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08 Mar 2011, 7:18 pm

[quote="Vigilans"]They are not real nerds, they are f***ing hipsters. They don't even get Star Trek humor for gods sake!

No, they aren't hipsters.

Don't... even... >.<

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08 Mar 2011, 7:21 pm

DAMMIT! Then WTF is a Hipster?

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08 Mar 2011, 7:21 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

Titangeek wrote:

jmnixon95 wrote:

Silhouette-Song wrote:

True nerds are the coolest and same goes with geeks

Geeks have never been (and never will be) cool.
Ever.

Nerd - Natural intelligence = Geek

They're so annoying. :roll:

'Geek' is an insult; 'nerd' is not.

actually, a geek was a circus performer, more specifically part of the side show. the performer's act consisted of a single geek, who stood in center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them.

it is only recently that the term has been applied to nerds.

(I could swear I already replied to this...)

I was referring to the more 'recent' definition of the word, and I believe that Silhouette-Song was doing so also.

I am aware of that, i was simply trying to share the origin of the word Geek

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08 Mar 2011, 7:24 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

DAMMIT! Then WTF is a Hipster?

A ret*d who always claims things are 'too mainstream'; then they proceed to try to talk to you about music and they're like... "Oh, f**k! That's right! You've never heard of them!"

... Actually, I have.
stfu.

I unfortunately share similar musical tastes with these imbeciles.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:24 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

DAMMIT! Then WTF is a Hipster?

And, God, oh GOD is it annoying when people try to be one! (Which is 99% of them. They're self-proclaimed hipsters.)

Think punks in the 70s.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:27 pm

Oh... so they're the non-conformists of your generation. lol

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08 Mar 2011, 7:28 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Oh... so they're the non-conformists of your generation. lol

Actually, they're more of your generation; my generation is just ret*d and they want to copy them.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:29 pm

I'm a nerd and I'm proud to be one. The only problem is, most nerds today aren't really smart and like anime or gaming rather than sci-fi or fantasy. I manage to become friends with these types of people, but I've had to adapt in order to do so.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:30 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

DAMMIT! Then WTF is a Hipster?

They act like they're into many 'nerdy' subjects. Perhaps the hipsters in Montreal are different compared to elsewhere. They are everywhere here. The joys of living in a Bohemian city

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08 Mar 2011, 7:30 pm

ShenLong wrote:

They're the "geeks" (as mentioned before.)

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08 Mar 2011, 7:31 pm

Vigilans wrote:

jmnixon95 wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

DAMMIT! Then WTF is a Hipster?

They act like they're into many 'nerdy' subjects. Perhaps the hipsters in Montreal are different compared to elsewhere. They are everywhere here. The joys of living in a Bohemian city

Yep, sometimes
. Though this site is biased as hell (especially when you go to look up your name):

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster

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08 Mar 2011, 7:39 pm

Where do do dork and spazz fit in on the spectrum? This is so confusing.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:42 pm

sluice wrote:

Where do do dork and spazz fit in on the spectrum? This is so confusing.

Low.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:43 pm

sluice wrote:

Where do do dork and spazz fit in on the spectrum? This is so confusing.

Low.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:48 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

ShenLong wrote:

They're the "geeks" (as mentioned before.)

It's not really the intelligence factor that bugs me. I'm really used to not having intellectual conversations. I rarely ever do. I just hate having to talk about large-eyed, androgynous, mary sue freaks with mouth flaps when I have to talk with my friends. "No Taylor, I will not read your Gundam fanfic." "No Cory, I do not want to see the live action Death Note movie." And as the anime/gaming community at my school is close with the emo/punk/goth community, I have to deal with whiners in skinny pants that wear multicolor bandanas around their necks and meticulously style their hair. Besides these tradeoffs, I still get along with the anime/gaming kids because I was once big into gaming and anime/manga when I was younger. Gaming got boring and pointless for me and anime is too generic and convoluted for me to enjoy. I still play some games and read a little bit of manga(if the story and art style doesn't make me sick). I also know a lot about the subcultures so I can understand inside jokes and certain terms.

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08 Mar 2011, 7:56 pm

Though I know of people my age who are into anime, there aren't many. But it seems like most teenagers are into it now. It doesn't seem very non-mainstream to me. Is this so? Or is it just that they gather at the same sites I happen to go to? (Besides here.)

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