Me too.
I would suffer the shame of being the dumbest person in the room in exchange for watching people that spend half their time in thought processes I can't understand. Only by watching people with very different world views can I start learning what they know.

Rather how I felt in my younger working days when I got to spend time with any contracted engineers that whatever company I was with brought in. (well, the smart ones who were actually worth the money spent to bring them in anyway. )

I kind of miss lying awake all night thinking about some new way of understanding and doing something gave me reason to change my whole perspective on how I approached my work from then on.

 

Me too.
I would suffer the shame of being the dumbest person in the room in exchange for watching people that spend half their time in thought processes I can't understand. Only by watching people with very different world views can I start learning what they know.

I've often been surprised at how uncomfortable other people are when they feel like they're the dumb one. It doesn't bother me or you, and I find it thrilling or refreshing, and an opportunity. How horribly dull it is to be the smartest guy in the room! I'm pretty sure you know what I mean, when you have to dumb yourself down and try to think of topics that won't betray your stealth intelligence. I learned it by 6th grade or so, when it became obvious that the girls weren't looking for IQ.

 

I've often been surprised at how uncomfortable other people are when they feel like they're the dumb one.

And sometimes, they aren't very nice about it.
That's where I got the idea to (always try to) address the audience at their level.
It's especially helpful on a teaching site. The noobs are here because they're willing to learn, not because they can keep up with the teachers.

I find it thrilling or refreshing, and an opportunity

I do too, but it's a little frightening, too. I guess that's what you meant with the word, "thrilling". Trying to tread conversational water when you're in way over your depth while hoping nobody is so disappointed that they kick you to the curb.

I'm pretty sure you know what I mean, when you have to dumb yourself down

And we're back to, "compartmentalizing". I can be social, or silly, or superficial, and I never expect anybody to start talking in math or electronics terms. I just keep those compartments to myself. At the same time, I appreciate wisdom, even if it can't be quantified. Some of the most uneducated hicks in Kentucky showed me the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime living outdoors. Even my puppies taught me things! Among them were, "Slow doesn't mean stupid" and, "They understand getting schooled, but they don't understand punishment." Presto! All my dark urges for hatred and revenge disappear. The person next to me is either teachable or not, but punishment won't fix it. If they aren't teachable, they can at least be sociable. That has value, too.

 

I learned it by 6th grade or so, when it became obvious that the girls weren't looking for IQ.

7th grade for me. That year they did school wide assessment tests. Pain in the ass near flunking out of class ( in a crap school and bored to death with my flunkie teachers) me at 13 years old pulled a overall assessment plus IQ score out of my ass that topped the A++ senior overachiever girl (and 90% of the high school faculty) by something like 15 - 20 points on every subject (except english. big ol' dummy there. ) and 10+ on IQ alone and she was wicked smart.

Mom and Dad found out and poop hit the fan to no end after that and I was held to such ridiculous expectations and standards from that day on I couldn't take it.

Wasn't none too popular with the girls for a few years either but that was the least of my problems. Pretty much what set me to my lifelong slacker goals. Screw living up to anyone's standard but my own.

Now by junior and senior year I had the girl game figured out and getting with the girls was easy for me at that point!

 

And sometimes, they aren't very nice about it.
That's where I got the idea to (always try to) address the audience at their level.
It's especially helpful on a teaching site. The noobs are here because they're willing to learn, not because they can keep up with the teachers.

I find myself running out of patience with those types. I can only dumb down so far before the context and value of the subject becomes too simplified to carry the proper context any more. Especially when the person deliberately plays dumb so as to not have to accept that what they thought something is is not what it is or that it has way more subtleties behind it than they can understand.

Explaining three phase AC power theory to someone who's stumbling with DC is difficult for me. (Common power conversion fail point issue with the over unity believers crowd) I can only simplify it so far and draw a picture that is so basic before it stops being correct and true to it's form.

 

At the same time, I appreciate wisdom, even if it can't be quantified. Some of the most uneducated hicks in Kentucky showed me the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime living outdoors. Even my puppies taught me things! Among them were, "Slow doesn't mean stupid" and, "They understand getting schooled, but they don't understand punishment." Presto! All my dark urges for hatred and revenge disappear. The person next to me is either teachable or not, but punishment won't fix it. If they aren't teachable, they can at least be sociable. That has value, too.

Yep. I've come to appreciate anyone anything that can show me something new and interesting no matter how small. I have kitties so for me Kitty based view of reality has proven very interesting for me to learn about. (I just got brought a dead bird for lunch. I gave it back anyways. ) Strange appreciation methods they have but at least they all show it which is far more than I can say many humans ever do for what gets done for them!

I have very little hate or revenge drives. Never really had. I don't mind seeing karma slap someone down hard when they have earned it but still, I have a limit to what satisfaction that brings.
The Ex wanted out because I was 'nobody going nowhere' so I let her go to live her 'life of grand success' without me. Karma apparently felt different. My last year without her went very well hers however did not. At first it was satisfying but after a while I started hoping things would get better. Watching someone's own overdriven ego and hypercontrol issues kick their own ass day after day in life gets old after a while. At first I feel they rather deserve it. Then at some point they're just paying back the interest on their past actions, that's okay. I've been there, and towards the end when it's just self inflicted misery being played out day after day I don't find it satisfying any more.

 

Only by watching people with very different world views can I start learning what they know.

How horribly dull it is to be the smartest guy in the room!

If they aren't teachable, they can at least be sociable. That has value, too.

Screw living up to anyone's standard but my own.

Wow, what an amazing collection of inspiring quotes... this thread is the perfect example why I love to hang around this place... But please, carry on by all means... just pretend I'm not here...

 

just pretend I'm not here...

Can't do that. When I think of you, my mind goes west and turns left at California.
Three of the best years of my life were in California.
Every time I think of them my heart does a happy dance.

 

Got another one!

Big male 25+ pounds!

Headshot (brain exploder shot so it never felt anything) from the back so it went all wild flippy floppy on impact. Unfortunately it also opened a major artery into the mouth on exit making this one a real bloodbath which I don't care for.
Especially being this one never got off the deck. Literal bloody mess everywhere.

Headshots from the front seem to limit both of those issues for some reason. Instant kills without much flopping around or blood like a rear shot does.

 

he was eatin good

 

Headshot a real bloodbath

I had the misfortune to see a video of a man eating his pistol. Blood poured like a garden hose.
Then there was that video of a Vietnamese sheriff putting a .38 in a guy's head. Blood squirted 3 feet out of the bullet hole before he dropped 5 inches!

I was reminded of the 5th grade biology class where the teacher scrambled a frog's brain and cut the frog open to show the heart still beating. The lesson is that the heart has it's own signal generator. Taking out the brain (or the whole head) has no (immediate) effect on the heart. If you create a leak, the heart will pump all the blood it can find, out the leak.

Word to the wise: If you don't want a bloody mess, don't create a significant leak in the head.

 

headshots are great for eatin game

 

gets the blood out fast

 

it also opened a major artery into the mouth

The projectile had enough energy to cut a hole all the way through the brain and keep on going. It broke thousands of tiny blood vessels. There is no need to hit a, "major artery" when you have 20,000 capillaries leaking at full normal blood pressure. It sure looks like a major artery, but it would look the same if it wasn't.

headshots are great for eatin game

gets the blood out fast

I have to agree. That's probably why a farmer cuts a chicken's head off.
@tcmtech Do you need a recipe?

 

Headshot (brain exploder shot so it never felt anything) from the back so it went all wild flippy floppy on impact.

Tcmtech raccoons always go into convulsions when fatally shot even when CNS isn't directly injured! Maybe dying hard like that is evolved trait to gross out predators?

he was eatin good

BR-549 OMG! I'd starve to death b4 I ate raccoon tissue! Uggg! Seriously! It reeks even when it's totally fresh! So I don't like wild game anyway but raccoon is super vile!

I had the misfortune to see a video of a man eating his pistol.

#12 when I was 17 I saw a friend commit suicide by putting blasting cap in his mouth But I never shed any tears for him cuz suicide is totally inexcusable (except in some cases of extreme incurable health issue which wasn't his problem) so I didn't see it as tragic I just saw it as RUDE cuz if he insisted on topping himself he could have done it in private! Life is negative enough w/o getting spattered head to toe with tissue that was part of living body of friend a moment b4

 

"he" is the raccoon.

25#

 

"he" is the raccoon.

25#

BR-549 Being serious 80 lbs raccoons aren't unheard of around here!

 

#12 when I was 17 I saw a friend commit suicide by putting blasting cap in his mouth

I am so grateful that I have never seen a human die. I have attended one funeral with an intact corpse. That was all I needed to know I would never do that again.

I have poured ashes in the ocean, I have looked at urns full of ashes, but I never want to see another corpse.
It creeps me out!!!

 

I am so grateful that I have never seen a human die. I have attended one funeral with an intact corpse. That was all I needed to know I would never do that again.

I have poured ashes in the ocean, I have looked at urns full of ashes, but I never want to see another corpse.
It creeps me out!!!

#12 I totally agree that there are happier experiences in life than those that remind us of our own mortality and that of all those we care abt!

 

The projectile had enough energy to cut a hole all the way through the brain and keep on going. It broke thousands of tiny blood vessels. There is no need to hit a, "major artery" when you have 20,000 capillaries leaking at full normal blood pressure. It sure looks like a major artery, but it would look the same if it wasn't.

Well whatever happened it was a real gusher. Most only loose a few tablespoons and twitch a bit with a front shot. This one went wild. The back deck is 8' x 20' and it was covered from end to end with splatter and it was clearing the top of the deck table table while flopping around.

I got a five gallon bucket and washed it off but their is still a lot all over today I didn't get.

Tcmtech raccoons always go into convulsions when fatally shot even when CNS isn't directly injured! Maybe dying hard like that is evolved trait to gross out predators?

I've been reading up on that and apparently in animals the spinal cord does almost as much neural control work as their brain does. Once the brain is disconnected the spinal control systems go wild until they run out of oxygen.

I'm guessing that when I do a front shot, being I aim for an eye, I take out the front and upper part of the brain leaving most of the rear lower area that keeps the spinal cord related control damped in place. This one being a low rear shot took that part out hence the full uninhibited reflex actions.

BR-549 OMG! I'd starve to death b4 I ate raccoon tissue! Uggg! Seriously! It reeks even when it's totally fresh! So I don't like wild game anyway but raccoon is super vile!

Yea even their blood stinks if they lose enough.

he was eatin good

Yea, the kitty food was disappearing all week and even the big dish in the house emptied out the other night so I figured something was up.

3rd one this year already. #2 got a slow bad death though. I had a weak shell that didn't penetrate the skull. (walmart ammunition has a dud every now and then) It knocked it down then went convulsions but instead of dieing it jumped up and ran away and got into the tall grass before I could get a clear 2nd shot.

I tried to track it down but after 100 yards through the brush and trees behind the house I lost the blood trail.

BR-549 Being serious 80 lbs raccoons aren't unheard of around here!

30+ are not uncommon here and I have heard stories of a few that weighed out around 40, but not 80!

I think I'd need to invest in a shotgun or a .223 dear rifle for one of those!