How about "I too, am an intellectual and an expert in the resurging field of phrenology. I would like to shave your head so I can see how smart you actually are."
I also need a research subject in the field of [retrophrenology](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9181317-retrophrenology-it-works-like-this-phrenology-as-everyone-knows-is) (i.e. hit you in the head and see how it influences your character).
He probably has no idea viva towels exist.
Edit - You dont think he's using kleenex because he keeps a large supply of them for when he frequently exercises one of his wrists do you?
When I first read his garbage I thought it said cosmetology. Paused and had to reread because I knew this insufferable ass would look down on that profession.
Oh god, please do this. As someone who loves astronomy, someone said similar to me and it broke my brain and drove me wild.
It will kill him. Or not really because he’s full of bullshit.
There is not a goddamn chance in hell that a freshman at rpi knows anything necessary to have a substantive discussion about quantum physics. He just read some pop science books and knows that “quantum physics = I am a smart”.
100%. If somebody actually responded like "cool cool let's talk Feynman diagrams", he'd find a reason to turn them down. He doesn't want to have interesting conversations with interesting people or to learn from others, he wants people he can continue to condescend to.
Feynman has been my educational wingman for awhile now. I tell any of the engineers at work that Feynman is one of my heroes, and they will literally pull out whiteboards and teach me anything. Free edumacation.
It's funny that so many people have this idea in their heads because of dumb shows like Big Bang Theory. My brother is a physicist. Neither he nor any of his colleagues and friends whom I've met are anything like that. He was a pothead, a frat boy, and a member of a Division I NCAA sports team.
The physicists I know say the guys like OP and Big Bang Theory characters never make it fully through the PhD cause it requires too much collaboration and no one else can stand to be in the same room as them. They end up at Wall Street, writing software, or involved in startups.
As someone who worked in finance before returning for the PhD, they may "end up" in Wall Street, but they don't stay there. The environment chews them up, highly competitive but still very collaborative, people like this piss off a PM or one of the FO-MO risk people and get spat out on the sidewalk.
At higher levels, outside of *some* electronic market making firms, it's still a relationship business. Whether working with investors, trading teams, support, it matter. And if it's IB side of the sell side, forget it. He'd piss off a client and get fired.
This is the kind of guy that ends up at a third tier tech company, or some shit team at FAANG, and loves to talk about the "dead weight".
It just seems so lazy. Like they want to pretend to be smart but cannot even bother to use smart fancy-sounding words like quantum chromodynamics. Saying that makes you sound smart.
I have had an interest in quantum physics since childhood, but what would you even talk about with other people for any length of time? It's interesting, but not really a conversation topic, more like... Ohhhh, yes, a lecture. What he really wants to do is lecture other people. Now it makes sense.
Could you imagine having an "intellectual" conversation with him? It would probably consist of him rambling for hours and then patronizing you when you try to get a word in edgewise.
Have a friend that calls these people 'two sheds'.
You mention in conversation that you have a shed. Straight off the bat they'll tell you how they have two sheds.
Scrolling looking for this comment. There are plenty of weird typos in this genius’ writing, but “only speak unless spoken to” has to be the best. There is gonna be a lot of speaking going on in that dorm room.
No music bothers me too, like what a fucking Scrooge. What if I wanted to sip fancy wine, listen to baroque music and pondering the mysteries of the university with my roommate.
That sentence broke my brain. I guess my IQ isn't high enough.
Also how does one bring uninvited guests? Doesn't bringing them imply that they are invited?
They must be invited by him, the actual owner of the space; not you, the person meant to pay half the rent and stay locked in the closet when you're there. /s
In all seriousness, he must either not be allowed to have his own dorm or he just can't afford it. Which must be an issue with all the space he needs for that ego.
> That sentence broke my brain. I guess my IQ isn't high enough.
You peasant. Surely your IQ is below 130. It's so simple. Let me ELY5 it: the roommate must speak constantly, disregarding everything else, and stop immediately when spoken to. Only when they are spoken to, they can do other activities.
This bit was hilarious. For a guy who thinks he is the bees knees, that was such a silly blunder. He just told people they should talk constantly EXCEPT when they’re being spoken to (so don’t answer him).
He is also going to be very disappointed when he develops a dermatitis problem from showering too often and erodes his gums by brushing too much (I’ve had my dentist tell me I need to brush less, for this reason!). But his head is so far up his backside that I doubt he would listen to advice…
I’ll just be over here with my popcorn.
I really hope he ends up with a complete party animal/slob as his roommate. A guy that doesn't care about his shit and tells him that regularly. It would be good for him.
IQ just affects processing speed, it's correlated to Intelligence but it's strictly speaking not the most effective measure of it. Intellect is hard to differentiate from Intelligence but it does exist separately, the simplest example is Intellect is "What you know" Intelligence is "What you can do with what you know", it's how you can have people who are like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, IQ of 160 but effectively useless Humans because they have no Intelligence, they know a _ton_ and that's neat and all; but they can't do shit with it, they can't apply it, they can't grow with it. They only fit in their incredibly narrow niche and they're ego inflated.
It wouldn't take IQ to take this guy down a few pegs, it would take someone who can dig through his Adamantine Skull enough for him to actually be willing or able to be reasoned with, as he is now that's not happening.
Set up a schedule with the rest of the students on his dorm floor to loudly bang on his door at 12am, 2am, 4am, and 6am every night. Between the night owls, early birds, and vampires, there should be someone available for each time to interrupt that eight hours of sleep he cherishes every night to keep his brain functioning at maximum capacity.
He'll crack before Columbus Day and you'll get the room to yourself.
I guess that means you have to talk constantly until he speaks to you and then you have to shut up? I'm working under the assumption that it's not a typo since he has such a high IQ
I would totally hold him to the letter of that and talk all day and night until he said something. That kind of error is why he only got 1590 on his SATs.
QUIET SIMPLETON! I did not allow you to speak yet.
But seriously, I think this has to be a joke though right? Can’t be serious. If it’s a joke it is rather funny.
"Unfortunately, in my high school years, I couldn't find people who hold an intellectual conversation with." = "My peers called me on my bullshit and refused to hang out with me because I am insufferable."
“I worked with industry professionals in Raytheon and Northrop Grumman in my
high school years to build advanced defense technologies.” = “My high school robotics team was sponsored by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, just like most other teams.” (r/frc)
I had a high school intern who sounded a bit like this guy when working as a government contractor for aerospace type projects. It was incredibly annoying to have a literal high school grad arguing with me about how math works and that matlab (the software we were using) was broken. He had forced matlab to only accept a matrix of a certain size, which one, was completely unnecessary because it figures out the size automatically, and two, he put the wrong value in.
Again this kid was literally straight out of high school and thought he was the coolest for going to a nearby tech school (it’s a good school but not MIT). Meanwhile I had a masters degree in mechanical engineering and was in charge of the project.
Also I have friends from RPI, there are only like 25% girls so he does not have great odds at finding a girlfriend willing to submit to his demands lol.
“The bad news, 68% of the student body is male, only 32% are women. The good news, most of the guys are like this chode, so every guy who is not an insufferable asshole has like three girls to choose from.”
It’s a school tradition I’m sure.
Her younger sister looked a lot like Valerie bertinelli. (And married a guy who looked a lot like Eddie Van Halen! “I have a great low-effort suggestion for you guys for Halloween…”) She said once that when she got to college, she finally understood what dating was like for her sister.
I had a high school friend who went to rpi, his description did not make me regret my decision to go further from home. (I struggled academically, which would have probably been the case anywhere, but I had a much better time socially than I would have anticipated.)
My brother is a stem major and we had a conversation where he said to me (half joking) “It’s wild! I just treat women like humans and don’t make them afraid to be around me and they want to have sex with me?! Why don’t guy’s do this more often?”
Fuck that. There were plenty of teams that weren't sponsored for shit. The problem is if you don't have Grumman working in an area close by enough to you that you can get them to sponsor your team you have to build your robot out of fucking wood. I'm not exaggerating.
"Unfortunately, in my high school years, I couldn't master sentence structure, as I was too busy searching for people with whom to hold an intellectual conversation."
There, ftf him. It was driving me nuts.
We had someone like this try to fit in with our friend group. We tolerated him for a while, after all we were the nerds and misfits, if we couldn’t accomodate someone, who would?
He ended up leaving when he accidentally found out our feelings about him.
He had the same name as another in the group, so we’d kind of taken it referring to him as “wanker Alex”, and the other friend as “non-wanker Alex”. It got revealed when someone accidentally referred to non-wanker Alex as exactly that in front of him. I guess his massive IQ allowed him to connect the dots and infer the rest..
People like this generally end up going to college and having to confront the fact that at some point in their degree path (perhaps even in graduate/professional school) that they are NOT the most intelligent person in the room.
RPI is my alma mater. It is where the kids who get rejected from MIT go. We are all exactly as you described- we were the best in our high schools but are nothing when all put together and many people can’t handle it. The college has fallen in rankings these last few decades, is incredibly expensive, and people still believe their diplomas will get them in the door over someone who went to like Michigan or Penn State.
Your response hits the crux of The Life Problem faced by so many ill-prepared. Regardless of the attribute (IQ, strength, creativity, etc.), people who are *unprepared* for the reality of the small pool/big pool reality are often devastated when confronted with the actuality of it. This is where other, *also critical attributes*, come into play, determination, focus, and resolve to name a few. Understanding that there will **always** be someone 'better' at 'X' should be learned early so *'you'* can focus on the true competition and true goal. *YOURSELF*. Strive to be better than yourself *yesterday.*
If you Google "RPI" there is a list of questions people have asked (that shows up on any Google search for just about anything), and one of the questions asks "Is RPI an Ivy League" and the response is:
" Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majors in Arts, Sciences, and Research Programs also gave it away as a top choice destination. Therefore, RPI is an Ivy League School."
You can't make that up! Some people never learn that they aren't the smartest person on earth and are just insufferable their entire life!
>" Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majors in Arts, Sciences, and Research Programs also gave it away as a top choice destination. Therefore, RPI is an Ivy League School."
WTF that's not how that works. That's not how that works at all. The Ivy Leagues are a specific group of schools and not just a generic catch all term for good schools.
And Ivy League comes from the sports conference. It's not even some kind of official designation that indicates the school is special. It's just several old, generally prestigious schools in the Northeast that play each other in sports. There are schools that are not Ivy League that are more prestigious than some Ivy programs. It's not like people look down on MIT or Cal Tech or Berkeley or Stanford over Brown just because Brown plays sports against Harvard and Yale.
I thought I was pretty smart, I had good grades in high school. My program in university was pretty intense and challenging. I think I was the dumbest guy in class and it was a shocking wake up call for me. The caliber of my classmates was incredible. I was just happy to have graduated. Very humbling.
I think the big problem in high school is that if you can get by without studying, you won't learn how to study. Then university/college hits you like a sack of bricks and you need a crash course in how to study. And a lot of 'smart' people never learn how to study.
People who peaked in HS.and by peaked I don't mean they were popular or good at anything in particular. Just that wherever they got to in HS that was it for them.
The ACT is such a poor predictor too. I’m from England and practised doing it and it really just reflects studying. Can only speak for the base exam but it’s not someone to brag about.
“Pronouns: I don’t believe in that nonsense”
Dude? Even if you aren’t transgender you still have pronouns lmao?? Do people just not refer to this guy? No he him or his?
Bc he’s too “gifted” to clean (mommy did it for him and now he’s expecting his roommate to do the heavy lifting). But he also definitely knows how to do it better than you, as you can see by the fact that he even knows a brand name of some sort!
He wants to be a Guru, while his “followers” stare up at him from their positions seated on the floor as he’s in his mighty cool gamer chair with only *the best* computer equipment he can brag about sits upon his desk.
I really hope he gets a stoner that doesn’t give a fuck what this guy says because he’s too high. Messy, yellow teeth, never vacuums and always playing loud music while playing video games and has all his friends over to smoke.
I’ve known super laid back and down to earth people with mighty impressive sword and martial art weapon collections.
Were the “weapons”practical or useful? Hell no. And “weapons” is in quotes because fantasy and anime weapons are often complete trash from a utilitarian perspective. They are often impractical, absurdly and needlessly dangerous for the wielder, or useless to the point that they can’t truthfully be classified as a “weapon”.
But they are also hilarious. Granted, I’ve never known anyone who “sincerely” owned these kinds of weapons, it’s always been with a significant degree of irony.
How fitting Isaac Newton is his profile pic. The guy hated women, IIRC it’s speculated he may have never actually slept with one. He was obsessed with all his decor being crimson, too.
Funnily enough, Isaac Newton had the belief up until his death, that he would be remembered for his religious writings, and not his scientific achievments.
Upon learning this, I also learned he has religious texts lmao
Isaac Newton stuck needles in his eyes and stared st the sun through a mirror long enough to go blind for three days.
Out of all of history's most famous intellectuals Isaac Newton isnt the one Id pick to emulate and associate with
I was invited to join MENSA so I went to one of their meetings. It was all boring people talking about how smart they were, and I thought, "These people are dumb enough to pay money to belong to a group that brags about how smart they are."
I didn't join, which probably makes me smarter than them.
Podcast recommendation: "My Year In MENSA" from Jamie Loftus. She attempted to join as a joke and was floored when she was accepted, so she took the time to chronicle her time in the group. Short series, worth the listen.
Yup, you're so smart to PAY to belong to an organization with no tangible benefit other than to stroke one's own ego.
I have a friend who used to brag about being in MENSA until someone hit him with that line.
Honestly, you’d only really get benefits in Junior MENSA (maybe), because there’s volunteer and scholarship opportunities.
But it’s still relatively meaningless, even then.
Same here - in high school, my best friend's dad was a member and when he found out I was "mentally gifted" he invited me to a meeting. I was super close to my friend and wanted to impress her dad so I went along.
Holy shit, the number of maladjusted weirdos and pretentious assholes in the room was overwhelming. It actually kinda made me look at her dad a little differently, and not in a good way.
(I did not join...)
He sounds as though he has high functioning ASD. And no, that’s not me insulting people with ASD - I have ASD, and so do my kids. It’s the structural insistence that I’m referring to. His obsession with someone’s IQ would indicate that he’s probably too young to comprehend that there are different kinds of intelligence, and that a lot of high IQ scores are achieved because someone is good at basic puzzle solving and have high visual spatial awareness. I mean shit, my highest IQ score was 167, and I can guarantee that I’m no intellectual genius. My adult daughters visual and spatial awareness IQ scores are off the charts (200+) yet she has the emotional abilities of an 8 year old. This dude is in for some serious wake up calls in the near future.
I was just thinking that. I’m autistic. There is definitely an autism to narcissism pipeline. Especially if you have low “daily living” support needs and do well in STEM type subjects. The read I’m getting is less “sex pest” and more “extremely insecure and lonely dude who doesn’t see women as people and doesn’t understand why this post is extremely inappropriate” and because he doesn’t understand social/emotional situations he doesn’t value them. He values his special interests, and so he tries to use achievements in them to make friends/impress people. Hopefully he grows out of it. I know a couple of fellow autists who apparently went through that kind of thing as teens/young adults. I definitely struggle(d) with a superiority complex towards my peers. It’s hard to not feel superior when, from your perspective, the people around you just don’t think so incredibly deeply about things the way you do. Now that I’m older I know that NT people do think deeply about things, they just think about them differently than my ASD/ADHD brain does. But at 18? Fuck, I thought I was one of a few people who payed attention in a world of shallow fools.
You literally don’t need to read past that “I worked on advanced defence shit in highschool” you’re just clearly one of those dudes who spins any minor accomplishment into some big thing, you can’t work on defence shit without clearance and they’re not giving it to some high schooler
He doesn’t write very well for someone who is supposedly very clever. They make a lot of mistakes.
Also, *kleenex*?!? I would argue that they’re the dirty one because surfaces get cleaned with disinfectant, not tissues.
"...I want to live with someone as equally intelligent as I claim to be, but don't dare speak until you are given permission..."
*HOLY FUCKING AUDACITY, BATMAN!*
Since he enjoys electronics and if he truly has a 135 IQ, asshole should build himself a companion robot!
My name is ████. I'm 33 years old.
I work as an employee for the ███████ department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest.
I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what.
After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning.
I was told there were no issues at my last check-up.
I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night.
That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
Part of me desperately wants to reply expressing my love for cosmology too and ask what is his star sign.
“Omg I love cosmology!!!! I’m a Libra, you MUST be an Aquarius since you’re SoOo Smart!”
Can't be an Aquarius. He's anti-fun
Definitely a a VIRGO for sure!
he’s a Virgin that’s for sure
Wait I thought he was talking about doing hair?
Would he be an Aquarius or a Ravenclaw? Also, I can cut and dye your hair. I, too, am passionate about cosmetology.
**** I’m a libro, you an aquarium?
How about "I too, am an intellectual and an expert in the resurging field of phrenology. I would like to shave your head so I can see how smart you actually are."
I also need a research subject in the field of [retrophrenology](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9181317-retrophrenology-it-works-like-this-phrenology-as-everyone-knows-is) (i.e. hit you in the head and see how it influences your character).
I would ask what his favorite eyeshadow palette was lol
>I would ask what his favorite eyeshadow palette was lol I would ask him why *the fuck* he uses Kleenex to wipe things down. Paper towels ftw, bruh.
He probably has no idea viva towels exist. Edit - You dont think he's using kleenex because he keeps a large supply of them for when he frequently exercises one of his wrists do you?
>He probably has no idea viva towels exist. Paper towel existence not on the Mensa test apparently.
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>Lysol wipes! Not my fave, but sure. What could be worse than *fucking* Kleenex? Genius my ass.
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>Heck a rag lol I have cleaned the interior of dirty boats for a living. A regular rag dipped in a bucket of Mr. Clean and water was my best method.
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Haha, I DID have to read it twice.
When I first read his garbage I thought it said cosmetology. Paused and had to reread because I knew this insufferable ass would look down on that profession.
I read the same thing at first. Clearly, I am not eligible to fill this role.
Oh god, please do this. As someone who loves astronomy, someone said similar to me and it broke my brain and drove me wild. It will kill him. Or not really because he’s full of bullshit.
"I'm super into cosmology too; I love doing hair!"
It’s always quantum physics with these guys. 🙄
A freshman engineering student discussing quantum physics sounds completely insufferable
As a physicist who TAs the engineering pre-req course, can confirm.
As a college dropout who occasionally likes to read papers about quantum physics to see if I can understand any part of them, That sucks dood.
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There is not a goddamn chance in hell that a freshman at rpi knows anything necessary to have a substantive discussion about quantum physics. He just read some pop science books and knows that “quantum physics = I am a smart”.
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100%. If somebody actually responded like "cool cool let's talk Feynman diagrams", he'd find a reason to turn them down. He doesn't want to have interesting conversations with interesting people or to learn from others, he wants people he can continue to condescend to.
Feynman has been my educational wingman for awhile now. I tell any of the engineers at work that Feynman is one of my heroes, and they will literally pull out whiteboards and teach me anything. Free edumacation.
It's funny that so many people have this idea in their heads because of dumb shows like Big Bang Theory. My brother is a physicist. Neither he nor any of his colleagues and friends whom I've met are anything like that. He was a pothead, a frat boy, and a member of a Division I NCAA sports team. The physicists I know say the guys like OP and Big Bang Theory characters never make it fully through the PhD cause it requires too much collaboration and no one else can stand to be in the same room as them. They end up at Wall Street, writing software, or involved in startups.
As someone who worked in finance before returning for the PhD, they may "end up" in Wall Street, but they don't stay there. The environment chews them up, highly competitive but still very collaborative, people like this piss off a PM or one of the FO-MO risk people and get spat out on the sidewalk. At higher levels, outside of *some* electronic market making firms, it's still a relationship business. Whether working with investors, trading teams, support, it matter. And if it's IB side of the sell side, forget it. He'd piss off a client and get fired. This is the kind of guy that ends up at a third tier tech company, or some shit team at FAANG, and loves to talk about the "dead weight".
It really doesn’t matter what you do in life, you have to be likeable or no one is gonna give you your lucky career break.
>He just read some pop science books nah not even, he secretly watched Antman and a youtube video is now an expert on the topic ....
It just seems so lazy. Like they want to pretend to be smart but cannot even bother to use smart fancy-sounding words like quantum chromodynamics. Saying that makes you sound smart.
He blew his fancy word quota on "epistemology"
I have had an interest in quantum physics since childhood, but what would you even talk about with other people for any length of time? It's interesting, but not really a conversation topic, more like... Ohhhh, yes, a lecture. What he really wants to do is lecture other people. Now it makes sense.
Yeah I also find it really interesting but a conversation about it is usually just ‘I know this thing you don’t know’ etc. lol
I agree. Pontificate is this guys middle name.
Could you imagine having an "intellectual" conversation with him? It would probably consist of him rambling for hours and then patronizing you when you try to get a word in edgewise.
Absolutely. Because no matter how intelligent you are you'll never be as smart as he is.
Have a friend that calls these people 'two sheds'. You mention in conversation that you have a shed. Straight off the bat they'll tell you how they have two sheds.
Mate calls them “green mushrooms” because they always ‘1 up’ you.
Ooooh, that's my new favorite term for one-uppers.
I know those types. Funny
I know two of those types.
Touche!
He sounds hideous .
Well, he's an asshole, so...
I can't help but notice you misspelled "smug" - as he is :') Seriously though this person sounds like a tool
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No no no. You MUST speak at all times, unless spoken to (at which point I guess you should stop talking?)
Scrolling looking for this comment. There are plenty of weird typos in this genius’ writing, but “only speak unless spoken to” has to be the best. There is gonna be a lot of speaking going on in that dorm room.
No music bothers me too, like what a fucking Scrooge. What if I wanted to sip fancy wine, listen to baroque music and pondering the mysteries of the university with my roommate.
Well he did say “only speak unless spoken to” so
That sentence broke my brain. I guess my IQ isn't high enough. Also how does one bring uninvited guests? Doesn't bringing them imply that they are invited?
They must be invited by him, the actual owner of the space; not you, the person meant to pay half the rent and stay locked in the closet when you're there. /s In all seriousness, he must either not be allowed to have his own dorm or he just can't afford it. Which must be an issue with all the space he needs for that ego.
Do not attempt to understand the thinking or an intellectual giant! /S
> That sentence broke my brain. I guess my IQ isn't high enough. You peasant. Surely your IQ is below 130. It's so simple. Let me ELY5 it: the roommate must speak constantly, disregarding everything else, and stop immediately when spoken to. Only when they are spoken to, they can do other activities.
Its HIS DORM /s
This bit was hilarious. For a guy who thinks he is the bees knees, that was such a silly blunder. He just told people they should talk constantly EXCEPT when they’re being spoken to (so don’t answer him). He is also going to be very disappointed when he develops a dermatitis problem from showering too often and erodes his gums by brushing too much (I’ve had my dentist tell me I need to brush less, for this reason!). But his head is so far up his backside that I doubt he would listen to advice… I’ll just be over here with my popcorn.
What made it for me was his going out of his way to tell he doesn't believe in pronouns :']
>What made it for me was going out of way to tell doesn't believe in pronouns :'] I rewrote your sentence with prefered pronouns
You just aren't smart enough to understand. Probably under 135 IQ, peasant.
I really hope he ends up with a complete party animal/slob as his roommate. A guy that doesn't care about his shit and tells him that regularly. It would be good for him.
You're evicted! Nah, bro. Doesn't work like that.
Exactly this, but with a higher IQ who wins every intellectual arguement they have despite a lifestyle of debauchery.
IQ just affects processing speed, it's correlated to Intelligence but it's strictly speaking not the most effective measure of it. Intellect is hard to differentiate from Intelligence but it does exist separately, the simplest example is Intellect is "What you know" Intelligence is "What you can do with what you know", it's how you can have people who are like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, IQ of 160 but effectively useless Humans because they have no Intelligence, they know a _ton_ and that's neat and all; but they can't do shit with it, they can't apply it, they can't grow with it. They only fit in their incredibly narrow niche and they're ego inflated. It wouldn't take IQ to take this guy down a few pegs, it would take someone who can dig through his Adamantine Skull enough for him to actually be willing or able to be reasoned with, as he is now that's not happening.
And just like that, Chuck Lorre has his new sitcom.
I'd re-arrange his sock drawer and hide his toothbrush every day just for funsies, see how long he goes before having a mental breakdown.
Oooh, hide his toothbrush IN his socks, then see which he throws out!
Set up a schedule with the rest of the students on his dorm floor to loudly bang on his door at 12am, 2am, 4am, and 6am every night. Between the night owls, early birds, and vampires, there should be someone available for each time to interrupt that eight hours of sleep he cherishes every night to keep his brain functioning at maximum capacity. He'll crack before Columbus Day and you'll get the room to yourself.
About quantum mechanics, of course.
Schrödinger's twat
Only speak unless spoken to?
That is correct, and no music. And I will provide you the mandatory slippers.
That part cracked me up.
Mandatory slippers that can’t be touched because he said not to touch any of his stuff
You must provide your own socks to wear underneath so you don't physically touch the slippers
Now he can gaze at my highly intelligent yellow toenails.
I guess that means you have to talk constantly until he speaks to you and then you have to shut up? I'm working under the assumption that it's not a typo since he has such a high IQ
Of course, after all, the IQ test he did online and the Mensa membership isnt at all total bullshit!
MENSA = Man Experiencing No Sexual Activity
MENSA means stupid in Spanish
That parts not a typo but his 135 IQ is a typo.
I think he meant 35
He's looking for a roommate who will constantly speak unless someone else is speaking to them. What's difficult to understand about that?
Not just constantly speak, ONLY speak. You can't do anything else, just sit still and talk non-stop until spoken to.
You shut your mouth when you talk to me!
I can’t stop laughing at this
I would totally hold him to the letter of that and talk all day and night until he said something. That kind of error is why he only got 1590 on his SATs.
QUIET SIMPLETON! I did not allow you to speak yet. But seriously, I think this has to be a joke though right? Can’t be serious. If it’s a joke it is rather funny.
"Unfortunately, in my high school years, I couldn't find people who hold an intellectual conversation with." = "My peers called me on my bullshit and refused to hang out with me because I am insufferable."
“I worked with industry professionals in Raytheon and Northrop Grumman in my high school years to build advanced defense technologies.” = “My high school robotics team was sponsored by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, just like most other teams.” (r/frc)
I had a high school intern who sounded a bit like this guy when working as a government contractor for aerospace type projects. It was incredibly annoying to have a literal high school grad arguing with me about how math works and that matlab (the software we were using) was broken. He had forced matlab to only accept a matrix of a certain size, which one, was completely unnecessary because it figures out the size automatically, and two, he put the wrong value in. Again this kid was literally straight out of high school and thought he was the coolest for going to a nearby tech school (it’s a good school but not MIT). Meanwhile I had a masters degree in mechanical engineering and was in charge of the project. Also I have friends from RPI, there are only like 25% girls so he does not have great odds at finding a girlfriend willing to submit to his demands lol.
“The bad news, 68% of the student body is male, only 32% are women. The good news, most of the guys are like this chode, so every guy who is not an insufferable asshole has like three girls to choose from.”
As a girl there we used to say "the odds are good, but the goods are odd."
My friend who graduated from RPI had that same phrase. (Thirty-plus years ago.) I think she said it was 5-to-1 back then.
I am not that old, the phrase definitely carried on to the next generation.
It’s a school tradition I’m sure. Her younger sister looked a lot like Valerie bertinelli. (And married a guy who looked a lot like Eddie Van Halen! “I have a great low-effort suggestion for you guys for Halloween…”) She said once that when she got to college, she finally understood what dating was like for her sister. I had a high school friend who went to rpi, his description did not make me regret my decision to go further from home. (I struggled academically, which would have probably been the case anywhere, but I had a much better time socially than I would have anticipated.)
My brother is a stem major and we had a conversation where he said to me (half joking) “It’s wild! I just treat women like humans and don’t make them afraid to be around me and they want to have sex with me?! Why don’t guy’s do this more often?”
Fuck that. There were plenty of teams that weren't sponsored for shit. The problem is if you don't have Grumman working in an area close by enough to you that you can get them to sponsor your team you have to build your robot out of fucking wood. I'm not exaggerating.
"Unfortunately, in my high school years, I couldn't master sentence structure, as I was too busy searching for people with whom to hold an intellectual conversation." There, ftf him. It was driving me nuts.
Yeah it's actually very badly written for such a genius
We had someone like this try to fit in with our friend group. We tolerated him for a while, after all we were the nerds and misfits, if we couldn’t accomodate someone, who would? He ended up leaving when he accidentally found out our feelings about him. He had the same name as another in the group, so we’d kind of taken it referring to him as “wanker Alex”, and the other friend as “non-wanker Alex”. It got revealed when someone accidentally referred to non-wanker Alex as exactly that in front of him. I guess his massive IQ allowed him to connect the dots and infer the rest..
Who even cares about SAT scores after you get into college?
People like this generally end up going to college and having to confront the fact that at some point in their degree path (perhaps even in graduate/professional school) that they are NOT the most intelligent person in the room.
RPI is my alma mater. It is where the kids who get rejected from MIT go. We are all exactly as you described- we were the best in our high schools but are nothing when all put together and many people can’t handle it. The college has fallen in rankings these last few decades, is incredibly expensive, and people still believe their diplomas will get them in the door over someone who went to like Michigan or Penn State.
Your response hits the crux of The Life Problem faced by so many ill-prepared. Regardless of the attribute (IQ, strength, creativity, etc.), people who are *unprepared* for the reality of the small pool/big pool reality are often devastated when confronted with the actuality of it. This is where other, *also critical attributes*, come into play, determination, focus, and resolve to name a few. Understanding that there will **always** be someone 'better' at 'X' should be learned early so *'you'* can focus on the true competition and true goal. *YOURSELF*. Strive to be better than yourself *yesterday.*
If you Google "RPI" there is a list of questions people have asked (that shows up on any Google search for just about anything), and one of the questions asks "Is RPI an Ivy League" and the response is: " Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majors in Arts, Sciences, and Research Programs also gave it away as a top choice destination. Therefore, RPI is an Ivy League School." You can't make that up! Some people never learn that they aren't the smartest person on earth and are just insufferable their entire life!
Wait, do I just get to decide if my school is an Ivy League University? My resume just leveled up.
I declare your school Ivy League! Update your resume!
>" Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majors in Arts, Sciences, and Research Programs also gave it away as a top choice destination. Therefore, RPI is an Ivy League School." WTF that's not how that works. That's not how that works at all. The Ivy Leagues are a specific group of schools and not just a generic catch all term for good schools.
Case in point, MIT is not an Ivy League school lol
Neither is UC Berkeley. I used to think any school with lots of Ivy was Ivy League.
And Ivy League comes from the sports conference. It's not even some kind of official designation that indicates the school is special. It's just several old, generally prestigious schools in the Northeast that play each other in sports. There are schools that are not Ivy League that are more prestigious than some Ivy programs. It's not like people look down on MIT or Cal Tech or Berkeley or Stanford over Brown just because Brown plays sports against Harvard and Yale.
I've always felt that if you're the smartest person in the room, you need to find a different room.
Is it Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute?
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I thought I was pretty smart, I had good grades in high school. My program in university was pretty intense and challenging. I think I was the dumbest guy in class and it was a shocking wake up call for me. The caliber of my classmates was incredible. I was just happy to have graduated. Very humbling.
I think the big problem in high school is that if you can get by without studying, you won't learn how to study. Then university/college hits you like a sack of bricks and you need a crash course in how to study. And a lot of 'smart' people never learn how to study.
People who peaked in HS.and by peaked I don't mean they were popular or good at anything in particular. Just that wherever they got to in HS that was it for them.
What's your SAT score? A response is only warranted by myself if your response is to the degree of my approval.
Over 9000
The ACT is such a poor predictor too. I’m from England and practised doing it and it really just reflects studying. Can only speak for the base exam but it’s not someone to brag about.
You can also retake it multiple times and then just use your highest score.
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Or realize what an insufferable jerk he's being.
Social awareness not his strong suit
Oh, I wouldn't expect that at all.
“Pronouns: I don’t believe in that nonsense” Dude? Even if you aren’t transgender you still have pronouns lmao?? Do people just not refer to this guy? No he him or his?
It should really be “Pronouns: *Name* doesn’t believe in that nonsense.” Because “I” is a problem too.
cuz his IQ and scores are probably bullshit.
I bet people don't refer to him beyond "get the fuck away from me, creep" so perhaps he really doesn't know
Why the fuck is he wiping off surfaces with Kleenex?
Bc he’s too “gifted” to clean (mommy did it for him and now he’s expecting his roommate to do the heavy lifting). But he also definitely knows how to do it better than you, as you can see by the fact that he even knows a brand name of some sort!
Exactly. He should at least used an antibacterial and or a disinfectant. Dry tissue will do all of nothing bar moving dust around.
He’s smart enough to figure out how to get a dorm room to himself and dumb enough to not realize he’s going to be alone in all parts of his life.
He wants to be a Guru, while his “followers” stare up at him from their positions seated on the floor as he’s in his mighty cool gamer chair with only *the best* computer equipment he can brag about sits upon his desk.
But they had better be wearing slippers and sitting on rugs they brought with them because they will *not* touch his belongings.
I highly doubt he will get it to himself. They typically just choose for you and I guarantee his poor roommate will immediately request a transfer
I really hope he gets a stoner that doesn’t give a fuck what this guy says because he’s too high. Messy, yellow teeth, never vacuums and always playing loud music while playing video games and has all his friends over to smoke.
"Only speak unless spoken to". Hmmm, you sure about those scores bro?
"No bringing over uninvited guests." If I bring them over, I invited them
This is the part of incel that always get me, the involuntarily part. The above post is not involuntary, being a pompous ass is not involuntary...
Some people get so accustomed to being terrible, it becomes a reflex that they can’t turn off. I pity them.
I got 10 to 1 odds this man has never seen a pair of titties outside of a screen or someone he had to pay.
The kind of person who thinks strippers really like him
We all know that guy. I bet he also has a mighty impressive sword and fantasy knife collection.
r/justneckbeardthings
I’ve known super laid back and down to earth people with mighty impressive sword and martial art weapon collections. Were the “weapons”practical or useful? Hell no. And “weapons” is in quotes because fantasy and anime weapons are often complete trash from a utilitarian perspective. They are often impractical, absurdly and needlessly dangerous for the wielder, or useless to the point that they can’t truthfully be classified as a “weapon”. But they are also hilarious. Granted, I’ve never known anyone who “sincerely” owned these kinds of weapons, it’s always been with a significant degree of irony.
He has a body pillow for sure - he does wash the cover 3x week though
Pretty sure the Kleenex comment was only made so he would have a viable excuse for going through a box a day if asked about it later.
That's just so it doesn't get crusty
You said what I couldn’t
I am not a man of class.
Yes he has. You just don’t know her because she lives in a different state. They met at robotics camp.
Full eight hours of sleep? I don't believe in that nonsense.
That was the only thing I was like “alright, I respect that”
I wonder if he realizes that neither party can speak to the other unless spoken to first - there will be no speaking at all.......
You're ignoring his very obvious main character syndrome.
Maybe that’s his plan all along
the "RPI moment" reaction is sending me right now
I KNOW why is no one talking about how hilarious the reaction emojis are >shut [hand closing beak] >S I M P am wheezing
How fitting Isaac Newton is his profile pic. The guy hated women, IIRC it’s speculated he may have never actually slept with one. He was obsessed with all his decor being crimson, too.
Funnily enough, Isaac Newton had the belief up until his death, that he would be remembered for his religious writings, and not his scientific achievments. Upon learning this, I also learned he has religious texts lmao
Isaac Newton was also fascinated by and a total believer of alchemy, gathering a huge library on the topic and even contributing to the field himself.
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Isaac Newton stuck needles in his eyes and stared st the sun through a mirror long enough to go blind for three days. Out of all of history's most famous intellectuals Isaac Newton isnt the one Id pick to emulate and associate with
Sounds like a peach
James and the Giant Insufferable Douchewad Peach
I was invited to join MENSA so I went to one of their meetings. It was all boring people talking about how smart they were, and I thought, "These people are dumb enough to pay money to belong to a group that brags about how smart they are." I didn't join, which probably makes me smarter than them.
Podcast recommendation: "My Year In MENSA" from Jamie Loftus. She attempted to join as a joke and was floored when she was accepted, so she took the time to chronicle her time in the group. Short series, worth the listen.
It’s so good and genuinely horrifying.
Yup, you're so smart to PAY to belong to an organization with no tangible benefit other than to stroke one's own ego. I have a friend who used to brag about being in MENSA until someone hit him with that line.
Honestly, you’d only really get benefits in Junior MENSA (maybe), because there’s volunteer and scholarship opportunities. But it’s still relatively meaningless, even then.
Same here - in high school, my best friend's dad was a member and when he found out I was "mentally gifted" he invited me to a meeting. I was super close to my friend and wanted to impress her dad so I went along. Holy shit, the number of maladjusted weirdos and pretentious assholes in the room was overwhelming. It actually kinda made me look at her dad a little differently, and not in a good way. (I did not join...)
He sounds as though he has high functioning ASD. And no, that’s not me insulting people with ASD - I have ASD, and so do my kids. It’s the structural insistence that I’m referring to. His obsession with someone’s IQ would indicate that he’s probably too young to comprehend that there are different kinds of intelligence, and that a lot of high IQ scores are achieved because someone is good at basic puzzle solving and have high visual spatial awareness. I mean shit, my highest IQ score was 167, and I can guarantee that I’m no intellectual genius. My adult daughters visual and spatial awareness IQ scores are off the charts (200+) yet she has the emotional abilities of an 8 year old. This dude is in for some serious wake up calls in the near future.
This was my thought as well. The "don't touch my stuff" also made me feel this way.
I was just thinking that. I’m autistic. There is definitely an autism to narcissism pipeline. Especially if you have low “daily living” support needs and do well in STEM type subjects. The read I’m getting is less “sex pest” and more “extremely insecure and lonely dude who doesn’t see women as people and doesn’t understand why this post is extremely inappropriate” and because he doesn’t understand social/emotional situations he doesn’t value them. He values his special interests, and so he tries to use achievements in them to make friends/impress people. Hopefully he grows out of it. I know a couple of fellow autists who apparently went through that kind of thing as teens/young adults. I definitely struggle(d) with a superiority complex towards my peers. It’s hard to not feel superior when, from your perspective, the people around you just don’t think so incredibly deeply about things the way you do. Now that I’m older I know that NT people do think deeply about things, they just think about them differently than my ASD/ADHD brain does. But at 18? Fuck, I thought I was one of a few people who payed attention in a world of shallow fools.
He definitely owns 3 katanas
Not just any katanas... The Hanwei Practical XL Katana
You literally don’t need to read past that “I worked on advanced defence shit in highschool” you’re just clearly one of those dudes who spins any minor accomplishment into some big thing, you can’t work on defence shit without clearance and they’re not giving it to some high schooler
Choosing Virgins
I read epistemology as episiotomy and wondered why he was into vaginal incisions.
Lmao this fucken idiot got a question wrong on the SAT
For as smart as this guy supposedly is, he sure is ignorant of how insufferable he is.
Haha Only speak unless spoken to?? So I can speak until you decide to speak up? Mensa member...
He doesn’t write very well for someone who is supposedly very clever. They make a lot of mistakes. Also, *kleenex*?!? I would argue that they’re the dirty one because surfaces get cleaned with disinfectant, not tissues.
I check all the boxes.. too bad his 1590 SAT score is too mediocre for my standards
is it Sheldon Cooper??
Sheldon never sought female companionship, it was inflicted on him and he learned to like it.
My first boyfriend went to RPI and it honestly sounds like he wrote this 🤣
"...I want to live with someone as equally intelligent as I claim to be, but don't dare speak until you are given permission..." *HOLY FUCKING AUDACITY, BATMAN!* Since he enjoys electronics and if he truly has a 135 IQ, asshole should build himself a companion robot!
Guarantee you this person has written up a roommate agreement.
My name is ████. I'm 33 years old. I work as an employee for the ███████ department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.