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"They use lots of big words embellished with a sprinkling of French and/or Latin  "
I'd disagree with that. I've met plenty of people who use a lot of big words - but often incorrectly - because they think it makes them look intelligent.
"Keep it simple stupid" often applies |
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over a year ago
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"Not having opinions on literally everything. Knowing what they don't know"
I'm stealing this answer and also adding knowing when to talk and when not to talk. Which is pretty similar |
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"Not having opinions on literally everything. Knowing what they don't know"
Reminds me of one of the great British cartoons of my youth:
"He knows everything about nothing
And not too much about that
So if you know someone who knows what he knows
You must know Henry's cat." |
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"Not having opinions on literally everything. Knowing what they don't know
I'm stealing this answer and also adding knowing when to talk and when not to talk. Which is pretty similar"
"I know that I know nothing. That makes me the smartest man in Athens" Socrates, according to Plato
(Saying that shit in front of an Athenian jury, good way to get executed, maybe not smart, but *shrug*) |
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"They use lots of big words embellished with a sprinkling of French and/or Latin
I'd disagree with that. I've met plenty of people who use a lot of big words - but often incorrectly - because they think it makes them look intelligent.
"Keep it simple stupid" often applies"
It was meant ironically 
I mean look at the current PM! |
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"They use lots of big words embellished with a sprinkling of French and/or Latin
I'd disagree with that. I've met plenty of people who use a lot of big words - but often incorrectly - because they think it makes them look intelligent.
"Keep it simple stupid" often applies
It was meant ironically
I mean look at the current PM!"
Irony didn't translate, sorry.
But yes. Indeed. |
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"Clever or common sense? If you have both you are intelligent 
In fact the more academically intelligent you are, the less common sense you possess. True fact "
Isn’t true fact one of the few real tautologies? |
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Einstein said if you tell a fish to climb a tree it’ll spend its life believing it’s stupid.
People are smart. Just not all in the same way about the same things.
Oh.. and people who quote people |
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"Clever or common sense? If you have both you are intelligent
In fact the more academically intelligent you are, the less common sense you possess. True fact
Isn’t true fact one of the few real tautologies? "
Absolutely. Common saying, no? |
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"Clever or common sense? If you have both you are intelligent
In fact the more academically intelligent you are, the less common sense you possess. True fact
Isn’t true fact one of the few real tautologies?
Absolutely. Common saying, no? "
It agrees with itself. A fact is by it’s very definition of being a fact, true. |
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"A Mensa lapel pin
It's not that subtle. It's pretty arrogant to be fair
Have you ever seen one.."
I know someone who is quick to tell you they're a member of MENSA. I shall not print my views on this habit. |
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"A clever man has answers, a wise man has more questions and knows where to hunt down those answers.
A dumb person thinks they know it all and starts to recruitments to a cult."
What about a smart woman?!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Takes off Mensa pointy sharply thing
Stops eating the funny soggy chips
Tells the cult no new members sorry
Makes note to stop using use quod erat demonstrandum in Tesco
These are statements must stop
Hey what I miss? What’s the thread about? |
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"A Mensa lapel pin
It's not that subtle. It's pretty arrogant to be fair
Have you ever seen one..
I know someone who is quick to tell you they're a member of MENSA. I shall not print my views on this habit. "
I think I've told you the results of my one IQ test  |
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"A Mensa lapel pin
It's not that subtle. It's pretty arrogant to be fair
Have you ever seen one..
I know someone who is quick to tell you they're a member of MENSA. I shall not print my views on this habit.
I think I've told you the results of my one IQ test "
I was referring to someone else |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Basically, none of us know enough about everything. Someone allays knows more about something than you. And it’s not that deep. "
And I can’t spell so what do I know anyway.  |
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"Takes off Mensa pointy sharply thing
Stops eating the funny soggy chips
Tells the cult no new members sorry
Makes note to stop using use quod erat demonstrandum in Tesco
These are statements must stop
Hey what I miss? What’s the thread about? "
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"A Mensa lapel pin
It's not that subtle. It's pretty arrogant to be fair
Have you ever seen one..
I know someone who is quick to tell you they're a member of MENSA. I shall not print my views on this habit.
I think I've told you the results of my one IQ test
I was referring to someone else "
Mensa wouldn't let me in |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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"A clever man has answers, a wise man has more questions and knows where to hunt down those answers.
A dumb person thinks they know it all and starts to recruitments to a cult.
What about a smart woman?! "
Man is an adult male human
Man is also short for human
Some animal species are listed by their female eg chickens
others are neutral eg horse, sheep, birds
and others by their male, eg lion
some have no gender specific names eg frog or butterfly |
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Knowing what they do and don't know. People who think they know everything come off as arrogant whereas people who are actually smart come off as nervous about most things and underestimate themselves |
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"A clever man has answers, a wise man has more questions and knows where to hunt down those answers.
A dumb person thinks they know it all and starts to recruitments to a cult.
What about a smart woman?!
Man is an adult male human
Man is also short for human
Some animal species are listed by their female eg chickens
others are neutral eg horse, sheep, birds
and others by their male, eg lion
some have no gender specific names eg frog or butterfly"
A chicken is what you eat. The females are called hens. The males are called roosters.
A female horse = mare; male = stallion (or gelding if it saw the man with two bricks). Etc.
"A clever man" refers to a single man
Referring to "man" as in "man's best friend" would suggest the wider (possibly gender neutral) population. I'd argue the reference to "man" is simply a throwback to when women were neither seen nor heard and certainly didn't get philosophical sayings said about them. |
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"They use lots of big words embellished with a sprinkling of French and/or Latin
I'd disagree with that. I've met plenty of people who use a lot of big words - but often incorrectly - because they think it makes them look intelligent.
"Keep it simple stupid" often applies"
Like rich people who don't dress wealthy and then poorer people in their designer labels.
If you're intelligent, you don't have to try too hard to show it. |
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"A clever man has answers, a wise man has more questions and knows where to hunt down those answers.
A dumb person thinks they know it all and starts to recruitments to a cult.
What about a smart woman?!
Man is an adult male human
Man is also short for human
Some animal species are listed by their female eg chickens
others are neutral eg horse, sheep, birds
and others by their male, eg lion
some have no gender specific names eg frog or butterfly"
Actually, etymologically human and man are unrelated. Human is Latin and man is German. |
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"Knowing the water goes in before the milk
What milk?!
Full fat ideally
In green tea?! 
Especially in green tea
*Strikes Mr Hardly off the Christmas card list* "
I'll still send you one. Me in my Xmas jumper with a milky green tea on the front  |
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"Knowing the water goes in before the milk
What milk?!
Full fat ideally
In green tea?!
Especially in green tea
*Strikes Mr Hardly off the Christmas card list*
I'll still send you one. Me in my Xmas jumper with a milky green tea on the front "
*Mutters something about the recycling pile*  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Knowing the water goes in before the milk
What milk?!
Full fat ideally
In green tea?!
Especially in green tea
*Strikes Mr Hardly off the Christmas card list*
I'll still send you one. Me in my Xmas jumper with a milky green tea on the front
*Mutters something about the recycling pile* "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If they listen to heavy metal
Most def!"
It's been proven by science..The best conversations it's weird slot of people do not like that genre but I met amazing people because of it. |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
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"Clever or common sense? If you have both you are intelligent
In fact the more academically intelligent you are, the less common sense you possess. True fact "
I’d agree. I used to work with academics and about 2 of them had any common sense. |
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I would say that “smart/intelligent” people tend to be more willing to listen without interrupting, Will usually give an honest un-biassed facts based answer (not just what people want to hear) and tend to be much more calm and collected during discussions with people who hold different opinions.
But that depends on whether they’re humble or arrogant though |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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"A Mensa lapel pin
It's not that subtle. It's pretty arrogant to be fair
Have you ever seen one.."
I used to have one most people thought it was some sort of Mencap solidarity thing, I think.
My excuse is I was young, but I did realise it was a bollocks organisation pretty quickly. Since then, I've destroyed enough brain cells to operate successfully amongst you simpletons... |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?  "
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person "
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse "
A smart person gone off the rails a bit? |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse
A smart person gone off the rails a bit?"
Apparently smarter people are more likely to experiment with mind altering drugs…… so those blurry eyed people carting books and looking smart may in fact be lecturers on their way to teach  |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse
A smart person gone off the rails a bit?
Apparently smarter people are more likely to experiment with mind altering drugs…… so those blurry eyed people carting books and looking smart may in fact be lecturers on their way to teach "
Yeah I know, I was only messing around |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse
A smart person gone off the rails a bit?
Apparently smarter people are more likely to experiment with mind altering drugs…… so those blurry eyed people carting books and looking smart may in fact be lecturers on their way to teach
Yeah I know, I was only messing around "
Sorry, I was just being a smart arse, I forget most people don’t get my shitty sense of humour   |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse
A smart person gone off the rails a bit?
Apparently smarter people are more likely to experiment with mind altering drugs…… so those blurry eyed people carting books and looking smart may in fact be lecturers on their way to teach
Yeah I know, I was only messing around
Sorry, I was just being a smart arse, I forget most people don’t get my shitty sense of humour "
A smart persons arse? |
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"Smart people carry books, a calculator, wear glasses and comfortable clothes.
This makes them easy to spot.
You’re not confusing them with students are ya?
Possibly. Although the distinct difference in students is that they also have blurry eyes....you'll not see that on a smart person
Ohhh I dunno….. you may be being judgemental here….. they do say it’s a thin line between genius and drug abuse
A smart person gone off the rails a bit?
Apparently smarter people are more likely to experiment with mind altering drugs…… so those blurry eyed people carting books and looking smart may in fact be lecturers on their way to teach
Yeah I know, I was only messing around
Sorry, I was just being a smart arse, I forget most people don’t get my shitty sense of humour
A smart persons arse?"
I’m an equal opportunities arse man! A nice arse is a nice arse, although if the brain that controls it isn’t at least somewhat intelligent, then I’m afraid that ass isn’t grass and I won’t be mowing it lol |
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When someone is arguing with you and you know you're not going to get anywhere and give them the satisfaction of "winning" the argument but knowing the person is a lost cause |
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" When someone is arguing with you and you know you're not going to get anywhere and give them the satisfaction of "winning" the argument but knowing the person is a lost cause "
You do realise how narcissistic you are right?? Jesus the fact you’d actually post that comment is disturbing |
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" When someone is arguing with you and you know you're not going to get anywhere and give them the satisfaction of "winning" the argument but knowing the person is a lost cause
You do realise how narcissistic you are right?? Jesus the fact you’d actually post that comment is disturbing "
not really, just proving that not all arguments need to be won. No use trying to prove a point to a person that doesn't want to know, especially if they're wrong |
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"A clever man has answers, a wise man has more questions and knows where to hunt down those answers.
A dumb person thinks they know it all and starts to recruitments to a cult.
What about a smart woman?! "
A smart woman watches the men being smart/wise/dumb with an amused expression on her face whilst eating cake and talking with her non-binary friends about toxic masculinity and the need for a new kind of society. Then she eats more cake. Cause she's smart and knows that cake eating is a key component to happiness whereas "intelligence" as defined by society is highly overrated.  |
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" When someone is arguing with you and you know you're not going to get anywhere and give them the satisfaction of "winning" the argument but knowing the person is a lost cause
You do realise how narcissistic you are right?? Jesus the fact you’d actually post that comment is disturbing not really, just proving that not all arguments need to be won. No use trying to prove a point to a person that doesn't want to know, especially if they're wrong "
Sorry, my reply was outta order and overly harsh! I was drinking whiskey, and have a bad habit of jumping to conclusions and making assumptions. Genuine apologies!!! But I’m definitely one of those people you refer too, if I think I’m right, I’ll fight my corner to the death, either by proving myself right, or being humble in my acceptance of having proved myself wrong  but all debates must be concluded one way or another |
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"Emotional maturity can’t be dismissed in someone’s intelligence either "
Is there such a thing? I mean, can anyone of any age really say they’re emotionally mature, genuine interest in the topic….. |
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"Knowing the difference between there/their and your/you’re etc
#pedant "
Definitely. If I ever use your instead of you're. Or they're instead of there/their
It's a cry for help and I've been abducted. |
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"Emotional maturity can’t be dismissed in someone’s intelligence either
Is there such a thing? I mean, can anyone of any age really say they’re emotionally mature, genuine interest in the topic….."
I think so. It shows itself in how you handle conflict, how you deal with relationship issues, how you respond to people expressing opinions different to yours and many other ways. |
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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago
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When they pass exams with no effort or studying . I knew someone like this . He could a couple days before exams . Read the text books . Then pass exam . While everybody struggled . Funny thing was . Went to Oxford University. Passed with honours etc. Then after a couple jobs in , universities . Went to work as as gardener in a country estate. Yes his degree ? More qualified. Did not want promotion . Just liked being a gardener. |
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"They use lots of big words embellished with a sprinkling of French and/or Latin
I'd disagree with that. I've met plenty of people who use a lot of big words - but often incorrectly - because they think it makes them look intelligent.
"Keep it simple stupid" often applies"
Totally. Although I do like having fun and deliberately using a big word that makes no sense at all in a sentence to see if I’m laughed or corrected - very amusing when people use it back in the wrong context without
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They can pretty much answer any question - most times correctly - without any hesitation. And certainly not using Google.
They will also use rapid-fire wit and repartee during a flowing conversation effortlessly.
PS - There are some VERY smart people on Fab |
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I think subtle signs are that they will listen to and give consideration to other people's opinions because they know that they don't know things. Their bookshelves hold books on a wide variety of subjects. They are always keen to learn. |
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