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IT'S SUPPOSED TO SAY "NERD"?!?!?!? I thought it was read "hero".... uhh.... PASS.

I read it as Nero. =X

Pushing the labels Nerd and Geek seems pretentious. It's deliberately telling the world of how one is somehow better or supposedly smarter when no one really cares (or in my case, I get annoyed).

My first shirt woot but was so awesome I just had to get 2!

chris12345 wrote:No, no, no! Nobody wants to be labeled a "nerd". "Geek" is where it's at!

According to Kevin Smith, a geek is someone who bites off chicken heads. Eww

I find the shirt quite.. hodge-podge-ish. It's the borderline cornucopia of nerds. The school, math, rimmed-glassed nerds combined with the gaming nerd.

It's unsettling, really. Circa 'The Island of Dr. Moreau,' some things just should not be so blatantly mixed together.

Now, have a nerd t-shirt series, however.. highlighting the "World of Nerds," if you'll allow, this would find much better execution.

PERD ... it really says PERD

(a real nerd reads Pi as P)

According to the urban dictionary:
"When you have no idea what someone is trying to say, or when you are clueless about a subject."
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=perd)

I just thought the idea of the glasses ought to be that they're in a pocket, so that you'd see one of the lenses. Like this:

AdderXYU wrote:If we're presuming nerds are all about the latest and greatest, why are they still buying shirts like this at all when they've been done to death? It's stale and stupid. And since almost all geekandnerdwear takes this avenue, it makes geeks and nerds look stale and stupid.

It's for really old nerds, who will wear the shirt at the Home for Retired Supervillains.

Yeah, at first the glasses looked like one of those helmets rich girls wear while riding one of their ponies in Martha's Vineyard.

Also, everyone had an N64 back in the day, not just nerds.

What does a beehive have to do with being a nerd?

Leminear wrote:Dude, I think everyone owned a nintendo 64. Maybe it's true nowdays that more casual gamers tend to own nintendo consoles, but I don't believe that was quite the case with n64.

I still have my nintendo 64 - my kids love it- I read nerd. they should have made the dot more of an exclamation mark.

At first I did not get this shirt. I was trying to interpret the objects meanings to come up with something more complicated. Then I read the comments and realized that it's just simple shape correlation to letters of the alphabet.

So I overshot the mark... presumably this means I should buy the shirt.

dselig wrote:According to Kevin Smith, a geek is someone who bites off chicken heads. Eww

That's the actual definition according to Webster's (1917). Who is this 'Kevin Smith' person, did he even compile a dictionary?

KittyPryde wrote:Exactly, *everyone* owned an N64. It's not just the nerds, it's everyone. While nobody owns a Neo Geo, except the hardcores. You also may be hard pressed to find a Saturn owner. Or the 32x.

I would be one of those elusive Saturn owners... :] I also own a 32X lol

Anyway, all that having been said...

diehardferret wrote: I want some depth.

mrwednesday wrote:Lowercase lambda would have made a better "n" and eigenvalues are a hell of a lot more nerdy than pi.

Totally agree with this.

lipophilia wrote:PERD ... it really says PERD

(a real nerd reads Pi as P)

According to the urban dictionary:
"When you have no idea what someone is trying to say, or when you are clueless about a subject."
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=perd)

I'm glad someone else saw that too. Not only nerds would read this as perd. People belonging to an organization that uses Greek letters might as well.

the D looks like a boob. i dont really see glasses. at all

jenovanomusuko wrote:I'm going to be a jerk about this shirt, because I feel that rather than identifying the nerd, it identifies the guy who plays old videogames and DnD, and thinks that pi and a compass means math.

Half a pair of glasses for a D? Horrible idea. You could have gone with 1337 or something. Look at how many people don't get what it is, for starters, and not just nerds wear glasses. I've seen hipsters and regular people sporting thick-rimmed glasses more and more lately. If it's supposed to be a broken pair of glasses, that's even worse.

Pi? I'm sick of the ratio Pi being used as an emblem for "nerds" everywhere. Fifth graders know what it means. Probably second graders these days. You should have used a capital Pi in product notation: it would look more like an N, and it would mean you probably actually took a math class rather than playing N64 and DnD all day.

While I'm bashing your math, go with something more serious than a compass. Put the R programming language logo or something. You can't say that you didn't because it belongs to a company because you used an N64 controller.

Speaking of the N64 controller, you had that *and* a D20, doubling up on games while ignoring physics, chemistry, and computers.

I'll know whenever I see someone wearing this shirt that they really wish they were a nerd but don't quite know what a nerd is.

Wow. You are awesome. I second the bit about doubling up on games while ignoring Physics, Chemistry, and computers.

lipophilia wrote:PERD ... it really says PERD

(a real nerd reads Pi as P)

Yup, that's what I read too.

PohTayToez wrote:Everyone, please stop calling it a protractor. It's a drafting compass.

They totally should have made the "D" out of a protractor instead of the glasses. That would have been much, much better.

brendan948725 wrote:I read "HERO" when I first saw this. Thumbs down.

Aren't the two equivalent? HERO = NERD. Sounds right to me!

xazothia wrote:I can only read this as "Pi-erd".

Yeah, same here...

Either the artist is implying that the compass being used is malfunctioning or did not think into it enough to make the "arc" meet the definition of an arc - a curved line segment having a set radius. Does anyone own a handheld compass that can make an "arc" like that one?

I guess it's just proof that this shirt is for me that I can't read it as Nerd, but keep reading "Perd"
I guess that's the penalty for reading classical Greek.

KittyPryde wrote:If it was a true nerd controller device, it possibly should be something a tad less owned like, I don't know, like a Neo Geo or Saturn controller, but neither of these would create the "E" they required so blah.

Solonari wrote:
What's that arc coming from the top of the protractor anyway? If someone's already been using it to draw, they should have drawn "NE" and "D" and made it clearer.

2+2=E?

Nightshooter wrote:the D looks like a boob. i dont really see glasses. at all

Great... now I can't NOT see a boob.

brendan948725 wrote:I read "HERO" when I first saw this. Thumbs down.

Best comment ever (minus the thumbs down).

vinchenzo888 wrote:you mean excited like an electron that jumps to a higher energy state due to u-v radiation.

duhhhhh.

It's not just UV radiation, but any capture process (e.g., a collision that doesn't result in an electron being knocked off). You can do this with any photon that has the right energy level, neutrons, gamma and x-rays, etc.

Going further than is necessary, you can also promote inner electrons and leave an energy gap between shells which give off another electron of a characteristic energy when the outer shells drop to a lower state to fill the inner shells. Auger electrons, from terrific Wisconsin.

So, 'excited like an ion' would have sufficed in the original post, albeit somewhat incorrectly. 'Excited like an unstable higher orbital' would also work. But that excitement, alas, is short-lived and not favorable.

duhhhhh.

;)

If you were really a nerd the π would stand for the "p" sound. :P

colinm09 wrote:Anyone who wears this shirt will instantly be elevated to status!

That's the perfect shirt "π-mp" that's it. I want one woot.

After much debate on my nerdiness, I have decided I should buy this shirt. In for one.

ok, what is the 'D'? half of a pair of glasses?

mattlscc wrote:ok, what is the 'D'? half of a pair of glasses?

Oppss... I didn't read enough... -->

xazothia wrote:horn-rimmed "nerd" glasses (one half of such), and a 20-sided die.

Leminear wrote:Dude, I think everyone owned a nintendo 64. Maybe it's true nowdays that more casual gamers tend to own nintendo consoles, but I don't believe that was quite the case with n64.

nope he was right! nerds had sega or neo geo systems. for me it was sega all the way...mostly kuz neo-geo's where way to expensive. i never liked the N64 B^(

as for this shirt.... i think it totally fails. they tried to hard to make things fit.

KittyPryde wrote:Exactly, *everyone* owned an N64. It's not just the nerds, it's everyone. While nobody owns a Neo Geo, except the hardcores. You also may be hard pressed to find a Saturn owner. Or the 32x.

well i never had an n64 but i did have a saturn with an action replay plus so i could play the Japanese games and i usta have a genesis but traded it in for a dreamcast. but i do still have a turbo graphics 16 B^P and an atari 5200 B^)

No self-respecting nerd would ever confuse pi for an "n".

I also have a problem with people who use upper-case sigma as an E.

Am I the only one who read this as Head?

I still can't read this shirt as anything but Nero or pero, even after it's been explained.

I too am tired of nerdy being the new cool or hot or whatever they use nowadays to describe the people who are obviously fundamentally better than everyone else. /sarcasm. I spent the first 13 years of my life being the "nerdy" kid, "teacher's pet", and "girl who will never have any friends because she's too busy reading up on science topics that are way beyond our comprehension." I had no real friends, only the people who would discuss physics with me on friday nights while watching the NASA channel. Even in college, I was looked down upon for actually wanting to understand the material rather than just wanting to get through the class. Meh, I don't care anymore. Someday, the rich (in brains) will inherit the earth. Until then, nerds should continue being who they want to be. No conformism!

By the way, I'm only 22, so it wasn't all that long ago that being nerdy was still "un-cool."

this is why i haven't bought a woot.shirt in over a year.

brendan948725 wrote:I read "HERO" when I first saw this. Thumbs down.

Me too! That probably indicates something about us and our approach to something, or our viewpoint on somesuch. Right?

bonsaihalcyon wrote:Me too! That probably indicates something about us and our approach to something, or our viewpoint on somesuch. Right?

Possibly less based on outlook than how your pattern recognition has been developed over the years, which is typically based on your own experiences with the symbols involved.

Or you need a cape.