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Geek/Nerd Debate

There is a difference between geeks and nerds.

Nerds are smart, people who lack much of a social life. They often have very few friends. Nerds don't talk much, and don't expect others to talk much to them. They are usually nice people, but don't have the social skills to go out and meet new friends.

Geeks are different from nerds in the fact that they have social lives. However, these social lives are often spent pursuing some passion that the geek is obsessed with (i.e. Yu-Gi-Oh!). They spend all their time thinking about their one obsession, and play it in all of their free time. Geeks are usually only friends with other geeks, and attempts to converse with geeks is futile, unless, of course, you want to talk about Star Trek or whatever the certain geek is obsessed with.

Examples of geek obsessions are Star Trek, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic the Gathering, StarCraft, and basically any other RPG.
Nerds are often very shy, while geeks are more outgoing.

Nerds spend most of their free time studying, while geeks make free time so they can play Dungeons and Dragons.

Nerds care what others think of them, but geeks are almost oblivious to the existence of those outside of their geek clan.

Based on all this, I would have to conclude that it is easier to befriend a nerd than a geek, but a geek would probably be a more interesting person.
by Rodney Basil April 30, 2004
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mass debate

lot's of people discussing an issue.
Most people learn to mass debate at school
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debate

Today, a form of intellectual self-masturbation in which one attempts to scale an ivory tower in the shortest time possible. Policy debate was founded in 1957 in an attempt to disguise the throes of the real world with dignified, "intellectual" switch-side arguments. The framers intended it to allow young people to become more active in the world around them and encourage them to do something to help the ailing world. Instead, debaters made the activity into a competition of who could spew the most statistics, impacts, horribly damnable effects/results, screaming evidence at cutthroat speed, and modern debate sprouted as a result. Debate resides close to the top of the proverbial "ivory tower", as the real world gets translated into evidence and impacts, statistics and "strats" to win tournaments. Those who participate for the fun of it are exempt from this definition; it is only applicable to debate when it is applied as a critical theory that can "benefit the world".
Debate, when converted into a social theory, becomes a laughable mockery of the suffering of the world.
by Kazhakkey Szervusz-Thackur December 28, 2005
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debate students

The most intelligent assholes you will ever meet. Intelligent by proving a point, but assholes because they always seem to prove you wrong.
The debate students proved that The new lunch plan is causing kids to not eat at school
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debateable

noob: I spell debateable right

me: that's debatable.

noob: no it's debateable

me: no it isn't it's debatable

(infinite loop goes on)
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spufo debate

A combination of Public Forum debate and Spontaneous Argumentation to create the ultimate form of two man camaraderie in the desperate fight for logic. First formulated by Arman and Garrett
My Partner and I received first place at the debate tournament for SPUFO debate
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IT WAS A DEBATE

A phrase used to dismiss previous statements that contradict the current image that one is trying to uphold.
"How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?" Stephen Colbert asked.

"It was a debate," Kamala Harris said about her fierce attacks on Biden.
by 2020-2000 October 9, 2020
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