We are all nerds now

[Diamond18]

Most likely the definition is a hangover from the old days, when the nerd was relegated to the library and only emerged to have sand kicked in his face or get a wedgie.

There they go again, giving libraries a bad name. Why I oughta.... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

The thing that amuses me, is that all this keeps coming back to unwashed, pimply bodies and glasses. The only people who can escape the interests of nerdism, would by default be devoid of any imagination, intelligence or real social skills (I mean, you'd have to have a small vocabulary and little brainpower, so how could you be sociable?). So how come the terminally stupid are the ones who supposedly manage to be clean and attractive and "cool"? And the people who actually have personalities and interests are considered the ugly, boring, smelly ones?

It just goes to show how illogical it is to let high school cliquishness perpetuate into adult life and the world at large. The article rather contradicted itself, by not admitting that the term "nerd" has always been a stupid term stupid people use to label others. I found this interesting:

mainstream cool (as represented by MTV and the David Letterman show).

If that's the case, why does LotR always do so well at the MTV Awards?