@awk that’s what i always think about when i see this question posed to people. we’re looking at it from the standpoint of losing our intelligence, but if you’re stupid, you don’t know any better. i mean, ignorance is bliss right?
@mfladd@shahnm She’s with Jason Sudeikis now (I think) so I’d rather be decent-enough looking and funny. Which my wife claims I am, and I believe she’s out of my league.
@ACraigL word to this! Being funny is clutch. Not that I would know, but I see funny guys getting gals out of their league all the time. I wish I was funny.
@DaveInSoCal One of my clients is a breeder of these little guys. They are like little puppies; spry and playful. She keeps her favorite one in her house.
@DaveInSoCal@ruouttaurmind I want one! I’ve been horse crazy since the womb but can’t afford the feeding and space for a horse. This guy looks manageable. Wonder how he’d get along with my megacanines?
@moondrake minis have the attitude of full sized horses. Some are sweet, some are little fucking devils. All about how you care for them. I’d bet if they were raised with dogs, it would be ok.
They are lovely little things, but still not cheap to care for. Fun to have them drive a cart.
@PolkSaladAnnie@ruouttaurmind@Seeds I used to take care of 17 full sized horses (although admittedly only two were in paddocks small enough to need mucking). The poop from one teeny horse doesn’t phase me.
@moondrake@ruouttaurmind@Seeds If we get tiny horses, I’m implementing Stark rules. "You’ll train them yourselves, you’ll feed them yourselves and if they die, you’ll bury them yourselves.”
@PolkSaladAnnie@ruouttaurmind@Seeds I get my dogs cremated, they are too big to bury. It would be like burying a human. This soil is far too rocky to dig deep enough. We were trying to plant a baby tree in my back yard, and trying to dig a 2’ x2’ x2’ hole for it yielded enough fist and head sized rocks to build it an almost knee high fence. According to the internet mini horses weigh about 200lbs, which is not much more than my dogs (Simba weighed 165 in his prime).
@moondrake@PolkSaladAnnie@ruouttaurmind You in the northeast too? Burying my dogs just after high school was work, but ultimately cathartic. Took all day to dig each hole.
I piled all the rocks on top as a marker and to hopefully deter scavengers.
@Seeds No, desert southwest, on the slope of a mountain. All the houses have rock walls here as the terrain is sand and rock. Quite a few houses are made of rock, like this one a few blocks away.
@moondrake Do you know if that’s actual stone construction, or a stone facade? If actual stone, I bet that’s a huge help in the summer. I used to live in a adobe house and the insulating properties of the adobe were phenomenal.
I would like to have a stone house. Or at least slump block adobe.
@ruouttaurmind It’s actual stone. These stone houses are mostly at least 75 years old. Stone’s too labor intensive in the age of prefab construction. My house is 106 now and the original front part of the house is 18" thick century old adobe. The addition that includes my bedroom is 50 year old stucco.
Always more INT. Everybody knows CHR is good for, at best, what, maybe an extra dialog option or marginally better haggling? What you need to be worried about is devices and fireballs.
@katylava I know. I’m not going to get into why I think most libertarians would lose out if they had their way since we both know we’re not changing each other’s minds.
Fact is if more people voted for one of the two main parties, we wouldn’t have Trump right now.
I am ugly and smart - “pre-genius” as my testing showed - but the older I get, the more I realize that stupid people are happy because they’re too stupid to know any better, and smart people are miserable because the stupid people keep doing stupid stuff.
I think it’s much easier to use your beauty to your advantage if you’re a woman. While attractive people are definitely treated better than ugly people, a beautiful woman can ride those looks pretty damn far. As for me, I’d consider myself both reasonably attractive (your call - see the Show Yourselves thread) and smarter than average. But I guess I never really learned to take advantage of those attributes to become incredibly successful or land a model. I guess it depends on exactly what level of success you’re aiming for. Stupid and beautiful often gives you the easier path while smart and ugly may result in better long term results.
@mike808 …for the love of GOD… why would you even want to have your head in that area to start with???
(even weirder that is seems that she is saying “poo” and smiling…)
I am ugly and smart. It works.
My momma says I’m handsome and smart.
The irony of this poll being on National Common Courtesy Day…
It’s easier to be happy if you’re stupid.
@awk sadly true.
@awk
/image flowers for algernon
@awk So, knowing that. Would you be willing to give up some of what you know in order to be happier?
@awk @jmruru Do I get to pick? Because there’s a lot of shit I know that not knowing would definitely increase my happiness. Ignorance is bliss.
@awk that’s what i always think about when i see this question posed to people. we’re looking at it from the standpoint of losing our intelligence, but if you’re stupid, you don’t know any better. i mean, ignorance is bliss right?
@awk …and beautiful.
If you’re smart enough to be rich, you can be butt-ugly and still date the beautiful and stupid.
/giphy win win
@shahnm This message is Salman Rushdie approved
(note: I don’t know if Olivia Wilde is stoopid - just way out of his league w/o money)
@mfladd Dude had a fatwa out on him too. He must be seriously hung.
@shahnm - That’s not her purse she’s holding!
@mfladd @shahnm She’s with Jason Sudeikis now (I think) so I’d rather be decent-enough looking and funny. Which my wife claims I am, and I believe she’s out of my league.
@ACraigL word to this! Being funny is clutch. Not that I would know, but I see funny guys getting gals out of their league all the time. I wish I was funny.
I’m beautiful & stoopid.
I’d rather be a Pepper, too.
I yam what I yam.
In not answering the question…
@PlacidPenguin i didnt watch the videos i just played them all at once to be anoying
@DaGbear5
Speaking of which…
@narfcake - You went into that thread, even though you were explicitly told that it was not for you.
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy do not push the button
I’ll admit I didn’t expect “A horse-sized duck” to be in the lead.
@TheFLP Wait… horse sized duck? Damn. I read that one all wrong. I thought it said “have a…” uh, nvm.
@ruouttaurmind @TheFLP
Duck sized horse?
@TheFLP 100 duck sized horses
100 duck-sized horses.
@DaveInSoCal One of my clients is a breeder of these little guys. They are like little puppies; spry and playful. She keeps her favorite one in her house.
@ruouttaurmind welp… I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or not. If they’re real I hope one of them is named Lil’ Sebastian.
@DaveInSoCal @ruouttaurmind Now I wanna be a duck-sized horse. Um, and smart.
@DaveInSoCal Yup, it’s a real deal alrighty. Check out the American Minature Horse Association.
@DaveInSoCal @ruouttaurmind I want one! I’ve been horse crazy since the womb but can’t afford the feeding and space for a horse. This guy looks manageable. Wonder how he’d get along with my megacanines?
@moondrake minis have the attitude of full sized horses. Some are sweet, some are little fucking devils. All about how you care for them. I’d bet if they were raised with dogs, it would be ok.
They are lovely little things, but still not cheap to care for. Fun to have them drive a cart.
@moondrake
@ruouttaurmind How much do they go for?
edit: @polksaladannie just pointed out the poop. I don’t want one anymore.
@PolkSaladAnnie @ruouttaurmind @Seeds I used to take care of 17 full sized horses (although admittedly only two were in paddocks small enough to need mucking). The poop from one teeny horse doesn’t phase me.
@Seeds https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Turtleback-School-Library-Binding/dp/0613685725
@moondrake @ruouttaurmind @Seeds If we get tiny horses, I’m implementing Stark rules. "You’ll train them yourselves, you’ll feed them yourselves and if they die, you’ll bury them yourselves.”
@ruouttaurmind wait… why is there an apple on the cover?
@PolkSaladAnnie you mean my rules for if you want a dog? :p
@PolkSaladAnnie @ruouttaurmind @Seeds I get my dogs cremated, they are too big to bury. It would be like burying a human. This soil is far too rocky to dig deep enough. We were trying to plant a baby tree in my back yard, and trying to dig a 2’ x2’ x2’ hole for it yielded enough fist and head sized rocks to build it an almost knee high fence. According to the internet mini horses weigh about 200lbs, which is not much more than my dogs (Simba weighed 165 in his prime).
@moondrake @PolkSaladAnnie @ruouttaurmind You in the northeast too? Burying my dogs just after high school was work, but ultimately cathartic. Took all day to dig each hole.
I piled all the rocks on top as a marker and to hopefully deter scavengers.
@Seeds No, desert southwest, on the slope of a mountain. All the houses have rock walls here as the terrain is sand and rock. Quite a few houses are made of rock, like this one a few blocks away.
@moondrake Do you know if that’s actual stone construction, or a stone facade? If actual stone, I bet that’s a huge help in the summer. I used to live in a adobe house and the insulating properties of the adobe were phenomenal.
I would like to have a stone house. Or at least slump block adobe.
@Seeds
Uh… because apples poo too?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know lots of people who say Apple is full of crap.
@moondrake Ok, you may actually have rockier soil than me. I had no idea that happened…
@ruouttaurmind It’s actual stone. These stone houses are mostly at least 75 years old. Stone’s too labor intensive in the age of prefab construction. My house is 106 now and the original front part of the house is 18" thick century old adobe. The addition that includes my bedroom is 50 year old stucco.
@PolkSaladAnnie @Seeds Yeah that’s what I got to at the end of the time the kids lived here… no pets I can bury with a posthole digger…!
@moondrake @ruouttaurmind you said stucco!
Yeah well my personal horse-sized-duck scores are higher than yours.
My mom says I’m the handsomest boy in school.
/image Millhouse
At this point it really doesn’t matter. Married for 11 years, been together for 16, have a kid, and a dad bod.
I’m happy, healthy, and content.
Just how beautiful and just how stupid are we talking here?
I’ve tried ugly and smart; beautiful and stupid looks a hell of a lot easier. And more fun.
Oh good, a dichotomy that has never existed.
Always more INT. Everybody knows CHR is good for, at best, what, maybe an extra dialog option or marginally better haggling? What you need to be worried about is devices and fireballs.
Smart, wealthy and happy. Good looks can only get you so far…
Oh, that reads “horsed-sized duck”. Well, I chose the wrong answer.
Well, let me think …Anna Nicole …Stephen Hawking…
@tngrannyd
Some people got both.
If you are smart and ugly, you can get rich and have plastic surgery. But beauty fades with time and there’s no fixing stupid.
@rockblossom Plastic surgery (at least, the purely cosmetic type) is stupid and ugly.
What about ugly and stupid? Apparently that can win you a presidency.
Though to be fair, that’s probably only true for men.
@katylava But… she lost…
@katylava yay for 3rd party voters/abstainers in the current system in a close race with one horrendous candidate.
@Seeds uh…
@katylava I know. I’m not going to get into why I think most libertarians would lose out if they had their way since we both know we’re not changing each other’s minds.
Fact is if more people voted for one of the two main parties, we wouldn’t have Trump right now.
@Seeds assuming they voted for H…
What, no “mediocre and mediocre” option? I thought this was Mediocre!
I am ugly and smart - “pre-genius” as my testing showed - but the older I get, the more I realize that stupid people are happy because they’re too stupid to know any better, and smart people are miserable because the stupid people keep doing stupid stuff.
@IWUJackson Bingo.
Ignorance really is bliss.
(at least, so it appears from my vantage point)
I’m beautiful on the inside?
@RiotDemon
@ELUNO stark has enough money to make both happen.
@ELUNO well you are rather cute.
@CaptAmehrican whaaaaat??
I assumed horse-sized duck was an anagram for something in the question and picked it without really looking.
@Seeds horde sized suck.
@RiotDemon I’m not sure what that means, but I think I’d rather have the giant duck. Especially if I can fly around on its back.
I think it’s much easier to use your beauty to your advantage if you’re a woman. While attractive people are definitely treated better than ugly people, a beautiful woman can ride those looks pretty damn far. As for me, I’d consider myself both reasonably attractive (your call - see the Show Yourselves thread) and smarter than average. But I guess I never really learned to take advantage of those attributes to become incredibly successful or land a model. I guess it depends on exactly what level of success you’re aiming for. Stupid and beautiful often gives you the easier path while smart and ugly may result in better long term results.
I picked ugly and smart because that way I don’t have to change.
/giphy horse-sized duck
I figure I am about the 75% looks and 80% intellectually. If either was closer to 100 it would be easier.
Go with what you know.
Smart. All day, every day.
Beauty has a shelf life.
A conundrum.
@mike808 …for the love of GOD… why would you even want to have your head in that area to start with???
(even weirder that is seems that she is saying “poo” and smiling…)
@chienfou @mike808 this is a good question. I’d be afraid of getting stepped on or having my neck broken.
@chienfou @RiotDemon
Hence the conundrum.
Ugly/smart or pretty/dumb?
@mike808 @RiotDemon Oh… duh… guess that tell’s you which category I should belong in!
@chienfou beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
@RiotDemon Oh, my bad, I thought it was Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder…