Is it too late to go back to school and pursue a different career?

[Jimmy Snyder]

The point of MENSA is to have an intellectual exchange.

For the nth time, intellectual exchange about what? About intellectual exchanges? Why do you need to solve multiple choice puzzles to be able to discuss intellectual exchanges? What is the skill you are talking about? I still don't get it.

 

[Astronuc]

But where MENSA wins is that once a member you can never be thrown out no matter what you say or do

MENSA is the last refuge of the intelligent banned internet forum poster

 

[Astronuc]

For the nth time, intellectual exchange about what? About intellectual exchanges? Why do you need to solve multiple choice puzzles to be able to discuss intellectual exchanges? What is the skill you are talking about? I still don't get it.

Mensans have intellectual exchanges about (pick one):

a. anything

b. everything

c. all of the above

d. none of the above

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

a. anything

Reminds me of when I went looking for my first job:
Potential employer: What I can you do?
Pimply me: I can do anything.
No longer potential employer: I don't need a person that can do anything. I need a person who can do something.

 

[Art]

For the nth time, intellectual exchange about what? About intellectual exchanges? Why do you need to solve multiple choice puzzles to be able to discuss intellectual exchanges? What is the skill you are talking about? I still don't get it.

And that's why people join MENSA

 

[Art]

Reminds me of when I went looking for my first job:
Potential employer: What I can you do?
Pimply me: I can do anything.
No longer potential employer: I don't need a person that can do anything. I need a person who can do something.

Maybe you should have said 'I do can English speak'

 

[Astronuc]

Reminds me of when I went looking for my first job:
Potential employer: What I can you do?
Pimply me: I can do anything.

So you're a general practitioner?

 

[Art]

Ground Hog Day

Employer "Have you any questions?"
Applicant "Yes, what does your company do?"
Employer "We make wheels, any other questions"
Applicant "Yes, what does your company actually do?"
Employer "Err. We make wheels, now any other questions?"
Applicant "Just one, what does your company do?"
Employer "We make round things called wheels"

and round and round it goes

 

[NeoDevin]

Hmmm, after reading this thread (Art's posts) I might just have to go check out the local chapter, whenever I have $30 to spare.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

So you're a general practitioner?

At that age I was a major pain in the neck, and some had an even lower opinion of me. Now I'm a general nuisance, so you could say I've risen in the ranks. I have found that something that I can do to put rice on the table, so I guess that makes me a specialist. Something like a song and dance man.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Maybe you should have said 'I do can English speak'

I am have from the amazed abilities to speaking seven languages. English the best.

 

[Astronuc]

I am have from the amazed abilities to speaking seven languages. English the best.

I thought all seven were English.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I thought all seven were English.

English, American, Canadian, Australian, South African, Irish, and Japanese.

 

[turbo]

Ooh, #7 would be a stretch for me. I think I can handle the others, though. In #7, I can probably say "hello" and "goodbye" well enough to be understood. After listening to me mangle their language, "goodbye" would probably come as a relief to the Japanese.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Ooh, #7 would be a stretch for me. I think I can handle the others, though. In #7, I can probably say "hello" and "goodbye" well enough to be understood. After listening to me mangle their language, "goodbye" would probably come as a relief to the Japanese.

I tried to learn Hebrew, but when I said hello to people, they would say goodbye to me.

 

[Lacy33]

I tried to learn Hebrew, but when I said hello to people, they would say goodbye to me.

OMG!~ LOL, that's too funny. And just listening to my daughter tell me what she is teaching her class at Hebrew school.
Her and I are on the flooooor on this on.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Haivrit sheli chaluda meod. That means my Hebrew is very rusty. When I was a teenager I learned to speak Hebrew fluently, but I remember very little of it now. In fact, I found it very easy to learn.

 

[Art]

I tried to learn Hebrew, but when I said hello to people, they would say goodbye to me.

Bíonn fáth le gach uile rud

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Bíonn fáth le gach uile rud

It's greek to me. Is there a reason you wrote this?

 

[Art]

It's greek to me. Is there a reason you wrote this?

You said you spoke Irish

Funnily enough it translates to 'everything happens for a reason'

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

You said you spoke Irish

Funnily enough it translates to 'everything happens for a reason'

Funnily enough, I knew that when I wrote it. Not every IQ test is labeled "IQ test". I speak Irish, not Gaelic.

 

[Art]

Funnily enough, I knew that when I wrote it. Not every IQ test is labeled "IQ test". I speak Irish, not Gaelic.

Err Right, Of course you did

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Err Right, Of course you did

It's no big deal.
I can google with the best of them.

 

[Evo]

Actually, as of Jan 1, 2007 "Irish" became the 23rd official language of the European Union. Irish is what would be considered "Irish Gaelic", which is now simply called Gaeilge. This, as I understand it, is to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic.

My Irish friend uses the terms interchangeably, Art, which do you prefer? I noticed you correctly used Gaeilge when you said Irish.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

It turns out that I don't speak Irish after all. This comes as a shock to me as I happen to be Irish one day a year. During the winter I speak Hiberno-English with a great many Americanisms thrown in. And a whole lot of Hiberno-Englishisms thrown out. The rest of the time I speak American with no accent.

 

[turbo]

I'm part Irish every day of the year, so if you want to join the club, fork over the $30 and I'll let you slide for the years you didn't pay.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I'm part Irish every day of the year, so if you want to join the club, fork over the $30 and I'll let you slide for the years you didn't pay.

It's in my blood. My ancestors were Irish one day a year as well.

 

[Art]

Actually, as of Jan 1, 2007 "Irish" became the 23rd official language of the European Union. Irish is what would be considered "Irish Gaelic", which is now simply called Gaeilge. This, as I understand it, is to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic.

My Irish friend uses the terms interchangeably, Art, which do you prefer? I noticed you correctly used Gaeilge when you said Irish.

I was educated in England and so my knowledge of Irish is meagre to say the least. I confess my 12 year old daughter provided me with the Gaeilge phrase I used Checking with her she informs me Gaeilge is the norm though I would use the terms interchangeably.

 

[Art]

I'm part Irish every day of the year, so if you want to join the club, fork over the $30 and I'll let you slide for the years you didn't pay.

You evidently don't have Scottish blood in you

 

[Chi Meson]

You evidently don't have Scottish blood in you

As a half-Scot, I am half-offended by that remark!