Who are the coolest geeks?

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

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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'.

geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated'

oh *that* kind of geekery

Sometimes I get paranoid that "Passantino" is Italian for "free time," and "Dom" is Italian for "too much"

"Dom" is Italian for "scarf," and "Passantino" means "too long"

Mine was better

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

-- El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007

POW

*sulk*

Domenico "of the Lord", Passantino: archaic Sicilian term meaning "Ferryman"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/03/03/bmferry103.jpg

Baseball: America's Passantino

ha

yeah sadly in this new century the generally accepted assumptions regarding the term geek have been exploded to contain basically anybody who wants to be seen as hip for being knowledgeable about any topic e.g. "oh I'm a huge * geek"

which being the grumpy reactionary that I am I find disingenuous at best and despicable at worst since a perfectly good descriptive term (occasionally derisive, yes) has been co-opted by people who really have no business calling themselves anything more than consumptive dabblers. Hence my comment above about the thread title - nobody who has a snowball's chance in hell of being "cool" (sociable, popular, laid back, never overly concerned) should be able to meet the criteria of "geek."

Although perhaps the word has acquired a new function as described above, in separating said dabblers from genuine obsessives, who will generally all have their own name for themselves.

"...of being "cool" (sociable, popular, laid back, never overly concerned)"

see, now i think this is funny cuz a lot of people try to push this image of themselves so hard they end up looking like the biggest saddoes ever.

we should knock on wood that "cool" still means anything at all in any context

it's very sad when people look like saddoes

sad is as saddoes

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you never know what you're gonna get

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