Asklemmy

48908 readers

1108 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

People who are MENSA members, are there benefits? Do you get discounts on anything? I'll never qualify, so I gotta ask. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I realized that "Mensa" didn't contain enough numerals to be a phone number, and knew it must be understood that any future member would be able to figure out the next two digits in the sequence. I tried dialling MENSANE, MENSAIL, MENSAFE, and MENSAAB, but got three rebuffs and a fax tone.

From "How I Joined MENSA" by Steve Martin

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It discounts my impression of them.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Same.

The entire concept of mensa always rubbed me the wrong way

It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.

You're supposedly one of the smartest people alive, and yet you somehow concluded that a good use of your limited time on Earth is to blow smoke up your own ass with a group of other pretentious jerkoffs who know how to cheese IQ tests

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

I listened to a podcast basically saying once you're really smart, it's likely your life just really sucks. Of course there are a handful of people who are wildly successful, but most high IQ people just feel like nothing in the world was built for them. Basically the father out on the bell curve you are, the less the world is made for you to function happily in, whether your IQ is 60 or 140. If you want to be smart and happy, a doctor or lawyer or whatever, 125 is the sweet spot. 140 is depression.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.

I’ve seen a few dating profiles near me with women claiming to be in Mensa. I’m glad they mention it, as it’s a dog whistle for me to move on to another profile that will inevitably ignore me because I just don’t stack up.

~That’s meant to be funny.~

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

I think that's a red flag, not a dog whistle. the latter is intended by the person publishing it

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

I think that's a red flag, not a dog whistle. the latter is intended by the person publishing it

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

Most people smart enough to join are smart enough not to.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Don't forget racists. Plenty of those are drawn to the Mensa labels, too.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

This is worth the entire post and more. I'm chuckling while my kid gives me weird looks from the other room.