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

BrianJD

Probably a bit low brow for our discerning After Hourish but as I currently on a listening streak, I would think Bob Dylan lyrical ability makes him a genius...:)

Who do you think qualifies?
And why?

Genius (plural geniuses[1][2]) is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight.

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Hangballlouie

Randy Marsh!

orourkeda

hangballlouie wrote: »

Randy Marsh!

Rodney Marsh

im invisible

Andrew Wiles

Faith+1

Jedward cos they're treating everyone like a bunch of saps and getting away with it.

Biggins

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.

ICE HOUSE

The guy who puts the figs in fig rolls.....

laugh

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

BlueSmoker

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"

eskimocat

Sir Terry Prachett this man is definitely a genius!!!

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

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.

eskimocat

El Siglo wrote: »

About as funny as a dead baby, awful programme.

each to his own

Washington Irving

Markus Persson. Otherwise known as Notch

Bullseye1

Steve Vai.

ItsAWindUp

Morrissey.

dlofnep

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Hawking and when he was alive, Carl Sagan.

barbarians

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.

Eddie Hobbs

Monty Python

your ma

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

keano_afc

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.

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.

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.

Scuid Mhór

Me.

Deus Ex Machina

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.

yesno1234

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.

Deus Ex Machina

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.

Wolfe Tone

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.

PK2008

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

Eric Cartman

milton friedman (dead)

as for alive, I suppose bertie ahern or steve jobs