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[faeriemoon]

I think it would be very interesting!

[jubilant]

Gee, Marp........ sorry that one legitimate question got these reactions.  So many overly sensitive and easily offended people these days.  People are just plain weird!!!!!  

I have always admired and respected your kind manner to people on these boards. 

[KALLIE]

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@novamc1 wrote:

Have only made it through several pages of this "discussion", and have decided it is about as low as a discussion can get in this internet venue.  Disrespect for seemingly sincere questions and unwarranted snide remarks about "intellect" seem tasteless and downright dumb to me. 

Sometimes, adult discussions are harder to conduct than one with a small grandchild.

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BRAVO!!!

[songbird]

My husband is a member.  He went to one national meeting oh years ago.  Since then he's not very active or even interested. He still belongs to the Mensa groups.  He has a Mensa tag on his car though.  My son was active in their children's programs. 

[sidsmom]

Seems odd this is even an event...snooze fest.

It's like an annual gathering of 'Blue Eyes' or 'AB+Blood Type'...there's no connection to these people other than DNA.

I've gone several times to a 3-day Spinning (indoor cycling) event in Miami. My friends think I'm nuts, but that's a passion I enjoy. For 3 days, I'm connected to 500 people with the same passion. Same could be said for any activity....a conference for people playing, say, Chess, Knitting, Lovers of Mystery Novels, Vegan Cooking...life is too short to waste hoping you'll connect with a stranger just because you have, oh, Size 9 feet. 

And yes, I agree w/ many posters...it IS odd to come to a TV shopping chat board to ask this question. Granted, we have a large diversity of posters...couple actually provided an answer to the OP...but no, I wouldn't come on this board asking 'have you been?'

If anything, I would go to Reddit to ask, join a Mensa-specific organizational group or even a specific Facebook group to ask that question. I guess it just makes sense to go that route, yes?

Here? We're proficient talking about 'Pantyhose vs bare legs', 'Do you wash your feet?' & Kim Kardashian's butt.

[Say Nay]

Around here 99.9% of the time it's not what is said but who says it.

[dooBdoo]

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Lindsays Grandma wrote:

The only member of the Mensa Society I knew was my former husband who I had to divorce because he was physically abusive.  He also was proud he didn't have common sense because he didn't want to be common . This was a man who was well educated but unfortunately the only smarts he had were book learned.  How sad that a person with a good education and a successful career found it necessary to beat his wife whenever he had a few drinks. 

I certainly do not look down on or degrade anyone who is a Mensa member because of his behavior or actions.

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        @Lindsays Grandma, I'm so sorry you had to endure that.

[Bestdressed]

@Marp  ... I think if this sounds interesting to you ...then go for it!

I would also have plan B. Check out others places of interest in San Diego, so you can do a few things on your trip.

I am not sure why there are a bunch of knickers in a twist over a simple question. You have never offended anyone and I think we all deserve to converse with each other, as we want others to treat us.

Fly by comments are made to create attention. Some comments are meant as harmless fun, but do not always translate that way.  I know I made a few doozee's that were taken the wrong way.

Have fun... if you decide to go on your trip.

[RetRN]

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@KALLIE wrote:

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@mstyrion 1 wrote:

It's astounding to me that HH's rude post was allowed to stay and my response calling her out on it was deemed "unkind".   

I know some of you saw what I said to her and I stand by my words.  

Oh well. Only on CC could the subject of MENSA bring out the small-minded mean girls.

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I don't get it either.

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I don't get it either, seems HH can get away with anything on these boards.

[GingerPeach]

With so many mentions of high IQ people with "disabling" personalities, I am reminded that Cristina Carlino, the philosophy founder, knew the difference between IQ and EQ (intelligence quotient and emotional quotient).

Does anyone else remember that on one one of her older shampoos back in the early 2000s, she had this saying:

If you have high IQ, you get the job.

If you have high EQ, you get the promotion.

That came from the "Emotional Intelligence" book.  I think there was another line on the shampoo, but I don't remember what it said.