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Ever been called a geek?

Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 00:33
A sad geek, a looser, a joke? well dont worry!, we geeks rule the world!

We aren't politicians, nothing so mundane. No, we are much more important that that.

We invented the lightbulb, the H bomb, the internal combustion engine, the computer, the calculator, we explained right angle triangles to confuse the non geeks forever more with Pythagoras theorem!

We have dreams that most would laugh at, just look at James Dyson, laughed out of every current vacuum producers buildings. He's laughing all the way to the bank now in his 20 million pound stately home which he out bid Robbie Williams for!

We said the world was round (and some of died for it), produced string theory and quantum mechanics. Black holes were laughed at before WE proved it. We are mighty! we are power!

"It's about power" (BtVPS)

Oh, yeah, and we're prone to quote Sci fi and fantasy programs and books ;)

"Don't panic!" (HGttG)

Oh, our number have done so much good for the world, from the invention of the wheel, to the simple helping the non geek's understand that the computer doesn't like McD's thick shakes spilt over it, and often wont work afterwards.

We control every company that relies on computers, for without us, they would grind to a shaking halt!

And without us, and our geek friend Logie Baird (sp) there would be no cathode ray tube, therefore no TV! consequently, no Buffy, no Star Trek, no CSI and, heaven forbid, NO POOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geeks of the world rest easy. You might not be appreciated, you might not have money or power, but we make the world turn (and explain how it turns). We are the greatest contributors to humanity's evolution, for without us we'd be writing letters with ink pots anc quills and, heaven forbid, sending them by post!
North Island
30-03-2005, 00:40
Whatever makes you feel better my friend.
Randomea
30-03-2005, 00:41
Who said the world was flat?
Dempublicents1
30-03-2005, 00:41
I call myself a geek. =)
The Blaatschapen
30-03-2005, 00:42
If geeks rule the world then why are none of them top ranking politicians?

Hmm, maybe geeks are the Illuminati ;)

*wanders off to think of more conspiracy theories*
31
30-03-2005, 00:43
I and a friend were openly mocked by the student council many, many years ago. Does that count as being called a geek or loser?
Jamil
30-03-2005, 00:44
I was never called a geek. Made fun of a lot of them though :p
Unistate
30-03-2005, 00:49
I'm a geek! ^^ Most of my best friends fall into either the categories of geek, dork, or nerd, and we're all proud of it, too xD
Jamil
30-03-2005, 00:54
I'm a geek! ^^ Most of my best friends fall into either the categories of geek, dork, or nerd, and we're all proud of it, too xD
I made fun of you people in high school, har har har :cool:
Super-power
30-03-2005, 00:55
Heh, I'm a geek :p
Jenrak
30-03-2005, 00:59
I don't like to call myself a 'geek'. I tend to refer to myself as 'god', and I expect most people who meet me in person to do the same, or they end up upside-down on a flagpole.

...I'm not joking.
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:00
I and a friend were openly mocked by the student council many, many years ago. Does that count as being called a geek or loser

Whatever makes you feel better my friend.

The washing machine makes me feel better. Did your scarcasism invent that?

Who said the world was flat?

everyone before Galiellio(sp) i believe

Because geeks are interested in more important things tha power. Did you miss the first post?

If geeks rule the world then why are none of them top ranking politicians?

We have more important things to worry about, if geeks are crap, why does bill gates warn more than the president? because he's more intelligent and does the country more good!

Imagin working on a *gasp* typewriter*. think how tippex sales would soar!

I and a friend were openly mocked by the student council many, many years ago. Does that count as being called a geek or loser?

Yes, because people were scared of your intelligence. Thats why geeks are so put upon.

I was never called a geek. Made fun of a lot of them though
Well, it takes intelligence to make a funny out down, just be grateful we're not mean. :D
Dempublicents1
30-03-2005, 01:03
everyone before Galiellio(sp) i believe

No, people were aware that the world was round before Galileo. Galileo claimed several things - (1) That there were craters on the moon (2) That everything in the Universe did not revolve around the Earth (3) That the planets had satellites, all of which were incompatible with church doctrine at the time.
Randomea
30-03-2005, 01:03
Actually Gallileo only voiced the claims made by Copernicus that the Sun was the center of the Universe and not the Earth. Everyone knew the world was round, just maps of the Heavens, Earth and Hell had to be drawn flat as a representation, proper sailing maps showed the world was round....
Geeky enough for you? :p
Preebles
30-03-2005, 01:03
I get "nerd" all the time, though mainly in a joking sense, since many of the people I hang around with are nerds themselves. Nerds rule!
Jenrak
30-03-2005, 01:04
Whatever makes you feel better my friend.

The washing machine makes me feel better. Did your scarcasism invent that?



everyone before Galiellio(sp) i believe

Because geeks are interested in more important things tha power. Did you miss the first post?



We have more important things to worry about, if geeks are crap, why does bill gates warn more than the president? because he's more intelligent and does the country more good!

Imagin working on a *gasp* typewriter*. think how tippex sales would soar!



Yes, because people were scared of your intelligence. Thats why geeks are so put upon.


Well, it takes intelligence to make a funny out down, just be grateful we're not mean. :D

Wow. Nicely put.
Nonconformitism
30-03-2005, 01:05
Well, it takes intelligence to make a funny out down, just be grateful we're not mean. :D
some of us are mean, i love messing with the idiot rednecks at our school
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:12
Actually Gallileo only voiced the claims made by Copernicus that the Sun was the center of the Universe and not the Earth. Everyone knew the world was round, just maps of the Heavens, Earth and Hell had to be drawn flat as a representation, proper sailing maps showed the world was round....

well geeky enough. :D

people dont get that geeks (Thomas Eddison for example) arent all coke bottle glasses wearing, cant talk of anything but startrek, cant play sports people.

heaven a nobel prize winner be a baseball hero! ;)
Lascivious Maximus
30-03-2005, 01:14
I've been called a lot of things... never a geek though. In fact, for the first few years of my life I could have sworn my name was actually "GODDAMNITYOULITTLESHITYOUWHATHAVEYOUDONENOW"
Lunatic Retard Robots
30-03-2005, 01:21
I don't quite know what I should be classified as. I'm no good at math but I like science, and while there are a lot of smarter people than me at school I'm perhaps one of the weirdest around.

I try to avoid being grouped by being extremely strange.

Perhaps I'm closer to a geek than something else.
Anikian
30-03-2005, 01:21
A sad geek, a looser, a joke? well dont worry!, we geeks rule the world!

We aren't politicians, nothing so mundane. No, we are much more important that that.

We invented the lightbulb, the H bomb, the internal combustion engine, the computer, the calculator, we explained right angle triangles to confuse the non geeks forever more with Pythagoras theorem!

We have dreams that most would laugh at, just look at James Dyson, laughed out of every current vacuum producers buildings. He's laughing all the way to the bank now in his 20 million pound stately home which he out bid Robbie Williams for!

We said the world was round (and some of died for it), produced string theory and quantum mechanics. Black holes were laughed at before WE proved it. We are mighty! we are power!

"It's about power" (BtVPS)

Oh, yeah, and we're prone to quote Sci fi and fantasy programs and books ;)

"Don't panic!" (HGttG)

Oh, our number have done so much good for the world, from the invention of the wheel, to the simple helping the non geek's understand that the computer doesn't like McD's thick shakes spilt over it, and often wont work afterwards.

We control every company that relies on computers, for without us, they would grind to a shaking halt!

And without us, and our geek friend Logie Baird (sp) there would be no cathode ray tube, therefore no TV! consequently, no Buffy, no Star Trek, no CSI and, heaven forbid, NO POOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geeks of the world rest easy. You might not be appreciated, you might not have money or power, but we make the world turn (and explain how it turns). We are the greatest contributors to humanity's evolution, for without us we'd be writing letters with ink pots anc quills and, heaven forbid, sending them by post!


Hell yeah! Ever been called a geek and thanking the guy who did it? Hilarious results!
Dempublicents1
30-03-2005, 01:21
heaven a nobel prize winner be a baseball hero! ;)

THe guy who came up with PCR - and got a Nobel Prize - is a surfer dude (and is so inappropriate at times that GATech - his alma mater - won't even let him come back and speak anymore. =)
Potaria
30-03-2005, 01:21
I get "nerd" all the time, though mainly in a joking sense, since many of the people I hang around with are nerds themselves. Nerds rule!

Hail to the Nerds!
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:23
I dont claim these are acurate, they were sent round by e-mail after all and thousands might have messed with the following but if, as a geek, you ever envied a sportsman, you wont after this! :D


Why Sportsmen shouldn't be role models
>
> > Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan' all
> dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to
copulate
> me."
> >
> > New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
> "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
> >
> > And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own
> mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win,
I'd
> run over Joe's Mom, too."
> >
> > Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
> "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
> >
> > Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in
> football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein."
>
> >
> > Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to
> graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
> >
> > Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up
> alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, then
> line up in a circle."
> >
> > Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a
color
> photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to spell
my
> name, I can still find my clothes."
> >
> > Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of
> heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the
> morning regardless of what time it is."
> >
> > Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to
Coach
> Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a
> baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
> >
> > Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him,
'Son,
> what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't
> know and I don't care.'"
> >
> >
>
Jamil
30-03-2005, 01:24
Aaah! The Nerds Are Attacking!
Potaria
30-03-2005, 01:26
I dont claim these are acurate, they were sent round by e-mail after all and thousands might have messed with the following but if, as a geek, you ever envied a sportsman, you wont after this! :D


Why Sportsmen shouldn't be role models
>
> > Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan' all
> dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to
copulate
> me."
> >
> > New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
> "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
> >
> > And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own
> mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win,
I'd
> run over Joe's Mom, too."
> >
> > Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
> "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
> >
> > Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in
> football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein."
>
> >
> > Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to
> graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
> >
> > Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up
> alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, then
> line up in a circle."
> >
> > Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a
color
> photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to spell
my
> name, I can still find my clothes."
> >
> > Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of
> heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the
> morning regardless of what time it is."
> >
> > Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to
Coach
> Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a
> baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
> >
> > Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him,
'Son,
> what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't
> know and I don't care.'"
> >
> >
>

My god... Those guys are morons! Especially the idiot who said "I want them to copulate me"!
Anikian
30-03-2005, 01:26
Well, it takes intelligence to make a funny out down, just be grateful we're not mean.

Speak for yourself.

"Is light a wave or a particle?"
"<Insert answer>"
"Wrong! It's <other answer>!"
"Umm... <insert other answer>"
"Wrong!"
(I could go on liek that for a while, but the other guy usually can't...)

That's even more fun when you have two guys, one who says wave is wrong and one who says particle is wrong :)
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:27
Aaah! The Nerds Are Attacking!

Promise not to use electrisity, eat processed food or drive anything and we'll leave you alone ;)
Pure Metal
30-03-2005, 01:30
i've never been called a geek, or anything (to my face) for that matter (except jokingly by my geek friends :D )
i've usually been bigger than the other kids, so i didn't get name-called a lot :D
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:31
"Is light a wave or a particle?"

I might be being really dense here (no pun intended) but i believe a light (or EM) wave is made up of photons, there for neither being a wave or a particle and is the basis for the wave/particle dualiy theory sumerised by E-MC2.
Randomea
30-03-2005, 01:34
It's neither/both/unknown.
Photons are anti-matter. Good grief, I was awake during Sci-Fi lessons.
New Sernpidel
30-03-2005, 01:35
Every day.

All my friends, myself, and even my GF fall under the "Geek/Dork" category, and we're proud to be there, cuz geeks go farther in life then people like "gangsta's" or your potheads or such
Jamil
30-03-2005, 01:40
Every day.

All my friends, myself, and even my GF fall under the "Geek/Dork" category, and we're proud to be there, cuz geeks go farther in life then people like "gangsta's" or your potheads or such
I love the way people look down on "gangstas"
Feminist Cat Women
30-03-2005, 01:51
It's neither/both/unknown.
Photons are anti-matter. Good grief, I was awake during Sci-Fi lessons.

Photons are not anti matter.

I dont get to watch Sci Fi, sorry. my knowledge comes from Stephen Hawkins (mainly) and Richard Dawkin(sp)'s books.
DemonLordEnigma
30-03-2005, 01:53
I've only been called a geek once. Then I beat the guy up and took his lunch money. He went from the class bully to the class bullied.
DemonLordEnigma
30-03-2005, 01:55
Photons are not anti matter.

I dont get to watch Sci Fi, sorry. my knowledge comes from Stephen Hawkins (mainly) and Richard Dawkin(sp)'s books.

Photons are neutral particles in that area that shift between matter and energy forms, probably due to the sheer speed at which they travel. They are more accurately described as a wave that keeps changing its frequency.

Positrons are antimatter.
Jenrak
30-03-2005, 02:10
What are photons?
Unistate
30-03-2005, 02:15
I made fun of you people in high school, har har har :cool:

Yeah, we know. We're the ones now going into such succesful careers as filmmaking, authoring, journalism, and teaching, whilst you remain a lowly Canadian.
Evil Arch Conservative
30-03-2005, 02:22
I might be being really dense here (no pun intended) but i believe a light (or EM) wave is made up of photons, there for neither being a wave or a particle and is the basis for the wave/particle dualiy theory sumerised by E-MC2.

That equation explains how much energy would be yielded when a given amount of matter comes in contact with an equal amount of anti-matter. It is used to explain that matter and energy are interchangable.
Neo-Anarchists
30-03-2005, 02:27
Hmm, maybe geeks are the Illuminati ;)
No, we aren't.(geeks are good)
For that matter, we aren't financially backing the Club of Rome, and there were no geeks involved with the MK-NAOMI and MK-ULTRA projects.
(we run the world)
Really, would we lie and attempt to manipulate you? Of course not.
(bow to our superior intellect)
(this message certified 100% illuminati subliminal message free)
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~boogles/illuminati.reduced.gif
Official Illuminati Seal of Approval
(we are watching you. do not slip up.)
Jhenova
30-03-2005, 02:57
shutup geek before i shove you into a locker.
Potaria
30-03-2005, 02:58
shutup geek before i shove you into a locker.

*shoves Jhenova in a locker*

Take that, geek-shover!
DemonLordEnigma
30-03-2005, 03:12
What are photons?

Particles of light. I wouldn't advise trying to catch any, as that requires an antimatter bomb for you to even have a chance at.

No guarantees how accurate the above is.

shutup geek before i shove you into a locker.

~Beats up Jhenova, uses a knife to remove reproductive organs, and then sells Jhenova on the black market as spare parts.~

Free piece of advice: Don't threaten those of high enough intelligence to be called geeks. You never know which one happens to be psychotic.
Trilateral Commission
30-03-2005, 03:14
Negro, please
Neo-Anarchists
30-03-2005, 03:19
You never know which one happens to be psychotic.
I am completely harmless. Only mildly psychotic, and I have nothing else wrong with me. Really, would I lie?
Yeah, she's telling the truth! There's nothing wrong with us. We are fine!
Yeah!
I don't know about you three, but I wanna go kill something.
SHUT UP! You aren't supposed to say that out loud!
You three shut up and let me use the mouth, I'm trying to talk here!

Okay, as I was saying, there's...
Wait, where did everybody go?
Potaria
30-03-2005, 03:23
I'm still here!

...Damnit, I told you not to talk out of line.

Sorry man, but it's my right to talk, so up yours.

*punch*

Ow...

*stab*

That... *cringe* Was for... *gurgle* Compla---

*dies*
Ekland
30-03-2005, 03:56
I was always a geek, but I was a respected geek growing up. Nothing like being able to dazzle your peers with accurate meaningful bullshit AND kick the living hell out of anyone who had delusions of superiority. :d

everyone before Galiellio(sp) i believe

Nicolas Copernicus was responsible for debunking the Geostationary Orbit theory which was originally thought up by Ptolemy and Aristotle. Galileo later defended Nicolas idea.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, head of the Great Library of Alexandria was the one who had originally proven the earth to be round. He and some assistants based their conclusion on the shadows cast by obelisks in different parts of Egypt at different times of day.

Now how's THAT for some geekyness? :D
Feminist Cat Women
01-04-2005, 00:02
What are photons?

The easiest non-scientific explenation is that they are tiny "packets" of energy. so when you get a sun tan, it's because your skin is absprbing these energy packets and reacting to it.

Particles of light. I wouldn't advise trying to catch any, as that requires an antimatter bomb for you to even have a chance at.

We catch them all the time! they make vitamin D in the skin, distroy the sleep hormone melanin so we dont drop off in the day, they power photosynthisis, there by creating oxygen and recycling CO2 and they power solar panels. We just cant release their energy in a lab yet.

Photons are neutral particles in that area that shift between matter and energy forms, probably due to the sheer speed at which they travel. They are more accurately described as a wave that keeps changing its frequency.

Also known as wave particle duality. Wave's being energy, particles being mass.

That equation explains how much energy would be yielded when a given amount of matter comes in contact with an equal amount of anti-matter. It is used to explain that matter and energy are interchangable.

No, it explains how much energy is contained within matter and EM rays. Both are interchangable under the right circumstances since energy cannot be distroyed only changed.

An anti matter reaction would give off the most energy but it isnt what the equation is for.

*punch*

Ow...

*stab*

That... *cringe* Was for... *gurgle* Compla---

DONT FIGHT CHILDREN! Right, to the corners and dont come out until i say so! ;)