Mensa Champion Blunders On Veg Case PR

[Blind groper]

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

Yeah. Mine is only 130, which makes me a "moron".

There was an interesting survey, though, done a few years ago, on Canadian Mensa Club members. Believe it or not, over 40% believe in astrology, and over 50% believe that many UFO's are extraterrestrial space craft. Is that rational?

[Jason]

I'm certain they have their rationales.

[redunderthebed]

I wonder what the people who run the organisation for intellectually disabled people in the UK thought of the comments.

[Jason]

Probably thought they're running low on carrots.

[redunderthebed]

Probably thought they're running low on carrots.

Hehe but yes I've worked/being friends with people with intellectual and learning disabilities and they are usually much nicer and awesome people than others that are "normal" and sneer at them as this idiot did.

[Jason]

The poor fellow is a victim. You can't blame him for being in possession of an eminently superior intellect, just as you can't blame the intellectually disabled for their disabilities.

[redunderthebed]

The poor fellow is a victim. You can't blame him for being in possession of an eminently superior intellect, just as you can't blame the intellectually disabled for their disabilities.

If you want to play the victim then you are absolutely correct but observe anyone who does enter that mental state and you'll see that it gets them nowhere bloody fast in life.

[cronus]

There's good and evil in everyone as they say. But evil only really becomes dangerous when combined with the superior intellect. And IQ measures don't measure anything beyond raw problem solving ability, and that is so very beyond the common man that anything below 120 is retarded. Anything above 140 is spooky if not downright Machiavellian. Which is why there is a intellectual/rationalist 'elite' incapable of displacing a political class who appear to be morons, yet appear to be in the driving seat.

[Jason]

You took too many pills Crumple. Induce vomiting and call 999.. or whatever it is for emergency services over there.

[cronus]

I probably ate too much cake, actually.

[laklak]

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.

Weird how the mind works, eh? Give me any sort of linear logic puzzle I'll rip most people's tits off, I'm good at it, that's why I was a good programmer. But give me an anagram, man, I'm fucked. Mrs. Lak just looks at them and writes down the answer. I start a brute force algorithm in my head, substituting one letter at a time. Forget Scrabble, I once actually started a game with "moo". But I kick ass at Trivial Pursuit.

Oh, and I'm hung like a donkey. That has to count for something.

[FBM]

I briefly had a co-worker roommate here in Korea who on every opening bragged that he was a Mensa member. He loved to sling sarcastic asides and put-downs that he thought I was too dumb to get. I straightened him out about that, eventually. He was about 5'7" and not in the least athletic. I'm not huge at 5'11" but I was into bodybuilding in my 20's and was taking Hapkido at the time. He stopped the sarcasm, but then he tried to appropriate my TV. He just took it out of the living room and put it in his bedroom without a saying word. When I got home from Hapkido class that night and asked him wtf he thought he was doing, he said, 'Well, you don't watch it anyway. You go and jump around with those kids every night.' Dafuq. After I made him put it back, I told him he needed to find another job and another place to live. Last I heard he went to Thailand. Twunt.

[cronus]

Giga Society members are the worst. There aren't many knocking about but they are so far up themselves they treat everyone like insects.

[pErvinalia]

Carrots are one of the few vegetables I actually enjoy eating.

[Jason]

I never applied to join Mensa, but a guy I went to high school with did. He was an insufferable idiot too.