Know anyone who's smart - say, IQ wise - but would be clueless if a bucket brigade were forming?

Ya know what I mean? They can solve any problem in theory, but can't figure out the simplest thing in actual fact, especially if any labor is involved.

Great guy, loved him like a brother. All kinds of book smart. If you only saw him around the house, you'd think he was dumb as a bag of hammers.

Drives me fucking insane :crazy:

Incredibly smart, extremely well-read, specialzes in languages -- but the guy can barely function in daily life. A true absent-minded professor type. He can hardly maintain a job that requires zero responsibility/thinking/skill -- he drives rental cars between the airport and downtown. Walks out of the house to and leaves the front door wide open for the entire day (in San Francisco, thank you very much). Put my pigeon in a bedroom with no food or water and forgot to take him out for almost a WEEK.

He is a real piece of work...

I loved him dearly, he was a brilliant attorney but had not one lick of common sense.
I remember him visiting one time and melting my pampered chef microwave cooker all over my stovetop trying to make cream of wheat.

They look like this:


and are clearly made of plastic.

It made a horrible HORRIBLE stinking mess, and he just couldn't understand why it melted because "It looks like a saucepan....why would it LOOK like a saucepan if you couldn't USE it as a saucepan."

Hopeless.

Several degrees but missed out on the common sense.


She cannot figure out how to make microwave popcorn, like taking it out of the plastic bag first.

Things like that.

We don't let her cook.

He once called and asked me what to do when his current GF couldn't breathe. I suggested that just maybe that might merit a trip to the ER. So he asked me which one. :banghead:

two master's degrees, but is in danger of getting lost every time she leaves the driveway - even with her GPS navigator. And, she is clueless when it comes to a vacuum cleaner or a washer/dryer, and separating dark & light clothes for the wash.

My best friend suffers from that...but I love him regardless. :rofl:

my wife is pretty hot, too.

:P

Grab a bucket, fill it from a water source, pass it along a human chain until the guy at the front tosses it on the fire.

I was talking about the other half. :grr:

Actually, I'm somewhere between "clueless" and "competent." Something I've never seen/done before? I'm fucked for a while until I can figure it out, but if I know what to do in the abstract, that makes it easier.

for :puke: ?



Or to place over one's head, a la :tinfoilhat: ?

:rofl:

Really. I kick ass on IQ tests and the like. But don't have a practical bone in my body.

I've often been astounded to learn that a friend has had a revelation about something that always seemed obvious to me. Not long after this happens, I usually find there's some place in my brain that's missing a light socket. I guess it's what keeps us needing one another... :shrug:

You'd probably want people who are in shape and go long distances without wearing out too badly.

Of course, there's the issue of food supply, ammo, guns, and so forth, but that's a somewhat trivial problem. Financing is the big issue, and establishing some kind of order of rank.

We'll need education and classes, studying the classics in tactics and warfare - I could probably teach that, I read quickly and I'm asthmatic, so I'm not good at being a soldier. Unless we have a real expert, of course, in which case we should use them to teach, and I could help out.

Perhaps some kind of lottery to see holds what position? There are a number of mathematical models we could use to set up such a system so that it's as random as possible. Of course, we need to ensure against the possibility of only having pseudo-random numbers. I suggest we use clock drift or thermal noise.

We'll need an encryption system we can all agree on and use easily, too. I could design that as well, but if we have a good mathematician on hand, that would be better and more efficient use of our skills and time...

I'm just still not clear how buckets work into this. I can't see them being efficient for carrying anything that a brigade might need. And are you sure a brigade is even enough people? We don't even know the context in which it is being used. Typical of the lower IQ people to think one can solve a many-variable system with just one or two knowns, and ignore the rest. Maybe in your three-dimensional Euclidean world, but we all know that's the real world. :eyes:

Sheesh!

I test in the Mensa range IQ-wise, but there's a lot of stuff I am completely clueless about.

Which is why I hire somebody to change my oil in my car.

:blush:
I'm an academic ace, but I need help with technology. But then, I'm 37.
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IQ of about 190 or above but, as his mother used to say, couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

His favorite thing to do? Go up on the roof to watch thunderstorms. With an umbrella. We didn't stay married because he really needed a keeper more than a wife.

He died a few years ago of a brain tumor that took his music and his words away from him. For a man who was an inveterate punster, loved words, did challenger crosswords in ink and played one hell of a good guitar, it was his worst nightmare.

He sounds like an amazing guy. I'm sorry it couldn't work out.

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Very intelligent ('book larnin') woman without a single clue as to anything practical.

She can walk into a room and dither about where she should sit for 10 minutes.

Stand in the middle of the kitchen, in the way, while the rest of us clean up after a meal.
"What do you want me to do?"
Since she will rub her runny nose with her fingers, or cough on the food, the answer is always "Why don't you just relax in the living room? We'll be through in a minute."

brother...
:eyes:

Quite a few of them would try to design a better bucket brigade while the building burns to the ground.

but has endless problems finding cubes, even with a cube map. :o

when I told him the internet connections to my office were down. :eyes:

dg

:D

I'm brains, not brawn. My head is quite a comfortable place to be sometimes, yanno? It's where I've always lived. :P

That said, I'm generally not hopeless--I'm always satisfied with how I do things like cleaning, cooking, etc. Other people are the problem.

:P :P

Geeks unite!

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My little sister always had a 4.0 GPA and has a doctorate degree and a post doctorate (Molecular Biology). She is very book smart. But she has no common sense AT ALL.

She went to study for her Ph.d at the Univ. of Iowa. After she was there about a month she calls all mad because we have all forgotten about her. My mom told her she'd been trying to get a hold of her for weeks but she never answered her phone. Open further investigation it turns out she had the volume on her phone in the "off" position so she never heard the phone ring. But she never bothered to check it.

Another time when we were both still living at home my Mom asked her if she could put some steaks on the grill. We had a charcoal grill. Now, you know on a charcoal grill you have to wait until the flames go away and you get the charcoal nice and hot. My sister lit it and with the flames coming up she threw the steaks on the grill. I yelled at her and she calmly said: "they will be fine, it's just a few flames."

She does so many goofy, dingbat things. I am surprised she has survived this long on her own.