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Nocturnal Nerds

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  • #52
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    The Comfortable Chair wrote: »
    I don't think FutureCrook will ever forget you either :D
    Ha! High five :D


  • #53
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    SDooM wrote: »
    You aint lived til you spanked a plank.


    ¬.¬
    Why I call my bass The Bitch:


    slap.jpg


  • #54
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Nice topic, alliteration and all!. I think even alot of people on boards would be nerdos. Archery is pretty cool, I've always wanted to get into it ever since I saw "the weatherman" (or what ever it's called, nicholas cage is in it).

    That's a nice bookshelf paperclip.

    As for myself. I was once ranked 42nd in the world at age of empires 3, and was consistantly the top irish player. I am a big fan of russian literature (well, a few of my favourite authors are russian... but I'll count this anyway). I perform well academically. In my younger days I used to spend up to 6 hours playing baldur's gate, daily. I have a very large collection of "The avengers". I nearly have the entire collectino of "wally's world" and "wally's history of the world. I am heading off to college now to do theoretical physics.

    Also , It came to my attention recently that I have a "nerd" hairstyle when my hair is long enough. It's all swept to the side and what have you.

    Edit: heh, yeah doom the funky base loses you alot of nerd points :P.

    Shooting birds isn't cool teutorix..


  • #55
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    BrynW wrote: »
    You had dark hair and were short....and if you come up the stairs, it was the table straight infront of it, was just talking there for a couple of seconds!! :mad:

    :P

    Short with dark hair... table at stairs... yup.. that was me alright.. :o


  • #56
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    BrynW wrote: »
    I study computer science, but i'm not a nerd :P

    Suuuuuuuurrrre.

    There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary, and people who dont.


    If you understood that you are a nerd.


  • #57
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    animan wrote: »
    *takes out little note book* and where exactly in Dingle.

    j/k
    its closer to tralee than dingle :P


  • #58
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    The Comfortable Chair wrote: »
    I don't think FutureCrook will ever forget you either :D
    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    Ha! High five :D

    :o lol


  • #59
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭The Recliner


    SDooM wrote: »
    Suuuuuuuurrrre.

    There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary, and people who dont.


    If you understood that you are a nerd.

    I have that on a t-shirt :o


  • #60
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    SDooM wrote: »
    Suuuuuuuurrrre.

    There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary, and people who dont.


    If you understood that you are a nerd.
    Screw that maths teacher, he taught me binary!


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  • #61
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Teutorix wrote: »
    its closer to tralee than dingle :P

    Well it's all farms anywhere other than dublin so there cant be more than 10 houses between tralle and dingle.


  • #62
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    SDooM wrote: »
    Suuuuuuuurrrre.

    There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary, and people who dont.


    If you understood that you are a nerd.

    not really if you understand this then you really are a nerd.

    Why do nerds think Halloween and Christmas are the same?

    Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.


  • #63
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I’d consider myself to have nerdy traits but I think if people meet me it’d take a while for that to come out.

    Firstly, boards. I spend a lot of time here and have lots of online friends. When I tell my real life friends I’m going to boards beers they think I’m mad.

    I like computer games and spend a bit of time playing them.

    I have a degree in Chemistry!


  • #64
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    animan wrote: »
    Well it's all farms anywhere other than dublin so there cant be more than 10 houses between tralle and dingle.
    there are thousands buddy :p good look trying to find mine


  • #65
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    SDooM wrote: »
    Suuuuuuuurrrre.

    There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary, and people who dont.


    If you understood that you are a nerd.

    Quiet you :mad:
    Just cos i am really good at maths means nothing Mr. Doom :mad:


  • #66
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    If what you're all saying is correct.. then it would appear that I am not a nerd.:cool:


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  • #67
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I'm a member of a very nerdy online forum called boards.ie :D

    I'm studying Physics & Maths @ college :o

    When I was in 2nd Year, I won our school's chess competition.

    I love watching Countdown.

    I regain some cool points because I have a bass :cool: And lose them again because I can't actually play it :(


  • #68
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    BrynW wrote: »
    Quiet you :mad:
    Just cos i am really good at maths means nothing Mr. Doom :mad:

    I'm not the one who thinks being a nerd is an insult. :)


  • #69
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    SDooM wrote: »
    I'm not the one who thinks being a nerd is an insult. :)

    Ssshhh :p


  • #70
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    If what you're all saying is correct.. then it would appear that I am not a nerd.:cool:

    You got that pocket goth thing going, instant cool points (I know you take exception at goth, but again it's not an insult!)


  • #71
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I regain some cool points because I have a bass :cool: And lose them again because I can't actually play it :(

    i'm the opposite, can play but no bass.


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  • #72
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    SDooM wrote: »
    You got that pocket goth thing going, instant cool points (I know you take exception at goth, but again it's not an insult!)

    Awww..... Thank you Doomy! :D

    So nice!! :)


  • #73
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Awww..... Thank you Doomy! :D

    So nice!! :)

    Also nerdy! :)


  • #74
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    To be honest is being called a nerd such a bad thing?
    basicly the other person is calling you smart! WTF? not much of an insult!


  • #75
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    It also implies a certain degree of social ineptitude


  • #76
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Teutorix wrote: »
    To be honest is being called a nerd such a bad thing?
    basicly the other person is calling you smart! WTF? not much of an insult!

    No one here (besides Bryn :) )thinks it's an insult!


  • #77
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    raah! wrote: »
    It also implies a certain degree of social ineptitude
    Well at least your not the one going around calling people idiotic names, hows that for social ineptitude? they cant have a civil conversation!


  • #78
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    I'd prefer any social issues I have (which I don't :P) to manifest itself as nerdish/geekiness rather than juvenile and skanger-like anyday!


    When I called you all nerdish it was not an insult. Nerds are cool :pac:


  • #79
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #80
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    SDooM wrote: »
    No one here (besides Bryn :) )thinks it's an insult!

    Ah i'm only messin! I've never actually been called a nerd before though, been called plenty of other things though :rolleyes:


  • #81
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    I like to think I'm a nerd but I can't think of anything really - I'm not much of a gamer or the like :(.. hrmm, lemme see..

    science olympiad type stuff - I even have the medals to prove it.. ;_;

    I do maths for the sake of it at times - no idea why I'm not doing it in college!

    I can't think of anything else but I know there's more.. :(


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  • #82
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    I'd prefer any social issues I have (which I don't :P) to manifest itself as nerdish/geekiness rather than juvenile and skanger-like anyday!


    When I called you all nerdish it was not an insult. Nerds are cool :pac:
    You can call me anything you want :pac:


  • #83
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    You can call me anything you want :pac:

    Get back in your box you :P


  • #84
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Well at least your not the one going around calling people idiotic names, hows that for social ineptitude? they cant have a civil conversation!

    Heh, yeah. I think really the word can be offensive or not depending the intention of the person calling you it. The definition smarter child gives seems a bit off.... not very nice tbh

    *nerd*:NounSlang 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. 2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.EtymologyPerhaps after Nerd, a character in If I Ran the Zoo, by Theodor Seuss Geisel.

    humm, I don't think any modern intepretation has "foolish" in it.

    ... it seems my text has gone blue


  • #85
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    raah! wrote: »
    It also implies a certain degree of social ineptitude

    Actually I disagree. A nerd to me is someone who's interests fall outside the parameters of what society considers an acceptable pursuit. The social side comes into it because this can make them something of a pariah.

    Someone who knows everything about LFC doesn't suffer the way some one who knows, say, everything about linux distributions would. One considered normal, the other nerdy.


  • #86
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    raah! wrote: »
    Heh, yeah. I think really the word can be offensive or not depending the intention of the person calling you it. The definition smarter child gives seems a bit off.... not very nice tbh

    *nerd*:NounSlang 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. 2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.EtymologyPerhaps after Nerd, a character in If I Ran the Zoo, by Theodor Seuss Geisel.

    humm, I don't think any modern intepretation has "foolish" in it.

    ... it seems my text has gone blue


    the foolish inept unattractive sounds more reminiscent of the modern use of geek


  • #87
    hunter164
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭hunter164


    I'm not a nerd but then again I'm not really on this forum.

    Though I do read Harry Potter and hav me ECDL.

    Is that nerdy?


  • #88
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    it actually used to annoy me back in secondary school, i used to be called a nerd for liking computers. but now i just realise they were just hypocrites as they all have their faces plastered all over bebo and the likes.


  • #89
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    hunter164 wrote: »
    I'm not a nerd but then again I'm not really on this forum.

    Though I do read Harry Potter and hav me ECDL.

    Is that nerdy?
    no :)


  • #90
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    SDooM wrote: »
    Actually I disagree. A nerd to me is someone who's interests fall outside the parameters of what society considers an acceptable pursuit. The social side comes into it because this can make them something of a pariah.

    Someone who knows everything about LFC doesn't suffer the way some one who knows, say, everything about linux distributions would. One considered normal, the other nerdy.

    Well I have certainly never meant it when I used the word. But people who use it as an insult would. And people do seem to use it as an insult. What's LFC :) ?


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  • #91
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭The Recliner


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    You can call me anything you want :pac:

    CuLT already does :p


  • #92
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Teutorix wrote: »
    the foolish inept unattractive sounds more reminiscent of the modern use of geek

    Is there a large difference between a nerd and a geek?

    Geek definatly sounds kinda nasty though, I certainly wouldn't like to be called a geek.


  • #93
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    but is it just coincidence that nerds generally turn out successful. bill gates is a prime example, he was a computer nerd and is now the richest man alive.


  • #94
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    You can call me anything you want :pac:

    OoooOOOooohh.... :eek::cool:
    BrynW wrote: »
    Get back in your box you :P
    LOL :D
    raah! wrote: »
    *nerd*:NounSlang 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.

    Unattractive.... ???! Yeah right! :rolleyes:


  • #95
    hunter164
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭hunter164


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    no :)
    Sound :D Sorry don't mean to slag or anything.


  • #96
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    raah! wrote: »
    Is there a large difference between a nerd and a geek?

    Geek definatly sounds kinda nasty though, I certainly wouldn't like to be called a geek.
    well a nerd is commonly used to describe people who are smart, whilst geek tends to refer to more to people who are socially inept.nerds in American teen culture is more the way the phrase is used. a nerds are generally geeky yet geeks are not neccisarly nerdy.

    Do i make any sense? of course i dont i never do!


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  • #97
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    raah! wrote: »
    Well I have certainly never meant it when I used the word. But people who use it as an insult would. And people do seem to use it as an insult. What's LFC :) ?

    :)

    Liverpool Football Club!

    Well, I am a nerd yet I can talk so much ****e I was in sales for 10 years. I may have issues but social ineptness is not one. :)


  • #98
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Actual quote
    15yr old sister to me "why do all your friends know about computers?"
    Mother responds "cuz all her friends are nerds that's why" :)


  • #99
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Whether or not "nerd" is an insult depends on the context it's used in.

    If someone said I was a nerd because I'm smart, I'd be flattered.

    However, if they called me a nerd to insult me (like accuse me of social ineptitude) I woul not like that.


  • #100
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Nerd? me?*

    I can lift heavy things..

    I also know stuff about boats..:)


    *I also write software for machinery in a form of assembly language.. and have loads of geeky IDE's on my home pc hehehe


  • #101
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    SDooM wrote: »
    I may have issues but social ineptness is not one. :)

    Just me then :P.


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