Who are the coolest geeks?

why, it can only be sports geeks :D

Train spotters! "Hey, that's the 45EF76! It's been repaired!" "What?"

Sex geeks. Poetry geeks. Birdwatchers.

book collecting geeks. of the rare and beautiful kind.

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts

^^^these get laid the most regularly, but they also like Rocky Horror. Push.

Music geeks - annoying cuz they think they're cool

Computer geeks/hackers - i suppose we wouldn't even have computers n shit without these fellas, so props

Gamers - not so bad

Movie buffs - even more annoying and self-righteous than the musos

Role-playing game geeks - sad

LARPers (Live Action Role-Playing game) - really fucking sad

Comic geeks - i was kinda one as a kid, sad if you're over 14

Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans - sci fi & horror are ok, fantasy is lame

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts - dunno if these people are necessarily geeks, morelike snobs

Mathletes - props for the hilarious name

Board game geeks - wtf

Numismatists/philatelists - got no beef with these dudes

Card collectors - pointless

Toy collectors - sad/creepy

Other collectors (specify) - whatevs

Furries - need to see a fucking shrink

Historical reenactment folks (Renaissance fairs, Medievalists, etc.)- mega sad

Some other type of geeks (specify) - comedy geeks? religious geeks? trolls? general aspieness?

i voted for mathletes, btw

math l33ts

Based on my experience, LARPers get more laid than other geeks, because LARPing requires at least some sort of an outgoing personality, plus the gender ratio is pretty much 50/50. I've even heard rumours you can get laid within a a game. Not that this is any reason to become LARPer, because they also tend to be the most obnoxious and elitist among geeks, even worse than music geeks.

being a music geek has absolutely got me laid at least once

No car geeks, no cr..etccetc

You forgot manga/anime fans and cartoon geeks.

Gamers ftw.

why, it can only be sports geeks :D

-- Just got offed, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:27 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

RONG. Yer hardcore sports geek's assumption that everyone is just as fanatically interested in talking at great length/detail abt football, horse racing or w/e as they are, added to the assumption that if yr NOT interested it's only because you haven't been BORED INTO SUBMISSION YET renders yer hardcore sports geek EVEN LESS COOL THAN "FURRIES".

I voted for opera/theatre/dance.

Based on my experience, LARPers get more laid than other geeks,

There's a bunch of LARP-ers who do battle in the forest near our house. The times we've seen them out, we have noticed the near 50-50 m/f ratio, and have heard that if yr in w/that crowd, there's plenty of action, so to speak. They do look ridiculous, though.

I wonder why geekery seems to be mostly a male thing? Out of the groups I've listed, I think only LARPers and theatre/dance/opera fans (manga fans too, probably) have 50% or more women. Maybe because geekery usually requires an obsessive, inrovert mindset, something which is more often encouraged with boys?

i love this site:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.php

i know NOTHING about these fancy board games, and I will never ever play them, and yet I can read these dudes talking about them forever.

i think i'm a geek collector. how cool is that?

Pashmina OTM

Sports geeks are actually the worst kind because they're the only kind of geek deemed to be socially acceptable by the [non-geek] world at large. An obsessive interest in sports strikes me to be equally as freaky as an obsessive interest in dressing up as a large cuddly animal...

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m77/fairbanksf/Stuff/larp.jpg

Also, no cosplay option?

I thought the cosplay thing is just a part of comic/manga geekery. Thouh I admit the whole thing's mostly a mystery to me.

I voted for historical re-enacters, because they're outdoors the most, even when it's chilly

(see what i did there)

(SEE IT)

I thought it was very funny!

You did need to point it out though. It was in the puzzled re-reading that the light went off. "Ah!" I said in my head "because it's cold out! Cold, cool!!"

Music because it happens to be at least somewhat socially acceptable (though not so much as sports). Computer geeks can translate that into making $$$, unlike almost everything else on the list, but it's still not cool.

The sports geek has never been socially acceptable, it usually equals 'Statto' or 'pub bore'.

Theatre/opera/dance geeks definitely get the hottest women, computer geeks probably get all the money these days and that helps. The thing about theatre geeks is they operate almost entirely in their own closed bubble which happens to contain lots of women. Consequently they're either blissfully ignorant or just plain not bothered with how annoying they are.

i voted larpers. none of these people are cool in any way so i voted for the most distilled geekery there is

I believe 'Theatre/opera/dance geeks' are better known as 'nerds'

Poetry geeks is a romantic notion, I'm not sure I've ever come in contact with one. I love art geeks. They are my people.

The sports geek has never been socially acceptable, it usually equals 'Statto' or 'pub bore'.

In the UK, maybe.

http://www.nbc.com/Identity/images/penn_jillette.jpg

there are definitely sports geeks in the US

I think the question is "how geeky are we talkin'?"

"Poetry geeks is a romantic notion, I'm not sure I've ever come in contact with one."

The Poetry Thread

Poetry Thread, part two: A Game Of Chess

Resurrection: The 2006 Poetry Thread

a new poetry thread, on being unable to find the old one

"I think the question is "how geeky are we talkin'?"

for sports it would have to be at least fantasy league geeky to be at all geeky.

But poetry appreciation has been specialized down to a point where having any realistic interest in it at all = "poetry geek"

i mean, lots of people know stats about their favorite teams and sports. it has to be pretty all-consuming and/or semi-consuming to be qualified as geekdom.

yeah, if you actively BUY poetry in actual book stores, then you probably qualify as a poetry geek.

I like a bit of poetry from time to time.

I think I'll take a look at those threads.

I voted "some other" because Mythbusters is the best show on television

really though this thread title might as well be "who are the jewishest muslims"

come on, there are lots of dudes who think that their sportstatscox compensate for their otherwise undifferentiated uncoolness

Heterosexual theatre/opera/dance geeks have the math all in their favor.

I am a decently credentialed baseball geek -- fantasy is too prole for me -- and it has not gotten me laid a single time.

anyone who has actually read this entire thing is king geek in my book:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743227220.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've read lots of it (both editions). I have also gone to Cuba on a flimsy pretext to watch baseball.

I may have a date with a Yankee fan tonight, but gay seamheads can't be choosers.

Baseball is basically a long stream of statistics in search of a sport, right?

NO, you evil man

as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?

Really, it all comes down to whether the geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated' or 'never leaves own bedroom, in mother's house'.

jordan a pimp 4 life

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I voted for 'other', thinking of course of poetry geeks, of whom I am a prime example.

design/font geeks, and craft geeks, they are so hip and smug i want to smack them and their readymade magazine/bust/design sponge blogs too

i will stick up for design geeks here!! there is a difference (i think) between design geeks (like, uh, my dad and my girlfriend) who honestly and innocently geek the fuck out about great design and have a top 10 font list and have arguments about, like, kerning or whatever and design geeks whose geekiness is this self-conscious cool-kid smugness

this distinction is not altogether different from drew's academic cool-kid geeks and the ren blogger geeks--my kneejerk classification is "people who care honestly/authentically about their field of geekery (design/crit theory/medieval studies)" vs. "people whose 'geekiness' is a consciously assumed identity constructed to remind everyone how cool they are" but theres probably a fair amount of blending at this point

yeah thanks max for ignoring my previous blunts

lit dick

what is a blunt

a post to an internet messageboard that contains a salient point, as referred to by an individual under strong influence of alcohol

do you need more help?

or was your joke just that bad?

no wait me being blasted is not your fault
hang on
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sorted

yeah

oh no i get it! sorry i didnt quite get that yr posts were on the same topic. i sort of skimmed down.

I THINK WERE IN AGREEMENT

mostly i just wanted to defend design geeks since many of my loved ones are design geeks, the cool/not cool thing came as an afterthought I STILL LOVE YOU TOM KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

nah fuckit just gonna kill m'self

2 late brah

2 late

if anyone knows andi maybe you should call him to make sure he is ok.

i <3 this thread.

Jordan, not that goths are geeks, but goths can include many who fall under that earlier description (isn't "geek" meant to mean, like, an excessive interest in and knowledge of something? not necessarily, social ineptitude, innit. it's just that they often come as part of a package): sex geeks (subset: S&M geeks), Wicca geeks, Anglophile geeks, vinyl geeks. And these are Goth Geeks. Plus the really uncomfortable ones.

Music geeks – They are usually pretty big crepes to me

Computer geeks/hackers – You can play the Hackers 2 drinking game with them, big case of Hamm's, fun night

Gamers – It is pretty endearing when you ask someone what they're doing that weekend and they say "working on my character"

Movie buffs – If you find yourself seated next to one on a flight you will have a fun conversation that makes the flight go quickly (I just discovered this)

Role-playing game geeks – See this I think of as "gamers"

LARPers (Live Action Role-Playing game) – Harmless and nice people

Comic geeks – Can be totally cool to talk to abt comics BUT also tend to be crepes to me, random ones IRL anyway

Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans – These ones get the worst tattoos

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts – Mean! Meanies.

Mathletes – These are my people.

Board game geeks – Really rad, quiet people who you can have a fun and chill evening with. They will also tell you about new board games if you ask.

Numismatists/philatelists – Stamp collectors? They are rad because they pop a million boners if a stamp says like "National Beast Cancer Awareness Month" or if it has two douglas fir trees on it when it is supposed to have four.

Card collectors – I just don't understand at all.

Toy collectors – Creepy collecting habits, weird fetishization of some hermetically sealed youth they never had.

Furries – They live harmless but very sad lives.

Historical reenactment folks (Renaissance fairs, Medievalists, etc.) – They spend too much money on their shit, which would make for an uncomfortable relationship. "You can't buy another silk jocard, honey, you overran your minutes."

Some other type of geeks (specify) – I can geek out with a lot of the geeks but the most satisfying geekout is with a flag geek, or an invertebrate geek.

I am changing my vote to "other: Teeny"

fashion geeks

A flag geek?

What is "Numismatists?" Probably those!

Coin geeks.

politics geeks. as in, know riding names across the country and know which of canada's 308 ridings are lib/con/NDP/likely-to-swing. also, knows congressional districts, which are swing seats, which are open seats?
lots of people know what's going on and have opinions, but politics geeks know the stats and the histories. i.e. when have canada and the US had concurrent elections?

these people are my favourite.

oh, um, reads political play-by-plays and biographies to wind down.

The word "Mathlete," is it a joke?

It's what Lindsey Lohan's math quiz team were called in Mean Girls! COME ON!

that story in the believer about gary gygax and the whole game underground in the 60's and 70's.

Scott, any idea where I can read this?

I guess we are now answering the question!

Where are the foodies?

In the company of film geeks, I always disparage our race, but I hafta represent here. I was almost inclined to vote for horror geeks, but too many of them are just adventurous Bruce Campbell fans.

Some other type of geeks (specify)

Where are the foodies?

-- Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Molecular gastronomists are easily the coolest geeks.

This poll will have a mirror images "least coolest," right?

no

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/05/16_eggfiasco_lg.jpg

Guys who have to decide where to stop shaving, c/d?

Retrocomputing geeks.

We have the coolest, blinkingest toys, and we don't get asked to fix windows problems.

Yeah but there's nothing worse than being around two buds having a 15-minute conversation about who started out with the slowest internet connection.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i think i'll go with toy collector

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/bonnets/toys.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Yes, they are being so cool!!

Where is a face to be exhibiting one's SARCASM >_<

"Mathletes" now is continuing to be a good laugh! XD Good job MATHLETE! You have obtained a silver medal.

ILX in learning nothing from ILX shocker.

nah, the nature geek goes out to nature reserves on their weekends and looks for plants and animals. the lepidopterists and birdwatchers are foremost in this field; butterflies and avians elicit that much more excitement. the real ultras draw pictures of what they've seen in their notebooks, habitat and all. often bearded, they can frequently be found with binoculars. rarely harmful. sturdy walking-boots, goretex mac.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 December 2007 01:44 (6 years ago)

everything was boardwalked & the circuit could have been negotiated in carpet slippers today fwiw