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Intelligent != Snobby, is all I'll say to that.

I have 2 pieces of advice for anyone who habitually mutters about the levels of discourse not reaching their intellectual standards:

A) You're nowhere near as smart as you think you are. B) Relax, it's ok.




No, not intelligent, or snobby. Big-souled.

Like Douglas Hofstadter said: "Small-souled men, beware!"

I (and a lot of us here) have no patience with constrictive thinking. In this case, why was sex brought in? Trying to artificially decrease a person's worth is petty.


I think you got me wrong, I'm certainly against criticizing someone's neat simcity video with a jab about getting laid (frankly, such pent up frustration might say more about the accuser).

But I also see a fair bit of "oh my beautiful mind is too good to read this pointless article" on occasion -- That's simply a perhaps-better-spelled version of the same small mindedness.


"oh my beautiful mind is too good to read this pointless article"

Perhaps it's just that time and attention are limited...


If that's the case, said genius should quit commenting on message boards and get back to work :)


I want to procrastinate in style.




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