Mensa Champion Blunders On Veg Case PR

[cronus]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media ... 28919.html

'If your IQ is somewhere around 60 then you are probably a carrot' - leading member of Mensa apologises after controversial comment on BBC Breakfast

The BBC and Mensa have both apologised after a leading member of the society called anyone with an IQ below 60 a “carrot” live on air.

Peter Baimbridge, a Mensa member, made the comments during an interview with BBC Breakfast.

He was being asked about the effectiveness of IQ tests at judging intelligence.

"So most IQ tests will have Mr and Mrs Average scoring 100 and the higher you get, the brighter you are. And if your IQ is somewhere around 60 then you are probably a carrot," Mr Baimbridge said.

A number of viewers contacted the programme to voice concerns over the remarks, which they said insulted people with learning difficulties.

(continued, technically he wans't being too bright himself with that gaff on national TV?)

[Audley Strange]

MENSA. A society which dumb people think makes them smarter than average cause they can do sudoku and shit. Yeah fear the future....

Twats.

[Tero]

Well, carrots with guns, here in the US.

[Audley Strange]

Behold the intellectual overlord...

Looks like the sort of spoon farming oaf that still fears the roaring iron birds.

[cronus]

http://www.mensa.org.uk/cgi-bin/item.cg ... 23&h=5&f=3

Damage limitation but no one is reading 'cept Mensa members. Dumbfucks.

[Audley Strange]

They really are, I went to school with a guy who was some MENSA junior dweeb. It was a rough school, so if he'd been smart he'd have not appeared on local T.V. and acted like a smug little Fauntleroy. He'd have known there would have been repercussions. I guess he was to busy solving the worlds word square disaster or something. He inevitably got his shit kicked in. Thing was academically he wasn't particularly impressive either.

[Strontium Dog]

What a fool, the correct term is "cabbage"

[Audley Strange]

I thought it was lib-dem.

[Strontium Dog]

The Lib Dems are pro-intellectual, not anti-intellectual like the media

[Audley Strange]

The Lib Dems are pro-intellectual, not anti-intellectual like the media

I was just yanking your chain. I don't actually care.

[Strontium Dog]

I know. Neither do I.

[cronus]

He was wearing a black shirt....? I see a pattern here.

[Jason]

Sudoku? Easy peazy. I solve the ultra-hard ones in less than 2 minutes.. but I cannot win a game of connect four to save my life.

[Blind groper]

Having a high IQ does not necessarily make you smart. Lots of Mensa members cannot think rationally to save their lives. To be smart requires both - intelligence and rationality, and they are not the same thing.

[Jason]

That's just what people with IQs less than 140 say to make themselves feel better.