<p>Requirement: Wisdom and common sense
Optional: hotness and intellect</p>
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“1” doesn’t need to be smart to be right, in this case. =P</p>
<p>I guess it depends on the concept of “dating”</p>
<p>It would be hard. I would forsee a communication breakdown.</p>
<p>Today, I went on an outing with some friends, only to find out that our interests had diverged considerably.</p>
<p>It’s quite sad to find out that you’ve outstripped your friends in mental development (or vice versa, as I feel happened to me). :(</p>
<p>With regard to dating, I would like to date someone on the same level as I. If they were too smart, my presence would be a burden for them. If they were too dumb, I would’ve never started talking to them in the first place. I’d like to imagine that there’s a happy medium out there.</p>
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<p>It is pretty sad. 
I had several friends in junior high that I’ve drifted from. Almost all my friends now are kids on the debate team, since that constitutes the entirety of smart kids in my poorly funded public high school. I kinda grew up and my interests changed significantly, whereas they were still just into video games/basketball/etc.</p>
<p>I could date a girl dumber than me. But I’d much rather date a girl at or near my intelligence level. I dated a girl once and after we broke up, it kinda hit me that we had nothing in common - she was pretty shallow. So now I try and only talk to intelligent girls - the not-so-intelligent ones are kinda dull, always gotta catch them up to speed on everything, lay it out in easier-to-comprehend terms lol.</p>
<p>^ I agree with this 100%</p>
<p>Except I haven’t drifted from my friends who don’t have the same interests as I do since I can always try finding ground with them easily. However… I absolutely can not do the same when it comes to dating and my last date was exactly the same as the poster above and I dreaded it. I need to be able to have serious and shallow conversations with my date and with my previous girlfriend, I could not have the former and barely the latter.</p>
<p>I think dumb is a relative term. But I would like to date someone that I can connect with on an intellectual level.</p>
<p>I want to date someone approximately as intelligent as I am. In addition to that, I’m quite certain that I wouldn’t date anyone who wasn’t going to/in college. Which college doesn’t really matter and often says little about intelligence. My father went to a college at which most CCers wouldn’t look twice, but I could marry someone like him (except for that whole “being an awful person” bit). My mother went to an Ivy; she has a small vocabulary and limited cultural literacy. My sister was trying to tell my mother something about Alexandre Dumas that would really only matter if you were aware of him. My mother doesn’t know who Dumas is. </p>
<p>One of my friends doesn’t have these standards. Her first two bfs were not the brightest crayons in the box, though one doesn’t notice much with the first. She told me about some of the difficulties in communicating with the 2nd, like words over a certain length being “banned” (he was a manipulative ■■■■■■■).</p>
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<p>For some reason, I never thought of crayons as being bright. :)</p>
<p>I would like to date someone of similar intelligence who is generally openminded.
Somebody who was way smarter might get frustrated with me, and somebody considerably ‘dumber’ (or as I prefer to say, more ignorant) would be difficult to put up with.</p>
<p>Everyone who I’ve dated or even flirted with has been dumber than me, so eventually I learned to accept it. But now there’s this guy I’m talking to who’s as smart as me, probably smarter, and I think it’s way cooler that he’s as smart as me. I can relate to him on academic matters and goals, and its something we have in common. I also don’t feel like a big geek or that I need to dumb myself down when I talkt to him.</p>
<p>So I would date someone who is dumber than me, but it would be much better to date someone as smart as me.</p>
<p>^^^Isn’t that an expression? I thought it was. I mess up expressions a lot, :(. I can find internet proof that it’s somewhat commonly said. Google gives me 254,000 results. One success?!</p>
<p>^No, dearie. It’s “not the brightest bulb.”</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2687]This[/url”>http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2687]This[/url</a>] is something that I found that may explain where you got it from, but generally, crayons do not emit light. :)</p>
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<p>…But crayons light up my world! They MUST emit light!</p>
<p>I will vicariously answer this question. I don’t mind dating Paris Hilton.</p>
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Sorry about that. For your purposes, they may emit light.</p>
<p>^Maybe she’s really smart on the inside.</p>
<p>Yeah… my friends have dropped down on the scale. Like… I can’t even discuss the same topics with them. No one wants to discuss the things I want to at my school.</p>
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Lolwut? You mean you’ve never heard “bright” used to describe a color?</p>
<p>Your finding it on a clich</p>
<p>I would like a girl who could think for herself… I don’t really care how smart she is, as long as she has a mind of her own.</p>