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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3276121, member: 2844&quot;]The &#039;smartest region of the world&#039; is never voted by Mensa. Mensa is a niche club of people who generally have only one little thing in common. That is not enough for most people who would be eligible for membership, and a good reason why they don&#039;t apply for it anyway.</p><p>The only member of my family who was a member of Mensa decided after one year that it was totally useless and warned the rest of us against applying for membership. I was asked decades ago, when I still had a functioning brain, but decided even then that it wasn&#039;t for me. I&#039;d rather be here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was of course the international &#039;Intelligent Community Forum&#039; who voted the smartest region, as it always is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think they even know where we are.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Having been a member of Mensa, or been asked to be, can go together with being the salt-of-the-earth types who have lived a life.</p><p>My niece who was a member of Mensa (by mistake <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" />), worked hard in a regular bar until covid put an end to the hospitality industry, and she has a lot of creative sidelines which keep her afloat during the crisis.</p><p>I have certainly led a life, as have most intelligent people I know.</p><p>I have also been accused by &#039;salt-of-the-earth&#039; people of having no feelings because I have a high IQ and &#039;talk posh&#039; (in Dutch). They also assumed my life is a bed of roses, which it isn&#039;t.</p><p>Just because I am different, those same &#039;salt-of-the-earth&#039; people thought I could be their punching bag. I have feelings, and I have had a difficult life, but have always made the best of it. If I smile, it is not because I have no idea what life is like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, members of &#039;the intelligentsia&#039; have never told me I have no feelings or objected to the way I speak, or assumed stupid things like that I &#039;hadn&#039;t lived a life&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apologies for the rant, but I have heard that &#039;salt-of-the-earth people&#039; who &#039;have lived a life&#039;, as opposed to underlings like myself cliché all my life, and I am sick and tired of that kind of snobbery.</p><p>As I said before, being intelligent and &#039;having lived a life&#039; etc can go together and often do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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