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Who, living, would you class as a genius? Any Why?

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  • #32
    BrianJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Mark Zuckerberg.
    Invented 'Facebook' which does nothing at all, no cancer cure, no world peace. And he is work 13 billion dollars.

    Now that's clever.


    I'm not saying he got lucky but other than this what else has he done. Surely you would need a regular proof of brilliance to be considered a Genius.


  • #33
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,870 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    His QI elves give him a load of info though.

    Yes, do his short term memory is outstanding but he admits he forgets it all.


  • #34
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,870 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    A fake arse? ;)

    Yeap, the south americans do more arse jobs than boob jobs


  • #35
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    BrianJD wrote: »
    I'm not saying he got lucky but other than this what else has he done. Surely you would need a regular proof of brilliance to be considered a Genius.

    Sorry, I was being sarcastic. He hasn't done anything to advance humans.

    The thread is in After Hours ... so Jedward will probably win the vote.


  • #36
    Krusader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Lionel Messi to be sure to be sure


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  • #37
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    I love Richard Branson. I don't know if he is a genius or not but I think he is an amazing man


  • #38
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    TheUsual wrote: »
    ...The thread is in After Hours ... so Jedward will probably win the vote.

    Dunno, Wagner might make a come back! :pac:


  • #39
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Corsendonk wrote: »
    Yeap, the south americans do more arse jobs than boob jobs

    Well if so, they've done a lovely job on Ms Riley !


  • #40
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Eamon Ryan. To be part of a govt that screwed up a whole generation but to still be able to show your face in public, now that takes genius.(or a big bunch of woosies around you)

    Can I just state, while I admire his "genius", I really, really, really, really feckin don't like him. The big genius that he is.


  • #41
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Biggins wrote: »
    Dunno, Wagner might make a come back! :pac:


    forgot about wagner :pac:

    bring him back


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  • #42
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Phil Taylor


  • #43
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ryan Giggs, he has not been mentioned all week.


  • #44
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,471 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Simon Cowell.

    Man knows how to squeeze money off the masses.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #45
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Jim Caviezel


  • #46
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    John Fruschiante


  • #47
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Daniel Day Lewis, Roger Waters, Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison


  • #48
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Cormac McCarthy

    For me it is genuinely heartening to know that such a talent exists out there somewhere. For some reason the profound depth of his genius lends me great comfort.


  • #49
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Celente, if its gonna be a pi55ing contest.


  • #50
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Stephen King, for freakin the head off me for over 20 years now.


  • #51
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Carol 'The Milf' Vorderman, and to a lesser extent, the new one with the great arse. Some of those number games they solve are amazing :P

    That is quite an arse


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  • #52
    Gordon Gecko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Gordon Gecko


    I think it has to be Robert Zemeckis, creator of the Back to the Future franchise. This man has constructed what many regard as cinema's finest trilogy. It required a keen mind to devise plot lines involving manifold time travels and hazards (Back to the Future II most notably). Furthermore in the trilogy's protagonist, Marty McFly, he has created a character so intriguing and awe inspiring that Noam Chomsky remarked: "One of the great fictional creations, rubbing shoulders with Macbeth or Hamlet". Furthermore the character Biff Tannen has become the standard by which all villains are today judged. Indeed John Banville, the celebrated Irish author, called him "a character I dearly wish I had invented." Furthermore the decision not to award BTTF the Oscar for best film reportedly split the Academy with Sir Patrick Stewart calling the decision "a f***ing disgrace".

    Thus I feel Robert Zemeckis has met all the requirements for genius.


  • #53
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Stephen Hawking.


  • #54
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Jimmy Magee,he is not called the memory man for nothing.

    I never knew he was born in New York :eek:,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Magee


  • #55
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Simon Cowell.

    Man knows how to squeeze money off the masses.

    A hell, you ought to be selecting the whole of Fianna Fail, the Scientology Cult or even the Rome org' for that matter! :pac:

    Cowell has only learned from those before him! :D


  • #56
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Gary Kasparov.

    Andrew Wiles. A well known Mathematician who solved a well known unsolved mathematical problem named fermats last theorem.


  • #57
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Stephen fry. He knows everything

    which no one cares about


  • #58
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    orourkeda wrote: »
    That is quite an arse

    on both counts, though carrols is probably migrating now? Id still nail her though



    *faps*


  • #59
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Saila wrote: »
    which no one cares about

    I do!

    Have you ever actually seen him in public debates?
    He really is a very clever, educated man and knows his stuff.


  • #60
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,775 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    d and y aren't even close on the keyboard, how could you make that mistake?


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  • #61
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Mohammad Ali.

    For a fascinating life that he's led and the way he dealt with the most difficult situations put in front of him.


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