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little_tippler · 08-08-2006, 05:37 AM

It's funny you picked up on that one analog.

It's kind of what you said willravel. Originally though, it's my poor translation of the portuguese expression "Acha que é o dono da verdade".

It means someone who not only always has to be right, they always think the ARE right, and usually don't back down and admit to being wrong, while also being very adamant about it - and looking absolutely ridiculous and also infuriating you in the process. Someone who always has to have the last word...they may even interrupt you mid-flow to disagree with you (so basically not having listened to a word you said), and proceed to contradict everything you're saying while also claiming to be the utmost authority on said subject.

I have known a few people like this and it's the sort of person where you may get into an open discussion about any topic (and I mean you could be talking about the consistency of boogers) and in the end you realise how stupid you've been, because by then you've admitted that they have some valid points and they have not conceded any to you, even if you also have something interesting to say. Like when you know you're not saying anything crazy but they make you feel really dumb? Like that.

08-08-2006, 05:37 AM	#43 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	It's funny you picked up on that one analog. It's kind of what you said willravel. Originally though, it's my poor translation of the portuguese expression "Acha que é o dono da verdade". It means someone who not only always has to be right, they always think the ARE right, and usually don't back down and admit to being wrong, while also being very adamant about it - and looking absolutely ridiculous and also infuriating you in the process. Someone who always has to have the last word...they may even interrupt you mid-flow to disagree with you (so basically not having listened to a word you said), and proceed to contradict everything you're saying while also claiming to be the utmost authority on said subject. I have known a few people like this and it's the sort of person where you may get into an open discussion about any topic (and I mean you could be talking about the consistency of boogers) and in the end you realise how stupid you've been, because by then you've admitted that they have some valid points and they have not conceded any to you, even if you also have something interesting to say. Like when you know you're not saying anything crazy but they make you feel really dumb? Like that. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918 Last edited by little_tippler; 08-08-2006 at 05:39 AM..