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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1729076" data-attributes="member: 6182">Honestly, nobody was ever stupid enough to try and dunk me in a toilet, though I did have a death threat in middle school.  You do realize that not all nerds are whimps, right?We're not talking millions, we're talking upper middle class or otherwise very comfortable compared to, say, the majority of football players.  Like all those guys helping companies with their computers because technophobes can't figure'em out on their own.  There's a much larger space in the world for engineers, computer nerds, and even librarians than there are places for the vast majority of 'jocks' who don't get in to proffessional sports after all those years of throwing footballs, and the ones who end up destroying their bodies in the attempt and end up crippling themselves so they couldn't play anyways.You do realize that not every nerd is afraid to socialize, right?  Nerds are just eccentric smart people.  They aren't all 'cat piss men'.Which is not the vast majority of nerddom.Honestly, they sound like the Mensa folk I've dealt with (minus wanting to grope animals -- I hope).  But they're hardly the majority of nerds.  You just ran in to a bad batch of them.  Other nerds include accountants, scientists, engineers, architects, bankers... the list goes on.Anti-social geeks are nerds now?I think you have your definitions mixed.I dunno, maybe my country and coast upbringing gives me a different view than the urban or suburban set, but the only issue I've really seen with nerds is those that let the label and stereotype get to them.</blockquote>

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