Seriously get a life!

[Sjakie]

I need to get a life....

*cries*

 

[Casual Shinji]

I have heard it........ From my own mouth.

I'm constanly thinking to myself how I should get my shit together and go out there and by part of the world.

 

[Ampersand]

I said it to myself once, and then I did, and it was awesome.

 

[Zhukov]

Yes, I've heard it.
Yes, it was a fair criticism.
I reacted with mild aggression (I might be a nerd, but I happen to be a rather large nerd).
Yes, the issue of video games was brought up.

 

[loc978]

Yup. It's one of those sayings generally used by people who never leave the high school social structure behind... and later in life the exchange usually goes something like this:

[http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20050521]

 

[-Samurai-]

"Get a life" isn't criticism. It's a last resort "insult".

I mostly hear it when I'm playing a game online. I come home from work, grab a beer, and play a game for a few hours before going to bed. I whoop ass, and some crybaby has to say "You're only good at this game because you have no life, nerd!".

That's right. I'm a lifeless nerd because I play the same game that they're playing, only I'm better.

"Get a life" has never, and never will be, a valid insult or criticism.

 

[Kasper Gundersen]

Get a life? Pft! I'm a gamer! I've got LOTS of lives! XD

 

[sheogoraththemad]

I heard it once when I said that I studied computer science. Then I told her that one day, when her computer doesn't work, I'll be there, and I won't help her.

I showed her who's boss!

You are officially one of my new heroes!

 

[Thundero13]

If only the annoying people in my school could come up with something that smart.

 

[The Funslinger]

Hmm... yeah, I've heard that, but then used in-place of that was also "grow a pair"

some guys I know at school constantly laughed at me for only playing WoW casually, and after a week of very light playing, being level 20. Basically they made fun of me, because unlike them, I don't spend every waking moment in dungeons, "needing" items and tanking. They're both morbidly obese, and one of them recently got RSI in his hand from too much WoW. I laughed so hard...

*EDIT* I suppose if someone says get a life, I can just point them to my ubernerd medal

 

[Creator002]

I've had it thrown at me a few times. Each time I just point at them and wave my hand over my nose a few times.

 

[teisjm]

Well, i already have a quite nice one, but if someone can tell me where to obtain an extra one, i'd be open to the thougth of accuiring it.

 

[meticadpa]

I was told to get a life by someone because I want to study medicine at university.

I'm not entirely sure what his train of thought was there, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't the most logical thing ever.

 

[WanderingBiscuits]

You get bullied?

I'd say the majority of Escapists have been bullied at one point or another. This is more or less a gaming website after all.

HOW DARE YOU GENERALIZE............oh wait me too. I retract my statement ;]

 

[meticadpa]

I've never been bullied, ever.

But I've always been tall and have got on pretty well with the vast majority of people all my life.

 

[ChicagoTed]

I've heard it before and I laughed, then they yelled at me I then laughed harder because they were yelling so hard I thought there face looked like a fat tomato.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I've got a weird feeling my Mom is about to tell me this before kicking me out of the house...I am 22 after all...unemployed and waiting on call-backs. I could be doing worse though I guess.

 

[T-Bone24]

I absolutely hate that phrase. It means nothing, is not a valid criticism and just plain makes no sense. Normally I hear it because I play videogames, which are somehow seen as a lower form of entertainment akin to beating homeless people and/or public consumption of narcotics, and so people feel the need to alert me to the fact that they percieve me as a less valid human being than they.

 

[the rye]

The people i have heard it from were very boring people who just found my intrests to be 'wierd'.