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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...
― Stone Monkey, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m77/fairbanksf/Stuff/larp.jpg
― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, no cosplay option?
― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for historical re-enacters, because they're outdoors the most, even when it's chilly
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
(see what i did there)
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
(SEE IT)
I thought it was very funny!
― I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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!!"
― I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted larpers. none of these people are cool in any way so i voted for the most distilled geekery there is
― gff, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe 'Theatre/opera/dance geeks' are better known as 'nerds'
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
In the UK, maybe.
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nbc.com/Identity/images/penn_jillette.jpg
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
there are definitely sports geeks in the US
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the question is "how geeky are we talkin'?"
― I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"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
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
But poetry appreciation has been specialized down to a point where having any realistic interest in it at all = "poetry geek"
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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 know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
come on, there are lots of dudes who think that their sportstatscox compensate for their otherwise undifferentiated uncoolness
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone who has actually read this entire thing is king geek in my book:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743227220.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Baseball is basically a long stream of statistics in search of a sport, right?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
NO, you evil man
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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'.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated'
oh *that* kind of geekery
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes I get paranoid that "Passantino" is Italian for "free time," and "Dom" is Italian for "too much"
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dom" is Italian for "scarf," and "Passantino" means "too long"
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine was better
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-- El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007
POW
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
*sulk*
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Domenico "of the Lord", Passantino: archaic Sicilian term meaning "Ferryman"
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/03/03/bmferry103.jpg
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Baseball: America's Passantino
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ha
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"...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.
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
we should knock on wood that "cool" still means anything at all in any context
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
it's very sad when people look like saddoes
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
sad is as saddoes
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.toyvaulttoyclub.com/New%20Logos/Other_Pics/gaming/Plush_20_Sided_Dice%20-%20Small.jpg
you never know what you're gonna get
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember at school everything was "sad". then, a year later everything was "gay"
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
if anyone knows andi maybe you should call him to make sure he is ok.
― max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i <3 this thread.
― strgn, Saturday, 29 December 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Monday, 31 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I am changing my vote to "other: Teeny"
― nabisco, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
fashion geeks
― kl0pper, Monday, 31 December 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
A flag geek?
― Casuistry, Monday, 31 December 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
What is "Numismatists?" Probably those!
― Pål Útlendi, Monday, 31 December 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Coin geeks.
― Casuistry, Monday, 31 December 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― derrrick, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, um, reads political play-by-plays and biographies to wind down.
― derrrick, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
The word "Mathlete," is it a joke?
― Pål Útlendi, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
It's what Lindsey Lohan's math quiz team were called in Mean Girls! COME ON!
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess we are now answering the question!
― Pål Útlendi, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Where are the foodies?
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Some other type of geeks (specify)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Molecular gastronomists are easily the coolest geeks.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
This poll will have a mirror images "least coolest," right?
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
no
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/05/16_eggfiasco_lg.jpg
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Guys who have to decide where to stop shaving, c/d?
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Retrocomputing geeks.
We have the coolest, blinkingest toys, and we don't get asked to fix windows problems.
― shieldforyoureyes, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i'll go with toy collector
http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/bonnets/toys.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, they are being so cool!!
Where is a face to be exhibiting one's SARCASM >_<
― Pål Útlendi, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Mathletes" now is continuing to be a good laugh! XD Good job MATHLETE! You have obtained a silver medal.
― Pål Útlendi, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
ILX in learning nothing from ILX shocker.
― Casuistry, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
everything was boardwalked & the circuit could have been negotiated in carpet slippers today fwiw
― joie de marsh (imago), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link