Arch Stanton Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Okay. I have three cats called Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Mars is 5 years older than Jupiter who in 2 years time will be twice as old as Saturn. How old is Mars? HTH I'll go for 4.603 billion years. Wild guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 40 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: Just a very long list of "less words, more diagrams" Would probably have been quicker to rewrite it from scratch, I tell ye. "Fewer words..." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 26 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: I'll go for 4.603 billion years. Wild guess. That’s how long it takes to get to Saturn. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 14/07/2021 at 23:02, Hedgecutter said: Anybody frequenting the GN Forum will have noticed the presence of certain individuals who consistently appear to know everything better than most, regardless of the subject being discussed. For me the Coronavirus thread is a fine example of the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect' (image below for those unaware of what I mean) / 'better-than-average effect' in action. Throw some posters some stats from the news and... well, you know the rest. So how prevalent is it on here? Are most posters guilty of it? What are the finest examples of posters walking into their own graves you remember seeing? Finally, out of curiosity, I've added an anonymous poll to ask a single (perhaps over-generalised) question, just to see if the majority of posters deem themselves to be better than average, which I'm led to believe is usually the case in wider society. I've purposely avoided a middle-of-the-road cop-out answer (and chances are you wouldn't be bang on average anyway). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 3 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: That’s how long it takes me to get up the stairs. FTFY 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Just now, Melanius Mullarkey said: FTFY Yeah I’m one of the older posters on here. Maybe you’ll have the occasional response to one of my posts that doesn’t focus on that. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I find quite a lot of highly qualified people find it impossible to explain their subjects to a layman because they haven't really learnt the basics themselves. They learn what they need to get to the next step without asking why. I doubt there's anything a truly intelligent person couldn't explain in words that the average 14 year old would understand.A lot of theorists and philosophers never learn this lesson which is why Lenin continues to be such a good writer because most of his stuff is engaging and funny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Everyone on this site imagines they’re a Kenny Powers but they’re actually a Stevie Janowski 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, NotThePars said: Everyone on this site imagines they’re a Kenny Powers but they’re actually a Stevie Janowski Little known fact (and by little known,I mean only my wife and I know it): Steve Janowski is the spitting image of our old neighbour, Gwen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Little known fact (and by little known,I mean only my wife and I know it): Steve Janowski is the spitting image of our old neighbour, Gwen. Poor Gwen. (And Stevie?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 1 minute ago, NotThePars said: Poor Gwen. (And Stevie?) I used to like her until she told me she battered a squirrel to death in her loft with a shovel. So f**k her: poor Stevie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I used to like her until she told me she battered a squirrel to death in her loft with a shovel. So f**k her: poor Stevie. Is she married to Jolyon Maugham (noted QC who battered a fox to death while wearing a kimono)? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, NotThePars said: Is she married to Jolyon Maugham (noted QC who battered a fox to death while wearing a kimono)? I just quickly read that story - what an utter c**t. But to answer your question, no, I don't believe he was ever romantically involved with Gwen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 hours ago, NotThePars said: Everyone on this site imagines they’re a Kenny Powers but they’re actually a Stevie Janowski No offence to anyone, and I've come across a few obvious bright sparks here, especially in the chess league, but anyone genuinely smart probably wouldn't be a regular on P&B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 8 minutes ago, GordonS said: No offence to anyone, and I've come across a few obvious bright sparks here, especially in the chess league, but anyone genuinely smart probably wouldn't be a regular on P&B. Why not? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, Dee Man said: Why not? In my experience few really smart people waste a lot of time on social media, and those who do generally use it to engage with folk they know on Twitter. A football message board isn't somewhere to go looking for the brightest among us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, GordonS said: No offence to anyone, and I've come across a few obvious bright sparks here, especially in the chess league, but anyone genuinely smart probably wouldn't be a regular on P&B. What a weird and dismissive post. There are multiple threads on here full of people displaying that they clearly know their shit on a wide variety of topics. Forum posting is the purest form of online engagement as literally anyone who destroyed their brain on Something Awful alone would know. ETA: as if Lenin and Marx wouldn't have been forum posters as well most of their bibliography is them beefing with other writers in the exact style of niche confusing forum posting you see on here every day. Edited July 19, 2021 by NotThePars 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, GordonS said: In my experience few really smart people waste a lot of time on social media, and those who do generally use it to engage with folk they know on Twitter. A football message board isn't somewhere to go looking for the brightest among us. Stuart Cosgrove posts on here and he's always saying big words so I think that may be an unequivocally fallacious argument tbh Edited July 19, 2021 by Bert Raccoon 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 1 minute ago, GordonS said: In my experience few really smart people waste a lot of time on social media, and those who do generally use it to engage with folk they know on Twitter. A football message board isn't somewhere to go looking for the brightest among us. You've upped it from smart to "really smart" there. I think judging people on their levels of intelligence based on whether they use twitter over P&B is probably a fairly inaccurate gauge. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 36 minutes ago, GordonS said: No offence to anyone, and I've come across a few obvious bright sparks here, especially in the chess league, but anyone genuinely smart probably wouldn't be a regular on P&B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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