Why, I thought. Because it's so high?
"No –– because it's so shockingly fucking low."
Same thing exists online everywhere about Melania's IQ. "You'll be amazed by Melania Trump's IQ!"
IT'S A FUCKING FRACTION IS WHY!
IT'S A FUCKING MINUS NUMBER IS WHY!
IT'S FUCKING –π IS WHY!
I refuse to click on these websites because I assume that at best I am not going to get quality journalism but I am going to be roundly annoyed by the piece, and at worst I am going to get some sophisticated "trojan horse" malware from "bad actors" in the "former Soviet Union".
It's like when you are credulously seduced by one picture of a sexy-looking woman online and are drawn in to some online "slideshow" of fatuous factoids. You dully whir through thirty images. The picture of the woman never even turns up. A hard lesson learned. Whole minutes of a life lost forever, irrevocable.
There ought to be a word in Portuguese for this awful feeling.
People love to read surprising information about seemingly dumb people actually being smart. Iggy Pop is a classic example. How often have I read about his world record-breaking IQ –– and still he strikes me as moronic.
My readers might have other examples of this phenomenon, and I invite them to send them in to the usual address.
There should be webpages about seemingly clever people who are actually stupid as dirt.
Like me for example.
