How To Not Get Killed By Angry Nerds

I did a social experiment on Pinterest today.

Pinterest: 
People post pictures/memes/art/ideas/whatever onto Pinterest, and if you like them, you repin them onto one of your boards, which are categorized to your liking.

Anyway, I was on Pinterest today and thought I'd do a social experiment.

I tried to count how many people have boards called "I'm such a nerd" (where they put stuff to do with Star Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc), and gave up at 308. Most of the boards had around 100-150 pins.

Then I picked a nerd subject (obviously Lord of the Rings) and searched for boards on that. A lot of people had boards with over 1,000 pins on them, one person had 8,000, and another person had 10,000.

I was going to say that I don't want to be rude, but then I remembered that I did want to be rude, so I'm going to be rude and I apologize. Which doesn't really count, because I'm being rude on purpose, and I could stop right now if I wanted to, but I don't want to, so I'll just come back later when I'm actually sorry and apologize.

Incoming Rudeness

Please don't say "I'm such a nerd!" like you're proud of it, because it drives hard-core nerds insane. Liking Harry Potter and having read the books/seen the movies doesn't make you a nerd. Standing in line at midnight to get your latest Harry Potter book makes you a nerd. Dressing up as a character from Harry Potter and going to the midnight showing of the latest movie makes you a nerd. Understanding every single thing about Harry Potter makes you a nerd. Constantly thinking/talking about Harry Potter without giving a hoot what anybody thinks makes you a nerd.

If you're obviously not a nerd, and you say something like "I love Lord of the Rings. I'm such a nerd!" in front of someone who dressed up for HobbitCon, you will probably die.

End of Rudeness (Hopefully)

In my opinion, which isn't necessarily accurate, a nerd is somebody who loves something and learns as much about it as he can and thinks about it at every given opportunity, which could be football, physics, nail polish, cooking, or whatever. Nerds don't try to be nerds for the sake of being nerds, they just find something that they like and dive into it.

End of rant, Elizabeth out.