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POLL: Are you a secret nerd or an open nerd.
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There should be an option in the poll for "Not a Nerd."
I'd be curious how many would select that. I would.
I'd be curious how many would select that. I would.
My friends come over every Sat night for pizza and gaming (D&D). I don't think I could hide it even if I wanted to. My ex-gf used to say I had a nerd night every Saturday.
Open Nerd Geek....hell yeah.
That sounded wrong
So, can I come join you? I haven't been able to find a gaming group since I moved here last year. I'm going through withdrawal.
I got the "Best Geek" award in my band "awards" at the weekend. So yeah pretty much. I'm not like overly geeky, i just know alot more than the rest of the band do about recording and stuff, am always the first to suggest a technological fix for something or other
i'm kinda inbetween. i don't go out of my way to be secret, but i don't go around showing my nerdiness either
So, can I come join you? I haven't been able to find a gaming group since I moved here last year. I'm going through withdrawal.
LOL...sorry. That would be a long drive to the west coast.
I'm pretty secret. Most people just know me as the artistic type, since I'm always writing/drawing something in my journal in my free time. When they find out, they're pretty shocked.
This is similar to my situation, I act pretty cool most of the time and then people are surprised when I start talking about Mac hardware or my wireless network and it's various protocols... I'm totally open about it though, it's just that no one believes me.
I am definitely an open nerd (geek), and totally love spending my time here haha. I am always helping friends with their technology problems, so they all think I'm a nerd. But I'm happy, so they can call me what they want.
I am always helping friends with their technology problems, so they all think I'm a nerd. But I'm happy, so they can call me what they want.
Depends on your area of nerditude or geekery. And on if you studied bounding algebra in college.
I know fashion nerds who know every designer and outfit from the 1950s onwards, historical fashion nerds who can spot a single incorrect stitch or button on any dress from 1600c, train buff geeks who can rebuild their own steam engine, etc, but most would have no idea what you mean by stating 0.999~ != 1.
Actually, I made a mistake in writing that. Too many negatives. Fixed. Thanks.
LOL. Don't take me too seriously. It was a comment in jest about what nerds argue about. I even had the number of negatives in the post wrong.
That said, I think your definition of nerd is overly broad. There's a difference between a subject matter expert and a nerd. The latter, plain and unadorned, has always has always meant someone with a technical or scientific bent. Otherwise, we there wouldn't be a need to preface the term with "fashion" or "history."
Here's another nerd argument. Why is the period inside the quote?
or "history."
versus
or "history". The period isn't a part of the quote, why's it inside the quotation marks?
Indeed. To me the difference between these two things is in how obsessive you are; does this subject matter take over your live and house? Some would say do you display an obvious lack of social skills, and have trouble talking about or showing interest in anything outside your narrow subject of interest? To me, that definition is sometimes true, but certainly not always.
Another issue: Obama is clearly a legal geek. He's a world authority on american constitutional law, and knows it inside out, lectures on it etc. (I'm not american so forgive me if I have the details of his legal specialism wrong) His language is unbelievably logical and precise - another mark of the geek. (or nerd?)
Yet he has the social skills and networking skills needed to become president. Interesting
If you crack open a grammar guide, you'd know. Some of it is just different style guides and different dialects of English.
If I recall correctly, a USA english single word quote would be "history." UK english is "history". To me the USA way looks wrong, but equally, to you the UK way looks wrong too.
With longer quotes, both dialects will put the terminal punctuation inside the speech marks. Hope that helps. You'd probably like "Eats shoots and leaves" by Lynn Truss - I haven't got round to reading mine yet, but a lot of people like it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eats-shoots-leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1861976127
cheers
RedTomato
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In my own head, I think I act normally and won't be labeled as a nerd. But I have very conservative clothes, no piercing or tats, no stickers on my car, and have a very plain haircut.
I did have some hip hop/skater clothes but got mistook for a gang-banger recently by some MS-13 dude, so I tossed hundreds worth of clothing with anything that can be mistook for gang stuff, and all red and blue stuff right into the trash.
When people talk about physics, time travel, or astronomy, then I get very interested. At my older age, people don't usually tag us as nerds as that's more of a social group thing in high school and earlier. Not only for safety purposes, but just ease in picking out clothing, boring, nerd like clothing is the easiest to pick out in the morning.
PS- I do like the Cowboys and 49ers but these days anymore, even though I am a nerd about the sport with facts and stats, it's just foolhardy to be wearing those team colors out west right at the border of Norteno and Sureno territory. I am exactly 26 miles from the coast of Sureno territory, and 27 miles up the valley from Sureno territory, so the south bay area is ground zero for both groups to duke it out. So I have a nerd jacket like those members only windbreakers seen on that nerd/physics guys show.
I did have some hip hop/skater clothes but got mistook for a gang-banger recently by some MS-13 dude, so I tossed hundreds worth of clothing with anything that can be mistook for gang stuff, and all red and blue stuff right into the trash.
When people talk about physics, time travel, or astronomy, then I get very interested. At my older age, people don't usually tag us as nerds as that's more of a social group thing in high school and earlier. Not only for safety purposes, but just ease in picking out clothing, boring, nerd like clothing is the easiest to pick out in the morning.
PS- I do like the Cowboys and 49ers but these days anymore, even though I am a nerd about the sport with facts and stats, it's just foolhardy to be wearing those team colors out west right at the border of Norteno and Sureno territory. I am exactly 26 miles from the coast of Sureno territory, and 27 miles up the valley from Sureno territory, so the south bay area is ground zero for both groups to duke it out. So I have a nerd jacket like those members only windbreakers seen on that nerd/physics guys show.
Actually, I do know why, I'm just throwing in some more cliche nerdguments in an attempt to cover for my terrible attempts at humor.
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Secret nerd, I'm outwardly athletic and clean cut. But at home I like my MMO's and graphic design
I'm a secret nerd (but it's not so secret now that I told you!)
But, my nerdiness does show sometimes when it comes to Computers or anything to do with technology...
But, my nerdiness does show sometimes when it comes to Computers or anything to do with technology...
I try to hide it, but it's pretty obvious I'm a nerd. I do love the fact that people will openly use you as a tool just to fix your computer, it's brill