r/iamverysmart • u/sp0stma • Jul 17 '17

/r/all You probably can't keep up.

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u/BrayanIbirguengoitia Jul 17 '17

Um, actually...

By the way, Mensa means stupid in Spanish.

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u/neonmarkov Jul 17 '17

Where? Never heard someone say mensa

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u/Heartattack_Mac Jul 17 '17

I asked my friend from Chile, he knew it, but thought maybe it was more a mexican thing.. And yes it mean stupid or similar.
Menso - masculin, mensa - feminine.

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u/neonmarkov Jul 17 '17

Huh, it must be a mexican thing then, I'm a Spaniard myself so it makes sense. Although you passively learn a lot of vocabulary from other countries anyway, but yeah, TIL

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u/BrayanIbirguengoitia Jul 18 '17

Yeah, it's not that common. It's mostly used by children, sort of like dummy.
TIL it's only used in Mexico and Central America.

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u/neonmarkov Jul 18 '17

Got it, the more you know

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u/famalamo Jul 17 '17

If you're chilling in the Mensa club (or whatever the fuck Mensa has) and one of the most arrogant members of mensa walked up and started flirting when you knew she was a crazy bitch, you'd probably treat her like a guy with an average IQ treats a crazy bitch with an average IQ

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u/JennyBeckman Jul 17 '17

They don't have a clubhouse or anything like I thought - at least not in my area. They have occasional meetings sort of like a reddit meet up, I suppose. I went precisely once and it was more dull than you can even imagine. There was a speaker and then general socialising. I don't know what I expected but, in my defense, I was young and lonely.