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		philwelch on March 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell aw... The difference is that heavy metal was never "cool", metalheads were always misfits just like nerds. OK, maybe with the exception of hair metal, but we don't talk about that.

jiggy2011 on March 4, 2012 [–]

That's true but I think it was more that people thought it was better to be seen as an "edgy misfit" rather than an out and out nerd.

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