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Monk
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:55 pm
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Fraxon!
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:59 pm
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Paulo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:01 pm
Pow-Lo
Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 17688 Location: A'Unotano Bannings: 1: Cumulatively Effected
Generally speaking, of course:
Music Books Movies Comics TV Games I play Angry Birds a lot, but not sure if that counts...
These days, it's all secrecy, no privacy... ~ Mick Jagger, "Fingerprint File"Save the Bees
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Jimbo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:06 pm
The Pope of Pop!
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Paulo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:07 pm
Pow-Lo
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Sports is covered by TV, I think.
These days, it's all secrecy, no privacy... ~ Mick Jagger, "Fingerprint File"Save the Bees
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Jimbo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:11 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Sabermetrics have made sports (baseball at least) safe for nerds.
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Paulo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:15 pm
Pow-Lo
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VIDEO
These days, it's all secrecy, no privacy... ~ Mick Jagger, "Fingerprint File"Save the Bees
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Mike Howell
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:20 pm
Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 10555 Location: Canada
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Hank
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:20 pm
Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Li'l Jay
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:33 pm
It scorched
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:34 pm
Bigger and Better!
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DC Comics
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Li'l Jay
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:34 pm
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Paulo wrote:
Sports is covered by TV, I think.
No way. Sports is not a nerd interest.
There wouldn't be anything wrong with it being one, but at some point, the phrase "nerd interest" would start to mean "interest."
That goes for Hank and his "biking."
Should I include backpacking? Woodworking? Guns?
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Monk
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:41 pm
Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 35552 Location: Between the thumb and the wrist.
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Fraxon!
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:44 pm
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 40603
Li'l Jay wrote:
Paulo wrote:
Sports is covered by TV, I think.
No way. Sports is not a nerd interest.
There wouldn't be anything wrong with it being one, but at some point, the phrase "nerd interest" would start to mean "interest."
That goes for Hank and his "biking."
Should I include backpacking? Woodworking? Guns? Killing hookers?
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Jimbo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:49 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Li'l Jay wrote:
[Should I include...Guns?
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Paulo
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:54 pm
Pow-Lo
Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 17688 Location: A'Unotano Bannings: 1: Cumulatively Effected
Monk wrote:
I agree with Jay. The only thing sporting related that I'd consider a nerd interest would be Fantasy leagues (and card collecting, I guess).
And, as Jimbo notes, saber metrics. Very, very nerdy stuff.
These days, it's all secrecy, no privacy... ~ Mick Jagger, "Fingerprint File"Save the Bees
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Li'l Jay
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:55 pm
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Fantasy Leagues are not nerdy.
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Monk
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:58 pm
Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 35552 Location: Between the thumb and the wrist.
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:02 pm
Bigger and Better!
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 52207 Location: WGBS
Li'l Jay wrote:
Fantasy Leagues are not nerdy.
And there are no cosplayers in sports fandom.
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Ocean Doot
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:03 pm
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Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 51027 Location: Milwaukee
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Li'l Jay
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:05 pm
It scorched
Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 68687 Bannings: One too few . . .
Monk wrote:
Li'l Jay wrote:
Fantasy Leagues are not nerdy.
It's essentially D&D for sports, without the direct roleplaying aspect.
The Dark Knight Rises is essentially "Batman in the movies," but that doesn't make The Dark Knight Rises nerdy. When something is mainstream, cuts across a wide swath of the culture without much discernible pattern of nerdiness, it's not nerdy. It doesn't matter if, under Cosmic Justice, it "ought" to be considered nerdy.
Fantasy Sports are played by jocks and fratboys, businessmen and more and more women. I've been a couples Fantasy league since 2005. I've been in several related to workplace.
"Nerd" has an funky, amorphous, imprecise meaning. I grant that. And I embrace my own nerd-dom. But we can't turn something that fratboys, jocks, and rednecks do into something "nerdy" by doing a logical proof.
Can we make raise a philosophical point about "what is nerdiness?" About "isn't nerd something dictated unfairly by some predominant social strata?" Should we use the word "strata" more in everyday conversation? I say "yes" to all these questions, with gusto.
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Bobson Dugnutt
Post subject: Rank Your Nerd Interests
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:05 pm
MLVGB Champion, '92-'94
Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 31234 Location: Tokyo, 1990 Bannings: Self-inflicted
With the same level of family-ignoring and suicides.
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