Do you know a MeMe?

Nalz · 26-02-2008 06:49PM #1

How do you tell your friend (guy I play soccer with) that they talk about themselves too much? Now I mean to the extent that its annoying very annoying. Not the most approachable either if you were to point out faults of his (I guess).

If I came in a said nice day out, he'd say not as nice as the day I was born

If I said I like apples, he'd say I grew an apple tree once and I ate all the apples and I like apple tart etc etc

so one of the lads called him meme, cas its all about me, as in him. This evolved into Roadrunner cas meme -> meep meep -> Roadrunner. I dont mind as much but the lads are gettin annoyed!

Plug · 26-02-2008 06:50PM

Ask him is he smarter than a 10 year old.

bitemybanger · 26-02-2008 06:56PM

Yeah, i know a lad like that,English lad, if i said i ran a marathon hed say he ran two
Very agerssive too always tellin you what hel do to you if you were to say anything to him, i put him in his place last year when he took a mock swing at me, instead of getting thrown out i got a round of applause

Overheal · 26-02-2008 06:57PM

Dont beat around the bush - take the piss out of him. Its what room mates are for. They take the piss out of me when its merited and I take the piss out of them when its merited. Its working great

connundrum · 26-02-2008 06:59PM

I know a girl called Mimi

Lawless_Samurai · 26-02-2008 07:04PM

I think we all know a "meme". Every group of friends has one.

I just completely zone out when he starts talking. Nod every now and again and the odd "yeah" or "really" keeps him satified I'm listening when really I ain't!

AlmightyCushion · 26-02-2008 07:04PM

Just imitate him. For example if you're in the pub and one of the lads asks you if you want a pint say "I used to brew my own pints". Everyone will have a bit of a laugh and he'll eventually realise what you are doing.

phasers · 26-02-2008 07:38PM

I talk about myself all the time

usually it's a sign that I think the people I'm with are really dull

5starpool · 26-02-2008 08:05PM

One the lads I usually eat lunch with is like that. He won't take hints either, and is oblivious to blatant telling which I tried a few times too.

There is never a story he can't top or a subject he isn't an expert on either.

Tit.

Dudess · 26-02-2008 08:13PM

Self-obsessed people really get on my tits.

NoQuarter · 26-02-2008 08:15PM

he sounds cool, im an expert in everything too,

tis a great quality!

im quality.

Jeebus · 26-02-2008 08:38PM

Milhouse is NOT a meme.

workaccount · 26-02-2008 09:29PM

F*ck sake. I'd hate to think I might be one of these. I can think of one that comes to mind but maybe he's like that because I'm dull.

I find it really hard to focus on what other people are saying and to enjoy the conversation. I really try and I am getting better.

I've been depressed for the last few years and am only coming out of it now.(after medication and therapy) I am really trying but it's hard...I feel as though I'm getting better sometimes.

I never try to top someones story though and do ask them plenty of question etc. but I'm not always really listening because I lose focus so easily which why conversation with me is usually probably a dull matter.

I would not go off on a roll talking about myself either. I must not be that bad so....thank god.

All I say to people who hate these people.....give us a chance we may just be waiting for somebody to help us along a little better and understand where were coming from.

Terry · 26-02-2008 11:07PM

I'm a meme.

Dinter · 26-02-2008 11:24PM

When he's talking pretend to be listening really closely.

Lean forward, clasp your hands together and nod a couple of times.

Then as his story reaches its finale just randomly stand up and without saying anything to him take out your phone and ring someone else.

Walk away saying things like; "No, I'm at nothing" or "ah I'm bored outta my mind".

Guaranteed to work.

Creamy Goodness · 26-02-2008 11:27PM

far too many of them.

LadyJ · 26-02-2008 11:34PM

Know someone like this. Once I apologised to her because I was really tired and not very talkative. I just said "Sorry for being a bit of a bore tonight". She then said, "I'm way more boring than you!"........It's pretty weird tbh.

GrahamThomas · 26-02-2008 11:49PM

Dinter wrote: »

When he's talking pretend to be listening really closely.

Lean forward, clasp your hands together and nod a couple of times.

Then as his story reaches its finale just randomly stand up and without saying anything to him take out your phone and ring someone else.

Walk away saying things like; "No, I'm at nothing" or "ah I'm bored outta my mind".

Guaranteed to work.

That is some quality advice!
Have worked and lived with quite a few MeMe's, I find their "world revolves around me" mindset incredibly annoying, and you can't have any sort of real conversation with them.

james123 · 27-02-2008 12:07AM

Im a youyou

Cant stop talking about everybody else I hate myself

FunkZ · 27-02-2008 12:35AM

I know a guy that talks about himself, and always has a story about anything you mention. But he's fairly sound as well. But still, I'm glad he fecked off to Maynooth college.

He's an extreme headwrecker when you talk about guitar.

Toto Wolfcastle · 27-02-2008 01:06AM

My housemate is like that. I rarely see her but when she leaves her room I might mention something and suddenly I'm hearing every detail of her, it must be said, sad boring little life.

Tonight I asked her if she watched the Oscars (because she's a screenwriting student) and she launched into a story about college and how she had a weird day because her horoscope came true. (The horoscope said that she would be helped by a teacher. :rolleyes:) Then she told me a story about her lecture which lasted longer than the lecture itself, and then she said that a guy had told her that he hated her from the moment he met her and she was wondering why.

I come up with many witty replies in my head when she is blabbering on but I'm too nice to say them.

What I usually do is text someone while still looking interested and ask them to call me.

Dudess · 27-02-2008 01:17AM

I worked with a woman who even managed to turn the tsunami in South-East Asia into being all about her. Some feat really. She had self-obsessiveness down to an art.

themadchef · 27-02-2008 01:20AM

I know i meme very well. Anything you have done they have done better. General idea of this person. Say to them "i can speak spanish"...their reply.. i can speak Spanish in 5 different languages

priceless...

Hanley · 27-02-2008 01:28AM

Gawwwd I know exactly how you all feel. It really rags me off when people but in on my stories about my day with stories about themselves. Like I'd find any of that interesting

rain on · 27-02-2008 01:39AM

I sat in front of one of them on a bus seven years ago, she was bad enough that I still remember it. For the whole two hour journey she was wittering away to the guy she was with, telling him these awful tedious stories about herself, unbelievably tedious like, and every time he tried to get a word in edgeways she'd go "Stop talking! I haven't finished telling you about this! And so then I couldn't find the suitcase, and my mother was like have you looked under the stairs, and it wasn't there, and I blah blah blah blah". Talking really loudly so it was impossible to tune her out.

I wanted to kill her by the time I got off. God knows how he must have felt.

I knew another one who would insist whole roomfuls of people be quiet to listen to her waffling on and on about herself. God she was awful.

bug · 27-02-2008 01:48AM

I blame mother's.
A girl i went to school with was like that. Funny but she stuck in my head. Her mother told her she was special and had her on a pedastil.
I often wonder how the fall was for her.

There is a very quick fix for a "me me". Ask them to play a game and try for a day to form a sentance without "I" in it.

AlmightyCushion · 27-02-2008 01:51AM

bug wrote: »

There is a very quick fix for a "me me". Ask them to play a game and try for a day to form a sentance without "I" in it.

They'll probably just start referring to themselves in the third person then which would be even more irritating.

tampopo · 27-02-2008 02:50AM

Some classic examples there, very funny, my sister's a meme.

So was that murdered journalist. I got to know her in the early 90's. just can't think of her name atm.

As for memes, I call them suffering from lastworditis.

marthaclark · 27-02-2008 09:41AM

have a competition.

see who can talk about themselves more without asking the other person a question.

i think he'll start to catch on when he realises you care about yourself more than you care about hisself.

then he'll either love/hate you.

could be dangerous.

Nalz · 27-02-2008 09:45AM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

They'll probably just start referring to themselves in the third person then which would be even more irritating.

A certain boards member springs to mind

Fredser · 27-02-2008 09:50AM

Every person is a meme and that's why I hate everybody and have no friends.

Do you know a MeMe?

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