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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
okay so this thing. this nerds vs. jocks thing. where does it come from? i picked it up from TV and movies and shit. who was patient zero? were a bunch of filmmakers bullied a lot in high school? did their bullies have dads who were WWII or vietnam vets or something?
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Adam Fitchett
@fitchett_adam
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Yeh I had a similar attitude due to a kind of aesthetic opposition to jockishness
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
my own actual experience fwiw is that every jock i knew in high school was a nice guy who thought i was funny although i was also secretly jealous of them for being hotter than me they really liked me when i joined choir and they found out i could sing
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Matt "🇺🇦" Olson
@arachnocapital2
exactly one of the jocks I ran into in high school was a bully, and as soon as we could avoid each other that stopped being a problem also two of the kids in the Smart Kids Programme* were on the varsity football team * IB if you're keeping score
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Matt "🇺🇦" Olson
@arachnocapital2
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@QiaochuYuan
the only time I got anywhere close to bullied for being a nerd was near the end of grade 12, when everyone started thinking about life after graduation and some people realized I was going to university & they weren't still not nearly as bad as being the smallest kid in grade 3
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