So user what do you do in your free time?

you are a part of the problem

What problem?

I don't see how. I'm definitely not mocking anyone else, and I encourage all my students to read as often as they can.

>Go out for drinks last night with a German girl who's been living in my country for 10 years
>Mention at one point that I read in my spare time
>Namedrop Goethe/Nietzsche/Fichte/Hegel/etc
>We fuck at the end of the night.

Don't know if that helped my chances m8s, but it certainly didn't harm them.

>Nietzsche

Hey, I read Nietzsche unironically.

>German girls

Highschool sure is a funny place.

German girls are probably the combination of pleasant to be around and good looking in Western Europe

On México people tends to be like "really? what type of things you read? i didn't know you were such an intellectual"

Kind of like just joking but they still kind of think it's really good

>He didn't namedrop Schopenhauer

Here I never got that whole "smart nerds get bullied by dumb jocks" kind of thing.
It's just those that don't fit in socially get bullied, though I certainly percieved a tendency for dumber people to jump on the bullying train sooner.
This could stem from the way our school system works though and from grade 5 on we basically have three classes of schools and so I never really came much in contact with people stuck in the lower classes.

You're cute. We can read together if you don't mind!

Yes

I've got the following

>Do you actually read that Shakespeare, or do you just have it to look smart?
>why do you have a bible, you don't really believe that shit do you?
>why all the poetry? Is it to get girls?

There's a problem?

No, 's experience would be more typical.

Schopenhauer is a huge turn off for me at least lol

Make me a sammich, bitch.

>You read? Oh my god, have you read ?

People actually read in my waters, but it tends to just be author of the month club stuff, so they are usually disappointed when they ask what I've been reading because we can't share in the latest generic crime fiction book or whatever. Still, it's nice to know that people still engage with some form of literature on average, and there's been a successful campaign to improve youth reading in the last decade or so.

reading is perfectly acceptable to mention as a hobby if you're not a fucking loser

the nerds itt are probably intolerable company, so they would get made fun of no matter what

In the US wealth is unevenly distributed, especially demographically. If you live in a rich town with high property taxes and a good school system, pleb children are discriminated against and shuffled into retard rooms where they are basically written off.

I have a smart black friend who grew up in a ghetto, and he was beaten constantly and referred to as "Oreo T". In my town people were expected to work full time jobs in hs unless they were on the baseball team, usually on farms. In the town I live now, the ruling clique are all doctors kids and the competition for academic excellence is intense.

>I live amongst the lowly

Also if you live in a major urban center the hipsters, yuppies, and general white collar demographic are mostly readers.

>ew CIA you file flight plans?
>well I like to throw people out of planes so...
>lool planes? who flies planes?
>yo did you hear CIA? He doesn't even crash his planes
>wow what a little guy
>I didn't know you were such a minor character
>wtf CIA planes? just find BANE? and stuff, pretentious fag

The only time ive experienced anything like this is when a Friend asks me what im reading and its some Fantasy or Sci-Fi with a plot that makes me seem like a sperg

>Instead of framing myself as the one in the right, I'm going to post an anime picture and tell everyone about it online instead.

>complains about anime pictures
>on an anime themed japanese owned image board

The US isn't culturally monolithic. It depends on where you're from, the school you went to, and the people who hang out around. Same in the UK; chavs aren't known for being friendly to kids who affect posh intellectualism.

We're the last unabashedly masculine Western country. We don't read, we hunt and we build.

Well you are a sperg for reading fantasy

I would read at this machine shop I worked the night shift at and my co-workers made fun of me but then eventually started bringing their own books and our lunches looked like a book club for dirty machinists.
>I was reading Sartre's Age of Reason
>Big bearded ex-con guy read a military non-fic
>smaller bearded ex-con guy read one of the ASoIaF series that he started in prison
>Native American guy read White Fang
shit was dope.

Remember that when people seem put off by you reading they're probably considering reading themselves

youtube.com/watch?v=Fdyyps2wmd4

>reads Sartre
hahahahaha kys

That sounds fucking awesome

>start reading turner diaries at work
>jewish girl wikis it prior to asking me about it
>tells everyone im reading anti-semitic tracts in my spare time

This is true, but you do get the occasional person (usually trying to act like a stereotypical movie jock) who makes fun of you literally just because they think that's how popular people should react.

>White
>Good looking
Shit opinion

Romanian girls. I win.

You are the problem with neo Veeky Forums

This scenario has never happened. No one cares enough about you to care if you read or not.

You don't understand how we do things around here, do you?

Real chads are actually slightly impressed with the well-read. Only insecure pseudo-alphas affect the jock stereotype

I used to think it was because they were a frontier society. Then I realized the same doesn't so much apply in Canada or Australia. Strange.

It absolutely does apply to Australia, though. Canada's sissy culture is the exception

Shallow readers mind you. Most of them read for the fashion of it rather than actual enjoyment. Just like any "hipster" pursuit. It's only cool until it becomes a genuine interest.

See, I'm not a fan of this "lel Trudeau sissy beta canadians" meme. It's really only a reflection of urban Toronto/Vancouver people. The rest of Canada isn't like that in the least. Think rednecks but colder and less angry because they don't live near minorities.

There was a theory that up-talk originated in Canada.

We're speaking in generalities. Despite the existance of Hosers, Montreal is very much the North American epicenter of Western masochism and left wing anti-Americanism.

>Meet a Czech girl while snowboarding
>Mentions shes a journalist
>Ask if she reads as much as she writes
>"Oh yea I love Gogol and Dosto..."
>Tell her I write on the side
>Spend the next week together drinking, reading, exploring and fucking
>She leaves to go home
>I never got her contact info

but man what a week that was.

Not since the language laws. These days it is definitely Toronto.

Well yeah wealth is unevenly distributed, the niggers get to live in squalor in welfare while the whites actually work. We shouldn't have to give them money if they don't earn it themselves.

There are plenty of poor white neighborhoods. That blacks are anti-intellectual is a given, but in blue collar white communities the problem is still there.

Dumb anime poster.

This never happened.

>go to normie bookstore B&N
>buy 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence'
>judging looks by normies working in the store as I check out
>see a really nice print of 'Meditations' on the clearance rack
>cashier asks me what 'Meditations' is

Our society really is getting dumber and more anti-intellectual as time goes by.

I'll just refer you to and

The only conceivable situation during which this might be said would be during recess in middle school. That's also assuming you're carrying around a book in the open and being pretentious about it. Just hide where no one can see you and read in peace like everyone else you attention whore faggot-child.

This is closer to my experience, nobody thinks less of me for reading but they always expect me to read YA or generic fantasy shit or, most of the time, guys like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, then think I'm pretentious when I don't. Poetry and religious texts also have the stigmas you mentioned, people will actually think you're dumb if you read the bible.

and he was half of man and half of projector
and they called him
>projection-man

Haha, yeah we are utterly fucked

I'm specially training myself to be pretentious about everything.

Me too, and apparently I'm doing a better job at it too.

>yeah i read books
>haha cool whats your favorite book user
>uh probably [insert book]
>huh never heard of it, i really like the hunger games haha

might as well just kill me

ITT: 15-18 year olds

You guys are on the same level as /b/

*tips fedora*

In today's episode of things that didn't happen...

My town is a mixture between the town where you used to live and the town where you live now. My high school had illiterate rednecks and rich kids, and the two groups were so segregated that it was basically two separate schools in one building.

then why are you on Veeky Forums

>user, what do you do all day?
W-Well, I read mostly I g-guess...
>No, that doesn't count. What do you DO?
>awkward silence
>You're over 20, don't you think it's time to find a girlfriend?
>Don't you hang out with fiends?

Literally had a visit like this today from a distant family member. Make it go away

good goy

>>No, that doesn't count. What do you DO?
Sent a shiver down my spine famalam I feel you

I have this much worse, don't really read fictional literature so if someone asks what my favourite book is I either have to fully reveal my power level or mumble 'some academic shit hehehehe'

>reading as a social activity

I had this, but my gf just didn't get it. I told her I like to read in my free time, and she must have thought I meant that I like reading fucking Harry Potter for ten minutes or something. She found it really romantic, and wouldn't stop telling me how impressed she was that I read as a hobby...until she found out that it's actually my thing, as in the thing that I do for hours at a time. Now she complains when she asks what I'm doing and I reply that I'm reading, or read for extended periods around her.

Granted, I have several hobbies. I love playing the guitar and I keep up on vidya. But it's irksome that I have to read at work now.

This is my biggest fear of getting a gf

this never happened. there's nothing special about reading books

In my experience, Mexicans don't care if you read or just make small talk about it, namedropping whatever they might have read/is popular at the moment. Where you from ese?

Thank god I'm not 12 anymore

>But it's irksome that I have to read at work now.

Now that is a beta faggot.

I haven't actually met anyone that reacted like this when mentioning books. I was surprised at this, growing up in the "ugh books, but everyone read harry potter" generation(1990-95), most people i've met were quite indifferent about it.

I'm somewhat exaggerating. I do still read around her. But I prefer not listening to her complain if I read for extended periods, so I tend to get most of my reading done at work as I have ~6 hours of free time a day, while playing games or watching movies with her at home. It works out pretty well.

>tfw stacy sisters stacy friends make fun of you again

People where I live nod and smile when you tell them you like to read, and they lie and say they like to read too.

no, your biggest fear of getting a gf was intimacy, do not forget

>was

Anime wasn't a pejorative. The problem is the OP posts online about how he was demeaned instead of taking control of the situation. He should stop being a wimp and stand up for his lifestyle.

>some random dummy doesn't like reading because they don't put thought into what they do
>they're missing out on the most complex and in-depth manifestation of human life
>I'm not

and what's the problem with this?

that green text reads like some paranoid /r9k/ fantasy

Yeah? Well it's true, all of it.

the worst thing about interacting with others is that they don't say things like this but you're worried that they secretly think it

>oh i read books
>oh cool
> ............ yeah i think they're really interesting. my favourite is ______ (man i'm talking too much trying to justify a hobby they're clearly not interested in otherwise they would have said they like books too and now i sound like i don't even enjoy them that much because i haven't been insightful at all)
>*nodding and smiling* well i like movies

>America
>masculine

People never react like this around me. This includes the "ghetto" where I grew up (more exactly the barrio) as well as in my college life. My average conversation goes like this:
>So what do you like to do in your free time user?
>I mostly just go to class and the gym, but I usually try and make time to read books and spend time in the outdoors as often as I can.
>I remember I used to be really into reading when I was younger; I wish I hadn't stopped.
>Yeah I actually really enjoy it and I feel like it helps me out in a lot of ways (interesting, thought-provoking; whatever I feel might sell them on the idea)
>Wow that sounds really cool user! Maybe you could recommend me some books that might spark my interest?
>etc.