| The Essential Guide to Courting a Male Geek
Posted: 4/24/2008 9:38:03 AM | Ah yes someone can be a sport geek, but probably wouldn't play it or play it well. I was referring to the "Revenge of the Nerds" nerd vs. jock scenario. One was popular; one was not. I don't think many NBA players consider themselves geeks. But, yes I have known many "sports geeks" obsessed with statistics again I don't necessarily think sports geeks = jocks.
But that's a moot point. Just wanted to point out the distinction (at least in my mind). :)
I just find the cultural shift towards geek/nerd love interesting. | |
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| The Essential Guide to Courting a Male Geek
Posted: 4/24/2008 10:21:59 AM |
What is a Jock, other than a Sports Geek?
Geeks are known for their intellect, Jocks are known for the lack thereof. That vast divide between geek and Jock is so expansive that to mistake one point for another would show that one was unfamiliar with both. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 6:57:44 PM | Jocks are so 1998 LOL. 
I don't think geeks are becoming more popular. Just cause people are talking about us doesn't mean they want to date us. The ladies just aren't naturally attracted to the geek. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 7:29:34 PM | Not totaly true. I have alway been naturally attracted to what some would call a geek. I have always been more interested in good conversation than jocks. (maybe that is because I am somewhat of a geek myself) I think it is like anything else. Some like thin, some fat, some tall and some short people. So you can't really say "the ladies".  | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 7:49:58 PM | I could not disagree with you more.
All my friends are geeks. One even goes by Solomon Grundy (he does the voice and everything), and he's 6'9" and by far the strongest guy we know. We're some of the most out-spoken, out-going, LOUD folk you'll meet in these parts. We're social by nature - half of the guys I know are frat brothers... frat brothers who huddle around playing World of Warcraft till the wee hours of the mourn, showing up late for work not because of massive hang-overs or wild sex-nights... but because that last raid took three hours too long because the tank could not properly manage aggro!
*ahem*
Most of us studied martial arts, played sports, love to practice with firearms (and are quite good in fact), etc, etc. But we quote movie lines trying to stump each other, and we do so LOUDly... just today we were walking back to work, middle of downtown, screaming: "How many @$$-holes we got on this ship, anyhow?!?!"
We're all geeks, and proud of it! We're all going to be watching Iron Man on opening night, first show time available. And Handcock, and Hulk, and Batman, etc, etc....
Point is: if we're a rare breed, how are there SO many of us? People come in all shapes and sizes. Nowadays, the world ain't so big a place as to make it able to lump all manner of folk into neat and tidy categories... That last bit was me channeling my inner Mal Reynolds.
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| The Essential Guide to Courting a Male Geek
Posted: 4/24/2008 8:04:17 PM | | I need to meet this Solomon Grundy, if not anywhere else vs my twink in the arathi highlands. I thought a was a big (in a matter of stature) geek. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 8:11:32 PM | | I love geeks myself, and tend to prefer them, but I will have to disagree with the OP about them tending to be better lovers. I have been with less than adept in bed geeks, and I've been with amazing lovers who were jock and non-geek guys. Geekiness is not a good predictor for how good they will be in bed. Sorry to burst your bubble. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 8:21:30 PM | <-- Proud to be a geek.
Here's the million-dollar question, though:
If you are a geek, and you realize that your date needs a "Geeks for Dummies" book, are you really still interested? | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 10:42:32 PM | | If you need a book to understand or appreciate geekdom then you should probably be looking elsewhere. You will get left in the dust by the overwhelming geekery that's bound to ensue. | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 10:38:00 AM | Let me whip out my slide rule and show you what it can really do!
In my opinion about being a nerd, you have to learn what types of topics you can bring up when you are around certain people. If you know they have taken multivariable calculus, then you can bring up how nightmarish it is to find the volume of a 3-dimensional object using triple integrals, but with someone who doesn't know, the moment you mention the word calculus their eyes roll back and they turn into instant zombies! It is cool to throw in tidbits of things you have learned about in everyday topics, like cars, to show you do know a bit more than what most people might know to sorta stand out a bit.
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Posted: 4/25/2008 10:44:16 AM | | My FWB, whom I adore, is a geek....which is why I'm hanging with him! I LOVE BRAINS! (and not in a "living dead" kind of way!) It's so great to be able to have a CONVERSATION with a guy...philosophy, games, sex AND an awesome sense of humor. Extra points: good grammar and spelling, too! | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 11:20:55 AM | | I personally love geeks. The only thing is, that it is hard to meet them because they usually aren`t going to be out that much socially and be coming up to women. So how does a woman meet and hook up with a geek? | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 12:51:25 PM |
However if you do not know the difference between Tribble and a Treble Clef
The sad thing is I know what a tribble is and can even remember the tv episode ' the trouble with tribbles ' 
So how does a woman meet and hook up with a geek?
teleport to their place of course  | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 1:32:56 PM | As a full-fledged Geek, I am glad to see a post like this. So much of what has been said is true. But as with all things, not all Geeks are created equal. I've actually gotten over my deathly shyness and now a lot of people tell me I'm not a geek although I still feel I am. LOL
I embrace my geekiness and wouldn't want to be any other way! | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 1:48:16 PM | | The first five are about right. I think the next three are geek specific traits though, they are only displayed by some and not the stereotype as a whole. | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 2:29:18 PM |
So how does a woman meet and hook up with a geek?
There are lots of good geek hunting grounds including:
* The public library
* The Sci-Fi section of the video store
* The local chess club
* The model railroad club
* Just about any museum
* The computer store
* Any kind of college class on a technical subject
Happy hunting | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 2:47:32 PM |
The sad thing is I know what a tribble is and can even remember the tv episode ' the trouble with tribbles '
Nothing sad in my eyes about remembering one of the greatest episodes of the original Star Trek series. How many people know that science fiction writer David Gerrold conceived that episode when he was a student in college? (Nothing wrong with knowing a little tribble trivia!)
--MS. Flis | |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 3:09:47 PM | | Oh how this makes me pine for the geek that got away........he showed up at my house with pants that were a little too long and dragged the floor and oversized glasses. He was shy, sweet, romantic, gentle, and everything the OP said. He had next to no experience with women, but was a great lover. And he was incredibly adorable. He went to great lengths to make me happy. When he wasn't with me he was busy in his basement building from scratch an air conditioner for his 20-year-old Pontiac Fiero (!). He called it his "prodject." I broke up with him because after 6 months of dating, he only wanted to get together every 2-3 weeks, and the relationship didn't seem to be progressing into anything committed. I wonder if it would have eventually. I missed him so much after we split and kicked myself for months. What is it about these geeks? He's the only one I ever dated. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :) | |
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