[3nigma]

You all know talkers. They talk and talk, but nothing ever gets done. In fact, the things they talk about never even get started. It's a sad cycle.

I'm not one to talk either, I admit I'm a bit of a procrastinator, but not as bad as him. When I start something, I finish it. I can't STAND unfinished projects and such. So, do I just ignore it when he talks about something I KNOW he won't do? This is how a normal conversation occurs. The reason I have somewhat of a problem with it is because he uses it to feed his ego, the situation that HASN'T even occured.

Him - *Brings up event that will never happen, something he will PROBABLY not achieve, if history is an indicator*
Me - *I comment, maybe an "Alright, that'll probably never happen but okay."
Him - *Gets indignant, starts bragging, "Well, while I'm doing this you'll be doing nothing." Bragging on something that isn't even reality.*
Me - *I semi retaliate with "That's great, but it'll never happen. You're just talking, like every other time you've said this."*
(Then followed by an argument of whether or not he'll do it, which ends up not happening. I've put bets on some of the things he was supposed to do, and he refused to pay up because of something like "OH, well that didn't happen because I had this thing going, and that happened, and I wasn't able to do that. Blah, blah, blah.)

The guy lives in his head, and tries to get some sort of higher status over me by doing this. The question is, do I argue with him (As we mostly do, our relationship is kind of... dysfunctional but we're friends. It's weird. Like... House and Wilson on House M.D.) or do I ignore it, or something else.