NEWS: You Might Be A Nerd If…

those nerdisms were hard. I was trying to get others to work but they didn't strike me as good.

If you've ever wondered what a David Cronenberg directed David Lynch script would look like, you might be a nerd.

If a hipster is someone two steps behind you socially, you might be a nerd.

If you have or considered putting l33t speak permanently on your skin, you might be a nerd.

If you laughed when you saw the cover of Panda eats, shoots and leaves; you might be a nerd.

2/5 not so true, thou im a big nerd.

Need moar videogames and comics quiestions.

I'm a total geek over F1 car racing. I love the cars, the drivers, the circuits, the teams. I go to at least one race a year and watch it on TV every time it's on. And not just the race, I watch practice, qualifying and the race. I love watching fast cars, the noise they make is incredible and the smell is sexual. I actually have a thing for the smell of new tyres - phew! So does this count as proper geekdom or not?

Nerd..? Nope..

Geek..? Ow hell yeah!

I'm 3 for 5

5. Out. Of. 5.

And I consider this a point of great pride.

love it!!!!!!

I find I'm somewhere inbetween. Using comics as an example, whenever my friends whom have never read a comic in their life talk to me about whatever comic movie they just saw, after I go on at length about the difference in movie and comic, I'm labeled a comic nerd. Same scenrio, but with self professed comic nerds, I'm barely allowed to talk, because since I don't avidly collect comics anymore, I'm thought to be hardly knowledgable on the subject. Basically nerds don't think I'm one of them and non nerds generally think I'm a nerd. Which makes it real fun to try and have a conversasion about some things.

I appreciate that you included the example of being obsessed with astronomers, as this aspect of geekiness is not something capturable by the market. I worry that so much of 'geek' culture these days revolves around a whole set of 'products' like comics, movies, computer games, etc to the extent that 'geek' has just become another marketing niche. I don't want to hate on the folks who are into those things, but I feel like TV stereotypes of geeks only ever show this side of it. Of course Bert from Sesame Street defies that trend....

<3 this so much! I get 2 out of 5 but can relate in other ways to those that I miss. I'll live out semi-nerdom now that I know the difference

Oh, interesting read and 4/5 btw

I get that as well.

3 out of 5 for me. I'm a total science nerd!