Smart Guys/Gals - People who try way too hard to look smart

[Durable Mike Malloy]

For those who are not already familiar with them from their respective threads, I would like to recommend two previous users of this site!

One is @Amud , a genuine crackpot who taught himself physical anthropology from outdated and explicitly racist texts, churned out a masters thesis's worth of totally nonsensical work on a system of human facial typing predicated on circular reasoning, and somewhere along the way, decided it was a good idea to inflate condoms into his sinuses in an attempt to change his facial structure. He wanted to look more like a Neandertal. Here is his thread.

@Amud has also posted on several forums germane to his interests, including TheApricity, and as polymath on The Neanderhall, and Altrugenics. He sometimes disappears from the internet for long intervals and appears to be on hiatus at the moment. My mistake; he's around. Aw, and he's trying to find a friend! Oddly, he does not seem to have been doxed.

The other is @mooooo , a loveshy forums user who believed his degrees in physics and software engineering qualified him to pontificate on any topic, and was easily baited into posting an actual picture of his diploma here in order to prove he was oh-so-very smart. His identity was quickly uncovered, and it emerged that, far from being a brilliant scientist or even a particularly clever man, he had failed out of a prestigious physics program and had to scramble for a pay-to-play software engineering degree. Also he somehow managed to post pictures of his penis on a forum about penises in a way that was socially awkward. Other penis forum users found the images so unattractive that they volunteered unsolicited tips about setting the white balance on his camera.

His thread is here. He continues to post on youtube and reddit and does not appear to have changed much since his sojourn here.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I'm glad there is someone on my facebook friends list who can explain how sexual reproduction works so that 5th graders like all of us can understand. For a moment there I was worried that people were using the word "blessing" figuratively and without regard to whether they believed in god or not. Or worse yet, that they were trying to do something heinous like express congratulations to expecting parents.

This one is really channeling his inner NDT but somehow black science man manages to be a bit more polite in his smugness.

 

[Cosmos]

"I don't even understand how death is even a thing tbh. It's just like, get up."
"I don't even understand how cancer is even a thing tbh. Just stop having cancer."

 

[The Great Chandler]

This one apparently got passed around a few years ago and it's a complete fabrication. I think there was another one with a Hitler quote, but I can't find it right now.

I made one myself instead.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

@Autphag's posts. All of it.

 

[drtoboggan]

Every Rick & Morty fan ever belongs in this thread.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Every Rick & Morty fan ever belongs in this thread.

I don't know how I feel about the fact that I've had like five people tell me to watch this show, telling me "Dude, seriously, YOU would LOVE it." I watched like half of the first episode and decided no, I don't.

Though to be fair, you have to have a very IQ to enjoy Rick and Morty...

 

[PsychoNerd054]

How about all of those people that talk about how much they love Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Rick and Morty and an onslaught of other sci-fi pop culture just to look intelligent, because "Der her nerds are so intelligent I do what dey do."

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

How about all of those people that talk about how much they love Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Rick and Morty and an onslaught of other sci-fi pop culture just to look intelligent, because "Der her nerds are so intelligent I do what dey do."

They're intelligent because they slavishly love the commoditized pop culture properties that gigantic corporations tell them to watch.

 

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"I don't even understand how death is even a thing tbh. It's just like, get up."
"I don't even understand how cancer is even a thing tbh. Just stop having cancer."

Depression is actually really cyclic and regular. Almost invariably, everyone has experienced or will experience a depressive episode in their life when they encounter any form of grief or hardship, it just varies in intensity. So even though he's spouting off that he's for logic and intelligence, a very light analysis reveals he's speaking from a position from rashness and ignorance. As if that wasn't apparent enough already.

Once again, what do you have to even gain from doing this? Is it really that important for you to insult people undergoing depression or have in the past? Are you so insecure that you feel the need to put yourself above somebody going through a depressive episode just because of the fact that they are? It's so needlessly spiteful.

I'm glad there is someone on my facebook friends list who can explain how sexual reproduction works so that 5th graders like all of us can understand. For a moment there I was worried that people were using the word "blessing" figuratively and without regard to whether they believed in god or not. Or worse yet, that they were trying to do something heinous like express congratulations to expecting parents.

This one is really channeling his inner NDT but somehow black science man manages to be a bit more polite in his smugness.

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"Blessing" is also a pretty fitting word since there's a lot of random chance involved in pregnancy. You have to be ovulating at the right time, and then there's a 50-50 chance the body just rejects the baby about one or two weeks from conception, and then there's a constant chance of a miscarriage which is also pretty high. That's on top of how saying it's a "basic biological function" is a vast understatement. Even given how much science knows about what happens throughout the conception and prenatal development of a child, there's no better word to describe how it all works other than miraculous.

In all honesty, this guy comes off as having somebody hit a sensitive chord when they brought up they were married, happy, and having a kid.

I don't know how I feel about the fact that I've had like five people tell me to watch this show, telling me "Dude, seriously, YOU would LOVE it." I watched like half of the first episode and decided no, I don't.

Though to be fair, you have to have a very IQ to enjoy Rick and Morty...

My friend once referred to shows like Rick and Morty and The Big Bang Theory as "nerd blackface," and honestly I can't think of a better descriptor.

 

[Red Hood]

You sure showed them how much you hate the Sportsball, by watching it. Maybe you could have feed some starving children or something to better waste your time.

It's fine to not like sports. To continuously remind people of it and make yourself the center of attention over it is jackassery.

 

[Monika H.]

It's fine to not like sports. To continuously remind people of it and make yourself the center of attention over it is jackassery.

Exactly. Just like with intelligence and/or work choice.
It's common to find an IT engineer (no offense intended to those of you who are) who brags about it in the most smug way possible, and a company CEO/Board director who barely aknowledge their occupation with family and friends.
It's all about ego and one's self perception.

 

[Cosmos]

Articles on the "burden of being intelligent" are magnets for self-important twats like these. Maybe, just maybe, you're not unhappy because you're brilliant. You're unhappy because you're narcissistic and other people hate that.

 

[AtrocityVoyeur]

Book smarts are fine and dandy, but to get anything done in life, you have to work in teams. Einstein had to read and interpret other people's research; Elon Musk and Bill Gates had to partner with other tinkerers in their fields; etc. "Smart" guys and gals hate the idea of teamwork; they want to be Rick, brave rogues of SCIENCE!. If these assholes stepped foot in a real lab they'd realize the importance of keeping your opinions to yourself until you've earned the trust of your senior colleagues, and can gradually rise up the ranks.

There are, to be sure, exceptions, especially in the fields of art and coding. But the exceptions prove the rule.

Also:

 

[LocalFireDept]

This thread just makes me think of all the 130+ IQ cows that fuck up at logic like @tamarlover. It's always fun to watch what absolutely inane shit they'll say while still thinking they're actually the geniuses and we're all just drooling brainlets.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Ever been in a bar, where some guy is convinced he's the toughest dude in the room, and wants everyone to know it?

These 2Smart4U postings are like the :autism: equivalent of that, except not nearly as unintentionally entertaining.

 

[Cosmos]

I am definitely going to steal "It's something Earthlings do you fucking alien" for future use.

 

[escapegoat]

Also I'm loving the typos in a lot of these images. These people will, in the same sentence, espouse their intellectualism while making a really obvious mistake that's easily noticed and corrected. I'm not perfect either, but I don't go around with a god complex based entirely off of my precious IQ points.

Not everyone can teach in the right manor. Some have to teach in smaller row houses.

 

[Monika H.]

The most funny thing?
When they act all high and mighty of how they are studying Theoretical Physics and similar stuff (because of Big Bang Theory) and treat you like crap because you have a degree in "lowly" Economics, Political Science, History and Art, etc...
And when you ask about their actual situation, they candidly say they have gone off-course a year ago.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to get a thread on Kiwi Farms. The mockery is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical Autism most of the threads will go over a typical lolcow's head.