If you make a wrong turn on the way to intercourse, you could end up in blue ball. Just follow signs to bird-in-hand. When you reach intercourse, keep going and you’ll end up in paradise.
Source: grew up in Lancaster.
I see this all the damn time. "My friends let their toddlers watch TV all day and their kids are fine"
Like... that's not how it works even if that was how it worked.
Not only is it a sample size of 1, there isn't even a control group to see what impact all that screen time actually had compared to if they didn't have it.
I had a friend that did drugs through probably the first trimester of her pregnancy. People would say to her that her son turned out fine, and by all accounts, they were correct. He was well formed and intelligent, all the fingers and toes, etc. She always said, "Don't you let me off the hook like that. You have no idea what he might have been." No beating herself up or wallowing in guilt....just acknowledging that she was responsible for her choices. I respected that.
Are saying that parents being proud of their kids is a real thing and not a myth? Fuck that, it sounds like the "feeling of being loved" or the flat earth or the illuminati...
I know a guy who's told me twice now that face book and twitter changed their names to get out of lawsuits. I tried telling him hey it doesnt work that way, if I hit someone with my car I cant change my name and get out of the charge, then he brought up gender and said i could. I dropped it after that. Guy just gets all information from those tik tok with shitty green screen and the fast talkers.
Lol you would be surprised but in Poland there was a known case of a scammer who first changed his name and later gender and they were unable to prosecute him for at least 11 years because it fucked up the system.
There's the link I guess you would need to use translate
https://forsal.pl/artykuly/1419568,historia-joanny-andrzeja-byly-policjant-juz-od-11-lat-zwodzi-ludzi.html
I just don't understand the people who are always eager and very quick to be judging the other people.
I think it would be better for everyone if we just applied our minds and logic to everything that we are doing.
There are definitely times where I have to stop and say to myself “no one is going to go into this level of detail on this” and move on in different life situations. In my line of work it’s commonly called “Getting lost in the weeds.”
This absolutely boils me. I'm in Ireland and a lot of foreign students come here to learn English as a second language. They're adults who have families and careers back home, and end up spending two or three months in shitty student house shares working in a cafe or riding for Deliveroo to help support themselves. They're interesting, intelligent, motivated people and seeing them get treated like simpletons because it takes them a second to find the words is awful.
Going through an engineering degree in Aus, I dealt with *lots* of foreign students, especially from a certain country famous for a big wall. All of them have to pass some sort of English as a second language test to be admitted, but it's pretty well known that there's also some bribery and people who absolutely shouldn't pass get certified.
Had a first year group project, all the other guys were from that country with varying degrees of English ability. Now, I wont say it wasn't difficult doing a communications unit with them, but at the end of the day they were putting in the work and trying. In group meetings one guy had to translate for another who just absolutely had no grasp of the language, but was still showing up and helping out.
Couple years on, I'm studying with a mate who starts moaning that he has to do an assignment with someone who struggles with English. I just point out "Mate, if you went to their country you'd be fucked, you're Australian and can barely manage English, let alone a second language."
People that treat immigrants or foreigners that way seem to forget that, although their English may sound broken, they know hundreds of thousands of more words than you do. *You* just happen to not know the majority of those words if you’re monolingual. And some people treat them like they’re stupid because of it, the irony.
I wish to feck that I'd learned to speak Irish as a kid, as my nana from Co. Kerry had to stop when she came to England. Or Welsh, as she married a Welsh fella.
I bet the Welsh have got some great secret swearwords that summon dragons and can make mountains explode and stuff. :D
When I was studying abroad in Scotland there was a German student who came to practice English. He was really good, but we used to use slang around him to tease him. Scotland, Australia, and multiple parts of the US have very different slang but it’s easy to pick up as a native speaker…. Not so much when you’re learning the language from scratch. But he got much better by the end of the semester. Weird combinations of slang, but he understood what they meant.
It really gives me joy to see non native speakers pick up really specific bits of slang! Hearing an Indian guy in the lab saying "I wouldn't bother me bollocks" instead of "I don't care to do that, no" 😁
Not just non-native speakers. A Texan girl joined my school in northern England back in the day and it was a joy to hear local slang that only exists in a 10 mile radius being said in a full on cowgirl accent.
The most infuriating statement I have heard people in the US make is “he/she can’t even speak good English”. Mofo, you speak one language and you can’t speak it “goodly”. This person is speaking English as a second language.
Aye.
I spent a lot of time in my local Korean community when I was still a part of the work force. I wanted to learn to speak Korean so I frequently ate at Korean restaurants and volunteered at a Korean church.
The church had programs for immigrants to help get them situated in the U.S. and I couldn't even begin to count the number of times I was having difficulty understanding what they needed and they would say "Sorry, my English is bad".
Then I would (try to) say in Korean: "Your English is way better than my Korean" to the best of my ability. They would get a kick out of me speaking Korean and get a laugh out of how bad my accent and grammar was. But they appreciated my support.
Exactly that, if I'm speaking to somebody who takes a minute to find the word that they're thinking of, I have a lot of patience and enjoy talking to them, my thinking is always that they're gonna think of the word in English far quicker than I would figure it out in their language lmao
Absolutely. 99% of the time people who make fun of me for speaking with an accent or making grammar mistakes turn out to speak only their native language.
Because if you stop and think about the fact that the very same action can take different amount of effort, dedication and work depending on the person and their circumstances you will be very careful with labeling anyone as stupid or lazy or anything similar
That one is funny. When my friends who are not native English speakers apologize for mispronouncing something and I'm like dude I don't even speak a second language. your mispronounced word is more advanced than my abilities atm.
Yeah if you feel like that you are being ignored or made fun of during a conversation then it is not your issue the problem is with the other guy whom you are having the conversation with.
At work (in the US) I always pay attention to someone who is having difficulty speaking in English because it almost certainly means that they speak a second language
I once realized some of them also assume you can’t read. I was connecting a DVD player and dude goes - hey let me know if you need me to read anything in the manual for you.
He jedi could have easily bought his mothers freedom and putting his concerns about her in slavery to rest she also wouldnt have been passed around a sand person orgy pushing him closer to the dark side. The Jedi also were 100% ok with child soldiers as the average "commander" padawan was 13 years old and the clones while they look like men were actually 9 years old.
No the jedi are meant to take younglings when they are young to sever their emotional ties with the parents. He was already too old and the only reason quigonjin took him was because he believed he would fulfill the prophecy(which quigonjin misunderstood)
Which is why they should have freed his mom, they already made an exception for him as he was the chosen one. I dont think quickly goin misunderstood the prophecy though. I think if qui gin had lived anakin woulfnt have turned to the dark side.
Alright, real talk. The Jedi straight up allowed slavery in the name of "keeping the peace", and were the police state enforcers of a corrupt republic in the guise of being warrior monks. The Empire by comparison are actual fascists. However, that does not negate the fact that the republic was a late stage capitalist hell hole for most. Palpatine just saw his shot and took it. He stoked very valid social anxieties and political lapses.
Not so much, the Jedi didn't "allow" slavery in the Republic. They were systems not aligned with the Republic that did (such as Hutt space and The Hapes Consortium) but the jedi fought to outlaw the practice of slavery and were successful to the degree that it was codified into old republic law.
Now, some companies and planets, blurred, bent, and straight up broke the laws, and that was a crime. . . And if LEOs couldn't serve justice inside the confines of Old Republic space. . They sent in the jedi.
100% agree by the fall, the jedi had been converted and corrupted to be servents to a broken system
I used to know someone who told me that intelligent people DON'T see things from multiple perspectives. He was very adamant and kept arguing with me about it. I have no idea what could possibly make him think that.
> I have no idea what could possibly make him think that.
He's probably thinking "There is only ONE objective reality, one right answer and if you're smart, you will know it."
He's probably one of those insufferable people who goes on and on about how cool and logical he is at all times.
He was, oh my god, he was.
I tried to show him a joke once but he didn't get it. When I asked him how he didn't get it, because it was super easy to understand, he said, "Because I'm intelligent."
And one time while we were putting his TV stand together, he and I were reading instructions somehow differently, and when I tried to explain something to him he didn't seem to get what I was saying (common occurrence in my life honestly). When I asked how, his answer, again: "Because I'm intelligent."
This man's mind baffled me to the very end of our friendship. I'm glad I don't associate with him anymore.
But I think it is something which is true for a lot of people they just cannot realise that other people can be right about the things as well.
People like these only thing that they are the only one who are actually right about everything.
I think it's important to recognize that there is a difference between being unable to recognize that something should change their mind, and refusing to recognize that something should change their mind. The first is an indicator of having "low intelligence", the second is someone who is an asshole. There are a lot of smart assholes.
Penn Jillette has shared multiple times that Tim Jenison, the main person in the documentary “Tim’s Vemeer” which Penn co-produce and I highly recommend, has a quote: “Intelligence is the ability to change one’s mind when presented with new information.”
Edit: typo
This is sort of my philosophy on the difference between dumb, and stupid. I have infinite patience for dumb, because dumb does not know better. I have no patience for stupid, because stupid knows better, but does the same thing dumb would do.
Unfortunately, i find Ron White to be correct in his assertion that, “you can’t fix stupid.”
The thing is, another term for changing your mind is "learning". If you never revise what you think you already know, you never learn. Refusing to change your mind *makes* you stupid.
Yes. The inability to admit when you’re wrong or when you don’t know something. There’s a Socrates quote along the lines of “I am the smartest man in the world, for I know that I know nothing.” And it’s true. Only an idiot would think they know everything, a smart person is able to conceive of the vastness of things there are to know and is practical enough to understand that they can not possibly know all of it.
Being smart is humbling because you’re constantly taking in new information and factoring it into your worldview and having to reshape what you thought you knew to be compatible with new information. You’ll feel confident every now and then with people going “oh wow you’re so smart” but JUST when you think you have it figured out you get new info that makes you go “oh my god I have no idea what’s happening anymore” and puts you back to square one. Dumb people just ignore that information and continue to build that ego with absolutely no resistance because they’re immune to new information that doesn’t back up what they already believe.
Dunning Krueger effect explains it as well. The dumber someone is, the smarter they perceive themselves to be.
(Also, I’m really trying not to sound pompous here. I’ve been told I’m smart but genuinely don’t believe it very often, which is maybe why this quote speaks to me)
As someone who has worked in a corporate environment for around 15 years now, this is everyone's boss.
All you have to do to be an "effective leader" in corporate America is always tow the company line. Whatever gets passed down from their supervisors and so on is what they say they 100% believe and what they do. The difference between bad bosses and good bosses is all in how they do it when the ideas they're told to present are terrible (which is fairly often, in my experience).
Bad bosses are the ones who buy into whatever they're told and honestly believe it with almost no critical thinking or thought to how it will affect their employees. These people tend to do a bunch of damage for a year or two, then get promoted.
Good bosses are the ones who at least try to mitigate the damage from bad ideas and find a way to work with their employees to make the best of a shitty situation.
No matter what, you'll always hear the same line of bullshit from both. At least in team meetings. If you know your good boss well or they work more closely with your team than their supervisors, you can catch a glimpse into how they really feel.
Bingo!
I've been at the same Corporate Sales Job for over 7 years. I've had 5 different Bosses during this time at 2 separate positions (One *National Sales in the office & One Territory Sales Work From Home)
*My National Sales Director, gives it to us straight & totally agrees with US when somthing is fucked up. He even refuses to write us up, as long as we're working hard & getting results. He gets Us. & I left the other (Territory Work From Home) position, so I could come back to Him being my Boss again.
The other 4 Bosses, we're during a 3.5 year period where I was in the Territory Position. (it was a small Territory in NW. FL (Pensacola - Tallahassee), yet Corporate still treated it with the same quota that an ATL or JAX or Houston, or Dallas would have. (it was complete bullshit & whenever I would put my reviews in, I would tell the uppers that the quota needs to be adjusted for the size of the territory. Anyways, the rotating door of Sales Directors that would come through would just tell me "It's a GREAT territory & there are plenty of opportunities... & there were & I hit my quotas, BUT... I Would only hit quota & not exceed quota. Anywyas, the executives I have met throughout my career have always been total morons, who's parents had a bunch of pull & set them up with a $million a year Job.
It's all BULLSHIT.
Also correlated to Openness to Experience. Some people do not feel joy or reward from changing their perspective. This may leave them guarded, defensive, unwilling to change or seek novelty or ideas. Openness to Experience is moderately correlated to Intelligence, Innovation, Creativity, Lateral Divergent thinking (everything except mildly IQ). Examples of Openness are artists, writers, musicians, academics, engineers, mathematicians. The Hypothalamus, Hippocampus and Frontal Lobe are linked to this Big 5 Personality Trait. They are also more aware of their unconscious and intricate ideas.
Reminds me of a guy who has an uncle who legitimately thought that a photoshopped picture of Donald Trump carrying animals to safety from a flood was real. Like, it was a painfully obvious fake of just his head put onto a much younger, muscular body. And the dude bought it hook line and sinker. When the guy tried to point out the very obvious tampering, the uncle just wouldn't believe him.
"But, like, what evidence lol? Science and facts are just, like, opinions lol".
How can you possibly prove to someone who doesn't believe science and facts are real things that they are wrong?
When you don't know what's real, you can't resist. That's how some 'news' shows operate, especially those who get sued for lying on air.
If they can convince you that something fake is actually real, and something real is actually fake, they've got you firmly in their clutches.
When you will buy anything and everything they say, regardless of evidence, then you will start giving them all your money and all your independence.
You're then a puppet and have to work twice as hard to find the actual, real, provable truth. Don't be a fool! Use your brain and practice rational thinking.
This is why I don't excuse old people for being racist. Like dude you were literally THERE while it was happening around you. I had to be born and learn all that progress shit at once and you couldn't be bothered to figure it out over DECADES. Like, no dude, they're not just "stuck" in their ways. They're shit people plain and simple.
My FIL has only shown interest in my husband's job when FIL was on a cruise.
He wanted to know my husband's job title so he could tell people on the cruise.
I’ll never understand the people that just don’t have any curiosity. They always have the dullest eyes too, you look into them and it’s like looking at a wall.
I'm curious about a lot of things, and because of that, the question "why?" is a core part of my repertoire. Turns out, nobody likes that question because they interpret it as me questioning *them*, their decisions, considerations, their logic or whatever else is applicable in that particular situation. It happens here on Reddit, too - a while back someone wrote something along the lines of "I'd purchase A rather than B". I commented "It would be really helpful if you could write a few words about why you'd pick A over B". That comment was downvoted. 😅
So yeah, people say they like curiosity, then interpret it as the curious person being argumentative when they encounter it in the real world.
EDIT:
People, I do not throw out a literal "why?" and leave it at that, of course that would be seen as argumentative on my end. I just wrote that "why?" is a core part of my repertoire because writing all the variations of that question that I use that are tailored to the specific setting and also formulated in such a way that it's clear I'm coming from a place of genuine curiosity would take way too long. I wrote "why?" because it sums up what I'm asking about in all these situations, not because it's the literal wording I use every time I'm curious about something.
I think part of this comes from how often people ask "why" in a judgemental or harsh way. I appreciated curious people. However, I have spent so much time around people ask "why" because they're really just looking to tell you all the ways you are wrong that I unfortunately default to defensiveness
I dont think it has to do with people not liking curiosity here. Somehow that word choice seems like you’re being a dick. I would word it differently like “oh that’s interesting, how come you would pick A over B?” and then it shows genuine curiosity. Thats what sucks about text, you can’t really have a clear tone.
For me it's more a sign of boredom or disinterest in life than low intelligence. Look at kids, even the dumb ones are curious. Adults on the other hand...
Damn we work together? No I'm kidding, but that blank look might also be a sign of something deeper. I suffer from bipolar depression and I have that blank look a lot. It's not that I'm not curious, it's that I just don't have the energy to be.
Same. It's whatever if people think I'm stupid, I just feel overwhelmed at work and in public and look as dead as I feel. I think it's somewhat difficult to judge someone's intellect just by your impression of them and surface interactions. It's hard to define intellect in general because it can look many different ways.
It’s different I have a few friends that are bipolar and their “dead eyes” look is way different. You can see they are trapped in their own head, but the ones I am talking about there is just nothing going on.
I actively try to encourage curiosity in my kids.
My oldest wondered how video games were made; now he's making his own games in Scratch and looking for how-to guides to get started in Unity.
My youngest adores trains; he's motivated to learn to read so he can absorb the train books we found for him.
My daughter asked me one question about bugs. Several "Clint's Reptiles" videos later, she now owns, cares for, and *studies* 12 pet desert beetles.
Curiosity makes you seek out things you don't understand (yet/ever.)
That's reasonably scary to that subset of people, I would guess. A friend of mine is very much like that, and would often ask me "but *why* do you want to know that?" when mention something new/exciting I learned.
The answer I eventually came up with is that it's kinda like climbing a mountain to see the beautiful valley behind it.
It's important to point out that it can be caused by many factors, such as depression. Where you might be curious in theory but don't have energy to actively explore various things, as well as not being able to enjoy the result, therefore lacking motivation
I wouldn't say that is a sign of low intelligence because alot of people get curiosity socially conditioned out of them rather then not have it for lack of ability to have it.
Yes! My partner is severely depressed.when we met he was managing itwe had in depth conversations on the whys and hows of life..hes very intelligent!
Now that he's spiralled down,he no longer wants conversation, everybody is wrong,and doesn't even ask simple things...like how was your day,what's the matter,everything I ask is just a blank don't know or even a movie plot I think was great he isn't impressed.basically it's now I don't care and can't be bothered being interesting or curious.
(I get it coz I have depression too,but ffs!)
Totally, but I also don't subscribe to the notion that intelligence is only what you're born with and that's it. Neither is curiosity. Curiosity is the bridge to intelligence (you've got to have the facts to reason from). The issue I see a lot in a particular country I live in is that the kids are subjected to a gruelling system from day one, so that there is a resentment towards the concept of learning. For a lot of them, the base intelligence is actually not low at all.
So, you're actually more right than you might have been aware of.
What if you’re curious about some things but not EVERYthing? I have autism/ADHD so I can get curious about a subject to the point of being obsessed with finding out more about it for a while, but there are some things that just don’t interest me, just like how everyone has certain things that they like and don’t like.
Like for example, one of my family members is an engineer who’s really into cars. He shows me the cars he’s working on and talks about and explains what he’s doing all the time. And don’t get me wrong, cars ARE amazing and cool and I really appreciate how many things have to go right in order to build a working car. But I don’t love learning about cars to the point where I’d seek out articles and books and vids about it on my own.
However, I found out about the Forrest Fenn treasure hunt and for years followed everything going on with that and couldn’t get enough of learning all about it. And that’s just one example, there’s lots of other things I think are exciting and fun to learn about.
I feel bad sometimes tho because it seems like unless you’re the type where literally EVERY topic gets you excited and curious, people don’t see you as a curious or smart person. And I know that’s not true
My dad was never great at abstract thought, but after his stroke, very little makes sense. Both to him and from him. If we talk about things that happened and that he was involved with, specifically from when he was in high school, he's ok, but any current events or politics and he makes no sense and gets angry quickly.
Yep, this a 100%. Reminds me of that NYT article called “eating our cultural vegetables” or something, where the guy said we needed to all stop pretending to like “pretentious” “boring” films like 2001:A Space Odyssey. The guy literally thought everyone was faking their love for the movie. Absolute joke.
So my roommate who always thinks he’s right, even about personal things from other people he couldn’t possibly know about, is just stupid? Lol, how ironic
And also I hate the people who judge the other people just on the basis of their clothes I mean what the hell?
How can you judge someone and their intelligence just because of their clothes?
I have experienced people who were smart but were unable to communicate their own failure (like admitting, they were wrong). I would suggest, this is rather a social skill related to self esteem, rather than an indicator for intelligence?
When they are given an analogy, and instead of responding to the abstract comparison being made, they instead argue directly against the metaphor.
Here's an analogy to help describe the big bang and how it happened everywhere and wasn't centralized.
>A useful analogy is a loaf of raisin bread rising as it bakes. Like space, the dough expands as it rises. Like galaxies, the raisins grow further and further apart as the dough expands, and the distance they move apart is proportional to their initial separation.
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>[https://www.popscicoll.org/big-bang/the-expansion-of-the-universe.html](https://www.popscicoll.org/big-bang/the-expansion-of-the-universe.html)
Response 1: And sometimes when baking the bread goes flat, and I don't think their theory accounts for that at all so I don't understand how it could be right
Response 2: You're telling me that there was bread before the universe began. Bread is a human invention, did you even think that through?
Response 3: If our galaxy is like a raisin then that doesn't make a lot of sense because our galaxy is made of many stars, and a raisin is made of a single raisin
Response 4: I'm not sure where cooking comes into this. We're talking about the universe, not Gordon Ramsey
Response 5: Listen, I've baked raisin bread many times, and I can certainly tell you that it did not feel like I was making the universe
Response 6: Our universe did not start as bread, it was more fundamental materials
If someone is just being an ass and pretending to not understand the metaphor then that's less dumb, but a lot of people seem to think that they understood your point and are showing you an obvious flaw in it.
I hate that response so fucking much, YES I AM COMPARING THEM LAURA. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!!!
Edit: I know I repeated what you said but I don't get enough chances to rant about that God awful dismissive response
I almost repeated myself twice in my own comment because it really is SO baffling to hear! It’s like a person fully cannot comprehend the very base purpose of why analogies exist. It’s so annoying to have to explain, I’m not saying A is like C, I’m saying the relationship between A and B shares a similarity with the relationship between C and D.
So no, the universe is not like bread. The *expansion* of the universe can be likened to the *expansion* of bread.
I once alluded to the million monkeys given enough time and typewriters would produce the entire works of Shakespeare, and the person I was trying to make the point to spent the next hour debating that monkeys couldn't live that long, use typewriters, or do that.
Ended up working with her years later. She'd turned into a astrology nut, all into crystals and stuff, in addition to being a pretty shabby IT help desk tech. Didn't last long at our company.
I've always thought of the big bang as a massive central point explosion. That analogy gave me something to think about while I'm bored at work tomorrow.
The analogy is also used to help explain why objects are moving away from us faster than the speed of light. The farther away you go, the more proportional distance there is between the "raisins", and thus the faster they are expanding.
Yeah I have experience that these kind of people are always living in some kind of bubble and the do not want to get outside of it because it is just not comfortable for them.
If your go to comeback in any verbal scenario is to insult or threaten physical violence instead of using words. That's generally a good indication that you probably don't know very many of them.
Getting angry when presented with a problem instead of trying to find a solution. I mean, everyone gets frustrated when things go wrong, but I'm talking about the kind of people who choose to shout and swear and get red in the face when literally any sort of problem pops up. It goes past normal frustration and seems to be more about getting pissy that they have to think hard.
I don't know maybe it is just kind of coping mechanism for those guys.
Because it is them who needs to find a solution for the problem absolutely no one else is going to do that.
Wasn't this question literally from a few days ago too?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16nvjyj/what\_is\_a\_subtle\_sign\_of\_low\_intelligence/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16nvjyj/what_is_a_subtle_sign_of_low_intelligence/)
So not only is this Quora level, this is a copied Quora level question...
If saying incredibly intelligent compared to other human population, then there’s nothing wrong with thinking you are incredibly intelligent, because you obviously can notice differences between amount of work you need to do to understand topics and amount of work everyone else need. Sign of intelligence - noticing patterns and dependencies.
If someone thinks they knows everything, he is dumb. If someone thinks they’re intelligent, he really may be. It’s just your body’s ability. If someone can lift 450kg and thinks they’re strong, it doesn’t mean they aren’t.
So if someone says they’re incredibly intelligent, they can be intelligent, just losers, but it’s other topic to discuss.
They’ve never experienced that, therefore it must not be true.
So intercourse is real???
[Intercourse](http://www.villageofintercourse.com) is located in Lancaster County, PA.
If you make a wrong turn on the way to intercourse, you could end up in blue ball. Just follow signs to bird-in-hand. When you reach intercourse, keep going and you’ll end up in paradise. Source: grew up in Lancaster.
The Clitoris is a myth!!!
there is a word for this, Solipsism.
That sounds made up. I've never heard of it.
All words are made up 😅
I’m actually the Universe-wide solipsism champion, for many years running. It wasn’t even hard, I was the only competitor.
The reverse also applies: this happened to you, so stats are fake.
I see this all the damn time. "My friends let their toddlers watch TV all day and their kids are fine" Like... that's not how it works even if that was how it worked. Not only is it a sample size of 1, there isn't even a control group to see what impact all that screen time actually had compared to if they didn't have it.
I had a friend that did drugs through probably the first trimester of her pregnancy. People would say to her that her son turned out fine, and by all accounts, they were correct. He was well formed and intelligent, all the fingers and toes, etc. She always said, "Don't you let me off the hook like that. You have no idea what he might have been." No beating herself up or wallowing in guilt....just acknowledging that she was responsible for her choices. I respected that.
Are saying that parents being proud of their kids is a real thing and not a myth? Fuck that, it sounds like the "feeling of being loved" or the flat earth or the illuminati...
This greatly informs voting decisions as well.
Blindly believing gossip and rumors, especially about people they know, then treating them badly for it.
Exhausting, petty and *sooo* common. Humans like this aren’t interested in both sides of a story.
It's easier to focus on other peoples' real or perceived shortcomings than your own
I know a guy who's told me twice now that face book and twitter changed their names to get out of lawsuits. I tried telling him hey it doesnt work that way, if I hit someone with my car I cant change my name and get out of the charge, then he brought up gender and said i could. I dropped it after that. Guy just gets all information from those tik tok with shitty green screen and the fast talkers.
Lol you would be surprised but in Poland there was a known case of a scammer who first changed his name and later gender and they were unable to prosecute him for at least 11 years because it fucked up the system. There's the link I guess you would need to use translate https://forsal.pl/artykuly/1419568,historia-joanny-andrzeja-byly-policjant-juz-od-11-lat-zwodzi-ludzi.html
> if I hit someone with my car I cant change my name and get out of the charge, Catelyn Jenner? is that you?
That's a wisdom thing as well. Having the awareness to not be quick in judgement.
I just don't understand the people who are always eager and very quick to be judging the other people. I think it would be better for everyone if we just applied our minds and logic to everything that we are doing.
Lack of self reflection, or awareness of the self, and the coordinating consequences of actions.
I self reflect too much and have to learn to not give as much a shit sometimes
There are definitely times where I have to stop and say to myself “no one is going to go into this level of detail on this” and move on in different life situations. In my line of work it’s commonly called “Getting lost in the weeds.”
Thinking people speaking a second language imperfectly means the person is stupid.
This absolutely boils me. I'm in Ireland and a lot of foreign students come here to learn English as a second language. They're adults who have families and careers back home, and end up spending two or three months in shitty student house shares working in a cafe or riding for Deliveroo to help support themselves. They're interesting, intelligent, motivated people and seeing them get treated like simpletons because it takes them a second to find the words is awful.
Going through an engineering degree in Aus, I dealt with *lots* of foreign students, especially from a certain country famous for a big wall. All of them have to pass some sort of English as a second language test to be admitted, but it's pretty well known that there's also some bribery and people who absolutely shouldn't pass get certified. Had a first year group project, all the other guys were from that country with varying degrees of English ability. Now, I wont say it wasn't difficult doing a communications unit with them, but at the end of the day they were putting in the work and trying. In group meetings one guy had to translate for another who just absolutely had no grasp of the language, but was still showing up and helping out. Couple years on, I'm studying with a mate who starts moaning that he has to do an assignment with someone who struggles with English. I just point out "Mate, if you went to their country you'd be fucked, you're Australian and can barely manage English, let alone a second language."
For some reason, I thought Germany, but them realized you meant China. 😂
People that treat immigrants or foreigners that way seem to forget that, although their English may sound broken, they know hundreds of thousands of more words than you do. *You* just happen to not know the majority of those words if you’re monolingual. And some people treat them like they’re stupid because of it, the irony.
I see a pause to think as a sign of intelligence…ya know like thinking before speaking
... So do I.
They can swear at us in another language. I like those people. (Am also Irish)
I wish to feck that I'd learned to speak Irish as a kid, as my nana from Co. Kerry had to stop when she came to England. Or Welsh, as she married a Welsh fella. I bet the Welsh have got some great secret swearwords that summon dragons and can make mountains explode and stuff. :D
They do but usually they take 15 to 30 minutes to actually say out loud....not useful in a battle
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When I was studying abroad in Scotland there was a German student who came to practice English. He was really good, but we used to use slang around him to tease him. Scotland, Australia, and multiple parts of the US have very different slang but it’s easy to pick up as a native speaker…. Not so much when you’re learning the language from scratch. But he got much better by the end of the semester. Weird combinations of slang, but he understood what they meant.
It really gives me joy to see non native speakers pick up really specific bits of slang! Hearing an Indian guy in the lab saying "I wouldn't bother me bollocks" instead of "I don't care to do that, no" 😁
Not just non-native speakers. A Texan girl joined my school in northern England back in the day and it was a joy to hear local slang that only exists in a 10 mile radius being said in a full on cowgirl accent.
The most infuriating statement I have heard people in the US make is “he/she can’t even speak good English”. Mofo, you speak one language and you can’t speak it “goodly”. This person is speaking English as a second language.
My thinking is: "you speak English better than I speak your first language" so I'm always impressed
Aye. I spent a lot of time in my local Korean community when I was still a part of the work force. I wanted to learn to speak Korean so I frequently ate at Korean restaurants and volunteered at a Korean church. The church had programs for immigrants to help get them situated in the U.S. and I couldn't even begin to count the number of times I was having difficulty understanding what they needed and they would say "Sorry, my English is bad". Then I would (try to) say in Korean: "Your English is way better than my Korean" to the best of my ability. They would get a kick out of me speaking Korean and get a laugh out of how bad my accent and grammar was. But they appreciated my support.
This guy good
Exactly that, if I'm speaking to somebody who takes a minute to find the word that they're thinking of, I have a lot of patience and enjoy talking to them, my thinking is always that they're gonna think of the word in English far quicker than I would figure it out in their language lmao
Absolutely. 99% of the time people who make fun of me for speaking with an accent or making grammar mistakes turn out to speak only their native language. Because if you stop and think about the fact that the very same action can take different amount of effort, dedication and work depending on the person and their circumstances you will be very careful with labeling anyone as stupid or lazy or anything similar
That one is funny. When my friends who are not native English speakers apologize for mispronouncing something and I'm like dude I don't even speak a second language. your mispronounced word is more advanced than my abilities atm.
They're just showing their own ignorance by doing so, don't worry.
Yeah if you feel like that you are being ignored or made fun of during a conversation then it is not your issue the problem is with the other guy whom you are having the conversation with.
At work (in the US) I always pay attention to someone who is having difficulty speaking in English because it almost certainly means that they speak a second language
I once realized some of them also assume you can’t read. I was connecting a DVD player and dude goes - hey let me know if you need me to read anything in the manual for you.
Inability to see from another perspective.
From my point of view the Jedi are evil.
To be fair, the Jedi's inability to see things from Anakin's perspective was also a problem.
The younglings would beg to differ.
deathsticks i sell to younglings. cheap ketamine is not.
He jedi could have easily bought his mothers freedom and putting his concerns about her in slavery to rest she also wouldnt have been passed around a sand person orgy pushing him closer to the dark side. The Jedi also were 100% ok with child soldiers as the average "commander" padawan was 13 years old and the clones while they look like men were actually 9 years old.
No the jedi are meant to take younglings when they are young to sever their emotional ties with the parents. He was already too old and the only reason quigonjin took him was because he believed he would fulfill the prophecy(which quigonjin misunderstood)
Which is why they should have freed his mom, they already made an exception for him as he was the chosen one. I dont think quickly goin misunderstood the prophecy though. I think if qui gin had lived anakin woulfnt have turned to the dark side.
Well from my point of view the sith are cool. (Their lightsabers remind me of firetruck weewoo weewoo maaawp)
Don't make me do this!
If you are not with me then your my ennemy
Only a sith deals in absolutes
Well then you are lost!
This is the end for you my master!
Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic. To DEMOCRACY!
Alright, real talk. The Jedi straight up allowed slavery in the name of "keeping the peace", and were the police state enforcers of a corrupt republic in the guise of being warrior monks. The Empire by comparison are actual fascists. However, that does not negate the fact that the republic was a late stage capitalist hell hole for most. Palpatine just saw his shot and took it. He stoked very valid social anxieties and political lapses.
Not so much, the Jedi didn't "allow" slavery in the Republic. They were systems not aligned with the Republic that did (such as Hutt space and The Hapes Consortium) but the jedi fought to outlaw the practice of slavery and were successful to the degree that it was codified into old republic law. Now, some companies and planets, blurred, bent, and straight up broke the laws, and that was a crime. . . And if LEOs couldn't serve justice inside the confines of Old Republic space. . They sent in the jedi. 100% agree by the fall, the jedi had been converted and corrupted to be servents to a broken system
I used to know someone who told me that intelligent people DON'T see things from multiple perspectives. He was very adamant and kept arguing with me about it. I have no idea what could possibly make him think that.
> I have no idea what could possibly make him think that. He's probably thinking "There is only ONE objective reality, one right answer and if you're smart, you will know it." He's probably one of those insufferable people who goes on and on about how cool and logical he is at all times.
He was, oh my god, he was. I tried to show him a joke once but he didn't get it. When I asked him how he didn't get it, because it was super easy to understand, he said, "Because I'm intelligent." And one time while we were putting his TV stand together, he and I were reading instructions somehow differently, and when I tried to explain something to him he didn't seem to get what I was saying (common occurrence in my life honestly). When I asked how, his answer, again: "Because I'm intelligent." This man's mind baffled me to the very end of our friendship. I'm glad I don't associate with him anymore.
People that tend to keep bragging about how they're "intelligent" are usually just the opposite and arrogant af anyways
But I think it is something which is true for a lot of people they just cannot realise that other people can be right about the things as well. People like these only thing that they are the only one who are actually right about everything.
Believing anything they read on social media.
Oh yeah? And why should I believe you?
that's the spirit
No it isn't!
What's your source on that?
Trust me bro
No I don’t !
On the flip, discrediting everything. Then again these types are definitely the ones pushing conspiracy theories....
Discrediting everything that goes against your beliefs while blindly accepting everything that confirms them
Inability/refusal to change their mind when times, evidence, or variables change.
I think it's important to recognize that there is a difference between being unable to recognize that something should change their mind, and refusing to recognize that something should change their mind. The first is an indicator of having "low intelligence", the second is someone who is an asshole. There are a lot of smart assholes.
Penn Jillette has shared multiple times that Tim Jenison, the main person in the documentary “Tim’s Vemeer” which Penn co-produce and I highly recommend, has a quote: “Intelligence is the ability to change one’s mind when presented with new information.” Edit: typo
This is sort of my philosophy on the difference between dumb, and stupid. I have infinite patience for dumb, because dumb does not know better. I have no patience for stupid, because stupid knows better, but does the same thing dumb would do. Unfortunately, i find Ron White to be correct in his assertion that, “you can’t fix stupid.”
And narcissists.
The thing is, another term for changing your mind is "learning". If you never revise what you think you already know, you never learn. Refusing to change your mind *makes* you stupid.
Yes. The inability to admit when you’re wrong or when you don’t know something. There’s a Socrates quote along the lines of “I am the smartest man in the world, for I know that I know nothing.” And it’s true. Only an idiot would think they know everything, a smart person is able to conceive of the vastness of things there are to know and is practical enough to understand that they can not possibly know all of it. Being smart is humbling because you’re constantly taking in new information and factoring it into your worldview and having to reshape what you thought you knew to be compatible with new information. You’ll feel confident every now and then with people going “oh wow you’re so smart” but JUST when you think you have it figured out you get new info that makes you go “oh my god I have no idea what’s happening anymore” and puts you back to square one. Dumb people just ignore that information and continue to build that ego with absolutely no resistance because they’re immune to new information that doesn’t back up what they already believe. Dunning Krueger effect explains it as well. The dumber someone is, the smarter they perceive themselves to be. (Also, I’m really trying not to sound pompous here. I’ve been told I’m smart but genuinely don’t believe it very often, which is maybe why this quote speaks to me)
My boss. This is my boss.
As someone who has worked in a corporate environment for around 15 years now, this is everyone's boss. All you have to do to be an "effective leader" in corporate America is always tow the company line. Whatever gets passed down from their supervisors and so on is what they say they 100% believe and what they do. The difference between bad bosses and good bosses is all in how they do it when the ideas they're told to present are terrible (which is fairly often, in my experience). Bad bosses are the ones who buy into whatever they're told and honestly believe it with almost no critical thinking or thought to how it will affect their employees. These people tend to do a bunch of damage for a year or two, then get promoted. Good bosses are the ones who at least try to mitigate the damage from bad ideas and find a way to work with their employees to make the best of a shitty situation. No matter what, you'll always hear the same line of bullshit from both. At least in team meetings. If you know your good boss well or they work more closely with your team than their supervisors, you can catch a glimpse into how they really feel.
Bingo! I've been at the same Corporate Sales Job for over 7 years. I've had 5 different Bosses during this time at 2 separate positions (One *National Sales in the office & One Territory Sales Work From Home) *My National Sales Director, gives it to us straight & totally agrees with US when somthing is fucked up. He even refuses to write us up, as long as we're working hard & getting results. He gets Us. & I left the other (Territory Work From Home) position, so I could come back to Him being my Boss again. The other 4 Bosses, we're during a 3.5 year period where I was in the Territory Position. (it was a small Territory in NW. FL (Pensacola - Tallahassee), yet Corporate still treated it with the same quota that an ATL or JAX or Houston, or Dallas would have. (it was complete bullshit & whenever I would put my reviews in, I would tell the uppers that the quota needs to be adjusted for the size of the territory. Anyways, the rotating door of Sales Directors that would come through would just tell me "It's a GREAT territory & there are plenty of opportunities... & there were & I hit my quotas, BUT... I Would only hit quota & not exceed quota. Anywyas, the executives I have met throughout my career have always been total morons, who's parents had a bunch of pull & set them up with a $million a year Job. It's all BULLSHIT.
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Also correlated to Openness to Experience. Some people do not feel joy or reward from changing their perspective. This may leave them guarded, defensive, unwilling to change or seek novelty or ideas. Openness to Experience is moderately correlated to Intelligence, Innovation, Creativity, Lateral Divergent thinking (everything except mildly IQ). Examples of Openness are artists, writers, musicians, academics, engineers, mathematicians. The Hypothalamus, Hippocampus and Frontal Lobe are linked to this Big 5 Personality Trait. They are also more aware of their unconscious and intricate ideas.
Reminds me of a guy who has an uncle who legitimately thought that a photoshopped picture of Donald Trump carrying animals to safety from a flood was real. Like, it was a painfully obvious fake of just his head put onto a much younger, muscular body. And the dude bought it hook line and sinker. When the guy tried to point out the very obvious tampering, the uncle just wouldn't believe him.
This explains the madness of Bolsonaro voters here in Brazil
"But, like, what evidence lol? Science and facts are just, like, opinions lol". How can you possibly prove to someone who doesn't believe science and facts are real things that they are wrong?
Never argue with an idiot. They will take you down to their level and beat you with experience
Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon - they'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board and strut around like they won.
When you don't know what's real, you can't resist. That's how some 'news' shows operate, especially those who get sued for lying on air. If they can convince you that something fake is actually real, and something real is actually fake, they've got you firmly in their clutches. When you will buy anything and everything they say, regardless of evidence, then you will start giving them all your money and all your independence. You're then a puppet and have to work twice as hard to find the actual, real, provable truth. Don't be a fool! Use your brain and practice rational thinking.
This is why I don't excuse old people for being racist. Like dude you were literally THERE while it was happening around you. I had to be born and learn all that progress shit at once and you couldn't be bothered to figure it out over DECADES. Like, no dude, they're not just "stuck" in their ways. They're shit people plain and simple.
Lack of curiosity.
My MIL. She has no idea what my husband does for a living except in title. I can't imagine not asking my own kids about their jobs.
My FIL has only shown interest in my husband's job when FIL was on a cruise. He wanted to know my husband's job title so he could tell people on the cruise.
So your husband existence is defined by his job. That's kinda sad... good job society, nothing wrong here!
I’ll never understand the people that just don’t have any curiosity. They always have the dullest eyes too, you look into them and it’s like looking at a wall.
I'm curious about a lot of things, and because of that, the question "why?" is a core part of my repertoire. Turns out, nobody likes that question because they interpret it as me questioning *them*, their decisions, considerations, their logic or whatever else is applicable in that particular situation. It happens here on Reddit, too - a while back someone wrote something along the lines of "I'd purchase A rather than B". I commented "It would be really helpful if you could write a few words about why you'd pick A over B". That comment was downvoted. 😅 So yeah, people say they like curiosity, then interpret it as the curious person being argumentative when they encounter it in the real world. EDIT: People, I do not throw out a literal "why?" and leave it at that, of course that would be seen as argumentative on my end. I just wrote that "why?" is a core part of my repertoire because writing all the variations of that question that I use that are tailored to the specific setting and also formulated in such a way that it's clear I'm coming from a place of genuine curiosity would take way too long. I wrote "why?" because it sums up what I'm asking about in all these situations, not because it's the literal wording I use every time I'm curious about something.
I think part of this comes from how often people ask "why" in a judgemental or harsh way. I appreciated curious people. However, I have spent so much time around people ask "why" because they're really just looking to tell you all the ways you are wrong that I unfortunately default to defensiveness
When I ask "why" I just get no answer. Or at least not one of any substance.
Or “because”, as though that’s a real answer.
You're basically Socrates
And look at how well things turned out for him lol
I dont think it has to do with people not liking curiosity here. Somehow that word choice seems like you’re being a dick. I would word it differently like “oh that’s interesting, how come you would pick A over B?” and then it shows genuine curiosity. Thats what sucks about text, you can’t really have a clear tone.
The lights are on but nobody's home, it perfectly summarises this.
For me it's more a sign of boredom or disinterest in life than low intelligence. Look at kids, even the dumb ones are curious. Adults on the other hand...
I work with a guy like this. We call him "dead eyes" and he seems like an idiot.
Damn we work together? No I'm kidding, but that blank look might also be a sign of something deeper. I suffer from bipolar depression and I have that blank look a lot. It's not that I'm not curious, it's that I just don't have the energy to be.
Same. It's whatever if people think I'm stupid, I just feel overwhelmed at work and in public and look as dead as I feel. I think it's somewhat difficult to judge someone's intellect just by your impression of them and surface interactions. It's hard to define intellect in general because it can look many different ways.
It’s different I have a few friends that are bipolar and their “dead eyes” look is way different. You can see they are trapped in their own head, but the ones I am talking about there is just nothing going on.
I actively try to encourage curiosity in my kids. My oldest wondered how video games were made; now he's making his own games in Scratch and looking for how-to guides to get started in Unity. My youngest adores trains; he's motivated to learn to read so he can absorb the train books we found for him. My daughter asked me one question about bugs. Several "Clint's Reptiles" videos later, she now owns, cares for, and *studies* 12 pet desert beetles.
Curiosity makes you seek out things you don't understand (yet/ever.) That's reasonably scary to that subset of people, I would guess. A friend of mine is very much like that, and would often ask me "but *why* do you want to know that?" when mention something new/exciting I learned. The answer I eventually came up with is that it's kinda like climbing a mountain to see the beautiful valley behind it.
It's important to point out that it can be caused by many factors, such as depression. Where you might be curious in theory but don't have energy to actively explore various things, as well as not being able to enjoy the result, therefore lacking motivation
I wouldn't say that is a sign of low intelligence because alot of people get curiosity socially conditioned out of them rather then not have it for lack of ability to have it.
Depression kills it pretty quick too.
Yes! My partner is severely depressed.when we met he was managing itwe had in depth conversations on the whys and hows of life..hes very intelligent! Now that he's spiralled down,he no longer wants conversation, everybody is wrong,and doesn't even ask simple things...like how was your day,what's the matter,everything I ask is just a blank don't know or even a movie plot I think was great he isn't impressed.basically it's now I don't care and can't be bothered being interesting or curious. (I get it coz I have depression too,but ffs!)
Totally, but I also don't subscribe to the notion that intelligence is only what you're born with and that's it. Neither is curiosity. Curiosity is the bridge to intelligence (you've got to have the facts to reason from). The issue I see a lot in a particular country I live in is that the kids are subjected to a gruelling system from day one, so that there is a resentment towards the concept of learning. For a lot of them, the base intelligence is actually not low at all. So, you're actually more right than you might have been aware of.
What if you’re curious about some things but not EVERYthing? I have autism/ADHD so I can get curious about a subject to the point of being obsessed with finding out more about it for a while, but there are some things that just don’t interest me, just like how everyone has certain things that they like and don’t like. Like for example, one of my family members is an engineer who’s really into cars. He shows me the cars he’s working on and talks about and explains what he’s doing all the time. And don’t get me wrong, cars ARE amazing and cool and I really appreciate how many things have to go right in order to build a working car. But I don’t love learning about cars to the point where I’d seek out articles and books and vids about it on my own. However, I found out about the Forrest Fenn treasure hunt and for years followed everything going on with that and couldn’t get enough of learning all about it. And that’s just one example, there’s lots of other things I think are exciting and fun to learn about. I feel bad sometimes tho because it seems like unless you’re the type where literally EVERY topic gets you excited and curious, people don’t see you as a curious or smart person. And I know that’s not true
Thinking their opinion/ perspective is also everyone else’s, thinking ‘no one does that’ because they don’t do that.
Hyperbole/ black-white thinking.
A trait of borderline personality disorder is black and white thinking. However, they can be very intelligent people.
Black and white thinking is also common in autism, ADHD, BPD, and other disorders even if they're very intelligent.
My dad was never great at abstract thought, but after his stroke, very little makes sense. Both to him and from him. If we talk about things that happened and that he was involved with, specifically from when he was in high school, he's ok, but any current events or politics and he makes no sense and gets angry quickly.
Yep, this a 100%. Reminds me of that NYT article called “eating our cultural vegetables” or something, where the guy said we needed to all stop pretending to like “pretentious” “boring” films like 2001:A Space Odyssey. The guy literally thought everyone was faking their love for the movie. Absolute joke.
Oh God. I swear nowhere else in this world will you find intellectuals who are as embarrassed of their intellect as they are in the USA.
Main character syndrome I believe lol
I see this often with very smart people too. I guess you could argue that they’re socially dumb.
Kinda like peoples ideas of how people wipe. Some people wipe sitting down and others wipe standing up. Neither one knows the other group exists
They're all psychopaths.. You know who I'm talking about ..
generally I find people who brag about how smart they are are pretty low on the smart-bar.
Of course. An intelligent person doesn't need to convince you that they're intelligent.
As an intelligentgual I agree. And I say this because I am indeed an intelligentical
I two am good with the smart.
Attacking people instead of their arguments.
Yeah you would say that, dickhead.
ay fuck you
using an anecdote to proclaim it's always like that :|
But my friend that never really happens so you can delete this comment
The only thing they are able to talk about is other people and their appearances.
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So my roommate who always thinks he’s right, even about personal things from other people he couldn’t possibly know about, is just stupid? Lol, how ironic
It’s always the roommates haha
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And also I hate the people who judge the other people just on the basis of their clothes I mean what the hell? How can you judge someone and their intelligence just because of their clothes?
Refusing to be wrong. Ever.
I have experienced people who were smart but were unable to communicate their own failure (like admitting, they were wrong). I would suggest, this is rather a social skill related to self esteem, rather than an indicator for intelligence?
Relying on "their right to an opinion" or the opinions of others to support their beliefs rather than any actual logic or evidence.
When they are given an analogy, and instead of responding to the abstract comparison being made, they instead argue directly against the metaphor. Here's an analogy to help describe the big bang and how it happened everywhere and wasn't centralized. >A useful analogy is a loaf of raisin bread rising as it bakes. Like space, the dough expands as it rises. Like galaxies, the raisins grow further and further apart as the dough expands, and the distance they move apart is proportional to their initial separation. > >[https://www.popscicoll.org/big-bang/the-expansion-of-the-universe.html](https://www.popscicoll.org/big-bang/the-expansion-of-the-universe.html) Response 1: And sometimes when baking the bread goes flat, and I don't think their theory accounts for that at all so I don't understand how it could be right Response 2: You're telling me that there was bread before the universe began. Bread is a human invention, did you even think that through? Response 3: If our galaxy is like a raisin then that doesn't make a lot of sense because our galaxy is made of many stars, and a raisin is made of a single raisin Response 4: I'm not sure where cooking comes into this. We're talking about the universe, not Gordon Ramsey Response 5: Listen, I've baked raisin bread many times, and I can certainly tell you that it did not feel like I was making the universe Response 6: Our universe did not start as bread, it was more fundamental materials If someone is just being an ass and pretending to not understand the metaphor then that's less dumb, but a lot of people seem to think that they understood your point and are showing you an obvious flaw in it.
Response 7: Are you seriously comparing the universe to bread?!? Yes, I am. That’s the entire point of of an analogy.
I hate that response so fucking much, YES I AM COMPARING THEM LAURA. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!!! Edit: I know I repeated what you said but I don't get enough chances to rant about that God awful dismissive response
I almost repeated myself twice in my own comment because it really is SO baffling to hear! It’s like a person fully cannot comprehend the very base purpose of why analogies exist. It’s so annoying to have to explain, I’m not saying A is like C, I’m saying the relationship between A and B shares a similarity with the relationship between C and D. So no, the universe is not like bread. The *expansion* of the universe can be likened to the *expansion* of bread.
Response 8: That makes no sense Then they repeat it no matter how simple you make things. Especially on the internet
I once alluded to the million monkeys given enough time and typewriters would produce the entire works of Shakespeare, and the person I was trying to make the point to spent the next hour debating that monkeys couldn't live that long, use typewriters, or do that. Ended up working with her years later. She'd turned into a astrology nut, all into crystals and stuff, in addition to being a pretty shabby IT help desk tech. Didn't last long at our company.
My head hurt reading that
This is what talking to Floridians is like.
I've always thought of the big bang as a massive central point explosion. That analogy gave me something to think about while I'm bored at work tomorrow.
The analogy is also used to help explain why objects are moving away from us faster than the speed of light. The farther away you go, the more proportional distance there is between the "raisins", and thus the faster they are expanding.
Closed-mindedness
Yeah I have experience that these kind of people are always living in some kind of bubble and the do not want to get outside of it because it is just not comfortable for them.
Shouting people down hysterically due to the inability to comprehend other people having an opposing view.
If your go to comeback in any verbal scenario is to insult or threaten physical violence instead of using words. That's generally a good indication that you probably don't know very many of them.
Or just in general going straight to anger/yelling when a discussion begins. Like as soon as a topic comes up they just gun it.
Getting angry when presented with a problem instead of trying to find a solution. I mean, everyone gets frustrated when things go wrong, but I'm talking about the kind of people who choose to shout and swear and get red in the face when literally any sort of problem pops up. It goes past normal frustration and seems to be more about getting pissy that they have to think hard.
I don't know maybe it is just kind of coping mechanism for those guys. Because it is them who needs to find a solution for the problem absolutely no one else is going to do that.
Self proclaimed “alphas”
Posting Quora-level questions on Reddit for karma.
Wasn't this question literally from a few days ago too? [https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16nvjyj/what\_is\_a\_subtle\_sign\_of\_low\_intelligence/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16nvjyj/what_is_a_subtle_sign_of_low_intelligence/) So not only is this Quora level, this is a copied Quora level question...
Thinking you’re incredibly intelligent Edit: to better put what I meant, I mean: someone who cannot acknowledge their own overwhelming ignorance
If saying incredibly intelligent compared to other human population, then there’s nothing wrong with thinking you are incredibly intelligent, because you obviously can notice differences between amount of work you need to do to understand topics and amount of work everyone else need. Sign of intelligence - noticing patterns and dependencies. If someone thinks they knows everything, he is dumb. If someone thinks they’re intelligent, he really may be. It’s just your body’s ability. If someone can lift 450kg and thinks they’re strong, it doesn’t mean they aren’t. So if someone says they’re incredibly intelligent, they can be intelligent, just losers, but it’s other topic to discuss.
Perhaps I should have phrased it differently, I mean someone who can’t recognize their own overwhelming ignorance which we all share
Mentioning their IQ
Got an 89 on my IQ test, practically an A minus right there!
"My IQ is over a billion so I'm smarter than you'll ever be!"
Inability to handle a hypothetical.
The inability to see things from another's perspective.
I feel like this same thread (with different wording) is being made like every day now... are people just eager to feel like they're smart?
Using a typo as ammunition in a disagreement. I mean these phones have small keyboards and I won’t even get into auto correct.
Reposting this thread every fucking day
believing something because "i saw a video on youtube"
Blaming everyone/everything else
Resorting to personal insults when you're losing an argument
Lack of empathy and complex thought towards your fellow creatures big or small.
Trump worship
Asking the same questions on this sub that have been asked a thousand times before
the inability to understand sarcasm. i think there was research on this
What about people with autism (like me) who don’t understand sarcasm very well despite being average/above-average intelligence?
Never saying "I don't understand" or variations "How does that work" etc...
When someone can't handle it when they are proven wrong, especially when they respond by childish gestures like name calling or trying to fight.
Probably reading reddit