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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:21 AM
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which topic do you speak most authoritatively about that you have little or no knowledge of?
i'm known to expound on St. Anselm of Canterbury.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:30 AM
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1. I have spoken for hours on the caliphate of Al-Khilafah Ar-Rashidah.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:35 AM
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2. I am always giving relationship advice even though
my own personal history makes me completely unqualified to be the giver of advice.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:45 AM
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4. Sometimes lots of bad experience allows you to give advice... even if its just about what pitfalls
to avoid. :)
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lizerdbits Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:11 PM
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10. I do that sometimes
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 03:11 PM by lizerdbits
"I dated a guy who acted like that and this is how it ended up..." with a horrible story to follow. My goal is just to let them know to watch out based on one or two experiences, I've never said "Get rid of him now" since it's often a guy I don't know that well and I don't want to tell people who to date. Plus he may not be like the bad experience(s) I had.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:23 PM
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13. I was lucky, I had two brothers older than I.
So I got to watch them make all their stupid mistakes, and then avoid them myself. :P

Of course, the one time I made a mistake ahead of my stepbrother (he's only a few months older than me, and was only a year ahead of me in school), I TRIED to warn him. But he had to go make his own mistakes and learn from them himself.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:36 AM
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3. Yes
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 09:37 AM by HypnoToad
I speak of everything.

:spray:

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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:46 AM
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5. My mind is a suppository of useless knowlege.
I know a little bit about a lot, and a lot about little things. :)
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:47 AM
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6. Did you mean repository?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:06 AM
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8. I meant exactly what I said.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:54 AM
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7. Edible wild mushrooms
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:45 AM
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9. I like to speak authoritatively on life in 13th century Franciscan Monasteries
Because I once read "The Name of the Rose'. I also like to to pretend to have knowledge of the architecture of Medieval Gothic cathedrals after having read "The Pillars of the Earth".

Ask me about corporate culture in a Vancouver Video game studio next week after I finish this Coupland novel.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:18 PM
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11. My method is simple
I speak a lot about shit that I know personally and say nothing about shit that I don't know.

Because of this technique, despite my 130-plus IQ, lots of people think that I'm kind of fucking genius.

That's my game and now you know!
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:21 PM
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12. you pick a topic
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 03:21 PM by Southpawkicker
i'll likely have little or no knowledge of it (edit: most things)

and might speak authoritatively as if i do depending on my mood
:P
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boston bean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:24 PM
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14. LOVE/Relationships nt
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Arkham House Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 04:48 PM
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15. Quantum physics...
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 04:48 PM by Arkham House
...and I can barely figure out a simple quadratic equation...:hide:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 04:51 PM
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16. Politics. n/t
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cuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 04:52 PM
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17. Vagina
.
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