How To Get a Girlfriend If You're A Hopeless Nerd

[Sporkman]

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-get-a-girlfriend-if-youre-a-hopeless-nerd

[3rdalbum]

Kinda funny. I liked the "IDDQD" reference.

[jayze]

:lolflag:......look for a hopeless nerdy girlfriend?....lol

[hoppipolla]

:lolflag:......look for a hopeless nerdy girlfriend?....lol

haha yeah that's quite good advice! ^_^

[m0o]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend

[iponeverything]

Don't worry about finding a girlfriend, when you are making good money the girlfriend will find you.

[Hallvor]

don't worry about finding a girlfriend, when you are making good money the girlfriend will find you.

qft.

[Ginsu543]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend
This made me literally :lolflag:!
Although... you only get the latest versions of girlfriend in the repos if you are running Karmic. You may have to add ppa:girlfriends4geeks_ubuntu/ppa in Software Sources to get the latest daily builds.

[magmon]

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-get-a-girlfriend-if-youre-a-hopeless-nerd

(Pre-watch) Define hopeless nerd. I have a few quite beautiful girls lined up, and I've built or rebuilt 3 computers =P.

[gnomeuser]

I can boil this video down to two easy steps:

Step one: Conform to standards specifically set by the people who have very likely always made your life a living hell.

Step two: Never be yourself, whatever you do, turn your life into a lie because there is nothing that turns a woman on like guys pretending to be someone they are not.

I won't lie, I'm not a big Romeo but I have managed a couple of very nice girls not to mention appropriately geeky as well - why geeky?

Because relationships are more than sex and buying flowers, you actually have to enjoy talking to her and not just shut up and let her jammer on about things you obviously don't care about.

Dear Darwin that video was retarded.

[Sand & Mercury]

(Pre-watch) Define hopeless nerd. I have a few quite beautiful girls lined up, and I've built or rebuilt 3 computers =P.
Being a nerd isn't really the problem, being hopeless is the clincher.

[petehindle]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend
Can I install multiple girlfriends with this command?

[Hallvor]

Can I install multiple girlfriends with this command?

Try the metapackage named girlfriends to get them all. Install it with


sudo aptitude install girlfriends

If you get tired of one if them, you can remove one of them with


sudo apt-get remove <name of girlfriend>

and then


sudo aptitude keep-all

to keep the others.

I also recommend the packages money, goodlooks, and socialskills, as you will have fewer problems with broken girlfriend packages.

Install them with
sudo aptitude install money goodlooks socialskills

Good luck! :)

[infestor]

I can boil this video down to two easy steps:

Step one: Conform to standards specifically set by the people who have very likely always made your life a living hell.

Step two: Never be yourself, whatever you do, turn your life into a lie because there is nothing that turns a woman on like guys pretending to be someone they are not.


imho step 2 is really vital. i tried it in numerous occasions and *my god* it works! i mean if you start talking about your extensive knowledge about metal, anime (+hentai), CRPGs, oop etc. bam! game over! actually dont even talk about those to another guy which might cause an overhear by a girl...bam! game over again.

i also tried not to talk much like a *cool movie guy*...bzzt game over again...the additional rule here: you dont talk you dont get any.
yep, life sux!

[ndefontenay]

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/groom.html

The point one almost at the beginning of the article explains how to convert your loved one to your dorkiness.

I think it's pretty easy to switch dorkiness to geekiness. It kinds of go hand in hand.

It's a hilarious need and will answer the question you ask on how to keep your not so geeky loved one (and eventually marry her) (if she's really hot)

[sliketymo]

Best way,just sling it out the door,and drag it back in real slow.Works every time.

[iponeverything]

Step two: Never be yourself, whatever you do, turn your life into a lie because there is nothing that turns a woman on like guys pretending to be someone they are not.


Especially if you happen to have no personality and are hopelessly boring. I spent a significant portion of my life as a hard-drinking jerk who was always getting into fights, crashing cars, getting arrested and lying through my teeth to impress girls..

Girls like guys who are interesting, even in a bad way.. I am in no way endorsing being a jerk -- the moral is be something, anything -- funny (really works), cool, smart, confident -- its not faking, it is living.

[Khakilang]

sudo ./configure girlfriend, make girlfriend, make clean girlfriend. One out of ten nerds could be your boss.

[spupy]

imho step 2 is really vital. i tried it in numerous occasions and *my god* it works! i mean if you start talking about your extensive knowledge about metal, anime (+hentai), CRPGs, oop etc. bam! game over!

Called "hiding your powerlevels". It is vital for any nerd striving for success in social interactions.

Also, please keep the "sudo apt-get install girlfriend" jokes low, they got old about 5 years ago. ;)

[gsmanners]

Step 2 = you have become George Castanza

Is that really the kind of sacrifice you want to make? To sell your soul for a brief relationship where the other person can plainly see what a fake idiot you are?

[Zoot7]

Dear Darwin that video was retarded.
I'm inclined to agree.
The only part of it that actually had sense to it was the part about meeting in a bar.

[jwbrase]

Step 2 = you have become George Castanza

Is that really the kind of sacrifice you want to make? To sell your soul for a brief relationship where the other person can plainly see what a fake idiot you are?

It's not just that. It's when you realize, or even suspect, that you missed a certain special girl by *not* being yourself that it really, really haunts you for a long, long time.

Then again, I think alot of nerds have either had their nerdiness triggered or exacerbated by something that made them uncomfortable being themselves. If "yourself" is a bunch of walls and masks to keep the pain out, then you need to stop being yourself to really be yourself, if you know what I mean.

[Bölvaður]

This made me literally :lolflag:!
Although... you only get the latest versions of girlfriend in the repos if you are running Karmic. You may have to add ppa:girlfriends4geeks_ubuntu/ppa in Software Sources to get the latest daily builds.

I am very confused by this reply. Does that means you get to meet your girlfriend frequently? Or that she updates her wardrobe very often? Or if you switch girlfriends very often?

Well what ever you meant I got only one advice. For the love of god do not alphatest.

[Sporkman]

Girls like guys who are interesting, even in a bad way.. I am in no way endorsing being a jerk -- the moral is be something, anything -- funny (really works), cool, smart, confident -- its not faking, it is living.

Yes - very true.

[Sporkman]

I'm inclined to agree.
The only part of it that actually had sense to it was the part about meeting in a bar.

...and playing to your strengths to impress her, like setting up her wireless network.

[wersdaluv]

$ sudo apt-get install girlfriend
[sudo] password for *****:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package girlfriend
any workaround?

[unknownPoster]

Because relationships are more than sex and buying flowers, you actually have to enjoy talking to her and not just shut up and let her jammer on about things you obviously don't care about.


I definitely agree.

However, I've found that if you treat the physical aspects of a relationship with respect and a nurturing attitude, it can improve the other non-physical aspects.

[hoppipolla]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend

haha I wouldn't actually be THAT blown away xD

[jomiolto]

$ man love
No manual entry for love


$ whatis love
love: nothing appropriate.


$ find love
find: ‘love’: No such file or directory

Oh no :(

Edit: there's a package called 'love' in the repos, but it wants to install 'libdevil', which sounds kind of scary :???:

[Techsnap]

How To Get a Girlfriend If You're A Hopeless Nerd

Go outside.

[blur xc]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend



Couldn't find any package matching "girlfriend"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

[jayze]

:lolflag:
Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend


pmsl....lol

[jayze]

:lolflag:
Can I install multiple girlfriends with this command?
u lot are just crackin me up!

[jayze]

I'll let you boys into a little secret!...all you gotta do is make her laugh and keep her laughing!:shock:;):P

[unknownPoster]

Go outside.

This too.

Hell, go to gamestop, I've seen girls (alone so potentially single) in there.

[underquark]

One thing no-one has touched on yet (well, to be honest I haven't read the whole thread that carefully)...Before installing new girlfriend you may have to run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove wife

[starcannon]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend

Don't forget to man that.


you@yourhouse:~$man girlfriend
GIRLFRIEND(1) GIRLFRIEND(1)

NAME
girlfriend - companion for the GNU/Linux geek.
SYNOPSIS
girlfriend [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
girlfriend is the official companion of the GNU/Linux geek.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, girlfriend is a powerful general
purpose companion. It can be used to create life, and keep you company.

girlfriend features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynami‐
cally add new advanced features to girlfriend itself.

There is also a boyfriend available to GNU/Linux geeks; all companions co-
me with a full set of options to allow matching to gender and sexual orient-
ation.

OPTIONS
--help Prints the command line options.

--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for interfacing with the geek.

--quiet
Set the girlfriend to quiet mode, you'll know when to use this option.

Manual page girlfriend(1) line 1

[blueshiftoverwatch]

Hell, go to gamestop, I've seen girls (alone so potentially single) in there.
More so since the Wii has come out.

[fromthehill]

I too am a hopeless nerd
I tried this (http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-7076150954671457483&ei=PWpGS4jTGtLY-QaomJDaCw&q=boom+chicago+gay&view=3#) and so far it has been a great succes :)

[aklo]

i don't really care.

I'm not really a nerd but i seldom talk to girls anyway. So be it i'll stay single.

[pwnst*r]

Easy. Get off the PC and go meet girls IRL.

[Techsnap]

Easy. Get off the PC and go meet girls IRL.

Exactly.

[sandyd]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend
aww comeon.... no more apt-get , aptitude jokes...

[Miguel]

why does everyone do this?;)

Well, some of them do "pacman -Sy girlfriend", but arch's repository is not as extensive as ubuntu right now.

[pwnst*r]

aww comeon.... no more apt-get , aptitude jokes...

Those were jokes? Hm, they weren't funny.

[Shpongle]

Easy. Get off the PC and go meet girls IRL.


Girls like guys who are interesting, even in a bad way.. I am in no way endorsing being a jerk -- the moral is be something, anything -- funny (really works), cool, smart, confident -- its not faking, it is living.

+1 , learn to play the game ;-)

[chillicampari]

Just don't be weird. For example (only if this applies to you, I try not to generalize) when talking to females, try to make actual eye contact!

Another tip: we probably also don't want to know about your anime porn collection, at least not at first.

[pwnst*r]

You don't need to pretend to be someone else, but she'll see right through you if you're not confident. And confidence can be attained if you want it, so there's hope for some of you. There's not a girl on this earth that doesn't think that isn't sexy.

[felious_fadger]

(Pre-watch) Define hopeless nerd. I have a few quite beautiful girls lined up, and I've built or rebuilt 3 computers =P.

action figures dont count

[pwnst*r]

lol

[HappinessNow]

Just become the girlfriend you have always wanted. :P

[chillicampari]

Just become the girlfriend you have always wanted. :P

Hmmm...

[Lepodo]

Girlfriends are in the repos, just:

sudo aptitude install girlfriend

Haha. What a great terminal line.
That video was funny with some good references.

[isaacj87]

Well, if you luck out like me, you can find a wonderful girl on the Ubuntu Forums itself. I met my fiancée on the forums. :)

[leveled]

I prefer the good old fashioned kidnapping method.



:lol2:

[pwnst*r]

Just become the girlfriend you have always wanted. :P

that's disturbing.

[chillicampari]

that's disturbing.

Yep, don't even know, don't want to know.

[Sporkman]

I prefer the good old fashioned kidnapping method.


But you need a basement or a secluded barn or shed for that sort of thing.

[felious_fadger]

Just become the girlfriend you have always wanted. :P

http://www.crossdresserheaven.com/

your favorite bookmark?

[chillicampari]

But you need a basement or a secluded barn or shed for that sort of thing.

Because gender targeted crime is awesome, amirite?

[pwnst*r]

Because gender targeted crime is awesome, amirite?

^this.

[edd07]

Easy. Get off the PC and go meet girls IRL.
I may be way off, but to look like less of a nerd shouldn't you start to spell out things like IRL? :D

[ndefontenay]

http://www.crossdresserheaven.com/

your favorite bookmark?

How do you know about this website in the first place hahaha

[felious_fadger]

How do you know about this website in the first place hahaha

it has the best tips on tutus that flatter my hairy ***

[Sporkman]

Because gender targeted crime is awesome, amirite?

:cry:

[Sporkman]

^this.

:cry: :cry:

[pwnst*r]

There's still time to seek help.

[Sporkman]

There's still time to seek help.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[jrusso2]

1. Move out of your mom's basement.
2. Get your own place
3. Get a real job that pays money.
4. Get off the computer and meet real people.
5. Find something of interest to talk about besides video games, Linux, Anime, etc.
6. Take a shower and put on some decent clothes.

[leveled]

1. Move out of your mom's basement.
2. Get your own place
3. Get a real job that pays money.
4. Get off the computer and meet real people.
5. Find something of interest to talk about besides video games, Linux, Anime, etc.
6. Take a shower and put on some decent clothes.

Sex is overated! ;)

[felious_fadger]

Sex is overated! ;)

virgin alert

[pwnst*r]

lol

[leveled]

virgin alert


Hahahaha

[LeifAndersen]

lame, very lame. The only really good advice in there: act like a 'normal' person, although normal is subjective.

[Nerd King]

...and playing to your strengths to impress her, like setting up her wireless network.
No no no. Then you just set yourself up as a doormat. The helpful guy. No-one dates the helpful guy.

[longtom]

Look - I am way past my dating days - but as far as I can remember my most treasured girl friends I had were those who didn't respond to the "acting normality" we as young guys felt needs to be displayed.

Sooner or later they will look right through you and than what? Could be anything between disappointing and embarrassing... at best.

In other words - those you have to work for the hardest might not be the ones you should make long term plans with....or like they say here, eventually "kry elke pot sy deksel"

[Sporkman]

No no no. Then you just set yourself up as a doormat. The helpful guy. No-one dates the helpful guy.

Good point.

[Hyper Tails]

I dont think anyone will look for a hopeless nerdy girl

[Daveski]

I dont think anyone will look for a hopeless nerdy girl

Don't be so sure

[leveled]

I've found as I get older you find much fewer people you 'really' like. I don't think its being set in my ways or fussy, I'd just rather live like a monk then get involved half heartedly and it be doomed from the start.

As a result, I'm lving like a monk, and have been doing for over a year lol.

Interested in your thoughts, partly in case I'm completely missing something here.

[Tristam Green]

$ whatis love
love: nothing appropriate.

That's funny, because I typed it as su and got this:


tristam@green# whatis love
love: baby don't hurt me no more.


Don't forget to man that.


you@yourhouse:~$man girlfriend
GIRLFRIEND(1) GIRLFRIEND(1)

NAME
girlfriend - companion for the GNU/Linux geek.
SYNOPSIS
girlfriend [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
girlfriend is the official companion of the GNU/Linux geek.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, girlfriend is a powerful general
purpose companion. It can be used to create life, and keep you company.

girlfriend features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynami‐
cally add new advanced features to girlfriend itself.

There is also a boyfriend available to GNU/Linux geeks; all companions co-
me with a full set of options to allow matching to gender and sexual orient-
ation.

OPTIONS
--help Prints the command line options.

--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for interfacing with the geek.

--quiet
Set the girlfriend to quiet mode, you'll know when to use this option.

Manual page girlfriend(1) line 1


BRB, requesting launchpad bug detail. The absence of --kitchen or --sandwich options available is clearly a failure on the part of the programmers.

[Zoot7]

That's funny, because I typed it as su and got this:


tristam@green# whatis love
love: baby don't hurt me no more.



BRB, requesting launchpad bug detail. The absence of --kitchen or --sandwich options available is clearly a failure on the part of the programmers.
:lolflag:

[Tristam Green]

1. Move out of your mom's basement.
2. Get your own place
3. Get a real job that pays money.
4. Get off the computer and meet real people.
5. Find something of interest to talk about besides video games, Linux, Anime, etc.
6. Take a shower and put on some decent clothes.

add between #2 and #3, "Shower and lose the neckbeard".

[Exodist]

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-get-a-girlfriend-if-youre-a-hopeless-nerd
LOL Thats pretty good. I gota show that to my wife. :)

[Maheriano]

Reminds me of the news article where some guy sued Axe because their commercials depicted girls being attracted to guys wearing it yet he hasn't landed a date in 7 years of use.

[jayze]

Haven't you lot managed to pick up a few chat room tarts yet fgs! I guess it might be cos they dont got feranomes in chat rooms......or has anyone invented that yet>?:popcorn:

[kyuubi777]

the really sad thing is... i know for a fact that

sudo apt-get install girlfriend

doesn't work!

[RabbitWho]

I can boil this video down to two easy steps:

Step one: Conform to standards specifically set by the people who have very likely always made your life a living hell.

Step two: Never be yourself, whatever you do, turn your life into a lie because there is nothing that turns a woman on like guys pretending to be someone they are not.

I won't lie, I'm not a big Romeo but I have managed a couple of very nice girls not to mention appropriately geeky as well - why geeky?

Because relationships are more than sex and buying flowers, you actually have to enjoy talking to her and not just shut up and let her jammer on about things you obviously don't care about.

Dear Darwin that video was retarded.


Ha ha, you thought it was serious.


I'll admit it wasn't that funny, but you should at least be able to recognise a joke man!




Some of the advice was alright, most of it was terrible, overweight people should do excersises, big black coats do make you look like an idiot, and a good haircut is a must, just so long as you don't look like something out of a shampoo commercial.

But i like scrawny guys and i love t-shirts that reference computer games, especially retro ones or something really arcane.

I'm single for lots of reasons, but one of them is that all the guys i know are in their 30s and dying to get married and have babies. Everyone either wants casual sex or a marriage and I don't want either of those things.
It's happened to me, more than once, that I've met a fella and he's been nice and obviously interested and single and it's clear something might happen next time we meet.. next time we meet... like a month later... he's engaged. About 3 times that's happened. That's ridiculous.
"Oh I know the perfect guy for you! And he can probably wait one or two years before having kids. :)"
"-Can he wait six?"
"Probably not"

I gotta make friends with at least one person my "own age" (i don't feel so far from thirty, but in attitude towards marriage and kids i definitely am!) and then date her friends.

[Desert Sailor]

I've been married longer than most of you hav been alive, and all I can say is girlfriends are over-rated, and very expensive. Save your money, and buy a new video card.

[pwnst*r]

lol, calloused.

[QwUo173Hy]

Having 'a girlfriend' (two legs, a head etc.) is not that difficult. Having the girlfriend that's right for you can be if you lack Self Esteem. If you ask yourself the questions "I wonder will any girl like me", then you have low self-esteem.

The good news is that once you have self-esteem, it can help you with relationships (romantic and platonic) as well as help you with your career and even your health. Self-esteem is the core scaffold of your ability to achieve anything worth having in life.

[mizukiov]

I've been married longer than most of you hav been alive, and all I can say is girlfriends are over-rated, and very expensive. Save your money, and buy a new video card.

oh the pain of the world weary soul

[t0p]

Don't forget to man that.


you@yourhouse:~$man girlfriend
GIRLFRIEND(1) GIRLFRIEND(1)

NAME
girlfriend - companion for the GNU/Linux geek.
SYNOPSIS
girlfriend [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
girlfriend is the official companion of the GNU/Linux geek.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, girlfriend is a powerful general
purpose companion. It can be used to create life, and keep you company.

girlfriend features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynami‐
cally add new advanced features to girlfriend itself.

There is also a boyfriend available to GNU/Linux geeks; all companions co-
me with a full set of options to allow matching to gender and sexual orient-
ation.

OPTIONS
--help Prints the command line options.

--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for interfacing with the geek.

--quiet
Set the girlfriend to quiet mode, you'll know when to use this option.

Manual page girlfriend(1) line 1


If you're not careful you may find that girlfriend spawns child processes...