You know you're a nerd when...

[Nalaris]

Nalaris:
Your definitions longer than the dictionarys.
You look at ACT prep books in your free time.
You know the name of every Star Wars vehicle, weapon and droid model (including the books/comics/cartoons etc.)
You think it's fun to go through newspapers correcting spelling mistakes and mocking the writers.
You hold anti-Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo riots.
You think a party is eating chips while playing video games.
You start a society simulator based off of a lego game you played when you were younger.
You're addicted to aforementioned society simulator.
You post in topics like this. Crosshair replies: You know you're a nerd when you agree.
You know you're a nerd when you consider making an allegedly humorous documentary about the animals inhabiting the foreign "High School".
You know you're a nerd when you've joined more than 2 online games/forums.
You know when you're a nerd when you're involved in a non-sports extra curricular activity (i.e. Chess club, debate, etc.)
You know you're a nerd when you celebrate having 1337 posts.
When you think it's fun to study a dead language
When you spend your free time compiling a massive "You Know You're a Nerd When..." list.


SekoETC:
You know all the lines to the original Star Wars Trilogy.

Stan:
One of your favorite movies is Weird Science and another is Strange Brew.

Mafia Salad:
You think jokes like this:

Q: Why do you rarely find mathematicians spending time at the beach?
A: Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun!

are funny.

Phalynx:
You are thrilled to find a vinyl copy of Tales of Topographic Oceans!
You buy shoes because they will be hard-wearing.
You decide a good night out isnt worth a hangover...
You are Pie! Edit: Scrub that a nerd would use a dictionary!

HoH:
You think its "totally sweet" when you study DNA in biology.
You think its ok to say "totally sweet".
Your mood depends on what happened on CSI the night before. (Darn you, Grissom!! You and Sarah would be soooo perfect together!!!)
You know you're a nerd when your funny story starts out, "Today at debate practice..."

Pie:
you know that there are exactly 742... or 743... star treck episodes.. and that the first epesode was realeased, and helped cous the company which made star treck be bought out by another company.... wich i forgot the name of...

Swymir:
... when you get this joke.

What is the integral of 1/cabin?
A log cabin?
No a houseboat you forgot to add the sea.

You make up your own game for wikipedia and it is the only thing you and your friends ever want to play in their freetime.

Crosshair:
When you arent ashamed to fence.
when you say things like.... Did you know that you need to apply 250g more pressure to bend an epee than a foil? (school projects are useful...)
You know you're a nerd when you refuse to lose, even when you have lost.
your name is on the right hand side three times in a row on the index.
when you actually get upset when people break server rules.

Deadboy:
when you say this:
Pressure isnt in grams
when your actually thinking about explaining the difference between N and g on a net forum


Let's see how big this list can get.

[SekoETC]

You remember the lines of the original StarWars trilogy, at least while watching it and speak along while watching.

[Stan]

One of your favorite movies is Weird Science and another is Strange Brew.

[Mafia Salad]

You think jokes like this:

Q: Why do you rarely find mathematicians spending time at the beach?
A: Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun!

are funny.


http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html

And you though your teachers came up with those really bad jokes on their own.

[Juuustaaas]

When you find this



sexy

[Phalynx]

You are thrilled to find a vinyl copy of Tales of Topographic Oceans!

You buy shoes because they will be hard-wearing.

You decide a good night out isnt worth a hangover...

I could go on but I will get to depressed!

[rklenseth]

You consider yourself quite proudly that you're a Browncoat. Or is that 'when you know you're a geek...' subject?

[Nalaris]

Nerd, not geek.

Difference.

Nerds are smart computer wizards who play Cantr too match.
Geeks are a strange subspecies of Nerd who've sadly exchanged their computer abilities in order to collect obscene numbers of collecting cards and toasters and hike up their pants high enough to give themselves a wedgie.

Please, refrain from acting like nerds lives revolve around collections and think that freakish pictures are "sexy".
Our lives revolve around computers and starting threads like this.

Yes Phalanx, and whoever posted that freakish picture (I'm too scared to check who it is), I'm talking to yu.

[Mafia Salad]

Nerd, not geek.

Difference.

Nerds are smart computer wizards who play Cantr too match.
Geeks are a strange subspecies of Nerd who've sadly exchanged their computer abilities in order to collect obscene numbers of collecting cards and toasters and hike up their pants high enough to give themselves a wedgie.

I think you have that backwards. The popular term is Computer Geek, not Computer Nerd. Not to say that nerds aren't attracted to computers, but Geeks have their lives dominated by them. Nerd is the genus, geek is a species.

Edit: Other popular species of Nerd are the Bookworm, the Fantasy Fanatic, the Gamer (closely related to the geek), and the Band Nerd. On a similar note, there is a mutated subspecies of the geek known as the H/\x0r. The term H/\x0r is widely disputed and a non-expert cannot tell the difference between a H/\x0r and a regular geek.

[Nalaris]

It's not the band nerd it's the band geek, and my theories are supported by a Harvard professor who died just before publishing them. This is just one of my many sources unearthed by my painstaking research (there wasn't much, but it hurt).

Computer Geek is simply a misnomer, similar to Native Americans being called Indians. They're not from India, but they're commonly called Indians. This isn't the only misnomer in the world.

[west]

Clearly y'all just don't know the difference between geeks and nerds. Very poor definitions all around.

3/10.

[Coramon]

B-Dub! Thats me! Seriously though, that was me good ol' nickname way back when in the early days.

[Stan]

3/10

Are you getting ready for the Winter Olympics as a figure skating judge?

[Mafia Salad]

You know you're a nerd when you have to consolt Wikipedia for a nerd/geek debate.

Pundits and observers dispute the relationship of the terms nerd and geek to one another. Some view the geek as a less technically skilled nerd. Some factions maintain that "nerds" have both technical skills and social competence, whereas geeks display technical skills while socially incompetent; others hold an exactly reversed view, with geek serving as the socially competent counterpart of the socially incompetent nerd, and call themselves geeks with pride (compare Geekcorps, an organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in computer infrastructure development). Another view is that "geeks" lack both social competency and technical skills.

Some regional differences may exist in the use of the words nerd and geek. Some claim that on the North American west coast the population prefers the term geek to nerd, while the North American east coast prefers the word nerd to geek (see Ellen Spertus's page on The Sexiest Geek Alive). Others on the east coast dispute this, claiming that they have always found nerd used disparagingly and geek used in a positive light. In Britain, this latter view tends to apply — nerd has more offensive connotations than geek, which speakers of British English often use affectionately. Compare anorak.

Only to find it's just a cultural context thing.

[grrl]

One time! At band camp!....




i am a nerd or a geek or whatever because i WANT to do research for the rest of my life