Posted on May 10, 2016
If you could only have one, which would it be, intelligence or common sense?
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You can have all the "book" knowledge in the world. If you don't have a lick of common sense what good are you??
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Sgt Joe LaBranche
There you go, SFC Tim Springman. Unfortunately there are so many out there that confuse the two.
When it comes to having my back, please give me someone with common sense!
When it comes to having my back, please give me someone with common sense!
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A1C Lisa Casserly
You know... stories like: When my son Patrick was a small boy, he used to think the reason he could swim was because he had a "swimmer beetle" inside of him. (unsure of the proper name for these things, but they are little beetles with big "flippers", and they can swim like crazy. Found in water in northern Minnesota... even the swimming pools.) Patrick would go around, making motor boat noises, as he swam. LOL. He grew up to be an intel analyst in the USAF.
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Capt Seid Waddell
A1C Lisa Casserly, do you mean these? We have them in Kentucky too and I remember seeing them when I was growing up in Arizona.
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Corixid.htm
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Corixid.htm
Water boatmen generally resemble backswimmers, but are much flatter. They are herbivores; and they ingest their foodâmainly plant microorganisms or algaeâwhole. Water boatmen have mouthparts specifically modified away from their beak, which âappears to arise at the rear of the head, rather than the front, and is unsuited for piercing or suckingâ (Milne et al., 1980). Unlike members of Belostomatidae (âtoebitersâ), Water boatmen are not known...
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A1C Lisa Casserly
Yes, yes, YES! In MN, some can get monster huge... but most are pretty small. I like them, they never bother you except that they are in a chlorinated pool where you think they would not like to be.. but, the article says they are herbivores, so that explains the no biting thing. Sigh. I sure miss having my small kids around the house these days. Its kind of funny, because you can't wait for them to walk and talk... then they do, and you spend the rest of their growing years telling them to sit down, and please to be quiet. And when they grow up and go, you miss the little monsters. The house is too quiet.
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Capt Seid Waddell
A1C Lisa Casserly, the big ones are the ones that bite.
https://www4.uwm.edu/fieldstation/naturalhistory/bugoftheweek/water-boatmen-and-backswimmers.cfm
https://www4.uwm.edu/fieldstation/naturalhistory/bugoftheweek/water-boatmen-and-backswimmers.cfm
UW-Milwaukee: Field Station - Water Boatmen and Backswimmers
Water Boatmen and Backswimmers
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Since my academics have repeatadly shown me I lack intelligence, I will vote for common sense (if nothing else, to make me feel better).
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SGT Kyle Johnson
This I can agree with. My sister graduated UT Austin with nearly a perfect grade point average. Partied like a rock star during college, parents had to bail her out of financial problems several times. She thought if she had checks or a CC she had money, could not even fill her gas tank LOL. 30 years later, still one of the smartest people I know, but useless, never held a good job long, went thru several husbands... Maybe some common sense would have gone a long way in her life.
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I'll take Common Sense any day! I've met to many supposed "smart" people who had all the knowledge in the World but didn't know how to apply it.
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Common sense over intelligence any day. I've known many book smart people that were totally clueless about common sense things.
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I have to go common sense here. Though intelligence helps... I worked with a lot of comm geeks who were all a little weird but great guys, and frankly geniuses in their field in my opinion. But when it came to common sense there was a slight shortfall. Take a catastrophic failure of some kind of mission critical technology, bam on the job and spouting out tech talk in some
Elusive gibberish. But throw out something well, common sense and watch the room of blank stares.
Elusive gibberish. But throw out something well, common sense and watch the room of blank stares.
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I would take the common sense. Common sense is too rare a creature that not everyone has it.
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Sgt Joe LaBranche I will go with 50% of each. I think you need both to be a well rounded individual.
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A1C Lisa Casserly
I agree with you... Common sense is often earned after making dumb mistakes. If you aren't at least somewhat smart, you'll never be able to learn anything. I honestly don't think I would want to live a life where I didn't have at least some of both!
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