Here's my big pet peeve of this year.....it will change when next year when I'm away from this freshman roommate of mine. So anyway, this kid thinks he knows everything and I end up getting in little stupid arguments with him all the time. Here's the problem: He's always wrong, but to ignorant and too arogant to admit it.
Example: Tonight we got in an argument about the possible amount of chambers in a revolver (one that doesn't use a clip). He argued that they could only be an even amount, such as a 6 or 8. I, on the other hand, could not believe that no gun maker had ever tried to make a 9 round revolver...or something along those lines. So, with him heckling in my ear and trying to prove his point, I calmly searched for a 9 round revolver on google and found some french one that was a .44 caliber, 9 round revovler. Yup, I won that one.
Another example: I was watching "Black Knight" and there was a scene where Martin Lawrence was doing some dancing and he was trying to get the back-up band to play some modern stuff. So they were rocking out when one of the trumpets did a trill. The trumpet was one of those long ones that would announce when a king was coming and didn't have valves.....which made a trill impossible to do. They can have strong vibrato, but because they don't have valves, they cannont move up one step and then back down. Just like a bugle, they only have certain notes that they can play. Or like any brass instrument for that matter, in each valve or open or position for the trombone, there are only certain notes you can play. So I laughed at the movie and said "too bad it's impossible for those trumpets to do a trill." And what does this freshman do? Yea he tries to argue that they can. I was like, dude....do you play trumpet? He said no. Have you played a brass instrument? He said no. Have you ever played a wind instrument? He said no. Have you ever been in band? He said no......ok, so how was he even able to make an argument about the question at hand? He had no idea what he was talking about, yet wouldn't/couldn't except the fact that he was 100% wrong.
I guess this shouldn't bother me that much, but it pisses me off when people pretend that they know a lot, and then blatently show how ignorant they really are......but then don't realize it and continue to be an ass. Unfortunately, I have to live with a person like this. He's a cross country runner too, which, going by the traditional Wartburg Cross Country runner, he should be cool. Yea, he's not. In fact, he's just about the most un-cool cross country runner here....it's quite strange.