G.Turd Geek-Tubby-Nerd
G.Turd: [noun] A socially awkward, often physically out-of-shape, individual with an obsessive knowledge base of any of a number of topics who enjoys escapism through video games, movies and books. These individuals tend to have extremely poor social interactions and a limited number of friends. Most of their communication consists of "gaming groups" and MMORPS, when not confined entirely to internet forums and emails.
I made a joke on Facebook to a friend who claimed he wanted to avoid women by being a nerd. I told him to put on a Star Trek uniform. Two of my female friends immediately jumped in to discuss how they find nerds sexy and it wasn't fair to stereotype women that way. Here's the problem. I was born in 1980. So, technically I'm a child of the 70's though I just say 80's child. In my day people had a pretty clear definition when they called someone a nerd. It was a kid who was either physically frail or roundly fat who possessed an obsessive knowledge of academic areas and indulged in severe escapism. Usually books, movies, comics & table-top RPGs (we didn't have a lot of video games in the early 80s... there's only so long you can play frogger to "escape")
Now, Hollywood didn't like fat people back in the 80s, so almost all the nerds shown on TV were of the extremely frail side, or they weren't frail, they just had incredibly bad hygiene for some reason. (Booger, Revenge of The Nerds) If there was a fat kid puffing along he was almost inevitably kind hearted, but a coward, emotionally sensitive, and usually kind of dumb (though occasionally very smart) like I said, in the 80s, Hollywood HATED fat people. Fat women pretty much didn't exist, unless they needed a stalker, or a woman to make a smart sexy woman feel better about herself.
But, nowadays, Hollywood is pushing the "smart is sexy" angle. Usually they do this by slapping a pair of glasses on a supermodel and having them quote something obscurely sci-fi, fantasy or vaguely statistical (often wrongly). So now the Sheldon Coopers of the world are being considered sexy. So the "frail" side of the nerd equation gets to feel sexy too. I'm happy for them. But, it doesn't change the fact that Hollywood still pretty much hates fat people. You'll notice none of the smart guys on Big Bang Theory have a BMI over 20%
So, since I'm not allowed to call myself a nerd anymore in the way that I used too, I've created a new slang. Something I can refer to myself as that basically has all the same meaning as nerd did back in the 80s, but pretty much removes the "hot gamer" portion that women are so fond of claiming. G.Turd. from my point of view it's not mean it's accurate....and it plays off b-tard to a degree.
G.Turd: [noun] A socially awkward, often physically out-of-shape, individual with an obsessive knowledge base of any of a number of topics who enjoys escapism through video games, movies and books. These individuals tend to have extremely poor social interactions and a limited number of friends. Most of their communication consists of "gaming groups" and MMORPS, when not confined entirely to internet forums and emails.
I made a joke on Facebook to a friend who claimed he wanted to avoid women by being a nerd. I told him to put on a Star Trek uniform. Two of my female friends immediately jumped in to discuss how they find nerds sexy and it wasn't fair to stereotype women that way. Here's the problem. I was born in 1980. So, technically I'm a child of the 70's though I just say 80's child. In my day people had a pretty clear definition when they called someone a nerd. It was a kid who was either physically frail or roundly fat who possessed an obsessive knowledge of academic areas and indulged in severe escapism. Usually books, movies, comics & table-top RPGs (we didn't have a lot of video games in the early 80s... there's only so long you can play frogger to "escape")
Now, Hollywood didn't like fat people back in the 80s, so almost all the nerds shown on TV were of the extremely frail side, or they weren't frail, they just had incredibly bad hygiene for some reason. (Booger, Revenge of The Nerds) If there was a fat kid puffing along he was almost inevitably kind hearted, but a coward, emotionally sensitive, and usually kind of dumb (though occasionally very smart) like I said, in the 80s, Hollywood HATED fat people. Fat women pretty much didn't exist, unless they needed a stalker, or a woman to make a smart sexy woman feel better about herself.
But, nowadays, Hollywood is pushing the "smart is sexy" angle. Usually they do this by slapping a pair of glasses on a supermodel and having them quote something obscurely sci-fi, fantasy or vaguely statistical (often wrongly). So now the Sheldon Coopers of the world are being considered sexy. So the "frail" side of the nerd equation gets to feel sexy too. I'm happy for them. But, it doesn't change the fact that Hollywood still pretty much hates fat people. You'll notice none of the smart guys on Big Bang Theory have a BMI over 20%
So, since I'm not allowed to call myself a nerd anymore in the way that I used too, I've created a new slang. Something I can refer to myself as that basically has all the same meaning as nerd did back in the 80s, but pretty much removes the "hot gamer" portion that women are so fond of claiming. G.Turd. from my point of view it's not mean it's accurate....and it plays off b-tard to a degree.
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I watched 'Red Planet' not too long ago, and that really illustrates what you're saying. They cast Val Kilmer as the nerd. Then you have other much nerdier looking characters treating him like the nerd, and the whole time I'm sitting thinking, 'dude, shut up before he snaps you like a twig!'
As for derailing the train, I'm not sure that's any better a solution.
Now, I thought you were on to something with your reasoning. in the train scenario, no matter what, someone gets hit by the train so it's a complete no win situation. but in the transplant one, there's always a possibility that another donor may appear, so there's a chance you could do nothing and things will all work out. But what if there isn't another donor? What if you make things a little more immediate? What if the 5 people only have a week left at best, and the 1 is the only compatible donor with next to no chance of finding another? now they're both equally no win situations, and yet most people would probably still give opposite answers for each situation.