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{"topics":[{"id":"5383f1b36368721b70a70300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"A thought suddenly struck me, likely due to the fact I'm a couple rum and cokes deep in tonight's drinking.\r\n\r\nBeing a nerd is an extremely artificial and subjective thing because literally everyone is a nerd for something. The difference lies in whether or not what you nerd out for is considered socially acceptable.\r\n\r\nSports fans and gun nuts are a hell of a lot like any given nerd subculture, they care deeply about things that people not in the culture can't give two shits about, buy ridiculous crap and frequently compare stats that utterly mystify anyone not familiar with them.\r\n\r\nI freely admit to being kind of silly for buying a 12 inch statue of Bioshock Infinite's Songbird, five different copies of Cannibal Holocaust, Evil Dead II and Halloween but how is that any more absurd than shelling out equal amounts of cash for Steeler's memorabilia or an odd, rare gun?\r\n\r\nI believe that the key to bringing us all together, as a people, is to acknowledge that A.) pretty much everyone not forced to deal with something horrible like famine or genocide is a huge fuck off nerd for something, and B.) that none of those things are ever inherently superior to the others.","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"5383f1fc63687218a76b0300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f1b36368721b70a70300#post_5383f1b36368721b70a70300\r\nThat means I'm a South Park nerd.","author":"640bc9a16361645de1f50900"},{"id":"5383f2316368721d5a190400","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f1b36368721b70a70300#post_5383f1b36368721b70a70300\r\n\r\nIn words of James Rolfe (and totally paraphrasing):\r\n\r\n\"Everyone's a nerd about a subject they're passionate about\"","author":"4fdfbf92945b7075d50036e4"},{"id":"5383f2486368721d17790300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Randomosaur\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383ef2a6368721bdf950200#post_5383ef2a6368721bdf950200\r\n\r\n\"@Randomosaur\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f1936368721d5ad30300#post_5383f1936368721d5ad30300\r\n...\r\n!http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5w149Q26a1r73plvo1_500.gif!\r\n!http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5w149Q26a1r73plvo2_500.gif!\r\n!http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5w149Q26a1r73plvo3_500.gif!\r\n!http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5w149Q26a1r73plvo4_500.gif!","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"5383f2506368721a80150400","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"I'm bored\r\n\r\nUNLEASH THE BIRDHORSE!!!!!!!!!","author":"535c45dc6368722018500200"},{"id":"5383f2526368721b89b90300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f1b36368721b70a70300#post_5383f1b36368721b70a70300\r\nPretty much","author":"4fde4618945b700aa0002fff"},{"id":"5383f2bd6368721d5a670400","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f1b36368721b70a70300#post_5383f1b36368721b70a70300\r\nThis is so very true! The nice way of calling someone a nerd is \"enthusiast\" but they are still a nerd, and I'm ok with that.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"5383f3606368721c81620400","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"!http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/218053-1/Skateboarding-video-game-neck.gif! ","author":"5154c5237f123bcd580002fc"},{"id":"5383f38863687218a7e40300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@twistedmetalero\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f3606368721c81620400#post_5383f3606368721c81620400\r\nNailed it.","author":"4fde4618945b700aa0002fff"},{"id":"5383f3bb6368721d5a100500","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@twistedmetalero\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5383f3606368721c81620400#post_5383f3606368721c81620400\r\nThat lady's all like \"fuck your fucking physics.\"","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"5383f44863687219dfb70400","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d"