Growing up when I did, it was unfathomable to see someone tripping over themselves to tell you how uncool they are, and yet now it's a "thing." Godfathered possibly by the curious need for hot chicks to convince everybody how "goofy" they are - XMASTIMEI'm fine with nerds taking over the world, but the last 15 years have been insufferable in that the thing to do seems to be going out of your way to make sure everyone understands that you are in fact a nerd. In a band making millions and playing Coachella? Oh but gee, just nerds. Movie star surrounded by chick begging you to do blow off their tits? Oh no no, you're just a nerd! Being a nerd has gone from being a victim of circumstances to being socially savvy. THIS GUY HERE finally joins me in the fight:
"What happened to being cool?" - David Bielanko
I just don’t know what the hell that means anymore. I’m confused by the aspiring to a label. When you talk about traveling thousands of miles to be around other people who love the things you love… couldn’t you just as easily be talking about college football fans? Or soccer hooligans? Does that make the guys who crowd the Penn State bar down the street from my apartment every Saturday nerds? Or the Europeans who fly in packs into foreign countries to raise hell on match days nerds? And if those guys are nerds, aren’t pretty mucheveryone nerds? And if everyone is a nerd, doesn’t that basically make the term meaningless and thus no one is a nerd?"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “haven't you already talked about this for years?"
Sigh. fine, you fucking win. HERE:
But most of all, I think the need to feel like an oppressed underdog who has succeeded against all odds is as American as apple pie... Nobody can admit they had a somewhat pleasant experience in high school, everybody has to now claim to have been the nerds picked on by the bullying football team. Being a loser in high school is now a cool thing to have been
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