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People who are MENSA members, are there benefits? Do you get discounts on anything? I'll never qualify, so I gotta ask. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I realized that "Mensa" didn't contain enough numerals to be a phone number, and knew it must be understood that any future member would be able to figure out the next two digits in the sequence. I tried dialling MENSANE, MENSAIL, MENSAFE, and MENSAAB, but got three rebuffs and a fax tone.

From "How I Joined MENSA" by Steve Martin

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Apparently they get 15% off at Comfort Inn

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I found this on their website: https://www.us.mensa.org/shop/benefits-and-services/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

ASSMEN/MENSASS has pro-state biases

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It discounts my impression of them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

This is worth the entire post and more. I'm chuckling while my kid gives me weird looks from the other room.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Same.

The entire concept of mensa always rubbed me the wrong way

It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.

You're supposedly one of the smartest people alive, and yet you somehow concluded that a good use of your limited time on Earth is to blow smoke up your own ass with a group of other pretentious jerkoffs who know how to cheese IQ tests

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.

I’ve seen a few dating profiles near me with women claiming to be in Mensa. I’m glad they mention it, as it’s a dog whistle for me to move on to another profile that will inevitably ignore me because I just don’t stack up.

~That’s meant to be funny.~

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

Most people smart enough to join are smart enough not to.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Half off soft drinks at Texas Roadhouse!

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