Boris is probably a good example of someone educated past their brain’s potential.Here's a quiz question. Can you have an intelligent moron? (Asking for a friend called Delaney).
@Prestwich_Blue raises an excellent question. Can intelligent people do/think/say stupid things consistently and yet remain fundamentally intelligent?Here's a quiz question. Can you have an intelligent moron? (Asking for a friend called Delaney).
I would add to that surgeons.@Prestwich_Blue raises an excellent question. Can intelligent people do/think/say stupid things consistently and yet remain fundamentally intelligent?
The answer lies in the words of Mr Knightley, Jane Austen’s moral-arbiter hero of her 1816 novel ‘Emma’, when he asks the eponymous heroine, an intelligent character prone to consistently stupid acts/thoughts/words:
'Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.' [italics mine]
The lesson of ‘Emma’ is that people can change for the better under kind and patient support. As Delaney appears to require neither, I fear his errors will repeat themselves indefinitely.
You can have an educated moron. I deal with them on a daily basis.Here's a quiz question. Can you have an intelligent moron? (Asking for a friend called Delaney).
I dunno what that means, but don't get me involved in your lovers tiff with Moustache Alan.FFS. do you not know what 'between me and you' means and I dont mean in the @BlueMoonRisin’ @snorky sense either where the answer is nothing.
Dominic Raab being a prime example, Grant Schapps, Chris Grayling and one or two others spring to mind.You can have an educated moron. I deal with them on a daily basis.
Little faith? Little bloody faith? I used to start every season full of confidence that we'd win both cups and the Premier League or old First Division. Even when we weren't in it!!Oh ye of little faith
I concur having spent most of my working life dealing with surgeons. The best example came with former Wales rugby star and now retired orthopaedic surgeon J.P.R. Williams. I once hosted a dinner table full of eminent surgeons (and him) and he was an absolute embarrassment. Apart from being 'well refreshed' he chirped up in the conversation that in the US petrol prices couldn't be increased because it was prohibited by the Constitution. On the scale of fuckwittery that ranks alongside Trump's public statement that in the Revolutionary War George Washington seized the British airfields.I would add to that surgeons.
My missus worked in the heart department at Wythenshawe hospital. She always said that the top blokes there were so clever at what they did, so brilliant and yet they did not have a clue about every day life.
I'm talking about more mu dane things. They knew how to close an endoneocarthic endema but could not work the photocopier especially which way to put the paper.I concur having spent most of my working life dealing with surgeons. The best example came with former Wales rugby star and now retired orthopaedic surgeon J.P.R. Williams. I once hosted a dinner table full of eminent surgeons (and him) and he was an absolute embarrassment. Apart from being 'well refreshed' he chirped up in the conversation that in the US petrol prices couldn't be increased because it was prohibited by the Constitution. On the scale of fuckwittery that ranks alongside Trump's public statement that in the Revolutionary War George Washington seized the British airfields.