I realised I was a massive geek when..... Page 4

Hmm when did Sootyj realise he was a geek?

Hmm

1 Reading Watchmen and Sandman when everyone else read Superman.
2 Being laughed at by the D&Ders because he played Traveller and Cthulu.
3 Being bullied by the special needs kids.
4 When he started Startrek before it was cool.
5 Liking David Cronenberg films when everyone else was watching Commando.
6 When he found out no one else thinks Trons cool.
7 When someone dumped a bucket of pigs blood over him at the school disco.

F**k that's it. I'm getting a black trenchcoat and a machine gun them pigs are going to pay!

To any unimaginative police officers reading this I am joking, go arrest Paul Gadd he's probably raping something.

I was playing chess aged four.

As 12 year olds, we would meet up at the museum or library before our cider and B&H sessions in the park.

The cider sessions mean I'm no good at chess anymore.

I beat 10 other players at Connect 4 in the SU bar and was accused of taking it too seriously.

We would re-vistit the library or museum after the cider sessions.

Quote: sootyj @ September 21 2009, 7:36 PM BST

1 Reading Watchmen and Sandman when everyone else read Superman.

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You were a man ahead of your time sir.

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2 Being laughed at by the D&Ders because he played Traveller and Cthulu.

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I got into an argument with the local comic book store guy about Traveller a month ago when he called it a waist time then tried to sell me hundred dollar D&D books.

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3 Being bullied by the special needs kids.

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Ouch!

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4 When he started Startrek before it was cool.

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Did you buy the trading cards too? If not you wanna buy mine? I got a hologram of Jordy yo!

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5 Liking David Cronenberg films when everyone else was watching Commando.

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Sorry you're on your own. Give me classic Arnold over classic convoluted story lines.

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6 When he found out no one else thinks Trons cool.

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I've yet to see Tron. I am a bad nerd aren't I? But it's not my fault! My parents were to cheap to buy a VCR.

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7 When someone dumped a bucket of pigs blood over him at the school disco.

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Please tell me this is just a Carrie reference and that this didn't actually happen. Because that is not kosher young man.

Blood was a Carrie reference!
I hope you shoved a copy from Hell up that comic store owners fundament. Traveller, the little black books rocked! It was always the White Album of RPGs.

But Tron man c'mon before the remake ruins it. The Master Controller expects it!

And David Cronenberg is officially the world's coolest Canadian.

Quote: sootyj @ September 21 2009, 9:11 PM BST

Blood was a Carrie reference!
I hope you shoved a copy from Hell up that comic store owners fundament. Traveller, the little black books rocked! It was always the White Album of RPGs.

But Tron man c'mon before the remake ruins it. The Master Controller expects it!

And David Cronenberg is officially the world's coolest Canadian.

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That comic book store worker is a douche and probably hasn't read 'From Hell' unless they did an anime version for him to understand.

Traveller is pure gold.

I get bugged by my friends to watch it every so often so I think I'll put the time in some time soon. Hope it lives up to the hype and that it has aged well.

Cronenberg is good, I just shake my fist at him for movies like 'Naked Lunch'.

I realised I was a music geek when I first started using ebay, about 7 years ago. The geekiest things I've bought are probably those that I can't actually use, e.g. a Betamax video tape of a film called Wildstyle, and an 8-track tape of the Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight', which is apparently one of only two Hip hop songs released on 8-track, before the format was discontinued. More recently I paid about 9 quid for a rare sticker advertising a music event from 1995.

I've never considered myself a geek. I thought a geek was someone who had horrific social disorders on account of being obsessed with programming computers (usually they would wear glasses, have a bad haircut and be super-intelligent). One night in Bangkok at a party I met an American guy who shared my fondness for Doctor Who and we began discussing the merits of Tom Baker's various companions. The American then said: "We're such geeks!" Speak for yourself, I thought.

But if 'geek' means being tech savvy and intelligent, I wish I was a geek. I did play chess with the Asian kids in the school library during lunch hour, but that wasn't being a 'geek', it was called being a 'square'.

When I read "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't." and laughed without having to think about it.

I knew I was a proper geek when I showed up at James 'Scotty' Doohan's funeral dressed in full Klingon regalia and threw myself onto his coffin screaming 'Kap-la!'.

As I was being dragged away by security I yelled at his grieving family 'No, I must be allowed to finish my ritual or Scotty won't get into Stovokor!' and 'Damn you Simon Pegg! You imposter!'.

He was Canadian dontcha know.

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I've never considered myself a geek. I thought a geek was someone who had horrific social disorders /...

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That's how the rest of the world view geeks.

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But if 'geek' means being tech savvy and intelligent,./....

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That's how geeks view themselves.

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Because you are?

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So, Robyn, about your and Elliot's wedding night...

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I knew I was a proper geek when I showed up at James 'Scotty' Doohan's funeral dressed in full Klingon regalia and threw myself onto his coffin screaming 'Kap-la!'.

As I was being dragged away by security I yelled at his grieving family 'No, I must be allowed to finish my ritual or Scotty won't get into Stovokor!' and 'Damn you Simon Pegg! You imposter!'.

He was Canadian dontcha know.

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You sir are no geek!

Soctty hated Klingons and didn't believe in Stovo Kor!

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You sir are no geek!

Soctty hated Klingons and didn't believe in Stovo Kor!

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Just as with many homophobes, his overt hatred was his way of covering up the fact that he himself was a Klingon. That's why he couldn't do a Scots accent.

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You sir are no geek!

Soctty hated Klingons and didn't believe in Stovo Kor!

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It's a nerd off hit the deck!!!

Quote: Nogget @ September 22 2009, 5:25 PM BST

Just as with many homophobes, his overt hatred was his way of covering up the fact that he himself was a Klingon. That's why he couldn't do a Scots accent.

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I heard the world's worst Scottish accent the other night, on an old episode of Hart to Hart. It was simply an American accent, with over-emphasised rolled "r" sounds at the end of certain sentences.