Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
I've got a Brian but never bloody use it properly.
Passed my 11+ and all.
Passed my 11+ and all.
Would you rate yourself as clever?
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chrisd
Major Champion
I know what I know and bluff the rest! Got by in life but it's pretty impossible to define clever.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Quite good with Diy things
Seem to know the answers to most questions when the answer is revealed but could not remember it before then.
This happens a lot and is very frustrating when you know you know the answer but can't recal it.
Its not an age thing as I have always been like this.
would class myself as average.
Rooter
Money List Winner
I should have studied engineering. Its what i work in now, but as a sales monkey. I like to know how stuff works, i can strip and rebuild a classic mini, rebuilt motorbike engines, DIY master in training, am building my own extension, love technology, could rewire a house and plumb it too. My job works around very high power electric and mechanical cooling technologies, both of which i know too much about to be a sales monkey. However, i messed about at school, just scraped through with all C grade GCSE without any revision or coursework done.
Didn't go to uni, but really should have.
So am i clever? no, reading that back, i'm an idiot!!
Didn't go to uni, but really should have.
So am i clever? no, reading that back, i'm an idiot!!
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drewster
Tour Rookie
That, right there, is everything i am hopelessly awful at. Anything practical and i am useless althought i do try stuff now with a bit of pointing in the right direction. On that basis I am as thick as pigmuck but think i can carry myself in most company, did well on The Weakest Link and understand the difference between "they're, their and there" and "your and you're" but does that make me clever or do i just have a good memory. Who knows ?
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
I don't know what I don't know.
Also wish I'd stuck at art instead of burying myself in academic and technical rubbish for half my life. Or been a plumber.
Also wish I'd stuck at art instead of burying myself in academic and technical rubbish for half my life. Or been a plumber.
Ross61
Challenge Tour Pro
Im like you with recalling things. If I meet someone new on the first tee, by the time I've taken my drive I've forgotten their name...
most embarrassing. I can remember numbers better and every shot taken in the round when I get home, but names just drop out of my head. I end up just calling everyone "mate"
Piece
Tour Winner
I don't feel too clever today.
Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
i set my targets low so they are easier to reach.makes me look clever ,unfortunately i rarely reach my targets .
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
You sound like my twin.
I have started writing their names on my card with the Colour of jumper they have on.
Its very embarrassing when you can't remember someone's name, the wife hates it.
londonlewis
Tour Rookie
Fantastic post!
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Excellent. I'm in the category too. Love the signature as well.
Ex -wife used to say I can have an argument completely uncluttered with facts.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Copied pasted and printed for possible use this weekend. Hope you don't mind.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Youngest Grandson (5yo) thinks I'm very funny. That'll do for me!
londonlewis
Tour Rookie
I'd like to consider myself in the upper half.
Not a genius, not a dummy. I've been told I have great potential but fail to apply myself. I struggle most when I find things boring.
Not a genius, not a dummy. I've been told I have great potential but fail to apply myself. I struggle most when I find things boring.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'm thick aparently. I voted for Brexit.
I must be intelligent then as I know that you are not
I know a lot of 'stuff' - like the HNSP ... but I am not particularly good on modern social media technology - my daughter once called me a technotard
And my dad would often say to me 'you may be clever but you've no bloody common sense'
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You're not alone. I have same problem especially in club matches against members from other clubs and like you I have to right name/jumper colour. If its a member of my own club in a comp I revert to "mate" like you
G.U.R
Head Pro
Nope. Didn't get on well at school and left with CSE's not O Levels. Worked for the same company for 28 years, and there are some very clever people here. I content myself with knowing they couldn't do what I do in the same way I couldn't do what they do.
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User62651
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This is a common problem, I tend to try and use word association, think of someone famous with the same name to help remember, doesn't always work though. We dont use the term mate in Scotland, pal is a bit over familiar so leaves us with nothing except waiting until you get in their field of view to confirm a hole score, hold a flag or whatever. Otherwise fess up and ask their name again.
