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<p>Yes, I have. But in the context you used it, what on earth would a crayon’s brightness have to do with anything? Bulbs are one matter, colors are another.</p>
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<p>I don’t care how hot she is, if she is excessively stupid, can’t hold a conversation, annoying, etc… I probably wouldn’t date her. Looks aren’t everything…yeah they are important, but I don’t want to be stuck with dumb@$$ the rest of my life. </p>
<p>Perfect scenario: 3 Bs :)</p>
<p>i would never want to date someone dumber than me. That would just be catostrophic.</p>
<p>This year was really bad, in terms of my attitude (Being suicidal = depression?) and grades, so if someone who wants to date me has a focus on my grades, then there’s going to be problems…</p>
<p>As long as the person in question of dating can hold a semi-intelligent conversation and is capable of being a decent person, then they’re datable. I like people with differing views, though. c:</p>
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<p>Relocate ‘hotness’ to Requirement.</p>
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It may have originally been parody, but this has little relevance to its weight now, considering that most people have no idea of and no concern about the origins of phrases. If you have evidence to its carrying less weight when commonly used, please cite it.* (I don’t think either phrase carries much offense. If someone used a variant in an argument with me, I’m pretty sure I’d find it more laughable than offensive.)</p>
<p>*Or don’t. You’re totally right that we should stop talking about crayons. Anyway, I mainly didn’t say “brightest bulb” because it’s like “not the brightest bulb in the what?” I think most people say box, but usually, bulbs come in their own boxes, making every bulb the brightest (and dimmest) bulb in the box. A crayon’s being bright may matter less, but at least it’s sure to come in a box.</p>
<p>i love how most of the posters on this thread appear to think that he/she
is/will be the smarter other.</p>
<p>it’d be pretty amusing if any two of the posters were a couple in real life…</p>
<p>Oh lord. The smartest, most socially awkward, crazy couple! That’d be a sight…</p>
<p>^^ It would be if two people here were dating each other!
But my two friends are a couple, the guy is (valedictorian) basically a mostly reserved brainy guy who’ll be going to Penn premed and the girl is (runner up valedictorian) that debate club kind of girl who is going to Northwestern journalism.</p>
<p>as long as she’s well mannered, not sarcastic all the time, and good looking… intelligence doesn’t matter to me.</p>
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<p>Chandelier? Yes? No?</p>
<p>Oh! Christmas tree! 
(“My astounding contribution to this discussion totally proves that I am the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.”)</p>
<p>its not that i wouldn’t date a dumber guy, but i feel like the only guys i ever even attract are smart. my first boyfriend ended up going to dartmouth, the next two were harvard boys and my latest goes to MIT. >_></p>
<p>wow, you run through boyfriends like a liberal arts major through jobs…</p>
<p>I’ve never had a girlfriend who was smarter than me, so… to answer OP’s question: not at all. Any girls smarter than me have diminishing returns in the attractive category.</p>
<p>How exactly do you know if someone is not as intelligent as you?</p>
<p>Intelligence is a trait that i really, really like in guys. If it’s not there then that’s a huge turnoff for me.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d be able to gauge the intelligence of anyone except those with right around the same amount and type of intelligence as me. </p>
<p>If someone is significantly smarter than me, I could easily mistake her for an idiot. I have never been great at separating deep creativity from an arrogant slouch who thinks she’s too intelligent to work. I suspect that neither type would be extremely interested in the ideas I’d find interesting. One is too smart, and one is too uppity and stupid.</p>
<p>Likewise, if her intelligence isn’t rational/quantitative in nature, then I’d probably have no idea that she’s intelligent for a while.</p>
<p>I think it would be funny for about two weeks, and then I would want to cry. I want to be able to have a deep conversation with a significant other, and having to limit topics to, I don’t know, sports or beer is a big constraint. I don’t ask that they have read Faust in the original German, just merely that they be interested in the world around them.</p>