Poll: Do you consider yourself a nerd?

[edinflames]

Always have been, always will be - for reasons beyond gaming

Being a mainstreamer equates to mediocrity and conformism.

 

[Biek]

I consider myself a nerd seeing gaming is one of my biggest hobbies. I dont look or dress as a nerd though. (I think stereotypical gamer nerds wear stained t shirts and have greasy hair, over/underweight is optional.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Definately, I even understand how variable platform damping works.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Let's roll the d20 over that one...

 

[ace_of_something]

Wikipedia says, "Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests rather than engaging in more social or popular activities."
So, I suppose I am a nerd.

Oh in that case definitly. Glad Wikipedia and Max could clear that up.

 

[Insert Funny Name Here]

More of a geek than a nerd. (Y)

 

[Julius M]

I have had too much sex to be a nerd.


Anyway, I don't really know. Since I'm typing on an internet-forum thinking whether I'm a nerd I probably am, but I have loads of friends who I go out and get drunk with while we discuss things like women, sports, videogames, steven seagal movies, philosophy, beer, women, World of Warcraft and the only one of my friends who still plays it, getting some good weed somewhere, comics, whether we should have more beer, cars, history, women, women and women.

I think the real reason I have some nerdy things going on is that I'm just too lazy to go out and be social all the time.

 

[massau]

i just dont know

 

[asinann]

I'm not a nerd, I'm a geek.

 

[CaptainREBell]

I find being a geek so great, there are times when I wish I could be more geeky..
It is highly embarrassing to engage in a marvellous debate on Nintendo vs Playstation and stop to say "Wearing shorts with ankle socks is a fashion crime!" Eurgh.
On the bright side, my cats will always understand me

 

[furgy117]

Yes, but y isnt there a somewhat nerdy choice?

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

i've always thought of being a nerd as a bad thing, so i guess many people here have self-esteem issues

 

[PayNSprayBandit]

Wikipedia says, "Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests rather than engaging in more social or popular activities."
So, I suppose I am a nerd.

Goddamn right, fuck them and their "derogatory connotation". They're just jealous, because we have all the fun; when we're not busy running the planet.

 

[ffxfriek]

no i dont think im a nerd and nore do i proclaim it

 

[PayNSprayBandit]

No, I touched a boob.

Hey, just because I'm not a virgin, doesn't mean I'm no longer a nerd. Case and point: Bill Gates. Who, be the way, is totally my hero; nerd, capitalist, family man.

 

[TheDoctor455]

NERD POWER!!!!

 

[PayNSprayBandit]

And I don't use wikipedia as my dictionary

Of course not, that's what Wiktionary is for.

 

[lwm3398]

I guess so...yeah why not! I'd rather be intelligent and be insulted for it than be...lets say...intellectually challenged and be praised for it.

GO INTELLIGENCE!

WOOHOO! we're-intellegent-and-mocked-for-it-but-will-be-successful-high-5!!!

 

[A random person]

Nerd. It's better than being...normal. Normal people...are boring.

This man speaks the truth.

But yeah, I'm nerdier than most people I know. I'm not a Trekkie or full-blown otaku, but I care less about popular music and sports and more about important things like the internet and video games. I also like math and science more than most of my peers, and am pretty much helpless with music and celebrity things. I'm a pretty big video game and anime fan and am more interweb-savvy than most. Also, I'm one of those mutants among humanity who considers math not arbitrary and boring but the embodiment of harmony, beauty, and meaning in this world, far more meaningful and beautiful than what is taught in English. In all fairness, though, school does a good job of presenting math as stupid and arbitrary busywork, making stupid gimmicks to teach it (like this Agilemind stuff at my school, used it some, didn't learn much of anything, a waste of a few good thursday's), and overall being clumsy and oafish in teaching it.

Sorry for the minirant at the end, just something that really irks me.

Ever thought of being a math teacher?

Maybe. My classmates in my math class say I should teach it, but that's partly because the teacher who replaced our original teacher doesn't teach well at all. I'd probably become a physicist or engineer, though, but would try to teach some math if I could.