Don't challenge the expert! Story Time

[@andyskill810]

Like a year ago, on a medieval/fantasy reconstruction event, a guy(clothed in traditional elven clothes, props to him for the costume) started to challenge everyone who was not in a costume to an archery duel, and after a few rounds, I stepped in(I was in a pair of floppy jeans and a baggy t-shirt, a guy looking like a complete nobody). He laughed, but in an elvish high manner, and proceeded to give me a bow and a three arrows. Little did he know that I was doing archery of various styles from 6 years old(at the time I was 26, so 20 years) I take them, draw my usual style with 2 fingers and shoot the first arrow, distance roughly 25 meters. Bullseye. Efl:*visible confusion* Second shot, LOTR elven draw, moving target at 20 meters - pretty much bullseye. Elf:*visible disbelief* Third shot, stationary man-shaped target around 40 meters away, Avatar's Na'vi draw style - headshot. Elf:*visibly afraid* Only now did he realise that I was the leading archer for the light side of the fantasy battle show that was going to begin in roughly 3 hours. He quietly kneels, puts his bow and quiver on the ground and proceeds to ask for forgiveness in the most exquisite elven way possible(again props to him for staying in character and boy his speech style was beautiful), to which I throw off my baggy clothes and hat, under which were my own elven clothes, lift him up by his shoulder and say: "Well, the duel is not over, it's your turn. Show me what kind of recruits the Great Forest sends us" He did decent I complimented his prowess for a self taught, but after that he was ever more attentive to the challengers he faced. P.S.: I had pretty long and thick hair, so much so my elven ears were not seen until I moved the hair behind them.

[@merlinious01]

That is a nice story

[@getem3345]

Props to the guy staying in character, it's rather hard when you get embarrassed like that

[@pappadam2818]

I think the guy's arrogance against other archers were also an in character stuff :D

[@andyskill810]

@@pappadam2818 most likely, and it was pretty realistic, also a huge effort to keep it. I mean, he really was pretty hecking good for a self taught archer. His form was indeed good, albeit a little too stiff.

[@humanperson9443]

Bbbbbbbbnnmmmmm,,,..

[@gamingandmusicwithfusion9030]

One time my 10 year old cousin challenged me in smash and was saying I was trash and all that type stuff. I asked him to 1v1 me and needless to say, I demolished him and then he cried and told his parents. I explained to his parents that he challenged me and then walked away.

[@MainlyFact]

gotta teach him a lesson

[@urosrakita8801]

@@MainlyFact exactly

[@WHOSGONNACARRRYTHEBOATS]

@@MainlyFact HI

[@MrLee64]

Similar thing happened to me and my cousins, except they're much older than I am and they weren't exactly sore losers, but they just didn't realize I played Smash for money and thought they'd win easily against me

[@rameshpersaud5593]

@@MainlyFact facts

[@micapowder1221]

Idk if this counts but I’m disabled and have a lot of medical conditions and the amount of people who try to correct me on my own conditions and the information that I’ve had multiple specialists told me that I’ve backed up with my own research seriously makes me face palm. One of the worst ones was when I was telling one of my aunts about my Ehlers Danlos syndrom (it’s a connective tissue disorder and makes my joints more prone to dislocating on top of a few other things), and she asked if I had been tested for Lyme disease (she had it and doctors insisted there was no Lyme in our state until they finally tested her after months and she came back positive) I told her that considering I’ve had genetic testing done and they found a literal mutation in my DNA that points towards my Ehlers Danlos diagnosis that no, it wasn’t Lyme. She also tried to say that my seizures were from an eye condition when I’ve had multiple neurologists including a specialist in my condition say that it’s a neurological condition Yeah I don’t listen to her when it comes to medical advice

[@GroundHOG-2010]

That counts. Sadly there is a lot of people out there that think they know what every disabled person has, aren't afraid to say what is on their mind, and are very, very wrong.

[@tobiasjacobson3708]

THIS. Honestly it seems like it happens to any group of people who are marginalized. People who know more about my own disabilities than I do, people who know more than I do about my religion, people who know more than I do about the gay experience. Like… what?

[@kuno3336]

The best thing to do when being corrected by someone who has the condition you are being corrected about is to say "Oh, I didn't know that! I thought (incorrect thing). So (insert any polite follow-up question)?"

[@tablescissors]

Didn't you know? Self-diagnosed are all legit now, and definitely make the people experts, as well as giving them a free pass to do whatever they want.

[@ResidentMilf]

I think being "corrected" with incorrect information is a rite of passage for disabled people. Apparently taking a walk in nature will cure my depression, anxiety, AND chronic fatigue. Who knew? And you won't believe how often I get "you just need to build up your endurance." Um, no, my body doesn't recharge properly and it has nothing to do with working out, but thanks for the useless info.

[@BrianLee-qd5jv]

"Schooled. Shooting," was not expecting that

[@ChasinCheese]

ikr i was so surprised

[@Stryke_013]

I had to do a double take to check if that really happened hahaha

[@CarpetCIeaner]

29:36

[@pyrose3625]

not the smartest thing to do, but i am sure he didn't mean it like that, right? RIGHT?!

[@rubeusphantom8705]

Yes

[@hangoutboyz296]

One time my new Social Studies teacher challenged me to my knowledge of countries flags and just my knowledge of countries in general and everyone in my class knew that I was possibly the nerdiest kid when it came to that type of stuff and beat my social studies teacher by a lot ( I can’t quite remember the exact score ) and the teacher never wanted me to ever embarrass anyone like that again.

[@amaritineenthusiast]

Finally, a worthy opponent.

[@BakudaSon]

Went to a local game store to check a few things out on my day off, parked right outside and headed inside to see a gathering of Yu-Gi-Oh! players, around 14 to 16 maybe. They were pretty much playing starter decks with some in between, some even had decks some fake cards. Mostly of the Egyptian God Cards with the anime appearances. As I sat down after having a look at some board games, I brought out my Yu-Gi-Oh Dragons Egg bag and think I might play when the actual tournament starts in a few hours. One of the kids comes over and immediately starts acting like he's in the anime and he 'wants to duel', holding up his unprotected cards bound in a rubber band. As he's getting attention, a few of his friends start laughing and says I might not even know how to play. Or if I did, it's an old deck like Elemental Heroes. Now, I did start back in the Yugi days, though they didn't know that I go to Regionals and try to go to the Yu-Gi-Oh Championship Series when I can. I lay down my mat and have a go. Three minutes later, the kid is looking upset as I've set up a Buster Lock and he cannot use his effect monsters, nor his Extra Deck. After the relatively quick game, I got out a huge bag I had on my car, just filled with cards I got in participation packs for tournaments. (A year of weekly tournaments with 3 packs a tournament, 9 cards a pack, you end up with a lot of spare cards) I helped them try to make their decks better and the way they wanted them to run. Even if they weren't the most polite at first, I wanted them to enjoy the game. It's no fun just getting thrashed over and over. I hope they're either still playing or enjoyed the time they did play. :)

[@pun-inator6075]

I was helping my nephew with his math homework. I'm a very big math nerd and he was struggling. He took a test and while did better, didn't do as good as I thought he should've. Going over the test with him, realized the teacher made mistakes in marking, such as not giving method points because of the wrong method (i.e. not the method she uses when it was specified in the question). These would be methods that are decent tools for teaching newer students but not really applicable when advancing. I believed in teaching the methods which would be expanded upon in later years of education so my nephew wouldn't be caught off guard later. Not happy, I go to his school to pick him up one day to talk with the math teacher. We got into an argument and the head of the department came over, and took one look at me. I had personally tutored them when we took A-Level math back in the education years and they knew I knew my math. The Head of Math remarked his test and he jumped up two grade levels, turns out his math teacher didn't even know some of the methods I was teaching him and despite him showing working & reaching the correct answer, didn't mark him as such.

[@barbarian2212]

One of my strangest skills is my way of judging objects size and shape, as well as organizing them. Not on a macro scale but moderate size. It has happened hundreds of times where people tell me, "This box won't fit" "Our car won't make it through there" or some variation (I worked retail, helped people move often, and somehow get into situations where this skill comes in handy fairly often) One time, at a retail job, myself and a coworker were tasked with organizing and putting as much as possible away of a large furniture load. My coworker commented, "This is impossible, we'll be lucky to get half of this to fit (in our alloted area in storage)" I tell him, "Here, hold this." As I pass him my tape measurer (still unused) and proceed to single-handedly assemble a wall of furniture boxes, within an inch of the shelving space we have, and end up having excess space. Afterwards, I turn to him, and his mouth is actually agape, and he just asks, "How did you do that?" I just respond, "I'm good at Box Truck Tetris." "How did you move those by yourself?" He asks as I retrieve my tape measurer. "I'm Really Good at Box Truck Tetris." I laugh

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

Weirdly specific skill, but it seems you recognize that. But, it's a useful weirdly specific skill! Better than my special "skill", which is being able to attempt to say the same sentence 3 different ways at the same, but all that comes out is a half-baked gobbledygook of strange noises.

[@ItsAsparageese]

Felt this one deep in my soul lol. I'm no use for 2D art or visual integration like finding an object in a field of items, but I can estimate sizes and organize 3D spaces/objects like nobody's business! I'm probably technically dyslexic (just verbally overpowered enough to compensate for the stereotypical symptoms) and this is the clearest sign of it lol

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

Was at house party with 2 other buddies once, and we were bored so we started sparring/fighting with each other in the front yard. After a few minutes this guy comes out of the smoking circle nearby, introduces himself as Mason and say "the 3 of you vs the 1 of me". Well, we figured this was going to be simple since we had all studied martial arts and it was 3v1. NOPE. The guy was like fucking Goliath. Among other incredible feats, he single handedly picked me and one of my buddies up and threw us in opposite directions at least twice. We each bailed after a few minutes. I learned an important lesson that evening. If someone is suggesting odds against their favor, they know something you probably don't. Useful lesson.

[@janet6421]

If you want to convince an antivaxer to get their kid a pertussis shot, look up a 10 minute video of baby with whooping cough coughing. The one I heard in biology class was 10 min with 9 struggled breaths. It is heartbreaking

[@cjmsacomments4389]

I don’t remember this but I’ve heard stories about it, when I was about 3, I went to a local geology museum(I was obsessed with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures), there was the paleontology student giving presentations about certain creatures with their fossils, one time he said some sort of creature and I corrected him because it had some sort of oral bone, he said I was incorrect(this was in public), and I continued to say that I was correct, there just so happened to be a professor near this who stated that I was correct, sometimes it’s great to be a know it all.

[@morningstar9849]

Not exactly an expert but it's one of my favorite High School memories. I went to a stem school, and in one of my science classes, we were debating the pros and cons of floating cities. I was on the pro side. When I pointed out that using a tether of some kind to Anchor the city to the ocean floor would be better due to it being able to flex in a tsunami and not break as easily in an earthquake, one of the people I was debating against ask me how I went from tsunamis to earthquakes. I looked at her and said you do know that tsunamis are caused by Under Water earthquakes right? I don't even remember if the debate continued after that, all I can remember is my science teacher walking to the front of the class clapping with a smile on his face.

[@steelooo0]

I remember having a memory like this a few motnhs ago :D, my class had a socratic seminar on Lord Of The Flies and the teacher asked something about how would we survive the situation, everyone but me said that they would be a leader, and i objected one of them and asked thay in the context they are saying, if it would really work in general. He was stumped and i felt pretty hyped

[@Taipan97]

Hello from Australia! I have something that sorta fits this category. Neighbour wants to uproot original fence between our houses and replace it with a taller one. In Australia if you want to build something involving someone else's property; your neighbour/s, the local council and the bank (if you have a mortgage) needs to be notified and documents to be reviewed and filled out. My dad who has been a senior engineer for over 30 years at a local council tells neighbour about this and neighbour is surprised that there is a lot of regulations involved. Neighbour comes back a few weeks later. He's pissed off, argues and swears at my dad and is under the impression my dad is lying and thinks my dad doesn't want the fence replaced and says "you're bullshitting me" "yeah I get it you love your fence". Mind you my parents have been living in this suburb for a long time and this guy has only been here a couple years. Neighbour comes back a few days later to apologise and finally admits to my dad "you seem like you know a lot about this stuff" to which my dad replies "yes I've been dealing with issues like this for over 30 years at work".

[@Nyno_]

I'm german and i remembered how a American that used Google translate wanted to explain to me how I'm wrong in speaking German.

[@thatjeff7550]

My own personal story with dealing with a ringer. Have a friend that's an avid vintage gaming console collector who used to host parties every year for his friends. One year for the final game of the night, he pulls out Bomber Man (don't know which one) that had been set up for eight people to play at one time. This one guy that no one knew just mops the floor with us. Got to the point where it was usually 7-on-1 against this guy and he's still killing us. Turned out he was one of the original localization team members for the game when it came to the US. (shakes fist at guy)

[@CaptainManaFruit]

I'm a classically trained Illustrator of 10 years whose been religiously honing my skills for almost 2 decades. I'm proficient in charcoal, watercolor, graphite, acrylic, marker, pastel pencil, color pencil, Photoshop, and Clip Studio Paint. Dealing with tech bros who've never even picked up a crayon past the age of 7 who argue AI prompted images is the same as Photoshop, learns like human artists do, and is like "The Genie is out of the bottle" is freaking exhausting and infuriating. The one catharsis is that the same people who say this go to the Paint and Sip I work at and are the first to be utterly upset that their work doesn't look exactly the paint we're doing/I'm teaching. Which is the point. We don't want copies, it's your own personal interpretation. Art, just like everything anyone does outside of eating, breathing, drinking, and blinking, is a Skill, NOT a Talent.

[@Arkryal]

I wrote some process documents for a company I worked for (on my own time, not their IP). Niche industry, so documentation on the subject was scarce. A few years later, I'm sitting in an interview for a different company, with the interviewer smugly (and unknwoingly) quoting me to me as if it were some great "gotcha". I corrected him by pointing him to the correct appendix in the document, from memory. He was shocked and angry, demanding to know if someone had tipped me off to their interview process, and how the HELL did I get ahold of their proprietary documentation. I directed him to the name of the author and politely asked the same question. I've never seen someone's face go that red. I passed on the job, but told them they're welcome to contact me if they ever want to purchase the updated version of the document, lol. They never did.

[@denzildk]

i have a fun story that kinds fits from when i was a kid, the place i spend my time after school had just hired a new dude, who played MTG and wanted to introduce it to the kids there. I'd been playing for years and spent every saturday in the local game store playing turnaments. So i went up to him real innocent and asked about that card game he'd shown some of my friends, so we sat down for a game, he had a great way of explaining how it worked, so i learned something about explaining complex games in simple ways, which was cool. I asked him not to go easy on me just because it was "my first game", but he did and i wiped his board with his introduction decks. I fezzed up and we had a good laugh about it. (for anyone interested, he let me play a landfall deck, i'd played since kamigawa, turnaments since ravnica)

[@bigungaming8902]

The bowling cricket one was me for my whole childhood. I could throw a fast Yorker better than most people I knew. Played for my country but stopped once diving for a ball wasn’t worth the fuel and travel time.

[@tegantalks9612]

16:00 reminds me of the actress who plays Amy on TBBT, Mayim Bialik, was once doing interviews for the show and someone asked her if it’s was hard to memorize the lines relating to the science on the show and her response was, I actually am a neurobiologist and hold a PhD. Not a super fan of the show but I loved that moment.

[@natykiffy6598]

I challenged my mom in SSBU one day and i was pretty good at it (i had 4 years of experience) until she started going ultra instinct on me and i lost horribly on her Thats when i discovered she had played Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and many other games as a child and she loved fighting games I was like 💀

[@twaggytheatricks4960]

That right there is _legendary._ 😂 I hope the surprise eventually turned pleasant ^_^

[@JoshSweetvale]

3:25 The correct place to put the upside-down question mark is an inch behind a _regular_ question mark. Hides it, y'see. Does mean you can't pick up the question mark you ran through, but them's the breaks. 38:00 Don't do this. Say the symptoms instead. "It did X instead of Y, and flashed some code on the screen, as well as make a beeeeep."

[@morphine4]

A few years ago a friend challenged me to CoD, he said I could choose since he had been practicing and bragged about how good he was, I chose Ghosts, used my standard sniper load out, which he criticized for not using a "superior" semi auto sniper over a bolt action, absolute massacre.

[@TheQueen-kz4rm]

An amazing story from me: I've been doing dance since i was two- ballet tap modern jazz and some street- so yeah I'm pretty good with dance, me year like- 9 ? dance teacher (doesn't actually have a specific degree in ballet just general dance and jazz) decided we were going to to do ballet that term, at this point i was en pointe and had been training at a professional dance school for 8 years or so? she was presenting a power point and explaining what the different parts of a pointe shoe where- it was all wrong, she has never been en pointe and i can tell you with those feet she never will be unless she starts training for 5-6 years, but yeah i pointed out it was wrong and she got all angry at me, i just so happened to have my pointe shoes with me that day because i had dance straight after school so i took them out and the look on her face still cracks me up to this day. :]

[@marcustim832]

Reminds me of one time back when I was 11 years old. I went to a birthday party with my dad and once we got there his friends had sons. One was in his late teens and the other was around my age. They were playing COD BO 1. The older son challenged me to a 1v1 because I asked if I could play too. I've been playing COD since COD 4 so I felt like I had alright experience. I ended up winning 25-3. I will never forget the look of defeat on his face afterwards haha. Good times

[@tateranus4365]

I have a similar story with PvZ GW2, so one of the people on the other team (I just joined that match) started trash talking me through the voice chat (back when that didn't get you banned for "hate speech" after 5 seconds) not realizing I have about 3,000 hours in GW1, 6,000 in GW2 and almost 500 in BfN, I the proceed to land a ZPG direct on him from halfway across the map (zomboss academy's 2nd capture point so pretty far), a little bit later (on the 3rd capture point since my team was a bunch of idiots) they had 4 people on the capture point, I had switched from the foot soldier to the chemist (probably the best scientist in the game at that point, can 5 shot a full health citron) and they weren't paying too much attention to the dock area near it (the zoo capture point) and I snuck up on them, I then wreaked all 4 of them and proceeded to revive the 3 teammates that hadn't respawned... we held that point for the 90 seconds left in that match... needless to say he never trash talked me again and this was back when there were only like 1,200 people on the PC version of the game so I encountered him multiple other times... I almost went back and added him on EA pay but I waited so long I couldn't find him...

[@RigHernandez-g9s]

This is by far my most favorite video. And I’ve been listening to yoi everytime I cook for my husband and children. For about 3 months. I Always wondered how you have had so many jobs and other stuff but you are always consistent. I am officially subscribing

[@microsoftpowerpoint3039]

This whole video is just reminding me that I'm not good at literally anything.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

you probably are, just haven't discovered it yet :)

[@scottwilliams846]

My brother and I used to also play Mario Kart against each other and would constantly make time saving shortcuts that could be applied to pretty much any map. We even looked at some professional races like Indy 500 and watched some of their weird track time saving techniques. Mario Kart Tour rolls around and Nathan and I are so good against everyone else, it wasn't fun anymore. 1st place consistently, even on the highest CC. Now playing Mario Kart on a DS hurts my hand so I don't very much anymore while Nathan has continued and it shows every time we play together again.

[@thembigstonks7016]

Stories like these are why I don’t go around acting like everyone around me is stupid. While I’d say I’m above average in intelligence, that doesn’t mean other people can’t be smarter than me. If I don’t know a topic very well, I acknowledge that there are people who know the topic much better than me that could be very close by. At the same time, I know there are also people who _act_ like they know the topic to look all smart or embarrass people, so while I’m open to having a topic explained to me, I take it with a grain of salt unless it’s very thorough, enough for me to believe they actually know what the heck they’re talking about and aren’t just trying to impress/embarrass me.

[@ResidentMilf]

Don't judge a fish by its tree climbing ability. - Albert Einstein, paraphrased Most of us are geniuses at *something.*

[@claywatterson1195]

I remember in 4th grade, I think, one teacher was quizzing us about space and we were separated in groups. Our group was asked, "What is the name of our galaxy?" We discussed and I said Milky Way. The group challenged me with one guy saying. 'No. They call it that in movies.' Eventually, they couldn't figure out another name, so we went with my answer. My smug look after that was amazing.

[@Schrodingers_kid]

This reminded me of how I used to play Unturned. I have like 777 hours currently,but I played all of them,unlike "pros" with thousands of hours of the game left running overnight. Was playing on a RP server and was trying to join a gang. Because of how long it took me to join their Discord server they were looking down on me. But I got answers to all questions(regarding rules and RP process) right first try and then it came to a 1 vs 1 with their guy,who was one of the most skilled players. 3 - 0 Didn't even take damage once. Had like 25 FPS at the time

[@dukeskunk]

This happened with my Dad. My Dad fights Rapier in the SCA (Mediaeval Re-creation) and was at a tournament. They had 2 Eric's (Rings) and you were in either group 1 or group 2. When he wasn't fighting he was watching the other fights in his Eric sizing up the people he was competing against. After a while he had a pretty good idea who he would be fighting in the final fight in his ring and how he could beat them so he started watching the other ring between his fights, sizing up the people there to see who would be in the finals. By the end he had a plan for the two people he could tell were going to be top in their ring. One of whom was a talented young cadet in his late 20s (Cadet and Don were like Squire and Knight but for light weapons). Sure enough the young guy tops his eric and my dad tops his. Between the rounds and the final the guy is going on about how he can't believe the one he'll be fighting in the finals is some old guy (early 60s at the time) who doesn't even have a scarf (Cadets wear a red scarf, Dons wear white scarfs). My Dad handles the young man easily and afterward the kid's Don is reprimanding him for not bothering to watch my dad fight or even ask any of the Dons if they know my Dad. They all do and have fought him many times, the only reason my Dad isn't a cadet or even a Don is because he lives in the middle of nowhere so he can't get to fight practice (It would be like a 4 hour drive each way to the closest fight practice). The next year the same young guy won that tournament (by tradition the previous winner does not compete).

[@Kryors]

Freshman year of highschool, I challenged a kid to over 300 games of chess, and LOST EVERY SINGLE GAME. What makes it embarrassing for me is that I was talking mad trash each time I challenged him. Also that same year I convinced him to set up my school's chess club

[@usonly101]

I was on Xbox live and the subject of comics came up. One of my friends said there is someone who would know a lot about a certain topic involving said comics. I was so intrigued, I couldn’t wait for my buddy to tell me who this “expert” in comics was so I could learn something new. He then told everyone that “I” was the expert. I do know a decent amount about comics and storylines but not anywhere near expert level. I was really disappointed by his choice. Interestingly enough, they asked me about a specific topic involving comics and I knew the answer…I still think it was a coincidence

[@yoazyoaz9209]

I was challenged to a game of sick wrestling last year by a couple of my German friends(I live in Germany but was raised in America) little did they know I have had 5 years of gun training and am always strapped

[@Ro1lol.]

stay strapped or get clapped

[@shatteredsoldier81]

I have done jiu jitsu for years and did 20 years in the army. When ever I was in the field I would get caught up in challenges by bigger soldiers from other platoons. I would sweep the floor with them.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

never could any of martial arts due to health but man, love such stories.

[@Cptn_Candy]

My story is back when I was in high school I went over to my friends place to play some online halo matches with him, we ran into some actual professional halo players for some Esports team doing online match training. Loooots of trash talk was thrown and my friend had enough of it so he stopped just fooling around. He timed a jump perfectly jumped on top of a moving plasma grenades hitbox (apparently the top of said hitbox doesn'thave the stick function?!) while in the air he switched over to his rocket launcher secondary and in a single shot killed 4 of them, then proceeded to wipe the floor with them the entire time until they ragequit. About a week later he got an email from MLG about it asking him to join, he turned them down.

[@markchristiansen5683]

Story 10 reminds me of a story my brother once told me. For context, we are about as white as white can be. Moreover, my brother is blonde haired and blue eyed. He's also married to his college Spanish tutor who is from Mexico, so he is completely fluent in Spanish. One day, he went into a store, don't remember for what. Behind the counter were two Hispanic teenage girls who were talking about some very inappropriate things. I wish I could have seen their faces when my toe headed brother started speaking in Spanish.

[@zenon7318]

At the age of 6 I challenged my dad to a race to the end of the tunnel that was in front of us, I thought I would win because I was in running shoes and he was in flipflops, the only thing I didn't consider is that my dad wasnt a runner but kept up with the training he had done in the army so was a very fast and fit man, got shown really quickly what peak human performance can do

[@kirillzakharov7336]

i once challenged a Varsity football player in high school sophomore year. I was in my second out of 3 season of high school X Country, one of the slowest on the team. I thought that it would be a pretty good race. NOPE. He reached the finish line when I had barely managed to get halfway. Our arm wrestling match several months later was much closer though, him barely beating me, and his entire arm, by his own admission, feeling like lead. And that was right after I beat another football player, so my arm was pretty close to lead by the time I faced him.

[@onarandomnote25]

Can relate to Story 14 quite strongly, as someone who works in the environmental space, sometimes there's nothing you can do for the deniers and just have to learn to not take them seriously. At least for your own mental health.

[@TheBeardOfCoz]

I have one. So back around 2013 or so I was walking through Coney Island when I live in NYC. I walked passed some of the game booths when a clown with a paintball booth started heckling me in front of my wife. I ignored him at first till one of the comments insulted my step children and my wife. I paid him the couple bucks to shoot at him. I had just come back home from a training exercise with my military unit which included a shooting range. I didn’t miss a single shot. In mater of fact I had to stop playing because I double tapped him in the face mask. Once in the eye pro and another in the mouth guard. He was not very happy with me and was spitting out paint. The clown got very pissed at me suddenly and started yelling at me for not informing him that I was in the Armed Forces once I told him. Fond memories.😅

[@musso6775]

Everyone has something to teach you. All you have to do is listen

[@el.jihad.]

29:35 well thats not a good combination💀

[@motomonko1]

My personal favorite story is the time I was working as a lift operator at a Pennsylvania ski resort and there were a bunch of punk kids in the terrain park area doing basic tricks. I’ve been snowboarding at this point in time well over 15 years or so now. They get on the lift and are looking at my snowboarding boots on my feet (usually we can ride during our shift with enough staff, makes it easier to get from place to place). I hear something along the lines of “that fogie probably can’t ride and wears them for show”. Me being only 27 (I guess you could call me old now for snowboarding years) got super pissed and was like oh just you wait and see. They’re about ready to get on the lift and at this point I grab my brand new park board I just got for the season and strap it on. I rode up the lift in the chair behind them. Eventually I make it to the terrain park and yell “WATCH AND LEARN”. Park had some big jumps. I casually threw a 540 board grab spin off a big jump, then did a board slide into 360 off a rail. And at that point just hit some big /more difficult features. At the lift I got a whole bunch of high fives and even a Coors Light from a random guy. Kids looked so defeated. Was eventually known as “local boy” from the shirt I was wearing at the time.

[@motomonko1]

TL:DR Showed up a group of kids that called me an Old Fogie. Got a free Coors Light from a guest. Pretty fun night

[@garfield850]

Cool Im usually bad at everything especially sports-like activities so I don't even start

[@inkk-splatters]

Story 32 is so relatable for me, not from the side of the person telling is but the AWESOME philosophy teacher---I'm a fencer, and sort of unrelated but I often find myself wishing it were socially acceptable to challenge people to sword duels to defend my honor.

[@justkian6333]

Me and a few of my friends were in the Gateway and CSI (Challenging Scientific Investigations) programs at our schools, they lasted from 2-6th grade and we would go to these special classes once a week for half the school day. On of these days in 4th grade we were having a “free day” in the computer lab. I think now is an important time to mention that the 6th graders would participate in the Lego League competition thing every year, so our teachers had technic and robotics Lego sets that they would let us use every so often. Anyways, during this free day, we were allowed to build one of these sets and my friend had challenged me to see who could build it faster. Little did she know, I was, and still am, a Lego FANATIC. I would spend days building sets if I could. Let’s just say I finished and programmed it using the chrome book well before she even got half way. Never challenge me to a Lego building competition

[@alaALBI]

when i was in middle school i did math turnaments and sometimes I told my parents' friends about it, once a maths teacher challenged me to do a trivial exercise, obviously it took me no time to do it and give her the answer, but she claimed that I was wrong, in the end after everyone's control, including a winner of the national finals, we came to the conclusion that I was right.

[@SilveerStarr]

in my last year of high school, i was in a low level art class bc i really wanted to get more art classes in before i graduated (i previously went to a small school with like one art class). a kinda nice but annoying freshman girl kept trying to give me pointers & tips & even tried to draw things for me. on top of me absolutely hating people touching my things, i don’t think she knew i was a senior nor that i had been drawing & practicing art nearly every day since the 2nd grade. i stopped sitting by her & sat with another freshman who is now one of my closest friends ^_^

[@steelooo0]

:0 YOOOOO U BEEN DOING ART SINCE 2ND GRADE TOO?!?!?!

[@Jaxisyes]

“Schooled. Shooting” nah that’s messed up bro 💀 29:36

[@fabiopaolobarbieri2286]

I answer a lot of questions on Quora, and the trouble is that there are jerks who imagine that, because they have not heard of something, therefore it does not exist. The same person tried to school me twice on two different subjects. The first was when he did not know that the words "dominus rex" were commonly used in ancient Rome for the heads of any of the noble families (I eventually had to rub his nose in a dozen quotations from Martial), the other when he tried to argue that ancient Greek artists actually knew perspective (I actually had to write out a small lesson on what perspective is, including a few sketches showing it at work, and why the stuff he quoted from textbooks had nothing to do with it).

[@becauselifts9913]

Story 8: That's a literal crime. Here in SC, doing a label swap like that would get the bartender jailed for up to 30 days, any manager aware of it for up to 30 days, a fine (up to $10,000) and possibly get the restaurant's alcohol license pulled.

[@DukeTheMonkey.]

40 MINUTES LONG?!? I love your content but i gotta do school lol. I guess illl come back to this later then :) Btw, you are gonna get a lot of watchtime and likely 💰 from this! Nice job

[@MainlyFact]

Hope you enjoy!

[@onin24eagle9]

I was working as a supplier quality engineer for a manufacturing company and we were having issues with a certain aluminum die casting supplier. I had the bad batch of castings analyzed by our head metallurgist (it's a fairly large company and we have a metallurgy department). Anyway there were issues with the composition of the aluminum and I traveled to the supplier to go over our results and try to fix the issue. Our head metallurgist came with. During the meeting, their metallurgist and ours got into a heated argument, most of which was stuff I had no idea what they were talking about. I do remember how the argument ended though. Their metallurgist had this big thick book out and was pointing at it saying "this is what the book says" and our metallurgist was saying that he was not reading the book correctly. The argument ended when our metallurgist closed the book, pointed at the bottom of the front cover and said "This is my book. I wrote it. I think I would know how to interpret what it says". Dead silence..... Turns out he co-authored the book with his college professor when he was going to school for his masters degree. And yes, he did most of the research for the book.

[@athenapeperson7549]

My dad. He’s the expert, civil engineer for 20+ years of experience. Makes me smile when some of his clients, say that this is what he should do. They do it, when it fails he’s looking smug and gets paid to fix what would’ve worked if they’d listen to him

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Love when people don't listen to the freakin' specialists :D I mean, how naive (let's be nice here) can you be? :D

[@Mobslayer-tm9mo]

Not so much an actual challenge, but I was playing Titanfall 2 private games with 2 of my mates. No titans and it was first to 30 kills. We get in playing and I'm getting demolished, they start jokingly shit talking. I sit forward in my chair. The match went from 6-20 to them, to 30-23 to me

[@mikko0846]

I have found a pilot in the wild, as one of your similars, i shall request you to give me your name tag for you to (kinda) train me

[@Mobslayer-tm9mo]

@@mikko0846 what do you play on? I'm mainly on Xbox but I have the Northstar client on pc (though it's outdated and I'm really not too good at it on pc ,^^)

[@mikko0846]

@@Mobslayer-tm9mo im on pc, maybe i can teach you on there then

[@gnome5057]

29:35 the crossover from these 2 is absolutely beautiful

[@manuels.a.2249]

I thought the same

[@kanehikaru]

When it comes to technical problems, I'll always try to go to the woman in the group because it means that she's either incredibly gifted and very learned on the subject, or she's just a pretty face in the office. When it comes to women in the stem industry, there's really in-between. Basically, I've a 50/50 shot at getting a genius or an idiot

[@Kryors]

I challenged my nephew to a game of foosball. I was talking so much hot shit, and he proceeded to kick my ass so bad I damn near cried.😅

[@jcondo08]

As a new viewer I have been spoiled seeing your face and awesome shirts, so it feels weird seeing multiple videos in my recommended section without cam.

[@Crazael]

29:35 I gotta admit, if someone responded to me with that, I would immediately start asking for more information about their great uncle or any stories of other family members who were involved in the uprising.

[@a3s1r1986]

Not me but my sister. Her nephew got his hands on one of the newer Tekken games and challenged her. Unfortunately for him my sister has a natural talent with fighting games, especially Tekken where she first realized she had the skills. But you know some boys, thinking a girl can't be good at games because girl. My sister later told me she let him win one round by pretending her nails hurt just so he wouldn't quit practicing out of shame.

[@Bearthedancingman]

My dad and I were once brought to a breakfast restaurant by an out of state friend of my dad's that we had we went to visit; this friend turned out to be a real braggart. He always did everything better than everyone. Anyway, so the little restaurant had a special two-pancake shortstack or three-pancake lumberjack stack made from pancakes that were so big, nobody had ever eaten more than two of them. He was eager to show us that HE knew where to find the best pancakes. The pancakes were served on a dinner platter. It wasn't even an eating challenge. Just a menu item. But they were HUGE. The guy that brought us told me he'd be impressed if I finished both. I looked at my dad and he smiled. I had been dieting because I had started putting on weight due to my appetite. but in that moment we had an unspoken agreement. My dad WANTED me to show what I could do. I ordered the lumberjack stack. The three huge pancakes showed up. They were the biggest pancakes I'd ever seen. Over an inch thick and I think 16" across. They looked like extra thick pizza crusts. My dad managed to eat one pancake. My dad's friend ate one and a half. Meanwhile, I ate 4 of them; and 6 eggs; I ate my three cakes, plus my dad's extra one and the 6 eggs... I had ordered eggs simply because I love eggs. I also drank 4 glasses of milk. The guy tried to explain how he could have eaten more but blah blah blah. Eventually he accepted my feat and was suitably impressed. Supposedly (according to my dad's friend) they offered a "double-stack" as an eating challenge for a while after that. The way he described the challenge it was four pancakes, 6 eggs and 4 large milks. Exactly what I had that day. But the owner retired and closed the restaurant two years later. Apparently with no winners to the eating challenge. I did however get her recipe for pancakes 🥞

[@rainwaiv]

One of my loose friends once got into an argument with me, and opted to challenge me to a game of MGE. So i did the normal things a clueless person would do (Ask what game this is, ask him to explain it to me, then asked if there was any specific info for it). He gave me an IP address and told me to log on at 4:00. I got on at 4:05 and told him i was doing some research on this. I ask him if he has a class I should play. He says demo, no boots. What he didn't know is that I play demo for a highlander team (when i talk games, it's always something like celeste or melee, none of my friends even know I play FPS games). I whooped his ass 7-20. I even switched to the tide turner halfway through since I got it from a random drop on the burner account I made. I switched over to my main, unusuals and all, and wiped the floor with him with huntsman sniper. He doesn't want to talk to me anymore.

[@OstenTrygstad]

So I ski and have been since I could walk. When i was 11 years old, a ski coach at another mountain we were visiting (my mum runs the ski department at our mountain) was apparently fed up with me and thought he could show of a bit by challenging me to a little race on a pretty steep run. When I launched a backflip of the first kicker, he kinda just gave up lol.

[@giannisgalanos3654]

A guy my godfather works with was in vacation in an island with his friends one day they decided to play football (soccer for you Americans) on the beach. Then an odd looking guy, with a mustache and a hat, about 60 years old, asked if he could play. For the half an hour he played, he absolutely crashed them, dribbling around them and scoring like they weren't even there. I should mention that all of the other guys were in their mid 20s. So the old fellow thanks them and leaves. Turns out, he was Johan Cruyff, one of the best football/soccer player to ever set foot on the field. They found out because they saw a picture of him in an article about him visiting the island.

[@darktoranaga]

Back in college, in my university gym, I went with a good friend to play ping-pong. We were no experts, but were better than the others playing there, so we ended up playing against each other for a while. This non-assuming guy comes by, says he saw us being the best in the gym, and asked if he can play us. We said "of course". He proceeded to soundly beat us, with scores like 21-1, and we couldn't even understand how he did it. After a few matches, he told us he was part of the national team. We didn't do any crap talking before the game, and he was a gracious winner, a really cool guy overall. It was a good example of how large the gap is between decent amateurs and the actual best.

[@chickenpotpie4045]

39:00 this is why everyone hates engineers. Mechanic here, Honda USA told you the truth, and as an "engineer", you should be well aware of tolerances and mechanical wear. Your wheel bearings have a maximum lifespan, the ball bearings seize and shatter usually, and that is the main piece holding your wheel on, yes your wheel can fall off due to a badly destroyed wheel bearing, that scraping sound is extremely bad. Generally, the bearings are designed to not fall off once the bearing has seized, but again, the bearing has seized and you continuing to force the wheel to rotate against all of those crushed up ball bearing pieces, which are causing even further damage. We tell you to replace certain parts at certain intervals for a reason, just because the part looks fine does NOT mean the metal isn't stress cracked and fatigued and ready to break very soon. We have done this for a long time, we know exactly how long these parts last, and when we tell you to replace them, it is NOT to scam you, it is because we're also the ones who have to fix your broken car because you didn't listen in the first place and do the maintenance, and now we gonna take advantage of you, because clearly you don't listen.

[@the_MrFloof]

Oh, I have a contribution, for once! When I was 13 or 14 I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. On the ship were several bars, lounges, etc. and a gaming room for kids and teens. In the middle of the room was a table around which were four Xbox 360s connected in LAN, four small TVs, and partitions in-between each station to prevent screen-peeking. When I got there on the first night, there were three kids around my age (or maybe a bit younger) already playing. I was delighted when they invited me to join them for some Call of Duty free-for-all. I was even more delighted when I saw that they were playing Modern Warfare 3, the game I'd been playing almost every day for the past two years. Cherry on top: they chose the map Dome, which had been my favourite every since the game came out. By the end of the match, the three of them had decided to team up against me, and they got absolutely *slaughtered* anyway. To this day, that was the only time I've ever been called a hacker while playing on a network that wasn't even connected to the internet 🤣

[@CT-3743_DeadEye]

I was talking to a friend of mine when I decided to download Pokémon Uranium for the first time in 2 years. My friend had never played Pokémen before but since the game is free he also downloaded it. We decided to have a battle after every gym and after becoming the champion (9 battles total). He won the first battle because his Raptorch has the type advantage over my Orchynx. I won all the other 8 battles however. He is very competative but also has a defeatist attitude. It got so bad he was complaining about it to this other friend off ours. She told him not to worry too much about losing to me as he is a newbie in Pokémon and I have been playing Pokémon games for a good 18 years now. We have now finished Uranium as well as Black and White. We are now in Black 2 and White 2. I'm helping him wherever I can ever since we started with Uranium and he is clearly improving.

[@DitieBun]

29:36 literally the worst possible timing for a transition between stories LMAO

[@jichnun]

Im a steak lover. 2021 was at a famous british chef restaurant in Dubai. Ordered a steak. Cant rem if a sirloin or a ryb eye, lets call it ''steak a''. Got a steak b, and not even a good one. Called the waiter. Told him. He went to ask, returned and said im mistaken. Told him no way, check again. Again, u are mistaken sir. Called the manager. Described him the exact shape of steak a and teak b. Not the same. Went to check, i was right. Chef ran out of steak a, so gave everyone steak b and thought we wont noticed. Paid 50% of the current tab and got a massive amount of free desserts as a bonus.

[@schrodingerscat4737]

I am an automotive service technician. By no means am I the best in my field. I graduated top 5 percentile in my class and 23rd in the state skills USA competition. My dad is an airframe and PowerPlant technician. So needless to say; I was born with a wrench in my hand. Last month I had a junkyard worker get mad at me after returning the second engine. I told him it was bad as well and I needed my client's money back so I can go to a different junkyard. He said I was a hack and that he already tested the engine's. I responded by saying that there's no way he tested the engine because it was hydro locked with more than a gallon of water in the crank case and cylinders. The lock on everyone's face as they realized that he was lying was priceless.

[@kace842]

Had a bunch of college baseball players at a training facility I not only used to train at, but coached at as well. I used the facility to focus on my fundamentals on hitting and keep my arm and stuff in shape (in the event I, at 31 years old, get discovered working my 9-5 by some crazy ass scout). What they didn't realize is that I was a 5-star recruit in high school for baseball, just didn't go anywhere with it due to personal decisions that ruined the opportunity for it. These kids were in there, acting like God's gift to baseball and kept forcing the high schoolers that were there to give up the cages or the pitching mounds because "college is more important than high school." I stepped in and told them,"If you can get a hit off of me in 10 pitches a piece, I'll escort these high schoolers out of here myself." They laughed, said yes, and proceeded to look like 8 year olds taking on a prime Sandy Koufax. Don't harass people in a facility designed to make you better when one of those people happens to be a coach in that facility. Absolutely hilarious reaction from them and the high school kids.

[@tobiasjacobson3708]

I was working toward a bachelors degree in marine biology (I ended up not finishing my degree, but my knowledge of the subject still stands - I even work on research dives occasionally to take photo/video or tag sharks) and I’ve had to correct people’s misconceptions about sharks a lot. Yes I swim with sharks regularly, yes I have all of limbs, and no, I will never be more afraid of sharks than of people. But the craziest story I have is when my father tried to correct me about how large white sharks are. I was saying that a white shark has a jaw diameter of about a meter, and I held up my hands for a visual comparison. My father, who was paying my college tuition, immediately told me I was wrong, and that he’d seen photos of people standing inside a shark jaw that was taller than them. I had to calmly explain to him that what he thought was a white shark jaw was actually the fossil of a prehistoric megalodon jaw. Also, if white sharks were big enough to swallow me whole and not even notice, I probably wouldn’t be as inclined to swim with them.

[@JamesDavy2009]

For a moment there I thought your father was mistaking white sharks for basking sharks.

[@tobiasjacobson3708]

@@JamesDavy2009 Okay but if he had been that would have been SO much funnier - their jaws look so different 😂

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@tobiasjacobson3708 Can't argue there.

[@th3st0ryt3ll3r]

A off topic, but not too long ago, I was meddling with my stepsister’s TV so she could use it. My biological sister’s friend’s brother came in and challenged me. I said, “Well {insert name}, tell me, what do you think is wrong with the Television?” I asked, knowing perfectly well that a wire in the HDMI cord had been chewed on. I had a spare wire in my pocket. He replied, “The TV isn’t plugged in.” I yelled, “!Bueno obviamente, de lo contrario estaría muerto! !El cable HDMI ha sido masticado!” He blinked and asked, “What did he say?” I was the only one who had mostly gotten Spanish wrangled, so only I knew what I’d said. My stepsister had recorded it while my biological sister just blinked. I continued, “!Estoy arreglando este televisor, así que déjame en paz antz de que tome mi navaja y te mate!”

[@kafk625]

I'm on the medical studies (emergency medicine) and I have a lot of combat medicine courses, but few months ago I was doing another CLS because it was free. When instructor tried to teach us procedure called wound packing I started to argue with him (he oversimplified procedure, and it would not be effective this way), it ended up on doing the procedure on training device with blood pump, when he did it the whole gauze was ind blood and it still was bleeding, then I did it and bleeding stoped practically instantly. Also showed him the NAEMT learning materials and he finally agreed with me... He also failed me on the final exam because of some stupid stuff, he was huge asshole. He probably didn't liked that I pointed most of his mistakes out...

[@doggoadams3439]

I am twelve and am almost an expert on ancient Roman military tactics once a full blown adult tried to make me look stupid by recounting a battle (forget which one) and I corrected him on 12 different things, told him a better strategy that would have been more effective and watched and his friends laughed while he was humbled by a kid. Amazing

[@iq_belowtoaster5030]

I got two for this. I basically grew up playing "Mario Kart Wii" with some younger siblings of mine. I usually got in last place because i was new, but over time, i began to master the game. So one day, i invite a friend to my house. He bragged and bragged about how he had played Mario Kart 64 for years, saying how he'd whoop my butt on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It was only 4 rounds of being LAPPED by me, that he rage quit and called me a cheater. The smug look on my face when i was the one bragging after that. The other one was at a friend's house, a different friend this time i'd known since 3rd grade. He was a master at MK8D, admittedly better than me. He was also making fun of me quite a bit, despite me being in second place behind him the whole time. Finally, he made a bet. He said if i played rainbow road (the hardest one for him, and the one with the train in it) against him, didn't fall off the track, AND won in first place, i'd get 10 bucks. 2 minutes later, I wiped the floor with him. I had one the bet, but he said he wouldn't actually give me the money. I was laughing too hard to care. To this day, i still bring up those days and have a good laugh from time to time. It was very satisfying, to say the least.

[@N-GinAndTonicTM]

I have a pretty good track record on CoD Games, when it comes to using Ballistic Knives and Tomahawks. Me and my friends constantly did 1V1/2/3 and 9/10 times I'd wipe the floor with them. All in good nature. Then one day, a friend of my friend decided he wanted to challenge me to the same thing. We tried talking him out of it but it wasn't working. We said we'd make it easier for him, by letting him use whatever he wanted. So he loaded up with the hardest hitting gun (this was Black Ops 4, so it was the Titan) and made himself "a tank". I took my trust Knife, Tomahawks and we started the match. It didn't last for more than five minutes before he gave up with 5 kills compared to my 22.

[@LydianMelody]

I was playing acoustic guitar in VRChat. Troll interrupted me screaming saying how bad I am and got his electric guitar. Despite my girl status, I’ve been a professional musician for 20+ years and electric guitar is my specialty. Long story short he quit the game suddenly after complaining I played Eruption “too fast.” It was absolutely delicious.

[@MatchieMun]

I got two. One was Yu-Gi-Oh and the other was something related to art. The Yu-Gi-Oh was some hot shot with the newest broken meta deck (Might've been Utopia) at that time, scoffed at my Red-Eyes deck. I proceeded to decimate them in a best 3 of 5 starting with 4000 life points instead of the usual 8000. They got pissed and one of my friends just casually mentioned that my dad was banned from tourneys for being so good that often people would just drop out after seeing him walk in. My dad taught me how to deck build and duel, that Red-Eyes deck was the first deck I built with him. The art one is fuzzy since it happened over a decade ago (damn I feel old), but some know-it-all was mentioning something about the Golden Ratio or another fancy art term while pointing to a piece I'd done and saying how it was an example of what not to do. I sipped my coffee and asked for them to explain. They explain, being totally wrong mind you, and I just casually point out that they were wrong. They give the classic "Oh yeah? What do you know about art?" I took another sip of my coffee and pointed out I've taken half a decade of art classes alongside drawing before I could read. One of my friends, who walked in on it, happened to point out that the piece they were saying was trash won best in show and second place at the state art competition. Whoever they were trying to impress laughed as they walked away in shame and I just sipped my coffee.

[@funtimetuber093]

My dad is a MASSIVE Vinyl collector (Many were from the 80s). He had shelves after shelves of records he bought from vintage market, and sell them online for a living.

[@Casiopeia2]

I also have one. I have some people that I know constantly ponder if ghosts are real, where do people go when they pass away, ghosts do this and not that, and on and on. I constantly correct them and they brush me off and say 'How do you know?' which is very infuriating. Well I talk to dead people all the time, and no they are not ghost's they are spirits. It is very disrespectful to refer to them as ghosts because ghosts aren't real. And you will be surprised what spirits ACTUALLY look like versus what people think they look like. Edit: I'm a witch and have been a witch for almost my whole life.

[@Casiopeia2]

@@tomwu5167 No, but it can be possible that a spirit can mimic different forms.

[@Casiopeia2]

But I do not think they are that powerful to do that, because in order for them to get or gain power they need to feed off of others emotions. And those emotions are usually negative ones.

[@Casiopeia2]

@@tomwu5167 Hmm.. Each person can see different things but what I see is mostly misty shadows some are the color white but most of them are the color black. But one time I saw a boy maybe 4 or 5 playing on the stairs. And another time I saw a black and white skinny cat in my house, but I didn't have a black and white cat at that time.

[@Casiopeia2]

@@tomwu5167 hmm seeing spirits is rather hard but i do have some tips. You would need to be awaked in a way which means you would need to open your third eye. Hmm Im not sure if I can guarantee you'll see spirits but energy is a way to at least talk to them. I usually get my energy from crystals, herbs, types of medications, and most importantly nature. I recommend going into nature and haveing zero distractions and simply admiring nature and how you are grateful that it provides for you and also recognizing that you can also provide for it too. Having a strong connection with nature can be beneficial for your energy and working towards speaking to spirits. I must warn you though, some spirits can be deceiving and cling onto you and suck your energy dry. Be careful who you contact from the other side because most spirits are dangerous and can do you serious harm. If weird things start happening contact me immediately so I can help.

[@Casiopeia2]

@@tomwu5167 For herbs I would say White Sage and Palo Santo to get rid of negative energy but I also like Lavender Sage because it is calming. For crystals It would be Obsidian which is a strong protection crystal that absorbs negative energy and cleanses, Rose quartz (my favorite) which is a love crystal that is also very soothing, amethyst (also my favorite) which helps with intuition (very VERY important for witchcraft) and also helps with sleep and driving off spirits, Moonstone will help with psychic power which is also very useful for communicating with spirits, Quartz is very special and also a very good for beginners for it had all sorts of purposes such as healing, banishing, protection, new beginnings, manifestation, etc. But always remember to cleanse your crystals once in a while by smudging it (lighting white sage) especially obsidian. I really recommend you getting a book called "Green Witchcraft" by Paige Vanderbeck, she is a great author and a great witch.

[@jhorn64]

I used to play a game on the Xbox360 called IL2 Birds of Prey which was a WWll air combat game and the direct predecessor of the more well known War Thunder. I mostly just played the campaign and 1v16 against bots on the hardest difficulty setting so when I decided to try the multiplayer for once I ended up in a 3v3 match where my two team mates quit out of match on me leaving me alone in a small slow Soviet bi-plane fighter against three top of the line German fighters who I proceeded to turn their speed advantage against them by stall fighting them to bleed their airspeed and whip around with my much better maneuverability to kill them one after another winning the match. It didn't help them that they were getting in each others way constantly all going for the lone target and that I as a history nut am familiar with real world air combat maneuvers and tactics in a plane that I routinely took up against 16 opponents which were more of a challenge than those three, the kicker is after the match they kicked me from the match saying there is no way an obsolete bi-plane could out perform top of the line fighters and that I had to be hacking my game. Sadly the game shut their multiplayer servers down a few weeks later due to almost nobody playing the game.

[@alirehman4829]

Same thing happened once with me. I was a really good player of the video game "blur", a really tough racing-shooter game. I and my friend used to play that game for an average of 8-10 hours everyday and we got really really good at it. I once visited a gaming zone in my area to play some other games but noticed some boys playing blur. I asked them nicely if I can join them. They were cool about it and let me play with them. I knew right away that they were not expert of this game so I decided to go easy on them when I picked the weakest car of the bunch, a minivan while all of them picked the fasted supercars and hypercars. The match started and boy oh boy did I wiped the floor with them. Throughout the game they were talking "whose van is this?!". I won and then left the game before I made them feel bad about playing the game.

[@pamelaadam9207]

There was a former GP who was training to the ministry, and he was going about offering talks on supporting staff. I was at one after some talking about a report he "contributed." I asked the title of the paper. He was a bit evasive, and then I said the name and asked which bit he contributed to he stated which chapter. Oh says me. That's my chapter. My name is on the front cover. Silence

[@Nanenna]

So I was about 21 and went to the doctor (still on my parents' insurance) because I had an ear infection. While the nurse was doing the whole preliminary exam she was going on about how I'm too old for an ear infection and it's probably something else. Well the doctor comes in, takes one look in my ear and goes "Yup, that's an ear infection all right" and starts going on about how I have to take the ENTIRE anti-biotics course even if I'm feeling better. I know. I had my first ear infection at 6 months old, I had constant ear infections my entire childhood, I didn't learn to swim until I was 9 because I had tubes until my last pair fell out when I was 8 or so, at 6 I had major surgery to remove my tonsils, my sense of balance is permanently damaged and I can't do most simple gymnastics. What's worse is it was almost an exact repeat of the conversation my mom had with the doctor when I had my then most recent ear infection at 17. Thankfully after the surgery the number and frequency of ear infections steadily decreased, that one at 21 was the last one.

[@DoMorrMusic]

Story 71 is the best one

[@ravenpawgaming3005]

7:32 I thought I was the only nerd like that

[@howardbaxter2514]

Not a nuclear engineer but grew up with a mom working in nuclear. Can confirm on Story 6. Coal Ash is more radioactive than the background radiation “released” from a nuclear power plant. Also fun fact, if you live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, the radiation dose you receive annually is akin to 1-10 bananas. Incredibly low.

[@Trip_mania]

For story 6, this is why thinking you are an expert in a certain field doesn't mean you are an expert in that whole field. Nuclear energy is not blamed for the amount of radioactive contaminents it releases in the atmosphere when things go well, but in case of accidents, and there is the problem of storage of nuclear waste that might even supersede mankind. I am pro nuclear power, because global warming is an urgent problem and nuclear power is the best thing we can do "for now". But just because you have some expertise in some field doesn't mean you can't take people seriously around you.

[@Dukdits]

This long video is amazing thank you ig it's two videos in one

[@Trip_mania]

Once I had an argument with a guy who kept saying that lightnings were made of AC current, because once, someone told him that clouds and ground acted like a giant capacitor, and he knew that only AC current goes through a capacitor (kind of). Except a lightning is the same as a failing capacitor, which has a current going very much in one direction only. If you know how electricity works you will know how idiotic this is. And at some point the guy's anger exploded and he told me "I know about it because I'm an electrician! And you? What are you???". I was working on a master's degree in material science at that time with a speciality in electronics, and he knew it, and I think I was already four years into knowing much more than him about electricity.

[@Zenthex]

so, i write and produce music semi-professionally on the side, i've been doing digital production for about a decade and now i have a couple of credits as a mastering engineer. the thing is, people who play guitar in their bedrooms for a couple years think they're experts about everything. like, no dude, you're an intermediate guitarist. the worst part is if they write music, it becomes a huge part of their ego and they take any criticism super personally.

[@skelebones7]

One kid in 7th grade challenged my knowledge of biology, I was talking to a friend when I said “You know panthers technically do not exist.” She, out of nowhere, said “Yeah right.” She was taking more and more and getting on my nerves more and more, I replied “You understand that the genus is panthera, right?” She said “Well is a black tiger still a panther?” In the most smug tone I could I said “Well what else would you call it?” She shut up and sat down, never talked to me again

[@TediTheGodfather]

Not an expert, but considerably more knowledgeable about tech than an ex. After bringing up Apple's iPhone 11 after their launch event, and their false claim that they were the first to put three/four cameras on a phone, she, being an Apple loyalist, told me in the most condescending tone to name any other company that had. I named four without even thinking about it. For what it's worth, I'm subbed to several tech channels, have worked tech support, and am the go-to for anything tech related in my family and few friends. She's a nurse who didn't know she could use cloud links to send large project files instead of needing a thumb drive or emailing them. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@thedoctor0272]

A) challenged the shopkeeper to a draft mtg game and won due to off meta deck design. B) I play my best poker with as little of money as possible, roommate challenges me and I win. A year later we are playing poker with his buddies and I go low on purpose ( not real currency) and tell my green it’s time. Went from $10 to $5000 in a hand.

[@corimyers4985]

I wouldn’t say I was an expert but years ago when GameStop was still EB, I spent most all of my free time there. After getting over the fact that I was a gamer who happened to be a woman and easy on the eyes, the staff got to love me being a regular and often asked me to stand near the window to bring in the guys. I one day stopped in after a job interview, full heels, makeup, business suit. I was watching a 13 year old boy play Tekken and cheering him on and somehow he got it in his head to challenge me. The staff came from behind the counter, laughing to watch. I let the kid win 2 games and then I said ‘Ok play time is over little boy. I slipped out of the heels, took off my jacket and handed it to one of the staff. Game started and I took out his character in 3 moves. He wanted to go again, we did and I beat him again. He kept wanting to go again and again but couldn’t beat me. The staff finally told him, ‘You won’t beat her..seriously, you won’t, walk away.’ He just looked at me and the I told him why he couldn’t beat me. I learned how he played and I know how the game works.’ If only it wouldn’t have taken me 20 years to realize I was a game developer in the making. I don’t play games against people ever for this reason. I watch the person play, and after that I can beat them pretty much ever. I prefer AI because I can’t predict what it’ll do. The only person to ever beat me at a game has been my daughter in Street Fighter a few years ago. What can I say, she grew up in a house with a gamer mama. SHE has been watching ME for years lol.

[@northernbelle7020]

I’ve been there. I’m a woman that works on vehicles. I’m not a licensed mechanic, but am married to a diesel tech who taught me everything I know. Buying parts is always hard.

[@Magnumscrotus]

About a year or 2 after high school these two guys i used to know were throwing a party and a buncha dudes were held up in one room playing morta kombat 9. I pateintly waited my turn, hearing the guy who’s house and playstation it was talk all this game about it. He knew enough about the game and certainly wasnt just button mashing. What he didnt know is that me and my best friend did basically nothing else but smoke weed and play mk9 for 3 years until we were masters with several characters. I played him best of 5 and gave him 2 flawless victories and won the other 3 with atleast 70% health id say. I trained for 3 years to have that moment. And it was sweet.