you know what type of people i hate? one-uppers.

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zanejohnson

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when someone does that to me in a group, i stop what im talking about...look around at the others in the group and laugh..they get the poin t
 

randomint

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Originally posted by: zanejohnson
when someone does that to me in a group, i stop what im talking about...look around at the others in the group and laugh..they get the poin t

why would you do that? this gives them the chance to take it all away and steal your thunder. now the attention shifts to him and he's going to ramble on and you are just going to be staring at others' faces when in fact it was you who was telling that interesting story in the first place.
 

EKKC

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Originally posted by: randomint
Originally posted by: zanejohnson
when someone does that to me in a group, i stop what im talking about...look around at the others in the group and laugh..they get the poin t

why would you do that? this gives them the chance to take it all away and steal your thunder. now the attention shifts to him and he's going to ramble on and you are just going to be staring at others' faces when in fact it was you who was telling that interesting story in the first place.

i think he meant that he can one-up the one upper by letting him ramble on and others in the group will know that the one-upper is an idiot
 

randomint

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Originally posted by: EKKC
Originally posted by: randomint
Originally posted by: zanejohnson
when someone does that to me in a group, i stop what im talking about...look around at the others in the group and laugh..they get the poin t

why would you do that? this gives them the chance to take it all away and steal your thunder. now the attention shifts to him and he's going to ramble on and you are just going to be staring at others' faces when in fact it was you who was telling that interesting story in the first place.

i think he meant that he can one-up the one upper by letting him ramble on and others in the group will know that the one-upper is an idiot

meh. doesn't always work that way. especially if the others don't know that he is a pompous one-upper.
 

Phokus

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You know what i hate? Airline food. And why is it called ovaltine? It should be roundtine.
 

Quasmo

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Um, guess all I have to say is um, I have 60 cousins, that live in space, in another dimension, and um, I just lost 700 pounds, and um, I invented kayaks, and I invented this street soooo... um, I have 6 babies and they all spoke 4 different languages before they came out of my stomach... so... um, so and I can fly... sooo...
 

Raduque

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Haha. I guess I'm a one-upper :( A friend of mine at work was talking about his truck, he has a ford Ranger and I have an F150, so I said "mine's bigger".
 

ebaycj

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Originally posted by: zanejohnson
people that have something to say about ANYTHING you say.... no matter if your trying to boast, or just having conversations they feel the need to one up, or put you down in some way..

like when you tell a story about a strange event... and they reply with "stranger things have happened"

WELL NO ****** JACKASS.


OH YEAH WELL I HAVE A BETTER STORY ABOUT A STRANGER EVENT. SO THERE!
 

funboy6942

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OP I know what you mean, there was this one time I made a thread about my atv and how it had this cool 350 cc motor and I jumped it off this sweet ramp and this jackass jumped in about how he had a better atv, and bigger ramp. And then I made a thread about jackasses that jump into thread making one ups from what I was boasting about, and these jackasses just kept coming into it and making jackass remarks, it was really jackassish. Yeah I made it up, thats my word, I have all rights to it, you need to pay me to use it, ever.