Only from the Mind of a Genius

As Gump once said, "Stupid is as stupid does!"

Or as Einstein once said, "Stupidity has no limits."

Hey Dennis the Mennis! :) Seems to me that relativity spook is at work again, here! :))

I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. I know some pretty dumb guys that would probably do something such as that.

Thanks for sharing with The Triple Name Club.

They do the unnecessarily complication first?

Oh, yes. I cannot count the number of times I've stood watching them do something and wondering why they didn't take the easy route.

Don't go so far ... if DSK did really what he did ... in his position ... he almost went "booming" the whole world!

LOL!!!

"Geniuses" of all kinds are often gifted with their intellect but prone to mental disorders as well.

Many are afflicted with Asberger' Syndrome but able to make their contributions anyway.

Never heard of Asberger's Syndrome, so I did a little check. This article describes me a bit too accurately for comfort:

What is Asperger's Disorder?

However, either I really don't have it or mine is not a very bad case.

I am not sure if you are equating being an engineer with intellect, but in case you are. Let me say I have met a few and as best I call tell their degrees are more about persistence than intellect. I would offer the majority of kids in K-12 school could earn an engineering degree.

The engineers are taught from books, they learn the science. It is working/the nature of their work that teaches them how to apply it. I will offer that is true of every profession/degree. I would say the reason doctors have internships is so they confront reality of practicing (under the supervision of a 'real' doctor) what they learn before being turned loose on an unsuspecting public.

Of the engineers I have met some were great, but I still remember one who we would not let touch anything in the plant (the superviosr even threaten him with being chained to a chair whenever he entered the controlroom), and the guys would check with others before taking his advice.

I'm with Kerrel, 'stupid is as stupid does.'

In defense of those who are engineers, there are those who can make you understand the science and be able to apply it without their being around so you realize how smart you really are. And they came of with ideas out of nowhere with what seemed as little effort and then show how we each could see and feel part of the idea and application of it.

They made me really like engineers/scientists, but they also showed how simply having a degree does not guarantee intelligence and to be skeptical of what they say and do.

As for the bugs, if the person doesn;t stop to think about the risks associated with the idea for somehting as simple as killing bugs, RUN don;t walk away from that person because the house maybe next (with you in it).

Great comments, however, that particular engineer scored so high on the test that he made the Mensa club.

I know that a degree in engineering might not relate to intelligence, so I chose a story from among those published by Mensa members. I guess that might mean that a high IQ test score don't necessarily mean the person is highly intelligent :-D)

Testing only shows how well they retain facts, it does not show how they think in real time.

My view is a truly smart person thinks through what needs to be done, recognizes they limitations and gets help (either from others or other sources of information) for life is an open book test.

When it comes to decision making/choices I will trust more to the group than to a single 'expert.' That is a main reason I resist moving decisions to governement, they use 'experts' not thinking.

I have no idea what :-D means.

:-D) just to show when I'm smiling while typing. I also use "smileys" sometimes.

Thanks

Do genius's have common sense, makes one wonder.

Contrary to popular belief, 'common sense' is not as common as we are led to believe. :-D)

There is no such thing as 'common sense'. First, sense is baased ion what we learn and we all learn differently because we are all uniquee so there is nthing common about us.

Genius is a term used to justify our ignorance, our unwillingness to put the effort into learning, or to rationalize the limited social skills of others. It is usually limited to a single field of knowledge, never applied to life skills.

Stephen Hawkings is labled a 'genius', but I would not turn to him for a religious question or judgement.

All common sense means Duane, is to think and act responsibly, as simple as that.

Ouch...

People who are genius in one specific field are not necessarily too bright in another. Academically bright students are often quite inept in daily living. The smartest boy in my 9th grade class was unable to catch a ball.

Very true, Thomas. Beethoven, for one, couldn't even hold a cup of tea straight without spilling it all over the dance-floor. :) And yet, we all know the ethereal beauty of his Moonlight Sonata or the surging power of his Fifth!

Common sense , my mother said, is all you need.

I must be a moron. Why exactly does bug spray go boom when sprayed into the business end of a vacuum cleaner? Where is the spark to ignite it? Or does the air get passed over some kind of very hot electronics?

Actually, if my questions are that dumb, then perhaps I'm a genius. :-)

You are not an appliance repairer. The dust gets caught but the air goes pass the motor where the sparks can cause an explosion.

Hmmm,... seems to me that an electric motor that creates free sparks would be dangerous. For example, if you were vacuuming up flour or other other flammable particles, then that would go boom as well, or at least cause a fire. I'm doubting that today's vacuum cleaners actually pass air over free sparks - there are many electric motors that are sealed and contained so that sparks don't just escape. That's why I have my doubts that this story is true.

Maybe it is that the static electricity build up is enough to generate a spark of some kind, not necessarily from the motor? Where I used to work, there were explosives around and we had to buy special rated electric carts and forklifts etc. to use. The dang things were as expensive as a nice car, but that was the code/law. I can only imagine what a vacuum cleaner rated like that would cost, LOL.

Gary, particles are trapped by the filters. The danger in those days was flammable vapors. This incident had occurred about twenty years ago. Although I haven't repaired one recently, I expect that the newer ones do not have that danger. That is except the little hand-held ones. In those, the air still passes around the motors.

lol