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Nocturnal Nerds

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  • #92
    raah!
    Registered Users 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 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 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


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


  • #96
    Teutorix
    Registered Users 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
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


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

    Just me then :P.


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  • #102
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    SteveC wrote: »
    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

    I've played music in front of 2,000 students but I'm still a nerd. Deal with it :D


  • #103
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    square_igloo wrote: »
    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.
    i would just laugh, i get made fun of all the time! i just find it terribly funny, it doesnt bother me in the slightest.
    i would probably just laugh at them and say something smart along the lines of disproving my ineptness and showing theirs, using plenty of big words along the way.

    now that i think about it most of the people who make fun of me wouldnt know what social ineptness means


  • #104
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    SteveC wrote: »

    I can lift heavy things..


    Pfft, so can I, and I'm tiny!


  • #105
    Jaunte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Jaunte


    *affixes Nerd Badge*

    Going back to college to study more science, I kick ass at the numbers round on Countdown ,and once (at a costume party in 2006) I got a bit overexcited about FFXII coming out, because Famitsu had given it a perfect score. (I fell over.)

    My badge is shiny and I wear it with great pride. :D
    thelordofcheese wrote: »
    I make video games for a living.

    ...game developer + Isle of Wight + cheese.... Herr Cron?!?


  • #106
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    Having attended the Nocturnal Beers, I for one disagree with the notion that nerds are unattractive :pac:


  • #107
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Having attended the Nocturnal Beers, I for one disagree with the notion that nerds are unattractive :pac:
    intelligence is sexy!
    thats just my opinion, you can have yours.


  • #108
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Having attended the Nocturnal Beers, I for one disagree with the notion that nerds are unattractive :pac:


    Gotta agree with you there!


  • #109
    animan
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    ooh ooh. I thought of something else I know the longest word in the English language and can spell it. Does anyone else, without the help of google.


  • #110
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Teutorix wrote: »
    intelligence is sexy!
    thats just my opinion, you can have yours.
    You seem to be lacking at the moment :P it was a double negative, MizzLolly said intelligence is attractive!


  • #111
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Having attended the Nocturnal Beers, I for one disagree with the notion that nerds are unattractive :pac:

    That may just have been the alcohol! :D


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  • #112
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    animan wrote: »
    ooh ooh. I thought of something else I know the longest word in the English language and can spell it. Does anyone else, without the help of google.
    It's the name of a Scottish town. 52 letters I believe?


  • #113
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #114
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    1.1 degree in electronic and computer engineering, picking that up in october. Might be the only one in the class to have got a 1.1. Nerd ++
    Have sat on my couch all summer nerding it up via games.
    2 of the last 3 nights I have been playing games with friends in an internet cafe until 8am.
    Och spelar lite DotA!
    I read 4 books a week for a decade.
    Have been on science and maths 'teams'.
    Have taught people as old as myself electronics in university and have taught leaving cert students electronics labs.
    Oh I used to roleplay as an aristocratic vampire heh.
    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.
    He hasn't been the richest man alive for ages and also he has now given all his money to charity so well, nuh uh!


  • #115
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    You seem to be lacking at the moment :P it was a double negative, MizzLolly said intelligence is attractive!
    no she said nerds are not unattractive. she didnt say their brains turned her on!


  • #116
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    It's the name of a Scottish town. 52 letters I believe?
    welsh actually


  • #117
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Mr Crystal wrote: »
    I agree! Airheads annoy me...



    I used to know it and could spell it but can't remember it!
    Unless you're talking about the popular belief that antidisestablishmentarianism is in fact the longest english word?


  • #118
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    animan wrote: »
    ooh ooh. I thought of something else I know the longest word in the English language and can spell it. Does anyone else, without the help of google.

    It's not antidisestablishmentarianism, is it?

    Or is it that really long word beginning with f? Floccinauphin...something.


  • #119
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    It's the name of a Scottish town. 52 letters I believe?

    Thats welsh actually.

    Ooooh I keep forgetting this. I dont think it's antidisestablishmentarianism, or flocinocinihifilipication, but they are up there.


  • #120
    mc nuggets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭mc nuggets


    Im not a regular poster, but i think the fact that I get the Machine God reference in Teutorixs sig makes me nerdy enough :D

    Praise the Omnissah :pac:

    edit: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words is up there :P


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  • #121
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Teutorix wrote: »
    no she said nerds are not unattractive. she didnt say their brains turned her on!
    Teutorix wrote: »
    welsh actually

    Easy tiger, it's not a competition! :P


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