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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:42 am Post subject: |
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At a certain level of accomplishment, one leaves the "nerd" mantle behind. Therefore, I am not a nerd, I am an intellectual with ties to the common man. Although I do appreciate your continued attempts at social climbing by associating yourself with me.
You speak to computers as if they were people and think your avatar pics are edgy. Therefore you are certainly a nerd.
Derrek wasn't a "nerd". To the other end of the spectrum, once one has devolved to a certain level of infamy, and has suggested picking up high school girls in Monkey Beach, one is no longer a nerd. There is another name for it.
Not that being a nerd is a very bad thing, when balanced with other traits. Perhaps that's what happens at certain level of diversity of talent and genius, such as I display: Renaissance Nerd. |
Well, there's your definition right there! If you post like this, you are a bona fide, true blue, down home, solid gold, unrepentant, unreconstructed, honest to goodness, thoroughbred nerd ... |
I think dork is more suitable...or to follow his line of humor
flotdork |
This is an interesting gathering we have collecting here. A rogue's gallery of frazzled freaks.
Don't worry, fiveparakeets, even being a member of the JPNA has certain prerequisites of reading and intelligence: you will then never be a nerd. There's another name for it. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Demophobe, Rteacher, Satori...stakeholders in this issue indeed. We just need jinju to chime in and all will be in balance.
--Thoroughbred, Renaissance Nerd. |
I have no stake in the issue of your nerd-dom fool... |
The institution, son. The institution. I mean, you and Rteacher are right about on par in JPNA statistics, so I can see your interest in keeping tabs on the stats of the others. Including those of us in the RPNA.
You might get there one day, but it's going to take development of certain secondary and tertiary skills that you have neglected until now. Dedication is key, son. Dedication.
Viel Gluck! |
Whatever colorcode-boy. You know what you are, give it up... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Whatever colorcode-boy. You know what you are, give it up... |
What ever do you mean, Sir? I have proudly proclaimed my uber-nerdness to the world and am trying to offer my support to someone on the circuit but not fully arrived. I really do think you can be more than just a nerd: you can be a NERD with just a little more effort.
Satori, Hwaiting!! |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Things are changing.
Nerd: can be extremely social and "cool", doing anything (like skydiving or scubadiving) but knows a lot about computers (or similar things).
Geek: classic definition, likes non-mainstream things or cultish things. Not super social, has also taken on the old "nerd" people
Dork: adds in a physical aspect. Not fashionable at all, might know nothing of computers (though likely too) but is really, really into cultish things with a vengence.
This is from a computer science university student's point of view while studying with many of these people for 5 years.  |
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Infoseeker
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Lurking somewhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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This rare photo of "flotsam" when he still had some hair pretty much personifies the concept:
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This thread has become quite interesting. Rteacher - I've borrowed this lovely picture to help me better explain the concept!  |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| After reading "laggaiguk's" post, I guess that picture most precisely portrays a dork... |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| fiveeagles wrote: |
| Satori wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
At a certain level of accomplishment, one leaves the "nerd" mantle behind. Therefore, I am not a nerd, I am an intellectual with ties to the common man. Although I do appreciate your continued attempts at social climbing by associating yourself with me.
You speak to computers as if they were people and think your avatar pics are edgy. Therefore you are certainly a nerd.
Derrek wasn't a "nerd". To the other end of the spectrum, once one has devolved to a certain level of infamy, and has suggested picking up high school girls in Monkey Beach, one is no longer a nerd. There is another name for it.
Not that being a nerd is a very bad thing, when balanced with other traits. Perhaps that's what happens at certain level of diversity of talent and genius, such as I display: Renaissance Nerd. |
Well, there's your definition right there! If you post like this, you are a bona fide, true blue, down home, solid gold, unrepentant, unreconstructed, honest to goodness, thoroughbred nerd ... |
I think dork is more suitable...or to follow his line of humor
flotdork |
This is an interesting gathering we have collecting here. A rogue's gallery of frazzled freaks.
Don't worry, fiveparakeets, even being a member of the JPNA has certain prerequisites of reading and intelligence: you will then never be a nerd. There's another name for it. |
Ok, your dork factor has gone up at least 2 points. Using the same insult over the past 10 threads will do that to your rating.
You are now apart of the dork club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAcuu37EiM
woops, I mean.... dorkclub. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, your dork factor has gone up at least 2 points. Using the same insult over the past 10 threads will do that to your rating.
You are now apart of the dork club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAcuu37EiM
woops, I mean.... dorkclub. |
As I said, the word "dork" consists of a large physical aspect, and unless you know what he looks like, can not make that statement. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
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Ok, your dork factor has gone up at least 2 points. Using the same insult over the past 10 threads will do that to your rating.
You are now apart of the dork club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAcuu37EiM
woops, I mean.... dorkclub. |
As I said, the word "dork" consists of a large physical aspect, and unless you know what he looks like, can not make that statement. |
What's funny is fivecrows is taking the thread seriously and actually means what he says. He's taking the clique and the jerkclub seriously as well, and it hurts.
What a dork. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
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Ok, your dork factor has gone up at least 2 points. Using the same insult over the past 10 threads will do that to your rating.
You are now apart of the dork club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAcuu37EiM
woops, I mean.... dorkclub. |
As I said, the word "dork" consists of a large physical aspect, and unless you know what he looks like, can not make that statement. |
What's funny is fivecrows is taking the thread seriously and actually means what he says. He's taking the clique and the jerkclub seriously as well, and it hurts.
What a dork. |
No, what's even funnier is he takes himself seriously |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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You know, nerdology is actually quite a burgeoning field of study, according to Google Scholar
I've actually read a couple of those articles for sociolinguistics. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
You know, nerdology is actually quite a burgeoning field of study, according to Google Scholar
I've actually read a couple of those articles for sociolinguistics. |
Geek. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| gang ah jee wrote: |
You know, nerdology is actually quite a burgeoning field of study, according to Google Scholar
I've actually read a couple of those articles for sociolinguistics. |
Geek. |
Besides all that, he spends time making miniscule graphics on photoshop.
Only geeks spend time doing stuff like that. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think nerd is derogatory these days. It refers to someone (male) who's really interested in something relatively esoteric....guitar nerds, computer nerds, astronomy nerds. One can still be an 'ordinary' member of society who is not necessarily the bespactacled 40 year old virgin and still be a nerd. All men are nerds about some interest or other. Satori appears to be a house music production nerd (since his interest in that is very pronounced, it's relatively esoteric), Mithridates is a language nerd, since his capacity for language far exceeds that of the 'normal' person. Jinju a photography nerd? I'm - embarrasingly enough - a nuclear nerd. I know absolutely everything there is to know about thermonuclear fusion, as a laymen who's never formally studied it that is. I'm a bit of a 60s acid-music nerd, since I know of music from that era that very few people on the planet have ever heard, even people alive in that era. I say a nerd is a person (male - it's a masculine word) who's an amateur or non-formally qualified expert in something that's non-mainstream (or maybe latter's unimportant).
Nerds are cool. It's good to have an interest. As long as you're socially competent, nerdism is a positive thing. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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I hereby turn in my nerd card. 
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You speak to computers as if they were people and think your avatar pics are edgy. Therefore you are certainly a nerd.
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Did I think that here?  |
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