Need a mean nickname for a tech geek...

[LadyMireille]

Thanks. All done.

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[HeyAll]

Pencil neck is always good. Lol

 

[Kantarii]

You can nickname him "mouse" after the mouse/mouse pad computer terms. It's kinda fitting based on your discriptuon of his character. Kinda invokes a basement dweller/computer nerd/geek in a sense, tooKant

 

[Nezhul]

USB, if he's know-it-all
wire if he's thin

that's off the top of my head

 

[jsmiam]

hi! I am working on a story. The main character is a highly intelligent computer whiz. In high school he was, of course, picked on. He had no style sense, was tall, thin, with no muscles, wore ill fitting glasses and out of style clothing (no stereotypical pocket protector, no greasy/zitty face, however). Some of the jocks and other students picked on him in high school. I can't come up with a clever mean or insulting nickname. Can you all offer any? It could even have a connotation of him being a virgin or assuming he has a small unit... you know... the typical insults. Anyway... hit me with what you've got. Thank you in advance!

Mac user...



Edit: Sorry, I misread. For a true geek in real life, it's a big insult, but too subtle if you want general readers to understand.

Also, geekdom has gone mainstream, and is cool now. You'd get more traction by alluding to being a geek, when being a geek wasn't cool, or something like that.

 

[NotWise]

Dork.

 

[LadyMireille]

Mac user...



Edit: Sorry, I misread. For a true geek in real life, it's a big insult, but too subtle if you want general readers to understand.

Also, geekdom has gone mainstream, and is cool now. You'd get more traction by alluding to being a geek, when being a geek wasn't cool, or something like that.

lol. Yes, I need general readers to get it.

When my story takes place, my character is 28, and has changed, but 10 years ago he was in high school, and skinny and gawky and awkward, and picked on. I need a mean "nickname" for the then-geek.

-M

 

[LadyMireille]

Do you already have his first name; something to rhyme on?

Weirdly wired Willy, Lenny the Looser, Faggot Fred, (whatever-first-name…) Flaccid?

Rhys

My story is almost done. I just need the stinking dumb nickname. lol

The story takes place 10 years after high school. He comes into contact with three former jocks from high school, and they use their old nickname for him. It isn't a main part of the story, just a detail to support the backstory. Something as plain as geek or dork would work, but I was looking for something... more interesting. (He is currently a computer hardware designer for a tech company and very successful. He is a far cry from the gawky teenager he was, but the classmates pay no attention and just use the nickname anyway, which also adds to the character of those idiots. ;D)

 

[weftandwarp]

Rhys

My story is almost done. I just need the stinking dumb nickname. lol

The story takes place 10 years after high school. He comes into contact with three former jocks from high school, and they use their old nickname for him. It isn't a main part of the story, just a detail to support the backstory. Something as plain as geek or dork would work, but I was looking for something... more interesting. (He is currently a computer hardware designer for a tech company and very successful. He is a far cry from the gawky teenager he was, but the classmates pay no attention and just use the nickname anyway, which also adds to the character of those idiots. ;D)

Fuzzy Logic- it is a real term applied to washing machines etc from memory. Also Memory Card or Memory Stick. or Fibre Optic or Pocket Einstein, or Pocket Albert. And probably you will have one much better right now any way.

 

[jezzaz]

Rambling Rhys.

Most nerds talk to much and no one understands what they are talking about.

You could shorten it to just "Ramble"

 

[Handley_Page]

Rambling Rhys.

Most nerds talk to much and no one understands what they are talking about.

You could shorten it to just "Ramble"

or even Rambo

 

[jezzaz]

or even Rambo

Even better you can have HIM convert it to Rambo, when he gets out of school.

And then he encounters someone from school later in life, who hears the "Rambo" nickname, and chokes and says "Do what now?" and then painfully explains that its not Rambo, it's Ramble, and explains the history of it.

 

[Elloelle]

Scooter, Skippy, God of Thumbdrive....

 

[lovecraft68]

How far are we going back? If its the days of the disc, what about "Floppy"

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Hey Poindexter! I hear your girlfriend has 4 cores and a HDMI port. What's the matter, do real girls not compute for you?

It's old fashioned as insults go, but probably still recognizable. Geekishness went mainstream a few years ago though.

 

[NotWise]

Hey Poindexter! I hear your girlfriend has 4 cores and a HDMI port.

Wouldn't the insulting jock have to be pretty geeky to deliver that insult?

I should disqualify myself. When I was in high school there was no such thing as a tech geek. We had music geeks, and drama geeks, and math geeks, and debate geeks, and some of them were jocks, too.

The cliche of aggressive jocks or slutty cheerleaders harassing people doesn't ring a bell for me, because I never saw it happen. I have to wonder if that happened in anyone's real world or if it's just a fantasy of some sort.

 

[sharingfantasies]

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/thesaurus/words+meaning+a+nerd,+geek,+dork.html

Quite a few choices here.

 

[RunningJib]

Has many application

You can nickname him "mouse" after the mouse/mouse pad computer terms. It's kinda fitting based on your discriptuon of his character. Kinda invokes a basement dweller/computer nerd/geek in a sense, tooKant

"mouse" works wonderfully well. Small as a mouse. Let your mouse out, etc.

 

[Handley_Page]

Randy,
because he isn't.

 

[NoJo]

As someone who identifies very strongly with your description and is fed up with abuse, I suggest calling him "Overclocker", "RAM expansion slot", or "Hyperthread".

 

[lovecraft68]

Wouldn't the insulting jock have to be pretty geeky to deliver that insult?

I should disqualify myself. When I was in high school there was no such thing as a tech geek. We had music geeks, and drama geeks, and math geeks, and debate geeks, and some of them were jocks, too.

The cliche of aggressive jocks or slutty cheerleaders harassing people doesn't ring a bell for me, because I never saw it happen. I have to wonder if that happened in anyone's real world or if it's just a fantasy of some sort.

We had a Dungeons and Dragons club.

 

[FantasyXY]

Byte Weenie

Bytes are used to make up all computer data. You could go even further and use the name Bit Weenie. Bits are used to make up a byte and bit weenie is slang for someone that revels in the smallest of technical details. But for an erotic story I think Byte Weenie is more fun.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

The cliche of aggressive jocks or slutty cheerleaders harassing people doesn't ring a bell for me, because I never saw it happen. I have to wonder if that happened in anyone's real world or if it's just a fantasy of some sort.

When and where I grew up, the actual jocks tended to be pretty cool. There was a different class of troublemakers, best described as bullies, who didn't have the discipline for a sports team, and got rough for fun. They'd hassle the poindexters, girls, and sometimes the teachers.

I was an out and out poindexter as a kid and had my share of problems with the bullies, until I learned some martial arts. It turns out that their hostility was nothing personal, and if you showed you could fight they'd immediately move on to easier prey. Just learning to block punches and "throw" people did the trick.

Girl cliques didn't seem to be much of a thing in high school, but they were in college. Stuck up though, not especially slutty, mostly.

Despite the large number of babes begging for it in Lit stories, sluttiness just isn't all that common among pretty females and when you do see it it always seems to go hand in hand with some sort of deeper behavioral issue. Especially in the current 20 something set, a girl's mantra is that she's essentially married to her boyfriend, and girls who act otherwise seem to get dissed pretty heavily by other girls. I rarely write slutty females because ugly sluts are hard to make interesting and pretty sluts either require a deep dive into their underlying issues (at least the way I write; I've does this once) or they are unicorns - you instantly lose suspension of disbelief.

 

[Kantarii]

So has a suitable nickname been found? Inquiring minds wanna know

 

[CyranoJ]

I thought the suggestion of "Mouse" was pretty solid.

Cruel nicknames specific to acts of bullying would still sting. (S7 Archer featured a particularly nasty one where former bullies of Sterling Archer's called him "Swirling" on account of they used to give him "swirlies," e.g. dunk him headfirst into a toilet while it's being flushed.)

Or nicknames related to some humiliating formative event. Supposing the kid in question had trouble getting up on his first attempt with a girl, the nickname "Noodle" (as in "I've seen more life in a wet noodle!") could stick and would still haunt him in adult life.

The cliche of aggressive jocks or slutty cheerleaders harassing people doesn't ring a bell for me, because I never saw it happen. I have to wonder if that happened in anyone's real world or if it's just a fantasy of some sort.

Oh, it happened plenty. The stereotypes in The Breakfast Club resonated with a generation because they reflected -- even if they simplified -- types familiar from life in high school in the Eighties. They were absolutely still there in high school in the Nineties, I can attest to that. (I mean, relatively few people were purely The Jock or The Nerd or The Bad Boy or The Freak or The Princess, but these clusters of types were still visible and they played in to how people saw themselves and interacted.)

How much it happens now I don't know, but I don't think geek chic has really achieved the total social transition that some people think it has. Although at least "geek chic" is a thing, now, there are still a ready supply of agonizingly awkward, alienated and bullied geeks out there, and the structure of incentives that created the jock stereotype still exists. So the type still resonates to at least some extent.