I was kind of thinking about the same thing. I know Hawking is a smart guy, I’ve read his pop-science book (not the hard ones.) But I’ve known a lot of smart people who weren’t world-famous scientists.
Smart is one thing. But working your ass off in an academic field probably counts for a more. Nobody is born Stephen Hawking… not even Stephen Hawking.
@anon27007144 It seems like he was a lot smarter a few decades ago. Even Republicans are whispering, “Alzheimer’s.”
Trump would never brag about his towering intellect.
He’s humble.
More humble than your could understand:
Fry is brilliant but I think Sandi Toksvig has been a more than worthy successor.
Lol, doesn’t sound too fuckin smart to me, a mere mental plebe.
Right after college I worked for a new age software catalog company. It sold (among other things) a program that was supposed to measure your IQ and then help you increase it. It was marketed as “Guaranteed to raise your IQ 15 points!” When I asked the developer about it he said, “Sure… we measure your IQ and then tell you that it is 15 points higher than it actually is. No one wants to know they’re dumb.”
If Trump was ever the smartest man in the room growing up when he was young, it must have been a damned small room.
The IQ test was an “official” version; I took it separate from the Mensa test. Both are still, however, bullshit, in my opinion =).
I wish Rex had quoted William F. Buckley, Jr, “I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
tRump was really saying, “i’m sart.”
This is why I never, ever boast.
And she (or perhaps the fear of being let go) has considerably pepped up Alan Davies as well.
Seems like you’re saying you don’t boast more than anyone else.
Pretty boastful.
Scientology claims to increase IQ by ever larger amounts, but as their methodology involves taking the same tests over and over again, I question their results.
You know what?
Fuck this noise. There should be no shame in having a high IQ; IMO this sort of pooh-poohing ridicule is the epitome of anti-intellectualism.
If someone says they can bench 300lb, you don’t have people coming out of the woodwork to say how there are different kinds of strength, and the bench press doesn’t tell you much and so on.
It’s fucking bullshit. 140, represent.
Yes, that Dr. Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge is just notorious for his anti-intellectualism.
A bench press is an objective measure of upper body strength. An IQ test is a measure of how much you think like people who write IQ tests.
Also, people who can’t resist bringing up how much they can bench press into casual conversation are douchebags too.
There’s no shame in having a high IQ. It is shameful (or at least pathetic) to boast about it as if it matters in and of itself. What matters and what is noticed, as others have mentioned, is how one applies one’s intellect.
So many sounds and lines are ingrained in my memory from that game. From “My hotel is clean as an elven arse” to
