February 28, 2006
Mensa, Mensa, Mensa
The fifth "amazing bestest yet ever most ridiculous [insert other stupid and/or hyperbolic descriptor here]" season of the Apprentice premiered last night, and boy, do the contestants get dumber and dumber! Maybe not totally dumber, because Lord knows what Gothamist would be doing if we had to work with other people handpicked by Donald Trump and Mark Burnett, but you'd think that people who apply to be on the show would have seen previous episodes and learn from past fired Apprentices' mistakes. That said, The Donald displayed his usual weaknesses of being a sucker for anything that has to do with the Ivy League, brainiac organizations (Mensa), or accents (two new foreign-born contestants - it really is a global village) - and coming up with lame rewards (we think having a chat with Mayor Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion is better than the Wharton Club prize, but whatever!). The team captains were Tarek "Call Me Mensa" and Allie, a former U. Florida Gators cheerleader and Harvard Business School grad, and give them a Good Year Blimp challenge to drive memberships at a Sam's Club, they'll give you cruciating reality show drama!
What did you think of last night's episode? Gothamist is pretty upset that Carolyn will be absent for five episodes, ceding her seat at the boardroom to Ivanka, but maybe this means little Tiffany Trump will be subbing for Ivanka during the sixth season.
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Is that the dude in the commercials going "I have an IQ in the top 2% of the world!". whatafuckingdick! first of all if you were that smart you'd never say that shit cause smart people with hubris will get "the special sauce" next time they go into restaurants. So it's actually pretty dumb to annouce. and secondly, if you really were that smart why the fuck aren't you president of the united states instead of being on a goddamn dlist reality show?
Since when has Mensa been a measure of intelligence? Their tests are quite mediocre, at least on the level of semi-educated people. Mensa is mostly to make pseudo intellectuals feel good about themselves.
Your profanity-laced tirade doesn't do much for your own image, either, so you might want to cool down.
Actually, 98th percentile is nothing special. That only means in a room of 50 people, you may be the smartest. If it was top 0.01%, it'd be impressive.
Secondly, when was the last time you saw a genius PotUS? Get a grip. Intelligent people don't want high office. You have no privacy, the opposition and every journalist out there is trying to dig up every mistake you ever made in your life, and you get blamed for everything that goes wrong. Only power-hungry professional politicians run for president, and politicians are by and large not the sharpest tools in the shed, as plenty of news stories show.
The Donald made a real mistake firing Summer. She certainly displayed a shitty attitude by only making one phone call, but Tarek really failed to provide leadership. Summer correctly predicted that the phone calls wouldn't help them and that Tarek failed to provide a hook to lure customers. Tarek ignored this and failed because of it. Further, he showed a real lack of class by dragging Lee into the board room for no other reason than vengeance. And why the HELL did he bring Lenny into the board room? All Lenny did was direct the blimp to high traffic areas around East Brunswick. How could Tarek possibly gauge Lenny's effectiveness?
I really hope this guy gets the boot soon.
Mensa is this dipshit's biggest claim to fame? Pshaw.
P-shaw.
Mensa meetings are boring... Seriously. I took the Mensa test, tested in the top 0.02% of IQs, went to a Mensa meeting and nearly fell asleep!
IQ ain't got nothing on creativity, initiative and a positive outlook.
What I want to know is why Mensa Marek put two people in the blimp? I'm sure it's not THAT hard to direct a blimp to fly over a big sam's club. With Summer on the floor, perhaps they could have racked up another 3 or 4 orders and won the task. And yes, Summer is an idiot for a) not being able to answer Carolyn's question (come up with SOMETHING), and b) interrupting a firing in progress. That's Apprentice Rule #1 (speak when spoken to).
The pornstar Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Carrera
yay
Summer deserved to get her ass fired. She shouldve just listened to Trump and shut the hell up.
For a minute I thought Carolyn was going to ask her how she got her hair to look so big.
I qualify for Mensa on both IQ and my old GRE scores (never made it to graduate school so what does that say for Mensa?) I never joined Mensa either.
Every Mensa-ite(?) I've known (and there were a few at Columbia) liked to wear their yellow stick pin to show off that they are intelligent elitists. They love puzzles, which I don't.
So Mensa means nada.
I like Mensa. How it's posible