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Existential ComicsNerd culture is funny because it fooled an entire generation into thinking that if you liked sci-fi and disliked sports, that somehow made you smart.
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Cap Ybarra@existentialcomics definitely some correlation-for-causation-mistaking happening there
Three plus or minus five@existentialcomics In my generation (X) it was not this. Rather, smart kids and those who wouldn’t fit in were ostracized and bullied. Sport was a special case for extra belittling and bullying, so we developed no love for it.
Chao-c'@ThreeSigma @existentialcomics yes. when I was young, nerds were not really the cool kids. It came too late for me.
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Tony Hoyle@ThreeSigma
Yes I hate sport because growing up the people who liked sport were cruel bullies - especially the teachers.
I got into star trek because the people who would talk to me were into it. They happened to also be smart.
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Chris L@tony @ThreeSigma @existentialcomics they weren't just cruel - they would allow timid weaklings in if we showed cruelty to even more outcast people. some of the cause of the tolerance for totally destroying massive parts of the economy by Sillicon Valley folks is resentment of childhood bullying: hmmm, this will harm all the real estate brokers (checking Facebook for the real estate brokers and noting they were all quite unkind people in junior high), well that's the price for progress.
Leonardo Fontenelle@existentialcomics I remember a unitedstatesian living in Germany saying how difficult of was for Germans to grasp the concept of a "nerd", because, there, liking engineering had nothing to do with being socially inept or ostracized.
Paul Wilde 
@existentialcomics if your employed or contracted nerd enjoys sports more than sci-fi you should cease all dealings with them immediately
AN/CRM-114@existentialcomics brought to you by the country that fooled itself into thinking that if you liked sports teams, that made you an athlete
Дими́трийthis is a realtively new misconception; birthed, no doubt, by the inconscianble popularity of 'the big bang theory.'