i love to play dumb around rude people and bullies, not catching onto their insults or picking up on their aggression is top tier comedy. i just keep smiling, laughing, and kinda doing that vvy confused 'smile, head tilt, and giggle' routine and just like that they lose the will to keep being an asshole. no one has the patience to explain they're being a dick to an airheaded ray of sunshine.
1:10, This is actually taught in interpersonal communications classes. This is called turning to curiosity because instead of ignoring the other side you hear it first and ask how they came to that position, in turn creating a deeper conversation and understanding. debating the talking points out of the gate will not work.
My dad was actually accepted into Mensa, and was super smart but always preferred to cut wood or work physical jobs. Back when he was a ground's keeper at the golf course, it bothered me seeing these rich assholes talk down to him or treat him like he was dumb, but I realized he was playing into the dumb redneck trope. When I asked him about it he said it was great, people talked slow and repeated themselves. He has bad hearing from years of playing with explosives and running loud machinery. He can read lips rather well but some times it was just easier on him for people to talk slow and repeat themselves because they thought he was some dome hick. They also didn't expect much of him and he would surprise them with how much he actually knew or could do.
I did that too! I found as a child that appearing to be smarter than the rest guaranteed beatings and ostracism, so just shut up. Didn’t volunteer any information to anyone, as they’d just resent it. Served me in good stead later when caring for patients and families, as I could lead them to make their ‘own’ discoveries, and would then be able to be proud of their new knowledge. It costs nothing, and I didn’t care that occasionally I was thought to be the box of hammers.
I am high IQ as well but like lower level jobs because I hate corporate culture. I was cross trained in another department but the department was complete chaos and was operating in crisis mode every day. So I acted like I could not catch on to the computer program being used. Asked really stupid questions. They put me back in to my originating department 🤣
I wanted to say all the time. It's what I've done my whole life because you can't talk to someone and have an actual connection when the difference between you two is just too great. People like to feel dominant. Intelligence is associated with dominance in this day and age. So I pretend to be dumb for the sake of others. Unfortunately, even when I try, I find out humanity just keeps lowering the bar. Isn't that just peachy... But you know what? I'm not happy. I don't even know what happiness to me looks like. I've placed so much of my value on fixing other people's lives while tricking them into believing they came up with the ideas themselves, only for them to mistreat me and go off on their own to inevitably fuck their lives up and come crawling back just to repeat the same process over and over again. If this sounds like something you're going through, there's a word for people like us. We're called codependent. We base our worth off what we have to give unto others. It's not a mental illness, though it does have contributing factors and can be contributed to by mental illness. If you too are codependent, I highly recommend seeking the help of a good therapist. But please keep in mind, there is a very big difference between going TO therapy and GETTING therapy. No one can fix you, only you can do that. Therapists only hold the torch and read the map on your journey through the darkest parts of your life. Let them. They're usually pretty good guides. If you're codependent, I need to tell you what you're walking into when you seek help. You will have to change everything. The way we think due to our life experiences, has warped us into a parody of human thought. Think of it like an old switchboard. We have to slowly unplug one way of thinking and plug our newly unplugged cord into a new pattern of thought and behavior. Not many people who are codependent have the self-awareness to sit down and ask themselves the had questions. "Am I the problem?" "What am I doing that's problematic?" "How far am I willing to go to correct myself?" I won't lie to you, it's going to be extremely difficult and probably take a while to gome out on top. It means you'll have to face some pretty deep dark fears and admit some things to yourself you really don't want to admit. In fact, most people don't even make it through the process before giving up and falling back into their miserable yet comfortable life. I'm here to tell you, you too can be happy. You can live a life worth living! As a codependent, I can't even fathom what my own happiness looks like, but I've seen it in others. I want my own happiness, but I have to change myself into someone who can appreciate it first. They're not lying when they say the first steps a doozy. And so far, every step has been Hell, but you know what? I'm ready for this. I want better for myself and dammit you should too! You deserve that happiness, that joy, that serenity! But no one is going to give it to you. You have to forge it yourself in the fires of your soul. If your fire just isn't burning that hot these days, maybe you got laid off. Maybe your friends left you. Maybe your significant other broke up with you. Maybe your pet died. Maybe you're not on the best terms with your family. Maybe you have all of that going on at the same time like me. I am many things, but a coward I am not. If my fire is lacking, then I need to find something that breathes life into my flames! I will melt down every failure, every obstacle, every snide comment and dirty look that brings me down and I will pour it into the crucible of the life I want to life! I will hammer away at that life and give it shape! Give it meaning! Give it form! And when it's finished, I will have forged something spectacular into this world. And you deserve it too. So get that fire burning, my friends.
Steven Crowder's "change my mind" is a great example. It's the Socratic method: instead of attacking the other person's assumptions you're playing dumb and asking good questions that make them think.
He wasn't playing dumb, just letting the other person speak and ask for clarification when they used buzzwords, always being polite and keeping his cool. I thought those exchanges were marvelous. Then I saw the video of him bullying his wife and had to write him off.
The smart black people I've met have told me no one has been more mad at them than other black people. Doing well in school and having proper diction was "acting white"
@DeadonHill well then it's a good thing black people aren't a monolith with the same thoughts, experiences, and ideals. In my school full of black people you're straight up clowned for being stupid. Anything lower than a C (and sometimes even that) and you're ostracized. Y'all really talking about smart black people like they're just so incredibly rare. "The smart black people I've met" be wise I'm sure they all just saw you and immediately started spilling this information.
Exactly, white people actually love smart black people because they know the black person won't hate them for no reason. Whereas a not smart black person will blame white people for all his problems and hate them. So if you're black, you can choose who to be disliked by: be dumb and disliked by white people, or be smart and disliked by black people. That's the hard truth nobody likes to hear.
I work with the general public and when I get those customers that are just there to have a long conversation and not looking for any help I just pretend I don't understand what they are talking about. No matter how much they try to explain it. After a few minutes they think I'm a moron not worth talking to and leave me alone to go bug my coworkers for long stretches of time every time they come into the store. But not me. Not after that one time. Because I'm a moron in their mind.
In reality, most of the time. Too much ego and competition. Most of the time, it's best to downplay the true intelligence, until you know who and what your dealing with.
Stop giving away our secrets✋️ Real Gs move in silence. If you are smart, you will naturally reach this conclusion and move accordingly 👌🏾 Koreans call it "nucci" and you either have it or you don't 🤷🏾♀️
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent. The Bible Proverbs 17:28. Paraphrased by Lincoln and Twain.
When you're working a trade as the "young guy" and everyone else are older dudes, never show them the fact that you probably know the ins-and-outs of the job better than them! They'll only try to sabotage you later on just because they don't like being showed up by someone way younger than them who's actually got more experience on the job at fixing things that they don't know how to. Been through that too many times. Just because they're an older tradesman doesn't mean they're more competent.
Yea most folks would feel insulted at that so it's usually prudent to play dumb / not show others up 😅 Eventually there will naturally come a time for you to shine without directly giving a vibe of showing off 👍🏽
Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know more than the older people who have been doing longer. I made that mistake then as I got older I realized just how little I knew.
From personal experience it’s sometimes best to stay quiet when you have disabilities. People leave you be more or less. But afterwards you can still get told you don’t know anything despite doing everything right.
"Just nod and agree" is pretty much my whole deal. I just don't have the energy to yak yak yak so hey you wanna believe the moon is made of cheese ok sure pal.
This reminds me of the "smile and wave, boys, smile and wave" penguins line from the Madagascar movie because at this point that's the point we've all reached it feels like.
This post should be renamed: "how to play gringo at convenient situations". this is what we meant in Venezuela by the idiomatic expression: "Hacerse el/la gringo/gringa".
The last place I lived had a lot of beggars who spoke both Spanish and English, they kept stopping me (target the gringo, start in Spanish, if they say they don't speak Spanish in English, switch to begging in English) but they always left me alone after I started telling them that I don't understand them in Russian.
I do not enjoy being wrong, but at the same time, I love being corrected and welcome it. Even though I didn't know I was wrong about something, I take great comfort knowing that I now have the correct knowledge. Hard to explain, but I hope that explanation will suffice.
My brother is a financial advisor. He also happens to have a bit of a temper. I was hanging out with him and my sister a few months ago and he was going on about how BlackRock owns all these houses and controls the housing market. I'm a realtor and explained to him that BlackRock doesn't own any houses but provides loans and insurance for homeowners. BlackStone owns houses, but despite popular misconceptions, all "mega-corporations" account for less than 4% of the housing market. He got mad and insisted that BlackStone was a subsidiary of BlackRock (which was true until 1988, but they haven't been related since then). Rather than correct him, I just kept my mouth shut and played dumb because it wasn't worth dealing with his spouts of anger
I did this with the company I work for but then they had to see my transcripts for tuition reimbursement and they realized I’m not stupid. It was kind of nice not having an expectations on you.
Years ago I did a test for an internship, there were 2 vacancies. Me and I think 3 or 4 other people did the test, but I had to do it in a separate room because one of the computers didn't work. We didn't get the results of the test, but I was hired alongside a girl. When talking to the other interns I mentioned the test and said I thought it was a bit difficulty, the girl said she thought it was easy. Months later, when looking for some files on the computer, the girl found a spreadsheet with our names and our scores on the test. She scored like mid 30s, mine was mid 90s.
I pretend to know next to nothing about politics whenever I hear my family talking about them. especially when my sister is talking. as much as I hate communism I still love her.
She actually a communist? A socialist? Or a democratic socialist? There's actually a lot of difference there and in my experience the true red commies are actually pretty rare. A lot of people who aren't in leftist circles confuse the three frequently. And also, I've noticed that a lot of people in such circles become less extremist over time and usually fall into democratic socialism instead, so there's definitely a chance your sister will change her mind over time.
@@WASDLeftClick we don't speak much about politics so I don't know the details on her political opinions, she claims to be a communist. I wouldn't be surprised if she has confused it with something else. I wouldn't call her an "extreemist".
If you’re trying to get away with using wireless earphones in a work setting that doesn’t allow it, just pretend they’re meant for “blocking out sound” when asked about it. If the employer doesn’t know the difference, they’ll believe you. Works like a charm.
"When you happen upon a hostage situation. If you pretend to be mentally challenged." Im just picturing the cops at the hostage situation all eating crayons, licking windows, telling people to smell their finger, rolling on the ground, two of them making happy noises while introducing themselves to each other over and over again. Meanwhile the hostage and the criminal just look at each other like "You wanna get outta here?" "Yeah, I'd like that."
The dumber you appear the less responsibility others will give you. This should be used in a work environment where good and diligent work is rewarded with even more work. Sometimes to appear clueless is the only way to survive peoples expectations
Depending on the situation, around actual dumb and occasionally arrogant people. One dude I used to work with was both, and unless it was a serious issue, I just went "yeah uh-huh" the whole time, to his face. Behind his back UGH
I’m not really a super smart person, but it strikes me as silly to censor yourself just so others don’t feel bad about themselves because they didn’t pay attention in school.
It think there is a time and a place. People now-a-days do not value intelligence. "Do not cast your pearls before swine". You know you're smart and there will hopefully be some people in your life that value you for who you are. But don't waste your time on the others. Use your intelligence to further yourself....and that sometimes means dumbing down for self preservation.
6:16 Actually, this would be a good strategy against racist people who like to attack, say, people from Mexico or a country where English isn't their first language. Would drive the racist bonkers when the person they're harassing is like "no speak English...no speak English." 😂
Another good way to act like your stupid is by learning a second language so when a stranger tries to annoy you at best, take your money at worst, you can pretend not to speak your native language.
Whenever some guy in a mixed group told some really sleazy joke (when I was a teenager). I'd pretend ignorance, and ask them to explain. Having to explain a sleazy joke is Ultra Awkward. Lol. They'd shuffle off red faced. Yeah, mate, and so you should be embarrassed. And it wasn't funny either. Especially when offensively worded towards women.
1:38- 1:47 I no long express my opinions.. too many people don't appreciate a good discussion anymore... nor do they appreciate an "agree to disagree" conversation... Let's have a beer... salud (health in Spanish)....
Had a lady go off on my co-worker when I worked at walmart, and he was manning the register in electronics and going off on him about something dumb. Kept asking me if I had seen how this guy was treating her and how stupid he was (he was a retired programer doing the gig for some extra pocket money. Played dumb about working there till she asked the manager to ask me since I saw the whole incident and told them the truth and to watch the cameras. Oh boy....that look the lady gave me was like I had shat in her breakfast when she also heard I worked there she went balistic and kocked over a display of tvs. I think it was something related to cameras but can't recall more than that.
Lol this is actually really interesting… I’m not a genius by any means but I have a certain amount of native intelligence and I think it can lead to people perceiving me as a smartass, I would probably be better off pretending to be significantly dumber than I am
Being friendly and never saying a bad word about people can be similar to downplaying intelligence, in that people can let their guard down and talk more openly (about other people). I found this out due to being naturally friendly and not liking to speak ill of people.
An acquaintance, S, was at the train station when a beggar approached him holding out a cap with a few coins in it. S just grabbed the coins, said 'ah thank you' in his most retarded voice and put them in his pocket. This made the beggar quite angry so he started yelling and causing a bit of a scene. S did his best to ignore him and walked around on the train station with the beggar screaming and pushing him. After a few minutes of this the police showed up - suddenly the beggar was nowhere to be seen.
Here's a funny way you can pretend to be stupid on the internet: You know when you make an obvious hyperbole or minor factual error and some smart ass wants to publicly take to piss out of you for something that doesn't matter? Gaslight them. Just act like a really stubborn and confident idiot and it ends up making them look dumb for arguing with you. I saw someone do this once when you claimed sharks are smooth and whenever people tried to correct them that sharks actually feel rough like sandpaper, he just made constant responses that could be summed up to "no u". Ex: "Sharks are just some smooth ass water lions" "Actually sharks have been described by marine biologists as having rough, coarse skin." "No sharks are smooth." "No their not! Science has literally said otherwise!" "Nah science says their smooth." "What are your sources???" "I knew a shark. He was smooth."
Yes we are, I play a role of being 'Mr Agreeable' in a Don't ask me I'm just friendly-me way, I'm actually lowkey observing and picking up patterns from people, but people are less guarded around agreeable and friendly types. It's more helpful towards being liked too, which is always cool.
Im very liberal i a very conservative area. It is not worth my time to fact check every retarded thing they say in front of them so i just nod my head, the line that gets the to shut up the most is "oh id never thought of it that way before, thank you" because now they think theyve fully explained and can move on
I would like to point out that the video mentioned didn't say that the weed cured the boys' cancer the parents did it so they didn't have to deal with the boy being in constant pain people are idiots
That medical student is, actually, wrong and the barista is correct. I personally know someone who refused chemotherapy and used high grade cannabis oil pills and his cancer went into remission. The guy wasn't a pothead, he was a successful businessman.
i love to play dumb around rude people and bullies, not catching onto their insults or picking up on their aggression is top tier comedy. i just keep smiling, laughing, and kinda doing that vvy confused 'smile, head tilt, and giggle' routine and just like that they lose the will to keep being an asshole. no one has the patience to explain they're being a dick to an airheaded ray of sunshine.
😂❤
Fantastic. 🙂
1:10, This is actually taught in interpersonal communications classes. This is called turning to curiosity because instead of ignoring the other side you hear it first and ask how they came to that position, in turn creating a deeper conversation and understanding. debating the talking points out of the gate will not work.
My dad was actually accepted into Mensa, and was super smart but always preferred to cut wood or work physical jobs. Back when he was a ground's keeper at the golf course, it bothered me seeing these rich assholes talk down to him or treat him like he was dumb, but I realized he was playing into the dumb redneck trope. When I asked him about it he said it was great, people talked slow and repeated themselves. He has bad hearing from years of playing with explosives and running loud machinery. He can read lips rather well but some times it was just easier on him for people to talk slow and repeat themselves because they thought he was some dome hick. They also didn't expect much of him and he would surprise them with how much he actually knew or could do.
I did that too! I found as a child that appearing to be smarter than the rest guaranteed beatings and ostracism, so just shut up. Didn’t volunteer any information to anyone, as they’d just resent it. Served me in good stead later when caring for patients and families, as I could lead them to make their ‘own’ discoveries, and would then be able to be proud of their new knowledge. It costs nothing, and I didn’t care that occasionally I was thought to be the box of hammers.
I am high IQ as well but like lower level jobs because I hate corporate culture. I was cross trained in another department but the department was complete chaos and was operating in crisis mode every day. So I acted like I could not catch on to the computer program being used. Asked really stupid questions. They put me back in to my originating department 🤣
Around kids to make them get the idea they are smart
I wish my family did that. They just called me stupid and retard. Sh!t still hurts till this day.
That is the most wholesome reason to act dumb
That’s a good one
I wanted to say all the time. It's what I've done my whole life because you can't talk to someone and have an actual connection when the difference between you two is just too great. People like to feel dominant. Intelligence is associated with dominance in this day and age. So I pretend to be dumb for the sake of others. Unfortunately, even when I try, I find out humanity just keeps lowering the bar. Isn't that just peachy...
But you know what? I'm not happy. I don't even know what happiness to me looks like. I've placed so much of my value on fixing other people's lives while tricking them into believing they came up with the ideas themselves, only for them to mistreat me and go off on their own to inevitably fuck their lives up and come crawling back just to repeat the same process over and over again.
If this sounds like something you're going through, there's a word for people like us. We're called codependent. We base our worth off what we have to give unto others. It's not a mental illness, though it does have contributing factors and can be contributed to by mental illness.
If you too are codependent, I highly recommend seeking the help of a good therapist. But please keep in mind, there is a very big difference between going TO therapy and GETTING therapy. No one can fix you, only you can do that. Therapists only hold the torch and read the map on your journey through the darkest parts of your life. Let them. They're usually pretty good guides.
If you're codependent, I need to tell you what you're walking into when you seek help. You will have to change everything. The way we think due to our life experiences, has warped us into a parody of human thought. Think of it like an old switchboard. We have to slowly unplug one way of thinking and plug our newly unplugged cord into a new pattern of thought and behavior.
Not many people who are codependent have the self-awareness to sit down and ask themselves the had questions. "Am I the problem?" "What am I doing that's problematic?" "How far am I willing to go to correct myself?" I won't lie to you, it's going to be extremely difficult and probably take a while to gome out on top. It means you'll have to face some pretty deep dark fears and admit some things to yourself you really don't want to admit. In fact, most people don't even make it through the process before giving up and falling back into their miserable yet comfortable life.
I'm here to tell you, you too can be happy. You can live a life worth living! As a codependent, I can't even fathom what my own happiness looks like, but I've seen it in others. I want my own happiness, but I have to change myself into someone who can appreciate it first. They're not lying when they say the first steps a doozy. And so far, every step has been Hell, but you know what? I'm ready for this. I want better for myself and dammit you should too! You deserve that happiness, that joy, that serenity! But no one is going to give it to you. You have to forge it yourself in the fires of your soul. If your fire just isn't burning that hot these days, maybe you got laid off. Maybe your friends left you. Maybe your significant other broke up with you. Maybe your pet died. Maybe you're not on the best terms with your family. Maybe you have all of that going on at the same time like me. I am many things, but a coward I am not. If my fire is lacking, then I need to find something that breathes life into my flames! I will melt down every failure, every obstacle, every snide comment and dirty look that brings me down and I will pour it into the crucible of the life I want to life! I will hammer away at that life and give it shape! Give it meaning! Give it form! And when it's finished, I will have forged something spectacular into this world. And you deserve it too. So get that fire burning, my friends.
I like your incredibly long winded comment. It made me think 🤔 and roll my eyes 🙄 ... 8/10 would recommend 👍🏽
@@chanson8508
It wasn't for you.
Steven Crowder's "change my mind" is a great example. It's the Socratic method: instead of attacking the other person's assumptions you're playing dumb and asking good questions that make them think.
yeah, its a good approach angle if you want anything to be done, just a shame hes caught up in this divorce, whichever side is true, its still a shame
He wasn't playing dumb, just letting the other person speak and ask for clarification when they used buzzwords, always being polite and keeping his cool. I thought those exchanges were marvelous. Then I saw the video of him bullying his wife and had to write him off.
"better a fool in a moment than a moron long term"
At work! My dumb coworkers have way less responsibilities than those of us who try to be good at their job
Every retail job I’ve ever had for sure lol
The more you do, the more you are given.
Smart people are definitely resented, especially if they're from a group that "isn't supposed" to "be smart", so Black, female, etc. It is what it is.
Anti-intellectualism is a disease.
The smart black people I've met have told me no one has been more mad at them than other black people. Doing well in school and having proper diction was "acting white"
@DeadonHill well then it's a good thing black people aren't a monolith with the same thoughts, experiences, and ideals. In my school full of black people you're straight up clowned for being stupid. Anything lower than a C (and sometimes even that) and you're ostracized.
Y'all really talking about smart black people like they're just so incredibly rare. "The smart black people I've met" be wise I'm sure they all just saw you and immediately started spilling this information.
Exactly, white people actually love smart black people because they know the black person won't hate them for no reason. Whereas a not smart black person will blame white people for all his problems and hate them. So if you're black, you can choose who to be disliked by: be dumb and disliked by white people, or be smart and disliked by black people. That's the hard truth nobody likes to hear.
I work with the general public and when I get those customers that are just there to have a long conversation and not looking for any help I just pretend I don't understand what they are talking about. No matter how much they try to explain it. After a few minutes they think I'm a moron not worth talking to and leave me alone to go bug my coworkers for long stretches of time every time they come into the store. But not me. Not after that one time. Because I'm a moron in their mind.
In reality, most of the time. Too much ego and competition. Most of the time, it's best to downplay the true intelligence, until you know who and what your dealing with.
Stop giving away our secrets✋️ Real Gs move in silence. If you are smart, you will naturally reach this conclusion and move accordingly 👌🏾 Koreans call it "nucci" and you either have it or you don't 🤷🏾♀️
The quote about being thought a fool is actually from Abraham Lincoln. Least I think it is.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent. The Bible Proverbs 17:28. Paraphrased by Lincoln and Twain.
I'm visually impaired but sometimes when I don't want to deal with something I'm like oh everything is fuzzy. Which granted it pretty much is.
It's smart to pretend to be stupid at school
2:05 I’ve had a coworker once tell me “A wise man once said nothing” and I took it to heart to ensure I don’t do anything stupid
Turtle approved
When you're working a trade as the "young guy" and everyone else are older dudes, never show them the fact that you probably know the ins-and-outs of the job better than them! They'll only try to sabotage you later on just because they don't like being showed up by someone way younger than them who's actually got more experience on the job at fixing things that they don't know how to. Been through that too many times. Just because they're an older tradesman doesn't mean they're more competent.
Yea most folks would feel insulted at that so it's usually prudent to play dumb / not show others up 😅 Eventually there will naturally come a time for you to shine without directly giving a vibe of showing off 👍🏽
Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know more than the older people who have been doing longer. I made that mistake then as I got older I realized just how little I knew.
The child advice, I was taught how to spell "mom" by a kindergartener. This kid loves telling me stuff she has learned.
In any social interaction with strangers that I don’t want to be in I just pretend I don’t understand English 😂
From personal experience it’s sometimes best to stay quiet when you have disabilities. People leave you be more or less. But afterwards you can still get told you don’t know anything despite doing everything right.
"Just nod and agree" is pretty much my whole deal. I just don't have the energy to yak yak yak so hey you wanna believe the moon is made of cheese ok sure pal.
This reminds me of the "smile and wave, boys, smile and wave" penguins line from the Madagascar movie
because at this point that's the point we've all reached it feels like.
Earth is flat. 🍽️
This post should be renamed: "how to play gringo at convenient situations". this is what we meant in Venezuela by the idiomatic expression: "Hacerse el/la gringo/gringa".
I thought gringo meant white people? That's pretty racist.
Lets hope those two Ukrainian guys are doing alright.
The last place I lived had a lot of beggars who spoke both Spanish and English, they kept stopping me (target the gringo, start in Spanish, if they say they don't speak Spanish in English, switch to begging in English) but they always left me alone after I started telling them that I don't understand them in Russian.
I sometimes weaponize incompetent to either 1) have someone do the work for me or 2) when I’m trying to annoy people
I do not enjoy being wrong, but at the same time, I love being corrected and welcome it. Even though I didn't know I was wrong about something, I take great comfort knowing that I now have the correct knowledge. Hard to explain, but I hope that explanation will suffice.
I let people sling their bullshit and dig themselves deep before I ask them why they are lying?
My brother is a financial advisor. He also happens to have a bit of a temper. I was hanging out with him and my sister a few months ago and he was going on about how BlackRock owns all these houses and controls the housing market. I'm a realtor and explained to him that BlackRock doesn't own any houses but provides loans and insurance for homeowners. BlackStone owns houses, but despite popular misconceptions, all "mega-corporations" account for less than 4% of the housing market. He got mad and insisted that BlackStone was a subsidiary of BlackRock (which was true until 1988, but they haven't been related since then). Rather than correct him, I just kept my mouth shut and played dumb because it wasn't worth dealing with his spouts of anger
I did this with the company I work for but then they had to see my transcripts for tuition reimbursement and they realized I’m not stupid. It was kind of nice not having an expectations on you.
First one got me good lol
Years ago I did a test for an internship, there were 2 vacancies. Me and I think 3 or 4 other people did the test, but I had to do it in a separate room because one of the computers didn't work. We didn't get the results of the test, but I was hired alongside a girl. When talking to the other interns I mentioned the test and said I thought it was a bit difficulty, the girl said she thought it was easy.
Months later, when looking for some files on the computer, the girl found a spreadsheet with our names and our scores on the test. She scored like mid 30s, mine was mid 90s.
Love these lol
I pretend to know next to nothing about politics whenever I hear my family talking about them.
especially when my sister is talking.
as much as I hate communism I still love her.
Don't worry, eventually she'll snap out of it.. Good in you for still loving her through this phase.
She actually a communist? A socialist? Or a democratic socialist? There's actually a lot of difference there and in my experience the true red commies are actually pretty rare. A lot of people who aren't in leftist circles confuse the three frequently. And also, I've noticed that a lot of people in such circles become less extremist over time and usually fall into democratic socialism instead, so there's definitely a chance your sister will change her mind over time.
@@WASDLeftClick
we don't speak much about politics so I don't know the details on her political opinions, she claims to be a communist.
I wouldn't be surprised if she has confused it with something else.
I wouldn't call her an "extreemist".
If you’re trying to get away with using wireless earphones in a work setting that doesn’t allow it, just pretend they’re meant for “blocking out sound” when asked about it. If the employer doesn’t know the difference, they’ll believe you. Works like a charm.
Sometimes it’s easier to just call someone stupid and keep moving
"When you happen upon a hostage situation. If you pretend to be mentally challenged."
Im just picturing the cops at the hostage situation all eating crayons, licking windows, telling people to smell their finger, rolling on the ground, two of them making happy noises while introducing themselves to each other over and over again.
Meanwhile the hostage and the criminal just look at each other like "You wanna get outta here?" "Yeah, I'd like that."
The dumber you appear the less responsibility others will give you. This should be used in a work environment where good and diligent work is rewarded with even more work.
Sometimes to appear clueless is the only way to survive peoples expectations
It depends. Sometimes a workplace bully will try to pass their work off to you.
Then its best to disappoint them.
Cop: Who drives the 2005 Camry out front?
Me: What's a car?
At work. I fully believe in playing stupid at work. Smart enough to keep your job. Dumb enough to not get extra work and still get yearly raises 😏
It is better to be thought a fool is NOT in the bible.abe lincoln said it
Depending on the situation, around actual dumb and occasionally arrogant people. One dude I used to work with was both, and unless it was a serious issue, I just went "yeah uh-huh" the whole time, to his face. Behind his back UGH
Absolutely fantastic 😍.
I’m not really a super smart person, but it strikes me as silly to censor yourself just so others don’t feel bad about themselves because they didn’t pay attention in school.
It think there is a time and a place. People now-a-days do not value intelligence. "Do not cast your pearls before swine". You know you're smart and there will hopefully be some people in your life that value you for who you are. But don't waste your time on the others. Use your intelligence to further yourself....and that sometimes means dumbing down for self preservation.
Sometimes it's less work to play dumb than trying to educate a fool. Depends on what gets destroyed in the process.
6:16 Actually, this would be a good strategy against racist people who like to attack, say, people from Mexico or a country where English isn't their first language. Would drive the racist bonkers when the person they're harassing is like "no speak English...no speak English." 😂
Another good way to act like your stupid is by learning a second language so when a stranger tries to annoy you at best, take your money at worst, you can pretend not to speak your native language.
Whenever some guy in a mixed group told some really sleazy joke (when I was a teenager). I'd pretend ignorance, and ask them to explain. Having to explain a sleazy joke is Ultra Awkward. Lol. They'd shuffle off red faced. Yeah, mate, and so you should be embarrassed. And it wasn't funny either. Especially when offensively worded towards women.
1:38- 1:47 I no long express my opinions.. too many people don't appreciate a good discussion anymore... nor do they appreciate an "agree to disagree" conversation...
Let's have a beer... salud (health in Spanish)....
I look younger than I am. I almost never get sales pitches out in public.
All the time.
Who says I'm pretending?
I don't know, man, is there ever really a good tile to "play dumb"?? Because I really don't think there is.
Had a lady go off on my co-worker when I worked at walmart, and he was manning the register in electronics and going off on him about something dumb. Kept asking me if I had seen how this guy was treating her and how stupid he was (he was a retired programer doing the gig for some extra pocket money. Played dumb about working there till she asked the manager to ask me since I saw the whole incident and told them the truth and to watch the cameras. Oh boy....that look the lady gave me was like I had shat in her breakfast when she also heard I worked there she went balistic and kocked over a display of tvs. I think it was something related to cameras but can't recall more than that.
Lol this is actually really interesting… I’m not a genius by any means but I have a certain amount of native intelligence and I think it can lead to people perceiving me as a smartass, I would probably be better off pretending to be significantly dumber than I am
Being friendly and never saying a bad word about people can be similar to downplaying intelligence, in that people can let their guard down and talk more openly (about other people). I found this out due to being naturally friendly and not liking to speak ill of people.
if a cop stops you and you have a modded car
An acquaintance, S, was at the train station when a beggar approached him holding out a cap with a few coins in it. S just grabbed the coins, said 'ah thank you' in his most retarded voice and put them in his pocket. This made the beggar quite angry so he started yelling and causing a bit of a scene. S did his best to ignore him and walked around on the train station with the beggar screaming and pushing him. After a few minutes of this the police showed up - suddenly the beggar was nowhere to be seen.
Here's a funny way you can pretend to be stupid on the internet:
You know when you make an obvious hyperbole or minor factual error and some smart ass wants to publicly take to piss out of you for something that doesn't matter? Gaslight them. Just act like a really stubborn and confident idiot and it ends up making them look dumb for arguing with you.
I saw someone do this once when you claimed sharks are smooth and whenever people tried to correct them that sharks actually feel rough like sandpaper, he just made constant responses that could be summed up to "no u".
Ex:
"Sharks are just some smooth ass water lions"
"Actually sharks have been described by marine biologists as having rough, coarse skin."
"No sharks are smooth."
"No their not! Science has literally said otherwise!"
"Nah science says their smooth."
"What are your sources???"
"I knew a shark. He was smooth."
When the ozaru police is after you so you pretend not to know japanese
Weed might not cure cancer but if I get cancer I'm smoking a lot of weed.
This video just convinces me that we are all con artists in some way.
Yes we are, I play a role of being 'Mr Agreeable' in a Don't ask me I'm just friendly-me way, I'm actually lowkey observing and picking up patterns from people, but people are less guarded around agreeable and friendly types. It's more helpful towards being liked too, which is always cool.
Im very liberal i a very conservative area. It is not worth my time to fact check every retarded thing they say in front of them so i just nod my head, the line that gets the to shut up the most is "oh id never thought of it that way before, thank you" because now they think theyve fully explained and can move on
I would like to point out that the video mentioned didn't say that the weed cured the boys' cancer the parents did it so they didn't have to deal with the boy being in constant pain people are idiots
Not frist
That medical student is, actually, wrong and the barista is correct. I personally know someone who refused chemotherapy and used high grade cannabis oil pills and his cancer went into remission. The guy wasn't a pothead, he was a successful businessman.
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