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brassneck
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How can somebody define a genius.Only a genius knows what a genius is.Laugh
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Report themightymac • August 1, 2014 11:13 PM BST
They kept referring to McIlroy as a genius during the Open Championship coverage. Don`t make me laugh Laugh Classifying him a genius for hitting a white ball with a stick. Laugh
Report brassneck • August 1, 2014 11:17 PM BST
The word is used every day,and it is amazing how many times you hear"hes a genius"Laugh
Report FlowerMyth • August 2, 2014 12:03 AM BST
It's all part of the modern era, where everything and everyone is uniformly defined by extremes, such as being described as a genius, for doing any of a number of minor things, like scoring a goal or writing a 3 minute song, or they absolute complete and utter total facking cnts, for the slightest inconvenience or displeasure caused to us.
Report brassneck • August 2, 2014 12:15 AM BST
Mind you,everyone is supposed to have a sixth sense,we all supposed to have a hidden quality that we are capable of excelling in,and most people don't know what their hidden quality is.
Report Crisp77 • August 2, 2014 8:05 AM BST
My agent knows.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • August 2, 2014 10:47 AM BST
brassneck's a legend
Report Zazu • August 2, 2014 11:05 AM BST
'that's amazing' drives me crazy. Said whenever something is slightly above average Devil
Report MisterBadger • August 2, 2014 11:15 AM BST
the person who first thought of writing down a wishlist and then just waiting for it all to happen was a facking genius imo  Laugh
Report guinness2dear • August 2, 2014 11:17 AM BST
Genius has now been replaced on the BBC by the new go to of "Super special"
Report lfc1971 • August 4, 2014 9:26 AM BST
OK this is how it works.
The term genius can be given to a few individuals. Not many.
The ability to recognise a genius is given again to some individuals. Many but not all.
Then there are many thousands of people who will never really  understand why a
particular artist or scientist or sportsman is a genius.
Report Facts • August 4, 2014 9:33 AM BST
Genius is a totally over used word nowadays. A bit like the label ' hero '

It cheapens the true meaning.
Report lfc1971 • August 4, 2014 9:49 AM BST
It is not just a question of imtelligence, former soviet spy Anthony Blunt was in charge of the Queens art collecti.on
Despite a degree from Cambridge he admitted not really understand what was a good or bad painting.

Most people would not recognise fully why a scientific formula, or a piece of music, or writing by Shakespeare is a work of genius.
Some will.
Report lfc1971 • August 4, 2014 10:10 AM BST
It is also true that a work of genius will remain a work of genius even if everyone in the world
says it is not.
Report brassneck • August 4, 2014 10:37 AM BST
I am just after reading that in a scientific breakthrough in 2009(now confirmed) that ants talk to each other by making sounds,they also bury their dead(carry them off to a dumping ground) and have two brains,one brain is a central control brain and the other is a personal brain,im sure they have a genius or two in their mist.Laugh.It also means that we are not the most intelligent force that we think we are.
Report brassneck • August 4, 2014 10:55 AM BST
mist=myths
Report FlowerMyth • August 4, 2014 11:03 AM BST
Message from the ants coming though...

They say you were closer first time.
Report ThunderRoad • August 4, 2014 11:20 AM BST
Leonardo Da Vinci.

Excelled in whatever he did; ultimate polymath: fabulous painter, mathematician, sculptor, architect, musician, writer, geologist  engineer, inventor, to name a few. He developed ideas that didn't become mainstream until the 20th Century. Just an exceptional man
Report Ken Masters • August 4, 2014 11:26 AM BST
And the best turtle in Titanic imo.
Report Howdi • August 4, 2014 11:51 AM BST
worst culprit.......JAMIE REDKNAPP .
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • September 8, 2014 2:08 PM BST
This morning saw someone described on an Aussie stockbrokers' forum as " a legend in the Melbourne storage business." Cry
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