<p>I feel like its that "big fish in a small pond" effect. They were always the best at their respective high schools, perhaps even smarter than their high school teachers. The thing is now they are in the ocean, but they still think they're the big fish.</p>
<p>That's interesting, the fear of being viewed as something unrefined, tactless, undeserving to belong to the social class of manners and cordiality. The internet is classless, perhaps, the only classless society (however 'psuedo' it may be) left. Without that certain anonymity, the pretensions begin. And of course, without our pretensions we really don't have much.</p>
<p>but dill_scout. I'm a freakin whale in the ocean.
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<p>Start taking the stairs, batman.</p>
<p>i dont get it. you're the whale? as in you think you're the smartest?
confuzzled.</p>
<p>"I feel like its that "big fish in a small pond" effect. They were always the best at their respective high schools, perhaps even smarter than their high school teachers. The thing is now they are in the ocean, but they still think they're the big fish."</p>
<p>"but dill_scout. I'm a freakin whale in the ocean.
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<p>HAHA! I love how this analogy is going...well, a whale is, for all purposes, a speck of dust in the ocean. Even a blue whale.</p>