EPTOn March 05 2013 23:25 fabiano wrote:
"BW is dead"
"BW is dead"
Bad things (besides a ban) should happen to people who say this. I actually can't believe anyone could be so rude as to say it at all, anywhere, ever.
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
Bad things (besides a ban) should happen to people who say this. I actually can't believe anyone could be so rude as to say it at all, anywhere, ever. | ||
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
On March 07 2013 05:09 RyanRushia wrote: i hate when people use "irregardless" it's not a word, and you're countering yourself. stop. it. When people say "irregardless" I interrupt them and tell them to say "UNirregardless." | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
Tons of girls misquoting Marilyn Monroe on Facebook to excuse their own bitchiness. | ||
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Robstickle
Great Britain406 Posts
On March 07 2013 11:45 Shebuha wrote: When people say "irregardless" I interrupt them and tell them to say "UNirregardless." The word's at least 218 years old, and probably older. It's a real word. On March 07 2013 11:50 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: "If you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best." Tons of girls misquoting Marilyn Monroe on Facebook to excuse their own bitchiness. I hate that one; some people don't realise just how bad their worst is. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On March 07 2013 12:26 Robstickle wrote: The word's at least 218 years old, and probably older. It's a real word. I hate that one; some people don't realise just how bad their worst is. irregardless, it's an annoying thing to hear people say. | ||
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Angry_Fetus
Canada444 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:39 Severedevil wrote: Pounds are actually a measure of force, not of mass, so saying you weigh 160lb is correct. But, yeah, if it bothers you to hear people talk of 'weighing' 50kg, just imagine they said they have weigh the same as 50kg. The information conveyed is clear, even if they didn't properly use the technical terms. Uhh, no. That's completely wrong. Pound is a measure of mass, not force. The definition of a pound is 0.453kg. In physics, the Force of weight in imperial is measured in pound-force (lbf). That said, correcting someone on saying weight in real life is being a pedantic dick. | ||
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brian
United States9620 Posts
On December 15 2005 15:05 aseq wrote: No offense, but... (you're a dick) It's always in the last place you look. No shit. You want me to continue search after i've found it? edit: (and i didn't get that first one off maddox, i just read it's there too) This is the one for me. I absolutely hate when people say its always in the last place you look. Like im not angry enough that i just spent however long it took me to find shit, someone drops this one on me. | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
On March 07 2013 12:54 Angry_Fetus wrote: Uhh, no. That's completely wrong. Pound is a measure of mass, not force. The definition of a pound is 0.453kg. In physics, the Force of weight in imperial is measured in pound-force (lbf). That said, correcting someone on saying weight in real life is being a pedantic dick. And since we are on earth, one newton = 9.8 kg. Until we become an interplanetary civilization I don't see a need to distinguish mass vs weight outside of physics related work. On March 07 2013 12:57 Gene wrote: This is the one for me. I absolutely hate when people say its always in the last place you look. Like im not angry enough that i just spent however long it took me to find shit, someone drops this one on me. It's more like this: There's 5 possible places it can be, and it's in the 5th one. A more proper saying would be "It's always in the last possible spot" but then people would nitpick that and say it's not really the last possible spot because there's infinite spots. | ||
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brian
United States9620 Posts
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jrkirby
United States1510 Posts
Seriously I saw one of my friends with an album of Team Fortress 2 screen shots with a title of "I'm so nerdy." C'mon, if you were playing Dwarf Fortress, I could see what you're talking about. But Team Fortress is a cartoony FPS. The only nerdy thing about it is that it's on a computer, and it's not the 80's anymore, computers aren't just for nerds. Here, let me give a couple of examples of nerdy vs not nerdy: Watching the Big Bang Theory - Not nerdy Solving Calculus problems in your free time - Nerdy Playing Legend of Zelda - Not nerdy Installing Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi - Nerdy Reading Comic books - Not nerdy Writing Regular expressions - Nerdy Playing a Tabletop RPG - Not nerdy Looking up Latin and Greek roots of words - Nerdy Things I listed in the "not nerdy" category may be things nerds also enjoy. But that's not what makes them nerdy. And you can certainly enjoy all those things without being nerdy at all. But the things I listed in the second category are different. A guy who isn't nerdy at all will just not do any of the things in the "nerdy" category if he doesn't have to. | ||
Falling
Canada11363 Posts
But isn't that simply a lot of things that have gotten mainstream over the years? Or at least the respective sub-cultures have become increasingly more popular. When I was in school people might have known who Bilbo or Gollum was because our grade 3 teacher would read it every year. But if I mentioned 'Frodo' I would get funny or blank looks. After the movies... | ||
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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farvacola
United States18831 Posts
On March 07 2013 13:27 jrkirby wrote: When people call themselves a nerd because they enjoy pop culture. "I like Dr. Who [or Harry Potter] [or Star Trek] [or Star Wars] [or Video Games], I'm such a nerd!" No, enjoying science fiction or fantasy doesn't make you a nerdy. Seriously I saw one of my friends with an album of Team Fortress 2 screen shots with a title of "I'm so nerdy." C'mon, if you were playing Dwarf Fortress, I could see what you're talking about. But Team Fortress is a cartoony FPS. The only nerdy thing about it is that it's on a computer, and it's not the 80's anymore, computers aren't just for nerds. Here, let me give a couple of examples of nerdy vs not nerdy: Watching the Big Bang Theory - Not nerdy Solving Calculus problems in your free time - Nerdy Playing Legend of Zelda - Not nerdy Installing Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi - Nerdy Reading Comic books - Not nerdy Writing Regular expressions - Nerdy Playing a Tabletop RPG - Not nerdy Looking up Latin and Greek roots of words - Nerdy Things I listed in the "not nerdy" category may be things nerds also enjoy. But that's not what makes them nerdy. And you can certainly enjoy all those things without being nerdy at all. But the things I listed in the second category are different. A guy who isn't nerdy at all will just not do any of the things in the "nerdy" category if he doesn't have to. Nerd hipsterism at its finest. I get that there are a lot of popular trends in word use that are really annoying, "nerdy" being a good example, but your standard for what counts as nerdy is incredibly arbitrary and vain. This is one of those times where coming up with some formula is pretty silly; as any real nerd will you tell you, you'll know one when you see one  | ||
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RunScv
United States15 Posts
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brian
United States9620 Posts
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
On March 07 2013 13:27 jrkirby wrote: When people call themselves a nerd because they enjoy pop culture. "I like Dr. Who [or Harry Potter] [or Star Trek] [or Star Wars] [or Video Games], I'm such a nerd!" No, enjoying science fiction or fantasy doesn't make you a nerdy. Seriously I saw one of my friends with an album of Team Fortress 2 screen shots with a title of "I'm so nerdy." C'mon, if you were playing Dwarf Fortress, I could see what you're talking about. But Team Fortress is a cartoony FPS. The only nerdy thing about it is that it's on a computer, and it's not the 80's anymore, computers aren't just for nerds. Here, let me give a couple of examples of nerdy vs not nerdy: Watching the Big Bang Theory - Not nerdy Solving Calculus problems in your free time - Nerdy Playing Legend of Zelda - Not nerdy Installing Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi - Nerdy Reading Comic books - Not nerdy Writing Regular expressions - Nerdy Playing a Tabletop RPG - Not nerdy Looking up Latin and Greek roots of words - Nerdy Things I listed in the "not nerdy" category may be things nerds also enjoy. But that's not what makes them nerdy. And you can certainly enjoy all those things without being nerdy at all. But the things I listed in the second category are different. A guy who isn't nerdy at all will just not do any of the things in the "nerdy" category if he doesn't have to. The word you're looking for is Geeky. Solving Physics problems for fun is geeky. Playing LoL is nerdy. | ||
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ControlMonkey
Australia3109 Posts
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ControlMonkey
Australia3109 Posts
On March 07 2013 13:42 RunScv wrote: "I didn't do nothing"....SMH It's idiomatic! Edit. Being a nerd IMO is showing an excessive interest and enthusiasm in things most people don't care about. Like those people who can recall the batting average of every baseball player in who ever played in the MBL? They are nerds. | ||
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