Why did god make the sky blue not pink?

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:35 am

Utva wrote:
Ok, there are some 100,000 Mensas around the world. What is the annual membership fee?

Not much, a couple of hundred.

What is the initial registration fee? Adds up, don't it?

The initial fee = membership dues

Oh, and how many (intelligent) people are willing to go through the process of obtaining the Mensa status?

I gather you did not think about your message. Let us juxtapose this quote and you may see the light.

Ok, there are some 100,000 Mensas around the world

Moving on.

Come back and impress us when you're in the TNS (Triple Nine Society).

As opposed to the 4H society who is showing you this weekend at auction.

Parse that you dickhead!

I don't have enough ink in my red pen. Reading your message is like listening to Paris Hilton. This is more painful than I can express.

bee tee · Post by **bee tee** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:38 am

The Mensa take people with IQ scores in the top two percent. The IQ test is scored on a bell curve which means that it is normative. This means that 2 out of every 100 people could qualify to join the Mensa. Take just the USA population of 300,000,000, take two percent of that, and you will notice that 6,000,000 Americans are eligible to join the Mensa, yet there are only 100,000 members world wide. Out of the population that can join the Mensa, less than 2% choose to do it. Why?

I think I know why!

This next stuff is taken from the Mensa Constitution:

As conditions of membership, members must:
Pay the annual dues as set or modified from time to time by their national Mensa committee, or by the International Board of Directors if they are direct international members; and

MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING
A "member in good standing" shall be a person who has accepted an offer of membership, has paid all dues owed, and is not currently subject to any sanction imposed by a national Mensa or by the International Board of Directors.

To be a member of Mensa, it seems you must only pay your membership dues.
So by telling us you are a part of this organization, you have revealed to us, that you belong to a tiny population (100,000) of what I would call stupid book-smart people, who are willing to dish out money every year so that you could maintain this status.

Your avatar says it all!

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:48 am

Utva: I dare say that I do not understand from where your hostility comes. Is your lack of intelligence causing you emotions of jealousy?

Nevertheless, some people spend money on a yearly membership to the YMCA because they enjoy the services the YMCA provides and, perhaps, the friends that they make at the YMCA. Some people join the Rotary Club and pay membership dues. They, no doubt, have their own reasons for doing so.

Remarkably, and this is a shocker, not everyone joins the YMCA. Not everyone who is qualified to join, joins the Rotarians. It is a scandal indeed.

So, um, no. Not everyone who is qualified to join Mensa actually join. Sir, if you think this is a shocker, I'm afraid I shall have to begin to question your chromosome count.

bee tee · Post by **bee tee** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:17 pm

Yes, its true people join other clubs, and there are plenty of them out there.

One of your posts is along the lines of: 'I'm too good to be a pilot, IQ of (insert 6 digit figure) and member of Mensa society (everyone please look at my avatar).' All that was missing was for you to also tell us how you have 17 more testicles than the average human being and your dad has a nicer car than everyone else's dad. Pointless.

Others do not come on here and plagiarise whole web pages in a vain attempt to show their superior intelligence either, but you did. Taking the vast number of members that visit AvCanada into account, it is a given that some are members of other groups as well. They, however, do not go through the trouble of telling us.

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:29 pm

Ah, I understand now. You have absolutely no sense of humour. Perhaps if you reread this thread keeping context and juxtaposition in mind, you might appreciate it better. Certainly others seem to enjoy my humour.

ETA

-sigh- For example, if you take the plagerism into account. There is a subtle humour there in that a educated and intelligent person is engaging in plagerism. This is an attempt at irony.

Then take a look at how people responded to that post. There were responses which were of the ilk "I'm superior because I'm a pilot". I responded with arrogance "I'm superior because I'm smart". The humour there is in the offence people take to the "superior due to intelligence" vs. "superior because I can fly an airplane".

So there you have it Paris. Give the thread another read and come back to me.

4hrstovegas · Post by **4hrstovegas** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:00 pm

Ummm... me stupid... don't know if this is BS or not. But according to the University of Wisconsin PhD who wrote it, it seems correct.

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:02 pm

4hrstovegas wrote:Ummm... me stupid... don't know if this is BS or not. But according to the University of Wisconsin PhD who wrote it, it seems correct.

Don't worry. Though Mensa is an organization for those who's IQs fall in the top 2%, Canada does have an organization for supporting those unfortunates who's IQ falls in the bottom 2%. It is called COPA.

bee tee · Post by **bee tee** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:45 pm

DeskDriver wrote:For example, if you take the plagerism into account. There is a subtle humour there in that a educated and intelligent person is engaging in plagerism. This is an attempt at irony.

attempt at irony

No it isnt, but points for trying!

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:01 pm

From: http://www.dictionary.com

irony:
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.

A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.

2.Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).

An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity

And further from http://www.dictionary.com

example: irony is wasted on the stupid

bee tee · Post by **bee tee** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:11 pm

1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

No. You did something totally different.

2.Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

And, hell no.

Also taken from http://www.dictionary.com:

Plagiarism

1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

That's more like it!

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:22 pm

Irony is indeed wasted on the stupid.

And Paris, do you not realize that I've admitted to plagerising?

P.S. I checked and I would qualify for the Triple Nine Society.

bee tee · Post by **bee tee** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:15 pm

Reading your message is like listening to Paris Hilton. This is more painful than I can express.

argumentum ad hominem

And Paris, do you not realize that I've admitted to plagerising?

No you didn't!

P.S. I checked and I would qualify for the Triple Nine Society.

They'll take the AGCT and the NGCT as qualifying exams. Ouch!

Go Guns · Post by **Go Guns** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:29 pm

I doubt anyone with an IQ in the top 2% would get dragged in to such a stupid arguement...

Now, myself on the other hand..

LostinRotation · Post by **LostinRotation** » Sun May 15, 2005 6:42 am

I feel dumber for reading this...it used to be funny...I want my 2 mins back...with intrest :/

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No Conflict · Post by **No Conflict** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:19 am

LostinRotation wrote:I feel dumber for reading this...it used to be funny...I want my 2 mins back...with intrest :/

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desksgo · Post by **desksgo** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:52 am

I just feel the need for my dog to drag his ass across this conversation...so there.

The Flyer · Post by **The Flyer** » Mon May 30, 2005 5:24 pm

deskdriver...
this is a mostly pilot posting and here you are bashing us, did you expext anything other then them attacking you?
Well I don't agree with the blue sky I also think you are on an ego trip, I hate pilots like that, I am a pilot not like that (note I know you are not a pilot), I also believe that there would be no aviation industry i.e. control towers-fss-dispatchers-etc, if it wasn't for pilots. So even if you have the power to hire and fire us, I think we should all remember that we started all this!

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Mon May 30, 2005 10:03 pm

This thread is still going?

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:17 pm

I get it...thats sarcasm

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:34 pm

Oh NOOOOOO!!!

Here we go again!!!!

-istp

PT6-114A · Post by **PT6-114A** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:24 pm

well that looks like the end of that

LostinRotation · Post by **LostinRotation** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:11 am

Actually I have one thing to add....no matter how smart desk thinks he is, he still can't figure out how to get people to like him.

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wingandaprayer · Post by **wingandaprayer** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:53 pm

You can't put out a fire with gasoline. Just drop the damn flamewar.