I have a Masters/PhD//am a engineer/doctor/scientist and post on DU

[mudesi]

A public service announcement to everyone on DU and on the entire Internet who posts about their credentials in this that or the other to make a point or keep from embarrassing themselves....

Nobody believes you.

And you're lying.


That is all.

[maddiejoan]

I'm an unemployed Art Director

believe it!

[gateley]

6. OT -- how come some posts (like this one of yours, maddiejoan) aren't

numbered? I've seen it a few times. Does it "mean" anything?

Thanks!

[mcscajun]

11. Near as I can tell it's a Time Collision: Two posts at Exactly the same moment

only One can get the number. The other gets just the #.

Of course...I could be wrong. :D

[gateley]

13. That makes sense -- thanks. nt

[hoosier_lefty]

25. that's what I get for reading a thread about ..

.. someone with a PHD! Now we've broken off into the E-space / time continuum .

My midwest factory workin' brain can't handle it!

[WCGreen]

33. Wouldn't that cause the world as we know it to end....

[mcscajun]

151. Let's not get into temporal mechanics now...

...that subject always gave me a headache. :evilgrin:

[Virginia Dare]

36. Perhaps we need a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics to explain that to us...

I'm sure there's one here somewhere..

[verges]

137. But no one

would believe him!

[Hoof Hearted]

152. How metaphysical.

I know that word, because I'm a metaphysicalist.

(Just trying to keep with the theme of the thread here)

[maddiejoan]

22. I am not a number

I am a Free Man!

[gateley]

32. Uh, don't look now, but...

[mdmc]

43. It is an odd glitch

I've been watching a thread that never ends up being archived - it stays alive on page 21 and never gets bumped into the archives.:shrug:

[orleans]

123. link? n/t

[mdmc]

139. sure do!

This OP will make it to GD page 21, then stay there as other OP's go into the achieves. I usually allow it to sit on page 21 for a couple days before I kick it.
The only way I found it was by looking at page 20. I generally hang out on page 20 and :kick: kick OP's that I feel would benefit DU'ers. I only kick threads that I find valuable.
I've been kicking this one cause it is just so odd that it will never 'die' on its own.:shrug:
Take a look - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2527979

[orleans]

140. interesting.

so i went browsing too. i found this on page 15:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2898660

clicked on the link and found this -- that i am now in love with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zGqHwUGTAI&feature=related

thank you for the idea.

[Hissyspit]

144. Check out the Journals - Most read today/this week always includes AZBlue, even though...

AZBlue hasn't posted to her/his journal in almost a year.

[mdmc]

149. odd

so do you think that there is a glitch or are many DU'ers checking daily for another AZBlue post? Is there something there that might bring views from the outside?

Gotta check it out:kick:

[soulcore]

130. Hahaha, me too!

Thank karma for freelance!

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Impressive. How are you in the rack?

[babylonsister]

5. LOL! nt

[blm]

9. UH - that is where I received MY doctorate. And my lawyerate. And my Masters. And a few

Hall of Famers, and an Emmy winner, and a......heheheheh

[L. Coyote]

23. Yes, that can be a last laugh. Not that I hold a degree or anything .... LOL

[jody]

2. I'm confident many DUers have comparable academic degrees and research accomplishments. n/t

[fenriswolf]

3. wow someone has self esteem issues

[panader0]

4. I'm a bricklayer

But my girlfriend won't let me show my credentials to anyone but her.......

[Mike03]

7. It does mean something to me when people either post their

credentials or, more importantly, demonstrate them by the content of their posts.

That is what makes DU so great--you can get advice or help from people with incredibly experience here. What is the need to destroy that?

[monmouth]

16. Absolutely agree. A plethora of great minds on this forum. JoeinPhilly..

hmmmmm. I lived in So. Jersey but have a fuzzy memory..oh well.

[bluedawg12]

73. I am wondering the same thing. Why this Lord of the Flies moment?

Frankly, I don't give a shit if any believes anything I say. But I wold not enjoy being called a liar.

[baby_mouse]

127. I make the effort to apply reasoning to my posts and thoughts.

This being the case, everything I say is subject to doubt.

[blondeatlast]

8. I'm a Domestic Goddess.

Really.

[GreenPartyVoter]

118. Moi aussi. Although from the mess around here you wouldn't know it. LOL

[JoePhilly]

10. Do you mean that no one believes my claims of a HUGE member??

I actually do have a Masters and a PhD. But now I am very self conscious.

:hide:

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. This isn't Weight Watchers, but thanks for sharing.

[JoePhilly]

40. Oh man .... now I'm fat ... oh no wait .. I said that ... so maybe I can't be trusted.

I must be thin.

:bounce:

[stellanoir]

12. I've a medical degree

from the "Lance & Leech School of Medicine" from the 1500's so it is not at all advisable to ask me for medical advice.

Okay. . .?

Just saying.

[Gold Metal Flake]

14. I am a devout born-again Christian and I am guided by the words of the lord.

Therefore, everything I post is the truth.

[Hepburn]

21. Thank you....

....Mike Huckabee....!

[Gold Metal Flake]

53. Mmmm.

Tasty Squirrel.

[AikidoSoul]

61. Mmmmm.!! Fried in lard with a bit o swamp cabbage

Yep.

[Gold Metal Flake]

62. If you are going into the swamp, please pick up a couple of these...

[panzerfaust]

49. Bless you

[Gold Metal Flake]

54. Geshundteit.

[melody]

15. What angers me is when people refuse to take the word about anything from someone with credentials

As if ignorance is some kind of informed position on its own.

If I was communicating about cooking with a cook, I'd listen to his/her input, because I can't cook. But when I'm
discussing a topic I know something about, I'm stunned at the number of people who try to hold opinions in areas
they've never studied. There are plenty of arrogant know-it-alls (I've run across them, too), but there are just as
many arrogant "I have a right to an opinion" people who often have no knowledge on which to base their opinion in the
first place ... they just emotionally want to believe something and they do.

It's the old tradition of anti-intellectualism in the USA.

[Captain Angry]

24. A degree doesn't make you an expert in your subject.

Ask Bush.

BUT, in general, somebody who has credentials probably has some insights that somebody without them might not have.

Try having a degree in finance and having to explain over and over and over again how the central banking system or the mortgage backed securities work. And being yelled at for supporting corporate greed or something. Knowing how it works doesn't make me a billionaire. If it did, there wouldn't be finance professors. :-)

[melody]

26. No, but it doesn't by default make you ignorant on it!

A degree one EARNS makes you informed on the subject ... Bush's dad bought his.

[bluedawg12]

65. Knowledge, skill, education, experience and training make an expert

Duabert Rule.

[AZCat]

71. Hairy eyebrows, ear hair and a wife beater make an expert

Dilbert Rule.

[bluedawg12]

77. You can swing fro a hair on my @ss

dildo rule.

[AZCat]

78. That's a new one on me.

I guess I haven't been to the right places on teh internetz. :shrug:

[bluedawg12]

81. Well I have an "expertise" in anatomy see, I am not lying! LMAO n/t

[AZCat]

82. I bow to your obvious superiority.

Not my area, really.

[bluedawg12]

85. Wow, you must be a linguist. That's so poetic. n/t

[AZCat]

87. Not even close.

I'm a numbers man, myself.

[bluedawg12]

89. Shush! No credentials!

Board police are watching.

[AZCat]

91. Ahhhaah! Fooled you!

See, you can't trust those internet peoples!



(j/k)

[bluedawg12]

93. You could have duped me

All you had to do was clip and paste and you would have had me at "linear operators".

[AZCat]

97. Man, that takes me back.

I haven't had to do derivatives in at least six months. You get rusty in the workplace, I guess.

[bluedawg12]

104. Well, it's all Greek to me

but I have been trying to (dare I say it) teach myself Calculus--one of those Princeton self tutorial CD-ROMS.

I can't get past the if A drives 10mph north for an hour and B drive 42.789 mph south who will reach the badger under the tree first?

Grrrrrrr..repukes are trashing OB on Maher now---

"where do they(Dems) stand on America?" preview of GE.

[AZCat]

106. Ugh. I'm not going to enjoy the next few months.

There's a reason I don't own a TV - I would go crazy(er) if I had to watch all the framing of issues and avoidance of hard questions that seem to be the bulk of the media coverage of our elections.


I got lucky and had a kick-ass calculus teacher in high school. College was a mixed bag, but what I had learned earlier helped me push through. Just remember that calculus is just geometry. If you can visualize what you're trying to solve it sometimes can make it easier to get to the solution.

[bluedawg12]

109. That's why I went for the human sciences LOL

less math-except, currently there is some merging of math models and disease that are very cool.

Mathmeticians are looking at ways in which cells, like cancer cells behave and are working on predictive models.

The self taught math was for relaxation-and for fun, to see if I could do it.

Yu are not missing anything on TV other than spin, as you said framing and MSM manipulation of people.

[Indenturedebtor]

17. I'm an advertising salesman

But you can call me Dr. Love ;)

[Dorian Gray]

18. Made me LOL....

I do believe some posters. Others? Yeah, not so much.

[bluestateguy]

20. I thought we were all 35 year olds on welfare living in our mothers' basement

nt

[TexasObserver]

124. No, that's Free Republic!! And it's true!! See also, Chad Constanza, or whatever his name is.

[mike_c]

27. we're supposed to believe that from a guy who thinks he's a dead rock band...?

Righto. :rofl:

[Fredda Weinberg]

28. Excuse me? n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. I have five degrees111!11

How dare you use secsist words like that!

[distantearlywarning]

30. Typically I have only seen this/done this myself

When forced to by an opponent who knows literally *nothing* about a subject and demands that I provide proof of why my "opinion" is more valid than his/hers.

I put the word "opinion" in quotes above because the typical assertion in that sort of discussion goes like this: "My OPINION is just as valid as yours", disregarding the fact that many things in the universe are fact rather than opinion, and therefore only one side of some discussions are actually correct, regardless of how strongly someone feels about their particular viewpoint.

And yes, people with advanced degrees in a particular field DO often know more about that field than your average internet poster with a layperson's knowledge.

And frankly, I suspect anyone who claims otherwise is buying into the anti-intellectualism that is currently rampant in our society (and sadly, on DU also).

P.S. I'm not lying. If other people choose to disbelieve what I say about myself because believing would force them to reconsider their "opinions", well, that's something I can't do anything about. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

[panzerfaust]

55. Yep.

I agree that generally one's 'credentials' are not relevant on msg-boards.

However, when something technical is being discussed, or rather, when something technical is being wildly misrepresented, then I do believe that there comes a time when those involved should be willing to lay out, for all to see, what background one has in the issue under discussion.

[Aviation Pro]

31. I am Jack's Colon.....

...and I vote.

[davidinalameda]

125. I actually get the reference

I think my mother saved every Reader's Digest from the Kennedy administration on

[Aviation Pro]

131. Go rent the movie "Fight Club"....

....it's an integral part of the film.

[davidinalameda]

157. I think I remember that in the movie

[SalmonChantedEvening]

34. In one of my previous incarnations

I was killed by a coach wheel that came off a carriage used by nobody of historical importance.

:D

[Virginia Dare]

35. I have a Ph.D. in Bullshittery...

are you impressed?...:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

44. Piled High and Deeper

:D

[annabanana]

37. It's all good. . the native intelligence of the average DUer shines through..

degree'd or otherwise...

[Uben]

38. I laughed at that post too!

Most people who brag about how smart they are, usually aren't! They just did their time in school to get the degrees.

[blues90]

39. that's the thing about the internet , be anyone you want to be

[Raejeanowl]

70. There Are Actual Websites Devoted To This Subject

As in, how to spot an internet liar, chock with descriptions of the usual M.O.s and some street-corner psychology about why they do it. But there's a darker side to it as you can imagine, when people get hooked up with them in real life.



(Edited for typo)

[Speck Tater]

41. I won the Nobel Prize for inventing the rubber band. NT

[Swamp Rat]

42. I'm a very small rodent.

I like to vote. :)

[IDemo]

45. Blowhard -->>

Blowhard feels the need to present his credentials before entering the fray - even if they are irrelevant to the discussion. For example, in a movie forum conflict he might attempt to settle the matter by saying, "As a Ph. D. candidate in particle physics I believe I can say with some authority that the 'Beavis and Butthead' movie represents the emergence of a new cultural paradigm." Huh?

[bluedawg12]

66. Are we cleansing the bourgeoisie from our ranks tonight? LOL

[Feron]

46. I invented Post-Its. n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

103. Greatest invention ever. Glue that doesnt stick.

I read somewhere that was a line from one of the folks in the lab that came up with the substance.

"It's perfect! Glue that doesn't stick!"

[stray cat]

47. Everything posted on DU is a lie and no one believes anyone about anything.

That actually explains alot....

[Greyhound]

90. Except people that agree with me. n/t

[panzerfaust]

48. There is some point to this?

Which has totally escaped me.

[Kitty Herder]

50. As for me, I'm unemployed, disabled and dropped out of college. But I have opinions, damnit! nt

[AlCzervik]

51. I'm Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations.

[JBoy]

58. Lucky. You must have the t-shirt.

[AlCzervik]

60. yup and on my death bed i'll receive total consiousness., so i got that going for me.

which is nice.

[lonestarnot]

52. I'm a fart in a whirlwind and

I do lotsa dat post'n. LOL :toast:

[Ghost in the Machine]

56. I'm just a dirty ol' hippie and an offramp bum...

I was a restaurant owner up until the end of December, but I had to shut down because of losing too much money and because of of my health.

Now I'm just trying to find a way to make a living online, since no one will hire me anywhere else due to my disabilities and health issues. In the meantime, I guess I've gotta be a bum...

Lemme hold a dollar??

[leeroysphitz]

57. I am a medical doctor. I own a mansion and a yacht. n/t

[sarcasmo]

59. Taxi Driver with a Class A CDL, nothing to hide here.

[NutmegYankee]

63. Engineers never post on DU?

What are you smoking?

[bluedawg12]

64. Why would you say that? There are people from all walks of life here

and input from people with expertise or training is nothing to be ashamed and it may be useful.

I think we can tell when people are sh8tting us.

[Raejeanowl]

67. I Might Be Guilty Of That

I think I've brought it up twice. But I worked and studied hard for many years to acquire what specialized knowledge I do hold. I don't pre-emptively know everything there is to know, but I do demand to be taken seriously when I expound on certain subjects, and I serve notice that I'm not talking out of my hat.

Otherwise, I am Harrison Ford's secret lover, personally advise Donald Trump about business, helped Angelina Jolie become beautiful by following my example, served as the ass-kicking stunt and body-double for Ripley in Aliens and Sarah Connor in Terminator, ghost-wrote most of Stephen King's bestsellers, marched with Martin Luther King, tried to talk Kennedy out of the Bay of Pigs, refused three Nobel Prizes, saved the paisley coyote from extinction, caused Mensa to disband when I set a new benchmark of intelligence, and was a billionaire by the time I was eight.

Now THOSE are the posters you should view with a jaundiced eye. And we have them, don't we?

[rockymountaindem]

68. Fuck all that. I've been on TV!

Respect my authori-tah!

[bluedawg12]

69. Turning on each other now? I love it! Class warfare on DU!

Don't we have some other shit to turn our attention to, rather than attacking each other?

[rockymountaindem]

84. Why do you love it?

Whose side are you on, anyway? Trotskyite.

[bluedawg12]

88. Trotsykite? A potitical science expert!

Why do you love this hostility? Don't you have others to turn on like the repugs?

[Postman]

72. I'm not any of those. But I DID sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night....

n/t

[Skittles]

74. LOL......lynyrd

:rofl:

[bluedawg12]

75. How about not calling DU'ers liars?

Who gives a f8ck what you do or don't believe.

I want to know why you are turning people- apparently with glee- against each other?

Is there some problem about having,getting,working towards an education? It seems to bother you?

[TZ]

76. Actually

Anyone with half a brain can tell really quickly when someone posts nonsense credentials.
I know a fellow biologist when I read them. And I know posers.
If I post my credentials to make a point, I back them up with readily avialable facts.
And I NEVER embarrass myself when I post science.
Sorry you think we are all lying schmucks with shit for brains who can't tell who is legit and who is not.

[AZCat]

79. I can tell who is legit within my own area...

but outside of that I'm not so good. Luckily there are enough people on DU that I trust who can "vett" other areas for me.

[bluedawg12]

83. Let's face it- there is sh*t being said here - on all and every level

most of the time- but to make a cheap about people that offer valid contribution and acall them liars is offensive.

I don't give a f*ck if anyone knows who I am or what I do- better never to even mention it here- but don't call all people liars who volunteer information and share it with others at DU.

We had a pretty good discussion about universal health care- and a poll last night about it- there may have been one or two people who knew something about it and not liars.

[AZCat]

86. It is annoying.

When I first saw this thread I was offended, but once I let it sit for a bit I realized it wasn't worth tearing into the OP (like many DU threads). There are (as has been said a number of times on this thread already) quite a few knowledgeable people here at DU on a variety of subjects. These people are not liars, and their knowledge genuine.

[bluedawg12]

92. Like I said- we have bigger fish to fry than each other. n/t

[bluedawg12]

80. Apparently they can tell- this is posing bullsh*t

and it's cheap and divisive. I have to wonder why.

I have posted about topics where i do have expertise- I guess that bullsh*it because we have some reverse elitism going on here. hah hah haha hahaha.......

[bluedawg12]

94. Here's some red meat

[AikidoSoul]

132. You must not be paying attention to your own posts

"And I NEVER embarrass myself when I post science"


:rofl:

[TZ]

155. so says

the woo to the scientist. You ARE one of those type of people the poster refers to.
:dunce:

[Greyhound]

95. Funny thing is that I know more than a few PhDs that are complete idiots.

and the actual "Smartest Man in the World" was/is? the doorman at a club in NYC.

So what do credentials really mean in the end?

BTW, a Harvard MBA has ruined the economy of the entire nation for a generation.

[AZCat]

98. Don't forget Ken Lay was a PhD.

We all know what benefit that was to all of us.

[bluedawg12]

105. Your point? Is time for a Venn diagram?

Some PhD's are A and all PHD's are B, are all PHD's A?

[AZCat]

107. Irrelevant point, I know.

But I must bring it up every time I can. A strange compulsion, but at least a manageable one. I could be the guy with a fondness for items of a scatological nature...

[bluedawg12]

110. No point is irrelevant- the truth in it is that knowledge

and morality are not synonymous. There are real sociopathts in the world and they gravitate towards power.

[bluedawg12]

111. Last bit- have you seen this?

http://ponerology.com/index.html

Someone posted about it on DU, that's how I learned about this site. When the sociopathts in power come to mind- this also comes to mind.

don't miss this page:

http://ponerology.com/psychopaths_1.html

>Like a color blind man incapable of distinguishing red from green, a small minority of the human population cannot experience or fully comprehend the normal range of human emotions. And like those color blind who may conceal their condition by using the correct words while not understanding their meaning (e.g., the top traffic light is “red”, the bottom is “green”) - so does this minority conceal their condition by playacting an emotion's exterior signs (facial expressions, exclamations, body language). However, they do no actually experience the emotion in question. Their deception is revealed in the laboratory, where they respond to words like DEATH, CANCER, DISEASE, as if they were DAY, CREAM, or PAPER. They lack the ability to comprehend the emotional “punch” that certain words contain. They use others’ emotional reactions as cues, and they adjust their behavior to portray the correct ‘emotional’ behavior<

[AZCat]

112. No, I haven't.

At first glance it looks interesting. I'll have a look through but then I'm off to bed.

[bluedawg12]

113. Good night- me too. :) n/t

[AZCat]

115. Sleep tight.

Don't let the repugs bite.

[bluedawg12]

99. that's not funny - it's just probability.

credentials mean nothing- nor does not having any- it just means you don't call people liars for having them or not having them.

that is all.

[TexasObserver]

96. I do not favor such announcements, and generally think them useless expressions.

But calling posters "liars" who say so is disingenous.

There's probably a reasonable distribution of all of those you have listed, and I often see people cite their credentials when repeatedly attacked or challenged by those who demand such statements of expertise.

Bottom line: those who demand such statements of expertise, or consider all who cite them liars, are equally annoying.

[bluedawg12]

101. Consider it case by case

I think we can tell if someone is using the thesaurus to post a reply and at the same time claiming to be a Professor of Law.

I saw that recently and chuckled, I took it with a grain of salt and didn't bust his chops.

It's all about context.

but it's also about not turning on each other.

Speaking of liars- I am /2 listening to davidFrump- talk about lies- he is on Maher and already lying about BO!

[TexasObserver]

121. works for me

I tend to ignore any poster who either asks for or gives a curriculum vitae.

As for legal issues, I can tell who is a lawyer and who isn't once they start discussing legal issues of any kind. Based upon my reading of threads here, there is no upside to admitting if one is a lawyer, and it makes no sense for lawyers to argue with non lawyers over cases whose holdings non lawyers cannot possibly understand. Concepts like "standing" or "clean hands" either mean something or they don't, and a quick read online won't give a non lawyer the depth of understanding that 84 hours of law school, a bar exam, and years of practice produce.

Who uses a Thesaurus to find legal terms? No lawyer, that's for sure, with the possible exception of those graduating from the law school which gave Fox News' contributor Wendy Murphy her J.D.

Lex

[LisaL]

100. Are you trying to say that only un-educated bumpkins post on DU?

O'key.

[bluedawg12]

102. Come on--let's get real- listen to liar Davidfrump now on Maher

talk about a lying sack of sh*t

[bluedawg12]

108. Just recalled: Repugs war on science

http://www.waronscience.com/home.php

They revel in anti-intellectualism and anti-science posturing.

[GOPBasher]

114. I have a PH.D. in whatever we're currently debating. :-) n/t

[lips]

116. What are you trying to prove?

n/t

[spacelady]

117. I am reading a book on lateral thinking that I found at work. n/t

[AikidoSoul]

134. DeBono?

I think that is one of the most fascinating topics out there. In the 70s I was in a public library and found one of the Edward DeBono books -- next thing I knew, the libary was closing. I thought a few minutes had passed.

So in the early 80s I met DeBono in New York City at a big do, and ended up taking courses for several weeks.

Back then it was mandatory for kids in several countries to learn lateral thinking in the first and second grade.

Imagine! Teaching children how to think outside the box from the get-go!

[bluedawg12]

119. “brute assault on the entire intellectual world”

Might as well put this thead to good use:





http://www.waronscience.com/excerpt.php
>>
Read today, some of the most prophetic passages of The Party That Lost Its Head are those that denounce Goldwater’s conservative backers for their rampant and even paranoid distrust of the nation’s intellectuals. The book labels the Goldwater campaign a “brute assault on the entire intellectual world” and blames this development on a woefully wrongheaded political tactic: “In recent years the Republicans as a party have been alienating intellectuals deliberately, as a matter of taste and strategy.“



Certainly, the proliferation of think tanks has not had as a corollary that conservatives now take scientific expertise more seriously. On the contrary, the Right has a strong track record of deliberately attempting to undermine scientific work that might threaten the economic interests of private industry. Perhaps more alarmingly still, similar tactics have also been brought to bear by the Right in the service of a religiously conservative cultural and moral agenda.<<

[AikidoSoul]

135. Very astute

The war on science feeds several different monsters simultaneously.

At least it's an efficient model. ;-)

edit to insert icon

[TZ]

156. hello to a fellow soldier

on the war on science. You contribute to scientific illiteracy as much as anyone I know

[apocalypsehow]

120. You need to cross-post this in GD: P, where I constantly encounter posters with

1. "five college degrees, one not even American!"

2. Folks with academic "credentials" that would qualify them for the Nobel Short List.

3. Posters who can speak "five foreign languages" (or more) "fluently," and whose response to "ask me my name in (fill in the language spoken fluently here)" is "I'm putting you on ignore."

4. Other poseurs who think that because they roughly know what a "curriculum vitae" is, it's the same thing as if they had an actual college degree....

Yes, I would definitely recommend you cross-post this over there.

[JCMach1]

122. Some of the biggest idiots I know are fellow Professors...

:argh:

Arrogance and intellectual myopia are a deadly combination...

[bluedawg12]

128. fine, but that's not what the op said. that's a different premise. n/t

[Hissyspit]

143. I know a lot of idiot professors, but they are not the BIGGEST idiots I know.

Some of them should definitely know better, though.

[Virginia Dare]

146. Some of the most ignorant people I've known...

went to Ivy League schools. Case in point:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_2YebB0UeQgs/RqF4GUu4WFI/AAAAAAAAAP0/ZsR19YBQ9UQ/s400/George+Bush+I%27m+With+Stupid.jpg

[Horse with no Name]

126. Whether you believe it or not

There are many highly educated people here.

[NeedleCast]

129. I Don't Have a Degree, but I Know Everything

so that kinda makes up for it.

[ileus]

133. BSEET....

[bluedawg12]

136. to: ileus from osteoblast-bseet ^2. LOL. n/t

[ileus]

138. Uh....ok?~:

every one on here can't be a welfare bum.

[Ikonoklast]

141. I'm An Astronaut!

[Hissyspit]

142. Well, I've never lied about my credentials, but that doesn't mean anyone believes me.

If I was lying, I'd make up BETTER credentials!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

145. You ought to visit the 9-11 forum...

...every member of the nuisance/distraction brigade is an engineer -- if you don't believe it, just ask them.

[rucky]

147. As an Official Bikini Inspector...

I'll have to disagree with your premise.

[AZ Criminal JD]

148. You only speak for yourself

Posters like you come on this board and think they speak for everyone on DU. This occurs on many topics.

[THUNDER HANDS]

150. I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

[GaYellowDawg]

153. What a useless fucking post.

Some people have the credentials and claim them. Some claim them and don't. Some have them and don't claim them. Any reasonably well-rounded person can tell the difference, and we don't need some jackhole telling us that all of them are fake. And that is all.

[mitchum]

154. I am Zodiac