Smart, that is

I don't meet the qualifications, damn.

get a life

check "liberals" thread to see how "roasts" work... damn diplomat

We really need Dean Martin to have a roast.

I have a life; I'm just not using it.

Jeffery Ross is the new Dean Martin when it comes to roasting - he is freaking brutal!

He's good, but you've never seen anything by Dean Martin ever if you think he's the new Dean Martin.

I do like him, but he is no Dino at all.

I'm smart - roast me on ummmm ... lets see ... quantum electrodynamics. Go ahead, this will be hilarious, I'm sure

well by "new Dean Martin" I meant still alive and almost as funny ... how's that for backpedalling? Actually you're right, I've never actually seen one of the old school roasts with Dean Martin.

I'd rather do it on branes in M-theory

I can throw out key jargon that makes me look like I'm intelligent except in all likelihood I don't know too much more than the jargon!

HERMENEUTICS!

Hitler and Nazis... there I said it. Godwin rules!

Chrispminis - that's the idea - just waiting to be roasted on some topic that pops up when you google "what smart people know". Centurian is slacking though, he hasn't roasted anyone yet. I'm starting to think it was just a thread to make fun of the "liberal" thread.

Well there seems to be more liberals on this site then smart people... *zing!*

Your right that I posted it in satire of the liberal thread. But if you like I can attack rational argument with adhominem arguments and back it up with a fundamental untouchable belief system. Also, I will call people names if they disagree with me too much. If only I had some sort of blog that I could reference... perhaps one that will prove to everyone that they are just pawns for the establishment. I will also claim that the mods are just agents from the matrix created to suppress the revolution (looking at you dangermouse). Surely I actually believe these things and am not just trying to provoke a reaction because I'm attention deprived.

And to keep it diplomacy related: Italy-Turkey is the best alliance ever. Yeah thats right, I said it. YOU HAVE BEEN ROASTED!

Centurian, SmartPeople have so many more skills than other people.

Like spelling 'Centurion' correctly, for example.

Smart People also rule most of the world.

Who, whoa, aaaand Smart People invented the Atomic Bomb. And they aren't even done yet...

racist

Friendly Sword... "Smart People also rule most of the world." Well... I take issue with that bit.......

Yeah, smart people are smart enough not to go into politics.

which is the problem with politics

Most of the problems could be solved with term limits, but guess who has to pass the laws to create term limits?

what do you mean by term limits?

Well, if I remember right you're foreign, but in the United States members of Congress often get effective life terms because if the very high reelection rate. There was a push to impose term limits 15 years ago or so, but the Supreme Court (many of whom, even WITH life terms serve for a less amount of time than a lot of Congressmen) said only a Constitutional amendment could impose them. And that's a whole lot harder to do, especially when everyone likes their own member of Congress but thinks the others are crooks.

Strom Thurmond used the Senate basically as a nursing home during his last term because he'd outlived most of his family and had come to depend on his staffers. Good deal for him, but that's not how the government ought to be run.

It's ridiculous stuff like that that keeps smart people out of politics.

When I say smart people rule the world, I'm not talking about politicians per se, especially not American ones... :P

Your ruling political elite doesn't have a particularly great rep in the rest of the world.

I'm a smart people! :)

You just disqualified yourself with that post.

@Invictus, good explanation of term limits and the arguments for them, but I have to admit I thought opening up with "Well, if I remember right you're foreign" was hilarious.

Not criticizing, but it's pretty funny to me when people say things like that, especially on the internet, and even more so at this site which is pretty international (Kestas is Australian if I recall). Wherever he is, he's probably not a foreigner. (Though I suppose from your perspective he is). Anyway I just thought it was a funny choice of words, not necessarily inaccurate, just funny.

Looking at it I see what you mean. I just meant he wouldn't necessarily understand the issue in America off hand.

He could call me foreign too. It's all subjective.

Oh it absolutely is subjective, as I said it wasn't necessarily inaccurate, just not the way I would have phrased it, and I just thought it was kind of funny.