What type of person are you?

[J Dog]

So, what type of person are you?

[Shellhead]

I'm a Henry Rollins wannabe.

EDIT: I posted before the poll was up... now I voted, tough guy/nerd.

[Arrjay]

I voted the purple monkey thing. Was the closest thing I could relate to.

[SteelTownr]

Those are some good stereotypes for higshschool, but maybe not so good for post-highschool.

Mark B.

[J Dog]

Alright, let me parphrase it:

What Were You In High School?

[Arrjay]

Those are some good stereotypes for higshschool, but maybe not so good for post-highschool.

Mark B.

You're such a mean bastard Mark. Let the kid have some fun. :D

[SteelTownr]

You're such a mean bastard Mark. Let the kid have some fun. :D

Oh, By All Means, Have Some Fun!

I was just sayin' is all.

Mark B.

[Tadhg Adams]

Where's stoner?

[J Dog]

Where's stoner?
Right next to "Purple Monkey Dishwasher".

[Tadhg Adams]

Right next to "Purple Monkey Dishwasher".

You kids today with your lingo. You scare me.

[J Dog]

Well, I am a nerd. I love reading (video game guides), video games (especially the online RuneScape), & I am a Simpsoid (my nickname for Simpsons diehard).

But, I also call myself a loner.

And, that is my high school profile, since I am in it.

[crystalline green]

I was both a loner and a popular person. I wasn't officially a part any of the usual crowds/cliques, but had friends in all of them.

[Dennis K]

Those are some good stereotypes for higshschool, but maybe not so good for post-highschool.

Mark B.


So that's one vote nerd? :D

[Deskad]

I scared people. Nobody would talk to me....nobody liked me...I had no friends...



and I liked every bit of it.

[J Dog]

I scared people. Nobody would talk to me....nobody liked me...I had no friends...



and I liked every bit of it.
You sick little man. You make me smile.

[Cei-U!]

I'm the type who can't be summed up in a handful of broad stereotypes. :p

Cei-U!
Besides there's no "obnoxious" option!

EDIT: Oh, I see. What was I in high school. I voted "combination": I was a popular nerd.

[Atomic Mongoose]

I played a lot of sports in high school, so that made me kind of "popular" and a "jock" I guess. It helped build social skills, so I had a lot of friends and even now make friends very easily. Back in high school, I could have probably fallen into the "jerk" category too sometimes. Now I'm not so much a jerk as just sarcastic toward my friends, who I pick on from time to time.

[hulahulk]

I'm both a loner and a popular person. Yes, kind of a paradox in a way. I DARE you to try to figure me out...hahahahahahaha

[i_mmmchocolate]

I chose 'nerd' because that is the only that best describes me.

My mom hates it when I say that.

[Dan Apodaca]

I am a popular person.

[Devon C.]

What kind of person am I? I'm the greatest guy in the world, that's what kind of person I am.

Seriously, Nerd/Tough Guy/Hotheaded Fusion.

[Deathlok]

I am an innocent person

[Archyduke]

I never knew wuss was an official highschool stereotype. Although, I guess I was kind of a wuss. That Archyduke... ever a lover, hardly a fighter.

[Johnny_Storm]

I was a pop nerd in high school, I was in a wheel chair and on cruches with a broken leg freshmen year so I ran into everybody, alot of people wanted to leave class early and push me through the hallways or carry my books, so it wasn't hard for me to socialize and I was recignized throught the school.

[Quarterwolf]

High School....

Loner Nerd.

Now?

Loner Nerd.

I am starting to see a really bad trend. At least on CBR I am also Popular.


Right? :(

[Erebus]

When people first see me, they think I'm sad and depressed. But my friends, the people who actually take the time to know me, think I'm funny, awesome, and insane. I have some popular friends, some goths, geeks, punks, potheads, preps, posers, rich kids. The only people I dont like are emo kids, because there whiny little b****es who want me to complain how much life sucks with them.

[acagle7]

I am a cross between a nerd and a loner.

[Dan Apodaca]

When people first see me, they think I'm sad and depressed. But my friends, the people who actually take the time to know me, think I'm funny, awesome, and insane. I have some popular friends, some goths, geeks, punks, potheads, preps, posers, rich kids. The only people I dont like are emo kids, because there whiny little b****es who want me to complain how much life sucks with them.

Eh heh.

Heh, heh, heh.

Heh.

[K'Nort]

I picked nerd because you don't have goth.


What?

[Deathlok]

I am just better than everyone else........

:D

[Erebus]

Eh heh.

Heh, heh, heh.

Heh.
:confused:

[Pepsigirl]

When people first see me, they think I'm sad and depressed. But my friends, the people who actually take the time to know me, think I'm funny, awesome, and insane. I have some popular friends, some goths, geeks, punks, potheads, preps, posers, rich kids. The only people I dont like are emo kids, because there whiny little b****es who want me to complain how much life sucks with them.

Everything up until that emo sentence describes me, basically. Not that I like "emo" kids, I just know the history of emo, so to me they're all "scene" kids.

Does that make sense?

[Erik Lehnsherr]

Combination of a charismatic/asshole/compassionate/analytical type.

[milhouse123321]

I was always a nerd until year 9, then I kinda switched and came outta my shell a bit.
Oh, and I dress emo, but I don't neccessarily bitch about everything.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Those are some good stereotypes for American higshschool, but maybe not so good for not American highschool.

[Hombre]

I don't think I was a nerd per se as a teenager, I certainly was a loner but I also could be confident and even score a little points with (some) of the ladies... but in the end I never could find the love I was looking for, so I guess I'm just a loser.

[Sanagi]

More votes for loner than nerd. Interesting.

(I voted for both!)

[J Dog]

And nine votes for "Purple Monkey Dishwasher".

[Dan Apodaca]

Those are some good stereotypes for American higshschool, but maybe not so good for not American highschool.

CLAIMCLAIMCLAIM.

Back it up, son.

[Jared_Humpherys]

I'm actually a combination of 3, at least. I was a loner and a nerd, but oddly popular in some circles(for reasons I'll never understand).

[Gilda Dent]

I picked loner, nerd, and wuss. And a combination of the other two, thus demonstrating that I can't count.

Woo hoo! I'm the only wuss here. Do I get a prize?

Gilda

[Jared_Humpherys]

I picked loner, nerd, and wuss. And a combination of the other two, thus demonstrating that I can't count.

Woo hoo! I'm the only wuss here. Do I get a prize?

Gilda

A fabulous face-first trip to the bathroom tile courtousy of Bully Airlines?

[cable guy]

High School: Popular, Jock, Tough Guy

Now: Nerd

[Gilda Dent]

A fabulous face-first trip to the bathroom tile courtousy of Bully Airlines?

Felix? Are you actually Felix Murphy? Cuz you're doing an amazing job of channeling him if you're not.

Gilda

[Jared_Humpherys]

Felix? Are you actually Felix Murphy? Cuz you're doing an amazing job of channeling him if you're not.

Gilda

'Fraid not.

I was joking, by the way, so I hope I did not offend.

[Gilda Dent]

'Fraid not.

I was joking, by the way, so I hope I did not offend.

Nah, no offense. I was joking, too. Except for the part about you sounding remarkably like Felix Murphy. That part was true. So I guess I wasn't joking.

Please don't take my lunch money.

Gilda

[Jared_Humpherys]

Nah, no offense. I was joking, too. Except for the part about you sounding remarkably like Felix Murphy. That part was true. So I guess I wasn't joking.

Please don't take my lunch money.

Gilda

Who was this Felix Murphy bloke? If he was a bully, I'd like to think he at least had some wit.

[Gilda Dent]

Who was this Felix Murphy bloke? If he was a bully, I'd like to think he at least had some wit.

A bully? A bully? Felix Murphy was the bully, Nelson Muntz all grown up, the Isaac Newton of bullies, the Edwin Moses of bullies.

You obviously couldn't be him. "Bloke" isn't a word that he would know.

Gilda

[Jared_Humpherys]

A bully? A bully? Felix Murphy was the bully, Nelson Muntz all grown up, the Isaac Newton of bullies, the Edwin Moses of bullies.

You obviously couldn't be him. "Bloke" isn't a word that he would know.

Gilda

Ah, yes. I know the type. Don't fret; he's probably in jail or taking acid in a trailer park by now.

Bullies suck.

[The Mirrorball Man]

CLAIMCLAIMCLAIM.

Back it up, son.
Back it up? The words "nerd", "geek", "wuss" and "jock" have no equivalents in my language. These things don't even exist as concepts here.

[JerrBear81]

I picked all of them!

[K'Nort]

Back it up? The words "nerd", "geek", "wuss" and "jock" have no equivalents in my language. These things don't even exist as concepts here.

I really can't believe that. The concepts are not exclusively American or even English-language by any stretch. But it would help to know what you mean by your language, since there's more than one to choose from.

[The Mirrorball Man]

I really can't believe that. The concepts are not exclusively American or even English-language by any stretch. But it would help to know what you mean by your language, since there's more than one to choose from.
Yeah, I know, every time I say it, Americans just can't believe me when I say that, but it's true. The American high-school experience is a purely American cultural phenomenon, it is not universal. If you don't trust me, trust Neil Gaiman (and there's no language barreer involved):

http://www.newsarama.com/movies/MirrorMask/Gaimain_MIrrorMask.htm

I speak French, by the way.

[K'Nort]

Yeah, I know, every time I say it, Americans just can't believe me when I say that, but it's true. The American high-school experience is a purely American cultural phenomenon, it is not universal.

Oh our high school phenomenon is quite unique, yes. But that's a totally separate issue from slang.

[Gilda Dent]

Back it up? The words "nerd", "geek", "wuss" and "jock" have no equivalents in my language. These things don't even exist as concepts here.

Nerd: An intelligent, socially awkward person, often obsessed with computers, technology, science fiction, or comic books.

Geek: Nerd.

Wuss: A wimp, introverted, or ineffectual person; a social or physical coward; probably derived as a combination of wimp and pussy.

jock: Athlete.

While I can see not having slang terms for these concepts in your language, I do find it difficult to believe that those concepts don't exist in Switzerland. You don't have athletes or intelligent, but socially inept people there? You don't have people who are afraid to assert themselves? I'd be very surprised to find that there's any Western culture that doesn't have these concepts to some degree.

Gilda

[The Mirrorball Man]

While I can see not having slang terms for these concepts in your language, I do find it difficult to believe that those concepts don't exist in Switzerland.
I think you've been so immersed in your own culture that you can't really understand what I mean, no offense intended.

Of course we can understand what these concepts mean, we're not complete morons. The fact is that these concepts are totally irrelevant when it comes to describe the Swiss high school experience. So irrelevant in fact, that we don't even need words to describe them. Yes, we have athletes, but there is no emphasis put on sports in our school system, so athletes are not perceived as a "type of person" or as a "social class". It's just something that they do. It's not a stereotype. We don't really associate intelligence with social inaptitude either.

Trying to apply these American concepts to our school system would be like trying to describe our political system using words like "Democrat" or "Republican". It just does not work.

[K'Nort]

I think you've been so immersed in your own culture that you can't really understand what I mean, no offense intended.

Or you're too automatically anti-American to make your point clear and/or understand our responses. You keep mixing and unmixing slang versus high school experience. You originally denied the terms existed in your culture on their own, just the concepts in general, separate from high school. Now you're mixing them back into high school again. We're not talking about high school. Just language. If you have had that condition all along, you were way too vague.

And seeing as how Switzerland competes in the Olympics etc, I'm willing to bet that star athletes are not universally treated just like anyone else, however superior that would feel. And I bet you have plenty of students who are quite good at math and science and seem to have lousy luck at attracting the opposite sex. That's hardly our fault. It pre-dates television, after all. And European foreign exchange students understand things easily enough.

And after all, no one person at CBR can sum up the universal experience of all members who attended US schools. By the same token, we have no way of knowing how much you understand about the overall Swiss experience. Whatever you do understand, you're certainly having trouble communicating.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Or you're too automatically anti-American to make your point clear and/or understand our responses. You keep mixing and unmixing slang versus high school experience. You originally denied the terms existed in your culture on their own, just the concepts in general, separate from high school. Now you're mixing them back into high school again. We're not talking about high school. Just language. If you have had that condition all along, you were way too vague.
Hmmm you're very aggressive. I can't think of a single reply that won't aggravate you further, so I'll just leave it at that.

[Gilda Dent]

I think you've been so immersed in your own culture that you can't really understand what I mean, no offense intended.

Of course we can understand what these concepts mean, we're not complete morons. The fact is that these concepts are totally irrelevant when it comes to describe the Swiss high school experience. So irrelevant in fact, that we don't even need words to describe them. Yes, we have athletes, but there is no emphasis put on sports in our school system, so athletes are not perceived as a "type of person" or as a "social class". It's just something that they do. It's not a stereotype. We don't really associate intelligence with social inaptitude either.

Trying to apply these American concepts to our school system would be like trying to describe our political system using words like "Democrat" or "Republican". It just does not work.

1. I made no reference to high school, only to slang words and the concepts that they represent.

2. I never said intelligent people are associated with being awkward. I said that "nerd" refers to a person who is both intelligent and awkward. If you have people like that in your culture, then you have what we would call nerds, even if you don't have a word for them.

3. If you have athletes, you have what we'd call "jocks".

4. If you inferred that I was questioning the intelligence of Swiss people, you misinterpreted me.

Gilda