How much of a nerd are you?
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When every school was given a BBC micro I used to spend my lunchtimes at the age of 9 trying to program it in Basic.
Got my first computer at 10, a Commodore 64, did a degree in computer science and still work in It. Into retro computers although this tends to be watching videos on YouTube and not owning any.
Used to build my own PCs and mess around setting up emulators but cannot be bothered anymore.
Not into Sci fi or any Marvel/DC films or comics.
Looking back at my time at uni, my friends and I were a bit like the Big Bang Theory.
Got my first computer at 10, a Commodore 64, did a degree in computer science and still work in It. Into retro computers although this tends to be watching videos on YouTube and not owning any.
Used to build my own PCs and mess around setting up emulators but cannot be bothered anymore.
Not into Sci fi or any Marvel/DC films or comics.
Looking back at my time at uni, my friends and I were a bit like the Big Bang Theory.
PlywoodPascal said:
valiant said:
Sorry to spoil it for you but
he dies in the end.
Just to point out that if he didn’t his biography would not have a finite number of pages and therefore by definition any biography you can hold in your hand is of someone who dies in (at, actually!) the end.he dies in the end.
DodgyGeezer said:
PlywoodPascal said:
valiant said:
Sorry to spoil it for you but
he dies in the end.
Just to point out that if he didn’t his biography would not have a finite number of pages and therefore by definition any biography you can hold in your hand is of someone who dies in (at, actually!) the end.he dies in the end.
Edited by PlywoodPascal on Sunday 30th June 10:45
ThingsBehindTheSun said:
Not into Sci fi or any Marvel/DC films or comics.
Looking back at my time at uni, my friends and I were a bit like the Big Bang Theory.
Anything post 1990s Marvel/DC for SciFi fans is like Taylor Swift for music fans.....Looking back at my time at uni, my friends and I were a bit like the Big Bang Theory.
Apart from that those statements are incompatible unless you can come up a uniformed theory of coexistent dimensions that somehow can interact without tearing the space time continuum......You would need to included Q somewhere in that theory to really pull it together, though if straying into TNG timelinea the Temporal investigation departments would need to be factored in
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Edited by gangzoom on Sunday 30th June 12:06
The social setup at the school I went to (state comp) was a bit funny in that it had a series of entrenched subcultures and cliques that one could only be part of if one shared the requisite interest/desire to obey the relevant clique head. Owing to that, there were plenty of us who didn't find a natural home anywhere; we ended up becoming friends with each other and, through weight of numbers, became the 'popular' set. The cliques viewed us somewhat jealously, but they were responsible for forcing us together in the first place. Make of that what you will. I'm still friends with the nucleus of that group, even now.
I'm naturally on the alternative side, however, and continue to pursue that sort of thing in adulthood. The world of the nerd has its attractions, but personally I can't summon the enthusiasm to devote my life to learning everything about Dr Who or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something.
I'm naturally on the alternative side, however, and continue to pursue that sort of thing in adulthood. The world of the nerd has its attractions, but personally I can't summon the enthusiasm to devote my life to learning everything about Dr Who or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something.
pingu393 said:
Those may look straight to you, but I am have a nervous twitch that won't stop.
I can cope with obviously wrong, but almost perfect sends me scatty.
No they don’t look straight to me, I just run out of enthusiasm for constantly straightening them. I may resort to grip-fill!I can cope with obviously wrong, but almost perfect sends me scatty.
I’ve always been a nerd but as a teenager and in my 20s I suppressed or hid it the best I could because I wanted to attract girls.
I’m not a sports fan, so that socially acceptable avenue of nerdism wasn’t open to me.
Cars however were a socially acceptable way to express my inner nerd. They still are.
Now married and in my 50s I wallow in my nerdary. Nothing to prove now. I have an obsessive knowledge of the Royal Navy Even engineering my civvy career to get me in with the RN. I make model warships, I know lots about aircraft, I love flight sim, and although never a spotter, I quite like trains. I’m now a super nerd about Land Rovers - especially Range Rovers.
After “coming out” as a nerd life is so much fun! I’ve found lots of folk are nerds too. They’re also relatively normal.
I’m not a sports fan, so that socially acceptable avenue of nerdism wasn’t open to me.
Cars however were a socially acceptable way to express my inner nerd. They still are.
Now married and in my 50s I wallow in my nerdary. Nothing to prove now. I have an obsessive knowledge of the Royal Navy Even engineering my civvy career to get me in with the RN. I make model warships, I know lots about aircraft, I love flight sim, and although never a spotter, I quite like trains. I’m now a super nerd about Land Rovers - especially Range Rovers.
After “coming out” as a nerd life is so much fun! I’ve found lots of folk are nerds too. They’re also relatively normal.
Wildcat45 said:
I quite like trains.
I always sit on the lh side of the carriage, big window, facing forward, on my way in to town so I can see the sidings, cement works, wagons and class 66s. Tomato Plant still makes me smile.Don't care on my way out as long as I have a BK XL bacon double cheese burger and fries in my lap.
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