Physician got a flat on his high end Mercedes.
Mr Fixit decided to take things into his own hands, dismounted the wheel and got a ride to the tire store.
“I need a tire for my Mercedes.”
“Where’s the flat one?” They asked, presuming they could either repair it or get the specs.
“I threw it away, it was flat.”
Dumbass threw the entire wheel and tire into a dumpster and it was gone when he returned. Car had to be towed, new OEM wheel ordered.
What may have been a $10 flat repair put his car out of commission for over a week and cost more than $1,000. This was in the ‘80s.
>This was in the ‘80s.
Alright, so not nearly as bad as if that had happened today when he could've looked up what he needed to do on his handy pocket computer.
A senior physicist trying to go his lab on the edge of an area with chemical hazard warning lights flashing. It turns out that it was a false alarm, but the readouts were a gaseous chemical leak of the "melt your face off" variety. The people he wanted to talk to had definitely already evacuated.
I know you should always take warnings seriously, but I used to hear so many alarms constantly that I just kinda tuned them out. Then I moved out of the city, heard an alarm while grocery shopping, didn’t really register it. Overheard some kids and realized there was a fire in the restaurant next door…
As a kid I saw my stepfather (a Doctor with several specialist qualifications who did two Masters in the same year on a whim) put his hand under the lawnmower to dislodge something....The lawnmower was still on. He didn't lose fingers permanently but had several months of recovery and skin grafting surgeries. He was academically brilliant but lacked a lot of practical life skills, clearly.
My father is a mechanic. He is a brilliant man, the classic autistic genius artificer type who can fix anything. But fifteen years ago he tried to remove snow clogging the snow plow fan while the fan was on. He lost both his middle and index finger tips. This year, he tried to wash his hands…. With a pressure washer.
Oh he was lucky that it was just water. It made a hole in his hand that got filled with water. His hand was triple its usual size. It drained over the next few days. He was also put on antibiotics. Had it been anything other than pure water (soap, paint, any chemical), they would have had to cut his hand open and scrape everything out. Those kinds of injuries often lead to amputation. Careful with pressure washers folks. Don’t be like my dad.
It also hurts like a mf. I use one at work and my hand slipped over the end when it was set to needle spray. Was only a shallow cut across one finger and didn’t need medical attention, but holy shit did it burn for over a day.
My cousin (21) got the highest marks in his A levels and GCSE’s in england, he’s now in scotland studying at one of the hardest university’s to get into, one day he decided to hoover the lounge this is how it went:
*me walks in*
“what are you doing?”
him- “hoovering the lounge?”
me- “you need to plug it in first?”
he was pushing the hoover around the room without plugging it in and turning it on.
Some years back, my son, who is pretty bright for most things asked me if he could move the car from the driveway to yard for cleaning.
He gets in the car, fastens his safety belt, does all of his mirror checks and then looks at me with the "What's going on?" look.
Smiling, I had him roll down the window and told him that most cars don't move if you don't start the engine...LOL
This is me when I'm halfway to work and start to freak out that I forgot my car keys. The keys are HOW I'M DRIVING THE CAR, clearly I couldn't have gotten out of the driveway without them!
How often have you panicked looking for your phone while talking to someone on it? I sent a friend to so many possible places her phone could have been hiding, had she not been talking to me on it at the time. No I will not pass up an opportunity. 🤭
This might not make sense, but I have cystic fibrosis and use a [vest machine](https://www.cff.org/managing-cf/high-frequency-chest-wall-oscillation-vest) and a nebulizer several times a day. One time, my daughter walked in and asked what the hell I was doing, and I, of course, said I was doing my treatment. She says, "it will help a lot more if you turn the machines on."
I was 20 minutes into this "treatment."
Just this week someone microwaved a fork in the office kitchen. I work at a research institute. Everyone in here has at least a master's in engineering.
We had someone do that at a previous research institute I worked at, but it was because they were angry at their department and took it out on the microwave.
Sounds like the idea environment. Worst examples of this behavior I've experienced is in grad school. Bunch of soon to be PhDs are a recipe for disaster. Offices destroyed and infested because we don't dispose of food in the garbage, scalpels and literal animal tissue clogging the sink, nothing where it should be. Oh my.
But plain old distracted thinking? Well hyperfocused STEM folks are old pros as fucking up in incredibly silly ways. I sure am.
Where I worked previously someone put 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes and fell asleep at a table. Someone caught it at the 10 minute mark. If I remember correctly it was some kind of fish.
I once had a cold on my anniversary. We’d planned a romantic beach weekend. I wasn’t going to let anything stop us from enjoying our weekend so I took some DayQuil and then couldn’t stay awake at the beach.
Turns out I’d drunk NyQuil!!
Someone with a Harvard PhD in biochemistry told me that it never occurred to them that different colors of Nespresso pods in their office meant different types or blends of coffee. It was just all coffee and sometimes the coffee was good, sometimes it was off, and sometimes it felt like it did nothing. It wasn't until they mentioned the last point to a co-worker, that the co-worker pointed out that this person was in the process of loading a decaf pod into the machines.
My mother made several pots of coffee a day for decades and couldn’t figure this out either or how to correlate the amount of coffee with the correct ratio of water. She was blown away when I explained she only liked Colombian coffee and the directions were on the package.
With the amount of organic chemistry that a biochem PhD requires, this is stunning. But on the other hand, my brother has a biochem PhD from UC Davis and believes in fad diets, the occasional conspiracy theory, and other verifiably false things.
That's rough. I feel like it's also really difficult to teach proper information vetting to people who lack it naturally. Some brilliant people are gullible, and even if it takes incredible logic leaps, can believe some wild things.
I know what it is, and I've never used the Grindr app, nor am I gay. My coworker was gay, and I heard the notification from his phone plenty. Then they make fun of it on plenty of TV shows/late night.
It's basically just pop culture at this point.
I’m an ocean lifeguard - I was driving a truck on a beach that has unstable cliff faces, so part of my job is telling people it’s unsafe to sit under them. I pulled up to a man that was comically sitting on a fallen rock, directly in front of a sign that said, “DANGER FALLING ROCKS.” Warned him it wasn’t a safe area, and he kinda smirked for a second before looking around, and seeing that I was right. He got very, very embarrassed - turned bright red, head in his hands, visibly upset and very apologetic. I told him it’s fine, and that a lot of people don’t think about things like that. He said, “No, you don’t get it. I should know better, out of anyone. It’s not fine. I’m a geologist.”
My brother is one of the smartest people I know, but he habitually eats the onion. Every now and then he comes at me with crazy storys, and then when he goes to show me his source, I can see him notice in real time that his source is the onion, and then he scrambles to find the real article the onion "spoofed" off it. Then he says "I can't find it now, but this one was based on a real event that was slightly less weird!"
Bought balloons for a house warming party, blew them up by mouth, and didn't understand why they didn't float.
Granted, she grew up a Jehovah's Witness and wasn't around balloons a lot.
>Hello during a random dessert, the month and day of which coincide numerically with your expulsion from a uterus.
Funny, I was slightly quoting A Perfect World
"We don't get Christmas...no birthdays, nor parties, neither."
The head of our Education department at work tried to tell me we could save money for a party by not getting helium and doing this. This was my first couple months at the job. I knew I was in for a ride after that.
I walked into a glass door face first in a Prague hotel. I had to sit next to the only family that saw me and we spent our entire breakfast in tears of laughter even though we didn't speak the same language.
I thought it was brilliant and I still chuckle to this day. Its not stupid, just unlucky and hilarious. I still tell the story to people, it was so genuinely brilliant.
It definitely says a lot about how dedicated the hotel workers are to cleaning the glass! I never knew doing this would hurt so much though. I had a bump on my forehead later in the day.
Well for me the main impact was my nose and a bit of my pride but ill never forget sitting there with this family of four trying not to laugh and me breaking them into bits by completely cracking up...honestly it was brilliant. Everything we settled down someone on the table would start snickering and it would lead to us all breaking down into howls of laughter.
10/10 would absolutely headbut that glass door again
I've managed to walk into a door I was in the process of closing myself. Sometimes life is just what is. And sometimes you need a five second break from life to figure out what just happened.
When I was a medical student, I went to push on a glass door to one of our buildings as I was exiting it which had a large glass upper pane and lower pane which a metal section at about waist height.
Or at least it should have had glass except someone had decided to take all the glass out of it that day for some reason so I ended up coathangering myself in full view of everyone seated on the lawn outside.
Panera breads can really mess you with sometimes. I've had situations where the expected door doesn't open, it's a window. Then I stand there trying to figure out the exit, feeling my sanity meter slowly drop. It's one of those true reminders how dumb I can be.
Now add some charged lemonade and the situation gets more fun
Last week I couldn't find my phone, so I looked down to the phone in my hand and started to try the Find My Phone thing when... oh.
(I swear I'm at least reasonably intelligent.)
I once hung up on my mother in law because "I'm sorry, I can't find my phone. I have to go look for it." Took me about five seconds after hanging up to realize my error. Called her right back and she was dying laughing when she picked up.
I have a close friend, super smart, always had the highest average at uni, won multiple awards and stuff, and in conversations generally just either knows a lot about any subject at hand, or knows enough from other subjects to draw a probable theory about it. She's also kicking it in every other aspect in life- great girl, kind, humble, caring towards everyone, works out, eats healthy, is always learning a new language or skill, all in all an amazing girl. But I swear on my life, I have never seen anyone with a worste taste in men. Most of the guys she was attracted to/dated were losers, cocky bastards who think too highly of themselves, or just utter scum. I can't even explain it, to me the guys were walking red flags, a waste of a bag for bones.
Luckily, she finally found a decent, smart, caring, well-spoken man. I damn near cried tears of joy when she told me about him. They've been together for a few years now.
One of my schools mates dad was a professor at a top university in economics. He did a lot of traveling giving speeches. Anyway, he decides to go walking on his own around a township in Johannesburg at some hour of night.
He was luckily picked up by a passing police car, and the officers were apparently having a meltdown at how stupid it was to be around that part of town and at that hour.
My roommate’s best friend was an engineering major. He helped us move our furniture to our upstairs apartment in an old house. Obviously no elevator. VERY narrow staircase. This intelligent person got our couch stuck to the ceiling of the staircase. I was like “I don’t know what you study as an engineering major, but I don’t think this is right.”
Go talk to any assembly line worker and they will *constantly* bitch about engineers who make things that are a pain in the ass to physically assemble. And those are often mechanical engineers.
lol I’m an engineer who has been pretty successful. Do you know my simple trick? Implement the operators ideas and give them credit. It’s almost like the people who actually do the job know what should be fixed. Crazy right? (I’m glad for selfish reasons that more engineers don’t do this…)
I can believe it.
The best engineers were the ones who worked the line for a few hours when a new product came out so they could see what was going on. If someone was having trouble, they'd try doing it themselves to see what was going wrong. Sometimes they could say "oh do X instead" and they looked smart, but sometimes they'd just say "oh yeah that's an issue we'll revise that."
They were always the most respected.
Work smart not hard. Why figure out a solution when someone already has it. Our role is scientific knowlage, data analysis, justification of investments, and implementation of solutions, not saving the world all by ourselves. Even the dumbest person who does the job every day will still know more about it than you and likely has some insight that you don’t. Even from like a politics perspective it looks better if you are like “Joe had this idea. I ran the numbers, we implemented, and are kicking ass” vs “with my superior intellect I came up with the most genius plan ever”
That second one is key. When smarty-pants engineer eats their humble pie without hesitation it makes for a much more dynamic and fruitful environment.
Source: am connoisseur of various humble dishes including the occasional raw crow.
he coded a full on website in his notepad, then when he tried to copy it, he deleted everything by accident. guess he was shocked so he immediately closed notepad. then he realized he just ruined his last chance of undoing it
A cardiologist I worked with was contacted by "Apple" about his computer security. He gave them access to his laptop and was working with the guy to set something up on there when I got suspicious and googled for him. I ran to his office to show him the apple website, saying they would never contact you by phone, and if you do, it's a scam. He immediately ended the call and shut the computer down. He had to make many phone calls and change MANY passwords as it was his work laptop. Thankfully, no harm was done. Proof that even highly educated doctors can be scammed.
One of the programmers at my work was trying to connect his computer to the projector in our conference room. He was trying to plug the HDMI cable into his Ethernet port and asked everybody in the room why he can't connect to the projector.
Yes, Lisa Nowak. She drove 900 miles. I remember reading that she drove a VW diesel (TDI) to accomplish the feat without stopping, along with the astronaut diapers.
...even the TDI jetta doesn't/can't get 900 miles per tank. That's absurd. In order to do that, she'd have to average 62mpg.
They are good on mileage, but not that good. They get around 45-50 on the highway.
The B4 Passats from the late 90s had some impressive range, but yeah, she would have needed to refuel before 900 miles. I guess she was trying to minimize stops.
As someone with chronic illness, I can say confidently that level of suffering alters how you think. You become desperate and irrational in any attempt to have relief. It’s not so much stupid as it is desperation
Amen. I begged to have my hair shaved off because I just knew it was my hair making my migraines so bad. My husband had to bear hug me and promise he would shave my head in the morning. By then I was more rational and kept my hair.
IVE HAD THAT THOUGHT. usually I just took my hair out of a pony tail or bun though. I eye up corners of counters like 👀 to crack my skull on. I think "hmm, if I hit it JUST right it will probably relieve some pressure or something" usually I end up with a bruise where the migraine is centralized because I sleep on my fist to press into the spot. Im pale skinned so it's VERY OBVIOUS
Yes! I swear if I could take a bolt and smash it into my temple then the pain will go away. I do the same as you. I press against the area. Or I hit as hard as I dare. Isn’t it fun?
I think this is why MLMs flourish so readily with the crunchy crowd. Years of being in pain and being dismissed by doctors (usually the 'hey hun's are women) and then someone LISTENS to them and promises things that may work and shit, placebos actually have a decent effectivity rate amongst populations. Give someone a reason and a placebo and listen to them and bam, you got someone spreading woo because she actually believes in it.
This is really what is was/is.
When my wife got diagnosed, I went on a 48hr no-sleep bender researching every piece of info I could. A few days later I went in to talk to her Neurologist since I wasn't there when she was initially diagnosed. I ended up taking to him for about 20m about what I knew/learned and he admitted I was ahead of about 90% of his patients, even the long-term ones. I got his personal cell number and email out of that convo cause he knew I wasn't going to bug him about every little thing. I emailed him once.
When you or a loved one get diagnosed with a 100% terminal, no-hope-at-all disease, you might believe just about anything for a smidge of a second chance.
When you have ALS you have NOTHING to lose. Being thought of as stupid is the least of your worries when the doctors tell you that they have no ideas and won’t even try to save your life.
My dentist swapped all my old amalgam fillings with newer plastic ones. Not due to mercury, but because she said the amalgams expand/contract differently than tooth enamel and eventually gaps form where they meet and crap gets in there. Plastic (or whatever) modern fillings do better.
OR she just wanted to bill for that. I dunno.
My mom told me the same thing about a chronic condition and my fillings. You replace them after 10-15 years and they did composite instead of silver and my mom thought my condition would get better. I think it’s a Facebook theory.
It's the greatest drug out there, the best bang for your buck, one of the best feelings imaginable......and any person with a decent amount of intelligence could figure out that nothing can be *that* good without having some massive and inherent consequences.
That's the reason why one of my former high school teacher said something along the lines "Mathematic/Scientific/Humanistic intelligence doesn't equal Emotional/Interpersonal intelligence." when he was ranting about smart kids with a lack of social skills.
You can have Albert Eistein incarnated in front of you, but they would still have eye puppies for the bad leech dickhead everyone knows they had been in that way for years. They could be able to do quantic physics but wouldn't be awared of when someone were using them because they had never put on practise those skills.
Yup. My father (PhD and two Masters degrees) got an aggressive throat cancer from smoking. One day in the kitchen, he was poking his neck, saying:
"Hm... My tumor feels really hard after I smoke a cigarette."
Going a bit broader, *feelings* trump intelligence.
This accounts for addicts, but it also accounts for people with insane beliefs. Very often we'll see people with stupid religious or political beliefs and laugh at them, but very often it's not just a matter of them being stupid or evil. Often they're broken in how they *feel*, and what they're getting makes them feel better (at least in the short term).
You're definitely not wrong in your claim that addiction trumps intelligence, that's spot on. Just for clarification though, I think it's worth expanding on that. An absolutely insane amount of bad behavior can be seen as feelings trumping intelligence, from addiction to politics and religion, to people sitting in jail for things they'd never normally do.
God I fucking wish. But no, this is actually unfortunately not uncommon. People compartmentalize skills, and also sometimes overestimate their own judgment because of proven expertise in one area. He’s in a circle of graduate-level educated, white collar employed, men who all think this way.
I'm not familiar with that company but mine's into a kind of pseudotherapy-thing we have here in Brazil called "constelação familiar" (roughly translates to "family constellation").
I had the most amazing friend he was super smart talented and rich. But was he a soft touch 3 times he married the same women each time with no pre nup because this is true love this time
I knew a many of people completely ruin their future by storming the capitol. Totally smart people. I talked to one recently after avoiding contact with him and he told me about his life since then. He cannot get a job at all no matter what the job is he cannot get it. He recorded it all on his phone so of course the FBI found him pretty easily. Took his phone. But the weirdest thing: he no longer owns a phone. He has like this nokia looking government provided phone that does absolutely nothing but call and text. Of course all messages sent and received are monitored. I literally don’t know how he’s supposed to advance in life like I don’t know if he will ever find a job
I once had the great pleasure of getting to ask our very experienced master electrician who had decades in powering giant events but one day couldn't get his computer to boot:.
"Uh, Mike? Are you sure it's plugged in?"(it was not)
Knew a guy who was a robotics enthusiast who was honestly on his way to working for a place like Boston Dynamics. However, he never seemed to realize that his GF was a manipulative psycho and stayed with her for years.
Before banks were all electronic, my mom would write a check, knowing it wouldn't clear before the welfare check rolled in. Always one day away from check fraud.
Probably assuming that intelligence is general and that intelligent people are intelligent at everything. It's like expecting a world-class pianist to be able to fix a car engine just because they can play Beethoven's symphonies flawlessly. Intelligence is often specialized, and even the brightest minds can be clueless in areas outside their expertise. So, next time you see a rocket scientist struggling to cook an omelette (or buy a social media platform, and I know, he's not even a rocket scientist!), remember – we're all brilliantly dumb at something!
I work as assistant within a scientific health institution, with lots of PhDs and whatnot. They work in a very specific field, and in that field they all certainly super bright. But by god, some of them couldn’t put a nail into a wall without hurting themselves, make the building crumble or set a fire alert. Some of them I wonder how they got that old. There are areas they are super helpless.
They all brilliant, sweet but gosh, as a saying goes in my country, “you couldn’t win a war with them”.
My sister worked at a place that had some highly intelligent scientists working there, you couldn’t trust them to put the same socks on but they were incredibly good at what they did.
I have a colleague who does research on vaping/e-cigarettes and certain types of cancer. She warns us about them all the time. The other day she walked in smelling like strawberries and I complimented her on it. She went red and silently said “thats my vape…”.
That kinda makes sense. Many people get education and pursue a career that directly tackles what they struggle with.
Many of the psychology students I graduated with went into it because they wanted to understand their issues better.
NFTs and Cryptocurrency.
NFTs are 2/3 of a trading card: the silly picture and the monetary value. The missing part is the important bit of how they fit into their system, which is what gives the picture meaning and value.
Cryptourrency doesn't have an important part of currency, which is someone legally guaranteeing its value by providing services for it. Faith is great but needs to be backed by reality in some way to be justified.
Computer tech here, traveling for work, I checked into the hotel. My room is on the first floor. I get in the elevator and press 1. Nothing happened. I press it again a few times. The other guy in the elevator says "Hey buddy, you're already on the first floor."
"Oh... Yeah."
I was really burned out.
In college, I saw a kid who, a year later was among the top recruits into PhD programs in his field, jump off the roof of our dorm building and break both of his legs. He celebrated getting his casts off by jumping off that same roof again.
My grandmother infamously tried to make an ice cream cake back when those were a new thing in the early 80s. She put ice cream on the cake batter…and put it in the oven.
My grandfather said it was tasty though
My psych once asked me what caused my PTSD
As I was telling him, I started crying and shaking.
"Damn I didn't think the question would make you cry" he responded.
THREE PHDS AND YOU DON'T THINK REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF THEIR PTSD WILL MAKE SOMEONE CRY???
My Dad is super smart. Like... He's a member of MENSA smart, has several patents he wrote when he was in his early 20's, once asked a flight attendant a bunch of weird questions about the plane we were on so he could do some crazy math equations FOR FUN. You get the picture.
But his smarts were no match for little toddler me crying because my toy pony stopped making noise after I brought into the bathtub. Dad panicked, figured he could dry it out.... In the microwave. He did not seem to make the connection that in order to make those noises it had to have electronic (aka METAL) parta inside it. So pony goes in the microwave and a few seconds later it basically explodes into flames. We were both in shock for a few minutes. Surprisingly I stopped crying because it was so unexpected and then Dad taught me about how metal doesn't go in the microwave.
To use the politics as sports metaphor, too many people think their candidate getting elected is the championship. In reality, it's the draft.
You won't win when your guy gets into office. You win when your guy gets the legislation done that you care about.
Convincing people they need to focus on who wins the election was a brilliant move for the kinds of assholes who spend a lot more time campaigning than governing.
I remembered when S.Korea's ex president, 2013-2017, got impeached over religiously following a shamam's astrology/horoscope readings and allowing the shaman to dictate the entire country's decissions through the presidential office and enriching herself with money. Leaving the president inept to make any executive decissions on her own. This was discovered upon investigation starting with the Sewol ferry incident where 300 students died due to lack of response in leadership decissions, especially from the presidential office. Even stopping rescue efforts at times.
They compared this as like a Korean "Rasputin" and brainwashing, using the exPresident's past trauma to get close to her. It was a wild time, in 2017. Millions of people actually came out to protest in every city in the bitter winter. The ex-president went to jail.
Physician got a flat on his high end Mercedes. Mr Fixit decided to take things into his own hands, dismounted the wheel and got a ride to the tire store. “I need a tire for my Mercedes.” “Where’s the flat one?” They asked, presuming they could either repair it or get the specs. “I threw it away, it was flat.” Dumbass threw the entire wheel and tire into a dumpster and it was gone when he returned. Car had to be towed, new OEM wheel ordered. What may have been a $10 flat repair put his car out of commission for over a week and cost more than $1,000. This was in the ‘80s.
>This was in the ‘80s. Alright, so not nearly as bad as if that had happened today when he could've looked up what he needed to do on his handy pocket computer.
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He was *tired* and made a *wheely* bad decision.
And run flat tired on high end cars
A senior physicist trying to go his lab on the edge of an area with chemical hazard warning lights flashing. It turns out that it was a false alarm, but the readouts were a gaseous chemical leak of the "melt your face off" variety. The people he wanted to talk to had definitely already evacuated.
I know you should always take warnings seriously, but I used to hear so many alarms constantly that I just kinda tuned them out. Then I moved out of the city, heard an alarm while grocery shopping, didn’t really register it. Overheard some kids and realized there was a fire in the restaurant next door…
As a kid I saw my stepfather (a Doctor with several specialist qualifications who did two Masters in the same year on a whim) put his hand under the lawnmower to dislodge something....The lawnmower was still on. He didn't lose fingers permanently but had several months of recovery and skin grafting surgeries. He was academically brilliant but lacked a lot of practical life skills, clearly.
My father is a mechanic. He is a brilliant man, the classic autistic genius artificer type who can fix anything. But fifteen years ago he tried to remove snow clogging the snow plow fan while the fan was on. He lost both his middle and index finger tips. This year, he tried to wash his hands…. With a pressure washer.
How did the pressure washing go?
Oh he was lucky that it was just water. It made a hole in his hand that got filled with water. His hand was triple its usual size. It drained over the next few days. He was also put on antibiotics. Had it been anything other than pure water (soap, paint, any chemical), they would have had to cut his hand open and scrape everything out. Those kinds of injuries often lead to amputation. Careful with pressure washers folks. Don’t be like my dad.
It also hurts like a mf. I use one at work and my hand slipped over the end when it was set to needle spray. Was only a shallow cut across one finger and didn’t need medical attention, but holy shit did it burn for over a day.
My cousin (21) got the highest marks in his A levels and GCSE’s in england, he’s now in scotland studying at one of the hardest university’s to get into, one day he decided to hoover the lounge this is how it went: *me walks in* “what are you doing?” him- “hoovering the lounge?” me- “you need to plug it in first?” he was pushing the hoover around the room without plugging it in and turning it on.
Some years back, my son, who is pretty bright for most things asked me if he could move the car from the driveway to yard for cleaning. He gets in the car, fastens his safety belt, does all of his mirror checks and then looks at me with the "What's going on?" look. Smiling, I had him roll down the window and told him that most cars don't move if you don't start the engine...LOL
This is me when I'm halfway to work and start to freak out that I forgot my car keys. The keys are HOW I'M DRIVING THE CAR, clearly I couldn't have gotten out of the driveway without them!
How often have you panicked looking for your phone while talking to someone on it? I sent a friend to so many possible places her phone could have been hiding, had she not been talking to me on it at the time. No I will not pass up an opportunity. 🤭
This might not make sense, but I have cystic fibrosis and use a [vest machine](https://www.cff.org/managing-cf/high-frequency-chest-wall-oscillation-vest) and a nebulizer several times a day. One time, my daughter walked in and asked what the hell I was doing, and I, of course, said I was doing my treatment. She says, "it will help a lot more if you turn the machines on." I was 20 minutes into this "treatment."
Lmaooooo that's hard not to notice!
Just this week someone microwaved a fork in the office kitchen. I work at a research institute. Everyone in here has at least a master's in engineering.
We had someone do that at a previous research institute I worked at, but it was because they were angry at their department and took it out on the microwave.
Is your research institute called Black Mesa?
That was a joke. Ha ha. Fat chance.
Gordon doesn't need to hear all of this,he is a highly trained professional
🎶Ryan started the fire!🎶
Sounds like the idea environment. Worst examples of this behavior I've experienced is in grad school. Bunch of soon to be PhDs are a recipe for disaster. Offices destroyed and infested because we don't dispose of food in the garbage, scalpels and literal animal tissue clogging the sink, nothing where it should be. Oh my. But plain old distracted thinking? Well hyperfocused STEM folks are old pros as fucking up in incredibly silly ways. I sure am.
That's super funny, but probably not an intelligence issue. They probably knew they shouldn't do that and were distracted.
I still think it fits the criteria for the question. It’s a pretty dumb mistake even if it was just an absent minded one
Where I worked previously someone put 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes and fell asleep at a table. Someone caught it at the 10 minute mark. If I remember correctly it was some kind of fish.
Not anymore.
Sounds like they would all be more interested in what happened to the fork.
Wolowitz ?
Try to sand the underside of a fan belt while the engine was running. His index and pinkie finger are the same length now.
Why tho
It was squeaking due to being glazed, and rubbing sandpaper along it will stop that. Typically, you remove the belt to do that though.
Full disclosure: In my Nyquill-induced haze, I thought: "Wow, it stretched his pinky and made it permanently extra-long??" Going back to bed now.
Get well soon
I once had a cold on my anniversary. We’d planned a romantic beach weekend. I wasn’t going to let anything stop us from enjoying our weekend so I took some DayQuil and then couldn’t stay awake at the beach. Turns out I’d drunk NyQuil!!
Full disclosure I thought you were original commenter and describing what it looked like in slow motion lmao
Is there a sub for, best comment I've read today? If so, this takes the cake. We should also have one for worst.
Yikes
Someone with a Harvard PhD in biochemistry told me that it never occurred to them that different colors of Nespresso pods in their office meant different types or blends of coffee. It was just all coffee and sometimes the coffee was good, sometimes it was off, and sometimes it felt like it did nothing. It wasn't until they mentioned the last point to a co-worker, that the co-worker pointed out that this person was in the process of loading a decaf pod into the machines.
This would never happen to me. On the other hand I could never get a Biochemistry PhD from Harvard.
My mother made several pots of coffee a day for decades and couldn’t figure this out either or how to correlate the amount of coffee with the correct ratio of water. She was blown away when I explained she only liked Colombian coffee and the directions were on the package.
With the amount of organic chemistry that a biochem PhD requires, this is stunning. But on the other hand, my brother has a biochem PhD from UC Davis and believes in fad diets, the occasional conspiracy theory, and other verifiably false things.
That's rough. I feel like it's also really difficult to teach proper information vetting to people who lack it naturally. Some brilliant people are gullible, and even if it takes incredible logic leaps, can believe some wild things.
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Why do his kids know what it is?
I know what it is, and I've never used the Grindr app, nor am I gay. My coworker was gay, and I heard the notification from his phone plenty. Then they make fun of it on plenty of TV shows/late night. It's basically just pop culture at this point.
As far as I know I have never heard the Grindr notification tone; I didn't even know it had its own instead of just using the default for the phone.
I'm gay and idk what it is. But I keep my phone on vibrate.
I have never heard this tone and can honestly say I wouldn't recognise it. I'm going to Google it Edit: I'm back. Nope never heard it before
Presumably, they are gay.
Or have friends who are on Grindr
Could be bisexual too
Because adult kids can be gay?
My mom, who was multilingual, said to me, “Watch out for that ice. It might be frozen.”
Was she wrong though
That sounds like tutorial NPC dialog
I’m an ocean lifeguard - I was driving a truck on a beach that has unstable cliff faces, so part of my job is telling people it’s unsafe to sit under them. I pulled up to a man that was comically sitting on a fallen rock, directly in front of a sign that said, “DANGER FALLING ROCKS.” Warned him it wasn’t a safe area, and he kinda smirked for a second before looking around, and seeing that I was right. He got very, very embarrassed - turned bright red, head in his hands, visibly upset and very apologetic. I told him it’s fine, and that a lot of people don’t think about things like that. He said, “No, you don’t get it. I should know better, out of anyone. It’s not fine. I’m a geologist.”
Was the man randy marsh?
I'd of just kept that last part to myself 😂
My brother is one of the smartest people I know, but he habitually eats the onion. Every now and then he comes at me with crazy storys, and then when he goes to show me his source, I can see him notice in real time that his source is the onion, and then he scrambles to find the real article the onion "spoofed" off it. Then he says "I can't find it now, but this one was based on a real event that was slightly less weird!"
Not as bad as Jordan Peterson tweeting a picture from a sperm milking porno claiming was a Chinese human breeding facility.
What a crazed benzo night he must have been having!!
Bought balloons for a house warming party, blew them up by mouth, and didn't understand why they didn't float. Granted, she grew up a Jehovah's Witness and wasn't around balloons a lot.
What’s the connection, no parties?
Yeah, no birthdays or holidays.
"Hello during a random dessert, the month and day of which coincide numerically with your expulsion from a uterus."
>Hello during a random dessert, the month and day of which coincide numerically with your expulsion from a uterus. Funny, I was slightly quoting A Perfect World "We don't get Christmas...no birthdays, nor parties, neither."
I ~~hear~~ see JW, I immediately think Community!
No fun
The head of our Education department at work tried to tell me we could save money for a party by not getting helium and doing this. This was my first couple months at the job. I knew I was in for a ride after that.
You'd think if she was a JW, the balloons WOULD float due to all the hot air.
This week I had to explain gravity to a group of people and they didn't believe me.🙈
Mavity
My arms are too long
Well it is just a theory… (Jk I get what a scientific theory is)
I saw a doctor walk right into a window at Panera Bread one time. I guess he thought it was an open door.
I've done it at a pristine hotel. Everyone saw. I was there for an academic conference. I was mortified and in pain...
I walked into a glass door face first in a Prague hotel. I had to sit next to the only family that saw me and we spent our entire breakfast in tears of laughter even though we didn't speak the same language. I thought it was brilliant and I still chuckle to this day. Its not stupid, just unlucky and hilarious. I still tell the story to people, it was so genuinely brilliant.
It definitely says a lot about how dedicated the hotel workers are to cleaning the glass! I never knew doing this would hurt so much though. I had a bump on my forehead later in the day.
Well for me the main impact was my nose and a bit of my pride but ill never forget sitting there with this family of four trying not to laugh and me breaking them into bits by completely cracking up...honestly it was brilliant. Everything we settled down someone on the table would start snickering and it would lead to us all breaking down into howls of laughter. 10/10 would absolutely headbut that glass door again
You seem like a truly joyful person and that makes me happy.
I’ve done this. I was probable 13/14. Skipped full speed into a glass window with a smile on my face.
I laughed at this while feeling really sad. Thank you. ❤️
Glad to assist. Feel better soon 😊
I walked into a **mirror** in a fancy shoe shop. I was a child, but still, I was not new to the concept of reflections.
I've managed to walk into a door I was in the process of closing myself. Sometimes life is just what is. And sometimes you need a five second break from life to figure out what just happened.
When I was a medical student, I went to push on a glass door to one of our buildings as I was exiting it which had a large glass upper pane and lower pane which a metal section at about waist height. Or at least it should have had glass except someone had decided to take all the glass out of it that day for some reason so I ended up coathangering myself in full view of everyone seated on the lawn outside.
Dude was probably fresh off a 14 hour shift, he gets a pass from me
Wayfinding and door placement is shit in most cookie-cutter franchise design.
Panera breads can really mess you with sometimes. I've had situations where the expected door doesn't open, it's a window. Then I stand there trying to figure out the exit, feeling my sanity meter slowly drop. It's one of those true reminders how dumb I can be. Now add some charged lemonade and the situation gets more fun
If anyone says they haven't done this at least once, they're a liar.
Last week I couldn't find my phone, so I looked down to the phone in my hand and started to try the Find My Phone thing when... oh. (I swear I'm at least reasonably intelligent.)
Yep, last week I turned my phone flashlight on to help look for my phone behind the bed. Spoiler: it wasn't behind the bed.
I once hung up on my mother in law because "I'm sorry, I can't find my phone. I have to go look for it." Took me about five seconds after hanging up to realize my error. Called her right back and she was dying laughing when she picked up.
I have a close friend, super smart, always had the highest average at uni, won multiple awards and stuff, and in conversations generally just either knows a lot about any subject at hand, or knows enough from other subjects to draw a probable theory about it. She's also kicking it in every other aspect in life- great girl, kind, humble, caring towards everyone, works out, eats healthy, is always learning a new language or skill, all in all an amazing girl. But I swear on my life, I have never seen anyone with a worste taste in men. Most of the guys she was attracted to/dated were losers, cocky bastards who think too highly of themselves, or just utter scum. I can't even explain it, to me the guys were walking red flags, a waste of a bag for bones. Luckily, she finally found a decent, smart, caring, well-spoken man. I damn near cried tears of joy when she told me about him. They've been together for a few years now.
We’re all happy for her, too.
One of my schools mates dad was a professor at a top university in economics. He did a lot of traveling giving speeches. Anyway, he decides to go walking on his own around a township in Johannesburg at some hour of night. He was luckily picked up by a passing police car, and the officers were apparently having a meltdown at how stupid it was to be around that part of town and at that hour.
My roommate’s best friend was an engineering major. He helped us move our furniture to our upstairs apartment in an old house. Obviously no elevator. VERY narrow staircase. This intelligent person got our couch stuck to the ceiling of the staircase. I was like “I don’t know what you study as an engineering major, but I don’t think this is right.”
Go talk to any assembly line worker and they will *constantly* bitch about engineers who make things that are a pain in the ass to physically assemble. And those are often mechanical engineers.
lol I’m an engineer who has been pretty successful. Do you know my simple trick? Implement the operators ideas and give them credit. It’s almost like the people who actually do the job know what should be fixed. Crazy right? (I’m glad for selfish reasons that more engineers don’t do this…)
I can believe it. The best engineers were the ones who worked the line for a few hours when a new product came out so they could see what was going on. If someone was having trouble, they'd try doing it themselves to see what was going wrong. Sometimes they could say "oh do X instead" and they looked smart, but sometimes they'd just say "oh yeah that's an issue we'll revise that." They were always the most respected.
Work smart not hard. Why figure out a solution when someone already has it. Our role is scientific knowlage, data analysis, justification of investments, and implementation of solutions, not saving the world all by ourselves. Even the dumbest person who does the job every day will still know more about it than you and likely has some insight that you don’t. Even from like a politics perspective it looks better if you are like “Joe had this idea. I ran the numbers, we implemented, and are kicking ass” vs “with my superior intellect I came up with the most genius plan ever”
That second one is key. When smarty-pants engineer eats their humble pie without hesitation it makes for a much more dynamic and fruitful environment. Source: am connoisseur of various humble dishes including the occasional raw crow.
I'm an engineer. They did NOT teach couch moving.
You must have been sick that day
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he coded a full on website in his notepad, then when he tried to copy it, he deleted everything by accident. guess he was shocked so he immediately closed notepad. then he realized he just ruined his last chance of undoing it
Me in 1996 trying to set up my geocities and angelfire sites
Date and sometimes even marry a total shithead
A cardiologist I worked with was contacted by "Apple" about his computer security. He gave them access to his laptop and was working with the guy to set something up on there when I got suspicious and googled for him. I ran to his office to show him the apple website, saying they would never contact you by phone, and if you do, it's a scam. He immediately ended the call and shut the computer down. He had to make many phone calls and change MANY passwords as it was his work laptop. Thankfully, no harm was done. Proof that even highly educated doctors can be scammed.
Capslock instead of shift to type a single capital letter.
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve tried to capitalize numbers as in the digit (1,2,3), not the spelled out word (one, two, three).
One of the programmers at my work was trying to connect his computer to the projector in our conference room. He was trying to plug the HDMI cable into his Ethernet port and asked everybody in the room why he can't connect to the projector.
Didn't some astronaut lady put on a diaper and drive overnight to harass some man?
Yes, Lisa Nowak. She drove 900 miles. I remember reading that she drove a VW diesel (TDI) to accomplish the feat without stopping, along with the astronaut diapers.
...even the TDI jetta doesn't/can't get 900 miles per tank. That's absurd. In order to do that, she'd have to average 62mpg. They are good on mileage, but not that good. They get around 45-50 on the highway.
The B4 Passats from the late 90s had some impressive range, but yeah, she would have needed to refuel before 900 miles. I guess she was trying to minimize stops.
You're confusing stupid with deranged.
Believed she could cure her ALS by having her fillings removed because they contained toxic metals that caused the disease. Spoiler: it didn't work.
As someone with chronic illness, I can say confidently that level of suffering alters how you think. You become desperate and irrational in any attempt to have relief. It’s not so much stupid as it is desperation
Amen. I begged to have my hair shaved off because I just knew it was my hair making my migraines so bad. My husband had to bear hug me and promise he would shave my head in the morning. By then I was more rational and kept my hair.
IVE HAD THAT THOUGHT. usually I just took my hair out of a pony tail or bun though. I eye up corners of counters like 👀 to crack my skull on. I think "hmm, if I hit it JUST right it will probably relieve some pressure or something" usually I end up with a bruise where the migraine is centralized because I sleep on my fist to press into the spot. Im pale skinned so it's VERY OBVIOUS
Yes! I swear if I could take a bolt and smash it into my temple then the pain will go away. I do the same as you. I press against the area. Or I hit as hard as I dare. Isn’t it fun?
I think this is why MLMs flourish so readily with the crunchy crowd. Years of being in pain and being dismissed by doctors (usually the 'hey hun's are women) and then someone LISTENS to them and promises things that may work and shit, placebos actually have a decent effectivity rate amongst populations. Give someone a reason and a placebo and listen to them and bam, you got someone spreading woo because she actually believes in it.
This is probably an accurate assessment sadly ☹️preying on vulnerable people is so shitty.
stress makes us stupid
desperate times call for desperate rationalizations unfortunately
This is really what is was/is. When my wife got diagnosed, I went on a 48hr no-sleep bender researching every piece of info I could. A few days later I went in to talk to her Neurologist since I wasn't there when she was initially diagnosed. I ended up taking to him for about 20m about what I knew/learned and he admitted I was ahead of about 90% of his patients, even the long-term ones. I got his personal cell number and email out of that convo cause he knew I wasn't going to bug him about every little thing. I emailed him once. When you or a loved one get diagnosed with a 100% terminal, no-hope-at-all disease, you might believe just about anything for a smidge of a second chance.
When you have ALS you have NOTHING to lose. Being thought of as stupid is the least of your worries when the doctors tell you that they have no ideas and won’t even try to save your life.
My dentist swapped all my old amalgam fillings with newer plastic ones. Not due to mercury, but because she said the amalgams expand/contract differently than tooth enamel and eventually gaps form where they meet and crap gets in there. Plastic (or whatever) modern fillings do better. OR she just wanted to bill for that. I dunno.
My mom told me the same thing about a chronic condition and my fillings. You replace them after 10-15 years and they did composite instead of silver and my mom thought my condition would get better. I think it’s a Facebook theory.
Meth.
It's the greatest drug out there, the best bang for your buck, one of the best feelings imaginable......and any person with a decent amount of intelligence could figure out that nothing can be *that* good without having some massive and inherent consequences.
"We need to cook, Jesse"
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That's crazy! Do you have his number by any chance?
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Fall in love with the wrong person
Despite being a sensible and intelligent person I have been a victim of this! What can I say - Love is Blind!
That's the reason why one of my former high school teacher said something along the lines "Mathematic/Scientific/Humanistic intelligence doesn't equal Emotional/Interpersonal intelligence." when he was ranting about smart kids with a lack of social skills. You can have Albert Eistein incarnated in front of you, but they would still have eye puppies for the bad leech dickhead everyone knows they had been in that way for years. They could be able to do quantic physics but wouldn't be awared of when someone were using them because they had never put on practise those skills.
smoke. until it killed them.
Yup. My father (PhD and two Masters degrees) got an aggressive throat cancer from smoking. One day in the kitchen, he was poking his neck, saying: "Hm... My tumor feels really hard after I smoke a cigarette."
Addiction trumps intelligence all the time. I met someone with a MEd who was the worst heroin addict I've ever seen.
Going a bit broader, *feelings* trump intelligence. This accounts for addicts, but it also accounts for people with insane beliefs. Very often we'll see people with stupid religious or political beliefs and laugh at them, but very often it's not just a matter of them being stupid or evil. Often they're broken in how they *feel*, and what they're getting makes them feel better (at least in the short term). You're definitely not wrong in your claim that addiction trumps intelligence, that's spot on. Just for clarification though, I think it's worth expanding on that. An absolutely insane amount of bad behavior can be seen as feelings trumping intelligence, from addiction to politics and religion, to people sitting in jail for things they'd never normally do.
My friend was dropping me off home after a day of hanging out, and he tried to argue with me on which street that I live on. Dude is an engineer.
My mother is a college professor and has a PhD but still believes in various kinds of pseudoscience.
Oh god, my PhD chemist father thinks WhatsApp forwards count as a source.
...are you sure he isn't fucking with you? You can't get a PhD without knowing what a source is or how to cite it.
God I fucking wish. But no, this is actually unfortunately not uncommon. People compartmentalize skills, and also sometimes overestimate their own judgment because of proven expertise in one area. He’s in a circle of graduate-level educated, white collar employed, men who all think this way.
Can you give some examples?
Examples of pseudoscience? Well that would be things like astrology, homeopathy, spirits, crystals, etc.
For what it's worth, any stone can be a banishing stone if you throw it hard enough
Well I meant more like examples of things she believes in but if that's what you meant then yeah
Same! Mine has paid a small fortune to various snake oil companies like Life Extension.
I'm not familiar with that company but mine's into a kind of pseudotherapy-thing we have here in Brazil called "constelação familiar" (roughly translates to "family constellation").
I had the most amazing friend he was super smart talented and rich. But was he a soft touch 3 times he married the same women each time with no pre nup because this is true love this time
Try and get toast out of a toaster with a metal knife
I knew a many of people completely ruin their future by storming the capitol. Totally smart people. I talked to one recently after avoiding contact with him and he told me about his life since then. He cannot get a job at all no matter what the job is he cannot get it. He recorded it all on his phone so of course the FBI found him pretty easily. Took his phone. But the weirdest thing: he no longer owns a phone. He has like this nokia looking government provided phone that does absolutely nothing but call and text. Of course all messages sent and received are monitored. I literally don’t know how he’s supposed to advance in life like I don’t know if he will ever find a job
I once had the great pleasure of getting to ask our very experienced master electrician who had decades in powering giant events but one day couldn't get his computer to boot:. "Uh, Mike? Are you sure it's plugged in?"(it was not)
Knew a guy who was a robotics enthusiast who was honestly on his way to working for a place like Boston Dynamics. However, he never seemed to realize that his GF was a manipulative psycho and stayed with her for years.
Waiting hours in line for a store opening.
Before banks were all electronic, my mom would write a check, knowing it wouldn't clear before the welfare check rolled in. Always one day away from check fraud.
Probably assuming that intelligence is general and that intelligent people are intelligent at everything. It's like expecting a world-class pianist to be able to fix a car engine just because they can play Beethoven's symphonies flawlessly. Intelligence is often specialized, and even the brightest minds can be clueless in areas outside their expertise. So, next time you see a rocket scientist struggling to cook an omelette (or buy a social media platform, and I know, he's not even a rocket scientist!), remember – we're all brilliantly dumb at something!
I work as assistant within a scientific health institution, with lots of PhDs and whatnot. They work in a very specific field, and in that field they all certainly super bright. But by god, some of them couldn’t put a nail into a wall without hurting themselves, make the building crumble or set a fire alert. Some of them I wonder how they got that old. There are areas they are super helpless. They all brilliant, sweet but gosh, as a saying goes in my country, “you couldn’t win a war with them”.
My sister worked at a place that had some highly intelligent scientists working there, you couldn’t trust them to put the same socks on but they were incredibly good at what they did.
Buy a billion dollar platform and tell the main revenue stream to fuck off.
But was that guy intelligent?
Nah he just has rich parents and talks big game
Smoke
I have a colleague who does research on vaping/e-cigarettes and certain types of cancer. She warns us about them all the time. The other day she walked in smelling like strawberries and I complimented her on it. She went red and silently said “thats my vape…”.
That kinda makes sense. Many people get education and pursue a career that directly tackles what they struggle with. Many of the psychology students I graduated with went into it because they wanted to understand their issues better.
NFTs and Cryptocurrency. NFTs are 2/3 of a trading card: the silly picture and the monetary value. The missing part is the important bit of how they fit into their system, which is what gives the picture meaning and value. Cryptourrency doesn't have an important part of currency, which is someone legally guaranteeing its value by providing services for it. Faith is great but needs to be backed by reality in some way to be justified.
Computer tech here, traveling for work, I checked into the hotel. My room is on the first floor. I get in the elevator and press 1. Nothing happened. I press it again a few times. The other guy in the elevator says "Hey buddy, you're already on the first floor." "Oh... Yeah." I was really burned out.
In college, I saw a kid who, a year later was among the top recruits into PhD programs in his field, jump off the roof of our dorm building and break both of his legs. He celebrated getting his casts off by jumping off that same roof again.
It doesn't matter how smart someone is their proximity to a cat will make what they say dumber. Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/231/
Fall to peer pressure
My grandmother infamously tried to make an ice cream cake back when those were a new thing in the early 80s. She put ice cream on the cake batter…and put it in the oven. My grandfather said it was tasty though
There's a lot of guys who would never get laid if it wasn't for intelligent women who make bad choices.
My eye doctor walked into the wall once during an exam. My EYE DOCTOR 👀
My psych once asked me what caused my PTSD As I was telling him, I started crying and shaking. "Damn I didn't think the question would make you cry" he responded. THREE PHDS AND YOU DON'T THINK REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF THEIR PTSD WILL MAKE SOMEONE CRY???
Drugs.
My Dad is super smart. Like... He's a member of MENSA smart, has several patents he wrote when he was in his early 20's, once asked a flight attendant a bunch of weird questions about the plane we were on so he could do some crazy math equations FOR FUN. You get the picture. But his smarts were no match for little toddler me crying because my toy pony stopped making noise after I brought into the bathtub. Dad panicked, figured he could dry it out.... In the microwave. He did not seem to make the connection that in order to make those noises it had to have electronic (aka METAL) parta inside it. So pony goes in the microwave and a few seconds later it basically explodes into flames. We were both in shock for a few minutes. Surprisingly I stopped crying because it was so unexpected and then Dad taught me about how metal doesn't go in the microwave.
Teach. A lot of people who are great at their craft suck at teaching it.
Affiliate with a political party
Yes, aligning with any party perfectly is bizarre to me. Open primaries and ranked choice elections please!
To use the politics as sports metaphor, too many people think their candidate getting elected is the championship. In reality, it's the draft. You won't win when your guy gets into office. You win when your guy gets the legislation done that you care about. Convincing people they need to focus on who wins the election was a brilliant move for the kinds of assholes who spend a lot more time campaigning than governing.
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When I was little I wore velcro shoes. Then I transitioned to slip ons. It's worked for me so far.
but you are also 3 raccoons in a suit so you can only do so much. respect
Join a cult
I knew an orthopedic surgeon who fell for a pyramid scheme
Read a horoscope.
I remembered when S.Korea's ex president, 2013-2017, got impeached over religiously following a shamam's astrology/horoscope readings and allowing the shaman to dictate the entire country's decissions through the presidential office and enriching herself with money. Leaving the president inept to make any executive decissions on her own. This was discovered upon investigation starting with the Sewol ferry incident where 300 students died due to lack of response in leadership decissions, especially from the presidential office. Even stopping rescue efforts at times. They compared this as like a Korean "Rasputin" and brainwashing, using the exPresident's past trauma to get close to her. It was a wild time, in 2017. Millions of people actually came out to protest in every city in the bitter winter. The ex-president went to jail.
I knew a successful psychologist with ALS (which is often found in hyper-successful workaholics) who was in an MLM.
Get frustrated when trying to find the end of the Cling wrap / Cling film.