I have seen one of our moderators in person wearing her hat, and I’m telling you folks with all sincerity, this is a mod hat.
Bucking the trend and in line with the OP, my cubicle neighbor knows everything about everything - just ask him! :rolleyes: At first, I would give him a non-committal “uh-huh” and move on. Now I just tell him he’s full of crap. Repeatedly. And enthusiastically.
No matter what the discussion involves, he knows more, knows better, and can’t possible accept that there might be an alternate point of view. We’re of the same ethnic background, and I mentioned that I made one of the traditional dishes. Apparently our grandparents/great grandparents came from different parts of the same country because my version of the dish is different from what his mom makes. So, of course, I’m wrong. Or maybe my grandmother was just a bad cook. :rolleyes: Yeah, he has to be right even if it doesn’t matter.
Lucky for me, I’ve been assigned to a new team and I get a new cubicle on a different floor from him. Oh happy day when I finally move!!
My friend isn’t even that bad, mostly. But this last time he used a very wide phrase - it meant a lot of things. And of course, he didn’t explain what he meant properly. At all. And in the context of the dicussion, it meant something totally different from what he said, although he’ll never admit that. Eventually, he started demanding I “define my definitions,” which was fine, but he never bothered to define his until well after I did.
Sort of a non-Doper “I make a statement and then make you pull out a cite to disprove it.” What was more irritating was when he told me what my argument. I absolutely fucking HATE that! There is no quicker way to piss me off.
Yay!
Are you taking bets yet on what sort of asininity you’ll inevitably encounter on the new cube-farm team? 
I thought a mod hat looked like this. You know, to match the jackboots.
At first, I might have taken this personally, but soon realized that you really meant people who are not, in fact, never wrong.
I have no idea what this thread is about, but I do know that this is a mod hat
OK! I call bullshit! You got a friend? How much do you pay him? 
I have a cousin who’s like this. Once she told me every homophobic Paul-Cameron-generated-piece-of-bullshit thing she “knew” about gays and when she wouldn’t let me respond with facts and figures and wouldn’t listen to the “Paul Cameron was banned for life from the APA!” refutations, I stopped speaking to her. She sent me an unpology (unpology: it’s not an actual apology but a statemetn of hte obvious- “I know I offended you with what I said…” rubbish) and the line “We’re family. That should mean we can say anything to each other without the other getting bent out of shape.” (I wrote her back to ask “where in the hell did you get that idea [cause it sure as hell wasn’t from our family and if you read Genesis or history it wasn’t from families thousands of years ago or in the Middle Ages or any other time either!”])
Now she’s not even “not wrong” on her own stuff but has taken to forwarding every email she gets (of late, particularly of the “Obama killed Christian babies in his madrassah” ilk) and when sent absolute irrefutable Snopesian or even “I took the time to look this up myself” stuff (sometimes absolute as in “George Carlin says XY&Z” replied to by me with a straight from his website “I never said this shit, sincerely George Carlin” type refutal) I’ll get either a “well I’m not trying to open a debate, I just think it’s interesting” (it’s interesting that Queen Victoria was the first person ever to fly with a jetpack, but it’s also NOT TRUE) or “well, that’s your opinion” on the political stuff (no, it’s not my “opinion” that Bill Clinton was never high school buddies with Osama bin Laden, it’s FACT). Irritating.
Very little, generally in the form of snack items I bring around.
Queen Victoria was the first person to fly with a backpack?!? Fascinating!
I sympathize with you smiling bandit. I know people who - well, they don’t do it all the time, but they tend to slip into **Not Being Wrong ** too often and too easily. Other than that, they’re usually nice people.
Oh, and I have another candidate for the mod hat.
It’s not fascinating, it’s interesting. And it’s also interesting that Sampiro’s cousin is my boss!
A good buddy’s husband is like this. He’s a good buddy too, to be fair. He’s always right. Always Right. Always. Even when he’s wrong, he’s right. He’s obnoxious but friendly about it – he’ll do the whole thing with a genuine smile on his face, yes, but you have to understand: he’s right. He’s right.
He usually is, but glory be, he will argue over the smallest thing. I think for him it’s almost less of a desire to Be Right and more of one to make sure everyone knows the right answer. If he’s proven wrong – he unknowingly tells an urban legend, for example – he will accept this with good grace. Just only after he’s been presented with that proof, you see. Otherwise he’s not wrong.
His wife, you may surmise, is a wonderful and charming woman who rarely bothers arguing with him. She’s also the only person who wins with regularity when she does.
If you think that’s irritating, imagine how it is for those of us who are always right, and yet find our omniscience constantly called into question.
My wife’s like this, sometimes. She’ll tell me something, present it as the gospel truth, and when I question its veracity she’ll look at me suspiciously and ask “What’s the matter? Don’t you believe me?” I have to then go through tortuous diplomatic contortions – Oh, no, honey, I’m sure that’s what you read, it’s your sources that are full of shit! And THEN she gets offended. WELL! So she sends me the news article … except it’s almost always an editorial rather than news, and then I pick it to shreds and respond to her and she doesn’t read my responses and then asks me if I ever read the article, and that I shouldn’t ask for cites if I’m not going to follow them up etc etc etc.
PS I imagined this to be a mod hat.
We got into a weird semi-philosophical argument about duelling last night. After a while, I got pissed off again when he, for some fucking reason, decided I thought a duel would/ought be set up (were their duels) by one person challenging and setting terms. Which of course I did not, and to this hour have have clue why he’d even say think that.
So I told him to stop chatting while I laid out in one complete format what I was saying. I never really got any response on it, even a disagreement, much less an acknowledgement that he’d made a very weird, totally unsupported, and simply incorrect assumption.
Silly dopers. This is a mod hat.
Hmmm…that would explain a lot. 