Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills 639
PeterAitch writes "According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)." The class is taught by a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
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Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
I flirt with that hot female blood elf on WoW, you insensitive clod!
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Hosted by Ryan Seacrest (Score:3, Funny)
Each week the nerds will be tested on a combination of technical ability and geek trivia to win immunity to the social challenge. The loser of the challenge will have to leave the show to the bellow of Ogre from "Revenge of the Nerds."
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Beautiful on the inside... (Score:3, Funny)
... And he has the X-Rays to prove it.
You can't teach people to be jerks. (Score:4, Funny)
> ...how to write flirtatious text messages and emails...
And get arrested for sexual harrassment.
> ...impress people at parties...
"Impressive! I bet he took courses in being a boor!"
> ...and cope with rejection(s)...
Sulking works fine. Go away and leave me alone.
Re:You can't teach people to be jerks. (Score:1, Funny)
Kutcher and Senftleben are trying to make you into first class Schleimscheisser,no?
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Re:Nerds don't need this.... (Score:5, Funny)
Though on the other hand I've never got myself a carrier since I've been looking for love & friendship instead but never found any...
It sounds like a modem problem to me.
Re:Nerds don't need this.... (Score:5, Funny)
I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
Re:Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
I flirt with that hot female blood elf on WoW, you insensitive clod!
I *am* that hot female blood elf, you insensitive clod!
Yep. Nothing wrong here. Geeks and nerds everywhere are going to be just fine.
Re:Nerds don't need this.... (Score:2, Funny)
I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
Shut up, kidspeak is a legitimate dialect, just like ebonics and legalese. /satire
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"According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into ..... a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
By that point of course, he will have become a handsome and rugged jock on the outside while keeping the smarts and sensibilities of a computer geek, thus bridging the gap and making the world a better place where nerds and football jocks can live together in peace while 80's pop-rock plays over a sunset.
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By that point of course, he will have become a handsome and rugged jock on the outside while keeping the smarts and sensibilities of a computer geek, thus bridging the gap and making the world a better place where nerds and football jocks can live together in peace while 80's pop-rock plays over a sunset.
This will be the start of the new master race. Germany will be the envy of the world with these intelligent, athletic blue-eyed blonde geniuses. And anyone who disagrees....
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Ignoring the women and pretending you're sexually ambiguous or gay".
Wear the french-style beret, the artsy-fartsy turtleneck, always be polite and quiet ... and you won't be able to beat them off with a stick.
In other words, maybe the Mac Fanbois are on to something ...
Re:Hey! (Score:3, Funny)
And he really, really loves you, I know, I know...
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(that's not to say there aren't a fair share IN those cities, but the ratio is far higher in what is colloquially referred to as "middle america".
Yes, Kansas City is well known for the percentage of its residents in therapy and the percentage of low-income employees who are really performers and just doing this to make ends meet.
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Mod this up. Even Rocky had a montage.
MONTAGE!
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True that.. that's why I dress in whatever I pull off the floor that passes the smell test, have stubble most of the time, and usually need a haircut weeks ago. Someone someday is going to look at me and go "My God, that man is free. I want him."
Hasn't happened yet but it will!!
Right??
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"According to... flirtatious text messages... a superficial model... will... love... the end."
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As a public-school kid with an IQ of 165 and who was reading at a college level at age 9, I'll give you a hearty fuck-you on your "pity". I spoke with an adult's capacity of vocabulary about then. And it caused scorn and ridicule. And unlike the stunted homeschoolers I've met (every single one of them--something like half a dozen who came into my high school throughout the years I was there, plus a few more here at college), I learned and grew from those experiences.
As for "favoring" private or Ivy universities: I got into Cornell and Harvard for my undergraduate degree and chose not to go because I didn't have the money (though I'll be applying again as a grad student). I'd suggest that many homeschoolers have parents that can afford those schools, or are on the opposite end of the spectrum where their parents are poor enough/one-moderate-income enough to have the bills covered. The incomes are probably skewed to the minima and maxima when it comes to homeschoolers, I'd guess.
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It's me. I'm sick of her shit. She and her girlfriend ruined all of my god damned cups.
Re:Hey! (Score:3, Funny)
Until they try to match their input/output connectors and have to radio Houston that they have a problem.
Re:You cant teach tact. (Score:1, Funny)
More to the point, the rest of this subthread is worthless without .torrents.
Re:10 years too late... (Score:3, Funny)
Without going into too much detail, it paid off
Sounds like someone's been talking to their lawyer. I'm guessing you either became a drug dealer or started tapping some underage ass. Either way, good for you.
Re:Alternativeley (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, would she agree with the statement that Star Trek was, through a long an complicated chain of events, the ultimate cause of Obama's presidency?
Re:10 years too late... (Score:0, Funny)
Sometimes the best skill is knowing when to shut up.
Nathan
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I was thinking something more like a robe and wizard's hat.
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"How much does she spend on those clothes, makeup and hair cuts?
How much time does she spend at the gym, in the shops, as well as preparing her appearance every morning?
How much mental energy is she expending on making sure she looks like that?"
Admittedly...not as much time and energy as you have leveling your death knight this month.