Mensa - Lets Get It Straight......

[ToraToraTora]

On this thread people who would never get into Mensa seem to claim they could but didn't because it has annual subs:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1822098-7.html
Mensa is a club the subs are not just for "bragging rights" you can be as involved as little or as much as you want. We have SIGs gatherings, Mensans are like masons we can look each other up in foreign countries, different towns. Often get free accommodation. There are social events every month all over the world, there are 50+ in my region alone in January. Many of you are in other clubs that pay subs you may have similar benefits or just are happy with what your club does. I get tired of people who could not get in if they tried, posting bile about what is basically just another club. PS the monthly magazine alone is worth the subs.

[murraymints]

ooo cleverclogs ! I suppose membership has its benefits like any private member club...

[ToraToraTora]

eg from Mozz: "//I did some Mensa tests through my work but never joined.//

I did the same. Then I saw the entry fee and wondered why anyone who consider themselves intelligent would waste money on such a thing. "

Wolf: "If you have to pay to join then I'm oot. "

Wolf: "I did some Mensa tests through my work but never joined. I had a reasonably high IQ (180) at the time, my brain would self combust trying one now! " - Einstien level, Right oh!

[barry1010]

I believe anyone can be a guest member without doing the Mensa test - just pay a few quid every year. Am I right?

[murraymints]

was it Groucho who said " I would not want to be a member of any club that would have me " ? lol

[THECORBYLOON]

BARRY, I had a quick look and it appears folk in foreign Mensa groups can join the UK one for a fee.

[Hopkirk]

Donald Trump also used to boast about being in Mensa.

[royfromaus]

On this thread people who would never get into Mensa seem to claim they could but didn't because it has annual subs:
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[10ClarionSt]

The OP is posted by someone who prefers to use a terrorist codeword as his user name. Clever that, eh? Probably wanted to be known on here as Tory Tory Tory! Frank Doberman, more like! :o)

[ToraToraTora]

It's not a boast hoppy, it's mitigation against people who think you must be thick if you don;t agree with them.
here are some more Mensans you may have heard of:
Stephen Fry, Isaac Asimov, Norman Schwarzkopf.....

[ToraToraTora]

10cs: "The OP is posted by someone who prefers to use a terrorist codeword as his user name. " - once again ignorance is demonstrated. Tora is the Japanese word for Tiger.

[Zacs-Master]

Tora on its own means nothing in Japanese. Tora Tora can mean Tiger but in it’s most commonly know usage (pearl harbour) it meant Lightning Strike.

[royfromaus]

Norman Schwarzkopf is dead

[Ken4155]

Barry1010 @ 0955; "I believe anyone can be a guest member without doing the Mensa test - just pay a few quid every year."

Bit like taking the train up Snowdon then buying postcards saying "I climbed Snowdon."

Whilst in the JLRRA, a group of us boy soldiers climbed Snowdon only to see groups of tourists - mainly obese Yanks - doing exactly that. Our Sergeant told us that if any of us laughed, we'd be peeling spuds for a fortnight :-))

[Canary42]

As an ex-Mensa member, I left because I wasn't getting anything out of fit worth the sub (that was way back in the 80s, perhaps it's better now. Can one rejoin without a retest, I sure couldn't face it now.)

[piggynose]

What The Funicular is the JLRRA?

[barry1010]

I've climbed Snowdon many times but these days use the train. Probably been to the top 25 times but only three times seen the view. No matter how sunny and hot it is when I set off, the summit is covered in cloud. We used to love going as a family, great day out.

[barry1010]

Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery, piggy

[barry1010]

The Snowdon railway isn't a fenicular, it's a rack and pinion :D

[Khandro]

A vegan, a Mensa member, and a guy who doesn't own a TV walk into a bar.
How do we know this? Because they told everyone. :0)

[Ken4155]

As Barry said, Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery, stationed at Bramcote, Nuneaton. Joined at 16.5 years old and left at 18 to join an Artillery Regiment in Germany.