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#52 Nov 17 2011 at 5:55 PM Rating: Default
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probably not relaxing listening to music flipping through BBC news and watching my news mix on tv (6 channels of news at once <3 you rogers cable). Relaxing after a good day at work, that I enjoy and got via my success in school, which I completed high. (don't smoke at work though I like my job).

I think I am doing pretty freaking well, I don't want to imagine it another way when currently I feel pretty good about what Ive accomplished.
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#53 Nov 17 2011 at 7:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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You dug up and smoked Albert Einstein's rotting corpse, didn't you? Tell the truth now...
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#54 Nov 17 2011 at 7:29 PM Rating: Default
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id take a toke of Einstein.
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#55 Nov 17 2011 at 9:24 PM Rating: Decent
These days, having a genius level IQ just means I whoop the *** of anyone stupid enough to challenge me in Words with Friends.

It's sad. I don't feel as smart as I did in high school, because people I associate with and around me have grown more intelligent and mature, while I've sort of stagnated and stopped growing at all.

Maybe alcohol really does kill brain cells. Time to break into that bottle of port!
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#56 Nov 17 2011 at 10:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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I was just as useless before weed
#57 Nov 18 2011 at 1:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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Debalic wrote:
You dug up and smoked Albert Einstein's rotting corpse, didn't you? Tell the truth now...
That might be kinda difficult, considering he was cremated and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location.

Also, even if you found the ashes, they don't contain the ashes of his brain, which was removed without permission by the pathologist performing the autopsy.

On topic, despite a rather high IQ, I've never tried drugs(aside from ones prescribed to me). Hell, I didn't even know what pot smells like until two months ago when I caught a guest smoking some on the patio. And it wasn't for lack of opportunity, since I've known several folks who were always trying to talk me into getting high with them during college.
#58 Nov 18 2011 at 6:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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Also, even if you found the ashes, they don't contain the ashes of his brain, which was removed without permission by the pathologist performing the autopsy.
It's not like they could have asked him at that point.
#59 Nov 18 2011 at 7:18 AM Rating: Decent
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Debalic wrote:
You dug up and smoked Albert Einstein's rotting corpse, didn't you? Tell the truth now...
That might be kinda difficult, considering he was cremated and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location.

Also, even if you found the ashes, they don't contain the ashes of his brain, which was removed without permission by the pathologist performing the autopsy.

Smiley: glare

I guess you wouldn't recognize a stoner movie reference anyways.
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#60 Nov 18 2011 at 7:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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well that just means you weren't intelligent to begin with. Its in the study,
I don't think you're as smart as you think you are.


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#61 Nov 18 2011 at 7:31 AM Rating: Good
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Debalic wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Debalic wrote:
You dug up and smoked Albert Einstein's rotting corpse, didn't you? Tell the truth now...
That might be kinda difficult, considering he was cremated and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location.

Also, even if you found the ashes, they don't contain the ashes of his brain, which was removed without permission by the pathologist performing the autopsy.

Smiley: glare

I guess you wouldn't recognize a stoner movie reference anyways.
How High, right?
#62 Nov 18 2011 at 7:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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well that just means you weren't intelligent to begin with. Its in the study,
I don't think you're as smart as you think you are.


He must be kinda smart. Hell, Elinda, if you and I wanted to smoke weed all day, we'd have to be able to pay for it by having a good job that we showed up for every day. In fact, people like us must be stupid, since we don't squeeze everything we can out of the system, whether we really need it or not.
#63 Nov 18 2011 at 8:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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How High, right?
Goddamn that was an awful movie.
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#64 Nov 18 2011 at 8:23 AM Rating: Good
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Goddamn that was an awful movie.


It's entertainment value is directly related to just how high you are.

That, & Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with.

(Wasn't filmed at Harvard though)
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#65 Nov 18 2011 at 10:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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Even if I'm so stoned that light posts start engendering feelings of profundity, stoner movies are still pretty much universally awful
#66 Nov 18 2011 at 10:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Dazed and Confused most certainly disagrees.
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#67 Nov 18 2011 at 10:54 AM Rating: Good
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There are exceptions to every rule, but you know I'm right 99.99999% of the time.
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I'm trying to disagree (not sure why), but I can't.
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#69 Nov 18 2011 at 11:02 AM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
On topic, despite a rather high IQ, I've never tried drugs(aside from ones prescribed to me). Hell, I didn't even know what pot smells like until two months ago when I caught a guest smoking some on the patio. And it wasn't for lack of opportunity, since I've known several folks who were always trying to talk me into getting high with them during college.


That's me. Aside from getting a bit tipsy, I've never gotten drunk either. So whenever anyone says they have a hangover, I have no clue how bad it really is.
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Even if I'm so stoned that light posts start engendering feelings of profundity, stoner movies are still pretty much universally awful
Up In Smoke was pretty good. Wasn't it?
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#71 Nov 18 2011 at 12:33 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
On topic, despite a rather high IQ, I've never tried drugs(aside from ones prescribed to me). Hell, I didn't even know what pot smells like until two months ago when I caught a guest smoking some on the patio. And it wasn't for lack of opportunity, since I've known several folks who were always trying to talk me into getting high with them during college.


That's me. Aside from getting a bit tipsy, I've never gotten drunk either. So whenever anyone says they have a hangover, I have no clue how bad it really is.


My hangover's usually go like this. Imagine your worst migraine, paired with intense nausea and vertigo. Bam! Hangover!
#72 Nov 18 2011 at 2:16 PM Rating: Decent
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Duke Lubriderm wrote:
Elinda wrote:
rdmcandie wrote:
well that just means you weren't intelligent to begin with. Its in the study,
I don't think you're as smart as you think you are.


He must be kinda smart. Hell, Elinda, if you and I wanted to smoke weed all day, we'd have to be able to pay for it by having a good job that we showed up for every day. In fact, people like us must be stupid, since we don't squeeze everything we can out of the system, whether we really need it or not.


You could grow it yourself too. Then again I imagine the appeal of weed is significantly less in Jesus Land where you can get life in prison over it.

@ Elinda, I don't pretend to be smart, I let my academic success speak for that. I would say I am well informed, I retain a lot of knowledge, but I don't think I am any more intelligent then the next guy, I likely just applied myself more in education than others, and as such was rewarded with better grades.

(if you thought I was being serious about being a genius Im sorry for being misleading, I was just saying that because I smoke a lot of weed. You know kind of making fun of the article.)
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#73 Nov 18 2011 at 8:19 PM Rating: Decent
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lolgaxe wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
How High, right?
Goddamn that was an awful movie.

The mere presence of Hector Elizondo elevates it to just barely above "unwatchable".
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#74 Nov 18 2011 at 9:21 PM Rating: Good
You know what, I'm seconding the "smart people get drunk to shut off" suggestion from the OP's source comments.

I say this as five intelligent people got totally smashed downtown tonight along with me to celebrate my birthday. It turns off all the outside world
#75 Nov 18 2011 at 9:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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You know what, I'm seconding the "smart people get drunk to shut off" suggestion from the OP's source comments.

I say this as five intelligent people got totally smashed downtown tonight along with me to celebrate my birthday. It turns off all the outside world

I didn't read the article, but if they're discussing alcohol and this was the response, then I might fall into that category. I just want everything and everyone to SHUT THE HELL UP.
#76 Nov 18 2011 at 10:11 PM Rating: Good
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rdmcandie wrote:
Duke Lubriderm wrote:
Elinda wrote:
rdmcandie wrote:
well that just means you weren't intelligent to begin with. Its in the study,
I don't think you're as smart as you think you are.


He must be kinda smart. Hell, Elinda, if you and I wanted to smoke weed all day, we'd have to be able to pay for it by having a good job that we showed up for every day. In fact, people like us must be stupid, since we don't squeeze everything we can out of the system, whether we really need it or not.


You could grow it yourself too. Then again I imagine the appeal of weed is significantly less in Jesus Land where you can get life in prison over it.

@ Elinda, I don't pretend to be smart, I let my academic success speak for that. I would say I am well informed, I retain a lot of knowledge, but I don't think I am any more intelligent then the next guy, I likely just applied myself more in education than others, and as such was rewarded with better grades.

(if you thought I was being serious about being a genius Im sorry for being misleading, I was just saying that because I smoke a lot of weed. You know kind of making fun of the article.)
No. I'd heard this story a couple weeks ago about illusory superiority on NPR. Your post reminded me of that.

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