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

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Around here, we call that "The Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome", and you can spot them on account of they don't have any friends.
 
John Titor said:
This was posted before but it has a place here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C_HgNzgjdRMWoman gets on man's case about him using food stamps and brags about her college degree. Lady, if you're so smart, why are you shopping at Wal Mart and not Whole Foods or wherever rich people shop? For all you know, the guy was probably financially stable before something went wrong.
Lots of "smart guys" in the comments, have fun with that.
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Just because you went to college doesn't mean your intelligent it just means you have money
 
Heinrich Himmler said:
The smartass seems to forget that the Spain of the time was somewhat of an unified country. Italy wasn't: it was divided in several counties, kingdoms and ducates. That's why Columbus went to Spain to get funds for his expeditions to Indies: it was much more stable and richer.
Also, geographical positions. Spain is much more "forwarded" towards the Americas than Africa. Unified Italy started his colonial adventures much later, a bit like Germany ( in late 19th Century) and towards North Africa and Eastern Europe. Nowadays, if you go in places like Libya, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Albania, you can hear a lot of people speaking Italian.
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The Italian states that had money were rich from trade with Asia, via the Byzantine and then Ottoman Empires. Spain was looking for another way to access Asia, because Italy already controlled the only route to China and India. Columbus was born in Genoa, one of the wealthiest places in Europe because of this trade. Why would they gamble on a sailing trip west when the routes they controlled east were already so successful?
 
AtrocityVoyeur said:
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Sweet Jesus. That is some HIGH level autism. This is how I would suspect Movie Bob would ask for nudes

C3PBRO said:
YOU SHEEPLE.
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Beautiful. I love it. "Think for yourselves", as he uses a quote from a popular cartoon.
 
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Phil Ken Sebben said:
As somebody with a high IQ who skipped first grade and would have skipped the third had my parents not decided to hold me back the one thing you literally had to learn was, like here, hide your powerlevel. You could very well be the smartest kid in the class. Don't show it.

You are forced to learn the art of camouflage. If you're successful you become the chameleon and you're able to fit in just about anywhere by simply observing and following the unwritten rules. Those that don't learn this critical skill wind up the malcontents that feel the need to shout their greatness because it's the only success they have in their lives. You want to impress somebody with how smart you are? Do something with it. Apply it. Become the guy that people go to when they have a problem because you'll be able to figure it out. Don't sit in your room playing vidya and watching Rick & Morty and thinking that everybody else is so stupid compared to you. They're living their lives, you're the one hiding from it.

Besides Stephen Hawking said it best. Those that brag about their IQ scores are losers.
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Cosmos said:
Now that this thread has gotten rolling, it's time to introduce the patron saint of Smart Guys: Neil deGrasse Tyson. To be fair, he's an astrophysicist so he is actually smart, but he's also a complete tool.
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tbf though is he really actually that smart? I mean, he's probably smarter than me, definitely more motivated, but come on now, if he were Asian, he would be a nobody. the affirmative-action regard gave him the same unbearable smugness that began to afflict Obama once he settled into the presidency
 
Yop Yop said:
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That's nice.

Clop said:
Incidentally - and take this with a pinch of salt because I cannot remember the source for this little anecdote - I read about one person retelling their initiation into Mensa, basically doing the paid paper test at one of their gatherings and getting a high enough score to qualify as a member.

They soon discovered that the restricted Internet forums for these people harbored some of the most despicable cunts he'd ever seen. Reason being that when you take a bunch of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and put them into a restricted area where no dummies can enter, they start thinking in a very circular way that they are always right and everyone outside their peers is terribly wrong.

So the forums were naturally a hotspot for conspiracy theorists. That Mensa membership got discarded quite fast after that out of fear of becoming just as delusional.


It's certainly consistent with some folk saying that smart people have an easier time believing stupid shit because they're intelligent enough to find plausible arguments to themselves that they're right, no matter what the evidence says.
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No I can confirm this is pretty much on the button. When I was young, stupid and felt that I had something to offer the world I went to join MENSA. In my mind I was thinking that I'd have interesting conversations on deep subjects and hopefully meet some slightly nerdy librarian type girl for fun and games. Passed the tests, got my pin and membership card and went to my first meeting. The term "fat neckbeards" hadn't been invented yet but that was what the room was filled with. There were a couple of people that were socially awkward, others that pretended they weren't by acting all crazy and that was about it. A total sausage fest. And conversation fell into three categories. Magic: The Gathering and other card based games, D&D and other role playing games and Star Trek.

I went to another meeting a couple weeks later, it was the same group and then stopped going including not paying my membership dues next year.

The solution? Don't even bother testing. Unless you happen to like any of those rather narrow subjects.
 
Reminds me of this prick elitest from
high school. He'd always ask what people got on tests and brag about how high his grades were and how smart he was. He was really rough with this other kid who had a speech impediment. He didn't like him, for some reason.
Anyway, I sat across from them in science class. We were all getting shown our marks (before final exam) so we were being called up to the front one by one. Elitest prick goes up and comes back with a smug smile while facing the speech impediment kid. "I have an 88%". Poor speech impediment kid goes up next, sees his mark and comes back, blushing and all flustered.
Elitest prick goes "so what's your mark dude?" This stupid fucking grin on his face, waiting to reinforce his superiority.
Speech kid stutters "n-n-ninety"
The other guy was fuckimg FLOORED, just fucking stared at him with his jaw open. Then he said "But, BUT YOURE STUPID" and demanded to see the kid's mark up front on the computer.

I was giggling my ass off.

Also I didn't fail the class (most important detail).

But yeah, these people not only like to pump their own tires, they like to slash other people's tires. They're everywhere, and they're unintentionally hilarious.
 
I just send this message to MrMLGAdam, but it might be of use to other people as well.
An artist and a philosopher said:
A few hours ago I have sent this message to MrMLGAdam if even one person who reads it here gains something from it, then I'm already happy, which I already am anyway because I actually wrote this, and it amazed me(this is version 1.1, it has some small added stuff compared to the original) I posted this under an anonymous account as I just want to see what happens when I post this first and I hope I blanked out any personal stuff as you know how reddit/the world can be sometimes

Good day /u/MrMLGAdam :)

I have no idea what you might think of this, but judging from your reddit posts I was wondering if you might understand what I'm trying to say here.

my name is (name), I am turning 26 next week, I'm (nationality), I'm an artist and a philosopher. And I have no idea what I'm doing with my life, but I'm wondering about what I can do instead of what I can't do.

When I was 7 my IQ got tested and it turned out to be high enough, which was proven again when I was 14ish. However the world around me couldn't understand and help me so it took me until the age of 25, a failed study in architecture and 2,5 years of therapy to finally get out of the depression I was in for over 10 years, starting before the age of 10, because of how I saw all the sadness and misery in the world around me, being highly intelligent and hyper sensitive leading me to understand my bullies before they even bullied me. Thus I didn't want to do anything to anyone and took it all because I didn't want to cause them more harm. However after finally being able to develop and discover myself through an organisation called (organisation), I learned that the 2,5 years I spend in therapy as well as all the time I was bored at school or wherever in life, I have learned how to handle people's depressions and fears when I am feeling happy myself in a very unique and interesting way, out of pure need to survive in order to fix my parents marriage which they hadn't been able to for over 30 years and no therapist ever managed to be able to help them.

I did this by asking people to question themselves and giving them perspective on where they are, if it makes them happy, and if not how can they find out what makes them happy.

I ask them how things make them feel, and if they express these feelings towards others in a form of for example "hello, I am (name) and I am scared of writing this big wall of text as I am not sure if you will even read this, even be able to understand it, or even like it at all or if you just think I am crazy."

I give them the question if they want to live a life where they must do things, or to live a life where they do the things they want to do. Which is what I see in so many gamers, they were all looking for a world to escape from reality, a world where they could do what they want, develop their mind freely. I try to teach them how to find solutions to problems that do not focus on the differences between different sides, but on how to find a solution that makes everyone happy, that unites people.(My answer for now is by showing them how to forge their own path that could lead to a better future opposed to the current pre-made path they are taking that lead down dark and painful paths)

And I have seen so many great minds hidden underneath all the rubble in protected bunkers. And I give them the choice between the blue pill and the red pill. Stay where they are, happy and content, or learn how to be happy, take care of themselves, and through that make other people happy and maybe even have some of them learn it as well and so on and so on. Thus achieving even greater happiness.

So I was wondering, and I always have, what could I do for E-Sports and the great and marvellous people in it?

People who are just trying to make a living doing what they want. Not caring about nationality or ethnicity or where you were from or if you are rich of poor. These people seem to care whether you are a nice guy or not. And if you aren't, they will try to help you to become one.

But I still see so many people struggling with it. Not being accepted by their parents, their home, their friends and so on.

And I am wondering if I have learned how to give people the tools they need to handle their situation and find solutions that makes them, as well as everyone else happy. So my question for you is: do you know of a way that this skill of mine could benefit the (e-sports) world?

I started doing this by setting up group for gamers in (organisation), through which I managed to reach quite a lot of people so far And it hopefully will continue to slowly grow over time naturally in a good way(unlike religion for example which had a good foundation, but rotten cheap buildings build on top of it and then having people wonder why the house didn't last through a storm)

I currently have a disability welfare because I have a bunch of disorders like a generalised anxiety disorder, a dysthymic disorder sometimes, maybe dyspraxia and a bunch of other stuff

And whenever I must do something that I don't want I shut down mentally and it also manifests physically with spasms and the likes. As people telling me how I must live is what I have been doing/experiencing for most of my life which lead to me developing physical and mental manifestations of stress and depression so now I can literally only do what I want.

So I'd like to find out if there is anything I want to do, that could help you as well as the (e-sports) world as a whole, by being a kind of make shift mental supporter/backup or a philosopher that can bring about positive change whenever I'm feeling good, to help the people who are feeling like shit, maybe by joining them in that bottomless dark pit of hell that they fall into when they get depressed. By helping them deal with their home situation and life, and the transition from doing what they were always told and must do, to what they actually want to do(i.e. switch from education to being a gamer) or maybe by talking to you about ideas like this I don't know if I can do this, but I do not know until I try, and I don't see how I have anything to lose as long as I listen to my own gut feeling and state my borders.

From what I saw on how you managed the speed gaming event for example, I suspect you at least have some decent knowledge on people and are trying to bring happiness to the world as well in whatever way you can, so yeah...

If you got to this point I thank you for taking your time to read this. Even if it doesn't lead to anything, if just reading this taught you something good then I am already happy that I wrote this. And it also taught me some things about myself again. with kind regards,

my contact details are in the PM I send to MrMLGAdam
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I, for one, deign him qualified for any representative e-sports philosophy department or FBI watchlist.
 
I just wanted to pop in and say all the people who claim they know their IQ but have never sat down with an actual trained IQ tester professional and taken it that way have no idea what their real IQ is. It has to be done with a trained person one on one. All the online tests are about as valid as diagnosing yourself as OCD or schizo without ever seeing a psychologist because you read some shit on tumblr and thought it would be cool to be "mentally ill". Plus even with all that shit IQ is only a rough estimate we don't have the tools to accurately measure a persons intelligence because that's super fucking complicated.
 
Praising your kid for being smart instead of praising them for hard work will create a smart guy of the worst kind.

Trust me on this, I'm very smart.
 
spending time bragging about yourself instead of learning new things from new people, new circumstances, and new perspectives seems like a lot of wasted time - those aspects of you that are outstanding should be self-evident.
 
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