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Offline Melvang

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Geek or Nerd
« on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 19:34:32 »
So the following picture is a screen shot I took after realizing what it was at amazon.com.  Does this make me a nerd or a geek?

What other traits or events help define this distinction?

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Offline demik

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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 19:36:07 »
no it makes u a person interested in keyboards and legos.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 19:37:53 »
geek and nerd are kindof the same..

mm.. i'd say, both keyboard and legos are more geek, than nerd..


I've always thought NERD, was more towards -books-
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Offline noisyturtle

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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 01:49:56 »
Geeks are basically smart nerds, or at least that was my understanding.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 01:55:24 »
maybe obsessed?

Like my shopping suggestion are either keyboard related stuff, stormtroopers and shoes
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 02:08:30 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 02 March 2016, 19:37:53
geek and nerd are kindof the same..

mm.. i'd say, both keyboard and legos are more geek, than nerd..


I've always thought NERD, was more towards -books-

nerd has more of a negative connotation than geek imo
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 07:27:42 »
what the **** is a "social media geek", lads?
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 07:51:44 »
Quote from: iri on Thu, 03 March 2016, 07:27:42
what the **** is a "social media geek", lads?


Social media geek is just a nice way of saying attention ****.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:06:47 »
Why Star Wars Legos
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:17:19 »
From what I recall, geeks are those with a keen interest on a particular subject, while nerds are usually classified as those with greater intellectual capacities (and that really make it obvious).

Here's a fun picture of the two:



And of course it all comes down to however you want to define it.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:42:03 »
A "geek" is a nerd who bites the heads off chickens.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:58:21 »
I'm a keyboard collector and doing PhD in a natural science, so I almost certainly qualify for both :p .
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 16:00:08 »
I always thought nerd would be used to talk about someone who is interested with something (for lack of a better term) real, like computers or stuff. A geek would apply to someone who likes things that are more fictional, like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 16:02:47 »
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Re: Geek or Nerd
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 19:47:58 »
A nerd is is someone who gets paid to be a geek.

At least that's what a teacher told me a long time ago.
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