Does the knowledge of some people surprise you?

RidleyRider

So any forum you look on there is an expert or dozen, do some of the things they come out with surprise you?

For me I feel really ret@rded when I go anywhere near the gaming forum. Christ those people know their stuff!

Anyone else feel the same?

brummytom

It's not just online, I've spoken to friends before who've knew huge amounts of things I'd never have guessed.

I've got a friend who knows the school and University almost every senior politicians in the country in the last 60/70 years went to. I can't remember why it came up, but he'd never mentioned it before, was just something he was interested in. He's normal, aswell.

1ZRed

brummytom wrote: »

It's not just online, I've spoken to friends before who've knew huge amounts of things I'd never have guessed.

I've got a friend who knows the school and University almost every senior politicians in the country in the last 60/70 years went to. I can't remember why it came up, but he'd never mentioned it before, was just something he was interested in. He's normal, aswell.

How is that information ever going to come in handy? There's knowing stuff and then there's knowing useless stuff

IM0

brummytom wrote: »

It's not just online, I've spoken to friends before who've knew huge amounts of things I'd never have guessed.

I've got a friend who knows the school and University almost every senior politicians in the country in the last 60/70 years went to. I can't remember why it came up, but he'd never mentioned it before, was just something he was interested in. He's normal, aswell.

oh dear

hmmm

RidleyRider

1ZRed wrote: »

How is that information ever going to come in handy? There's knowing stuff and then there's knowing useless stuff

Table quiz night. Picture it, the question is where did Gerry Adams go to school? The winner gets the top prize- a date with a real woman:eek:

Bam he pops up and he scores!

donvito99

Dr. Bollocko knows all about being a bollocks.







:pac: before I'm banned.

RidleyRider

donvito99 wrote: »

Dr. Bollocko knows all about being a bollocks.







:pac: before I'm banned.

Bye bye:D

:pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

I find that this medium of communication is a great educational tool, we learn from one another. In specific forums and also in general forums like AH.

brummytom

1ZRed wrote: »

How is that information ever going to come in handy? There's knowing stuff and then there's knowing useless stuff

Winning an argument?

There's no such thing as useless information!

1ZRed

RidleyRider wrote: »

Table quiz night. Picture it, the question is where did Jerry Adams go to school? The winner gets the top prize- a date with a real woman:eek:

Bam he pops up and he scores!

That's kind of why I'm hanging onto what DNA stands for

Hopefully one day it'll win me a woman for the house :P

1ZRed

brummytom wrote: »

Winning an argument?

There's no such thing as useless information!

Clearly you've never studied 16th century old Irish poetry at school before

Custardpi

RidleyRider wrote: »

Table quiz night. Picture it, the question is where did Jerry Adams go to school? The winner gets the top prize- a date with a real woman:eek:

Bam he pops up and he scores!

Hopefully the question won't be how to spell the President of Sinn Féin's name.

RidleyRider

1ZRed wrote: »

That's kind of why I'm hanging onto what DNA stands for

Everyone knows what it stands for:pac: And just so as you never win a table quiz with any boardsie in future... for the people who didn't know-

DNA stands for; Deoxyribonucleic Acid


Disclaimer on the spelling:pac:

Bad Santa

Most people online have access to that Google fellow. Think he's the one who really knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

HTML5!

The amount of experts in After Hours astounds me.

al28283

The grammar,punctuation and basic structure of the OP's sentences suprises me.

RidleyRider

al28283 wrote: »

The grammar,punctuation and basic structure of the OP's sentences suprises me.

Why?:pac:

al28283

It is not good.

RidleyRider

al28283 wrote: »

It is not good.

Hitler, is that you? Have you brought the rest of the grammar Nazi's with you?

al28283

Oh, the grammar nazi thing. That's new.
If you start a thread discussing what people do and do not know, you have to accept that grammar and basic use of the English language might be one of them. Or is that off limits?

The thread title "Does the knowedge of some people suprise you" suggests that you are asking if the fact that I know of some people suprises me. I know of lots of people, and knowing them does not suprise me at all.

RidleyRider

al28283 wrote: »

Oh, the grammar nazi thing. That's new.
If you start a thread discussing what people do and do not know, you have to accept that grammar and basic use of the English language might be one of them. Or is that off limits?

If you post in a thread you have to accept that all the posters aren't genius' like yourself!

My grammars perfectly fine for everyone else here who is reading. You need to do a few things for yourself and top of that list would be go away and get yourself a life and stop being critical of people.

RidleyRider

al28283 wrote: »

Oh, the grammar nazi thing. That's new.
If you start a thread discussing what people do and do not know, you have to accept that grammar and basic use of the English language might be one of them. Or is that off limits?

The thread title "Does the knowedge of some people suprise you" suggests that you are asking if the fact that I know of some people suprises me. I know of lots of people, and knowing them does not suprise me at all.

Oh and that's how you spell knowledge now is it? Yeah, go to bed! Your own grammar isn't perfect all the time either it appears!

Mince Pie

al28283 wrote: »

Oh, the grammar nazi thing. That's new.
If you start a thread discussing what people do and do not know, you have to accept that grammar and basic use of the English language might be one of them. Or is that off limits?

The thread title "Does the knowedge of some people suprise you" suggests that you are asking if the fact that I know of some people suprises me. I know of lots of people, and knowing them does not suprise me at all.

If you are going to pull another poster up on their grammar etc please learn how to spell "surprise".

al28283

You asked a question on an internet forum. You didn't like one of the responses you got, and you suggest that the person who gave the answer leaves and gets a life.

Is that not, in itself, being critical of people?

RidleyRider

Mince Pie wrote: »

If you are going to pull another poster up on their grammar etc please learn how to spell "surprise".

Sure he's the know it all here. If that's how he spells it, that's how it's going to be spelled.:pac:

I wonder if he would care to write us his version if the dictionary?

RidleyRider

al28283 wrote: »

You asked a question on an internet forum. You didn't like one of the responses you got, and you suggest that the person who gave the answer leaves and gets a life.

Is that not, in itself, being critical of people?

Yes, it was critical of a person who themselves were critical of me. Over grammar, which is pathetic and a very nerdy and stupid thing to do.

al28283

Ok then. No I am never surprised by my knowledge of some people.

im invisible

i'm always surprised by the knowledge shown by Capt'n Midnight in the science forums, and Scofflaw in politics, although at this stage, i probably shouldnt be

Jacks Smirking Revenge

Does the knowledge of some people surprise you?

Not really, but lack thereof does at times. All I have to do is scroll down my facebook news feed to notice this.

Vicar in a tutu

My Boyfriend, I dont think there's anything he doesnt know about:pac: He's a walking encyclopedia and I love it

Witchie

Jacks Smirking Revenge wrote: »

Not really, but lack thereof does at times. All I have to do is scroll down my facebook news feed to notice this.

+1 I am often shocked by some people's lack of what I would consider basic knowledge.

Ruudi_Mentari

An junkey uncle, who never worked a day in his goddamn life seemed to know all the answers to the questions on every afternoon quiz show

Bit of a mastermind, I'll begrudginly grant him that - no particular special interest but seemed to know the answers to everyone elses.

Allyall

Punctuation can be important also.
If i type

Knock knock!.....?.....*#@!!?

It implies someone knocked on the door briskly, or did they? Then i heard a fight outside the door.

My friend taught me that. I was surprised at her knowledge....?

Novella

The knowledge of a lot of people surprises me. I love when you're getting to know a person and each time you have a conversation, you're surprised to find out that they're interested in something you never would have expected. That's the best.

Or those moments in lectures in college when something is said that challenges everything you've ever thought or believed.

Scruffles

RidleyRider wrote: »

If you post in a thread you have to accept that all the posters aren't genius' like yourself!

My grammars perfectly fine for everyone else here who is reading. You need to do a few things for yourself and top of that list would be go away and get yourself a life and stop being critical of people.

indeed.

bolloko made a very strong and clear point about grammar naziing in the charter;
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20
plus it describes a few of the reasons why some of us struggle with writing and language ,mine is affected by learning disability [uk definition],severe autism,brain injury and night time medication,some peoples writing is affected by seizures,others by visual processing difficulties-there is a very huge list of causes for writing difficulties and its not up to a fellow user who is no better than anyone else to rudely speak down to others for not meeting their standards.

as for original topic,am aware of some people who try to act like they have indepth experience with every subject that comes up but its clear they have just memorized wikipedia,yahoo answers is a really good example of this.

Al Capwned

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

My Boyfriend, I dont think there's anything he doesnt know about:pac: He's a walking encyclopedia and I love it

Thanks babe, see you later, love you! xxx

I surprise myself with the knowledge I actually have. Sometimes my memory is so bad that I'll constantly forget people's names (as demonstrated at most Boards beers), but put me on a quiz team and I'll kick ass - most of the time I shock myself by how much I know.

Dublin Red Devil

I guess when somebody has an real interest in something they will lean it without much effort, Almost subconsciously. They may spend a long time on it but to them, It's something they enjoy so it not a chore

newmug

RidleyRider wrote: »

So any forum you look on there is an expert or dozen, do some of the things they come out with surprise you?

For me I feel really ret@rded when I go anywhere near the gaming forum. Christ those people know their stuff!

Anyone else feel the same?

Most of the time, I'm shocked by the ignorance of people on boards.

newmug

al28283 wrote: »

The thread title "Does the knowedge of some people suprise you" suggests that you are asking if the fact that I know of some people suprises me. I know of lots of people, and knowing them does not suprise me at all.

I didn't read it that way. The knowledge of people, that suggests we're talking about the knowledge they have. Knowledge of their existance would be phrased as "Does your knowledge about some people........."

9959

brummytom wrote: »

It's not just online, I've spoken to friends before who've knew huge amounts of things I'd never have guessed.

I've got a friend who knows the school and University almost every senior politicians in the country in the last 60/70 years went to. I can't remember why it came up, but he'd never mentioned it before, was just something he was interested in. He's normal, aswell.

He's a 'Rain Man'.
Ask him his favourite colour, stand back, then watch his head explode.

Grayson

al28283 wrote: »

Oh, the grammar nazi thing. That's new.
If you start a thread discussing what people do and do not know, you have to accept that grammar and basic use of the English language might be one of them. Or is that off limits?

The thread title "Does the knowedge of some people suprise you" suggests that you are asking if the fact that I know of some people suprises me. I know of lots of people, and knowing them does not suprise me at all.

You mean that when you start a thread like this you have to expect grammar nazis to think it's carte blanche to start correcting people and pointing out much better they are?

Guess you kinda proved your own point.

Antar Bolaeisk

I tend to know a lot of random stuff, Google knows how I pick it up, my brain is like a big lump of chewing gum rolled over the dirty floor of knowledge.

Ultimately I don't think the ability to know something is going to be that important for 60-70% of the population, everything will literally be a Google away. Everyone, at least in Western civilisation, is constantly connected to the internet via a mobile device of some sort and extrapolating to it's obvious conclusion I'd imagine that we might start seeing integrated devices within the next 20 years (we've already seen the prototype for Google Glasses), maybe contact lenses and eventually bio-neural devices.

The important skills of the future will be the ability to lookup and collate data into a usable form. Librarians will rule the world :eek:

newmug

I hate to point it out, but:

Scruffles wrote: »

indeed.

bolloko made a very strong and clear point about grammar naziing in the charter;
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

space

plus it describes a few of the reasons why some of us struggle with writing and language , space mine is affected by learning disability [uk definition], space severe autism, space brain injury and night time medication, full stop and space some peoples writing is affected by seizures, space others by visual processing difficulties space - space there is a very huge list of causes for writing difficulties and its not up to a fellow user who is no better than anyone else to rudely speak down to others for not meeting their standards.

as for original topic, space I am aware of some people who try to act like they have indepth experience with every subject that comes up comma but its clear they have just memorized wikipedia, space yahoo answers isa really good example of this.

Grayson

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I tend to know a lot of random stuff, Google knows how I pick it up, my brain is like a big lump of chewing gum rolled over the dirty floor of knowledge.

Ultimately I don't think the ability to know something is going to be that important for 60-70% of the population, everything will literally be a Google away. Everyone, at least in Western civilisation, is constantly connected to the internet via a mobile device of some sort and extrapolating to it's obvious conclusion I'd imagine that we might start seeing integrated devices within the next 20 years (we've already seen the prototype for Google Glasses), maybe contact lenses and eventually bio-neural devices.

The important skills of the future will be the ability to lookup and collate data into a usable form. Librarians will rule the world :eek:

As a kid I read and read and read. My brain was like a sponge and I just absorbed all this random crap. But for todays kids, learning how to perform an advanced search in google is probably as important as memorizing their maths tables. pretty soon with google goggles you won't even need to reach into your pocket to do a simple multiplication.

dr.bollocko

Any more of the grammar nazi crap will result in bans.

arybvtcw0eolkf

RidleyRider wrote: »

DNA stands for; Deoxyribonucleic Acid


Disclaimer on the spelling:pac:

No it doesn't :mad:

DNA stands for; NATIONAL DYSLEXIC ASSOCIATION

'No disclaimer, my spelling is correct'