Poll: Are you Clever???

[interspark]

a recent thread claimed 75% of the escapist's users were "smart people" some may call that an over shoot, personally, i think there are more.

So by "clever" it means you casually use long words, make witty retorts and are generally a bit of a smart ass, get voting!

 

[Lukeje]

Why does being clever imply being a smartass?

 

[geldonyetich]

Clever enough to know that claiming my cleverness is, in itself, a sign of lacking cleverness.

A freshman knows nothing and claims to know nothing.
A sophomore knows barely anything and claims to know almost everything.
A senior knows something and claims to know barely anything.

Cleverness, if measured on this scale of absolute brilliant resolution of all situations, works on a similar mechanic. Simply in knowing this, I can acknowledge some true cleverness within myself while claiming little.

 

[Robert632]

From that criteria, yes. Though I'm not much of a judge on how witty my remarks are, I do use long words casually, and I am a smart ass.

 

[Prof.Wood]

Yes but my family are not, this means I get into alot of arguments about me being 'smug'.

 

[Marter]

I'm pretty clever. I'll phrase most of what I say pretty cleverly. I make people laugh quite a bit when I do it, so I do it often, as I like to see people laugh.

 

[EeveeElectro]

'Meh kinda'
If you wanna see stupid, I'll introduce you to my family.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Nope, you can easily see through my post.

I always make semi short posts because I cant think of anything clever. Plus I constantly misspell words

 

[manythings]

Witty and clever aren't necessarily a package deal. I can be clever but I can also be the very special kind of stupid smart people excel at. Any smart people will know exactly what I mean by that.

 

[Xeros]

Nope. I'm quite stupid, actually. Most of my so called cleverness is just stolen from other people, when it really comes down to it, I'm not a smart person. I'm not an idiot, per se, but I'm certainly at best average, and probably below average.

I'm gonna have to go with this. Particularly the second part. Almost all of my witty retorts are quoted from other people; And on the rare occasion I come up with a witty retort on my own, it's either a very bad pun, or too far after the fact to make any difference.

 

[neoontime]

No, because it wouldn't be very clever to reveal myself so easily.

 

[fenrizz]

Yes, I think I am.

But don't tell anyone!

 

[SextusMaximus]

In my school, I'm in the top set. I guess that's what you'd class as "clever" as in above average.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Normally I'd have said no, but by your description of "smart" I have to concede that I may be.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Everything is relative, if we're talking about accumulated knowledge then no, I'm a complete fuckwit in the grand scheme of things.

But in a general sense, meh.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I get pretty high grades in my classes at school, so I guess I am. I don't show it much socially though, mainly due to the Jante Law that fenrizz just linked.

EDIT: Added the vital words "grades" to the post. Didn't think of that when I wrote it.

 

[Kurokami]

a recent thread claimed 75% of the escapist's users were "smart people" some may call that an over shoot, personally, i think there are more.

So by "clever" it means you casually use long words, make witty retorts and are generally a bit of a smart ass, get voting!

Its me, I'm not academically smart though, too lazy.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I used to be a very clever card shark, but the police dealt with me.

Ack... STOP!

Erm, no I am not clever.

 

[Totenkopf]

No, not really. I know some things, but that doesn't make me clever.

 

[rekabdarb]

Define clever...