Intelligence

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I really like intelligence, It's such a good thing. For example, when you're reading some classic mid-period Clive James, like his 70s era " Observer"  telly reviews, or his book reviews, you cannot help but be moved to think " What an intelligent feller ", and you'll let him off with occasional ephemeral smugness.

I really do like intelligence, being in no small measure due to me being a thick cunt, and not even remotely intelligent. Ah, a good clever book, something by Cormac McCarthy at his most expansive, dropping long words all over the place...top stuff.

Good old intelligence, eh ? I'm quite the fan.

[bgmnts]

Me clever. Me like clever brain too

[Monsieur Verdoux]

getting the fuck out of here before someone starts up some Charles Murray shit

[biggytitbo]

Do you know who is really intelligent? Not you you thick cunt!

[marquis_de_sad]

I prefer the word smart. Leaner, sleeker; it sums me up. A smart guy.

I only allow smart things in my house. Smart phone, smart watch, smart fridge. A black and white poster of Malcolm Gladwell, arms crossed, wry smile. Smart things are quick. Taking more than fifteen minutes to say anything is not smart, buddy. Sum it up in an infographic or don't waste my fucking time. My smart lights turn red if I tell them to. Can your lights do that? My toaster has wifi. I can eject the crumb tray from the office, which I do regularly. Corners are inherently archaic. My money is smart: bitcoin, monzo, wonga. Cash? The past called, they want their wallet headshots back. I have every TEDTalk cloud streaming 24/7 in every room in my house. Entrepreneurial. Sustainable. Multi-platform. I can talk to any subject. Talk to it directly. If you have to ask yourself if you're smart, you're already obsolete, my man.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The difference between intelligence and knowledge is finding links between disconnected bits of information; take my builder mate, really clever and insightful at times, but also knows fuck all.

If you consider 'clever' to be 'knowing things' you're almost certainly thick.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The difference between intelligence and knowledge is finding links between disconnected bits of information; take my builder mate, really clever and insightful at times, but also knows fuck all.

If you consider 'clever' to be 'knowing things' you're almost certainly thick.

Agreed, I would rather someone had the ability to utilise knowledge to reach rational conclusions, whatever the breadth of the knowledge. This is why people with only basic/zero education frequently reach better conclusions make than those who have been educated to the purportedly highest standards, even if they don't understand certain words or can't articulate how they arrived at the conclusion very well.

[Twed]

f you consider 'clever' to be 'knowing things' you're almost certainly thick.

I think this every time I see an episode of Eggheads. What a bunch of stupid motherfuckers.

[PlanktonSideburns]

not that bothered about intelligence in a friend, - willingness to shenenagin/dance, and sense of humor come in way before i think.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

many of the cleverest and most intuitive people i know have probably never read anything over 30 pages long

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Actually, I 've changed my mind. I prefer unintelligence. You know where you are with thick people. Why, of course I know what a parking meter is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

not that bothered about intelligence in a friend, - willingness to shenenagin/dance, and sense of humor come in way before i think.

What if they were a bit like duhhhhh duhhhhhhhh urrrrgggghhhhh duhhhhhhbbbbbb like a bit duhhhhhhhhhh mrrraaaaarrrrrrrrrruuuuuhhh duuuhhhhh

Just asking because there's a great guy I know who I think you'd love

[PlanktonSideburns]

That's half my workmates

My favourite person in work doesn't even know how teeth work

Send your mate over

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Remember Smiffy from The Bash Street Kids ? Great guy. I can imagine having a pint and a good chat with a grown up, non- cartoon version of him. Unpretentious type. Salt of The earth. Unless he was one of those " learning difficulties " types. Can't be doing with that. Too much hassle.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

me i value rationality above all, which is why my heroes are Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Steven Pinker, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris, the Google memo guy, Jonathan Pie, Graham Linehan, Aaron Sorkin, William F. Buckley

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Can't be bothered with reading the entire works of that Danish born author  what wrote loads of pulpy paperbacks set during world war two. Too much Hassel.

[chveik]

me i value rationality above all, which is why my heroes are Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Steven Pinker, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris, the Google memo guy, Jonathan Pie, Graham Linehan

some people using the term "rationality" under false pretenses doesn't mean that rationality is a bad thing. I know that it's hardly a mindblowing thing to say but it doesn't make it less true.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

i know, i know

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I want to kill myself. I don't want to ungum my eyes to blinkingly perceive another desperate, loveless day of hopeless desolation, of torpid trudge to worthless work, of unappreciated toil, of numbing by alcohol anaesthetic, day in day out, week in, week out, month in, month out, year in year out, decade in, decade out. I really don't.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

some people using the term "rationality" under false pretenses doesn't mean that rationality is a bad thing. I know that it's hardly a mindblowing thing to say but it doesn't make it less true.

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[Monsieur Verdoux]

my point wasn't that 'rationality is a bad thing' so agreeing with platitudes is not really that necessary. we'll still wake up in the morning with everything intact. all the fundamentals

[Monsieur Verdoux]

I want to kill myself.

don't do it

[BlodwynPig]

Agreed, I would rather someone had the ability to utilise knowledge to reach rational conclusions, whatever the breadth of the knowledge. This is why people with only basic/zero education frequently reach better conclusions make than those who have been educated to the purportedly highest standards, even if they don't understand certain words or can't articulate how they arrived at the conclusion very well.

JUST KEN ON WITH IT!!!

[BlodwynPig]

I want to kill myself. I don't want to ungum my eyes to blinkingly perceive another desperate, loveless day of hopeless desolation, of torpid trudge to worthless work, of unappreciated toil, of numbing by alcohol anaesthetic, day in day out, week in, week out, month in, month out, year in year out, decade in, decade out. I really don't.

I am again suffering from existential dread - it's paralysing. But I want to do the OPPOSITE of suicide. What is the opposite of suicide?

[Sin Agog]

Genocide.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

the opposite to suicide is wanking

[BlodwynPig]

the opposite to suicide is wanking

wanking into the void, forever

[Phoenix Lazarus]

the opposite to suicide is wanking

Auto-erotic accidents excepted.

[St_Eddie]

What is the opposite of suicide?

Edicius.

[hummingofevil]

Up to the age of 18 I was considered super fucking smart as I'm really good at solving moderately difficult Physics and Maths problems that literally millions of others can solve. Got a masters degree in Theoretical Physics from a 5 star rated University and am a self identified "shit Renaissance man" (thank you to whoever it was on here who penned that).

I'm now 40, jobless, happy, but feel thick as fuck and I was sold a lie. I can't do the business world at all, freak out at the mearest hint of confrontation (15 years of teaching in The Toon might be part of the problem) and would love to be something creative but I'm just shit at it.

I've just watched the Japanaese Metropolis Anime movie. Sat through every frame in absolute awe. The genius that's gone into that is unfathomable to me. It's an absolute masterpiece.

As Limmy once said to someone who asked him advice about being a comedian: "be born funny".