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DipDipDive
08-26-2005, 07:52 PM
I'm pretty dumb. There aren't many topics that I can speak knowledgeably about. I used to think I was smart, but I'm not.

I'm not fishing. Honest. (!)
ToucanSpam
08-26-2005, 07:55 PM
Don't sell yourself short.
DipDipDive
08-26-2005, 07:56 PM
This isn't a self esteem issue, it's just a fact.
ToucanSpam
08-26-2005, 07:58 PM
You don't have to have a vast knowledge of things to be smart. You can have the ability to speak to people (have good people skills) and that is a type of smart.

Also, being resourceful is a type of smart too...


I'm just trying to help is all.
Qdrop
08-26-2005, 08:15 PM
i've been trying to tell you this....

hellooooooo.....












you ain't stupid....stop.
little j
08-26-2005, 10:34 PM
i think you should stick to what you know and learn something new everyday.

i cant speak knowledgeably (is that spelled correctly?) about much either.
i know about music (as in the art) i know about protestant religion. i know about writing and im pretty good at psychology.

politics, other religions, really much else im pretty clueless
Rancid_Beasties
08-26-2005, 10:41 PM
I'm pretty dumb. There aren't many topics that I can speak knowledgeably about. I used to think I was smart, but I'm not.

I'm not fishing. Honest. (!)
Everybody feels this way every now and again. Maybe its just because you are surrounded by geniuses? Maybe its because you are an allrounder rather than a specialist. I dunno. Because judging by your posts, in the politics and music forum's especially, you are far from dumb.
Paul Kemp
08-26-2005, 10:58 PM
I bullshit alot. People are always asking me information or opinions on various things that I have very little knowledge of and I somehow come across as knowing what I'm talking about.
Documad
08-26-2005, 11:47 PM
I think smart has more to do with being interested in things rather than having a lot of knowledge stored in your brain.

If you seriously care about your breadth of knowledge, is there something you're interested in that you don't know much about? I went to college, but I I rarely took liberal arts classes and I was embarrassed about how little I knew. I started reading and got interested in things and it made me read more and learn more. Sometimes you don't want to read 500 pages about an ex president or a civil rights leader but you want to know who he was. I sometimes check juvenile nonfiction books out of my library when I want to know just a little about some topic.
Echewta
08-27-2005, 12:17 AM
Besides the spelling part, i'm perfect.
The Notorious LOL
08-27-2005, 02:33 AM
its because I school you on subject matter.
DipDipDive
08-27-2005, 08:34 AM
its because I school you on subject matter.

Oh you just wait until we venture into interior design conversation. Imma make you look silly, son.





























































:(
miss soul fire
08-27-2005, 10:26 AM
I agree with Documad 100%.

Every now and then I wear my underware in the wrong way! :o I do it like once a week!
HEIRESS
08-27-2005, 11:27 AM
I find that yelling and swearing makes me seem smarter during random conversations
alruggs
08-27-2005, 11:57 AM
I agree with Documad 100%.

Every now and then I wear my underware in the wrong way! :o I do it like once a week!
Like backwards? I hope you don't wear thongs. :(
yeahwho
08-27-2005, 12:05 PM
Think smart, be smart! Remember, it's not a lie, if you believe it!

George Costanza, Preident of Vandelay Industries
mickill
08-27-2005, 12:08 PM
I find that yelling and swearing makes me seem smarter during random conversations
These are very effective tools. I do this as well. I also make constant hand gestures, try hard to not blink, stare intently into the other person's eyes, crack my knuckles a lot and pound my fist against the table for emphasis.

Also, visibly and audibly breathing through your nostrils is a good way to make yourself look smarter when conversing with your intellectual superiors, of which I have very few.
DandyFop
08-27-2005, 01:02 PM
I'm not really either. I mean, I am smart, but I can't really hold a good conversation about a lot of things cause I just don't know about them. I think that's why I find guys who read a lot or who really know a lot about a certain thing really attractive, because I don't have that myself...if that makes sense. I have always wanted to know everything about everything but I don't put any effort into learning it, and I have a bad memory so unless I read something 10 times over, I won't remember it anyway.

But none of it really matters since I intend to sleep my way to the top.
Dr Deaf
08-27-2005, 01:07 PM
i can establish common ground for conversation purposes with just about anyone. i'm not smart, i'm clever. i know a little bit about everything and fuck all about anything specific and of importance. such is life.
mickill
08-27-2005, 01:13 PM
It's better to know what you're talking about than just know about a lot of things.
adam_f
08-27-2005, 01:14 PM
I wouldn't say that you're dumb, you just have special needs that need to be acknowledged prior to conversation. Nothing wrong with it.
DandyFop
08-27-2005, 01:16 PM
It's better to know what you're talking about than just know about a lot of things.

Well I really really REALLY know a lot about you being a douche-bag, so i got that goin for me.
jabumbo
08-27-2005, 01:22 PM
i can establish common ground for conversation purposes with just about anyone. i'm not smart, i'm clever. i know a little bit about everything and fuck all about anything specific and of importance. such is life.


i tend to feel this way abouy myself as well. i dont really know a lot or do much of anything very well, but i don't embarrass myself either. its a happy medium