Some people mistake knowledge for intelligence

[citation needed]

Why did they date him in the first place?

Why Cellini twice? Also, this guy sounds like a real douche canoe

Cellini so important that it's listed twice.

Cellini so important I never heard of it in my life.

Ugh these guys were always douches

Cool for him that he has a special interest

Most of those topics were taught/mentioned in highschool. Does he want a freshly graduated person - bc no way anyone who is not in humanities would retain it long term....

Best line (quote?) I've read in a while. Well done sir.

A person can be highly inteligent and still be clueless for human interaction. But being well spoken, well read, attentative and polite usually indicates someone is well adjusted towards others.

I just looked the name up in Wikipedia and found a sculptor with that name. Wild story, talented artist though.

In a date, people get to know one-another more intimately through discussion of their interests and beliefs - better than they can through brief social encounters that may have led to the date.

My guy hasn't even read his own list.

It's edumacated, not edumacted. Get it rite!

Cellini underwent mitosisini.

Maybe, it's his reminder to drink some Grappa while reading.

Making lists

Pathetic. I don't even talk to people who haven't read Cellini's complete works at least thrice.

many also mistake arrogance for confidence

I thought this attitude that the "classics" were what made you intelligent and worthy went out of fashion some time in the 50s... guess it still has its holdouts

He sure gets around.

This is the douche character in Good Will Hunting.

Surely at least one of these people created something about not being a pretentious asshole?

I'm pretty sure this guy learned nothing from them.

No, it was what made you (classically) educated, not intelligent. And for people who don't really know each other it is easier to start the conversation if they have something in common. That's one of the reasons it used to be expected to have some education in this direction.

Also, the douchebag in the original picture wrote Cellini twice, so he is not even "intelligent" :)

Bare minimum to enjoy a beer around a campfire: ACDC, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, White Stripes, Dire Straits, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Kenny Loggings, Gorillaz, Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Bon Jovi, R.E.M, Bonnie Tyler, Eminem, 50, System of a Down, Rage against the Machine, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Papa Roach, Tenacious D, Dorothy, Floggin Molly, The Subways, Bush, Disturbed, Wolfmother, Guns and Roses, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Armand van Helden, Die Antwoord, Billy Idol, Fleetwood Mac, Ram Jam, Eagels of Death Metal, deadmau5, Foreigner, Daniel Norgen, The Weekend, Cari Cari, Shakira, Cher, Gaga, Rihanna, Michael, Prince

Name 5 songs

black betty

thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck

amber lamps.

Minimum women authors/thinkers required to be familiar with: 0.

Uh huh. Uh, yeah. Oh, I recognize some of these!

He may be have plenty of knowledge but for sure he's not smart

The second one is the lesser known Bob Cellini from Poughkeepsie, who had a poignant bathroom wall writing style.

A guy asked me one time if I thought I was smarter/better educated than the classically educated American founding fathers, and I was like, "You mean the guys who didn't know about dinosaurs or plate tectonics?" Also they thought they'd finish making the government at some point and then just never did, which we've been dealing with for a long time now. So yeah, those guys weren't idiots, but let's not pretend they were special.

Western classicly educated. Which isn't great as it starts from the false premise that 'i think therefore I am' when eastern classics have it the other way round.

I am, therefore I think.

"Guy who keeps a Rubiks cube in a display stand on his desk at work so he can explain it's not that hard to solve them" energy.

hopital

And yet so many :
Jane Austen
Agatha Christie
Countess of Ségur
...

I do wonder sometimes why most of the history nerds I know are men. Not that I know no female history nerds at all, but men appear to be more drawn to history, or more encouraged to be casually interested?

I'm not sure, this could be all exclusively anecdotal and the actual numbers may not reflect my experience.

I personally won't consider a man worthy of having a conversation with unless they know Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Rosa Lichtenstein, Ursula K Le Guin, Octavia Butler and Judith Butler (token enby)

Margret Atwood

Neither is she. He clearly turned her down first, so I don't see any reason for her to explain her case at all.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Cézanne, Renoire, Rembrandt, van Eyck, David, Vermeer, Fragonard, Turner, Courbet, Matisse, Kahlo, Picasso, Basquiat, Richter

hey look, i can gatekeep my special interest, too! 🤦

I can tell you're not "western" classically educated, because if you were, you'd add "I know that I know nothing" ;-)

I think there is likely a more even gender distribution of history nerds who are truly interested in history when it comes to topics outside of politics and military. A lot of men tend to use it for ego stroking and fantasizing about being the great men of history, while there is no similar avenue for women in that regard.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: don't be like this guy

oh! That is such a great point! To be fair, a lot of the male history nerds I know use it for practical purposes like writing TTRPGs, which were predominantly played by guys for a long time, but I feel like even that is evening out gender-wise lately as they grow in popularity.

That being said, I have definitely seen examples of the fantasizing and ego-stroking on the internet.

in fact, now that you mention it, I do know a fair few of women with a very deep interest in philosophy, and you can't exactly get deep into philosophy without historical context, ergo, female history nerds. Women are also a lot more interested in history when they are represented, and I don't think I need to soapbox to you about the lack of feminine representation in history texts.

Cellining it twice

Twinkle twinkle little star

Itsy bitsy spider

Mary had a little lamb

Jack and Jill

Row, row, row your boat

Those peole remind me of the line from it's always sunny:

“The government of today has no business telling us how to live our lives because the government of 200 years ago already did.”

It's said by a creep who you'd never leave a kid around giving it's got some extra contextual fit.