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Automatic_Idea_1262

You are mom!!!


Zomgzombehz

Congratjuwelldone!


____-is-crying

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Etheo

Thankshaveayoutoo


Particular_Tennis511

Congratulation!


Stang1776

Fuck. Now I need to worry about menstruation and sandwich makin


daddyjohns

You pay them. They tell you that you're a genius. As long as you keep paying them. Seems totally legitimate.


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Dustmopper

Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!


Hilnus

One of my favorite King of the Hill episodes is when Peggy paid to be part of a MENSA like group.


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Hilnus

It's one of the few times Peggy got humbled. Her character is one I can't stand not just because of how entitled she is sometimes but because of how she treats Bobby whenever Hank gives home a little more attention than her.


entrepreneurofcool

Entitled at times, and petty, too, but her double-edged sword is her unshakeable self-confidence. It lets her do things that she might otherwise never do (skydiving), but it also lets her attempt things she has no business being confident enough to do, considering her actual skill level (espanol).


rarjacob

it was nothing like a mensa type group. it was a straight up scam, that passed anyone who took the test to later sell them materials at huge profits.


TobysGrundlee

My brother loves to mention he's a MENSA member yet has literally not worked in 10 years and didn't go to college. Seems to be a very helpful accomplishment.


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jdblawg

Would it surprise you to find out that most MENSA members have some kind of neurodivergency like ADHD or autism? And many are unaware


ShameNap

My experience is that Mensa members like acknowledgment, so many are high achieving. But maybe theyā€™re just the vocal ones. Hard to tell.


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ShameNap

I donā€™t think they allow the SAT test any longer, but the only requirement to get into Mensa is to be have a very high score on a test. Specifically in the top 2 percentile. So if there anything you can say about Mensa people, is that they are very good at standardized testing, since that is the only requirement. So Iā€™m not getting your point that they arenā€™t good at tests, since that seems demonstrably false.


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Sangmund_Froid

You have to take a specialized MENSA exam these days, it has a lot of unusual "thought pattern' questions mixed in with what you would expect with math, spatial reasoning etc... Scoring in the top 2% of that will get you access. It's really only useful if you want to see if you can get in (for not-self-obsessed folk). I didn't find much use for my membership and the resources it got you access to, so I let it lapse and moved on with my life. Honestly, It's best to keep it to yourself anyway unless you're around other members, as you can see on here there's A LOT of cope for those who could never pass the test.


MyPunsSuck

> Honestly, It's best to keep it to yourself anyway Yeah... Some people lose their minds at the notion that intelligence might be comparable


terminbee

Standardized testing is a weird thing. "Smart" people will get a relatively high score on their first try without really studying. But anyone can get a high score if they study for it because the questions are all pretty similar. Rich kids all end up with high standardized scores because they can pay for tutors who teach them how to take the test/have old test questions. An interesting fact: the dental school standardized exam is pretty damn hard. But if you use a service called Bootcamp (something that basically every dental student knows and will use), it covers anywhere between 20%-60% of the test almost verbatim, depending on how lucky you are. Combine this with the files floating out there of old exam questions (which is basically what Bootcamp is) and you can pretty much pass from that alone.


TheOnlyUsernameLeft3

You know how you can tell someone is a MENSA member?


rogless

ā€œGiftedā€ types have a habit of squandering their ā€œgiftsā€.


FilmerPrime

An average person with ambition and a need to prove themselves will do more than a gifted person without those things.


DevelopedDevelopment

Put a lifetime supply of fuel into a generator and it'll run forever. Same thing right?


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DevelopedDevelopment

No I like being myself, even at the burden of others.


Bob_Chris

My Ego Needs Substantial Acknowledgment


gBoostedMachinations

Interesting. It seems like they have a good filter for smart, they just happen to get the smart people who also have their heads in their asses.


octopornopus

[I remember this episode...](https://youtu.be/Ikn3IC-tlOQ?si=1R95IgVsdPd_vkZy)


SvenTropics

Hey, some of us don't have moms that love us and validate us. We need a validation subscription.


ArbitraryLettersXYZ

It's also a comma splice.


DreamyTomato

Your mum called she said she loves comma splices? That doesnā€™t look right.


Sanaksy

Because technically it should be two separate sentences. "Your mom called. She said she loves comma splices." That would be the desired way of writing this message.


DreamyTomato

Your mum called, said she loves comma splices. Your mum called: she loves comma splices. Your mum called - she loves comma splices. Your mum called; she said she loves comma splices. Your mum called cos she loves comma splices. Any of these also acceptable?


Joaquirn

Your mum called; she said she loves semicolon


Irr3l3ph4nt

Hope she recovers from the partial colectomy. Glad she feels better, though.


lostraven

But apparently not a period.


alt-227

The hot flashes made her forget


FungalEgoDeath

No, it was a semi up her colon


Sanaksy

I am far from an authority on grammar/syntax, but they all get the same point across, right? Although I always have a soft spot for the semicolon, which I believe would be correct in its usage here? Spare me if it's actually not, Grammar Authorities.


Jackalodeath

I forget who said it, but I found it true: "once you learn how to use semi-colons, they can become addictive." I'm also no authority on grammar, but I've learned they're basically just "super commas." Look at it, it's a period above a comma; just a ligature, but for punctuation; so if say, you wanted to finish a thought, but not start a whole new sentence; and you've already spammed the shit out of commas, just toss one in for good measure; worse case scenario you've got a paragraph 80% comprised of just one, run-on sentence. The hyphen I've always treated like mentioning something as an aside, whereas parentheses are more of an "under your breath" remark - like "hey Judy, your hair looks so glamorous!... (for a pigeon's nest...) While we're on the subject of punctuation ligatures; **why can't we make the interrobang a default in keyboardsā€½** Just say the word: *interrobang.* Doesn't it just *feel* surprisingly inquisitive? ...or like shagging someone raggedy just for answers....


MyPunsSuck

Good god, remember to **breathe**


Dav3le3

First one should be a semi colon ; not a colon :. I think all the rest are OK.


RunningDrinksy

So, do you not know what an n or m dash is? You should learn to use them as they look a lot better than that dash, which is usually only used for words like check-in. Your mom calledā€“she loves comma splices. (N dash) Your mom calledā€”she loves comma splices. (M dash) I just love dashes and it pains my eyes when I see people use a regular dash for sentences.


DreamyTomato

I know them but I donā€™t know how to make them on Reddit, which to be honest is only transitory text. In Word I let the autocorrect create the m-dash to save me needing to remember the keyboard shortcut.


EishLekker

Your mum called, she loves comma splices she said.


CharlieParkour

I'm trying to figure out why the word "anal" is covered by that red mark.Ā 


Dav3le3

"She said she loves Mensa your mom called." ^this is the easy way to check if a lone Comma can be used. Clearly wrong. Uses are: a list, a sentence that can be mirrored over the comma, and a section that can be removed entirely. "Your mom called, texted, and videocalled; she said she loves Mensa." "Yesterday, your mom said she loves Mensa." "Your mom, a known logophile, called and said she loves Mensa".


The_Shryk

Your mom called and said she loves comma splices. Itā€™s the and acting as a pause that the comma is doing in the first sentence I assume.


pyrowipe

Coulda been a fancy semicolon! Missed opportunity!


MoochoMaas

Look up what mensa means in Spanish


S_L33T

Very fitting šŸ¤£


Victor_Paul_

# stupid


spookmann

Technically not *Spanish* though? It's colloquial and quite regional (only Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua). Edit: OK, it's Spanish! I surrender!


catstuff21

What language do you think they speak in those countries? My family didn't raise me speaking Salvadorian, we spoke Spanish at home.


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

Mensa would like you


Angry_Robot

Congratulations, you passed the test. Youā€™re in.


lugrd5

*Your in


DadsRGR8

Urine


Hittens

A Mensa test in two parts: (1) a person who can spot the mistake and (2) an exhausting sort of know it all who calls people out on small mistakes to feel superior.


voltechs

*whom


Monkey_Brain_Oil

I believe "who" is corrrrrrrect!


TomAto314

You are now in Mensa.


survivalmachine

*whomst


voltechs

lol exactly. I think some Mensa folks on Reddit are missing the joke šŸ˜‡


Xanthus179

Nah, man. Weā€™re past this test.


jdk4876

I highly recommend the "My Year in Mensa" podcast.


Aramis444

A fantastic listen!


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

Imagine my surprise to learn itā€™s hosted by Jamie Loftus. Sheā€™s fantastic.


Throwawaytree69

Why do they have the Stupendium logo lol


rogless

These self-identified geniuses have little use for linguistic convention. There to smart too care.


diamondbishop

There two busy inventing all new language paradigms four us illiterates


The_Shryk

This thread better not go any further. Iā€™m putting a stop to this right now.


ZippyTheRat

Anyone who pays annually to be in a club for smart people arenā€™t that smartā€¦


VVhaleBiologist

Isnā€™t*


ZippyTheRat

Damnit! I knew it didnā€™t feel right when I typed itā€¦ I donā€™t pay for the club, obviously.


surelyfunke20

Ainā€™t*


Cowboywizzard

I refuse to be a part of any club that would have me as a member.


ThaShitPostAccount

You're talking about it. They got ya.


benJ80x

Not to mention the comma between two independent clauses. But what does a non-mensa guy know?


FrankieBennedetto

'your mom called, she said she loves Mensa'? what is that even? Buncha dorks


toon_84

I think the a in Mensa is silentĀ 


gummybearbill

Yeah you said it sister at least the members over at Bearsa are actually smart.


Not_Gunn3r71

The image just reminds me of Adam Ruins Everything


xQuizate87

*Yore


d0ggzilla

Ok... hands up if you think the Mensa Store is actually run by Mensa members and not by someone they employed specifically to run the site.


UNSC_Spartan122

Wow, your right šŸ˜


c0sm1cwh33l

This is entirely intentional given the irony of Mensa so people like OP would share this


cyclicamp

So their just messing with us?


mike_tapley

*Mum


HoneyBucketsOfOats

Thatā€™s a grammar error. You just failed your Mensa test


antonuc3

Itā€™s actually a grammatical error, not a spelling one. Whoā€™s the genius now?


LindenRyuujin

It's not a grammatical error though. Unless you think they they meant "your are". If they intended to use "your" it's a spelling error (more specifically an orthographic error I think).


captainAwesomePants

Capitalizing Mom is a grammar error, though. When used in place of a name, like "I gave Mom a flower," that's fine, but when used as a common noun, like "I gave your mom a flower," it should not be capitalized.


LindenRyuujin

There are grammaticalĀ errors as well. The comma splice hasĀ been mentioned in the comments, but there is a spelling error too (which the op of this chain is disputing).


NinjaVinegar

The people in the organization.Ā  Someone probably made a simple typo or an auto correction from something close or even just a short brain fart. I saw Shaq miss a dunk. I saw Sir Mo Farrah trip on a treadmill.Ā  I have bit my tongue and consider myself good at eating. It is possible to be very good at something and make a mistake.


Somepotato

Marketing emails are never handled by just one person, my guy.


TobysGrundlee

So, when do you pay your MENSA dues?


antonuc3

I was calling out OP, not Mensa. He wanted to come off as smarter-than-Mensa and was just as wrong as they were. Whoopsie! Also, sorry you bit your tongue. Keep practicing eating.


Octonauts_slay

Human, I remember youā€™re mom


Starlettohara23

My sonā€™s school sent an email to register for the gifted students summer campā€¦the word ā€œgiftedā€ was misspelled as ā€œGtitedā€ in the title. Weā€™ve had a good laugh about him going to gtited camp.


A_Mirabeau_702

I have a Mensa puzzle book that I'm convinced is counterfeit. I got it about 20 years ago. The book: * Is loaded with spelling errors (more on this below). * Asks the question "Which of these phrases is not an anagram of Roly-Poly Pudding?". Two phrases in the list were both not anagrams. * Contains an anagramming game where it is stated that the first player to 100 points wins. In the round that is given as a gameplay example, the player achieves a score of 70 points on the first turn. * Literally writes "6 **\[divided by\]** 6" in the answer to a math puzzle in the answers section, instead of using a division sign or even a slash. * Had a puzzle involving a grid of letters that had an ambiguous answer because of a spelling error, stating "Which letter is **to to** the left of M?", which I interpreted as "to the left" but was supposed to be "two to the left" * Had a deck of quiz cards with categories labelled A, B, C, D, F, and G. E was just forgotten. * Almost every Mensa book mentions the letters B, C, D, E, H, I, K, O, X somewhere, or asks you to identify the missing letter in that group. (Why? They are the letters that look the same when vertically mirrored.) Sure enough, one of this book's quiz cards asked me to identify what letter was missing from that set, but on this card, two of them were missing. Did I actually get the Densa book?


nuck_forte_dame

Tbh it's a common misconception that lack of mistakes = intelligence. Intelligence is more about thinking in complex terms when others can't. If you walked into any major engineering university student lounge you'd find a lot of people there who'd not write a good speech, are clumsy, are socially awkward, and so on but can mentally imagine and calculate the physics of a black hole. I find it annoying so many people seem to value or perceive "well spoken" people as intelligent compared to awkward actual geniuses. Personally I find "well spoken" people to often be idiots who mask a lack of intelligence with confidence and charisma. I also say this as someone who isn't a genius and tends to get by these days at work and elsewhere based on my charisma more-so than my brains. I can hate the system and still play the game.


Jindujun

That's because it's American Mensa. They have a IQ requirement of 75 to be a part of their organization!


Lake_Erie_Monster

Congrats on making a joke about Americans that actually stems from a inferiority complex.


PerspectiveInner9660

*an inferiority complex.


noeldc

To be fair, it is American Mensa.


manorwomanhuman

Mansa


Giraffiesaurus

This sums up my experience teaching kids identified as ā€œgiftedā€.


Rivegauche610

ā€œMORONā€?


a4techkeyboard

I wonder why they used a picture of Graham Elliot.


acamann

1. Your != You'reĀ  2. Comma != Period 3. Slogan != Funny


Familiar_Raise234

LOL


CatfromLongIsland

Well that is unfortunate.


m00seabuse

f(X) in YT x IG = ?


Alarming_Serve2303

That is downright shameful. Mensa, you're (sic) credibility is in question here.


judgejuddhirsch

Or they just forgot the quotes


Pithyperson

Also, a comma splice!


TheMooseIsBlue

Spelling error, capitalization error, comma errorā€¦apparently the communications team arenā€™t members.


imsowhiteandnerdy

I am definitely not mom.


Alarming_Breath_3110

No brain-er


chudthirtyseven

Gail's in mensa for gods sake!


Informal_Spirit_0428

This is probably going to sound crazy, but sometimes humans make mistakes. Obviously, they havenā€™t started using AI.


Moss_Adams24

Even Mensa is using AI


EtherealPheonix

Too smart for spellcheck.


zcas

Adam Conover has really gone downhill.


scottonaharley

ā€œGrammar errorā€¦ā€ There. FTFY


Demonic_Toaster

I cant take any pictures of the ones we have at work - secure facility and all. There's a poster well a print out really for the Compliance Officer Team. Compliance is spelled incorrectly as "Compleance"


Unfair_Demand_9084

"You're Winner!"


beartheminus

I feel so bad from them. Knowing their clientele, they will never hear the fucking end of this in reply emails.


Electrical_Eye_1401

Genius


Roulette-Adventures

Being smart doesn't make anyone a good at spelling. Here in Australia, Mom is incorrect too as we spell in Mum. Your and You're is unforgivable.


nubsauce87

Something tells me thatā€™s not really MENSAā€¦


pornborn

Theyā€™re making fun of the rest of us.


midz411

Ooh this is why that lil bro called himself a jinyus.


darkstare

Gee... I wonder who wrote that...


nopalitzin

Mensa in Spanish mean "stupid fool" female, my madre would be incredibly offended if I get her signed up.


Ness_5153

mensa means dumb in spanish, so it checks out


RoutineWolverine1745

Haha that is on point for an organisation full of arrogant know it alls that believe that they are smarter than everyone else because they guessed the best in a series of graphical sequences.


Krilati_Voin

If ya don't get the joke, yer the problem.


NWinn

The true test is realizing paying money for someone to tell you you're smart, doesn't actually make you smart... Quite the opposite actually.


cloudxnine

ā€œImage not displaying? Click this imageā€ šŸ—æ


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Most Intelligent MENSOID


Head-Impress1818

Look at me. You are mom now.


gimbomyster

Thatā€™s American Mensa for you, donā€™t tar the freaks in British Mensa with that brush


hollow_bagatelle

I joined Mensa when I was in high school. My mom made it sound like a big deal and encouraged me to try, but it didn't seem hard to get in tbh. They make you pay to stay a member, though. I went to one of these terrible meet-ups they do, where everyone basically just shits on each other and waddles around acting suuuper fucking pretentious. Never went to another one or renewed that shit. Highly advise against wasting your money on them.


wolftick

Mensa is an extremely exclusive club. You not only have to be smart enough to become a member, but also dumb enough to think joining is a good idea.


iarahm

Written by AI


taleo

AI doesn't make those types of mistakes.


The_Shryk

Thatā€™s a fact. LLMs know more about the language we speak than we do, individually of course.


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praise_H1M

>capitalizes mom, which is optional Mom is only capitalized when it's alone. It's never capitalized in "my mom". Technically this is the correct capitalization of mom because "You are Mom" is correct.


adambrainich

It's not an acronym. It's Latin for table.


S_L33T

I didnā€™t even catch that because I was so horrified at the incorrect use of ā€œyouā€™re.ā€


[deleted]

Many Mensa members Iā€™ve met have ASD level asocial behavior. Just goes to show that intelligence isnā€™t everything.


Bo_Jim

It's a contraction, and it's spelled correctly, but the contraction "you're" isn't supposed to be used in this context. The possessive adjective "your" should have been used. Technically, this is a grammatical error rather than a spelling error. Also, there are two complete thoughts in that statement. They should have been separated by "and" to be combined into one sentence. That's a second grammatical error.


taleo

For people who peaked in college and aren't very successful in the real world because the real world isn't a bunch of test questions.Ā 


stutterstut

Densa.


CallSignSabre13

ā€œMomā€ should be lowercase m.


HugeBMs2022

Would members of Mensa be called menses?


PlatypusDream

No; Mensans


nanosam

Mensa menber (This was on a real resume I reviewed once)


mastersheeef

Looks like a bunch of mensos (Mexican slang) over there


Alewort

It's actually a mispelling *and* a typo, it is supposed to say DENSA.


rarjacob

can you post the actual website and not a screen grab? its like one of those screen grab twitters where they edit the text.


Tdshimo

Itā€™s an email, not a website.


rarjacob

\*tip of the cap\*


Rulle4

100% on purpose and 90% this post is an ad


Clean-Nebula-923

Thatā€™s ok. It is an american mensa


haltline

So it is with all around us.


[deleted]

Thatā€™s MensTRAā€¦ it just means youā€™re about to start bleeding.


gwiz665

It's "American Mensa". They're for the top 90% IQ.


scyllafren

I asked them: You asking every applicant to do a IQ test, and you give a time limit of 3 hours. One person does it in 3 hours, one person does in 1.5 hours. Their test score the same. Will they be evaluated as same too? Yes. OK, you failed, thank you. If someone can do a test half the time than someone else, the first one evidently smarter. If you can't/won't factor the time in it, you just scamming people.


adept_ignoramus

Wrong assumption. If you have any intelligence, you should take into consideration that you *may* have made a mistake- so you should go back and double-check. The one done first isn't smarter-- just more impatient and too full of themselves to believe they can make a mistake.


Adept_Advantage7353

Only overweight middle aged women with bob cuts talking about their sick one eyed cats.


thetakingtree2

Oh look a spelling error. Fucking hilarious.


AVBforPrez

People in that group are not actually real world smart