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.

[rowanwitch]

I'm a girl I don't think I can be a member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.

[Atheist]

Rowan; maybe the Ancient Order, not the Antediluvian Order?
I don't think you pre-date the actual Flood!

[Old_Geezer]

I preferred to join DENSA; they ranked me more highly there.

[wolf63]

Witchy, is it Buffalos or Buffaloes?

My spellchecker wasn't sure!

[Atheist]

Thanks, Wolf. Is Boatie no longer with us?

[Atheist]

Wolf, to my eye the added 'e' makes all the difference - I like it... makes it sound less Thpanith.

[royfromaus]

What happened to the Buffs?
Are they still doing their stuff in private rooms of the local WMC's?

[Xeronema]

Atheist, yeah, he is no longer with us.

[Atheist]

I presume so, Roy. I never saw them in action, but their horns were everywhere!

[rowanwitch]

Listed as Antediluvian, they may have changed to Ancient in the uk.... Boys do love their clubs, but as they tend to do a lot of charity stuff it probaby offsets any social support between members of the blind eye variety.

[drmorgans]

My aunt ran a pub with a meeting room that the Buffs used. There was a serving hatch so the barmaids could pass through their orders of pints of bitter and mild.