I hate people who act like they know something when it is painfully clear that they do not.
Last weekend, one of my wife's friends came over with her husband who has a number of insecurity issues but that's the least of it. Anyway, he insisted that because my widescreen TV accomodated the widescreen DVD we were watching (no black bars on top and bottom) it was therefore a [i]fullscreen[/i] DVD. This of course should be obvious because it took up the [i]full screen[/i].
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No amount of explaining could change his mind. Partly because he suffers from the same mid-sentence cutoff disease that Mrs. Blir's friend suffers from. But when I finally got my message through (stripped down of course, and accompanied by illustrations) I was faced with abject denial, manifested by the very powerful "I don't believe you" argument [:(] for which only a short trip to wikipedia.com could remedy. Daunted with the less than pleasant task of reading, he conceded his point.
I guess this "thing" that annoys me is part of a megalomaniacal pride who's bearer simply cannot be "wrong". The same sort of pride that induces bold statements without thought or reason. Just the worst kind of ignorance IMHO. I do find tremendous consolation by reminding myself that hey, at least it is'nt me [:p]
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