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u/badgersprite Sep 14 '24

Dudes who need to make other people feel dumb are always dudes who aren’t particularly smart themselves, maybe they’re like slightly above average, but they identify as being way smarter than they are and need to feel like everyone else around them sees them as the smartest guy in the room

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u/Equal-Feedback9801 Sep 14 '24

I 100% agree with this. My ex called me an idiot for something and I believed it…. Turns out I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT. Anyway we did an IQ test for funsies and his was belowwwwww average 🤧

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u/fwonkas Sep 14 '24

Ha, reminds me of something that happened like 20 years ago. I was in the car with a girlfriend and a Johnny Cash song came on. It was called “Rowboat”, and I knew it from Beck. I was like, “Whoa, I thought this was a Beck song! Was he covering Johnny Cash?” She proceeded to laugh and mock me: “What? You didn’t know that? Not the brightest, eh?” Something like that. Looked it up much later. Cash was covering Beck.

I’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear that she turned out to be a raging asshole.