Nerd! Stop Being Stereotypical!

@Kay: Now who's being the nice one versus the mean one?

@Reset: "Dork" means "whale penis."

I'm dead serious.

If a guy gets called that, it's technically a compliment.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

I was mean? xD

Eh. I am over 25 (the pretty arbitrary cutoff point mentioned in the article) and I don't recall anybody giving me grief about my entertainment preferences. Yeah, I guess that some people thought I was weird and a bit of a loser because I liked chess more than sports and I tried to convince the physical education teacher that since chess is a mental sport, I should be allowed to study chess openings instead of running, but

1. I did not particularly care about what they thought, and
2. They were kind of right. I mean, come on.

Now, school bullying is certainly a thing, perhaps more so in the past, and it tends to hit kids who "stand out" in some sense and don't look like they will manage to raise a fuss about it; but "standing out" might be just about anything — reading comic books, sure, but also speaking with a lisp or being foreign-born or whatever. "Nerds" are, I think, arguably better off than many of these groups, since they know that there are other people that share their interests.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

"Unless you totally suck!"

Kinda mean.

Good advice, but still kinda mean.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

That's...pretty much exactly the opposite of the definition my friends and I use. In our minds it's not just fantasy vs sci-fi but "intelligence and obsessiveness" vs "obsessiveness without intelligence."

Oh, well. Further proof that geek and nerd have both become meaningless terms since pretty much everyone has a different definition for each of them. Except people who lump them all together as the same insult.

edited 17th Aug '12 11:37:02 AM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.

@Grim

That's not mean. I was being nice, since I was talking to the filth of humanity! :3

@Kay: Filth of humanity?

You mean my coworkers from June 6 to August 12?

I think we might need something stronger than "Be yourself! Unless you totally stuck!" to make them better humans...

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

"Be the yourself that you should be", perhaps?

Meh, sounds a bit too self-help-booky for my tastes...

edited 17th Aug '12 11:40:26 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

No, I was talking about politicans!

ZING!

...

Anyone?

@Carc: This and this sum up a lot of what I'm getting at.

@Kay: Hey, I can think of ... uh... one good politician.

But he died last year...

Okay, you have a point.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

At least our Austrian politicans have good rape faces!

Wait, rape faces?

What?

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

Faymann is watching you sleep.

edited 17th Aug '12 11:53:51 AM by kay4today

Mother of god...

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

Yikes.

Jesus H. Christ get him away!

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... That is both hilarious and terrifying.

On the flipside;

Our prime minister is a soulless Replicant.◊

Our Defense Minister◊, on the other hand, just looks perpetually confused.

The latter makes sense when you read news articles on him and realise he has no clue what is even going on in his own department, and that his generals have outright decried him as clueless.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

Your prime minister looks stoned. Ought to lay off the grass, meng.

The hell is a boffin supposed to be anyways?

The Great Northern Threadkill.

@Freeman: He's actually one of the most stringently anti-pot politicians in the country.

The hilarious thing is, I'm from the province that now has 68% approval of legalisation and taxation of marijuana, on the basis that it is a massive drain on the police and justice system for no reason at this point.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

I cannot describe his facial expression.◊

I just... can't...

Just a reminder...

edited 17th Aug '12 12:06:27 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

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@Kay: I'm getting a blank screen with no image.

But if we're now linking political pictures, here's Jean Chretien◊, getting pied in the face◊ (during a press conference on live national television), strangling a protestor◊, and this one's a video, but answering a question about police use of pepper spray on protestors.

Oh, and of course, what kind of proof Canada would need to enter the War in Iraq. (This was Canadian political satire gold for three years.)

I miss that man.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

@Spider: A primarily British term for someone with technical or scientific knowledge and interest. Originated in the military during WWII and is usually used in an affectionate manner in phrases like: "Here's something the boffins have come up with."

And ya' all have weird politicians!

edited 17th Aug '12 12:13:28 PM by Catfish42

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

@Grim

Ah, it doesn't work. Awww.

Well, nevermind. That old guy looks hilarious. Especially the pic with the pie.

Is it just me...◊ or does he kinda look like: "Lol, fuck you too! :)"? XD