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You can be the smartest, richest, best-looking or most athletic person ever. Which?

  • 03-08-2016 12:14pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭


    You can be the modern-day Einstein and have a 200+ IQ.
    You cam be Bill Gates level rich centibillionaire status.
    You can be Brad Pitt/Beyonce good-looking.
    You can be a Messi/Tyson/Jordan level sports star.

    Which do you pick and why?

    Hope this doesn't offend anyone who's dumb, ugly, poor and ****e at sports (I'm the latter two:D)

    Which one do you pick? 122 votes

    Smartest
    0% 0 votes
    Richest
    43% 53 votes
    Best looking
    47% 58 votes
    Best at sports
    9% 11 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gates every time - he can have anything the others can have, bugattis, supermodels all that shít, but doesn't really suffer the drawbacks that come with being a brad pitt or a lionel messi. He could still go watch a movie or grab a pint if he wanted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Definitely the smartest. I can train myself to be more athletic, my intelligence would increase the chances of me becoming rich anyway, and I can get plastic surgery if i'm really worried about being the best looking. Then again I'm not too bothered about my look either way so it's not that big of an issue. But I envy those who have brains so smartest for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Gates every time - he can have anything the others can have, bugattis, supermodels all that shít, but doesn't really suffer the drawbacks that come with being a brad pitt or a lionel messi. He could still go watch a movie or grab a pint if he wanted.

    Yeah, apparently he casually gets burgers in some crappy fast food place and never gets bothered. Also, he's a cheap bastard. Rumour has it he uses coupons at mcdonalds lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Obviously smartest. The riches will follow and with money comes the ladies. Then you can watch all the sport you want in your home cinema with your harem of gold digging ladies of little morals...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Yeah, apparently he casually gets burgers in some crappy fast food place and never gets bothered. Also, he's a cheap bastard. Rumour has it he uses coupons at mcdonalds lol

    Since he gave all that money away times are tough:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I'd take intelligence. I'd even be happy to live what I already know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    Well i'm already very intelligent and very good looking, so i'll have to pick richest. No point in trying to improve on perfection.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Richest.

    I could then live like a slob.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Definitely the smartest. I can train myself to be more athletic, my intelligence would increase the chances of me becoming rich anyway, and I can get plastic surgery if i'm really worried about being the best looking. Then again I'm not too bothered about my look either way so it's not that big of an issue. But I envy those who have brains so smartest for me.
    GerB40 wrote: »
    Obviously smartest. The riches will follow and with money comes the ladies. Then you can watch all the sport you want in your home cinema with your harem of gold digging ladies of little morals...

    Doesn't necessarily follow that smart equals rich. Id say a fair proportion of the really super smart are borderline unemployable - you might make an above average wage in academia or something - but there's no guarantee you'll be anything approaching rich just because of your IQ


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    GerB40 wrote: »
    Obviously smartest. The riches will follow and with money comes the ladies. Then you can watch all the sport you want in your home cinema with your harem of gold digging ladies of little morals...
    lol, you've got it all figured out, buddy. I don't think the smartest man i the world could put up with gold digging idiots around him though. Then again Richard Feynman slept with hookers:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    You can hire people with brains, be thought of as much better looking than you are, and buy all the personal coaching, athletic facilities, plastic surgery, and sports teams you want, if you have enough money.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Smondie wrote: »
    Well i'm already very intelligent and very good looking, so i'll have to pick richest. No point in trying to improve on perfection.

    355 posts and you only joined last month.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAlBWw6lnvo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Smondie wrote: »
    Well i'm already very intelligent and very good looking, so i'll have to pick richest. No point in trying to improve on perfection.

    355 posts and you only joined last month.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAlBWw6lnvo
    Very good *pats head*

    You're getting the hang of the site.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Smartest, by a country mile.

    I'm okay with the looks I have, I make enough money for my needs, I'm not interested in being athletic to that degree.

    If I was the smartest person in the world, I could probably make some endurinig contribution that would make the world a better place, on a much bigger scale than I could with just my usual ordinary brains.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Smondie wrote: »
    Very good *pats head*

    You're getting the hang of the site.

    you mean I'm becoming an abrasive prick? I thought I always had the hang of that:pac:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Sports.

    Income and success with the opposite sex would invariably follow, despite any lack of looks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    There's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking

    like Ben Stiller would know......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Richest definitely, the looks and muscles will fade over time. No interest in being ridiculously brainy but in saying that Id still want some cop on with the money. I'd buy Leitrim and put a wall around it so no one ever accidentally ended up there again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    richest, obvs. i'm no einstein but stupid people already frustrate the crap out of me. imagine a world where literally everyone is dumber than you.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Best looking without a shadow of a doubt, since I assume that means getting to be a few inches taller.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    None, thanks. I don't want to be famous!!!

    I'd like to be a little bit richer, a little bit smarter, a little bit better looking, and a little bit fitter and faster. That'll do me just grand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I'm already extremely smart and good-looking, so I'll take the money, please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    None of the above

    Happiest would do me.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Best at sports.


    Will make you rich enough to live a great lifestyle.

    You'll have just as much success as the best looking person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭valoren


    So;

    Thick, poor, out of shape but ridiculously good looking.
    Or
    An ugly, out of shape, poor Genius.
    Or
    An obscenely rich but ugly and out of shape dimwit.
    Or
    An elite athlete who is thick, poor and ugly.

    Hmmm. Money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,745 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    AdamD wrote: »
    Best at sports.

    Will make you rich enough to live a great lifestyle.

    You'll have just as much success as the best looking person.

    Most certainly. Imagine getting to play football, all day every day, and get paid 100s of millions for it. (I'm aware that its not that simplistic, but still)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Hidden option 5: Sugar

    because the power and the women naturally follow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Smartest. Because then I'd know how make something to get rich. Once I'm rich looks won't matter. Not concerned with being athletic but I'll have the brains to reduce my odds of dying of cardiac arrest in my 60s..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I picked richest.
    I have the other three covered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Smartest definitely does not equate to wealth, some of the smartest people I know have about half of what I have. Besides, I reckon it would get pretty head wrecking, all those brain cells whirling around all the time forcing you to be productive.

    Equally being ridiculously beautiful would be annoying, all the eyes on you all the time.

    And athleticism, meh. Fitness is great fun but I wouldn't want the commitment of doing it at a pro level.

    Being obscenely rich I could handle though. Yeah that'd be grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭seenitall


    beks101 wrote: »
    I reckon it would get pretty head wrecking, all those brain cells whirling around all the time forcing you to be productive.

    :D Priceless!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Richest hands down.
    Del Boy said it best in response to when Grandad said it's only money.... "but it takes the sting out of being poor"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,511 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    diomed wrote: »
    I picked richest.
    I have the other three covered.

    If you aren't rich from your stunning good looks and world class athletic ability... then I think you've picked the wrong option.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Smartest.. cash would follow


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    For a laugh I searched up how much Albert Einstein was worth at his death and how much Stephen Hawking is worth now.
    Of course it has to be said just how exactly could these sites know someone's net worth. So take it with a pinch of salt but Einstein was believed to have had 1 million and Hawking has 20 million.

    Nothing wrong with that. I'd gladly take either's but given both their status as smart men in the world I would have thought much higher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Hope this doesn't offend anyone who's dumb, ugly, poor and ****e at sports (I'm the latter two:D)

    Too late.

    /triggered.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 861 ✭✭✭MeatTwoVeg


    Best looking.

    The happiest people I know are those blessed with good looks and low intelligence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Being the smartest person in the world could be extremely stressful . Idiots, idiots everywhere !

    (excuse the term )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I guess if I had to give up one it would be best looking.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I'd pick being rich.

    When you see the likes of Mick Jagger and Hugh Hefner and the women they have slept with then it's easy to see that looks mean nothing when you're rich.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd pick being rich.

    When you see the likes of Mick Jagger and Hugh Hefner and the women they have slept with then it's easy to see that looks mean nothing when you're rich.

    So any rich man can sleep with any woman he wants? Right.

    Most women don't have that kind of price tag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    I don't mind how I look and I'm not stupid so I pick riches. Money isn't easy to come by no matter how many qualifications you have plus looks fade eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭holy guacamole


    Best at sports.

    The top sports people earn millions for their endeavours and there's something to be said for earning money for heroic exploits rather than just being given it.

    Also, if you're a high profile sports person it's likely that you're going to be beating the women off regardless of what you look like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Candie wrote: »
    So any rich man can sleep with any woman he wants? Right.

    Most women don't have that kind of price tag.

    Being rich and famous gets men easy sex, I never said every woman would do it but quite a few would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Candie wrote: »
    So any rich man can sleep with any woman he wants? Right.

    Most women don't have that kind of price tag.

    Have to support galwayguy on this one. Besides he didn't say every woman.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Have to support galwayguy on this one. Besides he didn't say every woman.

    He didn't say some either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 Foo King Ell


    Rich for me. Can hire personal trainer, pay for plastic surgery and build a new Wing at some university and get smart in back to school with benefits


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Candie wrote: »
    So any rich man can sleep with any woman he wants? Right.

    Most women don't have that kind of price tag.

    LOL, yes they do. Most women would quite happily have sex with a rich man solely because he's rich. My own mother said she regrets not marrying for money. Not a diss against women but the fact is most women would, just like most men would push their grannies down a flight of stairs to sleep with a hot blonde moron solely because of her looks.

    You're giving people far too much credit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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