I'm, like, totally smarter than you are. [Adjusts glasses; laughs in geek]. My genius IQ is over 9,000, and I play 5D chess in my spare time. Mozart? Bach? Those are for amateurs. Me? I only listen to the music that planets make in our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (it's 2.537 light-years away from Earth - bet you didn't know that). My favorite book is the Necronomicon. By the time I have breakfast every day, I've already come up with a hundred new fantastic ideas about how to improve the world, and my brain works at a 69.999% (recurring, of course) higher capacity than yours. I would've totally made a better protagonist than Yagami Light in Death Note. You wouldn't ever be able to comprehend my complex thoughts because, like, you're so beneath me, and I'm, like, super awesome. [Adjusts glasses again; uses inhaler]. Plebs.
Don't you just hate it when smart people start bragging about what high IQ they have when they're actually the complete opposite? There are those who think it's OK to be a show-off and an arrogant
Bored Panda brings you this amazing compilation of the best memes about people with undeserved bragging rights and their sky-high IQ while coming off in the worst way possible. So put your smartass caps on, start scrolling and let us know which of these funny memes you loved best, and why. Upvote and share the smartest (pun not intended) ones!
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I Am More Faster Than Your Calculator
I am 33 and still use my fingers to count. Some people have dyslexia and other learning difficulties. Numbers get all muddled in my head so I have to use a calculator or my fingers sometimes for the most simple equations.
Even people without dyslexia can arrive at the wrong result, as this post shows. All it takes is to forget a step, or misremember a number or whatever, which is easy to do if you're stressed or tired. A calculator is faster than using a piece of paper and reduces the chance of a mistake.
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I aced maths in school. Came away with an 'A' at GCSE (the exams we took aged 16). Then I didn't use maths again for about a decade. Today I genuinely struggle to add up two dice when playing board games.
At point of sale, using a calculator helps to avoid a lot of time-wasting arguments, as the above amply demonstrates. It’s one of those smart things that looks dumb until you think about it.
If you want me to do math its either going to be calculator or pen and paper. I cant do carry over in my head. I just forget the number I need to carry. It's like my brain simply does not have a ROM installed.
Anyone remember how, back in the day, cashiers had to count your change back as they gave it to you? It wasn’t until well into the 1980s that the register automatically calculated and displayed that amount. Sorry, that memory just popped into my head when I read this one...and now I feel old.
Many places still do this. It is the best way to ensure correct change.
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$10.00 minus $7.15 is NOT $1.85, so you are not as smart as you think you are
also some stores prefer that, even if you do know, to avoid mistakes.
I worked in franchise training and wrote a one-page instructional on HOW TO MAKE CHANGE and count it back to the customer as you place it in their hand. I can't count the number of times my return change has been piled in my hand, I count it and it's wrong. Once the cashier gave me my change AND the $20 i just handed her. I held out my hands and asked: "Do you really want to give me back this much money?"
I have dyscalculia and am teased at not knowing "simple things" but some people just don't understand...
Maybe if you stop at a random house, and ask them about their life, you'll see that there are so many awful things happening in people's lives. Math isn't the biggest problem in "this country".
Do you want to wait for me to try to do math in my head and possibly get it wrong and double check with myself 15 times or do you want me to use a calculator so you can get the f**k out?
I was training a cashier on a register. This employee was doing pretty well, so I was doing other stuff behind the counter, but staying close by. Suddenly, he says, "Oh, no! I accidently pressed the "Exact Change" button! But the customer gave me a $10!” No big deal, this is a learning experience. I tell him to get the calculator we keep behind the counter for this exact reason. Then I tell him to put in the amount the customer gave him: $10. Then I said, "Ok. Now, how much was the actual total of the purchase?" He responds, "$9.99” I blurted out, "Omg! Really?!?!" At this point, the customer rolls his eyes, laughs and says, "Just keep the penny, but I need my receipt". I apologized and gave him a free cup of coffee for being so patient. I also apologized to the employee for being rude. It just kind of caught me off guard.
I had a teacher is school who criticized me when I still used my fingers to do addition and subtraction (3rd grade, I think it was. I had the same teacher for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade) so I just learned to hide it better! I still use my fingers sometimes, and don’t hide it now when I’m teaching. Kids now are taught to use whatever strategies work for them, so that’s an improvement!
I am innumerate to some degree. But I caught Mr or Ms's change error right away.
Even the most brilliant mathematical mind could have made this mistake when doing this type of math quickly.
I suck at math, but that doesn't make me stupid. If we have a tool, why not use it? Seems more stupid to me that some people believe that we should take a more difficult route rather than a much simpler one...
Honestly, whats wrong with a calculator? Wouldn't you rather that someone is making sure its accurate?
Maybe you should start using calculator, seems you’ve failed mastering basic math.
Making change has been lost. adding to 7.15 till you get to 10 is they way we were taught. How we were taught to make change. But you have to know your dimes, nickles and quarters. 7.15 + .10 = 7.25 + 3 quarters (.75) = 8.00 + 2.00 + 10.00. No subtraction needed.
Is Jenny really the only one who realizes his math is wrong!!??
Thank you for the reference. I was not familiar with that technical term. I have some further reading to do now...
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does total really exist in US? legend says one would get random taxes added to price and final price would always be different than price tag
Yeah we have to spin a wheel to see what our tax will be on our purchases. Most places have digital wheels now though which is nice
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It's cause our culture is VERY LAZY! Ever since smart phones came in play years ago, the brains in the younger generation are nothing but pure laziness! When I was a kid, I had to use paper and pencil to figure out stuff. Now, the phone does that for you, and the parents are sad that their kids aren't smart or motivated??
As a general rule of thumb, people tend to vastly overestimate their abilities and believe themselves to be exceptions to rules and tendencies. Right now you’re probably thinking how you’re way smarter than I am, and I’m thinking the exact same thing. We believe we’re special and have far more intricate inner-lives than others. That’s quite normal because we experience life only from our own perspectives, and we’re privy only to our own thoughts. Nonetheless, a shocking 65% of all Americans believe themselves to be of higher-than-average intelligence, according to this study. Wow! That’s a big number!
Poor Mongolians Who Don't Know Of Other Languages
Spot The Difference, Neil
It’s easy to make fun of wannabe geniuses who shoot themselves in the foot with their comments, but real intelligence shouldn’t be made fun of. According to various studies, having a high IQ makes it more likely that you will be successful and rich and will live longer. Now, this doesn’t mean intelligence is the only factor that matters (and far from every scientist agrees with the conclusion about future success), but the importance of IQ shouldn’t be waved away, as though it means nothing.
How Was I Even Supposed To Respond To This?
I Guess He Just Doesn’t Like The Word
Props to that response. I would have just noted that the only "disgusting" thing was OP's spelling.
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first IQ (intelligence quotient) test in 1904, after the French government demanded they find a way to differentiate between lazy children and those with mental handicaps. The so-called Simon-Binet test, which was a combination of logical reasoning, finding rhyming words and naming objects, quickly became popular in the West.
The test was then modified in 1916, and called the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. This became the standard IQ test used in the United States. Naturally, the test was revised and tweaked countless times, but it still remains popular to this day.
The IQ test didn’t make everyone happy, though. Psychologist David Wechsler thought the Stanford-Binet test was too limited, so in 1955 he created his own intelligence test: the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS. In modern times we currently have the fourth incarnation of the test, known as WAIS-IV. Wechsler also made tests specifically for children and preschoolers.
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I replicate my own DNA every day. My body is so advanced it is doing it on auto-pilot. Yesss. New cells are formed and my hair grows.
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Who’s the smartest person you know? Are you one of the rare people who don’t necessarily think they’re smarter than average? What do you think about IQ being an important predictor of success? Let us know in the comments!
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Wise Man
How Can Someone Act So Smart And Yet Be So Dumb
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Looks Like He Can't Self-Diagnose Narcissism
Insecurity
God Can’t Help Your Iq
Only Us Thinkers Would Understand
That doesn’t make you a thinker, that makes you an insecure person who is unable to show emotion without feeling vulnerable because you’ve built up too much of a wall. (I say this as someone who is all of those things)
A True Ancient Greek Kid
Only Common People Get Excited For Things Like The Eclipse - Neil Degrasse Tyson Edition
I Texted All Of My Contacts: "Happy New Year!"
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When You Understand Chemistry Jokes Even Though It's Not Your Field.
The President
I will always remember when he stood before the United Nations, announcing that he had accomplished so much... and they laughed at him. Remember when we had presidents who could use complete sentences?
Dry Wit
Setup An Old Army Buddy With A Girl I Knew. She Messaged Me After Their Date Saying He Kept Trying To Flex His Inteligence. Guess I Made A Mistake Thinking They Would Be A Good Match
You Peasants
i love being peasant, nature and work is great for physical and mental health :D
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I used to get mad when people started to brag out of the blue about something they (thought they) have... And then, someone explained to me how that came from insecurities, and that they were not really trying to convince me or anyone else, but convince themselves, and I started to let it go and even not caring... And the fake bragging stopped too... sometimes!!
The thing is, there is a difference between being smart, and knowing things. Just because you have a high I.Q, does not mean you know everything. Also, because you know things, that does not necessarily mean you're smart. I'd like to think I'm somewhere in the middle, but in reality I'm probably a dumbass.
I like to think of it as academic smarts and street smarts. Those that are really high in one are generally challenged in the other. Both are needed and there is nothing wrong with being one or the other. Most people are middle line for both I think, plenty smart to earn a decent living and with common sense enough to get things done.
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So intellectual capacity and being a k**b aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
Every time I see these posts about how intelligent people brag about how smart they are, I'm reminded of the movie "Idiocracy." The intelligent people were so busy being smart and waiting until the "right moment" to have kids, that they never had kids while the low intelligence population had kids galore. Guess who was occupying the world in the future... Intelligence doesn't mean anything if you are incapable of forming social connections. It's like spending your whole life walking over everyone to be the richest person on Earth, then spending the rest of the time wondering if the people that are around you love you for the person you are or the money you have.
I tell ya..I was called FirstName "Brain" Lastname as a nickname in school. I was a National Merit Finalist without practicing (or even knowing what these tests were for). In fact, the fact that I didn't know what the tests were for is the first clue that I was not AT ALL intelligent. I was smart, very smart, but not intelligent. I got almost straight As in college, was considered a "rock star" first 1 1/2 years out of college, and then dive bomb. Because I'm not INTELLIGENT. I can't communicate with people. I'm a software developer, and it is still VERY imporrtant to be able to communicate. I can't read my son to save my life and he's 30. I still don't know him, can't read him, can't guess what he likes. I have had no friends since 1999. I have a career, but I've contributed nothing of note and my son is a great kid, but has never really been happy because I wasn't a good Mom. Smart doesn't mean intelligent, and smart doesn't mean accomplished. And even intelligent doesn't mean useful
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Isn't your lack of achievements looks even worse if you have "high IQ"?
Scandinavian friend reacting to me asking why she would go straight for the English Proficiency Exam without taking the Lower exam first: "I speak much perfect English."
"I speak English very goodly. Make you happy like hell!"
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I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
So many thick headed people in this world now. I wish we could change it, but sometimes you can't. That's the sad reality. Sometimes people can be real a******s.
honestly, everyone here is either just a bragging b*tch or want to rub it in people's faces because they think they are special or something. especially that peasant one. I bet he had to look that up to even know what a peasant is lol.
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
These are probably the same people who think that you need a high IQ to understand the Big Bang Theory show's jokes
I'd expect intelligent people to be busy saving the world rather than bragging about their high IQ scores on social media...
I personally love it when I’m talking with someone and they mention something they assume I know nothing about, then they pause to say, “I’m sure you don’t know what that is,” and I can come back at them with an explanation better than they one they’re trying to give me. Usually knocks their smug asses down a few steps lol
This made me laugh so hard that I woke up everyone in my house. At midnight.
Intelligent people never boast about their intelligence or how high their IQ is.
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
If we're being honest, a lot of us laughing at these people probably said some things along these lines when we were far younger. I once told a teacher: 'I'm sick of school work because I've been in school for so long now.' I was 18 at the time, finishing senior year in high school, hadn't stepped foot on a college campus yet.
All these people talking about how they can't enjoy a conversation with normal folks because they're SO intelligent... -.- I think what bothers me most about these is that a) we live in a time where there's so much to know, and so much newly discovered, that you can learn something interesting even from someone working in the same field as you *regardless of their intelligence* (and lets not START to get into what you can learn about an entirely different field...), and b) most people still mostly talk about their latest cool/fun/weird experience aka "subject where IQ hardly matters at all". Ye gods...
Isn't there some mental/brain disease that makes someone think they are more intelligent? Being overly sensitive does not mean someone is smarter. And someone who wants to learn is always better company than a Know It All. And, as a very smart guy once said to me: Do not mistake lack of specific knowledge means someone is stupid. Being people smart is far more rewarding that book smart.
Bipolar disorder comes to mind - one of the symptoms is grandiosity.
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I regularly observe that average intelligence is not that smart... It sounds super pretentious I know... I don't actually mean it as a judgement or a put down... If you say that average height is not that tall most people don't take offense... *shrug*
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
I used to get mad when people started to brag out of the blue about something they (thought they) have... And then, someone explained to me how that came from insecurities, and that they were not really trying to convince me or anyone else, but convince themselves, and I started to let it go and even not caring... And the fake bragging stopped too... sometimes!!
The thing is, there is a difference between being smart, and knowing things. Just because you have a high I.Q, does not mean you know everything. Also, because you know things, that does not necessarily mean you're smart. I'd like to think I'm somewhere in the middle, but in reality I'm probably a dumbass.
I like to think of it as academic smarts and street smarts. Those that are really high in one are generally challenged in the other. Both are needed and there is nothing wrong with being one or the other. Most people are middle line for both I think, plenty smart to earn a decent living and with common sense enough to get things done.
Load More Replies... So intellectual capacity and being a k**b aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
Every time I see these posts about how intelligent people brag about how smart they are, I'm reminded of the movie "Idiocracy." The intelligent people were so busy being smart and waiting until the "right moment" to have kids, that they never had kids while the low intelligence population had kids galore. Guess who was occupying the world in the future... Intelligence doesn't mean anything if you are incapable of forming social connections. It's like spending your whole life walking over everyone to be the richest person on Earth, then spending the rest of the time wondering if the people that are around you love you for the person you are or the money you have.
I tell ya..I was called FirstName "Brain" Lastname as a nickname in school. I was a National Merit Finalist without practicing (or even knowing what these tests were for). In fact, the fact that I didn't know what the tests were for is the first clue that I was not AT ALL intelligent. I was smart, very smart, but not intelligent. I got almost straight As in college, was considered a "rock star" first 1 1/2 years out of college, and then dive bomb. Because I'm not INTELLIGENT. I can't communicate with people. I'm a software developer, and it is still VERY imporrtant to be able to communicate. I can't read my son to save my life and he's 30. I still don't know him, can't read him, can't guess what he likes. I have had no friends since 1999. I have a career, but I've contributed nothing of note and my son is a great kid, but has never really been happy because I wasn't a good Mom. Smart doesn't mean intelligent, and smart doesn't mean accomplished. And even intelligent doesn't mean useful
Load More Replies... Isn't your lack of achievements looks even worse if you have "high IQ"?
Scandinavian friend reacting to me asking why she would go straight for the English Proficiency Exam without taking the Lower exam first: "I speak much perfect English."
"I speak English very goodly. Make you happy like hell!"
Load More Replies... I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
So many thick headed people in this world now. I wish we could change it, but sometimes you can't. That's the sad reality. Sometimes people can be real a******s.
honestly, everyone here is either just a bragging b*tch or want to rub it in people's faces because they think they are special or something. especially that peasant one. I bet he had to look that up to even know what a peasant is lol.
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
These are probably the same people who think that you need a high IQ to understand the Big Bang Theory show's jokes
I'd expect intelligent people to be busy saving the world rather than bragging about their high IQ scores on social media...
I personally love it when I’m talking with someone and they mention something they assume I know nothing about, then they pause to say, “I’m sure you don’t know what that is,” and I can come back at them with an explanation better than they one they’re trying to give me. Usually knocks their smug asses down a few steps lol
This made me laugh so hard that I woke up everyone in my house. At midnight.
Intelligent people never boast about their intelligence or how high their IQ is.
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
If we're being honest, a lot of us laughing at these people probably said some things along these lines when we were far younger. I once told a teacher: 'I'm sick of school work because I've been in school for so long now.' I was 18 at the time, finishing senior year in high school, hadn't stepped foot on a college campus yet.
All these people talking about how they can't enjoy a conversation with normal folks because they're SO intelligent... -.- I think what bothers me most about these is that a) we live in a time where there's so much to know, and so much newly discovered, that you can learn something interesting even from someone working in the same field as you *regardless of their intelligence* (and lets not START to get into what you can learn about an entirely different field...), and b) most people still mostly talk about their latest cool/fun/weird experience aka "subject where IQ hardly matters at all". Ye gods...
Isn't there some mental/brain disease that makes someone think they are more intelligent? Being overly sensitive does not mean someone is smarter. And someone who wants to learn is always better company than a Know It All. And, as a very smart guy once said to me: Do not mistake lack of specific knowledge means someone is stupid. Being people smart is far more rewarding that book smart.
Bipolar disorder comes to mind - one of the symptoms is grandiosity.
Load More Replies... I regularly observe that average intelligence is not that smart... It sounds super pretentious I know... I don't actually mean it as a judgement or a put down... If you say that average height is not that tall most people don't take offense... *shrug*
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
