Mensa: Is it a waste of human intellect?

Wagon wrote: »

...I wonder how Stephen Hawking has sex?

Via some kind of baster i imagine.

Mensa is a sad organisation in my head, it's sole purpose is to exclude people they deem to be less intellegent than they are and i'm not a big fan of segregation. I'd much rather meet someone with 100 iq that i can actually hold a conversation with than these people who want to stroke their ego's. I remember i the last time i met a mensa member he bragged about it, i said 'what's your iq then' and he said it was 130 something, i didn't give him any stick over it, i asked what they did and we talked about it for a while. The impression i got was what they mainly do is play chess and solve puzzles, so you're essentially paying (smarter people than yourself) to play games with people who're the same level of intellegence as you...sounds pretty moronic to me but again i made no bones about it. Then my friend said to me 'would you not join, you love playing chess and you'd definatly get in with your iq' i kind of mumbled with reluctance and he asked her 'what's his iq' and she said 'its 150 something i think' and his jaw dropped...then for the rest of the weekend he adopted a pompous attitude and treated me like some prick, the only reason i can imagine for this is that he thought i stole his thunder or something, but in any case, that kind of mentality is pathetic and moronic. I felt the need to tell you that firstly and most importantly, it's so funny, secondly because it's sad and thirdly because now everyone who read it now knows of the existance of 'arrogant d*ckhead repelant' please use with humour involved

javaboy wrote: »

Smart people often feel isolated because of their intelligence. The clever kids in school are easy targets for bullies. That continues to a certain extent into adulthood. Intelligent people are less likely to watch shite like Big Brother and so will have less to talk about with the people around them.

So just think of Mensa as a support group for people who feel isolated because of their intelligence. As for your friend, there's always one gob****e. I know a couple of Mensa members and I had to drag it out of them that they were in it. So they're not all big headed boasters.

Haha yea he was a gob****e, to be honest i've only met a few mensa members, off the top of my head one is really nice, the other three i can think of were ****, but maybe i just got an unfortunate number. The fact that you know people who hide it is strange though, but i guess that goes back to your point about being isolated and bullied.

To whoever was going on about the probabilty of people in the top 1-2 percentile with regards iq scores being on boards, we already covered isolation, boredom would be another factor, the likelihood of someone with a high iq seeing a thread about the usefulness of mensa and then clicking into it is quite high, the probability of people with high iq's using computers is also quite high and the probability of an irish person having a high iq is much higher than say in america because of our education system and the fact that most people here in the last decade or so go to college which means there are probably more than 80000 people in ireland with iq's above 140 so it seems quite likely that there are at least 2 people in that group who use boards...

Nic'name wrote: »

Possibly because if they are in that IQ bracket they would maybe have been approached by a teacher in school or a friend at some point may have suggested Mensa to them therefore have an opinion on the subject which is why they were drawn to this thread in the first place. I think you'll find in a thread relating to handbags the majority of posters will be female. It's the same kinda thing, ya dig?

for "ya dig?"