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re: Do you always correct people when you know they are wrong about something?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 10:38 pm to Geaux9
Posted on 8/19/14 at 10:38 pm to Geaux9
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No I'm not a narcissist.
I don't think correcting people if they believe something that you know to be wrong makes you a narcissist.
There's just times when it seems like it might be best to spare them the embarrassment of being wrong, but I can completely see the value of helping them by providing them accurate information and thus giving them knowledge instead of leaving them to go on believing something fundamentally untrue and potentially embarrassing themselves worse in future company.
I'm not talking about being a petty a-hole who always has to be right even at the expense of common sense manners and context, I'm talking about relatively harmless situations where correcting someone might make them feel silly.
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Posted on 8/19/14 at 10:40 pm to ChewyDante
I just nod and ignore it, then after we leave I start ranting to my wife about how he's a moron, everyone is a fricking moron, the human race is ignorant, and this is why I hate people, and when it's time to die I'm taking as much of the human race as I can with me, etc. Then my wife looks at me like I'm an a-hole (cause I am) and says this is why I have no friends. Then I blame it on Social Anxiety Disorder.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 10:48 pm to TxTiger82
Yup...you attract more bee's with honey then vinegar. Nothing really good comes from being an a-hole. The best I can do is nod my head in agreement and really have no clue what their talking about.
Good, intelligent conversation is not THAT abundant.
Good, intelligent conversation is not THAT abundant.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 10:54 pm to dreaux
If it is obviously a load of crap, I usually can't help but call them out on it.
I had just replaced the transom in my ski boat and was putting the engine back in. My boat wasn't anything to brag about, so I don't know why anyone would be trying to get over on me, and at the time, it wouldn't even float. A guy with a camp next to ours was talking to me while I was putting the drive back on the boat and tells me how his Tahoe deck boat with a V6 will do 60 mph. I didn't belittle the guy, but did question him on how he measured his speed. When he said GPS, I said that his GPS couldn't be accurate. When he continued with it, I asked if it were being dropped from a plane when he checked it. He still thinks I'm a dick, but so be it.
Another time, a guy at work was arguing about an American Chopper bike, the green and black spider bike, with the ghost tank. I made the comment that it looked great and that you could barely see the gas tank hidden in front of the rear wheel. He called me out that the spider web was actually hollowed out tubes, and that it was actually a gas tank. He got pretty pissed and loud when I disagreed with him, but I that was just too stupid to let stand.
I had just replaced the transom in my ski boat and was putting the engine back in. My boat wasn't anything to brag about, so I don't know why anyone would be trying to get over on me, and at the time, it wouldn't even float. A guy with a camp next to ours was talking to me while I was putting the drive back on the boat and tells me how his Tahoe deck boat with a V6 will do 60 mph. I didn't belittle the guy, but did question him on how he measured his speed. When he said GPS, I said that his GPS couldn't be accurate. When he continued with it, I asked if it were being dropped from a plane when he checked it. He still thinks I'm a dick, but so be it.
Another time, a guy at work was arguing about an American Chopper bike, the green and black spider bike, with the ghost tank. I made the comment that it looked great and that you could barely see the gas tank hidden in front of the rear wheel. He called me out that the spider web was actually hollowed out tubes, and that it was actually a gas tank. He got pretty pissed and loud when I disagreed with him, but I that was just too stupid to let stand.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:22 pm to sparkinator
That's a crazy looking bike. Neat tough.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:25 pm to ChewyDante
It's my first instinct. I'm trying to learn to let it go. Nobody likes a know it all.
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