We all know someone like this.....there is no where they haven't been, nothing they haven't done, and they know the answer to EVERYTHING!!! It gets old dealing with people like this....I just want to say SHUT UP to them,but, I'm sure they'd have the answer to that to, somehow...... How do you deal with a person like that??

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How I'd like to deal with them or how I do deal with them?

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well...because I am the way I am: I pretty much tell them to shut up

Generally, I just look at them, wait for them to stop talking and then say "you do not know everything, and to act as if you do is just annoying." I don't give them to opportunity to respond, because I turn my back to them and walk off.

And if it's a message board situation I find enough proof that they are talking out of the behind and post my proof (in the form of articles, research, etc.) and then just leave it at that--sooner rather than later it becomes obvious that those posters are just attention seeking and will post anything to be part of the discussion. Basically I give them the rope and let them hang themselves with it.

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OMG... You MUST know my Step Father !!!! He KNOWS ALL...he thinks... I have known him for 15 years now & just ignore him & walk away.. never told him to shut up..YET but then again the holidays are coming up so this might be "THE YEAR". LOL

Well I had a so called friend like this she THOUGHT SHE KNEW IT ALL & she was about 6yrs younger than me & a single mom who had never paid her own bills she had all state aid I couldnt take her anymore I had to cut off the so called friend.

I only have one know it all who I must see all the time & he like above poster is my mothers husband I also just ignore it & walk off I have only had to deal with this a few years & its already hard to just walk away I would love to say SHUT IT UP LOL!!!!

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Yup, know it alls go in one ear and out the other, but before exiting, they get a nice kick in the a$$.

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I work with a woman like this. It has gotten really bad. She even butts in all over the place where no one is even asking her. It is so bad, one day I was having a bad day, and told another co-worker , just go ask %^&& she knows everything. I can't even stand to be around this woman. I don't want to invite her to our holiday open house, she is that irritatitating.

I know everything, I just can't remember it all at once.

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It depends on whether the person really is knowledgable and experienced, or just blowing smoke. The former, I would try to benefit from their experiences and learn as much from them as I could. The latter I would ignore (or chop them off at the knees if I was having a bad day )

cj/

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No advise here but I can certainly feel your pain.
I lived with a know it all for 17 years. I used to say he'd argue with a brain surgeon. I finally got smart enough to end the relationship.

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My GOD Bless our Country and our Troops, and rid the World of terroists.

I just cut that friend off after 2 years of feeling like an idiot around her. She embarassed me at a party (the one I posted about) by insisting she was right and even had her husband back her up and they were both WRONG!


I didn't bother showing her the proof (it would have just caused more trouble and I know I was right anyway) but now I just don't really talk to her. She knows I was mad and tried to suck up, but I am not doing that game any more, I am too old for that crap.


I see her doing it to other people and I just roll my eyes and keep quiet.

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I love that update, flipper!!! I'm so proud of you. Ain't it great to be *old*.

I was wondering what happened in this situation. I remember reading your post a few weeks ago and just felt so badly that she had done this to you.

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"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Wow you must be my Boss's best friend. He is a doctor lawyer etc. i just tell him to butt out of my family business. I make sure I take all personal calls outside so he can't listen. With others I just press the "Delete" button and keep them out of my life. It's hard becaue with a chronically ill child everyone has the answers...

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Too Funny!

I have a couple wife's in DH's unit, that think they have the answers to everything, and it drives me crazy. I'd like nothing more then to tell them to shut up, but I just sit there and listen to it.......I can't afford to offend them with deployment closing in, since they are some my better volunteers for the FRG.

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O-H-I-O

I wonder what makes people think they know everything? How can you POSSIBLY be right every time? I think they thrive on the arguement, so I won't go there anymore it takes away the fun for her.

Thanks for wondering about me! I am glad I'm not alone!

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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

yes, I wonder the same thing myself. I have started asking "do you know this for a FACT?????" Hate it when people just start talking out of their BUTT!!! Another thing, along these same lines is the person who has everything and then some, and it's all BETTER than anything anyone else has, and their DH is "it" on a stick, and on and on. I had to dump a friend like that, too. It just got to be too much. I thought to myself, this is supposed to be a FRIEND, and here we are basically competing with each other. Well, no need for that..... I know where I stand in life, so BUH BYE!!!! It's tough to do, for sure. Even tougher if it's someone you can/do run into from time to time.

Glad you dumper her, too, btw.

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God you hit it right on the head my Boss loves an argument wether with the cable co the phone co etc. He has to always have an argument just for the sake of an argument. How funny

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Some people have to know it all because they need to be in control.If they aren't in complete control,then they are lost and may feel inadequate about themselves and they don't like that.

My husband is a know it all, done it all type person. Kind of funny, because he hardly ever wants to do anything with me or the kids ever!!

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Mine is a know it all too and I have the bad habit of trying to pick apart what he states as *fact* when I know it is crap! Can I just let it go...NO!

Rebecca

I get annoyed with people who [i]think[/] they know it all, because it's frustrating for those of us who really do know it all.

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