We don't know if they were bragging or not. It's pretty common to ask what someone's job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.

If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn't hear the end of it

Like, romantically? Or due to your activity?

It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)

I, too, like to commit crimes

Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".

RIGHT?! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.

Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!

Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.

That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.

Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)

Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so

The last thing we need is for them to develop nuclear capabilities...

What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?