[Kamikaze]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm

I'm not getting married!

[Stryke 9]

Horniness=genius.


I'd write more on this, but I don't feel like it.

[Kamikaze]

yeah.. wank 24 hours a day and write magnificient musical scores or entire game programs in assembly!

[Stryke 9]

Well, if the teachers were right you go blind, and then you're halfway to being a modern artist!

[an0n]

It doesn't just apply to marriage.

I was an absolute friggin genius till I started bothering having proper 'friends' and ****.

I basically did nothing for the first 13 years of my life and was described by every teacher as a genius, by every adult as a polite, happy, friendly child and by every kid as an annoyingly brilliant bastard.

Then BAM! Thirteen years old, I gets me some proper 'friends'. Start going out, getting drunk, going to parties and all of a sudden I'm a trouble-maker, a rogue, an abusive, violent, foul-mouthed, under-achieving little ****-head.

And sports! Sports will **** your head up no-end. Have you ever seen anyone truly brilliant who plays football? Hell no. Sure you get a few of those annoying all-rounder people who're good looking, intelligent and sporty, but they never really excel in any area and drift into a life of mediocrity.

The key to genius is unremitting hatred for all life. Love and excercise will **** you up.

[CP5670]

well that's all good; so I have a better chance of being able to do math my entire life.

That article would also seem to imply that geniuses and criminals have something in common... (well after all I guess the most powerful man is the criminal genius)

[an0n]

Yeah, just look at Mr Freeze.

[adwight]

I resent that An0n, I was taking senior classes in the 9th grade and I aced them all.  I'm not a pure genius, but I'm very smart, and hella good at football...  One of the captains on my team btw.

[IceFire]

So the big question would be were those people personally happy.  If they were (which I bet some of them were) then what does it matter.

[an0n]

Originally posted by adwight
I resent that An0n, I was taking senior classes in the 9th grade and I aced them all.  I'm not a pure genius, but I'm very smart, and hella good at football...  One of the captains on my team btw.

So what you're saying is, you're ugly?

[Stryke 9]

If only the government would follow that logic when it came to heroin legalization.

[an0n]

What? If you're ugly, you get smack?

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Knight Templar]

*used to be called a genius untill about 8th grade*

*has always been a smartass and generally pissed off athority*

*hasn't done any drugs or alchohol*

*loves sports, but doesn't play on any teams, yet*

*is smarter than he was before 8th grade, but adults tend not to use words like 'extremely bright and gifted' any more. *

*got 'real friends' in a 7th/8th grade*


go figure.

[Stryke 9]

An0n: I think "a smack" might be better. Negative reinforcement, might reduce the ugly populace until, a few generations from now, we all end up looking like Thandie Newton. Including the guys.

Actually, I was responding to IceFire and you got in the way, but it's a good idea nevertheless.

[Whitelight]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm

I'm not getting married!

I uttered these words a good long time ago also, but i met the right one (your soul mate) you tend to get sweep away by being in there very presents, but this must be felt by both of you, for it to endure. I`ve been with my soul mate (Patty) now for 22  years,  and intend to be for the remainder of my life. My wife is irish and i have found, you don`t want to piss this irish woman  off.  Reminds me of a time we went out for a few drinks and there were 3 girls at a table, they just happened to be old girlfriends of mine that i had dated before i met patty. Well they all decided to drag me on to the dance floor, trying to cause trouble between me and patty, but there plan backfired when patty aproached there table and told all three of them to step outside cause she was going to kick all there butts, needless to say, they all stayed seated and haven`t bothered me since.

[JC Denton]

Well, I really don't intend on getting married for two simple reasons:

1)  Marriage, one way or another, will cause you to become a parent.  And one glance at the world at large is enough for me to decide that no one should be brought up in such an environment.

2)  For me at least, the lonely life is the happy one...to a degree...

[Whitelight]

Your right, marrage isn`t for everyone.

And no, your not a bad guy because you don`t want to get married, its not for everyone.

[Kamikaze]

well, my line was half a joke (inspired by the article) so it shouldn't be taken that seriously....

however I don't really plan to marry unless someone gives me a really good reason, but I won't get into that.


Anyway, back to the main topic. I'd think that by genius they mean creative genius, i.e. more like abstracting math ideas, painting, making music, programming etc.   opposed to academic genius which involves working hard and doing what you're told. So it's probably more like "Would Bach have been better off with no marriages?" rather than "I started to have fun in 7th grade and my grades dropped"

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I used to be called a genius in school up until about Year 9, when I realised that there was no point in any of the work we were doing, and spent the next two years arguing with teachers and disrupting the school network.

[Stunaep]

*was hella smart in 5th grade*
*was better-than-any-other-male-bar-one-in-our-class in 9th grade*
*has real friends*
*likes soft non-sweet alchoholic drinks + whiskey*
*had a girlfriend (emphasis on word HAD)*
*likes his parents*
*loves classical music*
*loves certain sports, sucks at teamplay*
*loves computers*
*loves getting out and having fun*

Even I'm having trouble figuring myself out.