PSA: Nerds =/= Geeks

[Xylitol]

Geeks are people who love computers beyond a normal person (kinda flexible - there are a lot of computer people who are normal), don't go outdoors much (not much of a social life), stay single for most of their lives, play Dungeons and Dragons, and love using the same internet sayings/pictures over and over again

Nerds are smart geeks

Smartness does not make you a geek or a nerd. You can be a genius who is also normal

AT is split up into 3 parts
Nerds
Geeks
Normal

What are you?
I think that I'm normal, but I see a lot of geeks/nerds on this forum (as well as normal people)

 

[clamum]

Loser.

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: clamum
Loser.

i thought there were only 3 choices, but i guess you can be special and be the fourth

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

 

[Fenixgoon]

then what's a geek who still loves computers, but does everything a normal person does as well?

 

[nageov3t]

so, all nerds are geeks, therefore nerds = geeks?

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

yea
but it has no poll and i want to make sure that people know that nerds are not geeks

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
then what's a geek who still loves computers, but does everything a normal person does as well?

A GeekDrew.

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
then what's a geek who still loves computers, but does everything a normal person does as well?

normal

 

[Cogman]

He has it wrong. Geeks don't necessarily love computers. Geeks are people with social abnormalities, Such as anyone that would go to a Star Trek festival dressed up as an alien.

Nerds on the other hand have more practical knowledge then the average Joe, and even enjoy learning it.

Nerds can be popular but Geeks cannot.

 

[ohtwell]

I'm a nerd!

But not in regards to computers. I have intelligences beyond that!!


: ) Amanda

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

yea
but it has no poll and i want to make sure that people know that nerds are not geeks

Oh, you want a poll? ok
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

yea
but it has no poll and i want to make sure that people know that nerds are not geeks

Oh, you want a poll? ok
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

2nd part

did you choose the first option in the poll?

 

[SpunkyJones]

I refuse to be categorized by your poll with its inane and limited selections.

As number 6 would say, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

yea
but it has no poll and i want to make sure that people know that nerds are not geeks

Oh, you want a poll? ok
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

2nd part

did you choose the first option in the poll?

I didn't vote in your poll

 

[dbk]

I don't judge...on the interweb

 

[Arcadio]

What does PSA mean?

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
What does PSA mean?

Public service announcement

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
What does PSA mean?

Phish Sells Acid

 

[Turin39789]

sigh I hate it when losers try to make arbitrary delineations so they can feel better than other losers.

 

[Kabrinski]

Originally posted by: Cogman
He has it wrong. Geeks don't necessarily love computers. Geeks are people with social abnormalities, Such as anyone that would go to a Star Trek festival dressed up as an alien.

Nerds on the other hand have more practical knowledge then the average Joe, and even enjoy learning it.

Nerds can be popular but Geeks cannot.

I see geeks a little differently. It doesn't necessarily have to be a social abnormality. Geeks are more of anyone who has a passion for something, knows about it, lives it, or a has a full blown obsession about something. It can be the "classic" geek stuff such as computers, video games, and sci-fi anything to more "normal" things such as cars or a host of other things.

I agree with you on the nerd definition, though I think geeks can be more popular than nerds.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I refuse to be categorized by your poll with its inane and limited selections.

As number 6 would say, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."

Lawls. The act of referencing The Prisoner reveals you to be, well, outside the mainstream -not that that is a bad thing. Heck, I will happily count myself same.

But what of that other class which I have long called "sports nerds" for lack of a better term; maybe sports geeks would be bettar?. They are likewise socially challenged yet not smart either. To cope, they desperately cling to sports as a spectator (not participant) for the vague association with manliness. Essentially, it involves a lot of sitting around watching TV and being incapable of conversation beyond said sports.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You mean like this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eyword1=nerd+geek+dork

apparently I'm Joe Normal. :Q

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I refuse to be categorized by your poll with its inane and limited selections.

As number 6 would say, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."

YOU'LL GET IN YOUR PIGEONHOLE AND YOU'LL LIKE IT

 

[Synomenon]

Around here, people always say that geeks are nerds that are popular / more sociable.