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This is a normal post I think, based solely on this post,
that it is fair to say that you fit into the 'stupid people' category, at least in as far as thinking that Fry is intelligent goes?
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Are you having a "wrong about everything" day?

(Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yup, I'm a fan
and thus stupid, apparently.

I'm also not a fan of the sort of person who thinks smug comments like that quote are of any intellectual worth. Even if I weren't a fan...

If someone said 'That Simon Cowell is a chancer's idea of a successful music producer'. I'd suggest that they were talking out of their arse (though I might argue the definition of the word 'music')
 (I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post The quotation isn't that ONLY stupid people think that Fry is clever.
Only a stupid person would infer tha... Oh.

:)
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair
I rather fancy that it was more than just his inference, you rather implied it, no?
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Heh.
I'm just rehearsing a line that I've always found witty.

Note, too, that it's an attack on Fry, not his fanclub - although he is overrated.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Just out of curiousity
what is he being rated upon?

Presumably not popularity...
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Good question.
And I don't really know. But I don't understand why so many people think that he's such a genius when, plainly, he isn't.

He's not without talent, but nevertheless an above-par generalist at best.

OK - so maybe that's it. He knows (or appears to know) a little bit more about most things than do most people. But anyone who's tolerably well-read could do what he does. He's therefore unexceptional.
*shrugs*
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post How is that his fault though?
He's said many times that he's not a very clever person, he just has a brain which absorbs pointless information more than other people.

I think he's great, he has a passion for education (in the loose sense of the word, not organised education), for doing whatever it is that makes you happy. He finds the English language magical and takes pleasure in using it to the extent of his capability.

Of course he's not alone in this, and nor does he claim to be. He's just a normal friendly non-judgmental bloke who has some real quality values and rarely feels the need to impose himself on others. Compare that to 95% of people on television. I'm completely with you that he's unexceptional in terms of the wider world, but in the television world he seems to be a rare thing - just an all round nice and honest bloke.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tu9 01100011011101010110111001110100, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:40, , Reply)