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Re:“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture by Godel_unicode on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:30PM (#19985116)
It's always amusing to me that people who pride themselves on emotional intelligence and inclusiveness will ask things like: "is your (nerd) friend we're going to dinner with more Sheldon or Leonard?".

If you press them on this, you then get some flavor of "ok but you know what I mean..."

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Re:“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture by Retra on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:32PM (#19985142)
"Why are you so socially awkward" -- person who mistakenly thinks this is a 'graceful' conversation starter.
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Re:“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture by vokep on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:25PM (#19985702)
Its a bit irritating, but empathizing with someone that might ask that...I'm not sure what the problem is? I would know exactly what they meant.
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Re:“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture by Godel_unicode on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:57AM (#19988625)
If you don't get it, I can't explain it to you.
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Re:“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture by vokep on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:47PM (#20035888)
I...do get it though? Or...well I guess I don't get why this is a problem?
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