Some people mistake knowledge for intelligence
many also mistake arrogance for confidence
Best line (quote?) I’ve read in a while. Well done sir.
Oh come on, a dude who makes this post definitely has not bothered to read any of the above.
A person can be highly inteligent and still be clueless for human interaction. But being well spoken, well read, attentative and polite usually indicates someone is well adjusted towards others.
Cellini so important that it’s listed twice.
Cellini so important I never heard of it in my life.
Pathetic. I don’t even talk to people who haven’t read Cellini’s complete works at least thrice.
Only thrice! Percieve the barbarian. Ho ho ho.
My guy hasn’t even read his own list.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: don’t be like this guy
Bare minimum to enjoy a beer around a campfire: ACDC, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, White Stripes, Dire Straits, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Kenny Loggings, Gorillaz, Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Bon Jovi, R.E.M, Bonnie Tyler, Eminem, 50, System of a Down, Rage against the Machine, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Papa Roach, Tenacious D, Dorothy, Floggin Molly, The Subways, Bush, Disturbed, Wolfmother, Guns and Roses, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Armand van Helden, Die Antwoord, Billy Idol, Fleetwood Mac, Ram Jam, Eagels of Death Metal, deadmau5, Foreigner, Daniel Norgen, The Weekend, Cari Cari, Shakira, Cher, Gaga, Rihanna, Michael, Prince
Name 5 songs
thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Twinkle twinkle little star
Itsy bitsy spider
Mary had a little lamb
Jack and Jill
Row, row, row your boat
black betty
How did Hendrix and The Hu not make the list?
Uh huh. Uh, yeah. Oh, I recognize some of these!
Why Cellini twice? Also, this guy sounds like a real douche canoe
Cellini underwent mitosisini.
You wrote Cellini twice, idiot.
That’s a literary technique called “anaphora”, or in layman terms, “repeating shit”, it’s a highly advanced technique used to emphasize the importance of something, his use of it is actually a demonstration of how much of a big brain smart boy he is
/j
We like Cellini.
Charming…
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Cézanne, Renoire, Rembrandt, van Eyck, David, Vermeer, Fragonard, Turner, Courbet, Matisse, Kahlo, Picasso, Basquiat, Richter
hey look, i can gatekeep my special interest, too! 🤦
No van Gogh? Fucking casual.
/s
I’m sorry do we have medieval Italian political satirists on the table for basic conversion? the crazy thing is, I’ve read books by all the individuals mentioned, and most of it is very old, and very specific to it’s time, and largely entertainment. this is like someone 500 years from now saying they can’t hold a conversation with someone if they don’t have a deep familiaity with the deeper meanings of The Simpsons and Family Guy and how they impacted society.
Meanwhile, I imagine the actual historians and scholars who study and teach of the classical world professionally rarely feel the need to drop lists like this.
Real historians will be busy out-drinking you
“Not this shit again”
Minimum women authors/thinkers required to be familiar with: 0.
Cool for him that he has a special interest
Making lists
Cellining it twice
I used to have a friend like this. He was always acting like a condescending prick to everyone for not knowing as much about his favorite books.
I don’t talk to him any more.
I had a friend like this, too. I have a memory of him saying “uncultured swine” because I enjoyed Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and thought six hours of the Godfather sounded awful.
That was highschool, though. He turned around over the next few years; now we’re thirty and I happily see him every week because he’s our DM. I’m not saying you were wrong to stop talking to that dude, not at all you gotta set boundaries, just wanted to say that there is at least one example of growth!
That hits very close to home.
Unfortunately my friendship with said person ended up blowing up, because he had never had that period of self reflection and course correction.
I’m glad it worked out for you and your friend though.
Wild that hitchikers guide would be considered uncultured
This is the douche character in Good Will Hunting.
Compleete side track. I have met a lot of people with “advanced” degrees who were total idiots. Guy/girl/whatever, doesn’t matter. And advanced degree means you have a peice of paper. And that just means you convinced a few people at so,e point that you knew something about a very specific topic “usually”. I knew calculus at one point. I don’t know any of it now.
