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Started by mongers, June 29, 2013, 06:00:02 PM

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How Would You React To Being Described As A History Nerd

Offended
2 (5.1%)
Neutral, not bothered
16 (41%)
Take It As A Compliment
15 (38.5%)
Confused, as not appropriate to me
6 (15.4%)

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mongers

June 29, 2013, 06:00:02 PM
Guys just to a bit of 'market research', simple question what's your reaction to being called a history nerd ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

11B4V

#1
June 29, 2013, 06:01:27 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 29, 2013, 06:00:02 PM
Guys just to a bit of 'market research', simple question what's your reaction to being called a history nerd ?

Not.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

garbon

#2
June 29, 2013, 06:05:08 PM
I guess I'd say I generally take it as a compliment. To be offended would be bizarre given the contents of my bookshelves. :D
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

#3
June 29, 2013, 06:07:20 PM
Indifference.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Capetan Mihali

#4
June 29, 2013, 06:10:27 PM
Fucking furious.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Eddie Teach

#5
June 29, 2013, 06:16:09 PM
Languish has shown me that my interest in history isn't particularly strong.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Viking

#6
June 29, 2013, 06:18:02 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2013, 06:16:09 PM
Languish has shown me that my interest in history isn't particularly strong.

The olympics showed me I'm not a very fast runner :contract:
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Admiral Yi

#7
June 29, 2013, 06:30:44 PM
Not appropriate.  Not because i don't enjoy history, but because nerd to me connotes obsessive interest in a niche subject-to the exclusion of other interests-and membership in an exclusionary, social out-group.

The Brain

#8
June 29, 2013, 06:30:57 PM
I'd take it like a man.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

mongers

#9
June 29, 2013, 06:37:08 PM
Quote from: Viking on June 29, 2013, 06:18:02 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2013, 06:16:09 PM
Languish has shown me that my interest in history isn't particularly strong.

The olympics showed me I'm not a very fast runner :contract:

You should PM this to Marti, "this is how to do an analogy"  :D
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#10
June 29, 2013, 06:38:17 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2013, 06:16:09 PM
Languish has shown me that my interest in history isn't particularly strong.

Same here, turns out I have only a passing interest in the subject.

Oh and guy thanks for the responses/votes so far.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

The Brain

#11
June 29, 2013, 06:38:54 PM
I have a solid interest in the subject of passing.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

#12
June 29, 2013, 06:53:13 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2013, 06:30:44 PM
Not appropriate.  Not because i don't enjoy history, but because nerd to me connotes obsessive interest in a niche subject-to the exclusion of other interests-and membership in an exclusionary, social out-group.

Well yes that's the reason someone might call someone a <insert blank> nerd but that doesn't mean that it is actually true. Often just lobbed at what a person thinks is an overly intellectual interest.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#13
June 29, 2013, 07:04:36 PM
My next poll question will be:

"Is History the New Rock'n'Roll?"    :cool:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Eddie Teach

#14
June 29, 2013, 07:08:16 PM
I like that old time rock n roll.  :)
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?
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