Here a G+T teenager - an example

[Piffle]

DS1 is 13 a true G+T in all ways academic
Now...
picture 3 crepes, filled with chocolate, ready to be gently microwaved as a treat for pudding...

He chooses a plate 3 inches effing smaller than the crepes and duly warms them...
Am only typing this to avoid twatting him on the noggin...

G+T in this house is often swapped for Gormless and Twatty...

all brains on effing common sense I absolutely despair of him somedays

I was a g&t kid academically, and I STILL lack common sense. I will do things in an endlessly longwinded way, or completely fuck them up, while anyone else will simply go - why don't you do x instead. [doh emoticon]

oh sure he is into space etc
lives with his head up there

my DS is bright not G&T but his level of common sense gets smaller by the day!

Perhaps its a man thing

My straight As DS (too old at 20 to have been labelled G&T) managed to burn a tin of brownies he had just made in his "preparing for university cooking class" by taking them out of the oven nicely cooked and putting them on the hotplate.

oh my god...
it's going to get worse I can feel it in my waters

my ds 15 and academically g and t is a complete nonce with all things practical despite his protestation s to the contrary

lovin the gormless and twatty

My mum used to say

"Just cos you have brains no mean you have no commonsense!" (said with a Jamaican accent and a shaking head)

I don't think you have to be G and T ro have no horse and common!

Hee hee! Sounds very familiar to me

My dad was given a vacuum cleaner years ago by an extremely intelligent Oxford theoretical physicist because 'it had stopped working after a few weeks' and he thought my dad might be able to fix it. It transpired that this was because he hadn't realised you had to empty the bag!!

I wouldn't - expect them not to be so thick, I mean. Just because you are very goos at one aspect of your life doesn't mean anything about your abilities in other areas. My dd is an excellent musician. Not g or t, but good. She can also cook a meal for the family with no help at all, clear up and leave the kitchen immaculate. She is completely incapable of remembering her bus pass more than one day a week.

My DD has just gone to Oxford to study Bio Sciences and is doing fine at the academic stuff. Finding her way round Oxford is not so easy though. The other day she phoned me to wail 'mum, I can't find the bank! Help!'

I asked her what she could see, did a bit of hasty googling and multimpapping, and within half a minute was able to tell her 'you are standing right opposite it, you dozy nitwit.'

She is also the girl who was featured in a school wall display with a speech bubble 'but where IS the Eiffel Tower?' -clearly visible about two feet to her left.

I guess her brain is just too darn big to cope with mundane realities [hmmm]

My off-the-scale intelligent brother (who had just acquired an A in A-level Physics, among other subjects, at the point this incident occurred) once asked me how to boil an egg.
Simple, I said. Put the egg in the saucepan and boil it for 5-10 minutes depending on how hard you want it.
A few minutes later the sound of an explosion lured me into the kitchen.
He had not put any water in the saucepan.

Piff, one of my friends is equally dim wrt all things domestic. Pulls in six-figure bonuses every year though, so use that to comfort yourself with. PMSL at squodgy choc in microwave though

my point is this...
crepe is 10 inches long, plates diameter is about 7.5
Not rocket science not even close...

"My dad was given a vacuum cleaner years ago by an extremely intelligent Oxford theoretical physicist because 'it had stopped working after a few weeks' and he thought my dad might be able to fix it. It transpired that this was because he hadn't realised you had to empty the bag!!"
DH was an Oxford physicist - when I first knew him I lent him my old Ewbank carpet sweeper and he returned it to me full - he too didn't realise it had to be emptied.
He also believed that bathrooms were "self cleaning".

My dh - really super brainy at all things science and engineering - followed a recipe for a chesse sauce, and asked me how long it I would expect it to take for the cheese to melt. He had added it in one lump. Surface area FFS.

i am now worried he will never get a woman and will never leave home