nerd sniffles

Frequent, mild sickness experienced by gamers and software developers that guzzle coffee, stay up late, never exercise, and so forth. Often mistaken for legitimate illness and disease; nerd sniffles is in fact easily cured by going outside, sleeping well, eating right, going to the gym, and generally not being a nerdy weakling.

Bob: Hey, has anyone seen John? He's been taking a lot of sick days lately...
Chris: He's at home today. He bought a couple more games on Steam the other night and caught a bad case of nerd sniffles.

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