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

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Butta Face Lopez said:
I work with two lanky little noodle armed vegans who both majored in philosophy and it's funny to talk to them because they have their grand deep philosophical ideas and I just say "No that's stupid" and they get all flustered and angry
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I love these kind of people because you can literally just make up something insane and idiotic and they can't even disprove it. Even if it's utter bullshit.
 
At the risk of sounding like one of these dudes myself, Dickens isn't exactly the most inaccessible shit to brag about drawing your super uncrackable passwords from. All children have read Dickens.
 
I love it when these guys use reading Einstein and Darwin as proof of their intelligence and scientific savvy. If they cared that much about science, they'd be a bit more up-to-date.
 
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This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Everything about it is wrong.
  • First off, are you really suggesting that we should hand out guns/crossbows/knives to homeless people? Really?
  • You can't just kill animals, you have to have a hunting permit. Are you going to help every homeless person get a hunting permit?
  • Most homeless people live in cities. What are they supposed to hunt, rats and pigeons?
  • Growing food requires land. If homeless people had land they wouldn't be homeless.
  • Most homeless people (in the developed world, at least) don't have to worry too much about food thanks to churches, food kitchens, and so on. Most of their problems stem from, you know, not having a place to stay.
 
MintChocolateChip said:
So can I ask if Neil Degrasse Tyson has done a single thing of relevance in the last ten years outside of bitching on Twitter and being a consultant on overhyped sci-fi shows/movies?
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Being fair, that's what he has been doing since he got his PhD, bitch and moan on things and get hyped on science. While I agree with the last one, the other reasons are what has always make me think he's wasting too much time yelling at people instead of welcoming the curious to science. Here's an article you might want to read about it, a bit old but still very interesting:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0096340214563676

temeluchus said:
This really, many people want to feel they are special, when they aren't. Accepting they are run of the mill is just too much for their fragile self worth.

The real irony is if they stopped trying to pretend, accepted themselves for what they are and picked up some books they might actually have a chance for honest intellectual self improvement.
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Not everyone is set to be smart and you can't force it, even if you read a thousand books you might still be average. That reminds me of one of my stories:
This girl came to me and told me how sad she felt because she wasn't good at mental stuff and how she was failing at some things. I told her basically what I just said, that being smart isn't for everyone but that everyone is good at something, I asked her what she liked to do and she said she liked to draw, she showed me some of her stuff and I almost fall down because it was really fucking good art. I advised her to seriously consider an art career and she did. Years later I decided to check on her because something I was doing reminded me of her, apparently she has received a coulpe of awards and she's now working in some serious art stuff in her country.
Point is, you don't get to be special just by wishing and half assing it, you have to find what you like to do and what you're good at and work hard on it, the rest will come by itself.
 
There's nothing like being pedantic and wrong. Dynamite is not TNT. Its active ingredient is nitroglycerine but it has other ingredients. TNT is an entirely different explosive.
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That cannot be true...
Unless AC/DC lied to all of us!
 
Butta Face Lopez said:
At the risk of sounding like one of these dudes myself, Dickens isn't exactly the most inaccessible shit to brag about drawing your super uncrackable passwords from. All children have read Dickens.
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yeah what a stupid amateur I always get my passwords from my unpublished Russian hacker fanfic
 
Cosmos said:
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This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Everything about it is wrong.
  • First off, are you really suggesting that we should hand out guns/crossbows/knives to homeless people? Really?
  • You can't just kill animals, you have to have a hunting permit. Are you going to help every homeless person get a hunting permit?
  • Most homeless people live in cities. What are they supposed to hunt, rats and pigeons?
  • Growing food requires land. If homeless people had land they wouldn't be homeless.
  • Most homeless people (in the developed world, at least) don't have to worry too much about food thanks to churches, food kitchens, and so on. Most of their problems stem from, you know, not having a place to stay.
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I don't understand why these homeless people are homeless. They should just build themselves some houses. They must be stupid or something to not think of something so simple.
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
My passwords are always full chapters of My Little Pony erotica with parts of Mein Kampf strategically mixed in.
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Have you read the Twilight Sparkle x Rudolf Heß one? I'm not joking, it was circulating a couple of years ago.

Or this one
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Cosmos said:
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This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Everything about it is wrong.
  • First off, are you really suggesting that we should hand out guns/crossbows/knives to homeless people? Really?
  • You can't just kill animals, you have to have a hunting permit. Are you going to help every homeless person get a hunting permit?
  • Most homeless people live in cities. What are they supposed to hunt, rats and pigeons?
  • Growing food requires land. If homeless people had land they wouldn't be homeless.
  • Most homeless people (in the developed world, at least) don't have to worry too much about food thanks to churches, food kitchens, and so on. Most of their problems stem from, you know, not having a place to stay.
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This could be the sequel to "A Modest Proposal."
 
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