Brainless civil servant amazes doctors A French man whose skull was mostly occupied by a "huge fluid-filled chamber" was able to operate perfectly well as a civil servant - despite having "little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue", Reuters reports. The 44-year-old's condition was revealed when he went to hospital suffering from mild weakness in his left …
A woman in the UK was reported years ago as The woman with no brain. Years later when MRI resolution improved they discovered she too had a thin layer of brain on the inside of her scull. Like the guy in this report she had had a shunt installed when she was young.
She too was married with children and ran the household accounts as her husband wasn't too good with computers.
Hmmm, is it a scoop that in that poor country of mine, we do have shitloads of civil servants dumber than a stone ? Even some carrying a weapon !
Don't even start me on this .... OK, that's your fault, mate :-)
Once upon a time, some french chap went to the Gendarmerie, since he needed to change his start train station, to go to military conscription (was mandatory at that time). The train ticket being paid by the public authority, it was based on home location, and the chap wanted to departure from his studying location. And the only military authority was Gendarmerie.
After explaining the problem, the gendarme went on to type on a very old Tryumph typing machine, the new departure place of the said chap, onto the train ticket. That was some 25 letters + signature.
No kidding, it took him 4 attempts to slide the sheet of paper in the typing machine, before having it correct:
- 1st attempt: typed in the name of the chap. Was baffled the machine typed on the verso of the inserted sheet
- 2nd attempt: same thing (yeah, it got inserted the same way ;-)
- 3rd attempt: the guy got creative, here, reversed the sheet sense, but same side, not good either
- 4th attempt: after what all witnesses thought would blow his brain up, he managed (took 30 s. of INTENSE thoughts) to insert the sheet the right way, and had the enthusiast look of someone that just discovered the secret of turning lead into gold, on his face.
The chap went outside, happy he finally did it.
Sadly , most people would have similar experience working with similar like minded people in most industries , they are called junior managers ,all with freshly minted University Degrees in Business Mismanagement , one of the easiest degrees that most Universities Issue , because you really don't need a brain to earn one!
If I recall correctly, it was something like "typically about 10% of your synapses are firing at any given moment".
Which is very, very different from the "90% of your brain is in a state of narcosis" bit that gets thrown around by people who prove it every day.
Everyone with this lead perfectly normal lives and are good with computers (see the lady mentioned in an above comment)... and had a 'shunt' inserted during childhood.
What if this shunt was in fact a weapon of the invading xeno forces? To create human versions of themselves? The sentient alien robots are already among us, waiting, watching, hiding!
These are just the first steps, people! The Neo-Luddite Resistance must be warned!
There was a bloke in New York who died at 35, worked for the local council and in the autopsy found the skull cavity completely full of spinal fluid, he also had a thin membrain of brain tissue on the top of the the base bone where the head joins to the neck.
He also had an IQ of 75 and was described as slightly slow but easy to get along with.
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