and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important documents of the 16th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028

pipe alert

no Phish?!? check out billy breathes sometime great campfire album.

I is an illusion ;)

Tf is "woman with advanced degrees"

No that's the maximum

How does "I am therefore I think" work? Rocks are. Water is.

If there is no "Dick and Jane" school primer on the list then that guy is a posturing phony!

I'm assuming masters and doctorate

Fair, I took "date" to mean "be in a relationship with"

I assume a PhD or maybe even a bachelor's in something other than psychology.

The amness comes before the delusion and illusion of thought that i think causes.

Evolutionarily and subjectively.

You wrote Cellini twice, idiot.

The bright mirror has no stand? :)

Hopefully in 10 years, he will read this and cringe, although it sounds like he’s actively driving away people who think differently and would call him out on his bullshit to help him grow as a person, so maybe not.

Maybe it's like Dumas...

Exactly this. You'll notice that some men like this only know history from a certain racial or geographical background so it's not so much a general interest in history as it is feeling great vicariously through a historical figure.

No van Gogh? Fucking casual.

/s

How did Hendrix and The Hu not make the list?

I used to have a friend like this. He was always acting like a condescending prick to everyone for not knowing as much about his favorite books.

I don't talk to him any more.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation:
Scott, Palmer, Malone, Hudson, Martinez, Martin, Howard, Kapoor, Bratton, Lapin-Vance, Bernard, Lewis, Hannon, Philbin, Halpert, Beesly, Schrute

It’s kind of fun in an ironic meme way!

That's a literary technique called "anaphora", or in layman terms, "repeating shit", it's a highly advanced technique used to emphasize the importance of something, his use of it is actually a demonstration of how much of a big brain smart boy he is

/j

We like Cellini.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Obscure conspiracy theory websites and subreddits, Robert Monroe, Courtney Brown, David Icke, Aldous Hickey, Michael Palin, Steven Greer, John Lear, Richard C. Hoagland, and Linda Moulton Howe

I had a friend like this, too. I have a memory of him saying “uncultured swine” because I enjoyed Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and thought six hours of the Godfather sounded awful.

That was highschool, though. He turned around over the next few years; now we’re thirty and I happily see him every week because he’s our DM. I’m not saying you were wrong to stop talking to that dude, not at all you gotta set boundaries, just wanted to say that there is at least one example of growth!

I have an advanced degree. I don’t think I know/nor do I want to know everything. But I’m an expert in my field. Outside of that, I like to consume fluffy, shallow media. Because my work is very hard with high burnout and depression, I can’t be super serious all the time. So, I have stayed single after my marriage because it was always “you think you know everything” variants any time I engaged in logic. I don’t want to be run down by people who are supposed to care. I haven’t read classics that often because I simply find them way less interesting than watching JJK. So it’s like being trapped in this space of super serious or super aggrieved potential mates, and as I’m getting older…dying alone is my only sane option.

Anecdotally, I've noticed the same thing, but I think it might have something to do with the type of gatekeeping and "well akshually" apparent in the original post.

Most of the male history nerds, especially the ones who are dicks about it, are into war history. Talk to women who are into history and they’re out there building historical recreations of clothes, making historical food(there are some men doing great here, too), talking about niche histories of human rights, and all manner of crafts.

Most importantly, the history men learn is called “history” and the history women learned is called “traditional techniques” or “neat little facts” or basically anything that tries to not count it in the same way. They “don’t know history” and their “traditional techniques” are considered to be just crafting hobbies.

But there was a belief that demonstrating that education did correspond to intelligence! I'm not saying it's accurate!

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy Tactics 2, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Almost everyone mistakes sharts for farts

Thunderstruck?

Might be time to take a look at your diet.

Thank you for writing the comment for me so I didn't have to. Every history nerd I know in my life is a woman except one. The women know all sorts of interesting contextual things ,the origins of traditions, crafts, foods, the local area, and social development. The guy I know knows all about wars and battles amongst other classic History things. Both are valid and count!

Only thrice! Percieve the barbarian. Ho ho ho.

That hits very close to home.

Unfortunately my friendship with said person ended up blowing up, because he had never had that period of self reflection and course correction.

I'm glad it worked out for you and your friend though.

I'm sorry do we have medieval Italian political satirists on the table for basic conversion? the crazy thing is, I've read books by all the individuals mentioned, and most of it is very old, and very specific to it's time, and largely entertainment. this is like someone 500 years from now saying they can't hold a conversation with someone if they don't have a deep familiaity with the deeper meanings of The Simpsons and Family Guy and how they impacted society.

Dirge of Cerberus was very underrated.

“I know, I just taught my niece how to solve one. She’s so smart they’re letting her skip kindergarten!”

Also you must be able to quote at length from the original Time Cube by memory.

Meanwhile, I imagine the actual historians and scholars who study and teach of the classical world professionally rarely feel the need to drop lists like this.

They probably have more insightful conversations avoiding these specific *phers.

Charming...

There's different areas of intelligence. Having high intelligence in math and logic doesn't necessarily mean you have social intelligence

Oh come on, a dude who makes this post definitely has not bothered to read any of the above.

I see "Blake" in the list and my first thought is "Blake Lively"

Bare minimum to hold a campire singalong: Old Macdonald, Wheels on the Bus, the Alphabet Song (optional)

Some people also believe that world is a flat disk that rests on the back of four giant elephants which stand on the shell of a giant turtle. ;-)

"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise/intelligent", wrote Heraclitus ~2500 years ago. Even then people knew that distinction. Even then ignorant people thought themselves wise or intelligent because they had education, because why otherwise would the philosophers mention that :)

Oh! He's the one that did the Perseus sculpture that gave me nightmares when I was six. That's neat.

Omg I feel that.