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Jrog 1 year ago
I used to know a guy who entered any "Lightfencing" (i.e. Lightsaber dueling... yes, it is an official sport) competition he could just for s**t and giggles. He would duel against people that were basically cosplayers and star wars fans, while he was master of medieval fencing, a teacher of swordplay fencing in the Senese, Venetian and German style and a frequent finalist at Longsword competitions...
Bret Sander 1 year ago
I was involved with the medieval fairs in my youth doing the human chess match. Most of us were trained martial artists just having some fun. The SCA boys (society for creative anachronism) would occasionally challenge one of us to a duel. They pretty much quite after the first year.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
Ren Faire does not have "carneys" if anything they have "boothies". How would I know? I have worked both types of fairs many times.
#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.
Aboredpanda 1 year ago (edited)
Ugh yes now I have to see that cheesedoodle in the news for 4 years. Thanks a lot america. 🙅🧀
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Nizumi 1 year ago
Years ago I took an exam and when I saw my grade I knew something was off. Talked to the teacher, she pulls out "my" exam. It's not my handwriting. Not n the cover, not in the booklet. I had to show her ALL my school binders with pages and pages of my handwriting before she believed me. Then we went through the stack of exams to find the booklet with MY handwriting. Found it! Also found who the cheater was. But what really blew my mind was that not a single invigilator noticed a person at the drop-off table erasing one cover, writing on it, erasing another cover, writing on that one..... Like - WTAF?
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
I cheated on a math test once. It was HS sophomore geometry. We had a sub the day of the test and a handful of students copied off each others papers. I felt terribly guilty. So I went back and learned all the material on the test. When the regular teacher got back, she learned of the cheating and sent the offending students to numerous different classrooms on the spot with new test. Since II had gone back and learned the material, I actually did better on the second test than the first. Disaster averted.
#19
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.
Tiger 1 year 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)
Sue User 1 year ago (edited)
I am right handed but can only sight through my left eye ( right eye is done for as anyone who tries to read my posts knows ). I always wanted to take up target practice but can never get past the " you are doing it wrong " lecture.
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Pandemonium 1 year ago
Your second-language English is better than my once and future president's.
Paul C. 1 year ago
My wife is a stunningly good shot. Went on a works jolly and she had 5 shots at a target 4 were in the 10 but no sign of the 5th? Until the guy at the range said, hold on there is a small mark on one of the holes, you've gone through the same hole twice! Ok, think I'll keep on her good side.
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
I did pretty much the same when we went to a resort which had rifle shooting. I just assumed it was beginner's luck, so I was expecting to do badly the next time we went on holiday, but apparently it is something I can do
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I'm a very liberal person in a big city but I grew up in a small farming town in a family of hunters and shooters. I started shooting pellet rifles at about 7 and have been shooting for decades. I always like embarrassing the gun identity guys on my wife's side of the family who are super pro gun but never actually practice shooting.
S Bow 1 year ago
He was awesome, casually showed those kids with their hi tech gear how it's done.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
One of the saddest moments was having to get rid of all my guns because my eyesight failed me. I learned how to shoot as a kid, used to hunt, and traveled around the state competing in both long and short gun competitive shooting. When I watch action hitman movies, I always think, that could've been me if only I had been a sociopath.
#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.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year 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
Hydro Keychain 1 year ago
Right... They think a bunch of factories will somehow appear overnight, and folks will clamor to be employed at $2.45 an hour.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Automation in manufacturing plants was the first innovation displacing workers. Then the influx of cheap immigrant labor displaced even more. And if any of these Trump-loving clowns think they can compete with China, someone needs to explain the wage discrepancy. Wait until these yahoos get their promised mass deportation and the plants start closing or relocating in another country, and grocery shelves are bare, and construction comes to a grinding halt because American businesses will never pay American wages. It's going to take decades to repair the damage this ignorant fascist will do to our country.
HurlWurk 1 year ago
Yeah, bring them back, and then automate them because robots are cheaper then unions
Manana Man 1 year ago
Robots are cheaper because of the economic decisions made by the govt., particularly the Fed. It's not an inevitability. E.g. if I can borrow money at near zero percent to finance a robot that doesn't need benefits and living wage then it's to my advantage to do it. If interest rates are not artificially pushed down this choice is no longer economic.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
Given that there are around *100 million* people working in the Chinese manufacturing industry (more than in the US, France, Germany Italy and Japan combined, ‘unique’ seems a bit of a stretch.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I took "unique " in this instance to mean working at some level in an industry located in a different country, that might not otherwise be common for someone in the US vs the industry itself is unique. Perhaps I misunderstood?
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#21
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.
Tiger 1 year ago
If you write, you’re a “real writer.” I truly don’t know what other criteria you need.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
As someone with 20+ years in the publishing industry, I agree. Being published by a big commercial publisher does not make you in any way superior to a no-name author putting their books out through a tiny indie publisher or slinging their books up on Amazon all by themselves. Most of what big commercial publishers are putting out is easy to market garbage. The publishers probably know it's garbage but they don't care because $$$
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veryvenasaur 1 year ago
My favorite thing to say when people say they want to be a writer when they grow up is "Why wait?" I'm working on the third book in a trilogy and even if I never get published, I've still created something I can be proud of.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
For anyone who is curious the series of books is called the "Time Shift Trilogy" by Ryan Dalton.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I write too, so therefore I'm a writer. I may not be a good one but still a writer nonetheless.
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I’m an academy award winning sound mixer and almost everyone on film sets think they know my job better than me.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Please turn the dialogues up on movies. I'm tired of watching a movie with my fingers on the volume or subtitles.
HTakeover 1 year ago
There have been a few really good videos that explain why tv/movies are so much darker now and you can't see anything. The reasoning is basically the same as why sound levels are utter shite now too.
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Daisy1355 1 year ago
Yeah I want this person to explain to me then why 99% of media has music at volume 100, sound effects at volume 99, and voices at volume like 37. I am not saying I know the job better, I just want to know why the mixes are so miserable to where you can't just sit and watch something without having constant volume control ready
JP Doyle 1 year ago
That's an easy one: Most movies/TV shows are mixed for 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound (possibly with or without THX.) While this sounds great and totally clear in a movie theater it will be less awesome on a television with a pair of tiny 2.0 channel stereo speakers. I find if a movie/show sounds crappy on my TV/soundbar setup I get much better fidelity if I plug my earbuds into my Roku remote. Then I hear everything perfectly and the sound mix has much better balance.
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#23
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.
KatSaidWhat 1 year 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.
Nikki van Reenen 1 year ago
Nah, the law's been changed now. Was stupid to begin with. The shebeen's are still going strong!
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
The packies were closed on Sundays due to Massachusetts blue laws, but bars and restaurants could sell after 12pm on-premises. And there was always an owner who would sell a bottle or two on the Q.T. to take off-premises.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
In Indiana until a few years ago, you could buy alcohol at a restaurant on Sunday but not anywhere else. No sales at liquor stores, grocery stores, gas stations, etc.
#24
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.
Cee Cee 1 year 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.
Jan Moore 1 year ago
I give Buzz his Apuquel in whipped cream cheese, even if he licks it off the spoon he will lick it up. Cream cheese works better because you can just spoon it out, no wrapping required, and his Vet OKs it.
Load More Replies... XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
It's such a weird taboo for people to admit to as well (veterinarian). It's not like we can't see that your pet has so many fleas it's like a second moving skin, but I'll still have people look me dead in the eye & swear it's not fleas. My favorite was to wrap their pet in a white towel, give them a Capstar, and wait 30 minutes. People's jaws would drop when I'd open the white towel that was now black on the inside from dead/dying fleas.
CF 1 year ago
YES! Capstar was so much fun! I'm in Massachusetts now and rarely see those severe infestations where I'm working these days.
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Worked in the office services department of a large office and had a woman complain there were fleas in the carpet around her desk and she had bites on her legs....nobody else on the floor had them. Colleague said you do know she has eight dogs at home, don't you? Sprayed some stuff around and left her to it.
Tiger 1 year ago (edited)
I adopted a stray once….for two weeks. It was the dead of winter. He was INFESTED with fleas. I tried my best with OTC meds. Sadly, by the time I got him in to see the vet, he had started bleeding from his mouth (they figured he’d been hit by a car and was slow to show his injuries, as a cat does) and that combined with the relentless fleas meant we put him down :( I named him Turkey because the first thing I had to fed him was leftover Christmas turkey. But those fleas lived in my house for 2 weeks and destroyed my ankles, I had to buy flea traps and avoid my couch, it was pretty gross feeling. RIP Turkey, I still gave him tons of snuggles and I’m glad he had a warm home and soft wet food for his last couple weeks on earth.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Beware of the oral flea meds effect on the nervous system. My dog didn't like to be touched or pet, his skin would ripple and flinch. For 3 years I couldn't cuddle my dog. Stopped the Simparica and changed to the Seresto collar, which is good for 8 months BTW. Now he gets up close and loves it.
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
Thank you! It's good to know if my cat gets out of the house to woo the neighborhood flirt. (Yes, he's neutered, but he still holds a metaphorical candle for his intended.) >^.,.^<
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
I like comfortis for my dogs. I used to be able to just go to their old vets office and buy it, but one of the old vets that owned it got hurt really bad and retired. A new guy came in and changed everything. They wanted to see the dogs got each time I needed the medicine. That gets pricey when you have 4 dogs.
Isabel Galvez 1 year ago (edited)
We're tired of telling people coconut oil and amber bracelets don't work against flees and ticks. Same for the "ritual in the moonlight".
#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.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I used to look after the neighbours pools when I was 12 years old. Not rocket science.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
I love my pool service. Especially after a rain and there's like a million dead worms at the bottom of the pool. Spring when it's blossom falling time. Fall=leaves. He never runs out of supplies. He checks the pump and cleans the filters, adjusts or repairs the sweep. It's definitely worth $25/week. Which btw, includes the separate hot tub. And he always has dog biscuits for my dogs.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
If I had a pool, I would definitely pay someone to take care of it. For the same reason I pay someone to take care of mowing my yard. My time doing other things is worth more to me than the money it costs to pay others. That may change in the next couple of years if the orange dingleberry has his way.
Crissy Newbury 1 year ago
My husband loves to watch A Place in the Sun. One old dear insisted that she wanted a “freshwater pool” as opposed to a salt water pool. Firstly, there’s no such thing and secondly, we have a salt water pool and it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
my father in law received a store made certificate calling him the "pool nazi" because he took care of his pool like a child.
Tom Nagel 1 year ago
When I was in highschool/college I was a lifeguard/manager of the local pool. 365k gallon pool plus a wading pool. I had no problem, and I was dealing with 55 gallon drums of muriatic acid and chlorine. Not to mention the diatomaceous earth powder for 10k gallon filter pit.
#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.
#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. 🤘🤪.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
I read an interview with Page Hamilton (lead singer of Helmet) where he talked about losing Guitar Hero against someone else playing Unsung (his own song).
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
I got my father into Guitar Hero. Got to where he could play on expert. So we started competitions for getting perfect scores. I won, but only barely.
Angela C 1 year ago
I was obsessed with Guitar Hero in high school. To a point where one time I was grounded from that game specifically. I could play any other video game I wanted but Guitar Hero was off limits. In an unrelated incident I also once played for so long at once that when I went to bed that night I could see the highways when I closed my eyes and my fingers were twitching
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
In Band Hero I was able to sing that really long note in Take a Picture and hit that pitch-up in the middle of it perfectly. Everyone cheered for me. Yeah, I know what that sounds like, but that's what happened.
#28
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.”.
reuben kift 1 year 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.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I KNOW RIGHT? I refused to even watch Split because the trailer alone told me all I needed to know and all of it bad. Don't even get me started on fictional portrayals of autism.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I'm acquainted with a lady who behaves horribly towards her family, but when called out on it she blames her many different personalities. She describes them by name, age, and their characteristics. It's clear she has a major case of Hollywood.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but how do you know that she doesn't have multiple personalities. As for her behaving horribly towards her family, well multiple personalities is brought about by abusive treatment by family when they were a child.
Load More Replies... marianne eliza 1 year ago
It only takes 1 psych class to make a student an instant diagnostician. At least they think so. They start seeing symptoms in everyone.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
I remember the movie "As good as it gets" with Jack Nicholson having OCD. Everybody loved the movie, but I absolutely hated it. He got over his compulsions so quickly, without a therapist, like, oh, I met a pretty woman, I'm getting better now!
Tom Faehnle 1 year ago
It wasn't quickly, and he took his medicine be cause he loved a woman, but he still had OCD.
Load More Replies... Lorraine R 1 year ago
Well, for what it's worth, a group of psychiatrists who were surveyed agreed that Javier Bardem's portayal of Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men" was the most accurate depiction of a psychopath in film history.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Hollywood screws up mental illness and smoking. Either hire an actor who smokes or change the character. It's annoying, but their mental health representation is damaging.
#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.
Tiger 1 year ago
I’m sorry I don’t get what “missed the question and then we ran the table” means 😅 help pandas?
Sue User 1 year ago
First team goes and doesnt score. Second team goes, scores. If you score, you keep going ( like in billiards where this term comes from ) . They keep scoring until they have enough points to win game. First team never got another try. In billiards, when you sink every shot , never miss amd win the game, it is called " running the table".
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#30
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.
Cee Cee 1 year 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.
Sue Ellen Jensen 1 year ago
Years ago my sister, her hot model friend and I went to a biker bar to have some fun playing pool. All the guys wanted to play the friend, and at my turn on her team faced a corner shot with a lot of green. The guy unzipped his jeans and tried distracting me by plopping his member across the corner. I laughed and zinged the ball into the pocket as the crowd roared. I was never so happy to have a little luck!
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I used to play table tennis. I'm not that good a player, but I can zing balls over the net fast and low. If the game goes beyond that, eh, I'm not so good. But someone challenged me one day and I just did what I do best in that game - zing the balls over the net. We never did get to have an actual game.
Lew k 1 year ago
Every year at my companies party I end up running the pool table. Honestly I'm not that good anymore and I probably only play once a years on average but from the time I was 14 to graduation and beyond my mom was a bar tender. After school I'd walk down to the bar and she would feed me and if no one was playing she'd unlock the pool table and I'd just play. After thousands of hours enough skill is still there to look like a shark against the average Joe.
#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.
La Petite Morte 1 year ago
I'm just happy someone else knows what Krull is! My favorite guilty pleasure movie, & the game was fun.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I am consider myself OK at videos games on Ninetendos game systems. But I would never challenge anyone on video games because I know I would lose. I think I am decent on Starfox N64 and Gamecube. I haven't played in a long while so I would be rusty at those games.
#32
Hula hooping: They resorted to throwing stuff at my hoop, because I kept going like the Energizer Bunny.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I was at a gathering many years ago. . There was a young female I knew at the time. There was a hoopla hoop or hoops there. She had one on and was going at it very good. I ask her how long she could keep going. She said she she could keep going for a very long time but the hoola hoop chaffs her hips.
#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.
Glasofruix 1 year ago (edited)
I work in IT. My dad still insists i'm wrong when i tell him that, no, the computer can't do that.
David Morgan 1 year ago
There's a difference between 'uneducated' and 'stupid'. Father in law is the second one. Many of these posts are about the other person just not knowing what the OP knows which is amusing but understandable. Father in law has no excuse.
#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.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Der Ton macht die Musik as we say in German (the tone is what makes the music). I sympathise!
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
There's a huge difference between the thousands of years of farmers genetically modifying plants via "selective breeding" and whatever the hell Monsanto is doing in their labs. GMO is a catch phrase, like Organic, and both have been overused, misused, and abused. Poison Ivy and kittens are organic, but I don't want them for supper.
Cari Owens 1 year ago
All these "GMO's are bad!" people don't realize that we've been eating GMO food for centuries. It just wasn't done in a lab. Every leafy green out there came from one plant. Carrots weren't originally orange. Broccoli and cauliflower come from the same plant. Turkeys have been modified reom the wild bird to such an extent that they're dumber than a box of hammers. Every cattle breed out there came from an animal that's now extinct. Every variety of apple came from the same source. Lemons aren't "natural" - they came from the bitter orange and the citron. Bananas and watermelons used to be more seeds than edible flesh. So yeah, GMOs have been around longer than most people realize.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Just prior to reading this particular post, I lit a preroll joint made with a strain called GMO, so my brain immediately went with this meaning instead of genetically modified organisms. 🤦🏻♀️
#35
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.
Ace 1 year ago
Sooo much wrong with this. Cheese lover eating pre-grated cheese out of a bag... *shudder*
cerinamroth 1 year ago
When you’re an addict, sometimes you debase yourself 😉
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8bwm85y69x 1 year 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!
Anonymouse 1 year 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
Stina Kolling 1 year 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.
Brian Droste 1 year 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.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
15 cubes? I had bariatric surgery three months ago and I could STILL do that without much effort...
#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.
Tiger 1 year ago
Cotton and rayon, mostly. They just soak up blood, they’re not that complicated.
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
It's amazing how many men still think a girl can't pee with a tampon in...
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#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.
Lewis. 1 year 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.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Oh my. I wish I had been there. I nurse a pretty encyclopedic mind for LoTR too and love a good pub quiz!
HTakeover 1 year ago
What people don't know is that Mellon actually means "bringer of meals". But to Hobbits, it's the same thing :D
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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.
Paul C. 1 year 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?
LB 1 year ago
The original version of "Born in the USA" is haunting me these days
Load More Replies... Pandemonium 1 year ago
Wish You Were Here, Animals, Momentary Lapse, Greatest Hits, Live at the Filmore, Greatest Hits II, A Merry Pink Floyd Christmas
#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.
Brian Herold 1 year 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.
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
I did something similar. I worked for a company that warehoused computer parts for HP. When I got the job, there was a mess of product that couldn't be received into our system, so they were just sitting there taking up dock space, and angering the HP people. I created a spreadsheet that listed part numbers, color coded to show aging products that automatically updated everyday after my input. I was 19 and I freaking loved that job
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
The Goo King 1 year ago
I'm up to about 40 years now. I'll let you know when I'm done.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
It takes me a while to take all the stickers off and put them back on with the colors matching on each side
Boo 1 year ago
I used to pull the cube apart and then put it back together with the pieces matching lol.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
I still haven't solved it in 36 years, but that might be because I threw the bloody thing out in 1988
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I had one for when they first came out. But haven't touch it in many years. So I still haven't solved it. The most I was able to do was two sides.
#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.
Pernille 1 year ago
What? To the best of my knowledge video and audio is not split in wifi, but what do I know.
David Morgan 1 year ago
Not actually knowing things does not stop people arguing over an issue. All that knowledge just slows your mouth down anyway. /s
Load More Replies... Lew k 1 year ago
Um.... i work in the cable industry as a coax plant and fiber tech but I started as a cable installer. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Audio and video wifi? Nonsense. Internet is one thing delivered through docsis frequencies on a cable plant while TV service comes in on a completely different set of qam frequencies. TV service over a cable plant works basically the same as over the air TV except in a closed cable plant. IP service is just an overlay designed to work within that system but completely separate. Other than coming in on the same line they have nothing to do with each other. Changing your TV package has nothing to do with internet.
#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.
#47
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.
Ace 1 year 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'.
Tiger 1 year ago
There’s nothing wrong with gentle correction :) “actually I believe the word you mean is _____” while being polite and appreciative of their effort to learn the language. I certainly appreciated it when I visited Ukraine, I was using the wrong word for milk (as in “coffee with milk”) and no one corrected me until my third day there lol. I ordered like 4 coffees wrong 😅
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
Worse when you move abroad and everyone tells you you’re saying your own name wrong…
Tiger 1 year ago
I know a lady named Siobhan that has given up and just lets everyone call her see-oh-ban because she can’t get enough people to pronounce it right 😅
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V 1 year ago
Ha, I was studying French in school, and we had a french family move in down the road. When we met the kids they were talking to each other in french not realising that I could understand them, although my sister knew I could. So when they finished their conversation my sister turns to me and asks what they were talking about and I gave her a rough translation (I was still learning so not conversational). They were abashed.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
You know who gets to decide when a non-native speaker is fluent? A native speaker
Rednose 1 year ago
There's also more than one way of being "right" in a language. You may be grammatically correct in how you say something but not correct in common usage of the word or term. In English, the word "data" comes to mind. Technically, the word is a plural--the data ARE--but most people use it as a singular. In this case I never correct but make sure to thank anyone who does use it as a plural. 😉
roddy 1 year ago
It's the arrogance of thinking you know better than the native speaker. Or dweller. Once I mentioned living near a particular intersection. A woman took objection and went around loudly saying to others that I was an idiot because those two streets are parallel. They are not, they start parallel and eventually meet near where I live. She actually thought she knew my neighborhood better than I did, when she obviously didn't know it at all. I still wish I had gone over and pointed out her mistake and rudeness, but am not good with confrontations.
#48
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.
Funhog 1 year ago
So, their friends just patiently waited around in the lobby until the game was over? How long was that?
Kayci Styles 1 year ago
So you guys just played the game while his friends twiddled their thumbs at the door waiting for you? Rude.
#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.
#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.
#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.
cerinamroth 1 year 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.
HTakeover 1 year ago
Ka-ray, ka-ree, choo-ree, ga-ree... they're all correct
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#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.
#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.
Hazel Sage 1 year 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.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I am not very good if I have to use multiple buttons to do one or two operation. Like having to use two or more buttons to do a flip and a jump.
#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.
What do you think ?
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year 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.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year 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.
Rachel Pelz 1 year 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.
Load More Replies... Alexander Luna 1 year 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.
veryvenasaur 1 year 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.
Mari 1 year 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.
Mimi M 1 year ago (edited)
No worries - I'll volunteer to come over and taste-test your recipes and report back to them!
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General Anaesthesia 1 year 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.
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Panda Guy 1 year 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.
Petra Schaap 1 year 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
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year 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-
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year 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
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R Dennis 1 year 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.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year 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.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year 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.
Rachel Pelz 1 year 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.
Load More Replies... Alexander Luna 1 year 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.
veryvenasaur 1 year 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.
Mari 1 year 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.
Mimi M 1 year ago (edited)
No worries - I'll volunteer to come over and taste-test your recipes and report back to them!
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 year 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.
Load More Replies... Panda Guy 1 year 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.
Petra Schaap 1 year 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
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year 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-
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year 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
Load More Replies... R Dennis 1 year 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.
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