'I'm always right': 20+ People who are loudly and proudly incorrect

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 13, 2024 5:00 PM EST

Say it loud and proud. These people are fine with sharing their thoughts and feelings at top volume. 

When people state something with confidence, we have a tendency to assume they're correct. We think to ourselves, "Surely this dude wouldn't be loudly telling everyone in a 20-foot radius about his plan if he wasn't correct." But it turns out that these people are wrong kind of a lot. Then, people who are actually knowledgeable stay quiet on the subject. They don't want to be loudly wrong, so they just keep their opinions to themselves, even though having their input would be really beneficial. 

This person, u/Generalmogar, asked the r/askreddit community, "'The loudest voice in the room is usually the dumbest': what [is] an example of this you have seen?" More than 9,000 answers poured in from people from all walks of life. Some people shared that their boss is a loudmouth who takes up all the air in the room. For other people, that person is a family member or friend. You can check out all of their anecdotes below. 

And then after that, these people took some time to hike, camp, or stroll around in nature---only to find some rather annoying things left behind. 

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    via Afif Ramdhasuma on Unsplash
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    "The loudest voice in the room is usually the dumbest" what an example of this you have seen?
    via u/Generalmogar
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    Charlotte- When someone thinks that shouting in English at a person who does not speak English will help them understand more.
    via u/Charlotte-
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    OneSmoothCactus Me. My roommates were looking for a PlayStation controller and my stoned was loudly mocking them for not seeing it right in front of them. I thought it was hilarious they couldn't find the controller sitting right there on the couch.
    via u/OneSmoothCactus
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    After a few minutes I finally said "ok ok, it's right there on the couch dummies" they looked at me so I and yelled "we know about that one! Why do you think we keep saying the other controller. We need two controllers stupid, how many do you see?" All in good fun but man I felt like a.
    via u/OneSmoothCactus
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    MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS. Anyone who has ever worked retail or a customer facing position will understand this. You as an employee have next to no power over anything apart from a bit of product knowledge to learning the basics of returns/exchanges. Any person who has worked in one of these positions can almost always count on at least once a week being faced with a colossal, screaming idiot who will fight tooth and nail over the most idiotic minutia when they are dead
    via u/MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS
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    wrong. I don't know if it stems from a need to be correct (narcissism) or from just plain stupidity that they can never concede in a fight, but it is at least a weekly occurrence in retail. My most recent example was when my partner and I were in Muji, an Asian-themed home goods and clothing store. The ambience of these stores are super chill, with diffusers going, soft music, and so on. As we were coming in a woman was losing her mind. on the cashier because a pair of socks scanned up at let's
    via u/MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS
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    have been $8. Numbers are made up because this was a month or so ago. She is arguing impressively that these socks scanned up wrong and they should be free. The cashier has the "wut" look on her face and is calmly explaining, that no, she can get a refund for the difference. This lady was not having it, seemingly pulling what she believed was the ultimate trump card, she shouted "well other stores have policies where they give you the wrong scanned item for free!". The cashier again, without a b
    via u/MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS
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    said "well, that isn't our policy. I can either refund you the difference, refund you the whole thing, or you keep it as it is." This loop went on for much longer than it had to before the angry customer relented, visibly disturbed that this made-up policy did not exist at Muji. I will add that she was talking/yelling so that the entire store could hear, of course, instead of calmy discussing the issue and taking the solution like a normal adult.
    via u/MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS
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    Leeser You know the weirdos that show up at town hall meetings? Those voices.
    via u/Leeser
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    Bebe_Bleau My ex-husband. We couldn't discuss anything. His answer to every problem was just to scream over me until he got his way
    via u/Bebe_Bleau
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    mycrazyblackcat On my father's side of the family, it's somehow common practice that the one who speaks loudest has the right to speak. Was much worse with my aunt, now that her and my dad aren't talking anymore it's less people. But i still don't always get to chip in on conversations with everyone, i can talk loudly but not as loud as my dad or my grandpa. When my aunt and her husband
    via u/mycrazyblackcat
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    were there, i had even less of a chance to speak. Plus It's incredibly tiring and just annoyingly loud when everyone tries to be louder than the others and talks over each other... Now i catch myself not saying anything even when I could because I'm so used to just not speaking when everyone is there.
    via u/mycrazyblackcat
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    Exploding_Muffin Every class in every public school ever. Edit: For everyone saying "the teacher", teachers speak the most, they are rarely loudest.
    via u/Exploding_Muffin
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    Disastrous-Aspect569 I work in a factory using applied chemistry to make an extremely pure product. 99.7% purity is low. One of the employees claims to be an general expert.. on everything. If you disagree with him, on anything.. anything at all he will spend weeks telling everyone that you are such a Jidiot. You shouldn't even be working here you, he's not sure how you tie your shoes.
    via u/Disastrous-Aspect569
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    He spent weeks telling everyone how was for thinking that water boils at 100 degrees C. stupid I Pressure changes the boiling point of water. And at absolute 0. Atomic motion is theorized to stop. And he makes sure everyone in the room can hear him. Keep in mind we work with chemistry
    via u/Disastrous-Aspect569
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    Boring-Emu1130 When I wore a nirvana shirt to work and this dude came up to me and said "I probably didn't know any nirvana" yet it's my favorite band
    via u/Boring-Emu1130
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    techlabtech I feel you. I wore a Star Wars shirt to work once and overheard some coworkers talking about how I'd probably never even seen any of the movies. I'm a nerd anyway but Star Wars ain't exactly niche.
    via u/techlabtech
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    Inherently Magenta I had a client call me. He spent an hour berating me over the phone about his money. I couldn't get a single word in. I couldn't even respond while he basically fast-talked and yelled over the phone. While he was doing this I was still reading the documents that he was sending me. He was terrible at contracts, terrible at negotiations, and really bad with money. Creatively not bad, but completely an unsorted nightmare.
    via u/Inherently Magenta
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    I finally did completed a full review of a file he sent later that day. I was already in the process of building a career plan. It turns out he didn't pay his taxes on his single shareholder corporation. So the government was garnishing his corporate wages. As a coincidence the idiot opened a second single shareholder corp and paid himself through that in order to avoid the garnish. Then when the government caught on he did it again. Three corporations still owing
    via u/Inherently Magenta
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    money to the government and all of that debt. I told him that it doesn't matter since you end up still owing so you might as well shutter - pay the debts and be done with it. When I told him that all he had to do was write a cheque to the government's tax agency for X amount and the wages wouldn't be garnished anymore. He screamed at me again for not being "on top of this" and for offering a solution that cost him money. Even though when it comes to taxes and governments we are
    via u/Inherently Magenta
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    a "DNFW" policy. I then responded by saying "Well you just started using my services a week ago. I don't even have your full file yet. Yet I was able to figure it out. You can consider my services finished, I will be terminating our contract." He freaked out and begged me to stay. I told him "It's been one week and you just spent two hours treating me terribly. No thanks. I have better business elsewhere."
    via u/Inherently Magenta
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    He then emailed my CEO to complain about what had just occurred. When I explained to her the situation and what he had just said to me including a pretty terrible joke about BIPOC people (I am BIPOC) and a quip about Jewish people (I am jewish) and complained about immigrants making the government worse (my mother is an immigrant who worked in a union) as well as showed her how bad his finances were. Well let's just say my CEO told me to leave it with her. She blackballed him. I never saw that m
    via u/Inherently Magenta
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    A-Good-Weather-Man My adorable gremlin dog Ariel.
    via u/A-Good-Weather-Man
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    hap_hap_happy_feelz All forms of social media. We are basing change in the US upon the loudest social media voices like it's a good thing. Doesn't matter the 'side'. What matters is an idiot is amplified via social media and people who are as stupid as they will tag on and bleat until they get their way.
    via u/hap_hap_happy_feelz
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    It is a disgusting thing to watch happen, but can also be amusing given when one does do 'sides' one side has to always act like they have the moral high-ground when they are just as freaking stupid as the side they are arguing against.
    via u/hap_hap_happy_feelz
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    Sphenos The people that make their love of loud cars everyone else's problem.
    via u/Sphenos
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    Constant_Cultural Every Kardashian
    via u/Constant_Cultural
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    stankrhino44 Every guy that's ever referred to himself as "alpha"
    via u/stankrhino44
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    Hobolonoer Gotta say it. Sayings like these deter people with valid points from speaking up, while also putting people with the confidence to actually speak up in a bad light. If you speak up, you get butted with the idiots, who speak up because they don't know when to shut up.
    via u/Hobolonoer
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    redheeler9478 My GAWDDAMN BROTHER IN LAW!
    via u/redheeler9478
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    ✪ [deleted] ESPN pundits
    via u/[deleted]
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    infestedgrowth The Reddit mob of self righteous, entitled, offended people
    via u/infestedgrowth
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    Basic-Aardvark-5499 At work we used to say that "Arrogance masks Ignorance".
    via u/Basic-Aardvark-5499
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    Bempet583 Reminds me of that old saying, empty barrels make the most noise.
    via u/Bempet583
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    micromoses There's a video of me when I was a little kid trying to tell my grandpa a joke, so I said "Why did the chicken cwoss the woad?" But I said it kind of quietly, and he asked me to speak up, so I shouted "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CWOSS THE WOAD!?" And he heard me that time, so he said "why?" And I screamed "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CWOSS THE WOOOOOOAD!" and he said "why?" And I screamed again. Anyway, the point is sometimes we're loud because we have no idea what's going on.
    via u/micromoses
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    Hallucinates Otters My old coworker on my team who made my life miserable for months ranting about arguing with customers, arguing with coworkers and management that's not even over important, and just generally thinking he's right about everything without ever taking the time to check his info.
    via u/Hallucinates Otters
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    He once told a prospective customer "Judging by your Linkedin profile picture you look like a woman who could benefit from the use of makeup" Can ya believe he didn't work out as a salesman?
    via u/Hallucinates Otters
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    Boureyn Literally every time my boss talks.
    via u/Boureyn
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    Jnw1997 A man in my English class who always went on tangents for one fourth of the scheduled class time saying emotions. were choices and we need to learn to shut them off at work and school because that's what you do in the military.
    via u/Jnw1997
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    chameleon_123_777 Had a classmate that was like this. Made a lot of noise, and we always knew where he was. He was thick as a plank too.
    via u/chameleon_123_777
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    enraged768 Idk about dumbest but I heard my coworker as he walked in the office say pretty loudly. " It's like everyone woke up this morning and drank their juice". In relation stupid to traffic.
    via u/enraged768
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    The Electric_Mayham People with text heavy tattoos almost always have some really interesting thoughts about what kind of ideas warrant permanent display via skin art.
    via u/The Electric_Mayham
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    Rasheverak Retail managers.
    via u/Rasheverak
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    Mimicthe Crow I was on the bus one day when a woman was talking about how she wasn't going to be able to pay the rent that was due soon. She went on to say how excited she was to be getting a tattoo next week. Priorities...I guess.
    via u/Mimicthe Crow
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    bendbars_liftgates One of my professors when I went to college for business told me that being correct wouldn't get you anywhere. Sounding correct, however, would. Doing both makes you successful; knowing when which is needed gets you rich. He probably said it in a cleverer way, but that's the gist, and it's the truest thing I heard in all four years of college.
    via u/bendbars_liftgates
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    StingRayFins I don't care who says what or how they say it, I always take it with a grain of salt and look into it myself. Anyone and everyone can say dumb . Don't blindly trust anyone.
    via u/StingRayFins
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    Mr_Someperson THIS ISNT TRUE IM ALWAYS RIGHT!
    via u/Mr_Someperson
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    amandaault I had 3 sister in laws like this. Each time we got together for a family dinner or a reunion or somebody's getting baptized or married or something my husband came from a big family they would always try to out talk each other all three of them I did none of them know was so crazy but they do it every single time they were saying it
    via u/amandaault
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    therealBLU13 Any Karen video
    via u/therealBLU13

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