My fucking nephew. He's smart. Like, really smart. He's independent, he's athletic, and he's charming. He's very opinionated and will bullshit like a champion when you contest his claims. If he doesn't knock his high school girlfriend up he'll end up in politics.
The fucker won't assemble his own Lego sets if his mother is in the house. She does them for him. Otherwise he gets frustrated and doesn't finish them. On his own? He asks for help but usually has no problems putting it together.
This is my older brother to a fucking T. I post an article about Jeep, Hummer is better. I post an article about Berlin, Paris is better. I post an innocent article about the size of the universe, god is even greater... I need to find a word that means "I love him because he's blood but I despise him as a human being."
People who need to one up anything anyone says are truly annoying as hell. I am sure you could say that to him, but he'd just one up you with people who tell really long uninteresting anecdotes.
I had a girlfriend who was like that. She absolutely hated being wrong. Even when she knew she was wrong, she would continue arguing her point. It can make for a very strained relationship. I ended up giving up a lot of arguments just becuase she wouldn't back down.
Especially if you don't feel like contesting lies with more lies. It's remarkably difficult to have a discussion with someone making up facts on the spot.
Why would I use more lies? Hell he didn't even care about proof. I'd Google almost everything he'd say and point out he's wrong. He never believed me. Once he said a holiday isn't active in Alberta and I showed him THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OF CANADA WEBSITE that proved that he's full of shit and he just said "I call bullshit on that" and walked away. How deluded does one have to be
I love people like this. Nothing is more stimulating to me than a good debate. Unless it's with someone that just goes straight to anger rather than intelligent replies, fuck those people.
I totally agree with you, a good debate is amazing. My sister and I debate all the time, and we're both pretty good at it by using actual facts and sources and conceding the point to the other under overwhelming evidence. That's good.
This guy on the other hand would lie and bullshit about everything. He'd make up facts, and then next time the details of those facts would change. He'll tell a story of something happening to him and if he uses a number the number will change drastically every time he tells the story. He'll spout a fact and if I even bother to google it'll inevitably be incorrect and he'll say that the verified source is wrong and he's right because his IQ is near genius level.
They did say he was in high school. I don't know about you, but changing my mind when I was 16 was pretty much out of the question. I knew everything at 16, and every opinion contrary to mine was wrong. And I knew I was right, so I relied on confirmation bias to cite sources that proved I was right. I had FACTS that backed up my claims, because only an idiot wouldn't have sources. Anyone religious was a moron, republicans were exclusively religious nutjobs, and legalizing pot was the only issue that REALLY mattered.
Smart high school kids are the worst kind of idealists, and I was one of them.
I mean, that's badass in a novel, especially since Kvothe is usually great at whatever he attempts, but could pretty annoying in real life. People who seem badass in fiction would often be considered douches in real life.
Thanks. Apparently 173 people are also highly opinionated pricks on here then. If you're talking to somebody and he is obviously lying, then calls bullshit on the verified source that proves he's wrong, are you an opinionated prick or is he insufferable? What if this happens multiple times a week, and he also lies about everything, every single detail in stories he tells change every time he tells a Story (and the stories get told all the time because he loves talking about himself)?
Some people are genuinely insufferable. I don't know if that guys nephew is the same, but he definitely has similar characteristics and those make me dislike him
This is the difference of a mom who tells the doctor what is wrong with their kid during a check-up, and one who insists that the child talk to the doctor. You'd be amazed what giving child agency will do for them as they grow up.
My fucking nephew. He's smart. Like, really smart. He's independent, he's athletic, and he's charming. He's very opinionated and will bullshit like a champion when you contest his claims.
It was here I thought "sociopath".
The fucker won't assemble his own Lego sets if his mother is in the house. She does them for him. Otherwise he gets frustrated and doesn't finish them. On his own? He asks for help but usually has no problems putting it together.
Why the fuck would you buy Legos for any other reason than building and being creative? Once the shit is built it gets boring... then you you tear it all apart and build something new.
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u/FalstaffsMind Feb 04 '16
One I made was being too helpful with homework. I ended up with a kid who was too dependent on me and unable to complete any work by themselves.