Do you know a MeMe?

the dee · 27-02-2008 09:51AM

I work with a guy like this. I have a feeling he might be a compulsive liar. The stories he comes out with.

He's about 30 but somehow was a London estate agent for 10 years, while living in South Africa and Thailand on an island with a princess being hunted by the mafia while scuba-diving on a motorbike.

You're afraid to talk about anything as he'll hijack the conversation and strat waffling on about all of the experience he has in the field and all the weird and interesting things that have happened to him... Thank god this is my last week in the job!

marthaclark · 27-02-2008 09:52AM

Fredser wrote: »

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

i am definitely not a meme.

I'm more of a you-you really, much to my own detriment.

not you specifically. but others.

workaccount · 27-02-2008 11:09AM

marthaclark wrote: »

i am definitely not a meme.

I'm more of a you-you really, much to my own detriment.

not you specifically. but others.

Yeah I'm actually more a you you (try to be I mean but sometimes get caught up in the seven deadly sins) but tend to get quite self absorbed sometimes that I cannot get out of myself so probably give a different impression. However, rather than talking about myself I would more or less become non responsive and the other person probably feels like I'm just not arsed talking to them or don't like them. If I try really hard to talk when I don't feel like it I don't communicate I just talk non relationship building dribble.

I am becoming better now though and a little bit more positive.

RxQueen · 27-02-2008 11:23AM

the dee wrote: »

I work with a guy like this. I have a feeling he might be a compulsive liar. The stories he comes out with.

He's about 30 but somehow was a London estate agent for 10 years, while living in South Africa and Thailand on an island with a princess being hunted by the mafia while scuba-diving on a motorbike.

You're afraid to talk about anything as he'll hijack the conversation and strat waffling on about all of the experience he has in the field and all the weird and interesting things that have happened to him... Thank god this is my last week in the job!

:eek: you should really try and catch him out somehow, just before you go, sort of sweet revenge for having to listen to him for so long

FunkyChicken · 27-02-2008 11:26AM

these are the worst kind of people in the world

no one cares about you you sap

AnonoBoy · 27-02-2008 12:22PM

I'm a MeMe.

Hey I can't help it if my life is just so much more interesting than the rest of you losers.

RxQueen · 27-02-2008 12:25PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'm a MeMe.

Hey I can't help it if my life is just so much more interesting than the rest of you losers.

examples or its not true!

Dudess · 27-02-2008 12:29PM

the dee wrote: »

I work with a guy like this. I have a feeling he might be a compulsive liar. The stories he comes out with.

He's about 30 but somehow was a London estate agent for 10 years, while living in South Africa and Thailand on an island with a princess being hunted by the mafia while scuba-diving on a motorbike.

You're afraid to talk about anything as he'll hijack the conversation and strat waffling on about all of the experience he has in the field and all the weird and interesting things that have happened to him... Thank god this is my last week in the job!

Oh yeah my friend's ex housemate is like that. Apparently he was Sony Music's attorney in a high-profile case in New York - with a degree in Legal Studies from Waterford I.T.

AnonoBoy · 27-02-2008 12:30PM

emo!! wrote: »

examples or its not true!

Eh.... eh..... this one time I was driving and then like this motorbike jumped over my car and it was on fire and I saved the guy that fell off and he was a millionaire and he took me in his private jet to America and we went to... eh, the moon. Yeah, that's it.

RxQueen · 27-02-2008 12:37PM

*claps*

AnonoBoy · 27-02-2008 12:38PM

emo!! wrote: »

*claps*

See! I told you my life was more interesting.....

.... and now back to watching some daytime TV!

Dinter · 27-02-2008 12:43PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

.... and now back to watching some daytime TV!

On your yacht in the Med, that Q gave you so you could blend in as a wealthy playboy at that super villain's beach party while surrounded by a bevy of beauties with evocative names.

RefulgentGnomon · 27-02-2008 12:48PM

This springs to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Doctor DooM · 27-02-2008 12:51PM

This thread is all about me, you know.

Hrududu · 27-02-2008 01:16PM

I know a couple of memes. I wouldnt mind if they led fascinating lives and wowed us all with their stories. Instead I have to listen to every crushingly boring detail of their lives and relationships. I just zone out. Somewhere there is a thread started by a meme saying "Do you know people who just don't seem to listen to you?"

Bendihorse · 27-02-2008 01:40PM

OP - So next time you tell him a story for example :-

YOU: Jesus lads, I was driving in the road today and this LUNATIC over took me in the 60k limit doin about 120k!! He was swerving all over the road! It was MAD!

MeMe: WELL, I was driving to work one day and this crazy goy came up behind me at 90mph and over took me on a blind bend almost forcing me to ditch it!! THEN nearly knocked down a pedestrian and forced an oncoming car to stop in the road!

YOU: Oh ya, thats like the time a space ship swooped down into my path one night i was on the motorway doing 200mph and abducted me from my car, carried out anal probes for 45mins then dropped me back to my car which was still travelling along, unoccupied, at 200mph!!!

Basically, no matter what he comes out with to top your story, you and your friends should agree to make up a grossly exaggerated story to top his that is completely unrealistic. Its a bitta craic, and in the end he will realise that hes the butt of the joke.

Niamho! · 27-02-2008 02:14PM

used to work with one. one of the most irritating fookers i ever met in my life.
and he knew a bit about EVERYTHING!!!! or so he'd like to think!! :mad:

Dinter · 27-02-2008 04:16PM

Niamho! wrote: »

used to work with one. one of the most irritating fookers i ever met in my life.
and he knew a bit about EVERYTHING!!!! or so he'd like to think!! :mad:

Thing is these people think they know everything but are far too stupid to know how much they're disliked.

Dashticle · 27-02-2008 05:11PM

Two types of MeMe's - the ones who talk about themselves despite how boring they are, and the ones who make up outrageous crap about themselves and talk about it at every opportunity for attention. I know plenty of both

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Quality · 27-02-2008 05:45PM

I have a friend who is the most self obsessed person you could ever meet...

And guess what her nickname is

Mimi

Maybe we could set them up on a date//...

BDubliner · 29-02-2008 06:23AM

I'd say everyone has a 'Walter Mitty' friend or associate. A fella I work with comes out it all sorts of stories. Which comes in great when we're down the boozer and we just take the piss out of him.

Nalz · 07-03-2008 03:43PM

ppl on telly arguing: "You're crap at driving, you've penality points" "only 2 though" "I've my license 5 years and have no penalty points"

straight after that comment

meme: "I've my full license 1 year and I've no penalty points"

mate: "one of the lads got locked into the jacks and......." bla bla bla

meme: "I got locked into my room once and I.........."bla bla bla

:mad:

ojewriej · 07-03-2008 04:06PM

OP is looking for advice how to deal with a meme. He gets a bunch of responses from people who know better memes instead.

It's quite funny.

Sam Vimes · 07-03-2008 05:05PM

Terry wrote: »

I'm a meme.

i'm way more of a meme than you

watsgone · 07-03-2008 07:59PM

It seems to me, a lot of memes are bullies also.
If you dont play to their ego that is

Toto Wolfcastle · 07-03-2008 08:09PM

Sam Vimes wrote: »

i'm way more of a meme than you

Well I'm more of a meme than you AND I have been for 10 years.

funk-you · 07-03-2008 09:38PM

They're called cokeheads.

-Funk

Cunny-Funt · 08-03-2008 01:11AM

workaccount wrote: »

F*ck sake. I'd hate to think I might be one of these.

& and you follow up by telling us your life story.

Heh ;p nah just messin with yea

workaccount wrote: »

I can think of one that comes to mind but maybe he's like that because I'm dull.

Nah these people just enjoy talking about themselves, the other person has nothing to do with it.

workaccount wrote: »

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

I have that too, my mind wanders all over the place, or even back to "I wonder of they realise I'm not listening to them, hmmmm what's the best way to make it look like I am.." instead of actually ****ing listening :mad: But a lot of the time is due to not being able to hear people right, I reckon I've **** hearing or something even since I was 16. Find it hard to hear what people are saying in crowded rooms. The background noise overlaps their voices, yet everyone else can hear grand

Makes things awkward for sure. I tend to just sit there and nod and grin, but god knows WTF they are talking about

Pen1987 · 08-03-2008 01:45AM

Well the guy I know whos obsessed with himself is way more obsessed with himself than any guys any of you know.

Just say straight up, stop waffling, if hes so self obsorbed you shouldnt even want him as a good mate anyway!

Slutmonkey57b · 08-03-2008 10:11AM

Dudess wrote: »

Self-obsessed people really get on my tits.

That sounds like an offer. I'm pretty self-obsessed. How long's the vetting procedure?

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