Are you "out" with being a geek, or still in the closet?
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I don't socialize much so i don't have many people to come out to, but sooner or later most people I meet seem to see me as a geek, but in the positive sense of the word. They know I am into things like comics, and sci-fi, and doing crosswords. They see me as someone with more intellectual pursuits. I think geek can be a broad term. I am into MMA and I think that is something that a lot of guys who aren't necessarily he-men are into.
You're just in denial!
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Really? Your posting on this board implies you at least bend in that direction.
I don't have to defend myself to a bunch of geeks.
I was called a geek the other day because I keep my Uni Challenge scores in a special note pad!!! 
I have long suspected that I am a geek. My childhood friends recently confirmed for me that not only am I a geek but I am a nerd. Being that I am pushing 50, I am going to start celebrating me geekness instead of trying to fly under the wire.
I have that same t-shirt.
I'm extremely out. It would be impossible for me not to be out as a geek at work, since my boss is my equal in that regard - his office walls have Trek posters on them, and he has a couple of Trek coffee-table books on his shelves. Plus, he reports to me on two convention committees, and... he posts here.
(I don't believe he's ever posted in Misc., though.)When I was in high school, I was so out that a friend of mine had a t-shirt made up as a gift to me that said, "I'm a Trekkie - what's your excuse?" I wore it at least once a week.
I also wear a geeky t-shirt to my bowling league every week - whether it's something amusing like the one in thestrangequark's photo:
or something mathematical:
front:
back:
Sometimes I like a little innuendo with my math:
or something with a bad pun on it. I don't have any images of those ones, but one says "Space, the vinyl frontier" with a cartoon drawing of the Enterprise, with the saucer replaced by a 33-1/3 rpm record; another says "At the Zen pizzeria" and has a cartoon of a guy standing at the counter saying, "Make me One with everything". Then there's the one with the caption "Jean-Paul Sartre's answering machine" and the cartoon of the machine saying, "I'm not here. You're not there. There is no beep. Don't leave a message."
Haha. I didn't notice that shirt the first time I saw it(maybe I was distracted by the picture above it
). That's cute, offbeat, you can even say it is quarky.
i'm so far out of the geek closet, i'm approaching it from the other side.
Anyone that knows me knows of my geek qualities and interests. I'll bring up geeky things if discussion warrants it, and in my room my Nerd dvds are proudly displayed along with Day The Earth Stood Still and Twin Peaks posters
Im the one who lives in the basement and dont get out much. I can pass very easily for the thickest person in the room, until some nice person gives me an IQ test. Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssssssh dont tell anyone!
I wish I could tell you, but I don't really know to be honest. Already some are accusing me of being "week"-minded. They're already beginning to mock the "week".
Oh no, anything but the week!
On a different note, can you be a geek and not know how to count, or answer any question related to physics, chemistry and maths whatsoever?
^ Oh, sure - there's more than one kind of geekness, after all. Well, OK, I think counting is a pretty basic requirement for...well, for being lots of stuff, but you can be pretty darn geeky and not know much about physics. I'm kind of a science dabbler myself, so I ought to know. I'm more of a scifi geek than an actual science geek, though I do enjoy it.
I put myself in the second category - I make no secret about my geekish tendencies - but still, I think a lot of people just don't realize this about me. Maybe because I have lots of interests, some considered geekish and some not. But still, you'd think the Romulan Warbird ornament, the Gorn bobblehead and various bits of Marvin the Martian memorabilia in my office would be a dead giveaway. I think lots of people just aren't very good at noticing stuff.
I put myself in the second category - I make no secret about my geekish tendencies - but still, I think a lot of people just don't realize this about me. Maybe because I have lots of interests, some considered geekish and some not. But still, you'd think the Romulan Warbird ornament, the Gorn bobblehead and various bits of Marvin the Martian memorabilia in my office would be a dead giveaway. I think lots of people just aren't very good at noticing stuff.
"YES, I'm proud to be a geek and am out about it"
Is a problem though: most people I know want me to set up their computers and TVs and even ask me to google stuff for them
:brick:
When most boys my age went to metal shop class after school I took the 'electronics' class and the typewriting class. When it became possible I took the computing class (yeah, my city had a computer we could access from a teletype-ish hunk of metal via a phone line and a modem the size of a modern tower model PC) and when we turned 16 and they all bought mopeds I build my first computer...
Obviously I'd been into SciFi and LEGO years before this and did (some) repairs to my TV (which wasn't mine before my dad was allowed to buy a colour set) myself.
Unless she's a teenager though, then it's pretty mainstream
Is a problem though: most people I know want me to set up their computers and TVs and even ask me to google stuff for them
:brick:When most boys my age went to metal shop class after school I took the 'electronics' class and the typewriting class. When it became possible I took the computing class (yeah, my city had a computer we could access from a teletype-ish hunk of metal via a phone line and a modem the size of a modern tower model PC) and when we turned 16 and they all bought mopeds I build my first computer...
Obviously I'd been into SciFi and LEGO years before this and did (some) repairs to my TV (which wasn't mine before my dad was allowed to buy a colour set) myself.
Me too!I was "out" as a geek way before it was cool to be "out" as a geek.
Well, in her defence, fantasy is still considered pretty geeky
Unless she's a teenager though, then it's pretty mainstream
That sounds like something right out of Der bewegte Mann
That is so funny! - a couple of years ago -when I had a major breakdown of sorts- the psychologist trying to diagnose me came to the (part) conclusion that I was a 'nerd'... I corrected him and told him: 'geek'. He asked and I gave him the fine print about geekdom -he then scratched his beard and said: "Ah, so a 'geek' is a 'nerd' with social abilities." -I had to agree with him on that!
My occasional geekiness is well received, so there's no need to be "in" the closet with it.
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