# Fucking "You've probably never heard of it" smug bullshit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709 "2012-05-12T17:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/41 "2012-05-14T02:31:33Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I used to be totally into the Kennebec River, but now it’s all Maine stream. Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/42 "2012-05-14T11:23:57Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I used to be totally into the Kennebec River, but now it’s all Maine stream. That is truly bad 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/43 "2012-05-14T14:42:41Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > - It’s a pity [he wasn’t from Buffalo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo). I’m originally from Buffalo. He probably wouldn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/44 "2012-05-14T15:01:05Z")
Seriously, the OP is way over-sensitive here. If it’s in a documentary, maybe they’re underestimating their audience, but it’s probably not intended to be smug. The whole point of the documentary is to teach other people about something whereas the whole “you’ve probably never heard of it” is about feeling superior because you know something that other people don’t. I’m against that attitude in general because I feel like knowledge exists to be shared. When I do end up talking about something that people probably haven’t heard of, rather than just stating that they probably haven’t heard of it, I’ll ask them if they’re familiar with it so I can gauge how much I need to fill in. It is funny when people are saying it seriously and it turns out to be a band with radio singles or a show on broadcast television. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/45 "2012-05-14T17:50:20Z")
This makes me think of the _Star Trek_ episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” when the obnoxious bureaucrat tells Kirk, “I wouldn’t expect you or your science officer to know what it is, but quadrotricale…” Spock interrupts to define it and begins to describe its origins until Kirk stops him. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/46 "2012-05-14T19:50:02Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > To the OP: I think you might be a bit over-sensitive. I mean, the rest of us just can’t win! I once taught a class (first- and second-year college students). Half my teacher evaluation comments were “The teacher shouldn’t assume we know so much…”, and the other half were “The teacher shouldn’t say ‘You might not know this…’, because it’s insulting…of course we know it.”. !!! > > In other words, when someone says somthing like that, nine times out of ten it’s because they’re trying to be nice, and not make you think that they assume everyone knows or cares about exactly the same things. The one time out of ten they’re really being a jerk, you can hear that in the tone of their voice – “duh, I’m SURE you don’t know this, AND that makes you a bad person compared to me”. > > If you’re getting that vibe more than 10% of the time someone says something like this to you, then either: 1. You hang out with assholes, or 2. You have some insecurities. I was going to post the same thing. When someone says that they usually are not trying to be smug but to make you feel ok about not knowing about it. Reminds me of Bill Engval (comedian) with his “Here’s your sign” jokes…where the sign says you are stupid. Things like sitting by a smoking car and someone says “Having car problems?”. They aren’t being stupid…they are just starting a conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/47 "2012-05-14T22:25:17Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > How did the hipster burn his mouth? > > he was eating pizza before it was cool. > > ETA: I actually used to go over to friend’s apartment and dink beer and play HUngry Hungry Hippos. Way before it was cool, assuming it is or ever was. How do you dink beer? I’ve never heard of that so it must be cool ! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/48 "2012-05-15T00:30:21Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > We actually use that image at work to describe one of our coworkers. She’ll walk in in the morning with her big fake hipster glasses and scarf and we all just look at each other and start laughing. She knows about it though and it embraces it. 🙂 I also enjoy pulling Hipster Ariel on her since she does some design. Hey, try teaching at an Art School. Hipster is the default. I was chatting with a half dozen kids, and I laughed about being the only one without “huge hipster Buddy Holly glasses”. At which point one of them whipped his glasses into his pocket, and the others followed suit.\* “What? Hipster glasses? We know not of which you speak, stranger.”\* ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/49 "2012-05-15T02:27:50Z")
You want [attitude](http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/)? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/50 "2012-05-15T16:31:10Z")
I was a huge fan of Pauly Shore long before it was cool to be so. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/51 "2012-05-15T17:39:16Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > You want [attitude](http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/)? Thanks for posting that. I love it. My older brother has been gassing on about American craft beer week over on Facebook, so I’m going to see if he’s tried this one. Still: available in a _THREE LITER_ bottle? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/52 "2012-05-16T03:11:40Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I was a huge fan of Pauly Shore long before it was cool to be so. And that would be… _now_, would it not? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/53 "2012-05-17T03:44:46Z")
On the other hand, I’ve had people get annoyed with me for assuming they know about things that I’m explaining something about, and then showing a little surprise when they tell me that they don’t know about the things I assume they’ve heard about or understand. Know whut I mean? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/54 "2012-05-17T05:05:39Z")
> [@saje](#): > > We need a fist-shaking :mad: smiley dude, it would go well here. We had one back before it was cool, but you probably never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/55 "2012-05-17T14:16:31Z")
Incidentally, last night I watched the documentary on scopolamine and it’s kind of freaking me out. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/56 "2012-05-17T18:42:56Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And that would be… _now_, would it not? Yep. I’m still hipper all y’alls. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/57 "2012-05-18T01:05:02Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > Incidentally, last night I watched the documentary on scopolamine and it’s kind of freaking me out. Scopolamine? Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709/58 "2012-05-19T16:10:36Z")
I think you might find [one of these](http://zipmeme.com/meme/3636/) comes in handy from time to time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it-smug-bullshit/621709.md?page=2)