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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow I Became Thousands of Nerds' Worst Enemy by Tweeting a Photo (NDT photo backstory)
http://gawker.com/how-i-became-thousands-of-nerds-worst-enemy-by-tweeting-1618323233The pic, for reference:
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)chrisa
(4,524 posts)Like someone would take a picture of a random guy and post "Hey! Look at this random guy working on his computer! Nerd!"
It's hilarious and sad at the same time how Twitter creates these massive dogpiles of angry mouthbreathers chomping at the bit to spew a string of swears and death threats out at the next acceptable target.
Kali
(55,025 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)defense by acting like absolute morons~! They go straight to the crass sexual references, calling the tweeter the a, b and c words, and insisting that the tweeter should be sucking his d rather than tweeting about him!
I'm betting NDT doesn't need that kind of defense...! Never mind that the entire tweet was "ironic."
Look--it's some old lady in a church hat photobombing!!!!
babylonsister
(171,096 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)The "nerds" defending NDT clearly needed the visual cue!
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)so many people didn't get it. "nerds" usually do.
Renew Deal
(81,879 posts)kickysnana
(3,908 posts)He used it one time when I was a kid and got a guy who was going to cut in at a four way stop. The guy not only stopped, he backed up and waited. I was impressed.
Dad was a first order nerd, head of the instrument lab at Sperry/Univac/Uinisys military systems division and designed wind sensors for other countries military aircraft and other stuff he couldn't talk about when he worked after retiring from Unisys at age 55. He also was a great neighbor, Dad, friend. Lion, and mentor etc (but you just couldn't ask him how to spell anything.)
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... who resembles your dad in so many ways. The techy stuff (she is a scientist), the glare (and she has a bad mouth on her too if you cross her), right down to the spelling. Bet you can barely read your dad's handwriting, either, huh? But God do we love 'em! Go Nerds!
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)but I new how that was in the photo before I read the article and the tweeter was joking. I guess that makes me smarter than a whole bunch of nerds.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)[blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"][p]a huge subculture of people who pride themselves on their superior intellects have been easily fooled & humiliated by a man named [a href="https://twitter.com/dogboner"]@DogBoner[/a] Degenerate Gandhi (@Bro_Pair) [a href="https://twitter.com/Bro_Pair/statuses/497447710308708352"]August 7, 2014[/a]
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