I'm not a Geek. Who woulda Thunk it.

[PlatinumGold]

All my life i had pretty much considered myself a geek. I thought I liked studying and attending classes and learning and all that stuff, Guess what, I DON'T. I don't enjoy ANY OF that stuff. What i like doing is WORKING. weird, and all my life i had just thought that i was just another book worm type GEEK.

I hate books, I hate classrooms, I hate lectures, What i like is being outdoors and working.

now i have to resign myself to being a NON geek i guess.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
All my life i had pretty much considered myself a geek. I thought I liked studying and attending classes and learning and all that stuff, Guess what, I DON'T. I don't enjoy ANY OF that stuff. What i like doing is WORKING. weird, and all my life i had just thought that i was just another book worm type GEEK.

I hate books, I hate classrooms, I hate lectures, What i like is being outdoors and working.

now i have to resign myself to being a NON geek i guess.

Our Living Language: Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, ?a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.? We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.

computer geek

n. 1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `great person'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie. 2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see `http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html'.



Don't try to deny it. You know you really are a geek.

 

[Alphathree33]

You could instead revive the dead thread that I apparently killed with a long, thought out post on geekiness and girls but nooooo you go and start ANOTHER thread instead...suuure...

 

[Alphathree33]

HAH I killed your thread too!

 

[Pigasus]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I hate books, I hate classrooms, I hate lectures, What i like is being outdoors and working.

What is this "outdoors" that you speak of?

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: Pigasus

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I hate books, I hate classrooms, I hate lectures, What i like is being outdoors and working.

What is this "outdoors" that you speak of?

It is almost on the level of the mystical Sun whose forcoming was fortold in the book of ages!!

You're still a geek. You post on ATOT.

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