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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the human brain is amazing in that someone could be an extremely competent and talented driver for example but also thick as pig poo poo

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Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

echinopsis posted:

the human brain is amazing in that someone could be an extremely competent and talented driver for example but also thick as pig poo poo

i didn’t even get halfway through this post before I thought of Ben Carson

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

I'm pretty smart, but idk if I'm the smartest here. I'm not gonna do some I'm dumb gimmick because I'm not

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

pretty hard to generalize to "smartest" tho not really quantifiable yknow

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

yes but who is the dumbest

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




in the words of my people

I’m dumb as gently caress

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

President Beep posted:

is that true?

Yes

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

I'm not its a reference to the space ghost coast to coast episode where they had tom york on and it looks like the specific line I was thinking of isnt on youtube :(

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

You rang :smugdog::pipe:

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Roosevelt posted:

i didn’t even get halfway through this post before I thought of Ben Carson

lol. excellent example.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

rotor posted:

when i was a kid i honestly believed that 'intelligence' wasn't real and it was, as you asked, just kind of luck and education and experience and so forth but then I spent some time interviewing enlisted men in the Army and yeah no intelligence is real and some people just don't have a lot of it.

yes we know, we read youre posts

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

rotor is one of the better posters

Astryl
Feb 1, 2005

"15,000 hours of Diablo II isn't that much, dweeb."

Gentle Autist posted:

yes but who is the dumbest

yes???

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

Gentle Autist posted:

yes but who is the dumbest

quick, to the terrible programmers thread

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
honestly ive been doing infrastructure for a while now and when I go to program a thing on my spare time i feel dumb as poo poo cause i can't do it on the regular anymore

e: then ill talk to an infrastructure / systems person that knows what they are doing and i feel extra stupid

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

lol saw this in the thread list and i was like "echi" but then i was like wait i think this thread is old and sure enough it was and not only that but i posted in it and said it was echi that time too

i guess my point is that im obviously dumb

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

Bored Online posted:

honestly ive been doing infrastructure for a while now and when I go to program a thing on my spare time i feel dumb as poo poo cause i can't do it on the regular anymore

e: then ill talk to an infrastructure / systems person that knows what they are doing and i feel extra stupid

my side project at work is using cdk so it is both infra and coding. boom

funny way to spell
Nov 4, 2012
anroid stebe

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Bloody posted:

pretty hard to generalize to "smartest" tho not really quantifiable yknow

its like pornography. I can't define it, but i know it when i see it.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Gentle Autist posted:

yes but who is the dumbest

yo.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Gentle Autist posted:

yes but who is the dumbest

Great question,
really makes you
ask yourself what you mean when
pronouncing that someone is
hella smart/dumb!

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
i see what you did there

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

I had an IQ test when I was a kid and my parents never told me the results, saying that if the score was too good and they told me I might slack off in school because I thought I was too smart.

Turns out I was a pretty dumb kid for believing that horseshit.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

President Beep posted:

i see what you did there

gently caress
off
outta here,

there isn’t anything
out of the
ordinary going on here

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
oh! okay then. my mistake.

a neurotic ai
Mar 22, 2012
what if there are different kinds of intelligence op.

I for example am uniquely gifted at coming up with heavy metal band names

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

President Beep posted:

oh! okay then. my mistake.

presidents don't make mistakes, beep

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

a neurotic ai posted:

what if there are different kinds of intelligence op.

I for example am uniquely gifted at coming up with heavy metal band names

prove it

Shameful Display
Nov 30, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
I don't know about the smartest, but I know who the most financially savvy poster in YOSPOS is.

I'll give you a hint, he has a theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MW65XxS7s

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
it is better to not post and have people assume you are a moron than to post and remove all doubt. ergo the smartedt move is not to post at all. the smartest poster wouldf be, at most, a lurker

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

bobbilljim posted:

it is better to not post and have people assume you are a moron than to post and remove all doubt. ergo the smartedt move is not to post at all. the smartest poster wouldf be, at most, a lurker

lurkers are definitionally not posters by virtue of the fact that they do not post

RustyKnight
Jul 11, 2016

every day is a new horror



I think I'm smart but in reality I am probably a loving moron

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

LastInLine posted:

lurkers are definitionally not posters by virtue of the fact that they do not post

ok ok whoever posted _once_ can have the title

pram
Jun 10, 2001
that one guy who did all the x11 poo poo is pretty smart. but then again he went to work for some vaporware startup selling a dumbass linux computer so lol maybe not

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

I am so smart, S-M-R-T

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

LastInLine posted:

lol saw this in the thread list and i was like "echi" but then i was like wait i think this thread is old and sure enough it was and not only that but i posted in it and said it was echi that time too

i guess my point is that im obviously dumb

fresh_cheese
Jul 2, 2014

MY KPI IS HOW MANY VP NUTS I SUCK IN A FISCAL YEAR AND MY LAST THREE OFFICE CHAIRS COMMITTED SUICIDE
once, i was introduced to a summer temp at work like this:

“hey, this is cheese, if you have any questions ask because cheese knows everything. literally everything.” <lololololol wanders off>


i got kinda pissy and said:

“thats not really true. i know nothing. i know where the manuals are though if you need to look something up”


to which new summer guy leans back in is chair and looks at me for like half a second, then says:

“you know, in my country, that means you are /very/ wise.” and then he smiles at me.


“no, not really. im just too dumb to quit like everyone else does after 3 years”


Im not entirely sure whether this story is in my favor or not, anymore.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

it tells me that you should be more willing to accept a compliment

fresh_cheese
Jul 2, 2014

MY KPI IS HOW MANY VP NUTS I SUCK IN A FISCAL YEAR AND MY LAST THREE OFFICE CHAIRS COMMITTED SUICIDE
there may have been a “thanks, but...” in there.

i would like to think so. it was a long time ago.

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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

fresh_cheese posted:

once, i was introduced to a summer temp at work like this:

“hey, this is cheese, if you have any questions ask because cheese knows everything. literally everything.” <lololololol wanders off>


i got kinda pissy and said:

“thats not really true. i know nothing. i know where the manuals are though if you need to look something up”


to which new summer guy leans back in is chair and looks at me for like half a second, then says:

“you know, in my country, that means you are /very/ wise.” and then he smiles at me.


“no, not really. im just too dumb to quit like everyone else does after 3 years”


Im not entirely sure whether this story is in my favor or not, anymore.

"The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing"
- Bill S. Preston, and Ted Theodore Logan

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