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10-25-2008, 04:22 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | The Universal Expert
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One of my friends seems to think he qualifies as one of these.
Mention any topic - food, movies, science, cars, music, wine, sport, politics, children, clothes, fitness, women, travel, ANYTHING AT ALL - and he knows more about it than anyone else. He has strong opinions on everything and is convinced that they're more valid than anyone else's. He clearly considers it impossible for any person to know any more than he does about any topic.
Apart from that, he's a nice guy. 
Any of you guys know any Universal Experts? And if you do, how do you get them to shut the **** up? 
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10-25-2008, 07:07 AM
| | | | probably just talk about how well his low-income job is working out.
or even maybe just have everyone open up the conversational window so far he's forced to blather himself to exhaustion?
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10-25-2008, 07:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Hampton, Va USA | | | I work with a guy like that and what makes it worse is that in fact he's kind of ignorant. But he has no clue he's ignorant. It wouldn't be so bad if he knew what he was talking about. He has opinions on everything and more often than not they are half-baked. I just avoid conversations with him.
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10-25-2008, 07:11 AM
| | | | Robert B: so you aren't one of the people that believes everything is connected to everything? lol sounds like the type of person your discussing.
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10-25-2008, 07:14 AM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert B I work with a guy like that and what makes it worse is that in fact he's kind of ignorant. But he has no clue he's ignorant. It wouldn't be so bad if he knew what he was talking about. He has opinions on everything and more often than not they are half-baked. I just avoid conversations with him. | I guess the fact that everyone has a right to express their opinion doesn't mean that they're immune from being almost totally stupid.
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10-25-2008, 10:40 AM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | I work with a guy like that too.Anything you say, you are wrong, he is right. Its so fun working with him on an 8 hour shift...I never realized I don't actually know anything lol every response I get from him starts with "well, Actually..." |
10-25-2008, 10:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I'm a universal half-ass. I know a little bit about everything, and am known for my fill of useless information.
I don't star arguments with people, because I seldom know more than they do. However, I did live with a kid for a year who was like this. Drove me nuts.
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10-25-2008, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by tplyons I'm a universal half-ass. I know a little bit about everything, and am known for my fill of useless information. | Yeah, same here. I'm pretty well rounded but don't excel in any particular subject.
I like to think it makes me a good conversation partner, but I'm sure I can come off as a fat head in some circles.
Advice: stick to topics you know better than him on, run him into the ground with facts and figures. That'll take the bounce out of tigger.
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10-25-2008, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Finland | | You know what the wise people say: The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
If you turn it around, you get: The less you actually know, the more you think you know.
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10-25-2008, 12:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | People will ask me questions about anything, expecting me to know the answer. Sometimes it's flattering and often it's annoying. If I say "I don't know" (which happens 2/3 of the time, yet they keep asking), I get some end-of-the-world face.
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10-25-2008, 12:47 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Most people that work in engineering would fit the description of a Universal Expert. I have to deal with them every day. |
10-25-2008, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | just ask a question to him and then smack him in the face and tell him to shut the **** up |
10-25-2008, 12:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | Can't stand those "know it all" types!  |
10-25-2008, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | I used to know one. He got fired for knowing about everything except for how to be at work when he was supposed to.
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10-25-2008, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDuck Most people that work in engineering would fit the description of a Universal Expert. I have to deal with them every day. | that means im gonna be a universal expert in 5 to 6 years time!!! woohoo! |
10-25-2008, 01:00 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Bill, can you not flummox him with your knowledge of 1970's jazz fusion? |
10-25-2008, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by superbassman2000 I work with a guy like that too.Anything you say, you are wrong, he is right. Its so fun working with him on an 8 hour shift...I never realized I don't actually know anything lol every response I get from him starts with "well, Actually..." | I've got one too...his comments start with, "You have to realize..."
In our case, we just point out his body odor and he tends to go away. For such a smart guy, you'd think the washing machine wouldn't stump him so badly.
-Mark
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10-25-2008, 01:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | We have someone at work here that works the overnight shift that has that exact same problem.
We basically had to catch him in a lie and point it out for him to shut up. |
10-25-2008, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boston | | | i have an uncle like that, but he has a main topic.
religion.
more specifically, what is right and good in terms of catholicism.
ugh. |
10-25-2008, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | Research a really obscure subject, then blow him away with your knowledge of it.
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