Most boring kind of nerd

baseball nerd (sorry, baseball nerds)

VORP

ugh baseball nerd (sorry jaymc)

otherwise, my answer would be "fuck off, i love all these kinds of nerds." (xxp)

Agree w hive mind.

science fiction nerds are great because they remind me of "hard sci-fi" roman from party down.

waiting for "most boning kind of nerd" parody poll

history over baseball and font

fashion "nerd"

history nerds are boring when when their history is wrong/half-assed. there are so many people who get their "history" from like glenn beck or breathless blogosphere rants.

history nerds are boring when when their history is wrong/half-assed. there are so many people who get their "history" from like glenn beck or breathless blogosphere rants.

the u.s. civil war wasn't "actually" "about" slavery

baseball. it's a universe that resides exclusively within itself and has zero application to the real world. sci-fi nerds observe modern trends and accentuate on them to provide commentary for whatever sci-fi theme they're going. computer nerds get jobs. pretty much all other types of nerds at least get out of the house somewhat. i'm kinda iffy on the benefits of being a rock nerd except that rock = universally cool, so i figure that justification enough.

Voted baseball. I don't agree that there is such a thing as a "fashion nerd".

history nerds are boring when when their history is wrong/half-assed. there are so many people who get their "history" from like glenn beck or breathless blogosphere rants.

I wouldn't call these people "nerds" as much as "morons".

Computer nerd by a mile.

My vote is for all the nerds who said baseball nerd.

Font nerd - and I used to be one. Some teenagers have a poster of a favourite pop star or pin-up above their bed. Me? I had a huge poster showing different fonts.

hate myself so i don't know which one to vote for

font & history nerds are def the coolest & least boring out of this arbitrary list, but idk none of these are actually boring to me at all, maybe rock nerd since i often feel like i am p boring & i own a lot of rock records

I think if I liked the sports I would be a baseball nerd.

computer/tech nerds are not boring, as long as they're not shoving their 1337-dom in your face or obsessing over the newest apple doodad before anyone's even announced it.

computer nerd. for xkcd. and for telling me the Big Bang Theory is "the most intelligent show on television".

fair points, both.

oh, we're going for boring not most obnoxious. sorry baseball.

politics nerds unquestionably

^ real talk. spent (lost) more time around these nerds than any other. also maybe the most persistent of the nerds.

Without reading the thread, I instinctively went for baseball nerd. It's not just all about statistics, it's about statistics PLUS obsession with the least physical athletes possible, outside of bowling. There's stats in every sport, but baseball has no hot guys and nothing sweaty and kick-ass to watch.

I like baseball, for the record. I'm just saying, if you're prone to being bored by nerdiness, baseball has got to trip some kind of breaker.

Yeah it's baseball.

You left out a lot of nerds. Comics nerd definitely should be there.

My least favorite lately is the Board Game Nerd. They shop at the same stores as the comics nerds. "Hey I just bought a new board game! Let's all spend three hours learning how to play it, and then give up because it's obviously never going to end! And then do it again with another game next week!" Fuck you, learn to use a deck of cards.

COMPUTER NERD

come on ppl

Who are the coolest geeks?

I thought that 'rock nerd' in this context meant people that collect rocks, rather than 'rock music'. Also, 'chess nerd' is missing as an option. Again, I was one, actually so much of a chess nerd that the other chess nerds thought I was a nerd.

"Chess nerd" is too smart to be annoying.

See, this is why I want playing cards instead of goofy-ass board games with 500 map pieces and 200 player pieces and 1200 rules that are all based on the last 1500 games that came out last year that are almost but not quite exactly like it. We can make up card games, too, and they serve the same purposes of challenge and socialization, and a pack of cards costs about $0.59.

Font nerd. It's a fucking typeface dudes, who really cares?

OMG I do. I care a lot. My mother bought me a subscription to National Geographic for Christmas, and the first couple of issues came in the mail last week. The feature font on the cover was Clarendon Bold. The table of contents was in ARIAL. FUCKING ARIAL. I threw it across the room, I really did. I was told to calm down.

Your mother OTM.

My mother was not present for the throwing. That would be extremely rude.

I say this with all respect and in total honesty, but "It's a fucking typeface dudes, who really cares?" sounds no different to me than if you had said, "It's a fucking building dudes, who really cares?" These things surround us. They matter.

Oh come on, nerds are okay. Even baseball nerds - quirks of statistics are cool. Cos then you can argue what relevance the statistics are and it suddenly gets interesting.

My fave is the sci-fi nerd for all the reasons mentioned upthread.

Dull nerds are just dull people who happen to be nerds. They'd be dull even if they didn't know shit about anything.

^^^

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idg why it says rock nerd and not music nerd

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070413/ttlife12.jpg

probably need it clarified whether "history nerd" means "performs civil war reenactments" or "just likes to drunkenly argue about the efficacy of the second five-year plan" because one of those is the nerdiest shit ever and the other one is me.

answer's probably font though.

font is the only one that is virtually incomprehensible to me how someone could be that obsessed with it

not really a mcsweeney's fan but http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

I work with a guy who is a lapidary in his spare time and he is a p interesting and nice rock nerd.

w kick rocks w

Love all these nerds, although sport nerd generally does not make for fun conversation.

font nerd, easiest decision i've made all day.

font nerd

I work with a guy who is a lapidary in his spare time and he is a p interesting and nice rock nerd.

― Rocker Brian (Abbbottt), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:10 (22 minutes ago)

There are two types of rock nerd though. 1) those that collect amethysts and suchlike, 2) those that pick up 'interesting' stones off the beach and then keep them in one of those cabinets with small plastic drawers.

I would have voted cricket nerd if it'd been included. In fact "sports nerd" generally would be ideal. Stats, plays, blah bloohhh booorrinnng.

Actually as well as being a font nerd, computer nerd, sci-fi nerd, and chess nerd, I just remembered that I was also very nearly a rock nerd. By which I mean that I picked up some bits of quartz from a relative's driveway, wrote a short article about the uses of quartz, then thought 'this is boring', and stopped.
So in spite of voting font nerd, I suppose that rock nerd is the most boring of all, but it's so boring that most people give it up early. The ones who stick with it end up with nice looking rocks which are mostly interesting.

I was a shell nerd for quite a while as a kid.

I think that the classic nerd type experiments with all of these, except for fashion nerd. Even sport nerd - again I tended towards cricket because of the stats involved, but it quickly got absorbed into my general computer nerd thing.

font nerd, easiest decision i've made all day.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:21 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

taxonomic nerds: why do some categories go to nerd and others go to wonk?

movie nerd should be an option here.

movie buff
policy wonk
it makes no sense.

ohhhh, rock nerd refers to geology? i thought you meant dorks who collect vinyl and shit

negative and positive traits endemic to nerdery are level on balance throughout nerdom as a whole

I thought same in re rock nerds. Geology is pretty boring but at least those guys tend to go on hikes and stuff.

would've voted computer nerd had i known

theory--ppl will be inclined to vote for the kind of nerd that they most closely relate to

font

i think that'd be a sound theory if it was nerd you despise the most, but bored by? eh

huh good point--instinctively assumed that like most ilx polls, this one would be about loathesomeness

lol

Wait, "rock nerd" actually is about music, isn't it?

By "rock nerd" I did have in mind collector of rare vinyl, maker of fine distinctions between rerelease and re-rerelease, etc. But geology nerd is also good!

i was enjoying how that interpretation was catching fire

font of tedium

sci-fi nerds observe modern trends and accentuate on them to provide commentary for whatever sci-fi theme they're going.

This describes zero (0) Trekkies I have known.

I want to say fashion but I am second only to Shasta in knowing too damn much about denim.

I think I have to come at this from a traditionalist point of view. Font nerd/fashion nerd/rock nerd...kinda boring to me, because they're pretty likeable things anyway that have a certain 'coolness' about them. And honestly, unless it impedes your ability to have conversation about 'normal' things, are you REALLY a nerd?
Sci fi nerds, computer nerds, baseball nerds...they live it. Commitment from the top down.

Music nerds are every bit as obsessive as baseball nerds - have you read ILM?

Baseball stat nerds are often pretty endearing, the loudmouths who call in to sports talk radio are not.

baseball/sports nerds.

I'm completely bored with Fandom Nerds (not on the poll). All they ever talk about is character shipping and fan fiction and everything they do or discuss is creatively bankrupt.

I wanted to add Closing Logo Nerds to this list because they exist. I have a bit of a passing interest but that interest extends to posting complements in YouTube. By the way, I've never been scared of the Screen Gems logo, people be weird yo.

lol at the "rock" confusion. Glad to see that it does, in fact, mean music cause that's what I voted.

if you like music you're a music geek or music buff not a nerd

rock nerd is this:
http://www.buyvintageglasses.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/buddy-holly-glasses-300x208.jpg

er.. . this?:
http://www.nndb.com/people/937/000031844/buddy-holly-crop.jpg

computer nerd, in the absence of my knowing any fashion nerds

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I really hope you are not calling the I Love Baseball regulars boring.

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/Swan%203.jpg

baseball. it's a universe that resides exclusively within itself and has zero application to the real world.

^dumbest thing ever posted. until kenan's post.

surprisingly strong showing for fashion nerd

I've played some pretty cool board games thanks to board game geeks. IIRC, a lot of card games feel overwhelmingly understimulating after some fancy schmancy board games

lol ILX liberal arts contingent being sympathetic to history nerds

history nerds bring some good stories to the table.

yeah, I've only met interesting or funny history buffs

history nerds are rad.

I wanted to add Closing Logo Nerds to this list because they exist. I have a bit of a passing interest but that interest extends to posting complements in YouTube. By the way, I've never been scared of the Screen Gems logo, people be weird yo.

i'm a closing logo nerd, but i was as a kid too. a lot of my obsessions with mundane things stem from being a bored but observant kid.

history nerds are rad.

Very much so! Knowing a lot about history, however specific or broad, really does directly translate into a better understanding of current politics and economics than most people have. And there's nothing dull about history. It's filled with horror and comedy and irony and violence and sex and scandal and triumph and inspiration. A history nerd is not a nerd. That's just proper education, ppl.

The key post on this thread, though, is he one that points out that some people are boring, and some people are interesting, and it's not about nerd or not nerd.

being a history nerd is kinda useless, though. unless you work for the State Department or as a history professor/teacher.

Maybe we're defining "nerd" differently. Someone who knows a lot about history is clearly very interested in social sciences, and the study of any one of them involves learning a LOT of history. I guess if you're just interested in the way people used to dress or smell, yeah, that's not very useful.

But the way people trade goods, interbreed, and kill each other is kind of the study of human life on Earth, innit?

One of my favorite nerds ever is a history nerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g

One of the other ones is David Byrne, and I think they have a lot in common, actually.

i will never understand font nerdery

this probably also explains why anything i pick fonts for looks awful

some people are boring, and some people are interesting, and it's not about nerd or not nerd.

yes, of course.

Also, all the baseball maniacs I know are steeped in its history, which hugely intersects with American history in general.

WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

"...and then in January 2011, ILX baseball nerds won the first ever 'Most boring kind of nerd' trophy, handily beating their nearest rivals, the font nerds."

http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/cagney8.jpg

I AM CROSSOVER NERD!

too late vote-in for camera nerd

I totally missed this thread until now! Anyway, I am at least four of these kinds of nerd, five if film nerd had been added, six if grammar/spelling stickler had been. Death to anti-nerds.

filling your head full of declarative knowledge seems more geeking out than nerding out.
can you really be baseball nerd unless you run a fantasy league using high-level math?
all that sabermetrics stuff is pretty interesting, or at least abstractly interesting.
maybe the baseball nerds were unfairly lumped in with the geeks and fans.

that reminds me - i should start up a 2011 fantasy baseball thread!

The funny thing is that sports nerds are too nerdy to play sports.

shout out to all my font nerds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdspOtgciQ

never saw this thread before, go to hell

well actually I did see it 3 years ago, so you are spared a couple more posts

i feel super dumb on the reg for not knowing enough history

learning more history only makes that feeling worse

morbz as a cricket nerd I feel ur pain

saw this, was like "great poll, gonna vote!" then was like "oh, boo, it's three years old and i missed it," then was like "oh, actually, i was just admiring my own post"

phone nerds give sports nerds a run for their money imo

Should've been an entry for car nerds. People who talk about new car models are the fucking worst.

nerds who compare nerd types are the worst

nerd nerds

obsessively ranking flavors