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Has someone ever challenged you about something and didn’t know you were an expert
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Yep ... but mainly it's just amusing and more than likely they'd not want to know the actual truth of said area of expertism 
...ignorance can be bliss  "
I wouldn't challenge you about cake, that's for sure  x |
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over a year ago
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I’m not an expert in anything but I have read a lot about topics for my dissertation and then after because it interests me and people that haven’t picked up anything more than a newspaper article will say they’re experts in said topic and challenge what’s been studied and researched. That’s frustrating.
It’s probably even worse for the people who have done post grad research in stuff. But that’s the Internet for you. :’)
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All the time.
As a tradesmen of almost 40 years,every fucker thinks they are experts in building as they have hung a door or fitted a shelf.
I just give the thousand yard stare then start waffling on about building regulations. |
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I’ve told it before but I’ll tell it again
Get a message from a couple
It’s a challenge. Grapple the male half. If I win I get his misses. If he wins, he gets me
I say great, sounds lovely as I’ve been doing bjj for a good few years at that point
Never got a reply back |
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In my line of business I get it all the time from the boy racers out there
Still if they want to put them selves in danger I can only advise so much
You can't fix stupid is what somebody said once  |
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Yeah I have a whole ass degree in a really specific subject that trained nearly everyone who works in that industry but people regularly argue with me about that shit  .
Oh my ex boyfriend also thought he knew more about female orgasms than me, a female orgasmer. |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
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Yep ... but mainly it's just amusing and more than likely they'd not want to know the actual truth of said area of expertism
...ignorance can be bliss
I wouldn't challenge you about cake, that's for sure x"
You'd be on dodgy ground with cream too!   |
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Happens pretty often. Not only my/our academic speciality/ies but also non-disabled people chatting shit about matters relating to disability access or matters relating to autistic spectrum conditions... |
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By a barrister in court over faulty equipment a customer had given us in lieu of an outstanding debt.
He insinuated that the equipment was fine and my staff and I simply didn't have the proper training but his clients were more than willing to provide the required knowledge.
In return I asked if he knew who had trained his clients on the equipment in the first place?
He obviously didn't and was embarassed to learn that it was me. |
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"By a barrister in court over faulty equipment a customer had given us in lieu of an outstanding debt.
He insinuated that the equipment was fine and my staff and I simply didn't have the proper training but his clients were more than willing to provide the required knowledge.
In return I asked if he knew who had trained his clients on the equipment in the first place?
He obviously didn't and was embarassed to learn that it was me. "
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I currently have a graduate engineer working alongside me.
He's never done my job before.
For the last few days he's been telling me how to use one of our software suites "properly"
A suite he's never seen before.
A suite he's never used before.
A suite I've been using for 5 years and have purchased for 3 other company's.
It won't be long before I "explain" things to him.
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Pretty much constantly.
There's one specific thing I'm really good at it.
It's something loads of people *think* they're good at.
They're wrong.
Some of them get *very* upset when I politely explain to them *why* they're wrong.
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"Pretty much constantly.
There's one specific thing I'm really good at it.
It's something loads of people *think* they're good at.
They're wrong.
Some of them get *very* upset when I politely explain to them *why* they're wrong.
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Is it the use of *? |
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I tend to acquire lots of knowledge about things that interest me, though I wouldn't describe myself as an expert. In my hotel overwinter, 1 guest insisted he was an expert in many things. Unfortunately. almost all of the fields he brought up to use to impress us were things that I was able to factually correct him on. Palm tree species, evolution, politics. psychology, physics and others, including some very basic knowledge. I let him escape as he wasn't able to pull the wool over my eyes. Sad that some are insecure and try to be better than others.
I'm always happy to talk and share passionately with others who are interested. It's tedious if it's not about interest, for anyone though |
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Twice that was memorable.
Once by a locum at work. Was telling me how things should be done for a particular policy. “Corrected” me when I disagreed with him. Then asked in a sneery tone why I thought I was right and he was wrong given he’d been doing our job for more years overall and had worked in the same place as me a few times previously so was aware of the policy. I wrote the policy…
The funniest one was at Silverstone. When my late husband went to the toilet a guy behind me offered to teach me some MotoGP facts to impress the husband. Without waiting for an answer he doled out three facts. I corrected him that one of his facts was wrong, hit him with a couple of facts and commented on a couple of bike things he’d been “educating” his partner on through the morning (several of them wrong). He went very quiet very quickly. When he went to the toilet his partner massively got the giggles and said she’d been hoping that one day one of the women he patronised at race weekends would know more than him.
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"Twice that was memorable.
Once by a locum at work. Was telling me how things should be done for a particular policy. “Corrected” me when I disagreed with him. Then asked in a sneery tone why I thought I was right and he was wrong given he’d been doing our job for more years overall and had worked in the same place as me a few times previously so was aware of the policy. I wrote the policy…
The funniest one was at Silverstone. When my late husband went to the toilet a guy behind me offered to teach me some MotoGP facts to impress the husband. Without waiting for an answer he doled out three facts. I corrected him that one of his facts was wrong, hit him with a couple of facts and commented on a couple of bike things he’d been “educating” his partner on through the morning (several of them wrong). He went very quiet very quickly. When he went to the toilet his partner massively got the giggles and said she’d been hoping that one day one of the women he patronised at race weekends would know more than him.
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"Yes. I just listen to them waffle on...there is no educating stupid! x"
This is the best way, especially if the other people around you know that you know your subject. Just let the idiot dig the hole deeper |
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"Yes. I just listen to them waffle on...there is no educating stupid! x
This is the best way, especially if the other people around you know that you know your subject. Just let the idiot dig the hole deeper "
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"Twice that was memorable.
Once by a locum at work. Was telling me how things should be done for a particular policy. “Corrected” me when I disagreed with him. Then asked in a sneery tone why I thought I was right and he was wrong given he’d been doing our job for more years overall and had worked in the same place as me a few times previously so was aware of the policy. I wrote the policy…
The funniest one was at Silverstone. When my late husband went to the toilet a guy behind me offered to teach me some MotoGP facts to impress the husband. Without waiting for an answer he doled out three facts. I corrected him that one of his facts was wrong, hit him with a couple of facts and commented on a couple of bike things he’d been “educating” his partner on through the morning (several of them wrong). He went very quiet very quickly. When he went to the toilet his partner massively got the giggles and said she’d been hoping that one day one of the women he patronised at race weekends would know more than him.
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I witnessed something similar to your first one once in work. We had a surgeon nobody had worked with before and the other staff were questioning her interpretation of a policy. They didn't realise that her main job was actually writing and reviewing our clinical policies and she was just working with us that day to maintain her competencies . |
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"Never happened to me not an expert at anything "
Same.
Encountered a lot of people who thought they were experts though, and even though I wasn't an expert, I could still tell they were talking dung. |
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"Never happened to me not an expert at anything
Same.
Encountered a lot of people who thought they were experts though, and even though I wasn't an expert, I could still tell they were talking dung."
I am an expert on common sense got me this far in life |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
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Wouldn't class myself as an expert, but I've been doing my job for 16 years, I know a hell of a lot about it...
It's always funny when patients tell me what I should be doing to sort an issue and I sit there and just nod a smile and when they finish I show them its the exact opposite  |
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By *yrdsisWoman
over a year ago
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No expert, but had a few folk challenge me upon telling them my dog isn't generally men friendly..
"Dog's love me.. I get on great with them"
As she then backs away and barks furiously.... then they get pissy about her reaction...
Sorry... not sorry... did tell ya |
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I wouldn't say I'm an expert, but I know a fair bit about going to football matches having seen games at 88 of the 92 Premier League and Football League grounds, plus loads of non league games too.
On several occasions a non football fan has tried to lecture me on the subject of going to matches and it does p*ss me off, especially when those commenting have more often than not never been to a game in their lives! |
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A friend of the OH married a guy who "knows everything to know about everything". Basically like the two short planks. He once tried to lecture me while out with a group of friends how he had created a brilliant Access database for work. He offered to show me how to create one despite knowing that at work I designed and developed enterprise level databases! What a plonker!
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By *for2Man
over a year ago
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"Happens pretty often. Not only my/our academic speciality/ies but also non-disabled people chatting shit about matters relating to disability access or matters relating to autistic spectrum conditions..."
One word for usual disability access... Shit! I just had an appt with Sirona for oxygen therapy. The appt room was on the 1st floor at the furthest point from the entrance. What idiot booked that room. Users of oxygen so people with breathing problems made to go upstairs and as far as possible from entrance. You couldn't make it up could you. |
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Happened just 2 days ago, questioned the way I was doing my job , while I don't claim to be an expert I do know the rules , to do my job well and by the book , to be fair he came back like a man later and confirmed I was correct as he'd just spent the last 2 hours looking into it. Duly apologised and all good in the hood as they say. |
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"Yes and stood there bemused as a chap waffled away on how a GPMG was magazine fed and prone to stoppages due to cramming to many rounds in the mag.
I never said a word but thought....oh boy!"
I can't wait till the Army starts doing there fairs again where the public get to see the weapons, my daughter who looks like she's as weak as mince and about 7 stone was an instructor in new recruit training with the army and I'm gonna piss myself watching the lads faces when she strips and reassembles some weapons in front of them. Or does an inspection on them . |
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Yes.
Builder was looking to buy my old house and started questioning if the electrics were upto the latest regulations.
Little did he know I'm am electrical design engineer so shut him down fairly quickly |
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"Yes.
Builder was looking to buy my old house and started questioning if the electrics were upto the latest regulations.
Little did he know I'm am electrical design engineer so shut him down fairly quickly "
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Yes, regularly in a particular area of my work, usually a case of I've been doing this for 40 years and you cant possibly know more than I do.
On one occasion the person was talking about a scientific paper that had just been released and was I aware of it, err, yes, I wrote it. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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Not me but my granddaughter's partners visited with his dad and was telling my ex husband how he should wallpaper something.
My ex has been wallpapering professionally for 30 years.
His face was a picture |
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"Yes and stood there bemused as a chap waffled away on how a GPMG was magazine fed and prone to stoppages due to cramming to many rounds in the mag.
I never said a word but thought....oh boy!"
I have carried and used small arms and other infantry weapons in the British Army and for other reasons and elsewhere for most of my life, and have instructed on small arms, but have quite often been 'told about' things by civilians that are complete nonsense. They usually shut up when I explain what I know and how I know it (but not on here, where they have been known to respond:'But you could be making all of that up", which is of course exactly what they do!). |
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I was once travelling in East Africa and an actually rather nice middle aged English couple pointed at a crop growing by the road, and the man said: "Look, that's tea, isn't it?" I politely replied: "No, it's coffee actually". He said: "No, I don't think so, it's tea". I am no great expert and it wasn't my normal line of work but I had worked briefly in the coffee business in a coffee growing area in East Africa dealing directly with the crop a few years earlier (and had also seen tea crops before!).
Sadly when I explained politely how I knew they didn't seem at all happy to be enlightened, and quickly changed the subject, as is often the case! |
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"An adventure to the pub led to me having a half hour discussion about space x and reusable rockets… felt sorry for the poor guy by the end "
Please tell us that he (or you) happened to use that old phrase: 'You don't need to be a rocket scientist..." (Or in your case added: ".. but it so happens that I am one."? |
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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago
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Yes. Some members of the public have come into my place of work and challenged me about how my work / job works… whilst I’m at work. Does that count as them not knowing? Lol. |
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Was shut down by a hospital consultant regarding a specific condition. So I asked him if he'd read the work of Dr. X in 1988 who published a paper on it after conducting a study.
Said consultant said he had not.
I thanked said consultant for their time, but said "If you are not reading every paper and study on the condition you purport to treat, you are not really a expert in your field are you ? What other gaps exist in your knowledge ?".
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"It happens daily at work and even though they know absolutely nothing they are still adamant that they are right."
^^ This with my boss. I have now lost count of how many times I have had to correct their work. Without wanting to sound big headed, just can't be assed to tell them that I am considered a world expert in a very niche bit of software. |
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"Pretty much constantly.
There's one specific thing I'm really good at it.
It's something loads of people *think* they're good at.
They're wrong.
Some of them get *very* upset when I politely explain to them *why* they're wrong.
Is it the use of *?"
Well, one has to do *something* to indicate emphasis when the Fab forum is too archaic to allow any kind of text formatting. Unfortunately, judicious use of asterisks is all we've got. |
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"An adventure to the pub led to me having a half hour discussion about space x and reusable rockets… felt sorry for the poor guy by the end
Please tell us that he (or you) happened to use that old phrase: 'You don't need to be a rocket scientist..." (Or in your case added: ".. but it so happens that I am one."?"
Actually I did end up using the rocket scientist one, we were talking about why we needed to land on Mars and it’s obvious that with two planets survival odds are increased as a species… don’t need to know rocket science for that bit |
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