Humble pie! These cocky people bragged about their superior intelligence and ended up looking VERY foolish
- In this list by Bored Panda not even the greatest minds escape criticism
- Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is criticised on Twitter about solar eclipses
- Others bragged about superior IQ and made grammatical mistake
- Another said educational standards had dropped and then made maths error
You can’t brag about your IQ and then spell it wrong, but some people do and social media is a great way to share the evidence.
In this list of messages, from all over the world, compiled by Bored Panda, not even the greatest minds escape criticism.
When Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author from New York, tries to show off his knowledge about solar eclipses on Twitter – many put him in his place.
While the rest of the list features everything from bragging social media posts, with glaring mathematical mistakes, to someone even trying to criticise Stephen Hawking’s contribution to humanity.
Should I spell it out to you? The two people, from the US, in blue got the last laugh – and made their friends feel blue – when they attempted to brag but were shut down for spelling errors
Not quite Cicero, more Cicer-no! This person, from America , thought that knowing one sentence in Latin made them a master, even branding people who don’t know the ancient language as mere ‘peasants’
Who’s laughing now? This cocky post signed off with ‘Lmao’, but the poster, location unknown, was no doubt left red-faced to discover their glaring error they made while complaining about a similar one
Can you guess who this person is talking about? Surely it’s not the man who co-discovered the four laws of black hole mechanics, the person who wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’ and received countless awards for his contribution to humanity itself? He is talking about Stephen Hawking
This person. location unknown, seems to think that if you’re a scientist then you cannot watch Game of Thrones. They are on their high horse about ‘calculating Big Bang probabilities’ and too busy for TV
This person in the US is a gleaming example of why you should always check your working out, especially when you’re about to his ‘publish’ on such an embarrassing mathematical mistake
Neil deGrasse Tyson, from New York, was eclipsed by a Twitter user called Kenzie when he appeared to indicate that solar eclipses aren’t rare. This was before Kenzie replied to remind him he was wrong
This guy was set up for a date by an old US ‘army buddy’ but didn’t take too kindly to his friend informing him that his date thought he was a bit cocky for the constant reminders of his IQ
This funny Snapchat exchange from the UK shows how well the friend in red knows the other person, instantly knowing that they’ve been getting their clever words from a thesaurus
This cocky ramble ended in a succinct put-down when the person guilty of narcissism, from the United States, spelled a simple word wrong and probably gained a bruised ego