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mensa should let idiots join

26 replies

Rogerbacon · 11/03/2012 20:52

I am deeply upset that I am not allowed to join mensa because I am just a little bit stupid
In this day and age of everyone being equal i think it is against my human rights and i am being discriminated against

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tangledupinblue2 · 11/03/2012 20:53
Grin
BillyBollyBandy · 11/03/2012 20:55

Make your own club? Call it Densa Wink

JaneMare · 11/03/2012 20:57

if you're neither one or t'other you could sit on the Fensa

catsareevil · 11/03/2012 20:59

Who would want to join mensa? Grin
You could bribe a psychologist to give you a few extra IQ points Grin

bringbacksideburns · 11/03/2012 21:03

Well, they let my H in. Grin

StealthPolarBear · 11/03/2012 21:04

I have a certificate from mensa

StealthPolarBear · 11/03/2012 21:05

oh no I've just double checked and it's FENSA, we got it when the windows were replaced :o

Rogerbacon · 11/03/2012 21:06

StealthPolarBear
Thats a shame. I was going to put you down as someone clever who I could look up to and aspire to be like

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StealthPolarBear · 11/03/2012 21:09

I have lovely windows, maybe you could aspire to that

StealthPolarBear · 11/03/2012 21:09

actually even that's not entirely correct, they are long overdue a clean

Rogerbacon · 11/03/2012 21:13

I am lovely already

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cakewench · 11/03/2012 21:16

Mensa does let idiots in. Heaps of them.

Sorry, I realise this is probably referring to something else I'm not MN cool enough to get, but the subject did draw me in. :)

Rogerbacon · 11/03/2012 21:18

cakewench

This refers to my rights as an idiot and nothing more

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TiggyD · 11/03/2012 21:20

Of corse we shudn't let stoopid peepl in.

As aristottle once sayed "thick peepl don't alf get on me tits!"

Onetwothreeoops · 11/03/2012 21:25

You have to pay subs to be a member don't you?

Never quite got the point of it myself.

ComposHat · 11/03/2012 21:34

Mensa does let idiots in. Heaps of them

Jimmy Saville and Gary Bushell were/are.members. Enough said.

TiggyD · 11/03/2012 21:38

When I fist joined there was a lot of good things about Mensa. There were special interest groups run a bit like fan clubs that helped me with my special interests when I was younger; Redundant now we have the internet. There were local meetings and a magazine with an excellent letters page which was like a very slow internet forum.
I don't really see the point in it any more which is why I left.

MajorBumsore · 11/03/2012 22:36

I know a couple of MENSA members. They are thick.

lesley33 · 11/03/2012 22:39

I have always thought you have to be a bit of an idiot to want to join mensa tbh.

CrockoDuck · 12/03/2012 01:38

I did one of those at home tests for MENSA, sent it in, and was dead impressed with myself when they wrote back to say that my IQ was high enough for me to potentially become a member, and would I like to come and sit a formal test at some hotel?

The it occurred to me that, since they charge £25 (I think) for the pleasure of sitting their test, then they'd be quids in if they just sent that letter out to everyone. Which is probably what they do.

I do think you should start your own group called DENSA. That's genius Grin

complexnumber · 12/03/2012 06:09

And why isn't there a womensa? It's outrageous!

nameuschangeus · 12/03/2012 06:13

The only person I know who is a member of Mensa is a prize plum.

You're better off being a member of mumsnet.

lesley33 · 12/03/2012 07:07

Agree. Mumsnetters are more intelligent anyway

TiggyD · 12/03/2012 08:24

Intelligence is not much use if you can't apply it to something useful. On it's not as useful as common sense, an ability people are willing to pay for, or good looks.

TiggyD · 12/03/2012 08:27

One good thing about having a high IQ: It means I'm eccentric rather than just weird.

(high class or rich people also get to be called eccentric rather than weird)
(Not my idea, it's just the rules)