What is your definition of the word geek?

12 Sep 2008

O hummm the more I hear of some peoples explanation of the word Geek.
I so want to be one.
I am under the belief it is someone that has knowledge about diverse topic like the universe, the understanding of the big bang theory, those that understand the term a million light years away. dunno

All this just goes whoooooosh over my head.
I so wish I could understand and comprehend so much more! redface

I am I suppose always destine to be dim. lol

Is it just men that are geeks?
I find some subject’s sooooo hard to get my head around.
Sometimes I just act stupid, but then that could be because I am. :lol:
Am I alone in this?
Are you a Geek?
I don’t want to be an alone dimwit!
sad

12 Sep 2008

Geeks (and nerds) have a natural fascination for 'how stuff works', for taking things apart just to have a look and either putting them back together or trying to stick them together with something else thats been stripped and seeing what new shit you can come up with. Geeks have given the world everything from radio and tv to cars and the internet......look at Nasa, it's just a bunch of geeks who've watched too much Star Trek and worked out they can get the American Govt to give them a huge pot of cash to build their own toy collection with.
Forget sports stars and movie stars, geeks are the people to idolise wink

(errrr, i might be a bit geeky at times......but i bet Peanut posts before me and explains it better biggrin

)
almost forgot, what's the difference between a geek and a nerd?
a geeks just a nerd that gets laid occasionally :mrgreen:

12 Sep 2008

Quote by meat2pleaseu
(errrr, i might be a bit geeky at times......but i bet Peanut posts before me and explains it better )

Nah, I couldn't have put it better :D
But as the bible said.. The geeks shall inherit the Earth.

12 Sep 2008

Quote by meat2pleaseu
almost forgot, what's the difference between a geek and a nerd?
a geeks just a nerd that gets laid occasionally :mrgreen:

Well, take the Hadron Collider thingy in Switzerland, a geek/nerd magnet if ever there was one :shock:
A geek will rush home and set about making something similar out of old bits of radio, television and ford cortinas.
Within a month or so, geeks will have cobbled together their own version at a fraction of the price and will be taking it to collider conventions, complete with suitable novelty outfit to wear, usually knitted by an indulgent aunt, along with a hat made out of some of the compulsory silver bits n bobs attached from the essential geek tool kit (wire wool, wire, fuses etc).
They will have a great time discussing the pros and cons of their colliders to other geeks on forums such as this. From this they will learn more and tweek their colliders to perfection.
The difficult part of getting the collider to work will be trying to freeze your contraption down to - Even too an extreme geek standard, that's 'bluddy freezing'. Chances are,the ford cortina casing won't much like being that cold, so they'll need to think hard about how they're going to do it.
A nerd on the other hand will not be as hands on, more of an information gatherer - used to boggle us conventional mortals. They will read every bit of information possible about the collider, not mention it to anyone, then just drop it into regular conversation :shock:
Typical collider conversation with a nerd:
Conventional: Did you hear about the Large Collinder thingy in Switzerland, Deborah from across the road said they used to use it for cheese making, but Health and Safety shut it down cos it got clogged up with Protons and the Swiss don't want Protons cos it looks like they're taking sides when they're neutral, so they shut the cheese plant down they did :shock: Now they've gotta make it dead cold like, so it can work, don't know why cos it was obviously working when it was making cheese, so anyway, they're doing that now, but this time instead, they've got to make it - degrees c, which is bluddy cold even by geek standards :shock: Deborah also said that Britain has played a part in this experiment and sent 3 of them over to help biggrin

......
Yayyyyy go us :happy:
Nerd: That's 0 K rolleyes

Conventional: What's ok? :confused:
Nerd: No zero K :doh: :roll:
Conventional: What's a zero K? :confused:
Nerd: Sigh :roll: Don't you know anything, that's Absolute zero, there is nothing colder that that.
Conventional: Doubt my cod will agree with that statement there nerdy, he would say he couldn't get any colder...... or he would if he had a head and wasn't covered in batter

So there's the difference :smile2:
OMG does that make me a nerd now, for knowing the difference? :shock:

12 Sep 2008

but it does.

12 Sep 2008

Quote by Missy
OMG does that make me a nerd now, for knowing the difference? :shock:

No, you're still a total loon loon

12 Sep 2008

I'm a geek. Honest I am. I make engineery things for a living.
dunno

*Him*

12 Sep 2008

I must be a nerd! I was looking up the definition of "geek" when I found this about computers! The appendix page is useful but the humour page is very geeky!
redface

12 Sep 2008

Im an anorak redface

12 Sep 2008

nerd is american term for geek....but this is a word famously used by lazy people who dont care to know the in's and out's of how things work behind the scenes....geeks rule the world,without them we would even know floods is coming our way next friday

12 Sep 2008

Easiest way is... if you can watch The Big Bang Theory and understand where the protagonists come from then your a geek, if you think they're sad for liking Klingon Boggle then you're not :twisted:

12 Sep 2008

I have a pretty pink anorak with fluffy tassles ....... does that make me a geek? :giggle:
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

12 Sep 2008

Quote by blonde
I have a pretty pink anorak with fluffy tassles ....... does that make me a geek? :giggle:
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nah, just cute. rolleyes

12 Sep 2008

Quote by meat2pleaseu
Geeky stuff

I'm so pleased you were the first to reply Meatster, my definition of a geek is http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/members/show-member.html?m=36794
lol

13 Sep 2008

Quote by Serendipity
Geeky stuff

I'm so pleased you were the first to reply Meatster, my definition of a geek is http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/members/show-member.html?m=36794
lol

You calling me a geek? :shock:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by couplefunuk
I'm a geek. Honest I am. I make engineery things for a living.

*Him*

I just looked in the dictionary beside geek and there you are! :giggle:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by couplefunuk
I'm a geek. Honest I am. I make engineery things for a living.

*Him*

I've just remembered something (i think)
Didn't we sit in a hotel room at a post munch party, a couple of feet from every blokes fantasy, 2 or maybe 3 ladies 'having fun' together.... but were we paying much attention???? errrr, i think we were having a discussion about V8 engines or something instead, thats a tad geeky isn't it? redface

ops: :oops:
(don't worry, i won't mention that you were sat there wearing a dress) wink

13 Sep 2008

Quote by meat2pleaseu
I'm a geek. Honest I am. I make engineery things for a living.

*Him*

I've just remembered something (i think)
Didn't we sit in a hotel room at a post munch party, a couple of feet from every blokes fantasy, 2 or maybe 3 ladies 'having fun' together.... but were we paying much attention???? errrr, i think we were having a discussion about V8 engines or something instead, thats a tad geeky isn't it? redface

ops: :oops:
(don't worry, i won't mention that you were sat there wearing a dress) wink

That sounds like you two lol

you two are a match made in heaven :lol: He was wearing a dress tho? :shock: Where was I? :lol:
*Her*

13 Sep 2008

Quote by couplefunuk
I'm a geek. Honest I am. I make engineery things for a living.

*Him*

I've just remembered something (i think)
Didn't we sit in a hotel room at a post munch party, a couple of feet from every blokes fantasy, 2 or maybe 3 ladies 'having fun' together.... but were we paying much attention???? errrr, i think we were having a discussion about V8 engines or something instead, thats a tad geeky isn't it? redface

ops: :oops:
(don't worry, i won't mention that you were sat there wearing a dress) wink

That sounds like you two lol

you two are a match made in heaven :lol: He was wearing a dress tho? :shock: Where was I? :lol:
*Her*
Probably drunk :giggle:
(sure it was in Brum... FA's or Cocoa's birthday i think)

13 Sep 2008

Quote by TanKinky
Im an anorak

Oh good lord, that's just given me memories of my dad when we were kids.
He pulled up at a garage to do something with the car. A woman attendant came and asked if he needed a hand........ shock horror a woman asking blokey dad if he wanted a hand, a female woman at that!!!! As if!!! rolleyes

Dad sent her away with a flea in her ear, how would a mere woman know more than him, by eck what's the world coming to and all that stuff, under car bonnets is mans work! :hunk:
Anyway, he finished doing whatever he had to do and closed the bonnet......... but got the toggles of his anorak (which were highly fashionable at that time I might add confused

) caught underneath :shock:
What to do, what the bluddy ell to do :uhoh: Every time he moved an inch, his anorak shrank

He tried to get to the bonnet catch, but although the toggle string was getting longer, his anorak just wouldn't shrink any more - he was stuck.
He had to eat humble pie and try to attract the female attendant to help his predicament :rotflmao: By the time she got to him, his anorak was half it's size, the toggle strings 4 times their length, and dads circulation in his legs nearly cut off :rotflmao:
Serves him right!! :lol2: He never did go back to that garage tho....... and whenever someone mentions anoraks, it always reminds me of how dangerous they are :shock:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by Peanut
Easiest way is... if you can watch The Big Bang Theory and understand where the protagonists come from then your a geek, if you think they're sad for liking Klingon Boggle then you're not :twisted:

:shock:

whoooosh! Miss dimwit here! lol

13 Sep 2008

So what was Fred Dibner and people of his ilk? Geek, nerd or anorak? And the first person who mentions that I'm showing my age by dredging that name up is in for a slap :doh: :sparring: duel

13 Sep 2008

A geek is a derogatory term for anyone brighter than me. :smug:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by Peanut
Easiest way is... if you can watch The Big Bang Theory and understand where the protagonists come from then your a geek, if you think they're sad for liking Klingon Boggle then you're not :twisted:

BBT has it's highlights.....

:inlove:
Geek me up!! :twisted:

13 Sep 2008

A Geek is someone from Geece - like Zoba the Geek.

13 Sep 2008

Quote by buckingfabe
So what was Fred Dibner and people of his ilk? Geek, nerd or anorak? And the first person who mentions that I'm showing my age by dredging that name up is in for a slap :doh: :sparring:

He was a spanner monkey wink

13 Sep 2008

Geek; someone who just has to define the word 'geek'

13 Sep 2008

Quote by ForestFunsters
A Geek is someone from Geece - like Zoba the Geek.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by meat2pleaseu
Geeky stuff

I'm so pleased you were the first to reply Meatster, my definition of a geek is http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/members/show-member.html?m=36794
lol

You calling me a geek? :shock:
Yep and I have evidence too :lol:

13 Sep 2008

Quote by Serendipity
Geeky stuff

I'm so pleased you were the first to reply Meatster, my definition of a geek is http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/members/show-member.html?m=36794
lol

You calling me a geek? :shock:
Yep and I have evidence too :lol:
I'm not sure if i should ask? redface