Anyone have a person who is one upping you?

Yea I used to work for a guy who knew every person I ever met, heard every song I ever heard , had been every place I head ever been to, etc.
But my wife really does shoot pistol better than me.

What do you say to people like this?

Goodbye.

I know two guys like that.

I tell 'em, it must be tough living such a loser life that they have to B.S. that much, to get any kind of respect. I'll call them out everytime.
All that lying does is make them feel important and useful, which generally is the polar opposite from the truth.

A sad situation ,really.

I work retail. Anybody who walks into the store can shoot, drive, or build a better car. It's 100% what I have to live with every day.

It's caused by testosterone poisoning.

It doesn't go away until about the day after they pass on.

My Ex Wife.

Smile, nod and find a different human to carpool with. It is ingrained and unable to be fixed, nothing said to that one will even register.

I knew one like that. desperate for attention. I just smiled politely and looked for his better qualities.

There was one guy in a group of fellows that all hung out together years ago that would do this and after awhile it was pretty much known that he was full of it.

As they say the first liar doesn't stand a chance. So, one day we started a conversation they first guy had a pretty good but still on the edge of reality story, that he topped, then the next guy in the group came up with some other story that was even more outlandish and he topped that with something else. In any case by the time the fifth or sixth fellow was done it was obvious what we were doing and that was the end of him making stuff up as I remember too.

If you are talking about personal skill, ask for a demonstration. A beautiful girlfriend, a photo. Lots of ways to prove things that others might think are BS. The fellow I mention above always made me want to be able to prove things where people might question my honesty. So a lot of my stories end with I have photos or video of it too.

I have posted lots of stuff here that people would likely question had I not also posted photos or videos of.

We have a guy like that at our range. Every now and then we set a trap and agree before hand what we will try to get him to say he has done, he stil hasn't cottoned on.

One-upmanship at it funniest!

DukeConnor said:

I know two guys like that.

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I know three guys like that.

BigFatKen said:

I got a ride from Augusta, GA VA hospital to Auburn, AL from another veteran. We were talking pool, so I said I saw a game once in 1965 with Willie Mosconi. Not only did the driver play Willie but him and a friend outplayed him and won $1700 from Willie. Since Willie beat the Wisc. state champion 125 to 0 this seemed like BS.

More BS each time what I did he did it better. Then I said I qualified Expert in 1911 .45ACP in Army, so he tells me one tour was guarding the Shah of Iran and was allowed to carry a slicked up custom 1911 and two assassins appeared and he made two head shots stopping the attack

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Oh man.

I had already "liked" your post based on the Dilbert strip alone, but I had to fight hard to muffle laughing out loud here at work when I read the part about the Shah of Iran... that fabrication sounds almost on the level of the legendary "Mall Ninja"... good grief!
http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

This guy knows "everything" about guns. So I say with the straightest face I can that I've converted an ar15 to shoot .50 bmg. He says "yeah, I've got two buried in my back yard for when the shtf. I just say to him "you're a bad ass". He says "I know it". I'm trying so damn hard not to bust up and I'm pretty sure it's obvious but he had no clue. There has to be a clinical name for that illness.

13Bravo said:

There has to be a clinical name for that illness.

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Pathological lying... mythomania

BigFatKen said:

What do you say to people like this?​

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I say "Take care." and it's the last time I speak about anything but business with them.

people love stories. even true stories get better over time.

Wisco said:

Pathological lying... mythomania

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Ha! Or maybe "The most interesting man in the world syndrome". Like a kleptomaniac, they just can't fight the impulse.

13Bravo said:

So I say with the straightest face I can that I've converted an ar15 to shoot .50 bmg.

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Not to be that guy... BUT



.50 BMG ARs are a real thing.

a guy i work with and a buddy.

you tell the guy at work the grass is green and he says no its not its dark green. you tell him you went to the gym and now all of a sudden he goes to the gym and runs 10miles.

buddy gets furious when someone can out shoot or out gun him. shooting he will miss or shoot poor groups and start calling the gun every dirty name under the sun. I usually get a couple good laughs at it. the other day his 22 was shooting about 2 inch groups at 100yards and then it started going south and the madder he got the worse the gun shot. I laughed for 10min strait.

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Not to be that guy... BUT

.50 BMG ARs are a real thing.

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Well damn, don't I feel like a dummy. He must have telling the truth.

I made a comment one time to a fellow worker that I hated someone who is windier that I am. He said, " Look at it this way Captain. It doesn't happen very often."