I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).
Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?
Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.
I used to date this girl that was beautiful, sex was incredible, but was dumb as a rock. I could and should’ve been better about not wanting a relationship with her, but it’s besides the point now.
I really wondered if she was a functional adult. My favorite and most extreme memory is asking her to heat some water in the kettle, and 5 seconds later thinking “she won’t be able”. So I silently went to the kitchen, watched her try, fail, and turn around with a wet puppy face saying “I can’t do it”. There’s nothing weird about my stove. Gas, a lighter or a match and that’s it. Countless people did it before and afterwards, I don’t even have a clue how she failed.
I’ve met more stupid people, and it normally ranges from “I don’t want to hear anything from this guy ever again” to “how the fuck are you still alive?”. Most of the time, people aren’t actually stupid but simply lack education.
Having to manually light the flame on your stove is pretty weird unless this story is from the 60s.
Born in the 90s and have done this plenty of times.
I mean same (80s) but that doesn’t make it normal
Idk what to tell you, I still have that stove, it works just fine, I still need a lighter. Most I’ve seen in my life are like that.
My theory is that people like attractive people so much that attractive people never really have to learn to do things for themselves because other people will gladly do it for them. So they end up stupid yet confident at everything they do. People just like attractive and confident people. If you ever look at leadership around you, you’ll notice that most of them are tall. It’s because we see tall people as authority because that’s how it was when we were kids. The tall people were in charge. Smart people are always unsure of themselves because there’s no way to predict what is going to happen for certain. So that’s why the world is run by overconfident dumb people.