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Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden

posted by martyb on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Babylon Bee:

The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.

All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.

"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."

Always look on the bright side of life.

[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Grishnakh on Sunday March 15 2020, @12:43AM (4 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Sunday March 15 2020, @12:43AM (#971401)

    That's when the Boomer generation started. I'm talking about when it ended, which was in the 60s somewhere.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @01:41AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @01:41AM (#971421)

    You did say "I think that generation is supposed to start around 1962, so about 57 years old now?". It was not obvious that you were counting backwards from 1962.

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:21AM (2 children)

      by RS3 (6367) on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:21AM (#971438)

      I understood him to mean the youngest age that qualified as a boomer. We all accept that a 70 year old is a "boomer", but what's the youngest? And that target got moved over the years. It originally meant people born 1945-1955.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:37AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:37AM (#971443)

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKWTehsomk [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @05:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @05:53PM (#971632)

        Well TMB can't think critically, once he has a thought that is THE only valid opinion around. To him anyway, the rest of us sigh and move on, arguing with him is like talking to the seat back on a short yellow bus.