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ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

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Chaga · Kiwi Wannabe

“This explains why every parent thinks their child is the smartest kid in class or the best athlete, even if that child is as dumb as a box of rocks or needs a calendar to time their forty-yard dash. People who before were intelligent and open-minded turn into raving lunatics who want to blame a teacher or coach every time their mediocre child fails,”

, I like the comparison.

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

OK, I'll bite.

Why didn't they test the IQ of those who hadn't had kids as a 'control'?
You know, like when you're testing the quality of packaging you throw an unpackaged TV out out of a van travelling at 50mph to see how much damage it incurs before throwing out the ones packed in different wrappings to see how protective they are?
Their IQ might have dropped too.
Could be just the normal aging process.

Phew that's quite enough intelligent thinking for me for now. Back to my sickbed...

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

quote:

Originally posted by: Chaga
" “...as dumb as a box of rocks

... I like the comparison."

Hehehehe. I am that box of rocks!

VicM · Baaaaa. No, really - Just Baaaaa.

I liked the box of rocks one too - I'm gonna use that one tomorrow!!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Don't you sit next to a box of rocks, Vic? Mr 'You Gave Me Cake Wallpaper And I'm Gonna Cry'?

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

Obviously a private joke.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

quote:
Originally posted by: Susan
"OK, I'll bite. Why didn't they test the IQ of those who hadn't had kids as a 'control'?You know, like when you're testing the quality of packaging you throw an unpackaged TV out out of a van travelling at 50mph to see how much damage it incurs before throwing out the ones packed in different wrappings to see how protective they are? Their IQ might have dropped too. Could be just the normal aging process. Phew that's quite enough intelligent thinking for me for now. Back to my sickbed... "

Because my dear Suey - I think its taken as a given that those without kids will have reasonably high IQ's due to the fact that they didnt decided to start having kids - I personally did the Math and decided I didnt want to blow £100k of my hard earned on some little basket who will just give me cheek for 16 years then quit college and nick off round the world...... -

are you feeling better today?

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

I can't find a counter argument. Stead, you win.

I think my fighting spirit seems to have gone missing...

Apart from that I am feeling considerably better today, thanks for asking mate.

-- Edited by Susan at 10:33, 2004-09-07

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Heh heh heh. I've decided that the UA chat forums been a bit too quiet this week, so I've posted the IQ thing on there in order to stimulate some discussion!

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

I have met people far dumber than a box of rocks, you can learn a lot from a box of rocks.

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

Like, how to live in harmony with one another until some bugger comes and shakes you around and then all hell breaks loose?

VicM · Baaaaa. No, really - Just Baaaaa.

Fossils.

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Sedimentary structures

Isotopes

Crystal fractures

Shoul I shut up now?

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

No, please continue Sharon.

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Well what I really liked was paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Being somewhere cold & rainy & ucky (Britain!) & finding out from the rocks how much nicer it'd have been if you'd only got there a few million years earlier!