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  • #62
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭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 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 Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭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 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


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