Friday, October 30, 2020

Times People's Expertise Was Challenged


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the times that people's expertise was unnecessarily challenged. Nothing is quite as satisfying as putting someone's obnoxious assumptions about your skillset in check. 

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Text - -aged-like-wine- • 15h 2 Awards 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 surel 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 bitch of a pro

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Text - pn_dubya • 16h 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. Reply 3.4k ...

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Text - char92474 • 15h 21 Award 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 o

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Text - Philip_Anderer • 15h 2 4 Awards 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

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Text - MrJakeEpping • 15h 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 l'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

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Text - mrschro • 15h 2 Awards For most of 2020 so far. I am an infectious disease expert (PhD from a Microbiology and Immunology program) and suddenly all my former high school classmates think they know more than me. They watch the news and learn a new vocabulary, and they bestow themselves a doctorate. Reply 3.8k •..

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Text - itskayguys • 11h 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

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Text - FancyStegosaurus • 16h 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.

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Text - RyanDaltonWrites • 16h 3 1 Award 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 l'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. Reply 1 5.6k ...

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Text - discostud1515• 16h I wouldn't say I'm an expert at push ups but l'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 b

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Text - IslayHaveAnother • 14h 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 was wrong. I explained that I knew what I was talking about. He asked what I did and I responded "industrial water treatm

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Text - popkernel23 • 15h 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 kno

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Text - persad_power • 14h A3 21 Awards 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 an

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Text - spliffwizard • 16h VOTE 3 Awards 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 l'll just act confident and play the only thing I ca

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Text - Curleysound • 15h I'm an academy award winning sound mixer and almost everyone on film sets think they know my job better than me. Reply 3.1k ...

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Text - marti14141 • 15h 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 Reply 545 ...

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Text - HatfieldCW • 17h EO &e 12 Awards 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 ass. Reply 19.3k ...

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Text - dabbit-secondus • 16h 1 Award 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, 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

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Text - slurmgurm • 16h E 2eW 4 Awards It happens a lot lately, I'm a microbiologist, so the number of people who have suddenly taken an interest in the subject in order to be confidently wrong about it is pretty upsetting. Reply 11.0k

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Text - MarkHirsbrunner • 16h By no means an expert (l'd probably rate in the 1500s), but l'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. Reply 8.3k ...

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Text - gcm6664 • 17h 3 O 3 Awards 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 abov

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Text - Not_an_elk • 17h 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 j

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Text - ghettoprinsessa • 22h 100% NTA. That idea is hilarious! And you're right, you shouldn't constantly clean her side. If they don't own the house, could you tell the landlord they're being pigs that can't clean up their yard? Reply Vote

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Text - DwasTV • 19h NTA Have you considered maybe they don't even remember putting the pumpkin back up there? It seems odd that they add Halloween decoration around it and leave the melted pumpkin still there. Do you maybe think it's possible they think you left it and refuse to clean it up and are taking a similar stance as yourself? Reply Vote ...

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Text - emthejedichic • 19h NTA for doing that, but I'm not a fan of passive aggressive behavior. Why are the only options putting a sign on it or cleaning it yourself? You could continue to ignore it or ask someone who lives with her (since you say you never see her) to pass a message that you'd like it cleaned up. Or put a note in her mailbox asking her to clean it. Idk, I'm a fan of direct communication. Reply Vote ...

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Text - ifitwasonlytrue • 16h 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 Il've got us a round of drinks or stuck it to some knob who's hogging the table. Reply 1 4.9k ...

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Text - Conscious_Tea • 16h 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." Reply 1 4.8k ...

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Text - dontbadgerthewitness • 15h 1 Award 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 vis

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