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A thread for midwits to mingle

A thread for midwits to mingle

General


Midwits are people "who are around average intelligence but are so opinionated and full of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius.". ~ Urban Dictionary

Even if you are, indeed, a genius, or a halfwit, a nitwit, or even witless, if you post on this thread, your carefully gauged contributions should be those of a midwit.


As Donald Rumsefld said so famouly: There are the things we know and we know that we know, there are things we know and we don't know that we know them, then there are things we don't know and know we don't know them and then there the things we don't know and we don't know, that we don't know them. (the unknown unknowns).

And then there is the like of @Metal-Brain and @Eladar


@ponderable said
As Donald Rumsefld said so famouly: There are the things we know and we know that we know, there are things we know and we don't know that we know them, then there are things we don't know and know we don't know them and then there the things we don't know and we don't know, that we don't know them. (the unknown unknowns).

And then there is the like of @Metal-Brain and @Eladar
And THAT is precisely why you were voted our Poster of the Year Ponderable 🙂

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" it would be so good if people were nice to one another"

" That could get you crucified"


Only a dimwit can create this kind of a thread.

In my book I would say, a blockhead. One wearing the crown as a cyclops. Polyphemus, king of the cyclopes, the giant who got outwitted by a cunning full-witted man.


@david-burton said
" it would be so good if people were nice to one another"

" That could get you crucified"
Some people get their kicks for not being nice.


@pettytalk said
Some people get their kicks for not being nice.
Maybe if we all tried.




-Removed-
Maybe he is somebody else?


@the-gravedigger said
Maybe he is somebody else?
no matter who or what he calls himself he can not be somebody else.


@pettytalk said
Only a dimwit can create this kind of a thread.

In my book I would say, a blockhead. One wearing the crown as a cyclops. Polyphemus, king of the cyclopes, the giant who got outwitted by a cunning full-witted man.
Thanks for your OP compliance.


@fmf said
if you post on this thread, your carefully gauged contributions should be those of a midwit.
I've seen more avatars than anyone else on this forum, I reckon, and I can safely say that mine contains several interlocking concepts that probably go whoosh over most people's heads here.


@ponderable said
As Donald Rumsefld said so famouly: There are the things we know and we know that we know, there are things we know and we don't know that we know them, then there are things we don't know and know we don't know them and then there the things we don't know and we don't know, that we don't know them. (the unknown unknowns).
All this stuff you've said about Donald Rumsefld is a case of known knowns. If you had walked a mile in my political analysis shoes, you'd have come up with some unknown unknowns about HIM, although I probably already know them.

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@david-burton said
no matter who or what he calls himself he can not be somebody else.
R.D. Laing (The Divided Self, Knots) tells an anecdote about a woman that came up to him and said 'didn't you used to be RD Laing.'