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The list is too long to print here.I tend to ignore them.Just pay lip service."Yes.I know".................

I know a lot of people who think they know everything,  you can't change them ,  it's in their make up. I find it best to just laugh at them, in fact when you are in there company with someone else who knows them you can both have a laugh at their expense. 

I had a friend like that.  One time, a few of us were sitting around and decided to have a little fun with this ' know it all'.  He was due to show up anytime so we formulated this game.  We all had 5  torn pieces of paper with a shape on it and a number. Like a square with the number 5. (example)  And we had a deck of cards.  We kinda made some stupid rules but the game had no  rhyme or reason, there was no pattern, nothing made sense.

So he shows up and we are sittng around the table, one guy draws a card, says 5 spades (the card was a queen of hearts) with that, he lays down a piece of paper with the square and a number 5 on it, and a couple of us started arguing that the move was wrong. 

Sure as heck, after a few moves, he buts in and started telling us how to play this game and that he had played it many times.  When we told him it was a joke, he still argued that 'no this game is real' and continued showing us how to play it.

The moral of this story lies in your question, 'forget it' you can do nothing.  He will be like this the rest of his life, eventually he/she may quiet down because they realize their sickness but it will continue.

You are talking about James (butt-in). I ignore him and say “em huh” every now and then……...

Everybody is a bit of a know all about certain subjects depending on life experiences,,which can sometimes be mistaken for know all..if what they are saying is correct,,maybe they know something..>>>>>>>><<<<<<..

Ducky

Or maybe they DO know it all. :)

Some people are walking encyclopedias.........or should I say Wikipedias ?  They like to expound and what makes them more irritating, is, they talk so LOUD .

I love people that 'know it all'.  one can learn a lot from really smart people.  my problem is i get irritated when their facts don't check out. then instead of calling them a know it all, i call them a fool. particularly fooling themselves.