"NERDS!!!"
Posted on 07/17/2006 6:09:55 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Geez. My elementary school teachers wanted to let me skip a grade. My parents said "no", and that was the end of that. It turned out to be a very WISE decision on their part. They decided that it was far better for me to stay with kids my own age and become well-adjusted, rather than to pump me (and themselves) with phony pride by trying to show everyone else how much "better" I was than than the other kids. I didn't even know about this until many years later. We never obsessed over things like IQ in my family.
I hate backpacks. In an urban enivironment they look feminine. What really drives me nuts are guys carrying babys in the backback on the front. What do you call them things? I hate when I see that. Also with backpacks you have to reach behind you and over your shoulder. Sorry but Handy Packs are much more convenient.
"No entry found for beautimous"
Was that from the "For Gifted Students" version?
In fact, it's my favorite one yet.
Full disclosure: I was classed as "gifted and talented" from the age of 3 and I have spent countless hours in close proximity to hundreds of emotional basketcases like these losers.
BTW - I strongly suspect that most "gifted" kids are of thoroughly average intelligence. I spent time among kids whose parents actually drilled them for IQ tests - that is, made them take hundreds of IQ practice tests so they could spit back the correct answers to the problems, precisely in the same way that people do SAT prep today.
Aren't they called "baby bjorns" or something like that? The worst! I guess it's easier to wear that than to remove your private parts and hand them to your wife.
Backpacks look feminine but fanny packs don't? Please...
[She must have been an EVIL Republican.]
It's teachers like that who made me an anti-public school Republican.
"NERDS!!!"
Wrong, DUmmie. Society rewards people who find out what their gifts are, and then study and work hard to find a way to USE those gifts effectively. The "mediocre" people, upon whom you heap so much disdain, have very likely worked hard to get where they are and to earn what they have. Oh, and by the way...who are you to decide what "mediocre" is?
[Then the jocks promise not to beat you up if you let them cheat off you in class.]
It's scary to think that I'm actually better-adjusted than these people.
I learned something growing up. If you put effort into gym class -- just like all the other classes -- sometime around 8th or 9th grade most of the jocks get smart enough to appreciate someone who makes an effort, despite lack of natural ability.
I helped one of the jocks write a movie review of The Chosen for the student newspaper, by telling what little I then knew about the Hasidim. He taught me a bit about the angles of playing goalie. He wrote a good review. I became the gym class's designated goalie for soccer and floor hockey -- and did rather well.
If I'd had an attitude about jocks -- which, IMO, is no better than an attitude about nerds -- then I would have learned a lot less.
This "gifted DUmmie" group could actually be every bit as entertaining as the DUmmie Astrology forum, PJ! I'll have to keep a watch on it, if it ever materializes.
Fanny pack, handy pack -- still doesn't fit on my fanny.
Backpacks in an URBAN environment look feminine. Also I don't see them as all that practical. I would hate to reach back over my shoulder everytime I needed to take something out.
No entry for "beautimous" in my old-fangled, hard-cover Webster's, either.
Is it that much of an effort to take the thing off and open it and take out what you need? WHat do you do all day that you're taking stuff out of your fagbag all the time?
I saw a TV documentary once about a "gifted" kid. I think it was on 60 Minutes. The kid was like about 9 years old and going to a high school in the Jacksonville, FL area. Yeah, the kid was smart but he had NO social abilities and didn't relate to his fellow students at all. Anybody remember that show? And what happened to that kid?
Yes, it is too much trouble. And I am constantly taking out a pen or a radio or using my cell phone to bother with an awkward backback. Oh, and the new term is "Handy Pack."
But can your hubby spell "beatimous?"
It only confirms what I have long suspected about DU. It is composed of the former (and current) oddball kids that couldn't and wouldn't fit in in school, college, the dorm, whatever. They would form their own clique by default and sit back to criticize anything and everything, all the while reinforcing their fallacious belief that they were somehow smarter, better, etc. (despite piles of evidence to the contrary). Without attempting to offend anyone, the Asian 'population' of these groups was usually much higher than the general population and I think many of them found their way to DU.
I don't buy the 'we're smarter' conceit of course but I do think that DU is composed of the aforementioned Asian kids (high achievers shaking with impotent rage), black T-shirt types who sat at the back of the classroom and wanted to debate minutiae every minute of the day, and good old fashioned collectivists who think that public transportation, urban living, no personal vehicles, no guns, no private property (i.e., income/wealth) and a hopeless but ongoing expectation of peace through appeasement and abandonment is the way forward.
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