thomasech

What is the root of the term Nerdfighters? I only recently stumbled onto your channels (also, I hate StumbleUpon for making it IMPOSSIBLE to use the phrase "stumble (up)on" without people saying, "Oh! I didn't know you used StumbleUpon--" at which point I have to quickly respond, "I DON'T. I actually stumbled onto the information the old-fashioned way - by accident) and I have yet to watch through the vast backlog of videos searching for the day the term Nerdfighter was coined. So... That's my question. Where did your term Nerdfighter originate?

It's attributed to Marx and Lenin, but not Stalin, that I can find.

I'm guessing talking rocks would actually be like listening to a time-travelling machine in real life (SEE Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife") and it would be kind of crazy, and even though it couldn't tell the future, it wouldn't know how to separate its past and its present because it's been around so long that the life of a human would be as nothing and it would be like having a talking star around. Talking stars would just be intimidating and kind of hard to listen to, because they would have so much to say. And who knows? Maybe rocks can talk, and they've just gotten so fed up with our short-lived selves that they don't talk to us. They've been around billions of years - maybe they're tired of us not listening to them.

This is interesting to me because I've had mixed reactions to asking. Was out volunteering with a person who was having trouble getting up a leafy hill in the middle of the woods in their wheelchair, and they got really mad when I asked if they needed help after they nearly toppled backward trying to get up the hill, and yelled at another volunteer who made a move to catch them and their chair a second time they almost fell backwards. Since that, I've never known if it was okay or not, and who might or might not get mad at me for asking.

This makes their not-wanting-help make way more sense, if not the yelling. Thanks!