Author Topic: Are I dumb? (Read 1009 times)

AWMac · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2007, 03:58:17 PM »

They called me right after I took the test.

The President wants to speak with me along with......

The Dolly Llama.

Mac

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2007, 04:01:57 PM »

Whatever you score, just remember:

Jesus loves you, but I am his favorite.

Airscrew · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2007, 04:10:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Useful to who? There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Why would I want to give a white supremecist, liberal crazy person, black panther, or someone else with some other axe to grind fuel for their agenda?

My agenda is to claim that I'm a smarty-pants with a rapist-like wit, and that's it. Anything past that, in terms of data gathering, conclusions of groups, etc, is not my interest. If the quiz had 'Decline to specify' as an option, they could leave those results out of their data gathering, but they didn't, so I used the closest available.

Normally I dont butt in but I made an exception in this case. I would like to point out that you may have made a slight error in terms.

rapist-like wit? perhaps you meant rapier-like wit? Not judging or anything just helping out

cause I really cant think of anything a rapist did that was witty. However a Rapier - [a longer, heavier sword, esp. of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting. ] is probably what you where looking for

Latrobe · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2007, 04:26:28 PM »

got a 17.1% on first try got a 14% next try and you know what.....This thing is pretty accurate!:D

Chairboy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2007, 05:07:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Airscrew
rapist-like wit? perhaps you meant rapier-like wit? Not judging or anything just helping out
cause I really cant think of anything a rapist did that was witty. However a Rapier - [a longer, heavier sword, esp. of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting. ] is probably what you where looking for

See:Dumb & Dumber. It's a play on rapier-like wit, one of the few things in that movie that made me just about lose it.

Airscrew · « **Reply #20 on:** July 24, 2007, 06:21:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
See:Dumb & Dumber. It's a play on rapier-like wit, one of the few things in that movie that made me just about lose it.

I'll have to think about that,... I have to watch a whole movie just to get one joke? I tried to watch it once, I didnt last long...

Meatwad · « **Reply #21 on:** July 24, 2007, 07:27:50 PM »

I IS DUM

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 24, 2007, 07:32:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Airscrew
Normally I dont butt in but I made an exception in this case. I would like to point out that you may have made a slight error in terms.

rapist-like wit? perhaps you meant rapier-like wit? Not judging or anything just helping out
cause I really cant think of anything a rapist did that was witty. However a Rapier - [a longer, heavier sword, esp. of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting. ] is probably what you where looking for

Perhaps I could be mistaken, but I don't think that is what a Rapier is. I thought it was a lighter sword meant for making fine poking motions...

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #23 on:** July 24, 2007, 07:38:05 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Perhaps I could be mistaken, but I don't think that is what a Rapier is. I thought it was a lighter sword meant for making fine poking motions...

The 3 olympic fencing insturments are the foil; for light poking, the Epee; for heavier poking, and the Sabre; for heavy poking and cutting. The Rapier is a heavier poking weapon with a ornate hilt.

john9001 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 24, 2007, 07:42:14 PM »

Rapier generally refers to a relatively long-bladed sword characterized by a complex hilt which is constructed to provide protection for the hand wielding it. While the blade might be broad enough to cut to some degree, the strength of the rapier is its ability as a thrusting weapon. The blade might be sharpened along its entire length, sharpened only from the center to the tip (as described by Capoferro), or completely without a cutting edge as called "estoc" by Pallavicini, a rapier master who, in 1670, strongly advocated using a weapon with two cutting edges. A typical example would have a relatively long and slender blade of 2.5 centimetres or less in width, 1 meter or more in length and ending in a sharply pointed tip.

JB73 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 24, 2007, 07:51:30 PM »

Find out how smart you are

Excel1 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 24, 2007, 09:33:25 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Are you serious?

oh yeah, I always take the opportunity and mess with the busybodies- census forms and the like, let alone something like inteligence based racial profiling done on the sly.

Oogly50 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 24, 2007, 09:41:11 PM »

Find out how smart you are

Mark Luper · « **Reply #28 on:** July 24, 2007, 09:54:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Excel1
Did the test a few times.

As a male whitebread I'm relatively dumb. My highest score came as a female of Black/African descent.

I got the same score both as a white male and as a female of Black/African decent. Missed the same number of questions. Got the same 82% score.

Word.

Mark

Excel1 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 24, 2007, 11:29:25 PM »

Ok Mark, but I didn't say the test was slanted to give a better result favouring any particular ethnicity, and I didn't say I didn't cheat either, which I did- to bump the score up a bit when doing the test using alternate ethnicities.

Edit: just to clarify, I don't think the true purpose of that test is to show how smart or dumb people are in an entertaining frivolous sort of way as it would seem to be. It's appears to me to be information gathering for potentially insidious purposes.