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CT GAMER wrote:

darknessforbid wrote:As the title says pretty much, my friends tease me about my 'Nerdiness for painting and collecting GW'
Any ideas or comebacks would be appreciated

engaging such people is pointless.

I would bluntly tell them that anyone who can't respect you enough as a peson to not make fun of what you like is not someone you care to waste your time with and move on. Seriously stop talking to them.

Are you still in grade/middle/high school? 99.9% of the people you are in school with now will not be part of your adult life anyways so feth them.

You misunderstand the British and Australian mindset. We tend to take the mick out of each other in a light hearted way. It is a sign of friendship that we desparage each other and manners dictate that you treat strangers with respect.

[edited for sanity]

Sonophos wrote:
You misunderstand the British and Australian mindset. We tend to take the mick out of each other in a light hearted way. It is a sign of friendship that we desparage each other and manners dictate that you treat strangers with respect.

We tease each other here too.

Unfortunately, for the OP, it has become too tiresome for him to continue shouldering.

If this is the case, his two options are to sleep with their mothers (either individually or all at once to get it over with) or (more realistically) tell them off. If they're really your friends, they'll back off.

darknessforbid wrote:As the title says pretty much, my friends tease me about my 'Nerdiness for painting and collecting GW'
Any ideas or comebacks would be appreciated

Find the biggest one. Punch him/her in the face until he/she is bleeding/crying. You can't just stop the teasing this time you have to stop the teasing every time for now on, don't kill Stillson.

Damn! Ninja'd by AustonT!

My answer would have been to throat-punch the biggest one. Can't make fun of someone when you have a collapsed windpipe.

Um, Are your friends gamers(as in video games) Then use the cost of their console periphrals and such. games too. Add up the cost and see if your army isnt that different.
Also tie them up and force them to play a game. each time a dice roll a one for them you shock them.

The only person that makes fun is my brother the Giant. My way of dealing with him, other then saying I sleep with his wife when hes not around, is to out shoot him at the range. And follow it with lines like "Looks like I rolled a 5+" Or "Oh man, you missed?! But your BS is 4!"


You know, things like that

kronk wrote:

Sonophos wrote:
You misunderstand the British and Australian mindset. We tend to take the mick out of each other in a light hearted way. It is a sign of friendship that we desparage each other and manners dictate that you treat strangers with respect.

We tease each other here too.

Unfortunately, for the OP, it has become too tiresome for him to continue shouldering.

If this is the case, his two options are to sleep with their mothers (either individually or all at once to get it over with) or (more realistically) tell them off. If they're really your friends, they'll back off.

If it really has become so tiresome why do you remain in their company?

I go with Kronk on this one. Sleep with their mothers and if you are feeling kinky their fathers too.

To the OP:

Learn to be proud of your geekiness. I went through that when I was younger, being picked on. Once you realise that it doesn't matter what they think and you love what you love and it makes you happy.

When they mock you just say "So? I like it, what's it to you?"

Don't punch them thats just asking for problems

optimusprime14 wrote:To the OP:

Learn to be proud of your geekiness. I went through that when I was younger, being picked on. Once you realise that it doesn't matter what they think and you love what you love and it makes you happy.

When they mock you just say "So? I like it, what's it to you?"

Don't punch them thats just asking for problems

Unless you just like to punch people of course.

Assuming these are your friends or people you can't beat the tar out of, then do the following:

Make fun of yourself first.

Then, there is no place left for them to go. Plus, if you aren't bothered by it, there is no point in making fun of it.

It take a lot of confidence in yourself and who you are to enable this strategy.

has anyone tried not talking about it around them? of course not.

Ask him what his hobbies are.

Seriously, a hobby is a hobby.

Now if it's something like: collecting peoples' hair, stalking women, or hiding dead hookers in your basement; yeah we have a problem.


Seriously though: My current hobby is dumping loads of money on parts and tools to fix a 66 Mustang, Sounds bat-gak insane to most people to spend money on a 47 year-old rust bucket, but it's what makes me happy.

The easiest solution is probably just to get older. Not because your mates will stop teasing you, that'll never happen, all your life you'll hang gak on your mates and they'll hang gak on you, because that's basically what guys do.

What changes is that losing those little bantering sessions stops worrying you. You'll still come off second best as often as not, but when someone burns you you actually appreciate the good line, rather than feel you've got to get them back.

Looking back to my teenage years, the guys I like the most in hindsight were the guys who copped everyone's teasing but never freaked out about it. At the time we all thought they were softies, just there to be mocked, but really those were the stand up guys. It's the ones who ragged on everyone but couldn't ever take that were actually the donkey-caves.

Easy E wrote:Assuming these are your friends or people you can't beat the tar out of, then do the following:

Make fun of yourself first.

Then, there is no place left for them to go. Plus, if you aren't bothered by it, there is no point in making fun of it.

It take a lot of confidence in yourself and who you are to enable this strategy.

This may sound odd but it really works. And once they see it doesn't bother you they wont tease you. As much.

sebster wrote:You'll still come off second best as often as not, but when someone burns you you actually appreciate the good line, rather than feel you've got to get them back.

Key thing not mentioned yet, people you always beat at banter, or people that always beat you at banter are probably not friends.

Acquaintances, sure, but not friends.


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Frazzled wrote:
2. I can't stand people with "smartest person in the room" syndrome.

Fair enough.

I'm definitely guilty of that.

dogma wrote:[

Frazzled wrote:
2. I can't stand people with "smartest person in the room" syndrome.

Fair enough.

I'm definitely guilty of that.

Dogma. It's not a syndrome if you ARE the smartest one in the room. Which you often are.*


*doesn't make you right though

Sonophos wrote:

dogma wrote:[

Frazzled wrote:
2. I can't stand people with "smartest person in the room" syndrome.

Fair enough.

I'm definitely guilty of that.

Dogma. It's not a syndrome if you ARE the smartest one in the room. Which you often are.*


*doesn't make you right though

It still is equally annoying, much like when very goodlooking people constantly remind people of how good looking they are.

2x4 to the back of the heads. They start talking trash, you start swinging.

I'm glad to know anyone who mocks or bullies someone for their hobbies and or interests is a parasite and utterly pathetic.

blood reaper wrote:I'm glad to know anyone who mocks or even vaguely bullies someone for their hobbies or interests is a parasite and utterly pathetic.

Good luck with leaving the house...

moom241 wrote:2x4 to the back of the heads. They start talking trash, you start swinging.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put two of there's in the morgue, the Chicago Way.
-She Who Must Be Obeyed, on proper negotiation tehniques.

Sonophos wrote:

dogma wrote:[

Frazzled wrote:
2. I can't stand people with "smartest person in the room" syndrome.

Fair enough.

I'm definitely guilty of that.

Dogma. It's not a syndrome if you ARE the smartest one in the room. Which you often are.*


*doesn't make you right though

As I always say, 'You can't have two know-it -alls in the room, and I'm all ready here."

My approach is to have another hobby which a) is considered more respectable by society and b) I'm pretty good at.

So for example, I do a lot of running events and the occasional triathlon. I don't look superfit, but most people know I'm fitter than they are.

Thus any ribbing of my more nerdy hobby is met with a dry response along the lines of... "When you can run 10K in under 45 minutes, then you can take the mick."

kronk wrote:Sleep with their mothers.

I think Kronk hit the nail on the head here

I tell them it's a creative release for me, and that usually throws them off. I usually don't have to explain further.

They probably have embarrassing hobbies of their own. Laugh at those, and know that they find it irritating.

Flashman wrote:My approach is to have another hobby which a) is considered more respectable by society and b) I'm pretty good at.

So for example, I do a lot of running events and the occasional triathlon. I don't look superfit, but most people know I'm fitter than they are.

Thus any ribbing of my more nerdy hobby is met with a dry response along the lines of... "When you can run 10K in under 45 minutes, then you can take the mick."

Running isn't a hobby, it is a survival mechanism. They will just mock you for thinking that having two legs and actually using them is somehow a hobby, but when the wolves come and you take off they won't be laughing.

Lol, yes the possibility of a "Wolf Apocalypse" (basically the same as a Zombie Apocalypse, but the survivors have better cardiovascular systems) is the sole reason I bother with running.

Get a chainsaw, hide in a bush, and when they walk past, rev it up. Proceed to jump out of the bush screaming "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!".

Never get picked on again.