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⌈ Secret Post #3486 ⌋

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Comments

People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[philstar22]

What examples do you have of people who insist they are right and won't listen to anyone when they actually know nothing on the subject?

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[philstar22]

My mother has this idea that I need to put on my resume that I passed the bar and was sworn in. Every example of legal resumes I can find just has the juris doctor degree. My school's career center told me that the passing the bar should just go in the cover letter. Yet my mother keeps insisting she's right and keeps asking me if I've changed it yet. I keep telling her no and explaining why, but she keeps insisting that they won't know that I'm a lawyer now otherwise and that she knows about resumes.

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[diet_poison]

Show her some sources? That sounds really annoying (but obviously I'm glad you're not changing it, sounds like it could be detrimental)

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[sparrow_lately]

My (future) father in law is a meteorologist who denies climate change so.................

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[philstar22]

Ouch.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

Are we talking denies the existence of climate change, or denies that it's anthropogenic, or criticizes the specific predictions and estimates from official climate bodies, or what

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

I had to explain to the entire junior honors class at my college that "gender" and "sex" are generally understood to mean different things. Their response, as a group was, "...........nah, that's not how *I* use those words." They thought I was just making up some weird distinction of my own.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[diet_poison]

sadly, a lot of people really do think they are synonymous. a bit surprised and annoyed that a class of college upperclasmen would think that though.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

Recently had a guy telling me + a room full of people about this great 'loophole' in the Australian tax system, and I was sitting there thinking, "Actually, that's tax fraud. And that 'loophole' is covered by the cunning trick where they get to to sign, right there on the last page, 'I understand that if I lie to the Tax Office they will break my kneecaps with hammers'."

Also he was wrong about this cunning trick one several other levels, but just the idea that a person can lie to the tax office if there's a 'loophole'... if you sign a legal declaration that you're not lying, you should probably try NOT TO LIE.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to be Captain Obvious, but... Donald Trump.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

Lord, yes.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[diet_poison]

mmhmm

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[nonnymouscawitz]

Most conspiracy theorists. I just had recent arguments with people who insist that no one died at the Pulse shootings, and no one died at Sandy Hook. Also, the anti-vax people I know remain anti-vax no matter what evidence I give them because 'You can't trust the media.'

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

I just had recent arguments with people who insist that no one died at the Pulse shootings, and no one died at Sandy Hook.

Those sorts of dumbasses need to be smacked upside the head. Hard.

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[dethtoll]

I can think of a certain named user, but I'm going to go ahead and say my parents are like this, especially my dad. My dad would say the stupidest shit imaginable, then double down when called on it. He once tried to argue that the Republican Party was the civil rights party in the 60s. I told him about southern strategy and he flat out refused to believe me.

"These are undeniable facts, dad, this is reality!"
"just because it's reality doesn't make it true"

(phone conversation didn't last long after that)

Re: People Who Claim They are Right about Things They Know Nothing About

[(Anonymous)]

I once had an argument with my grandfather about Vatican City being a country. He was very insistent it was not.

I'm pretty sure he knew it was a country and just wanted to argue, but I have no actual proof of that.

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[(Anonymous)]

Currently going around tumblr:

"The A for 'ally' in LGBTQA is to provide cover for LGBT people coming out of the closet."

No dipshit, it's because we're in a political coalition with straight allies, some of whom stepped up to change laws, raise funds, raise awareness, create supportive spaces, and provided services for HIV+ people at a time we needed them. Sometimes it's important to include them, other times its less important.

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[feotakahari]

I had a math teacher in 9th grade who thought that if you flip a coin ten times and it comes up heads the first ten times, it's more likely to come up tails the next time so as to "balance out." I told her she was using the gambler's fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy.) She told me she didn't know what that was. I wound up writing a formal mathematical proof that past results don't change future probability, and she still wouldn't believe me.

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[(Anonymous)]

Jon Snow

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[skeletal_history]

I work with multiple examples of this bullshit.

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[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Last weekend just reinforced how much my Dad is like that. I admit, I didn't listen to much of the debates that happened between him and Mum on stuff, but he is a long-time supporter of the Coalition (who are not too dissimilar to the American Republican Party).

The thing with the two big Aussie political parties is that the Coalition (which is the combination of the Liberal Party and the National Party) is the party who try to cut down on public works and social support allowances to save money, while the Labour Party try to get public works done and try to support the lower income parts of society. If there is not a regular trade-off, Labour will spend too much, and the Libs will let everything fall into ruin because they won't put the money out to fix it.

I also wonder about his claim that people hated Malcom Turnbull's ousting of Tony Abbott, because frankly the Libs would have lost the election with Abbott in charge, plus I think Labour supporters were glad to get rid of Abbott. I for one may have wished Turnbull didn't get back as PM, but he's better than Abbott.

Dad is also a bit of a climate change denier, but he tends be of the stance that current climate change is a natural occurrence, not exacerbated by human-caused pollution, which I think is a rather stupid line of thinking in reflect to our religious beliefs, which state that humans are gradually getting worse.

The worst from him however tends to be the personal stuff, like saying that Mum did stuff while they were married that were really things he, or his family did (and frankly his mother and sister were not the best of in-laws to Mum).

The sad thing is, he still wants to think there's a chance he and Mum could get back together, but Mum has become ferociously independent since their divorce, so she will never consider such a thing.

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[dahli]

My family is very very stubborn in what they believe is true, but I just let it slide because well, they where born in a different time and age from me the internet wasn't a thing back then and etc etc etc.

When I was thirteen I told my mom I felt a lump in my chest and my aunt said "it might be cancer". Cue me breaking the waterworks but nope, turns out I was just starting to develop my chest.

And from the aunt who brought you the "it might be cancer" when my boobies started to grow, I bring you:

"you shouldn't let the dog sleep with you because dogs can give you herpes"!

Nowadays I laugh it off because honestly.

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[(Anonymous)]

I've never spoken to someone who didn't believe in evolution who actually understood what evolution is, up to and including, "I've never seen a dog give birth to a duck," or "if we came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?"

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[(Anonymous)]

I hate it when this happens. My father does this all the time.
But one of the most memorable instances was a friend of my parents, who basically tried to push his very flawed and incorrect knowledge of Japanese history on me the very day after I had just (successfully) written a huge exam about that very topic at uni (which he was aware of). And he was a guest so I couldn't be rude but damn, it annoyed me so much.

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[(Anonymous)]

My mother had to attend a job-related seminar at the university where I was studying at the time. She asked me if I knew where the lecture hall in question was (since the university buildi g was huge and labyrinthine and confusing). Turns out, it was the exact same lecture hall where about 75% of the lectures I attended were held, so I went there pretty much daily. I gave her a perfect explanation of how to get there.

For some reason, she decided that I was wrong, and some landmark I had mentioned (that I passed literally every week day morning on my way to the lectures) wasn't actually where I claimed it to be, but on a completely different side of the building, and therefore I had to be wrong about the hall's location, too.

Unsurprisingly, she ended up being late. The lecture hall in question was exactly wher I had instructed.