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Re:Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003) by jquery on Saturday May 17, 2014 @11:22AM (#7760367)
> Ditto. I was, and am a nerd.

Popular, boastful, not bullied, dressed sharply, pursued by popular women, played popular sports, social butterfly, good looking, many friends. Yet you attribute your "fellow nerds" lack of such to their lack of effort and claim you would "ask yourself questions" and "hack it". Nerds have a name for such a type: douchebag.

Re:Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003) by Jugurtha on Saturday May 17, 2014 @07:49PM (#7761549)
You have a point. Though I've always tried to help the most socially excluded people by introducing them to people, and getting them into groups, and making their "weirdness" disappear in front of people by not locking onto it, or making them self conscious.

Countless guys shredded their shyness and got a social life by me doing this, not because I pitied "the poor guy", but because I felt nobody had to live like this, or go through life this way. But I'm probably a douchebag, anyway.