NerdyGuyBlogging

The blog of a nerd who rants about pointless topics for no reason besides that he is bored. I have a youtube channel called NerdyGuyRanting. www.youtube.com/NerdyGuyRanting 

[swedebeast]

Sverige vill skicka artillerisystemet Archer till Ukraina

It is confirmed, mina damer och herrar.

Sweden is sending CV90′s, advanced anti-tank missiles, and Archer artillery systems to Ukraine.

About damn time.

[nerdyguyranting]

[tiktokmuseum]

are men okay?

[siderealsandman]

NO

[zymomonasmobilis]

my husband told me, after many years of being together, that when he was about 7 a teacher used to single him out for being disrespectful at school. Apparently his disrespectful offense was “smirking” too much???? So he got punished for smiling???? And eventually just trained himself to stop smiling so this teacher would leave him alone???? And that’s why he has such a stoic facial expression now and can’t smile for photographs.

I had to.....privately cry after hearing that one

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Wow

[themildestofwriters]

It’s the only way men are able to discuss their issues because society taught them that they shouldn’t burden people with their issues or that their issues are meaningless or that their issues aren’t actually a thing. Sharing anecdotes with friends is one way of talking about it, because they feel comfortable enough to share. At the same time, they might just not know that the event was traumatic because it’s trauma y’all.

[crownquill]

im-

[sammyofthesea]

Take this to be your reminder that men experience trauma too and need a safe space to talk about it. Be that safe space for your friends who are men

[nerdyguyranting]

Here’s a fun story from my past: 

When I was in 6th grade my gym teacher would constantly find excuses to be in our locker room while we were changing. Her excuses wasn’t even good. Usually she claimed it was about making sure we weren’t fighting in there. Or sometimes she felt the need to look for something that might have been forgotten in there by her or some other student. She never found anything. 

Another common excuse was that she found a shoe in the gym hall and wanted to ask if it belonged to any of us. It was a very poor excuse because it was always the same shoe, and none of us ever saw it in the hall. We suspected that she kept it in her office as a ready excuse for her. Since she used this excuse after class, she usually even walked in to the shower while some of us were in there to ask if the shoe belonged to any of us. 

When we got to the locker rooms before class the girls locker room was always unlocked in advance. But we had to wait for her to come and unlock ours. So we couldn’t quickly change before she got there. 

We told several people at the school, teachers and admin, about that and how uncomfortable it made us. How we could feel her eyeing us and how beyond inappropriate it was for her to walk in to the shower. Especially since she should know by now that it wasn’t our fucking shoe.

We were told, unanimously that this wasn’t a problem. That we were just exaggerating, because it can’t be that bad. They had never gotten any bad reports about her. Of course, knowing that this school processed bullying by not reporting it and claiming they had zero bullying, I called bullshit. For example, they never wrote down our complaint. So I am guessing when the next class came to the administration they were also told that there weren’t any other complaints. 

This woman had gym class with kids from ages kindergarten to 9th grade. I doubt that she only did this to our class. The school gave her free range to creep on kids. And we were all told to deal with it and that it can’t be that bad. “Why would a grown woman be interested in boys?”

She worked there for a year until she quit to work at another school. That’s a lot of kids born within a span of 10 years probably walking around with an unprocessed trauma today. And even that is assuming that she just looked and didn’t take it further with one or several students. 

Men are so not okay. 

[catchymemes]

[youkai93]

The clover has finally grown enough for her to munch on again

[teethwreath]

absolute decadence

[metradell-vyorei-deactivated202]

Imagine a kindly giant of unknown species and origin just picking you up and carefully placing you in a pile of chicken nuggets

[arianedessine]

@youkai93​ @metradell-vyorei​ I did my best

[just-shower-thoughts]

The Riddler would have made a fortune if he’d gone straight and started making escape rooms.

[nerdyguyranting]

And Scarecrow could make fortune of making Haunted Houses. 

[agoodcartoon]

centrists should be hunted for sport. a good cartoon.

[graycalling]

There’s no such thing as a centrist. You’re either for the oppression of minority groups or you’re against it. A centrist is just a closeted conservative.

[ad-hominem-sappies-deactivated2]

[nerdyguyranting]

The reason people think centrists are just “a closeted conservative” is because nothing drives people to the opposition faster than demonizing the center.

Someone who isn’t a total dumbfuck would court the centrists to win over as many as possible. And I say that as a Bernie supporter (albeit a European one). 

[unpretty]

julius caesar as just Some Dude is tripping me out

[improbabledreams900]

Cleopatra:

Louis XV:

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

julius caesar yells at the einstein bros. manager daily

cleopatra is writing her PhD thesis and is sick of people undermining her intelligence

louis XV is a business professional currently being investigated by HR

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

more takes from yours truly

nefertiti is a child star who fell from grace but rose again like a pheonix

alexander the great is ***NOT GAY*** and on academic probation

caligula is under investigation by the FBI

[nightbringer24]

Louis reminds me a bit of Rami Malek.

[swedebeast]

Caligula and Zuckerberg has the same energy.

[catchymemes]

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

An 8-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself After His School Covered Up The Bullying He Faced, According To A Lawsuit

The parents of Gabriel Taye say a “violent” elementary school in Cincinnati covered up the bullying of their child. School officials say the

When Gabe entered, he appeared to extend his hand to the attacker. The student grabbed Gabriel’s hand and yanked him toward the wall, the lawsuit said. Gabriel’s head struck something and he collapsed on the floor. The video showed that the other student appeared to celebrate his “takedown” of Gabriel, the lawsuit said. More than a dozen students passed Gabriel lying unconscious on the floor, appearing to mock and kick him, showing the “environment of tolerance of bullying and aggression at Carson,” the lawsuit said. The assistant principal, McKenzie, later appeared in the video looking over Gabriel. Instead of checking his breathing or helping him, McKenzie was “just standing there waiting for other people to come,” Branch said in court.

More than an hour later, the nurse called Reynolds and told her Gabriel had “fainted,” “was alert,” and his “vitals [were] fine,” the lawsuit said. When Reynolds asked if her son needed to go to the hospital, she was told that he did not need further medical treatment, the lawsuit alleged.

Ruthenia Jackson, Carson’s principal, and Jeffrey McKenzie, the assistant principal, “acted just as you would want school administrators to act,” Herzig said. Holding them liable for a student killing themself would open “whole new vistas of liability for schools in Ohio and throughout the circuit,” he said. “We of course understand that 8-year-olds in a school are going to get into scraps from time to time, and they are going to misbehave from time to time,” Herzig said. Ohio law states that “student-on-student violence is not something that can be policed to zero by school officials,” he said.

Take your kids out of public school yesterday.

[goatyellsateverything]

"Cant be policed to zero"

BUT YOU CAN FUCKING TRY???!!!

Jesus Christ! This boy probably had serious brain damage from this incident! It's even plausible to say the damage caused him to act on feelings he might have sought help for before the injury!

This is disgusting.

[nerdyguyranting]

Honestly I am not even surprised. The schools I went to weren’t much different.

One school in particular was absolutely atrocious.On my first day on that school a classmate of mine grabbed my head and shoved me in to a mountain wall. The actual first day. The teacher just asked him to apologize and then sent him on his way.

One day I was just standing by my locker. A classmate thought it would be a fun joke to smash my head in to it. He was also asked to apologize.

I was once beaten with sticks by a large group and chased away from school grounds. They had to apologize. And my mom was called because I was “skipping classes”. The fact that I was prevented, under threat of actual violence, to go to class, didn’t matter to them.

No matter what happened, that’s what came of it. They had to apologize. And that was it. No reports filed, nothing. A lot of things that happened on that school was actual assault, things that required police reports. The school didn’t even bother to call the parents. When I started refusing apologies, I was considered the bad guy.

My last day of that school came when a classmate tackled me off my chair and slammed my head against the floor repeatedly. All this because I made fun of the zit he had on his nose. In my defense he had at that point made fun of the way I dress, where I came from, my mothers appearance, the fact that I get good grades... You get the point. He was one of those people that dish it out, but really can’t handle when someone talks back. So one comment about the zit was all that was needed. 

The teacher did pretty much nothing to stop him. Another classmate stepped in and pulled the guy off me. After that my mom filed a police report on the school, which quickly prompted the school to file one on the bully. 

According to statistics that school had the least amount of bullying in the entire county. The reason for that was that they never actually filed any paperwork about it. The school I later transferred to was considered to be one of the worst schools. However that was because when shit went down, they actually did something about it. Well... Mostly. A lot of students got away with shit there too. Just less so.

[anarchosurfism]

can sombeody pretty please explain to me how exactly are the black hebrew israelites white nationalist and white supremacist?

[basedheisenberg]

TV

SAYS

[itstimewehavesomesoliddick]

[bobacupcake]

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

[pinkieperil]

And the next step…

[systlin]

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

[cathrine-rose]

Oh my god

[systlin]

Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.

[anthropohedron]

I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.

[systlin]

Holy fucking shit

[scifigrl47]

I’m DYING.

[ejacutastic]

[swedebeast]

TIL that there is a strong theory saying that the Norse god Loki actually may never have existed in the Norse pantheon! The evidence for this is that there is no direct evidence of Loki worship in pre-christian Norse settlements or literature, and the written sources we have - the Edda - was written by one or several Christian nobles, which already contain some obvious Christian influence (Ask and Embla being one), and Loki has traits that is related to Lucifer. He can shapeshift, he is associated with fire and snakes, and he was banished to the underworld for a rebellious crime.

[cougarsandlions]

Okay but what about his status as an ally to Thor and other asgardians in the pre-ragnarok period?

[swedebeast]

According to the theory, non-existant! Loki would not have been a god, and potentially not even a minor character. We do not know what his role would have been, or who/what had his roles in the stories we know him from in the Poetic Edda.

[nerdyguyranting]

What I heard was that he was a god, but just a god of fire and not mischief or evil in anyway.

The christians then saw that and said “Fire? Guess he is Satan then.” 

[swedebeast]

But if that was just the case, where do we see him in worship? If he was not an evil transforming trickster with undesirable traits, he is unchanged from Snorri’s depiction. If he was something else, and he became a stand-in for Satan after editing, who was the original? I’m seriously leaning towards the “He’s a made-up god!” theory the more I think about this. No artifacts depicting him or hinting at him or naming him, no towns named after him, and the only mentions of him we can find are post-1200-ish.

Especially when you consider his part in the tales of the Norse gods, he always had traits and did things that contemporary Norsemen would think were immoral or deserving of mockery. In some he can even be removed without much being changed in the stories.

[nerdyguyranting]

Now that you mention it, the only story I can think of where Loki is important is almost entirely written about him and his antics. 

I don’t remember the name, but Loki arrives at a feast in Asgard and starts hurling insults at all the gods. Eventually Thor arrives, and when Loki tries to insult him Thor just casually puts Mjölnir on the table and says something to the effect of “Say that again and I will crush your head with this thing”. 

That entire story could easily just have been written by the Christians to affirm Loki as the trickster god. And to show the world how “uncivilized” these gods were compared to their own, clearly superior, god. 

[swedebeast]

TIL that there is a strong theory saying that the Norse god Loki actually may never have existed in the Norse pantheon! The evidence for this is that there is no direct evidence of Loki worship in pre-christian Norse settlements or literature, and the written sources we have - the Edda - was written by one or several Christian nobles, which already contain some obvious Christian influence (Ask and Embla being one), and Loki has traits that is related to Lucifer. He can shapeshift, he is associated with fire and snakes, and he was banished to the underworld for a rebellious crime.

[cougarsandlions]

Okay but what about his status as an ally to Thor and other asgardians in the pre-ragnarok period?

[swedebeast]

According to the theory, non-existant! Loki would not have been a god, and potentially not even a minor character. We do not know what his role would have been, or who/what had his roles in the stories we know him from in the Poetic Edda.

[nerdyguyranting]

What I heard was that he was a god, but just a god of fire and not mischief or evil in anyway.

The christians then saw that and said “Fire? Guess he is Satan then.” 

[unscrappys]

Vibe Check!

*Jumps off the Gnomeregan platform without dismissing my pet*

[nerdyguyranting]

I have had people kicked for lesser offenses than that. 

[nerdyguyranting]

With the new worgen models in 8.2.5 I decided to change my main in WoW from male to female. 

If you are wondering why I took the first screenshot on a roof, I often take screenshots up there to avoid other players. But I neglected to take in to account how dark it was at the time. Which is why the other photos under a streetlight. I can’t really go back and retake the first screenshot after the appearance change. 

Really happy with the new look though.

[wizardshark]

“lol Android users be like-” your phone is designed to break down after a year, your apps are all programmed to draw unnecessary power after 2 years, all your accessories and hardware are arbitrarily made with only 1 kind of plug in mind so you can’t use them with anything else or get them from anywhere else, the cables are 150$ and break in a year, your phones will not charge if there is lint in the port, the stores will ask you for 150$ to remove that lint, the phone itself is 900$

But your chat bubbles are blue so that balances it out right

[wizardshark]

they literally removed the audio plugin and called it a benefit that it can now only work with their arbitrary wireless headphones. They coloured the phones a pinky gold and sold it for twice as much.

This isn’t a drag against you this is a drag against apple, the company. Their products are price hiked to an insane, impossible degree. They aren’t selling you the product, they are selling you the superiority of being able to smugly say you have an iphone. 

They deliberately built up a culture of apple supremacy (especially as a class barrier but i aint even gonna go into that), and now people are making posts like “lmao android users have a bad camera” (they dont) or “lmao android users send bad snapchats” (the android version of snap is deliberately coded to force lower resolution images in order to, surprise, get people saying that exact thing to further encourage #iphoneculture)

Buy an iphone if you want lord knows I’ve bought frivolouss things but can you PLEASE recognize youre being deceived??? theyre playing you every single time you make a post about your iphone and buy into their culture to squeeze more and more money out of you and divide the market and inevitably the classes. 

[dogaholic-catholic-deactivated2]

If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

[roseerin-deactivated20181218]

The iphone stands as a testament to the power of brand loyalty. theres no qualitative reason to buy iphones. 

[wizardshark]

with the release of the new iphone I would like to bring this post back.

It has a slow motion camera…. ok so when are you going to use that? Is that worth the price? Or are you going to get it just because its the new iphone (and your old iphone is suddenly mysteriously slowing down and having software issues)?

[the-main-diloolie]

Shit, my OnePlus has had a slow mo camera for forever. >.>

[thathighclassbitch]

It truly is just brand loyalty. My mom keeps buying the new apply watches despite there being no actual improvement, and they come out like every year.

[emeraldmercury]

This is why Apple is failing in India. In India the culture is value for money and luxury goods aren’t valued here unless you’re among the urban elite. Amazon caught on to this and aggressively markets itself as affordable with quality to the Indian market. Apple however refuses to adapt to our tastes. Why should I get an iphone when a Samsung Galaxy does the same thing at half price? 

[judgingeternity]

That’s apple for you, they’re basically the ferrari of phones insofar as you are treated like you’re a renter of their product brand and not an owner. They routinely swap up their peripherals, release patches designed to fuck people who homebrew or jail break their phones, and release further patches designed to inundate older phones with bad optimization that runs down their batteries and encourage you to buy a new one. You effectively buy for the status of buying, and nothing else. I’d practically consider that worse than a “luxury” item, because at least a luxury item has a certain superfluous luxury to it, but is ultimately just a slight upgrade over the cheaper competing brand. The Iphone doesn’t got that and doesn’t really bring out more than a Samsung does.

[nerdyguyranting]

I’ve never seen a company that has this level of contempt for their audience and still gets away with it. I mean EA seems to hate their audience, but everyone hates them back for it.

I know it’s anecdotal but my sister complained for years that Android phones were “too big” and were uncomfortable and impossible to handle. Then the iPhone 6+ came out, which was the size of an actual fucking (folded) 3DS XL. Guess who bought a 6+ the first day. And suddenly she started talking about how much she loved her big phone and how nice it is to finally have a big phone. 

I’ve managed to get most of my family to stop buying Apple products by reminding them of how much they’ve hated every single iPhone they had before. Some Apple fans seem to have beaten spouse syndrome. “It will be different this time!”

[funnypages]

JJJ does have a heart

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

;-;

WELL NOW I AM CRYING FOREVER

[darkbluemint]

He’s a jerk…. but he’s also against racism, has been shown to be pro mutant rights, has protected his employees in several occasions… and he’s committed to only report the truth (to the point of retracting statements when he’s proven wrong)…

JJJ Jr. Is a very interesting character…

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

He also once bought like a hundred copies of Peter’s photography book to support him <3

[mathematicallygay]

i have a theory that jonah knows and that he keeps irately demanding pictures of spiderman to keep peter employed.  he doesn’t hate spiderman, he just wants to keep the roof over peter’s head.

[fanburgers]

This 4chan exchange has been my headcanon since I first saw it months ago

[nerdyguyranting]

So Jameson and Fletcher from the movie Whiplash is basically the same character?