Sunday, July 15

Nerd or Geek?

I just spent the weekend in the lovely little beachside village of Gerroa, just south of Kiama. I was there with four other girl friends and we did puzzles, played uno, danced and sang to Roxette and Bon Jovi, danced and sang to Top Gun and Dirty Dancing (we didn't do any dirty dancing obviously) and drank clean skin wine. The big question at the end of the weekend was (besides can we fit more chocolate and cheese in) 'are we classified as "geeks" or "nerds"'?

Any thoughts?
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10 comments:

damian said...

Alaine - when you play UNO with your mates, do you allow anything to be put on anything? Eg can you put a draw 4 on a draw 2 than the next person reverse it or skip? Consequently some poor bastard has to pick up a thousand. I don't think you are a nerd I think you are cool!

8:47 pm
WA ROFF's said...

From someone planning a very similar weekend with highschool girlfriends in the wine regions of WA, I am gonna go with "classy dames"....

k8

10:59 pm
Anonymous said...

Sounds like my kind of weekend!!! I think the distinction between nerds and geeks is that nerds can be cool, geeks cannot. I am proud to be a nerd; but this subsequently makes me a geek. It's all very confusing...

11:57 pm
daniel said...

Much like everything in life, Alaine, there are surely more than two choices. Tony Blair presented his 'Third Way' for politics; Homer Simpson demonstarted that things can be done the right way, the wrong way or the 'Max Power' way (which is simply the wrong way, but faster); and Lao Tzu advocated the path of least resistance. Hence I will nominate a third possibility to describe you and your friends: losers.

8:46 am
Anonymous said...

Damian - we didn't play those rules exactly because any card on any card seems a bit insane. however we did play the rule that when you had to pick up a card you also had to have a shot of vodka - less insane.

Daniel - you were often a topic of conversation over the weekend and it wasn't me doing the talking.

Kate - "classy dame" it is. thanks.

5:28 pm
Andrew said...

'Geek' implies only an unhealthy obsession with some sort of uncool subject matter. 'Nerd' implies the above plus intelligence. Thus one can be both nerdy and geeky.

Is this the mythical third way? Wait - that would mean I agree with Daniel.

8:42 pm
harry said...

Andrew, its very hard to take your comment seriously when just next to the comment is a photo of you with a basket over your head. Is that a geek thing or an intelligent geek thing?

7:39 am
Jake said...

Is it just me, or is it Daniel who sounds like the nerdy geek?

10:44 am
Anonymous said...

Agreed.

2:38 pm
Anonymous said...

I personally lament the death of actual cool. I may have failed high school but i did know how to sneak into every bowling club within a 5k radius, name every current and previous member of "alien sex fiend" and lace up a pair of 24 hole doc martins while rolling a campberwell carrot. now suddenly its cool to be a geek and a nerd, and cool people are irrelevant dinosaurs. fonzie would be turning in his grave. if he was dead. this is posted by amanda at joe's house!!!!

5:44 am

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