Angry geek, Pt 2
Answer me this please. I can understand why so many geeks start off having low self confidence, due to the psychological beatings received from what can politely be described as the cerebrally challenged. It gets to a person, I understand, having been through it myself. My teenage years, were, not to put too fine a point on it, not exactly a bed of roses. Well, they were, but only if you see the thorns as opposed to the flower.

The reason for my annoyance though, is this. Why do geeks, nerds et al still see themselves as odd? We're all looking at ourselves through someone else's eyes (or NHS spectacles)! Why should we all, as grown adults, see ourselves as some kind of second class to the yawning feckwits our planet is unfortunately populated with? I mean I admit, you do need someone to do the manual labour, after all- but we're the ones who actually *run* things. All their b4se r quite literally belong 2 us, to drop into AOLteen for a second. If anything, we're the dominant sleeping giant that should not allow themselves to be pushed around.

We run things, not the idiots. Next time someone berates you for liking something different to them, remember this- you are far smarter than they will ever be, and they fear you for this. They fear what we can do- royally fuck them over. Perhaps the time has come for just that.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:06, 11 replies)

the geek revolution huh?
Frankly I think that someone with a fuck-off big gun and bullet-proof vest will not greatly fear being attacked by a string of piss with a NES contoller and a T shirt with some fucking stupid slogan like

"I have fucked 10 women."

"In Binary"

"in my dreams"
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:12, closed)

*Note*
Parts of this *may* have been tongue in cheek.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:13, closed)

Calm down love!
This is what playing Warcraft to much can do to you.
( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:13, closed)

dont worry
I never owned a NES!

gave up on shirt slogans after my
ministry T shirt finally fell apart

Jesus built my hotrod it was.

I liked that top.

Never played WoW either, sadly I took up golf instead, which is probably worse on the social stigma scale!!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:15, closed)

Shhh! They'll hear you!
The key is to NOT let them know that we geeks are secretly running their lives! If they're aware that we're having better lives than they are without having broken bones while chasing a ball around a field, they'll stop being our drones! I mean, do you want to be the one changing tires for a living? Or, for that matter, selling carpet and vinyl floor covering?

The fact is, we are different- we work with our brains and see parts of existence that they'll never understand, let alone grasp. Why be angry at these pitiable grunts? They can laugh at me if they want- idiots always laugh at what they don't understand. What they don't grasp is that I'm laughing right back at them...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:21, closed)

Us non-nerds aren't all bad..... honest
My brother is a complete nerd, going back to ZX days. My hubby is a bricklayer. He's very good with his hands .... that's enough of that though.
They have a good relationship - symbiotic I think you'd call it. IT type problems? Call in super-nerd. Need something fixing (or breaking for that matter), call MrWitch.

We can live in peace you know .....
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:45, closed)

Yeah...
Geek Pride!
(Le Misanthrope last procrastinated on, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:02, closed)

Don't look at me
I sell cars for a living (good use of a Marine Biology degree but I digress).

I'm also tooled up to the max (well, Mastercard credit limit).

Come the revolution....
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:30, closed)

Geeks do not run the show.
How many politicians or managers have a fucking brain?

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, manage.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 22:20, closed)

Oh, I'd say we do
We'd be fucked if no-one ran the computers.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 22:29, closed)

Die Hard 4.0???
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( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 9:35, closed)