This is only a tangent, but I have a question. When did the term "nerd" start to become a genuine insult in this peer group? I know it has been for a while, usually with the prefix "fat" in front of it, but I can remember a time back in high school when i'd go to SDN to socialize because it was the one place I wouldn't be called a "nerd," or if I was, it was in a friendly and humorous manner.RogueIce wrote: nerdraging over just that.
Somewhere along the line, it turned in to a real term of derision or mockery. People talk about how scrutinizing details makes one a "fatnerd" and thus worthy of mockery. They talk about how franchises should change long-standing elements of their franchises not because change might improve them, but because it would "piss off the nerds," and that would somehow be hilarious. It seems like some people have grown out of the sort of detail analysis this community was originally oriented towards on SDN, and now because they're embarrassed over having participated in it, they mock people who still think its fun.
I'm not making a judgement on it either way, i'm just curious when the shift occurred.
) but I always thought those science uniforms were pretty sharp. I actually thought Picard looked damn good in his blue suit during that flash-forward scene in Tapestries and I would not be adverse to him putting the four pips on a blue collar.
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