But I am $tupid enough.
"Inside the largest gathering of certified “geniuses” in human history, on the second and third floors of the Sheraton Boston this week, many people interviewed described themselves as socially awkward, and said they found their tribe with fellow Mensans. The Annual Gathering, or AG, is like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory for those who like being around people who like being intelligent.
The reporter must know.
The Annual Gathering features loads of lectures on everything from Burning Man to JFK’s autopsy, a rock-paper-scissors tournament, the hugely popular Mr. Mensa pageant, a giant game room filled with piles and piles and piles of board games – the games usually roll all night – and all sorts of excursions around the city, including the main event for the blue dots: the Gen X and Gen Y pub crawl....
Killing those brain cells won't be helping with the test, but I'm sure I could bandy about JFK with them as well as compete in rock-paper-scissors.
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I don't hit the bars and usually stay home alone most nights.
"People prefer electric shocks to time alone with thoughts" by Carolyn Y. Johnson | Globe Staff July 03, 2014
In the rush of everyday life, many people say they crave a moment of solitude, but a startling new study finds that people don’t really enjoy spending even 10 minutes alone with their thoughts.
In fact, we find our own musings so unsatisfying that, in research done at the University of Virginia, many people chose to administer painful electric shocks to themselves rather than sit in quiet contemplation, researchers from that university and Harvard reported Thursday.
Who is "we" and "our?"
“I was surprised that people find themselves such bad company,” said Jonathan Schooler, a psychology professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was not involved in the research. “It seems that the average person doesn’t seem to be capable of generating a sufficiently interesting train of thought to prevent them from being miserable with themselves.”
Then I must be way above-average.
This stuff is so insultingly offensive it is almost impossible to type a response. This is the kind of swill served up by the agenda-pushing propaganda pre$$ these days. And you wonder why I can't stand reading this anymore?
So what sorry slobs did they get for this research? Legal idiots? CIA agent applicants? People prescribed large doses of antipsychotics?
The study, published in the journal Science, adds a perplexing result to the field of mind-wandering.
I'm sorry, I let my mind wander and wasn't paying attention, what?
That's a "field" of "study," huh?
Eleven separate experiments showed that we find our own thoughts painfully dull....
Speak for yourself, lady! I think my readers would also disagree with you judging the number of hits in a given day this blog receives.
It was then that I decided to wander away from this pos.
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Yeah, I can see what you mean about dull people. That place is full of them. Maybe they should shock themselves into excitement.
I'm sure the elites of Bo$ton for whom this paper is of and for are having a good laugh at this front-page offense.
It's further aims must be to condition the American people for the torture they will be suffering as the tyrannical security state sinks its claws deeper into the country.
Yeah, the citizen was tortured, but he did it to himself!
So when does water boarding become and individual Olympic sport?
Good thing I have a cook-out to go to and won't be staying home alone tonight.
