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So about a month and a half ago my sister (shes 22) picked up two female hamsters from the pet store. The next day I saw one of the hamsters trying to mate with the other and I told my sister that one of them was probably a boy and explained that the pet store gets it wrong sometimes with rodents because sometimes it takes a bit longer than usual for them to mature.

She wrote it off and told me that females sometimes try to do that too (and she is technically right but it's very rare) and said that they were both female.

Guess what just happened today? We now have 8 baby hamsters squirming around in the cage and my sister is freaking out trying to figure out what to do while I sit there laughing at her. I DID tell her.

The stupid part though is that when I did the whole "told ya so" thing she basically said "No you didn't" with the justification being that I was apparently just tying to mess with her at the time (I was being serious) and therefore it did not count.

but I digress, this whole situation is hilarious to watch. I'm gong to go buy some popcorn.

Does anybody else have any awesome stories about being right?
 

Thomas Barnsley

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I hope you take care of these hamsters properly...

Nah, I'm always proved wrong. I sympathise with your sister.
 

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Aww, reminds me of when I had a bunch of baby hamsters as a kid. Had 8 of them, just like her. Really sad that I had to give most of 'em up though. As for the topic of being correct, a lot of the time I hate being correct because I'm usually correct about really bad things.
 

FalloutJack

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Well, the problem with me is that I tend to be right about things that I'd rather NOT be right about, because I'm a cynic.
 

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Well, I was watching Cloud Atlas with my mother just the other day... This was our first time watching this movie and none of us have actually read the book it's based on, let alone actually seen the book at any bookstore... Without spoiling, about a third of so into the movie, my mom's telling me she's not understanding why one of the timelines in the movie is even connected to the overall movie... I responded by joking that that particular timeline would be the one that would truly tie things together before the movie even ends...

Sure, the movie ended on a timeline that my mother wasn't really talking about at the time... but, it was the one that did "tie things together" in the end... (Though, in her defense, the editing in that movie between the timelines was both the movie's main strength and weakness throughout the narrative... I'm sure the book handles this just a bit better, I guess...)


On a more "less-confusing" note, I figured out one of the major plot twist in Dream Drop Distance before heading back to Traverse Town...
I don't mean the saga plot twist... Just this game's plot twist involving the Mark of Mastery exam...
 

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I think, because of my constant monotone, generally snide attitude, and inability to communicate outside of the internet, with family, or while in a discussion about how Koji Kumeta is better than Ken Akamatsu (hot wife not withstanding) people tend to disregard what I say. So this has happened to be many many many times.

A particular example is at work. A woman tells me that she has a hole in her ceiling, and I tell her to cover itu p, especially this time of year, because therea re lots of vermin trying to find a place to hibernate.
The next day at work, she came with a bag with broken parts of a small table covered in bird shit, and she'd taken them to work to put in a skip because she couldn't afford to rent one.
I felt very smug and very right.
 

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This one's great.

When I was 16, and going to high schol I started wearing a fedora. My grandma didn't like me wearing it indoors. She said a polit person made sure to take it off even in elevators.

Fast-forward six years. I'm dating a high-school girl and going to prom with her. My grandma hands me an etiquette book from the forties to read, to make sure my manners are impeccable at the prom. The book turns out to be very interesting for a retro fan like me. Suddenly I see a part about elevators. It says that they're like stairways except more advanced, and for that reason there is no reason to remove your hat in them. No need to remove your hat in them. You can't imagine how I gloated about that to my grandma.
 

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dylanmc12 said:
how Koji Kumeta is better than Ken Akamatsu
Obviously he is. He's more original, funnier, and doesn't ever rip off Kosuke Fujishima.
 

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Well it's nothing amazing but I was right today about male cows being called bulls. We soon learned that they're called cattles overall. How I forgot that word I have no clue >.>.
FPLOON said:
Film needs more love.
 

GundamSentinel

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I think I suffer from Cassandra syndrome: I'm generally right but no one listens to me. :(

Can be fun, however. My mother is always a very hasty person and in her haste she tends to knock things over. I usually see that coming from miles aways and warn her, but in the end she usually knocks it over anyway. Cue "I told you so" and being smug. I usually help her clean up the mess, though.
 

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I hate it when by the time you are proved right, people forget that you told them in the first place.
 

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There was a guy I met when he was fourteen and I was fifteen. I knew he was gay. I absolutely knew it, and some people said it was ignorant to say.

Now I'm nineteen. I hadn't talked to him in a few years, but recently I found out he came out and accordingly became a much happier person.

Only thing I can think of where I was dead on objectively correct on anything of any importance in retrospect.
 

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Nouw said:
Well it's nothing amazing but I was right today about male cows being called bulls. We soon learned that they're called cattles overall. How I forgot that word I have no clue >.>.
FPLOON said:
Film needs more love.
FPLOON said:
Oh man. Cloud Atlas. That's my favourite movie of all time, right there. For the record, the book's pretty excellent as well, but the amazing use of actors in the film lets it trump the book in my view.

With me, it's usually matters of history. My family should really stop arguing with me about the dates of historic occasions and stuff.
 

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Azahul said:
Nouw said:
Well it's nothing amazing but I was right today about male cows being called bulls. We soon learned that they're called cattles overall. How I forgot that word I have no clue >.>.
FPLOON said:
Film needs more love.
FPLOON said:
Oh man. Cloud Atlas. That's my favourite movie of all time, right there. For the record, the book's pretty excellent as well, but the amazing use of actors in the film lets it trump the book in my view.
See, I know the film's supposed to be really good and all, it's just that when I tried to watch the film I gave up after ~40 minutes because I had no idea what the overall narrative was supposed to be (and my sister wanted to watch Pacific Rim instead. We watched it instead. Far easier to understand.) It was very pretty, and the characters seemed interesting though.
 

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I had a pet issue too, I wanted to get my first pet recently, saw Leopard Geckos were on sale, didn't want to wait, knew we had a busted glass tank that I could salvage till there a sale came up for a 20 gallon tank.
Brothers girlfriend was freaking on me, telling that I'm an idiot for not planning it out, not having everything I needed.

But I did, yes it was an impulse buy buy I knew we had everything we needed including food as they have mealworm feeding water dragons, a lamp to heat the tank, and I bought sand. Days later she was still insisting it was ill planned and using their tank (it was unused) was not a thing to lean on as they may have put something in it without me knowing. (it had crickets, then they smelled up the place and that stopped so no)

Months later not only is Xarxxanagon (awesome name, I know) doing well in her nice big tank, but on a custom built table with a heating pad under the sand, she loves walking over my arms and hanging out on my shoulders. I plan a lot of things with projects, a leopard gecko, a super docile pet isn't going to be difficult.

:| I know what you're thinking, Snot, what a super intersting story, but now that you're done vomiting that boring crap in my ear, Xarxxanagon? Well I figured the more X's in a name the better, so (Zar-zan-na-gon) Xarxxanagon is by default the best name in the history of the world. It just rolls off the tongue Xar, Xanza...what idiot named this thing anyway!? D:
 

Azahul

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Fractral said:
Azahul said:
Nouw said:
Well it's nothing amazing but I was right today about male cows being called bulls. We soon learned that they're called cattles overall. How I forgot that word I have no clue >.>.
FPLOON said:
Film needs more love.
FPLOON said:
Oh man. Cloud Atlas. That's my favourite movie of all time, right there. For the record, the book's pretty excellent as well, but the amazing use of actors in the film lets it trump the book in my view.
See, I know the film's supposed to be really good and all, it's just that when I tried to watch the film I gave up after ~40 minutes because I had no idea what the overall narrative was supposed to be (and my sister wanted to watch Pacific Rim instead. We watched it instead. Far easier to understand.) It was very pretty, and the characters seemed interesting though.
It's a tricky one, to be sure. There isn't any one overall story, just a set of common themes linking them together. Not an easy movie to watch by any means. It even pulls nasty little tricks like the pay-off for some stories occurring in entirely different time periods. Things like a love story only getting its happy ending centuries before it even happened in the first place. However, I will say that it is considerably better the second time through, once you have the basic plots and themes in mind and can turn your attention to how damned clever the whole thing is in how it makes parallels between the different time periods.

The soundtrack is also absolutely beautiful, since you missed that part. Oh, and the end credits. Watching the whole movie for the first time is pretty much worth it just for those closing credits, when you get to see who was who. Hugh Grant plays six different characters in it, and I only managed to spot two. Similar things going on for a lot of the actors. It's just phenomenal to sit and watch it with a bunch of people and feel your collective jaws drop.
 

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A similar situation happened with my brother's gerbils when we were kids.

My dad told us that he gave them back to the pet store.

In reality, as I've discovered over ten years later, my cousin had a very full python that week.
 

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thaluikhain said:
I hate it when by the time you are proved right, people forget that you told them in the first place.
And if you remind them they just roll their eyes and think you're being petty. I hate that.
 

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I remember back when I first saw the Sega Dreamcast I was visiting a friend in NY and we went to a local game store. Having viewed the different titles my friend owned on DC, I was impressed with the superior graphics (versus the PS1, et al) but wasn't impressed with much else.

I remember talking smack about Sega (not the Dreamcast, but Sega as a corporation) and in a giant, sweeping prediction, I told both my friend and the employee behind the counter that Sega would, and I quote myself, "abandon their loyal customers". My friend was incredulous and the employee did his best to bite his tongue, saying something like, "Well, you're entitled to your opinion (but you're wrong)." They both thought I was crazy, as games on the Dreamcast looked fantastic. Hell, they even had a VGA cable option to play on a monitor.

About a month later I was back home and what do ya know, the news came on saying something about Sega getting out of the hardwdare business. It wasn't that hard to predict really.