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

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  • #62
    Hangballlouie
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    Randy Marsh!


  • #63
    orourkeda
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    hangballlouie wrote: »
    Randy Marsh!

    Rodney Marsh


  • #64
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Andrew Wiles


  • #65
    Faith+1
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    Jedward cos they're treating everyone like a bunch of saps and getting away with it.


  • #66
    Biggins
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    Faith+1 wrote: »
    Jedward cos they're treating everyone like a bunch of saps and getting away with it.

    They learned well from their mentor then.
    Mr Cowell.


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  • #67
    ICE HOUSE
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    The guy who puts the figs in fig rolls.....


  • #68
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Google, Page and Brin. Microsoft, Gates and Allen, changed the feckin world.


  • #69
    BlueSmoker
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    PK2008 wrote: »
    Paul McCartney

    As part of the Beatles he basically revolutionised modern music


    I would have to say John Lennon, after all his best hits our and only should be called "Legend" :)


  • #70
    eskimocat
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    Sir Terry Prachett this man is definitely a genius!!!

    The creators of The Big Bang Theory and 'Sheldon'...


  • #71
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    eskimocat wrote: »
    Sir Terry Prachett this man is definitely a genius!!!

    The creators of The Big Bang Theory and 'Sheldon'...

    About as funny as a dead baby, awful programme.


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  • #72
    eskimocat
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    El Siglo wrote: »
    About as funny as a dead baby, awful programme.

    each to his own


  • #73
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    Markus Persson. Otherwise known as Notch


  • #74
    Bullseye1
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    Steve Vai.


  • #75
    ItsAWindUp
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    Morrissey.


  • #76
    dlofnep
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    Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Hawking and when he was alive, Carl Sagan.


  • #77
    barbarians
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    Daniel Tammet


    He is incredible. He can learn a new langauge in just one week.

    YouTube "The Boy With The Incredible Brain".
    Truly fascinating stuff.


  • #78
    Tipsy McSwagger
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    Eddie Hobbs


  • #79
    Sonnenblumen
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    Monty Python


  • #80
    orourkeda
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    your ma


  • #81
    orourkeda
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    barbarians wrote: »
    Daniel Tammet


    He is incredible. He can learn a new langauge in just one week.

    YouTube "The Boy With The Incredible Brain".
    Truly fascinating stuff.

    Geniuses dont get a c in woodwork


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  • #82
    keano_afc
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Hawking and when he was alive, Carl Sagan.

    Thanks for that, best laugh I've had in ages.


  • #83
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Hawking and when he was alive, Carl Sagan.

    I remember being told a story about one of the lecturers in Queen's, he's the highest paid lecturer in the uni and Oxford have spent the last fifteen years trying to poach him. Anyway, one of his PhD students was talking to him about the history of science (that's what he lecturers in) and the student mentioned something Dawkins said and your man said, "Oh yes that's a very interesting point, but we both know that Richard Dawkins is a second rate thinker, do we not?" I thought it was pretty funny anyway. ;)


  • #84
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Pauleta wrote: »
    Slash
    He's not real.

    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Simon Cowell.

    Man knows how to squeeze money off the masses.

    Completely agree.
    He has fooled hundreds of millions of people into parting with their money and spending Saturday nights glued to their tv screens. And all in the name of sub-par warbling.

    He's up there with the impressionists and Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup.

    The Emperor's new clothes.


  • #85
    Scuid Mhór
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    Me.


  • #86
    Deus Ex Machina
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    Terry wrote: »
    He has fooled hundreds of millions of people into parting with their money and spending Saturday nights glued to their tv screens

    He hasn't fooled them into anything, they are entertained by it and therefore choose to watch it. It is quite possible for people to enjoy things which you don't, sir.


  • #87
    yesno1234
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    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    He hasn't fooled them into anything, they are entertained by it and therefore choose to watch it. It is quite possible for people to enjoy things which you don't, sir.

    Lets be fair it's ****e, the majority of people think it's ****e, I think it's ****e but I still watch it. It's also very obviously rigged or at the very least swayed by Cowell to get the outcome which he perceives as most profitable. That is fooling people.


  • #88
    Deus Ex Machina
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    yesno1234 wrote: »
    Lets be fair it's ****e, the majority of people think it's ****e, I think it's ****e but I still watch it. It's also very obviously rigged or at the very leased swayed by Cowell to get the outcome which he perceives as most profitable. That is fooling people.

    You don't like it, I don't like it, but it is utter nonsense to propose that the people who watch it every week don't like it. Do you really believe that most people agree with your subjective judgements, and yet decide act in contradiction to them for no apparent reason? It seems much more reasonable to assume that you just have a different opinion than them.


  • #89
    Wolfe Tone
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    Biggins wrote: »
    John Hume.
    For simply doing the VERY complicated to and fro'ing for years (in the background and in public - all under serious pressure) with armed militants and their many complicated issues - and then helping in bringing them eventually to a peace table.

    Anyone that can walk the political tightrope for years and do what he had done alone, has to be a genius.
    When he was finished, he just went quietly and humbly home to rest with no bigheadness or ego-trip,
    What a man! Humble and very clever.

    Gets way too much credit in my opinion, Father Alec Reid way too little. He made it all happen.


  • #90
    PK2008
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    BlueSmoker wrote: »
    I would have to say John Lennon, after all his best hits our and only should be called "Legend" :)

    Pretty sure Lennon is dead, this thread is about the living


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  • #91
    Eric Cartman
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    milton friedman (dead)

    as for alive, I suppose bertie ahern or steve jobs


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