"Am I a Nerd?" you say?

Haha! No one is more nerd then I am! I still win with 72 points! :cheerlead
 
~andythevamp~ said:
Haha! No one is more nerd then I am! I still win with 72 points! :cheerlead

Can't believe I'm not nearly as much nerd as you are, I didn't think anyone could be more a nerd than me.. (Don't know if I'm jealous or a little bit relieved..)
 
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Andy
Be relieved!
I'm a 31-although personally, I believe I'm much worse. Yes, I tend to get annoying comments for my nerdiness, but I like it 🙂 It keeps things interesting!
 
Heh... I actually met a group of fellow nerds through the Internet. We meet up every few weeks as the Nerd Nation. if there's nerdier than that, I'd like to hear it. Nothing quite like a chat about Alan Moore comics over vodka...
 
Jill_Valentine said:
Heh... I actually met a group of fellow nerds through the Internet. We meet up every few weeks as the Nerd Nation. if there's nerdier than that, I'd like to hear it. Nothing quite like a chat about Alan Moore comics over vodka...
Alan Moore comics...vodka...sounds brilliant 🙂

I actually didn't do the questions - I'm worried that I'll turn out to be not quite as big a nerd as I think I am...tho' my stepson did say to me: "Of course you're a nerd - you built your PC, didn't you?"

There was a similar thread in the games forum a while back in a similar vein which tested the nerd/geek quotient - I remember that I came out as of the nerd/geek persuasion🙂 I'm never entirely sure whether there is a difference between nerd and geek - anyone care to elaborate?
 
~andythevamp~ said:
Haha! No one is more nerd then I am! I still win with 72 points! :cheerlead

Damn.. but not if i add some bonus points. Let's see, 5 points for having been at a point where i thought "date"* when i wanted to know what time it was. 2 points for having tried to shut off a lamp with the mouse cursor. 1 point per programming knowledge i'm fluent in (6, C, C++, Assembly, Java, Perl, PHP), 1 point for knowing why captain picard doesent have a real heart.

63+2+5+6+1 = 77. Nyahaha!

* date is the unix command for displaying date and time.
 
18.....schweet. Not that there's anything wrong with being a nerd. I can now show this test to all my friends as proof that I am indeed not a nerd. Of course I did just take an online test...... that was posted on a Buffy board....... after having replied in a topic about comics....hmmmm
 
OH GOD! I remembered, that we have more then 25 magazine things. We have....about...32...that would make me at.....GOD! I CAN'T COUNT THAT HIGH! Over 80 I think.....*uses fingers to count*...no...that would be 80....I WIN! :cheerlead
 
oooh, how many?

It's all my dad's fault btw. He bought me my first nintendo at the age of five (1989, at my request). I was SO hooked. I was like, sunlight? What sunlight?
 
You're a half-breed. Neither socially inept enough for full Nerd status, nor sufficiently bland for normality. You could go either way. You can try to hide it, but fellow Nerds recognise you, just as Norms are subconsciously distressed by your presence. Face up to who you are. Claim an identity soon, or be trapped in limbo forever.

I knew it! I knew it! I'm not normal... I never was normal!

Cool thread by the way!
 
As always I became a half-breed. That seems to be my place in this world, I can never fully embrace anything.

But before taking this splendid nerd-factor test I've always seen myself as a nerd until a year ago or something like that. Now I know that I'm not a nerd (even though I share many characters traits of one), I am a member of an Oddball gang. After seeing the teriffic movie Ed Wood (you must see!), I've understood that being a simple nerd wasn't enough for me. I wanted my own Oddballgang. Luckily I idn't have to look for one, I was already an member of one, I just hadn't noticed yet.

Whereas nerdiness often is associated with computers, fantasy, videogames, books and stuff like that, being an oddball is so much more. It's about a kind of general not belonging. You are odd and you embrace it, you become a member of an oddball gang. It's like mixing the bohemian lifestyle with the nerd-factor (I'm a firm believer that there is such a thing as a nerd-factor. Like a specific gene. Like the x-factor without the cool superpower thing).

To all of you out there stuck in Limbo I suggest you find your own Oddball gang and make with the fun.
 
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