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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 12:37am |
How do you rate a person's intelligence?
Yesterday, I went to brunch with an older man who placed an order with the the barista . The barista (who seem preoccupied) asked him to repeat his order a couple of minutes after. The older man then stated that 'She isn't too bright". Is that all it takes to consider a person to not be 'smart'?
I have met many people with professional degrees who say the most backward, judgemental foolish things and wonder..........what qualifies a person as intelligent?
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 12:45am |
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Did that older man happen to be white?
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 12:49am |
 Alias_Avi wrote:
Did that older man happen to be white?
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no. why?
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 12:57am |
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lol.. she's just absent minded...or her mind is preoccupied with something else..
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 12:58am |
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are you concerned that he may have a negative impression of you?
first impressions are usually arbitrary
unfortunately it's unflattering when pretentious people think they have nothing to gain from the other person
I wouldn't put too much stock in it
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 1:01am |
that was mean as hell, hope you aen't dating him
those are the type of men that live to belittle ppl
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 1:12am |
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Rickysrose: as always you hit the nail on the head
One thing my last job experience taught me, is to stop caring what others think of me and to stop being a people pleaser. I'm glad to have 'beat that monkey'.
However, I began to categorize the guy as pretentious as well. Do you consider a person pretentious if they are quick to write off a person as 'stupid'?
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 1:12am |
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Oh lord. No not dating him. Just a friend
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 1:16am |
sbrownie84 wrote:
How do you rate a person's intelligence?
Yesterday, I went to brunch with an older man who placed an order with the the barista . The barista (who seem preoccupied) asked him to repeat his order a couple of minutes after. The older man then stated that 'She isn't too bright". Is that all it takes to consider a person to not be 'smart'?
I have met many people with professional degrees who say the most backward, judgemental foolish things and wonder..........what qualifies a person as intelligent?
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seems like he was intentionally been an ass if it was obvious that she was preoccupied
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Posted: Sep 04 2014 at 1:36am |
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I'd sooner think that someone said something stupid vs someone actually being stupid
pretentious hmmm. if someone is making themselves out to be more articulate, cultured, talented, traveled on and on than they actually are ... at the expense of others, yeah that's pretentious
but pretentiousness is not the same as dismissive, vapid, obnoxious, etc
life is short and there's so many good people out there, don't waste your time with him if he is a jerk
Edited by rickysrose - Sep 04 2014 at 1:37am
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