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Your rights and responsibilities as a Geek
Rights:
1. The right to be even geekier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
4. The right to associate with other nerds.
5. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
6. The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
9. The right to show off your geekiness.
10. The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
1. Be a geek, no matter what.
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
4. To save and protect all geeky material.
5. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a "museum of geekiness."
6. Don't be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
9. Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
10. Try to take over the world!
I am not living up to my responsibilites.
I have been encouraging my 7 year old daughter's interest in astronomy. Is that kosher?
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Huh...I've been living up to my responsibilities just fine, but I havn't been excercising all my rights apparently. So sue me. I like Curling and working out! We can't all be perfect!
And if anyone wanted to know, my specialties are 90's sitcoms and Vertigo Comics.
Incidently, Happy towel day and Glorious 25th of May! (or do those deserve their own threads?)
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
'Or' is not inclusive, is it? As opposed to say, 'nor'. Therefore, I take this to read you can like football and choose some other sport to not like.
Isn't it a little much to essentially have two ‘Star Wars days’ in the same month?
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3. The right to not like football or any other sport.'Or' is not inclusive, is it? As opposed to say, 'nor'. Therefore, I take this to read you can like football and choose some other sport to not like.
No or is not inclusive. Therefore I am covered because I don't like hockey and baseball. (Although I do enjoy watching it when my kids are playing.) Further more I enjoy NASCAR, which we all know is not a sport. :)
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No or is not inclusive. Therefore I am covered because I don't like hockey and baseball. (Although I do enjoy watching it when my kids are playing.) Further more I enjoy NASCAR, which we all know is not a sport. :)3. The right to not like football or any other sport.'Or' is not inclusive, is it? As opposed to say, 'nor'. Therefore, I take this to read you can like football and choose some other sport to not like.
OH! well then I'm covered on that one due to not liking soccor. I mean, it's just organized running. why don't you all just run laps? It'd be much more efficient and result in less injury!
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
I don't agree with this one
becuase the difference between geeks and nerds are that nerds like math.I don't like math
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Geek: the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs.
Nerd: a form of candy currently sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand.
I neither eat the heads of of live animals nor am I a candy.
Dork: Vulgar slang for "penis"
does not fit me either.
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Dork: Vulgar slang for "penis"
does not fit me either.
Sure about that?
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
I have a question. Is there a size restriction on this right?
I'm 6'3 and weight in at 220lbs, Is that too big to be a geek?
I'm not out of style and not over weight, but I got the farsighted thing down.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.I have a question. Is there a size restriction on this right?
I'm 6'3 and weight in at 220lbs, Is that too big to be a geek?
I'm not out of style and not over weight, but I got the farsighted thing down.
6'3" and 220 lbs? Too big? There are those much bigger, so you're safe. :P
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7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.I have a question. Is there a size restriction on this right?
I'm 6'3 and weight in at 220lbs, Is that too big to be a geek?
I'm not out of style and not over weight, but I got the farsighted thing down.
Note that those are rights and not responsibilities. Rights are something you can choose to exercise or not.
Note that those are rights and not responsibilities. Rights are something you can choose to exercise or not.7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.I have a question. Is there a size restriction on this right?
I'm 6'3 and weight in at 220lbs, Is that too big to be a geek?
I'm not out of style and not over weight, but I got the farsighted thing down.
Wheew I was worried for a pico-second or so. Thanks for the explanations guys.
Oh Damn! It's Geek Pride Day Eve!
Looks like there is even a local event near me!
http://www.westchestergeeks.com/geek-pride-day.html
Hello CJ
I don't know about anyone else, but most of the geeks and nerds I have known don't need much of an excuse to wave that freak flag high!
Geek, nerd and proud!
why don't you all just run laps? It'd be much more efficient and result in less injury!
Well, you answered your own question!
Your rights and responsibilities as a Geek
Rights:
1. The right to be even geekier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
4. The right to associate with other nerds.
5. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
6. The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
9. The right to show off your geekiness.
10. The right to take over the world.Responsibilities:
1. Be a geek, no matter what.
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
4. To save and protect all geeky material.
5. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a "museum of geekiness."
6. Don't be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
9. Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
10. Try to take over the world!
Oh dear... am I not a geek? I thought I just needed to like fantasy/sci fi stuff and play games. Now your telling me I have an image to uphold in rights and responsibilities? I leave my house all the time including to play games, I am at my recommended weight and dress stylishly, I associate with all manner of people, I have perfect eyesight, and I love sports. So... I guess I fail to exorcize any rights except associating with who i want geek or not. And responsibilities? I fail all of them but #3 since I love to give my opinion. :P
Hey Dwarfie!!!
How's life treating you?
Well the first are rights. You are allowed to do these things but you dont have to. So its fine if you are less geeky, leave your house all the time, like football, assosciate with non-nerds, have lots of non-geeky friends, dress in style, are underweight and far-sighted (or at ideal weight with good eyesight), don't show off your geekiness, and don't take over the world.
The second are the problem, because as a geek you should not be expected to have extra responsibilities. Because if so. i don't want to be a geek. I will rather just be that weirdo who likes comics, games, scifi and fantasy.
But really being a geek should be about not having to live up to anyone else's expectations of what you should and shouldn't be doing.
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Hey Dwarfie!!!How's life treating you?Loaded question, you may not wish the answer to.
That being said I am down in Houston right now with other people from the boards, went to comicpalooza and had a grand time.
Focus on the good times with the good people and deal with the other stuff when necessary... :-)
Me... My youngest Dwarfling is 10 weeks old so sleep is a luxury for me :-) other than wishing for a full nights sleep the universe isn't trying to kill me anymore than usual so I am doing well.