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Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 11:38 am
Maybe something along the lines of, "I feel sorry for you that you can't follow the conversation. Maybe a book would help?"
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 11:41 am
Maybe try, 'You mean like those other bookish nerds Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk?'

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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 11:44 am
(March 7, 2018 at 9:22 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: What do you think is the best response you can give to somebody if he accuses you of being too bookish and nerdy?
You know, like somebody accused me here:
A forum post accusing me of being too bookish and nerdy

Offer them crayons and a coloring book!
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 12:11 pm
(March 7, 2018 at 10:07 am)Khemikal Wrote: Hahaha, lol, nerdy book nerd.  We've got a reader here people! Wink


When I first started teaching math it wasn't unusual to hear someone in humanities casually announce they never could "do math" or something like that.  To help them get perspective I liked to cop this attitude here.  Nope, never could read a lick.  Who would want to?  Just wind up one more cross eyed bookish nerd.
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 2:20 pm (This post was last modified: March 7, 2018 at 2:23 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Just call them a dumbassed fucktard who doesn't read enough.
(March 7, 2018 at 10:07 am)Khemikal Wrote: Hahaha, lol, nerdy book nerd.  We've got a reader here people! Wink



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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 3:38 pm (This post was last modified: March 7, 2018 at 3:39 pm by Joods.)
(March 7, 2018 at 9:22 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: What do you think is the best response you can give to somebody if he accuses you of being too bookish and nerdy?
You know, like somebody accused me here:
A forum post accusing me of being too bookish and nerdy



Find another way to occupy your time rather than worrying about what someone on the internet that you'll never meet has said to you.
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Open a book of Shakespeare or Cicero and read it aloud to them for three hours straight, stopping every so often for an in-depth analysis of certain passages.
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 5:24 pm
I'd be the bigger man and offer them a big cup of go fuck yourself.

*not really
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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 5:28 pm (This post was last modified: March 7, 2018 at 5:30 pm by The Valkyrie.)
(March 7, 2018 at 9:22 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: What do you think is the best response you can give to somebody if he accuses you of being too bookish and nerdy?
You know, like somebody accused me here:
A forum post accusing me of being too bookish and nerdy

Two options:

1.  Hit them with a heavy book/folder/sharp object.
2. Explain to them, in gratuitous detail, why knowing everything about the Force doesn't make you nerdy.



Or, 3.  Hire Beccs to kill them.

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RE: Best response to "You are being too bookish and nerdy!"?
March 7, 2018 at 5:34 pm
"I'm sorry, but I don't have any idea what you're saying. I don't speak moron."
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