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tankboy:

You know what? I went to high school in the ’80s. I had a computer. I read sci-fi. I was super fucking smart. And I was what one would call a huge fucking nerd. The day “nerd” became sexy was also the day I realized everything that had caused me pain from age 0-19 had been coopted by jocks and diluted past the point of fucking no return.

Everyone’s adolescence is painful, but the “nerds” of today have ZERO to fucking complain about. Try actually growing up in the days when everything you now find cool was absolutely the most uncool thing in the world.

People’s kids are going to be so unimpressed by these new versions of “I walked ten miles to school, uphill, both ways.” They will shed more tears when we tell them we had to go home to use the telephone.

(Source: staceyjoy)

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   much better than

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    We are dangerously close to telling “it was so hard back then” stories where we describe how hard it was back then to...

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    weird telling people what they are and are not, especially with an identity category as fluid as “nerd.” Also, I never...

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    A snark is cheap and any more than one in a while can get tiresome, but oh god it’s so true lol.

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    What about people who self-identify as popular, but they’re really unhappy? Oh.

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    Quoted for truth, basically. One of my first posts here was quoting Tessa Strain on, basically, the way that nerds grow...

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    People’s kids are going...be so unimpressed...these new...

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    I… There are “nerdy” things that are still uncool today, just somewhat different things than

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