DUmmie FUnnies 07-17-06 ("new du group- former gifted children?")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | July 17, 2006 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[Sonny M]

Dang, what a bunch of sociopaths.

You assume your life is screwed up and nobody likes you because your smarter then them.

Freaks.

FWIW, the most popular girl in my high school also got into harvard and had the 2nd (or 3rd) highest GPA.

The actual valedictorian, had high grades, but absolutly no social skills (he was a nice kid though, and no, people didn't pick on him, he just didn't know how to socialize).

If you act like your smarter then everyone else, or carry an attitude or act like an elitist, yea, people are not going to like you, they will think your a jerk and treat you like one.

Sometimes I wonder if alot of people who are liberal, do so, or act so, because they want to be misfits and stick out and be some kind of underdog so they can blame their lot in life on "society".

Kind of like a fall back, sort of if I act this way and do this, and no one likes me, its their fault, instead of my fault (note that libs rarely ever blame themselves).

[piasa]

BTW, my paintings were actually TERRIBLE.

My artwork was stolen at the school. Evidently someone liked my work a little too much... ;-)

[piasa]

I still would like for someone out there to tell me how I can stow a knife, pens, sunglasses, cell phone, radio, batteries, and LOTS of other stuff in mere pockets? Yeah you can probably do it but only with dopey looking bulges. Sorry, but Handy Packs (my new term for Fanny Packs) are, well, handy.

Stow it all in a shotgun case. It should fit easily. No one will dare call you dopey-looking.

[Watery Tart]

Okay, I am no longer wearing a Fanny Pack. I am now wearing a Handy Pack.

I could quote Shakespeare here, but I assume everyone here already made this leap.

I do have a question, though. Can you carry my lipstick?

[Watery Tart]

I seem to have had this as my first reaction:

Click here for.wav

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Second reaction went immediately to George Trepal, neighbor killer and Mensa member. He was eventually trapped by a lowly law enforcement officer.
*snicker*

[Watery Tart]

Basically, your both wrong, basically.

[Watery Tart]

i went to lutheran schools my whole life- and there was no effort made to seek out nor accomodate "gifted" students- after all, god loves everyone equally, right...? had i been in public schools, i would most likely have been skipped ahead- instead i was pretty much told to "hold back" to be fair to the other kids.

[A DUmmie blames the Lutherans for being a misfit.]

I am now a classic underacheiver who has struggeled with depression and substance abuse issues for most of my adult life. I do ok - have a decent job, etc. but I deeply unsatisfied with my life. I feel like I think everything through too much and come up with the notion that most of what goes on in daily life is just pointless. I think part of that is depression, but I believe my thinking is what gets me depressed in the first place.

OK, Charles, enough to make you sell your Martin Luther Bobblehead yet?
;o)

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Fully sanctioned by Lutheran Minister Nephew-In-Law, who owns one.

[GraceCoolidge]

I thought this was the most remarkable entry in this thread...and that is a competitive field. The poster (or do I mean poser?) who had "been reading at High (sic) school level or higher at age 4." He then tops that statement by saying he "put the book back on the shelf and vowed to have many life experiences so that everything in that philosophy book would ring true when I was older." Yes, those four year old vows are pretty impressive! I am imagining this child standing at the shelf with his Kant tome, declaring "this I vow." It is somewhat similar to Scarlett O'Hara's "I'll never go hungry again" moment. I really have to assume that this was satire. It is too over the top even for this thread... isn't it?

[pigsmith]

Can you do something with words 'lose' and 'loose'?

[Watery Tart]

'The Philosopher's Drinking Song'


Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.

Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.


-- Monty Python

[bcsco]

Hey, is Old Lutheran your site? I visited there and ordered a T-Shirt. It has some fun stuff!!

[Purrcival]

What's really funny is that when I DUmpster-dive, I sometimes find posts that make it clear that the DUmmies think that FREEPERS couldn't spell "huge" or "serious", and they're making fun of us for something THEY did.

:-D

[Purrcival]

Darn that discipline and motivation! :-D

BTW, I *love* that old Far Side cartoon. It's perfect!

[Purrcival]

*smirk*

[Purrcival]

I was actually looking for that cartoon to use in the DUFU but couldn't find it.

The DUFU just screams for this particular cartoon. SOMEONE NEEDS TO PHOTOSHOP THE DARN THING. You know - play with the sign, put a Kerry/Edwards logo somewhere etc

Paging FReeper dead. Your assignment, FReeper dead, should you choose to accept it, is the cartoon at post 193. Thanks!

[Seamoth]

Doesn't look like the artist did one on that theme, but he did one on apostrophes in general:

[Ignatz]

My wife and I are both college-educated people who are currently working or have worked in professional fields. I am a computer network engineer and my wife is/was a nurse. she has two degrees, a BA in pysch and a BS in nursing.
Several years ago, we made the decision for her to leave the workforce and home-school our oldest daughter (now 14). As a result that daughter, who, granted, was already very bright, scores post-high-school in every subject except math, where she scores at her grade level.
Even that bright girl could not "read" in any real sense of the word at age 4. She could identify letters and a few "blends" (as they are called these days), maybe even a few three letter words, but could not "read".
We also have a four year old who is also very bright for her age. She cannot read either. At age four, a child is aware of it's own existence, and may even be able to "know her letters and numbers", but could not be capable of the kind of higher level functioning the DUmmie was claiming.
What struck me most was the over-whelming arrogance of the DUmmie thread. People who really are "smarter than the average bear" do not sit around in mommy's basement on mommy's computer preening about it on the web. They are out using their gifts to better themselves, their families, and the human condition.

[JLS]

Well I am not going to read the thread to see how many others have said this, but how typcial of Dims to claim their talents are a disability and they are victims.

[Watery Tart]

Hey, is Old Lutheran your site? I visited there and ordered a T-Shirt. It has some fun stuff!!

Fun stuff, indeed! Alas, I will always be scarred by being born into a *looks over shouler, warily* Catholic, Slavic family. I married into the Lutheran lifestyle.

I did find this a Cafe Press and got it for FIL for Christmas one year. He loves it:

One down, one to go. Do you think MIL will be won over if I showed up in these? Nah, me neither....

[Eva]

Could you check out this thread and tell me if these posters are DUers. It's a link to a photographer's site that has horrible photoshopped pictures of injured veterans. I called it to the attention of the moderator, but he didn't do anything.