Re:What game are you playing?
by eyelidlessness on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:46AM
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Excuse me but what definition of “nerd” are you operating under because I want to travel back in time and not literally have the shit beaten out of me and go enjoy an art and history education for the pure academic joy of it.
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Are you from the US? The whole jocks/nerds thing is a bit alien to me.
In my school, the top athletes were also good students. The dux was the linchpin of the football team and also wrote poetry.
Re:What game are you playing?
by eyelidlessness on Thursday May 05, 2022 @07:26PM
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I’m from the US. But the jocks/nerds thing is alien to me too for what it’s worth. In my experience the conflicting difference was jerks/nerds. I wasn’t close friends with many athletes but many of them were friendly, and yes great students. And one who I did become close friends with wasn’t particularly inclined to poetry AFAIK, but we did form a “band” and record an (embarrassing now) “album” together.