grrrr - vent alert!

[cybermule]

I don't mind that someone is forgetful.

I mind mildly that they cultivate it as some sort of sign of their unique and mighty genius. (*)

I mind a lot when they forget to pass on an important telephone message (**)


(*)Personally I think that it makes you a bit of a waste of space if you're so clever that you continually lose any means of communicating your brilliant ideas to the rest of the world (or at least, that's the kindest explanantion I can think of). But we don't always know what will be useful in the future, and we can afford to support extra people, so it's OK.

(**)If you constantly brag about how smart you are, yet how quixotically and amusingly forgetful, for goodness sake put some sort of compensatory mechanism in place. All you have to do is write down the message straight away, dammit! I'm mildly forgetful, so that's what I do, and I don't constantly imply that I'm a genius.

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that was a really interesting read.

16th percentile thinking they're 66th percentile isn't the quirkily average thinking they're lovable Einsteins though, that's idiots just managing to drool in the right place on a few of the answer boxes. I loved the invisible lemon juice story (too much invisible ink making as a kid ?).

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - the lemon juice story was so funny, and it's a good article all round. Statistically I guess it's inevitable that even random drooling should occasionally hit good results!