# A big hand for Stoid, she ate a book.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 9, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-hand-for-stoid-she-ate-a-book/574063 "2011-03-09T16:49:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-hand-for-stoid-she-ate-a-book/574063/98 "2011-03-11T21:03:21Z")

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> [@Elysian](#):
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> Stoid likes people to come in and disagree with her because then she can lash out at them. When she lashes out, she loves it; it makes her feel smart to put these other people in their place - that’s why she does it so much. So now I picture her typing away and congratulating herself on how smart she is, and how amazingly witty and cutting her put-downs are, and how stupid everyone is in comparison. She convinces herself she’s right by doing so. She doesn’t listen to others because she’s too busy and invested in making herself feel smarter by humourously insulting them (humourous to her mind).

She does seem to love to remind us of how smart she is all the time. Talking about how difficult being fat was as a teenager\*:

> [@I unhappily report that I am right about obesity and diet (Very long)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-unhappily-report-that-i-am-right-about-obesity-and-diet-very-long/571543/510):
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> I was also ridiculously tall; I was 5’7" at age 10. I was also very intelligent with a freakish vocabulary and the same willingness to go against the tide I am famous for here.

I don’t actually see much evidence of this extreme intellect. Don’t smart people generally know enough to trust other peoples expertise when they need it? To appreciate training and education? Between this and the interminable lawyer threads, I get the impression that she doesn’t think anyone in the world could possibly know more than her about anything.  
\*Translation: she was an awkward know-it-all who constantly disagreed with people.

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