OK, so you know what intelligence is?that's right. It's that thing you're thinking right now.

Not one of you though it was interpersonal skils or having a strong understanding of their own emotions. No one pictured sinking basket after basket routinely or anything like that. What your brain supplied after I said intelligence was the ability to figure stuff out.

Notice how aspects of the other things I mentioned require "figuring out"? So there is intelligence involved with those other topics, but there's intelligence involved in pretty well everything so that's not surprising. surprising.

Even if everyone wants to keep the bastardized "intelligence", that's fine. No problems whatsoever, aside from 1. That leaves the ability of "figuring stuff out" labelless, so what shall we call this new thing which we all know to be what is actually being referenced when someone says "intelligence"?

I mean, think about it. The word has 2 definitions. 1 that we all know and understand. And then one to refute and rebuff the one that we all know and understand.

It's funny how it always means cognitive horsepower until it's used. Once uses its definition flips to "everything".

"I'm the most intelligent person on the planet! I have 'answer things wrong intelligence', 'falling asleep intelligence', and 'buying condom intelligence".

It's a persons ability to figure stuff out. If you can figure out people and their emotions, fantastic. That's intelligence. The skill being used is still "figuring stuff out".

Intelligence is coming out of a novel situation "ahead" in whatever capacity ya want.

Sorry, no.

Every now and again I’ll see a comment on Reddit that just casually uses thorn in their comment like they’re clever or something. No one cares about your knowledge of the Icelandic alphabet, get your pretentiousness out of my face with this literal thorn in my side.

Why do people think so highly of themselves and so little of others? It's seems small but parking at the gas pump because it's closer to the door so you're fatass has to walk less means people like me who are heading to work can't get gas. People who so this must think the world revolves around them, but unfortunately it does not and yes I will tell you you are a asshole like I just did, and yes he did just drive off like a bitch

Met a selfish woman on a flight today. She first blocked me from putting up my luggage in the overhead cabin by putting her hand up on it and calling for her husband to put one of their many luggages there. Later, when I tried to recline to sleep as it was a late flight (she was sat behind me), she complained to her husband who asked me to move my chair up a little which I was happy to do. The women mumbled something to her husband for a while but I couldn't really hear and didn't pay attention.

Then she proceeded to kick and push my seat periodically for the 5 hours on a 6 hour flight. After which I started getting annoyed but tried to ignore it. But it's still ongoing so I reclined back slightly to see what they will say. Of course, she starts whining to her husband again. Any and all subsequent communications requesting me to move were also done through her speaking with her husband and having him talk to me. Perhaps, she couldn't be bothered to address to me herself.

Usually I will try to accommodate others and compromise especially when they ask nicely and are nice generally, but damn this is ridiculous. It's one thing if the chair moves when the person shuffles and just happens to push the chair but it's a different type of movement all together when they hit, kick, and push. There were also very distinct punches to the chair a couple of times. Eventually I compromised with having my chair mostly up but warned preemptively if she keeps this up, I will recline back.

When I went to the bathroom and came back, I found that she even leaned over and fiddled with my seat to set it upright and then pushed against the chair to prevent me from reclining back at all! Then she proceeded to cry victim when the steward came to check on what the matter is and I explained the situation.

Flying experience has gotten worse recently but it has not been that bad where I'm based in the UK since people are generally very nice. They both didn't seem to be local though so maybe that's why. I don't mind when things are uncontrollable like a baby crying or a small child running around but this is a grown women and definitely intentional.

For the love of God, I do not, have never, and will never understand the enigma that is considered professionalism.

It seems like you're judged on almost every factor, besides how qualified you are and how well you do your job. The way you dress, the way you speak, the way you write, what piercings you have, what tattoos you have, etc.

I once got a write up because I formatted an email with indents, and not all completely left aligned "as business correspondence abould be", I've been denied jobs because of a tattoo I can easily cover up, and I know plenty of others who have too.

The color of my hair doesn't effect how well I teach, and me wearing shorts when it's 90degrees put also does not effect how i teach.

The "professional world" is stupid.

If you can't see why that's a bad idea there's no helping you.

When you have to watch an ad for a free service or for a reward in a game and you watch the entire ad and it crashes at the end and you don’t get the reward for watching

Pisses me off even more if its a big microphone. You are not a stand up comedian or a journalist. You are in a room fully equiped for filmaking but cant get a off camera mic? Bonus point if its a cringe thumbnail with it.

Some of the people on Reddit never cease to amaze me. Instead of being open minded and doing a little research they resort to ad hominem. It’s getting worse every year. smh

It genuinely boggles my mind how frequently I run into drivers just casually toking it up and reeking of marijuana.
Not a weed basher by any means, but I don't understand why we go so feral on drunk drivers, but so many people give these guys a pass. How hard is it to just save it for when you AREN'T driving? This should go for any drug.

This is really recent for me, but whenever I skip the first ad now it just starts the second instead of skipping both.

Things like EA or Ubisoft games you have bought on Steam forcing you to download their launcher to play your game, or things like CurseForge forcing you to install Overwolf. It drives me insane.

I don't want all your senseless bloatware bro, just let me download what I'm trying to download and use it.

First off, I have no issue with weed (except it smells like ass), and even take edibles on occasion with a group of friends, however this is maybe once every 2-3months.

Why is it such a big thing to be a proud "stoner". If you are blazing up several times a day, every day, that is a text book addiction, yet we have somehow normalized it.

The first time maybe it was unique, now it’s like every other girl

Don't get me wrong. Nobody likes the barrage of ads they get every day on the Internet. It just seems like if I'm open to receiving ads for things I might want, then when I specifically buy something online I only really need one of, the algorithms shouldn't then spend every waking hour trying to sell me another of the exact same item. It seems like a blind spot in a multi billion dollar industry.

Why isn't Facebook messenger integrated into the main Facebook app it takes up so much memory on my phone. Also why doesn't Facebook marketplace have a separate app that works like Craigslist.

Say you go to The Vue cinema, whilst waiting for your film to start, there will be an overly long advert telling you how good The Vue cinema is. But...the ONLY place you will see that advert is in The Vue cinema!! Why?! I know it's good, that's why I'm here! I'm not your target, the advert should be on external media like TV or something. It makes no sense whatsoever and It's the same in every cinema and it really grinds my gears.

This really grinds my gears. So many communities will automatically remove your comment unless you're pre-approved to comment there. It's applying for a loan at a bank. Why do I need pre-approval? I understand it's to keep spam and bots down, but I'm not going to waste my time asking for permission. Remove my comment afterwards if it's against guidelines.

Every time somebody is all “REEEEEEE cIgGaREttEs”. It just makes me want to smoke again, it is so cringey. I can stand cringey anti-smoking ads but these people are worse. I quit two weeks ago but these people are going to make me relapse if they don’t stfu lol

Like I'm the one in control of the power grid or something. Wtf man, power outages happen, deal with it! I'm not going to get a UPS for my PS4.

So I have to buy multiple loaves of bread every couple of days due to the amount of bread my family goes through at any time I could have 2 brand new loaves and half a loaf that might be 2 days old. My MIL has this annoying habit of opening a new loaf of bread while there is still older bread sitting there waiting to be used. It grinds my gears so much like somehow she is entitled to fresh bread but everyone else has to eat the 2 day old bread?

It's not even like the bread is old, it's still pretty fresh given that it's only 2 days old but nope, she wont touch it. The second that new bread is in the house she will eat that. ARGH.

Oh how I wish that more, if not most companies/organisations would give you the option to mute hold music when you're calling.

There's something uniquely jarring about the way music gets distorted down a phone line, and hearing the same short sample on loop for 40 minutes is a sure recipe for insanity.

On very, very rare instances you sometimes call a company and they'll give you the option to mute the music by pressing a key and, God, it's wonderful.

I wish it was just seen as a standard to offer the option to press a key and have the music replaced with silence and a single intermittent beep sounding every 30 seconds to let you know you've not been disconnected.

I got a nice jacket that I never really wore and is now too small for me. I am in a bit of a pinch with my budget as we all are.. I remembered I had this higher end brand jacket thats still in new condition and sought out shops that buy clothing. Most places I called told me that the 2nd hand market in Seattle is almost dead because people will just walk into stores and walk out with handfuls of clothing and resell them in 2nd hand stores. Tldr; Seattle theft has gotten so bad it has killed the 2nd hand clothing economy.

This “sport” is by far the softest, most spineless, entitled sport I’ve ever observed. Im telling my son to get CTE like a real man and play football. Cross someone up in basketball. Hit a dinger in baseball. Check someone in hockey. Hell I’ll support soccer as long as he doesn’t flop a ton. A bunch of cities are placing pickleball courts where there could be extra housing or YMCA’s, or basketball courts. I’m just over it and I’m hoping it’s a fad but I’m also scared it’s not. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I can't be the only one who's annoyed by so many youtubers telling the audience to "let me know in the comments what you think!", even though they never read the comments and only do it because the youtuber handbook says it increases the channel engagement. Back before comment numbers started mattering for visibility, if a youtuber asked you to comment it meant they really wanted to hear people's opinion, now it's only so the video will gain more engagement.

Of course there are youtubers who actually read them and engage with the audience, but most of the time it's not like that, and that grinds my gears.

Every last one is terrible. So full of ads, they grind your computer to a halt. They all have terrible searches where you try to type your zipcode and you end up with some random result. It's complete trash! Every last one!

I recently started working a new job, and obviously the first two weeks were obviously the transitioning period, getting used to the rhythm of things. Of course I'm going to mess up and expected to be fast, I'm new, so I understand getting chewed on. After my first check, I noticed my schedule and realized I wasn't getting the hours I needed. Recently, I saw that I was only working 3 days, which seemed bizarre. I got a 4th day and realized, "okay, I'm getting more days". I worked that day but I was sent home early, told that it was a slow day. I thought it was bizarre until I got a text from my manager and said, "take the day off, it's slow". I thought, okay? But what pissed me off was that the next day that I got a text message from my manager and was told the same thing from the previous day, same reason. That's when it occurred to me, why hire me if you're not going to use me? Not only that, my hours were sometimes cut in half. It's either they don't like how I work or they don't want me there. I told my manager that I need the hours, but said, it's slow. So what? I need the hours, I got bills and rent. I don't care what I do, as long as I'm doing work. I feel like I'm wasting my time there if that's what's happening. That's what's grinding my gears, sorry for the long rant, I just wanted to get that off my chest.

I get that she’s my mother and all and I should do as she asks but sometimes she’s just completely irrational. i don’t know if she has ocd or something but here’s a few examples

Today I asked her to take me to the grocery store to get some milk, I really like cereal and she told me this morning she’d take me to get some so i could enjoy my cereal with milk (my sister eats cereal without milk, even when we have it, i hate it so much) she gave me the keys to the car, told me to clear the snow off and start it up. i go outside and clear the snow off the hood, and all of the windows of the car. when we leave to go to the grocery store she tells me i didn’t clear off the car and grabs the brush to finish the job herself. i argue the car as as cleared as it needs to be, you can see perfectly fine out the window, and i even ensured snow wouldn’t fall into the window once we began driving but she won’t admit the irrational error of her ways and tells me i always do a half ass job and i needed to do it the way she wanted it done (maybe she should do everything herself then) I try my best to make her see it the way i do but something seems to be preventing her from driving the car unless bits of snow aren’t taken off the roof and sides of the car which is completely unnecessary. during the car ride she antagonizes me calling me half ass Nolan (my name is Nolan)

this next example is actually not just my mother, but a widely accepted courtesy that she enforced that i disagree with. and that is putting the toilet seat down after i use the restroom so that she doesn’t have to do it herself when she goes. like every man i know, i pee standing up and i put the toilet seat up to ensure i don’t accidentally piss on it, then i leave it up. she argues that i have to put it down so she doesn’t fall in when she goes to pee, like are you fucjing stupid just look before you sit down. my main problem with this is that they are not expected to put it up after they use the restroom, what is so fucking hard about putting the seat down, i put it up after you use it. the real kicker is that for about a month after i got tired of her yelling at about this, i started putting both the seat and the lid down everytime i use the toilet, this means that when she goes she has to lift the lid up before she sits down, but of course because this doesn’t point to me causing her inconvenience, she does it no questions asked and i never got yelled at for it while i was doing it. i have since returned to simply leaving it up after i pee. she can’t seem to handle the motion of putting the toilet seat down when she pees but doesn’t question the very similar action of lifting the lid to do her buisness.

thank you for listening, she also generally can’t admit her own mistakes and often blames others for them, she is very unforgiving and makes a big deal out of nothing quite often.

It's so stupid and I'll never get over it. I miss the old logo so much.

It's called Rock Paper Scissors, not Rock Paper. Throw on the 4 count. You need to load up all 3 options before shooting your shot. Rock Paper Scissors: SHOOT! If you only say the rock and paper, then what's the point of even saying it?