An ode to that “coffee friend”

Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by paganel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:04AM (#33353744)

I was the nerd-ish type as a teenager back in 1990s Eastern Europe and I don't remember getting bullied. I knew things were slightly different in the US, I mean the whole "cool girls" group thing and all, as we were able to watch stuff like Saved by the Bell [1] on TV, but that kind of atmosphere seemed strange to us at the time.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096694/

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Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by gambiting on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:19AM (#33353852)

Same exact thing for me. Nerds definitely weren't getting bullied, if you were good at maths and physics maybe girls weren't into you but the "bullies" didn't really mess with people who were good at sciences(I guess partially because they had to copy their homework from someone, so keeping good relations with the "nerds" was actually a good survival strategy)

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Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by paganel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:26AM (#33353908)

> I guess partially because they had to copy their homework from someone, so keeping good relations with the "nerds" was actually a good survival strategy

I was about to also mention the "copy homework" part, but I thought that would have sounded too specific, certainly glad that I wasn't the only one to whom that happened :) I've had a former highschool colleague thank me for everything I had helped her with during high-school at our 20 years reunion recently, she was a very smart person back then (still is) but the Physics classes just weren't for her.

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