Current Events > I'm still still bitter at the popularisation and theft of the word 'nerd'.

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FrenchCrunch posted...

pinky0926 posted...

You're missing the point he was making. Pink Floyd and Monty Python were at least 20 years before my time too. Part of the whole nerd thing is being obsessed with things that are no longer relevant because you see it as a higher form of art that your pleb peers simply don't appreciate because they lack the intelligence. This includes dad rock, classical music, renaissance art and antiquated viewpoints on male/female courtship.

this seems like being a hipster not being a nerd

The critical difference is a hipster has nerd-like interests but isn't socially inept and lacking the self-awareness to realise his interests are not cool. Instead the hipster makes it cool, in an ironic sort of way. The nerd goes off on an irrelevant and uncalled for rant about stuff that doesn't matter and then doesn't get the girl because she's afraid of him. That's a nerd.


teepan95 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

teepan95 posted...

philsov posted...

That's kind of the point. Monty Python and Pink Floyd were old in even the 90's.

I was 5 years old in 2000. Even for a nerd, Monty Python and Pink Floyd would be before my time.

You're missing the point he was making. Pink Floyd and Monty Python were at least 20 years before my time too. Part of the whole nerd thing is being obsessed with things that are no longer relevant because you see it as a higher form of art that your pleb peers simply don't appreciate because they lack the intelligence. This includes dad rock, classical music, renaissance art and antiquated viewpoints on male/female courtship.

I was basing it on being obsessed with things a specific 'number of generations' before you. To me, it makes sense that nerds in my generation would be obsessed with (at least partly) different things than nerds in your generation.

Fair point. I wouldn't even know what a real dork is these days. Probably someone cut out to be a back end developer, I guess.
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Speaking of hipsters:

My Uni has a careers fair. Companies try to persuade students to apply for jobs with them, and students go for free shit like pens and writing blocks.

One pen I got literally markets the company as "#sonotmainstream"

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pinky0926 posted...

The critical difference is a hipster has nerd-like interests but isn't socially inept and lacking the self-awareness to realise his interests are not cool. Instead the hipster makes it cool, in an ironic sort of way. The nerd goes off on an irrelevant and uncalled for rant about stuff that doesn't matter and then doesn't get the girl because she's afraid of him. That's a nerd.

I've always felt like hipsters were another thing entirely. Hipsters are more into music, television, and movies, latching onto more obscure, lesser known media, less out of an actual appreciation for them, but for the cred that comes with knowing about something that the mainstream doesn't. Hipsters and nerds are similar in that when one thing they like becomes mainstream, they complain about liking it before it got cool, which to be fair, can be a pretty valid annoyance.

teepan95 posted...

Speaking of hipsters:

My Uni has a careers fair. Companies try to persuade students to apply for jobs with them, and students go for free shit like pens and writing blocks.

One pen I got literally markets the company as "#sonotmainstream"

"How do you do, fellow kids?"
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clearaflagrantj posted...

dick stroking

Reminds me of something I need to do...
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ImAMarvel posted...

I've always felt like hipsters were another thing entirely. Hipsters are more into music, television, and movies, latching onto more obscure, lesser known media, less out of an actual appreciation for them, but for the cred that comes with knowing about something that the mainstream doesn't. Hipsters and nerds are similar in that when one thing they like becomes mainstream, they complain about liking it before it got cool, which to be fair, can be a pretty valid annoyance.

The best unbiased description of what a hipster actually is I found on reddit some time ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/11pw6d/i_told_two_girls_at_the_library_to_be_quiet_about/c6orpz9/
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pinky0926 posted...

Oh, you like Marvel movies and you read Harry Potter? What a total geek lol. You basic fucking bastard.

These fuckers never did the hard yards in high school. They never knew what it was like to not get laid because they unironically wore a trilby and felt that knowing more about Pink Floyd than Jay-Z made them cool. They never spent weeknights figuring out how to make websites in tables or getting a final fantasy game to completion. They never quoted Terry Pratchett or Monty Python or Douglas Adams in an attempt to be funny. Never heard of Net Nexus? Don't tell me you're a nerd then.

Being a nerd was not cool at all.

I'm with you. I was never really called a nerd, but I get it. Loser will never be taken that way, so I'm good.
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*Standing slow clap*

pinky0926 posted...

Oh, you like Marvel movies and you read Harry Potter? What a total geek lol. You basic fucking bastard.

Laughed way too hard