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'Cool' physicists?

Post 101

BouncyBitInTheMiddle

smiley - headhurts

What a bunch of snobs!

smiley - tongueout


'Cool' physicists?

Post 102

Alfster

Geeks, please...snobs? What civilians...


'Cool' physicists?

Post 103

Xanatic

Nah, a geek is someone who bites the heads off live animals.


'Cool' physicists?

Post 104

Thaumos

Head definately hurts after all that smiley - headhurts


'Cool' physicists?

Post 105

Alfster

Live chickens, actually.smiley - winkeye


'Cool' physicists?

Post 106

Xanatic

Oh, I´m sure they would vary their diet at times.


'Cool' physicists?

Post 107

Thaumos

To humans?


'Cool' physicists?

Post 108

IctoanAWEWawi

There's really only one resource for such definitions:

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/N/nerd.html


'Cool' physicists?

Post 109

Thaumos

Very good, I tried urban dictionary too. It all seems to boil down to:

Geek = Obsessive about something considered abnormal by mainstream society - so listening obsessively to Kill Hannah rather thank Pink would count (imho).

Nerd = Obsessive about something considered abnormal by mainstream society to the detriment of their social skills.

Thus you could be a geek and a nerd, a geek not a nerd, but not a nerd and not a geek.

That work?


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