How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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And another thingWhy, when you respectfully decline the offer of having your carefully selected groceries ineptly packed by the till-troll, does it then turn into Bleep Race 2000?
You're still attempting to get the frigging bags unhooked from the dispenser thingy (I know, environmental criminal, but they stopped paper ones and use degradables now) when...
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The till person is a blur of speed as they shovel your easily bruised purchases along at a speed that makes a bag of chillies capable of causing injury to a small child.
And then, and then, they look at you in contempt as you scrabble away attempting to pack according to your sensible bag usage plan, and then bray the total so that it's obvious that the hopeless bloke surrounded by a cloud of orange plastic is obviously a duffer at this packing malarkey.
And then ask you for a bloody loyalty card.
Phew.
(Explanatory: I'm a foodie, and spend time picking my fruit,veg, fish etc so don't like a grubby fingered troglodyte groping my goodies and then lobbing them down the till like it's a bowling alley)
(and yes I have a packing system)
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