Some of you guys need someone to teach you to read OPs. Let’s try to stick to the main topics outlined in the OP. Nothing too advanced like trying to emulate the smartest person I know or anything like that.
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I figured that, considering Coursera now have classes ranging from Listening to World Music and Principles of Obesity Economics to Network Analysis in Systems Biology and Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation, surely they must have Gum Chewing 101. Sadly no.
Cut yourself some slack. Everyone does something completely ditzy sometimes. I have a gift for falling down and sticking my foot in my mouth (though not at the same time). I like to think I’m reasonably intelligent, but I prove myself wrong time and again. Sometimes I’m surprised I can get my own pants on in the morning.
Looks like an untapped gold mine to me!
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Do not use Microsoft instructions for Microsoft products. It took me forever to find out how to write the criteria in a [function]If function.
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Find a good question board for your level of questions; I have never have, but everyone assures me there are plenty out there.
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You can always ask me. Excel is my favorite computer game. But I don’t do pivot tables or CSE functions.
For everything else, look serious, nod slowly, and, if pushed, shrug and quote a German philosopher. (Everyone knows a little French; no-one knows German, and it is a very intimidating language.)
Know yourself.
Baby steps, Ellie, baby steps[RIGHT]- Ted Arroway (Contact)[/RIGHT]
Not knowing stuff is very much not the same thing as being stupid. I believe that proper education in fact amounts to discovering the extent of how there is yet to learn.
As far as the gum goes, shit-can it. You can find more productive ways to build strong jaw muscles. Besides, it attracts bees: does it not seem preferable to have the bees upon your body rather than in your mouth?
OP: Stop referring to yourself as “stupid.” Self-fulfilling prophecy, you know. If you think you’re stupid, then you will be.
Now, I need help standing up without getting so dizzy I have to hold onto things.