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<title>BuzzFeed  - &#x22;The Boy Paradox&#x22;</title>
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<title>The only two reasons I thought this was fail are...</title>
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    <p>The only two reasons I thought this was fail are as follows:

1. It&#39;s not a paradox. It&#39;s merely a Venn diagram that happens to point out something inconvenient. While the logical implications are inconvenient, they are in no way contradictory.

2. It&#39;s a massive generalization stemming from the teachings of a society whose ideals and beliefs are detrimental to the world&#39;s potential to achieve a state of universal happiness. These ideals and beliefs exist to hurt those who exhibit certain traits so that those who exhibit the opposites of those traits may rejoice. True happiness cannot be taken from others; it must arise from within.

Other than that, I guess it&#39;s pretty funny.</p>

  	
	
	








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  <media:description type="html">The only two reasons I thought this was fail are as follows:

1. It&#x26;#39;s not a paradox. It&#x26;#39;s merely a Venn diagram that happens to point out something inconvenient. While the logical implications are inconvenient, they are in no way contradictory.

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<title>...just realized.  I fall smack-dab in the middle!...</title>
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    <p>&#8230;just realized. I fall smack-dab in the middle! I&#39;m a little bit of everything (minus asshole, dumb &amp; nerd).</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:02:46 -0400</pubDate>
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  <media:description type="html">...just realized. I fall smack-dab in the middle! I&#x26;#39;m a little bit of everything (minus asshole, dumb &#x26;amp; nerd).</media:description>
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<title>StuJay ... that was a very &#x26;#39;geeky&#x26;#39;...</title>
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    <p>StuJay &#8230; that was a very &#39;geeky&#39; comment. hot.</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:58:02 -0400</pubDate>
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  <media:description type="html">StuJay ... that was a very &#x26;#39;geeky&#x26;#39; comment. hot.</media:description>
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<title>I think this is LOL perfect but for one tiny...</title>
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    <p>I think this is LOL perfect but for one tiny detail. First I refer you to buzz feed= the Nerd Classification Venn. 

So a nice smart boy is not a nerd but rather a geek. We geeks are usually helpful to a fault so long as you don&rsquo;t abuse us (to our faces; and/or we don&rsquo;t ever find out about it). 

True Nerds are (befitting their central status in the above venn) quite rare. Of all the people I&rsquo;ve ever met, Usually tech savvy people are geeks (who look upon our social ineptitude as a technical problem to be solved; it is just a software problem) or dorks (who are too stupid to figure out that THEY are the one who has a problem, not the world). 
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  <media:description type="html">I think this is LOL perfect but for one tiny detail. First I refer you to buzz feed= &#x3C;a href=&#x22;%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%9Dhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/nerd-venn-diagram%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%9D&#x22;&#x3E;the Nerd Classification Venn.&#x3C;/a&#x3E; 

So a nice smart boy is not a nerd but rather a geek. We geeks are usually helpful to a fault so long as you don&#x26;rsquo;t abuse us (to our faces; and/or we don&#x26;rsquo;t ever find out about it). 

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<title>...So...
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    <p>&#8230;So&#8230;

I&#39;m a nerd, but my wife thinks I&#39;m gay?</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:47:59 -0400</pubDate>
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  <media:description type="html">...So...

I&#x26;#39;m a nerd, but my wife thinks I&#x26;#39;m gay?</media:description>
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<title>I hope i fit in the nerd section!</title>
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    <p>I hope i fit in the nerd section!</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>OMG I can&#x26;#39;t believe I am GAY!!!  All these...</title>
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    <p>OMG I can&#39;t believe I am GAY!!! All these years and I discover this now. How should I tell my wife?</p>

  	
	
	








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<title>The Good Guys Are Always Gay. The End.</title>
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  	<p>The Good Guys Are Always Gay. The End.</p>

		<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/09/10/men-are-simple-the-diagram/" target="_blank">Read More On collegecandy.com &rsaquo;</a></p>









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  	<p>Why no one likes the nice boy&#8230;</p>

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<title>I guess my boyfriend is gay?</title>
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    <p>I guess my boyfriend is gay?</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:22:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Nerds FTW!!</title>
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    <p>Nerds FTW!!</p>

  	
	
	








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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:32:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>guilty of being purple</title>
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