View Poll Results: Do geeks make better dancers?

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    I'm off to Google GEEK.
    To find out if I am/n't?

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I find it hard to distinguish "nerd" from "geek".

    Astro, why can't you have female nerds? I'm sure I've met a few in my time.
    Had this debate with a previous boyfriend who was a geek (yes, I have a history, Beo wasn't the first ).

    We concluded that a geek is the same as nerd, but with added personality.

    We didn't define the gender though... so I guess that you could have geeks or nerds of either sex. I find it easy to imagine female geeks (have a few as friends), however they all have personality. I find it hard to imagine female nerds, as most women tend to have personality...

    *runs and hides*

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Twirly View Post
    We concluded that a geek is the same as nerd, but with added personality.
    I'd probably say that a nerd is a geek that geeks consider a "geek". To the non-geek world they probably see a group of geeks and think "geeks" whereas the geeks probably see the roleplaying geeks, the computer geeks, the science geeks and all the many subdivisions of geeks that exist (of which there is overlap and further division; the Linux geek for computer geek as an example). Within that circle there is (as you say) probably someone who still doesn't seem to quite be able to socially interact with their peers; they are probably deemed a nerd.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Its not just geeks and nerds though is it. WE could have do ugly dancers make better dancers. Do boring people make better dancers. Do welsh make better dancers .....

    I dance with a few "nerds or geeks" i spose you could call em - if im thinking the same way everybody else is, its sort of not a lot of fashion sense, normally glasses and sort of smiles a lot out of nerves. They dance just as well as other people and sometimes better, i think the label makes no difference what so ever. People dance as they dance regardless of how the world perceives them.

    different with sex so i hear, they say ugly/fat people are better in bed as they have to make the most of it when they get it and therefore they are a better/less selfish than the stud muffins of this world..... perhpas i should start a thread, actually, i will.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    better in bed as they have to make the most of it when they get it and therefore they are a better/less selfish than the stud muffins of this world..... perhpas i should start a thread, actually, i will.
    all in the interest of research of course!

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    I'd probably say that a nerd is a geek that geeks consider a "geek". To the non-geek world they probably see a group of geeks and think "geeks" whereas the geeks probably see the roleplaying geeks, the computer geeks, the science geeks and all the many subdivisions of geeks that exist (of which there is overlap and further division; the Linux geek for computer geek as an example). Within that circle there is (as you say) probably someone who still doesn't seem to quite be able to socially interact with their peers; they are probably deemed a nerd.
    I'm a science geek, but I'm not a nerd

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    I have more interest in stretching my imagination via fantasy and sci-fi rather than make-believe soaps and pulp books. I live in a day to day, ever-unfolding soap called my life; why would I want to immerse myself in anyone else's?

    Give me baddies to vent my rage upon; give me puzzles and twists that make me use my brain; give me lists, categories, sub-divisions and classifications that I can define everything by; give me systems and technology that lets me do all of this with ease and flexibility. Give me a badge and write 'geek' on it... {but if you make it the shape of a star-trek TNG communicator pin I may have to hurt you }

    nerds... specialist geeks.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Have done a quick mental summary and I wouldn't define any of the leaders I think of as the better dancers as geeks (though I don't know some of them and their dance style may well not reflect their personality).

    I think the detailed analysis of the differences between 'geek' and 'nerd' on this thread suggest a certain geekiness in themselves.

    And Brian Doolan, I have never knowingly seen you dancing and you may well be super smooth with excellent musicality and aesthetically pleasing style. However, knocking other people's styling on a social dance floor (assuming it doesn't involve poor/dangerous floorcraft) is pretty unnecessary.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    I've got a doctorate in computer genetics and work as an IT apps specialist for a clinical diagnostics company, I reenact the English Civil War on horseback, I enjoy reading sci-fi and fantasy, I play AD&D, and I am also 5'10, and now a dress size 12 (aren't diets cool when they work??)

    Dance wise, I guess I'm not bad!!

    What does that make me, aside from "an interesting geek" ??

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kel_Warminster View Post
    What does that make me, aside from "an interesting geek" ??
    What alignment are you .

    EDIT: (Chaotic Good apparently)
    Last edited by killingtime; 31st-March-2008 at 04:42 PM. Reason: Looked it up :)

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post

    Astro, why can't you have female nerds? I'm sure I've met a few in my time.
    Where? On the dancefloor?

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kel_Warminster View Post
    I've got a doctorate in computer genetics and work as an IT apps specialist for a clinical diagnostics company, I reenact the English Civil War on horseback, I enjoy reading sci-fi and fantasy, I play AD&D, and I am also 5'10, and now a dress size 12 (aren't diets cool when they work??)

    Dance wise, I guess I'm not bad!!

    What does that make me, aside from "an interesting geek"??
    wow, you neaver know who your dancing with

    I have *cough* an interesting and coulorfull past, I now spend my time, shopping, making plans for the weekend, planning my wardrobe for the weekend, sorting out other's plans, for there weekends.


    am I one of the cool kids



    PS whats AD&D ?

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kel_Warminster View Post
    I've got a doctorate in computer genetics and work as an IT apps specialist for a clinical diagnostics company, I reenact the English Civil War on horseback, I enjoy reading sci-fi and fantasy, I play AD&D, and I am also 5'10, and now a dress size 12 (aren't diets cool when they work??)

    Dance wise, I guess I'm not bad!!

    What does that make me, aside from "an interesting geek" ??
    Kel. Stop it.
    If you tell me any more, I'll be on the first flight South.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by fletch View Post
    PS whats AD&D ?
    Advanced Dungeons and Dragons... for when the basic Dungeons and Dragons just wasn't enough. Of course that's all considered "old school" now since we are back to just plain old Dungeons and Dragons.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jhutch View Post
    Not quite sure what you mean by this - maybe people are just enjoying themselves and not worrying too much what they look like rather than doing something thinking that they look amazing?
    The title of this thread has a jovial feel about it and I was responding with my usual jovial banality

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post

    And Brian Doolan, I have never knowingly seen you dancing and you may well be super smooth with excellent musicality and aesthetically pleasing style
    By that description you MUST have seen me dancing, that's even better than I would describe myself but then I am a rather modest person.

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by dep View Post
    Kel. Stop it.
    If you tell me any more, I'll be on the first flight South.
    Any time my dear dep, any time....

    Just for your info....my job takes me all over the UK so I may well be dancing at a venue near you soon

    Fletch - AD&D...Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I used to be a Chaotic Good Paladin until she got stomped on by a wurm in my last adventure

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Twirly View Post

    We concluded that a geek is the same as nerd, but with added personality.

    We didn't define the gender though... so I guess that you could have geeks or nerds of either sex. I find it easy to imagine female geeks (have a few as friends), however they all have personality. I find it hard to imagine female nerds, as most women tend to have personality...

    *runs and hides*
    Well, unfortunately for sisterly solidarity, I have definitely met some female nerds in my time

    Yep, I'm definitely voting for the idea that geeks are those charming and interesting people with more to talk about than just the standard *mainstream* interests. Whereas nerd - more to do with the socially-inept aspect rather than the interests per say. Not that this has anything to do with topping the geek test at work, no not at all...

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Nerd - a social misfit - generally noted due to their fashion sense and interests being different to the majority & popularly acceptable at that time.
    Geek - can be nerd in appearance, but holds interests in specialised genres that are usually technical in nature - eg computer science. Also been known to be quite intelligent. Varying degrees of social-functionality.
    (my best guess at a definition)

    For instance, when I was growing up dancing was nerdy and uncool - therefore some put me in the category of nerd . There are times when I wish dance was as popular then as it is now!

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    Re: Geeks make better dancers – discuss.

    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    Nope. Geeks do it for me every time - even if they can't dance



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