Who are the coolest geeks?

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There are lots of different types of geeks, who are your favourites?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Music geeks 22
Mathletes 6
Movie buffs 6
Computer geeks/hackers 6
Some other type of geeks (specify)5
Gamers 3
Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts 3
Comic geeks 3
LARPers (Live Action Role-Playing game) 3
Role-playing game geeks 3
Numismatists/philatelists 2
Historical reenactment folks (Renaissance fairs, Medievalists, etc.) 1
Toy collectors 1
Furries 1
Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans 0
Other collectors (specify) 0
Card collectors 0
Board game geeks 0


Tuomas, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

why, it can only be sports geeks :D

Just got offed, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Train spotters! "Hey, that's the 45EF76! It's been repaired!" "What?"

StanM, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

Sex geeks. Poetry geeks. Birdwatchers.

Just got offed, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

book collecting geeks. of the rare and beautiful kind.

Rubyredd, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts

^^^these get laid the most regularly, but they also like Rocky Horror. Push.

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Music geeks - annoying cuz they think they're cool

Computer geeks/hackers - i suppose we wouldn't even have computers n shit without these fellas, so props

Gamers - not so bad

Movie buffs - even more annoying and self-righteous than the musos

Role-playing game geeks - sad

LARPers (Live Action Role-Playing game) - really fucking sad

Comic geeks - i was kinda one as a kid, sad if you're over 14

Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans - sci fi & horror are ok, fantasy is lame

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts - dunno if these people are necessarily geeks, morelike snobs

Mathletes - props for the hilarious name

Board game geeks - wtf

Numismatists/philatelists - got no beef with these dudes

Card collectors - pointless

Toy collectors - sad/creepy

Other collectors (specify) - whatevs

Furries - need to see a fucking shrink

Historical reenactment folks (Renaissance fairs, Medievalists, etc.)- mega sad

Some other type of geeks (specify) - comedy geeks? religious geeks? trolls? general aspieness?

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for mathletes, btw

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

math l33ts

Just got offed, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Based on my experience, LARPers get more laid than other geeks, because LARPing requires at least some sort of an outgoing personality, plus the gender ratio is pretty much 50/50. I've even heard rumours you can get laid within a a game. Not that this is any reason to become LARPer, because they also tend to be the most obnoxious and elitist among geeks, even worse than music geeks.

Tuomas, Friday, 28 December 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

being a music geek has absolutely got me laid at least once

electricsound, Friday, 28 December 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

No car geeks, no cr..etccetc

Jarlrmai, Friday, 28 December 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

You forgot manga/anime fans and cartoon geeks.

Gamers ftw.

Duane Barry, Friday, 28 December 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

why, it can only be sports geeks :D

-- Just got offed, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:27 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

RONG. Yer hardcore sports geek's assumption that everyone is just as fanatically interested in talking at great length/detail abt football, horse racing or w/e as they are, added to the assumption that if yr NOT interested it's only because you haven't been BORED INTO SUBMISSION YET renders yer hardcore sports geek EVEN LESS COOL THAN "FURRIES".

I voted for opera/theatre/dance.

Based on my experience, LARPers get more laid than other geeks,

There's a bunch of LARP-ers who do battle in the forest near our house. The times we've seen them out, we have noticed the near 50-50 m/f ratio, and have heard that if yr in w/that crowd, there's plenty of action, so to speak. They do look ridiculous, though.

Pashmina, Friday, 28 December 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder why geekery seems to be mostly a male thing? Out of the groups I've listed, I think only LARPers and theatre/dance/opera fans (manga fans too, probably) have 50% or more women. Maybe because geekery usually requires an obsessive, inrovert mindset, something which is more often encouraged with boys?

Tuomas, Friday, 28 December 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

i love this site:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.php

i know NOTHING about these fancy board games, and I will never ever play them, and yet I can read these dudes talking about them forever.

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'm a geek collector. how cool is that?

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Pashmina OTM

Sports geeks are actually the worst kind because they're the only kind of geek deemed to be socially acceptable by the [non-geek] world at large. An obsessive interest in sports strikes me to be equally as freaky as an obsessive interest in dressing up as a large cuddly animal...

Stone Monkey, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m77/fairbanksf/Stuff/larp.jpg

Mr. Goodman, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Also, no cosplay option?

Mr. Goodman, Friday, 28 December 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the cosplay thing is just a part of comic/manga geekery. Thouh I admit the whole thing's mostly a mystery to me.

Tuomas, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for historical re-enacters, because they're outdoors the most, even when it's chilly

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

(see what i did there)

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

(SEE IT)

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was very funny!

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

You did need to point it out though. It was in the puzzled re-reading that the light went off. "Ah!" I said in my head "because it's cold out! Cold, cool!!"

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Music because it happens to be at least somewhat socially acceptable (though not so much as sports). Computer geeks can translate that into making $$$, unlike almost everything else on the list, but it's still not cool.

Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

The sports geek has never been socially acceptable, it usually equals 'Statto' or 'pub bore'.

Theatre/opera/dance geeks definitely get the hottest women, computer geeks probably get all the money these days and that helps. The thing about theatre geeks is they operate almost entirely in their own closed bubble which happens to contain lots of women. Consequently they're either blissfully ignorant or just plain not bothered with how annoying they are.

Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

i voted larpers. none of these people are cool in any way so i voted for the most distilled geekery there is

gff, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I believe 'Theatre/opera/dance geeks' are better known as 'nerds'

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Poetry geeks is a romantic notion, I'm not sure I've ever come in contact with one. I love art geeks. They are my people.

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

The sports geek has never been socially acceptable, it usually equals 'Statto' or 'pub bore'.

In the UK, maybe.

Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nbc.com/Identity/images/penn_jillette.jpg

PappaWheelie V, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

there are definitely sports geeks in the US

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I think the question is "how geeky are we talkin'?"

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

"Poetry geeks is a romantic notion, I'm not sure I've ever come in contact with one."

The Poetry Thread

Poetry Thread, part two: A Game Of Chess

Resurrection: The 2006 Poetry Thread

a new poetry thread, on being unable to find the old one

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

"I think the question is "how geeky are we talkin'?"

for sports it would have to be at least fantasy league geeky to be at all geeky.

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

But poetry appreciation has been specialized down to a point where having any realistic interest in it at all = "poetry geek"

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, lots of people know stats about their favorite teams and sports. it has to be pretty all-consuming and/or semi-consuming to be qualified as geekdom.

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, if you actively BUY poetry in actual book stores, then you probably qualify as a poetry geek.

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I like a bit of poetry from time to time.

I think I'll take a look at those threads.

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I voted "some other" because Mythbusters is the best show on television

really though this thread title might as well be "who are the jewishest muslims"

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

come on, there are lots of dudes who think that their sportstatscox compensate for their otherwise undifferentiated uncoolness

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Heterosexual theatre/opera/dance geeks have the math all in their favor.

I am a decently credentialed baseball geek -- fantasy is too prole for me -- and it has not gotten me laid a single time.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

anyone who has actually read this entire thing is king geek in my book:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743227220.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I've read lots of it (both editions). I have also gone to Cuba on a flimsy pretext to watch baseball.

I may have a date with a Yankee fan tonight, but gay seamheads can't be choosers.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Baseball is basically a long stream of statistics in search of a sport, right?

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

NO, you evil man

Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Really, it all comes down to whether the geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated' or 'never leaves own bedroom, in mother's house'.

Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

jordan a pimp 4 life

and what, Saturday, 29 December 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.tagmy.com/fonts/pimp.gif

remy bean, Saturday, 29 December 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pimpmyfonts.com/

Jordan, Saturday, 29 December 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for 'other', thinking of course of poetry geeks, of whom I am a prime example.

Aimless, Saturday, 29 December 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

design/font geeks, and craft geeks, they are so hip and smug i want to smack them and their readymade magazine/bust/design sponge blogs too

bell_labs, Saturday, 29 December 2007 07:02 (eighteen years ago)

i will stick up for design geeks here!! there is a difference (i think) between design geeks (like, uh, my dad and my girlfriend) who honestly and innocently geek the fuck out about great design and have a top 10 font list and have arguments about, like, kerning or whatever and design geeks whose geekiness is this self-conscious cool-kid smugness

this distinction is not altogether different from drew's academic cool-kid geeks and the ren blogger geeks--my kneejerk classification is "people who care honestly/authentically about their field of geekery (design/crit theory/medieval studies)" vs. "people whose 'geekiness' is a consciously assumed identity constructed to remind everyone how cool they are" but theres probably a fair amount of blending at this point

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

yeah thanks max for ignoring my previous blunts

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

lit dick

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

what is a blunt

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

a post to an internet messageboard that contains a salient point, as referred to by an individual under strong influence of alcohol

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

do you need more help?

or was your joke just that bad?

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

no wait me being blasted is not your fault
hang on
ok
wait
ok
sorted

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

yeah

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

oh no i get it! sorry i didnt quite get that yr posts were on the same topic. i sort of skimmed down.

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

I THINK WERE IN AGREEMENT

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

mostly i just wanted to defend design geeks since many of my loved ones are design geeks, the cool/not cool thing came as an afterthought I STILL LOVE YOU TOM KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

nah fuckit just gonna kill m'self

2 late brah

2 late

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

if anyone knows andi maybe you should call him to make sure he is ok.

max, Saturday, 29 December 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

i <3 this thread.

strgn, Saturday, 29 December 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, not that goths are geeks, but goths can include many who fall under that earlier description (isn't "geek" meant to mean, like, an excessive interest in and knowledge of something? not necessarily, social ineptitude, innit. it's just that they often come as part of a package): sex geeks (subset: S&M geeks), Wicca geeks, Anglophile geeks, vinyl geeks. And these are Goth Geeks. Plus the really uncomfortable ones.

Eazy, Monday, 31 December 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Music geeks – They are usually pretty big crepes to me

Computer geeks/hackers – You can play the Hackers 2 drinking game with them, big case of Hamm's, fun night

Gamers – It is pretty endearing when you ask someone what they're doing that weekend and they say "working on my character"

Movie buffs – If you find yourself seated next to one on a flight you will have a fun conversation that makes the flight go quickly (I just discovered this)

Role-playing game geeks – See this I think of as "gamers"

LARPers (Live Action Role-Playing game) – Harmless and nice people

Comic geeks – Can be totally cool to talk to abt comics BUT also tend to be crepes to me, random ones IRL anyway

Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans – These ones get the worst tattoos

Theatre/dance/opera enthusiasts – Mean! Meanies.

Mathletes – These are my people.

Board game geeks – Really rad, quiet people who you can have a fun and chill evening with. They will also tell you about new board games if you ask.

Numismatists/philatelists – Stamp collectors? They are rad because they pop a million boners if a stamp says like "National Beast Cancer Awareness Month" or if it has two douglas fir trees on it when it is supposed to have four.

Card collectors – I just don't understand at all.

Toy collectors – Creepy collecting habits, weird fetishization of some hermetically sealed youth they never had.

Furries – They live harmless but very sad lives.

Historical reenactment folks (Renaissance fairs, Medievalists, etc.) – They spend too much money on their shit, which would make for an uncomfortable relationship. "You can't buy another silk jocard, honey, you overran your minutes."

Some other type of geeks (specify) – I can geek out with a lot of the geeks but the most satisfying geekout is with a flag geek, or an invertebrate geek.

Abbott, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I am changing my vote to "other: Teeny"

nabisco, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

fashion geeks

kl0pper, Monday, 31 December 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

A flag geek?

Casuistry, Monday, 31 December 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

What is "Numismatists?" Probably those!

Pål Útlendi, Monday, 31 December 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Coin geeks.

Casuistry, Monday, 31 December 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

politics geeks. as in, know riding names across the country and know which of canada's 308 ridings are lib/con/NDP/likely-to-swing. also, knows congressional districts, which are swing seats, which are open seats?
lots of people know what's going on and have opinions, but politics geeks know the stats and the histories. i.e. when have canada and the US had concurrent elections?

these people are my favourite.

derrrick, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

oh, um, reads political play-by-plays and biographies to wind down.

derrrick, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

The word "Mathlete," is it a joke?

Pål Útlendi, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's what Lindsey Lohan's math quiz team were called in Mean Girls! COME ON!

Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

that story in the believer about gary gygax and the whole game underground in the 60's and 70's.

Scott, any idea where I can read this?

Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I guess we are now answering the question!

Pål Útlendi, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Where are the foodies?

Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

In the company of film geeks, I always disparage our race, but I hafta represent here. I was almost inclined to vote for horror geeks, but too many of them are just adventurous Bruce Campbell fans.

Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Some other type of geeks (specify)

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Where are the foodies?

-- Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Molecular gastronomists are easily the coolest geeks.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

This poll will have a mirror images "least coolest," right?

Eric H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

no

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/05/16_eggfiasco_lg.jpg

gabbneb, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Guys who have to decide where to stop shaving, c/d?

Casuistry, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

Retrocomputing geeks.

We have the coolest, blinkingest toys, and we don't get asked to fix windows problems.

shieldforyoureyes, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but there's nothing worse than being around two buds having a 15-minute conversation about who started out with the slowest internet connection.

Abbott, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'll go with toy collector

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/bonnets/toys.jpg

scott seward, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, they are being so cool!!

Where is a face to be exhibiting one's SARCASM >_<

Pål Útlendi, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Mathletes" now is continuing to be a good laugh! XD Good job MATHLETE! You have obtained a silver medal.

Pål Útlendi, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

ILX in learning nothing from ILX shocker.

Casuistry, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

nah, the nature geek goes out to nature reserves on their weekends and looks for plants and animals. the lepidopterists and birdwatchers are foremost in this field; butterflies and avians elicit that much more excitement. the real ultras draw pictures of what they've seen in their notebooks, habitat and all. often bearded, they can frequently be found with binoculars. rarely harmful. sturdy walking-boots, goretex mac.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 December 2007 01:44 (6 years ago)

the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:59 (eleven years ago)

everything was boardwalked & the circuit could have been negotiated in carpet slippers today fwiw

joie de marsh (imago), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)


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