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John (Taloni)
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Jun 30, 2015 12:28PM
^This is about Nerd Shame, not Nerd Shaming. People can belong to the club if they want to.
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John (Taloni) wrote: "^This is about Nerd Shame, not Nerd Shaming. People can belong to the club if they want to."Apologies. I was just curious. Given that I've been a nerd since my mother sat me down to watch a cool new tv show in 1966 when I was 5 ...
^ :) Beat me to it! I was taken to 2001 as a five year old in 1969. Let's just say it took me a few more years to understand it.
John (Taloni) wrote: "^ :) Beat me to it! I was taken to 2001 as a five year old in 1969. Let's just say it took me a few more years to understand it."I read the book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I've never seen the movie.
Joanna wrote: "John (Taloni) wrote: "^ :) Beat me to it! I was taken to 2001 as a five year old in 1969. Let's just say it took me a few more years to understand it."I read the book version of 2001: A Space Ody..."
Honestly, I didn't love either one but the movie version is more interesting (though it's probably not worth watching unless in a theater or on a huge TV)
I'm in the shame=things I've always thought I should have read/watched/played to keep my nerd card valid camp.* I have never owned sea monkeys.
* I thought police call boxes were real things.
* learned basic programming language back in the apple IIe days, but didn't get my own email account until You've Got Mail was already out on video.
* feel a little guilty for not objectifying 7 of 9 as much as I should have
2001 is noted for being the first Trip movie. It was tanking at first, then the theaters noticed an increased influx of patrons, most of them high....
Serendi wrote: "2001 is noted for being the first Trip movie. It was tanking at first, then the theaters noticed an increased influx of patrons, most of them high...."That DOES explain the ending! There were bits of it that I liked, bits of it that, frankly, bored me, and then there was that ending and I thought 'huh, all that talk of Hal, yet no one warned me about this craziness!'
S. K. wrote: "I'm in the shame=things I've always thought I should have read/watched/played to keep my nerd card valid camp.* I have never owned sea monkeys.
* I thought police call boxes were real things.
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Police Call boxes WERE real things. There also used to be black and yellow ones belonging to the Automobile Association.
Here's a link to some pics of one of the still surviving ones in Scotland. (Half way down the page)
http://deesideimages.weebly.com/
My shame:
Never liked Star Wars or Firefly.
I loved Lost in Space if that is not nerdy in the extreme I am not at the moment gardening in my slippers with long socks on.
Jim wrote: "Silvana wrote: "Star Trek: The Original Series bored me to death. And so does the last movie. I like The Phantom Menace and the other two aren't that bad.
I never and am unlikely ever going to wa..."
You can be a nerd and not like nerdy things trying too hard to be anti-nerdy in itself is nerdy.
Silvana wrote: "Star Trek: The Original Series bored me to death. And so does the last movie. I like The Phantom Menace and the other two aren't that bad.
I never and am unlikely ever going to watch Lost and the..."
No I didn't like Star Trek but everything else on their is pure Gold!
I think H.G. Wells and Phillip K. Dick's ideas are great but honestly, I think their writing is incredibly boring.
Dwayne wrote: "I think H.G. Wells and Phillip K. Dick's ideas are great but honestly, I think their writing is incredibly boring."I love H.G Wells, but his non fiction for instance his History of the World, great book, very hard to get nowdays, I had an original early 20th century copy from my grandfather.
There are plently of popular things I don't like, and a few things I like that my love for is difficult to explain but shame...NEVER!
Aaron wrote: "There are plently of popular things I don't like, and a few things I like that my love for is difficult to explain but shame...NEVER!"Shame on you!
John (Taloni) wrote: "^ :) Beat me to it! I was taken to 2001 as a five year old in 1969. Let's just say it took me a few more years to understand it."I've come to realize that I don't understand it and likely never will but I can also say "I grok it" ... ;-P
Dang a lot of people bagging on things that are by many (including me) considered to be classically nerdy. But I don't see a lot of shame exhibited by those denigrating. I thought this was a thread about nerdy things we were ashamed for not liking.
James wrote: "I love H.G Wells, but his non fiction for instance his History of the World, great book, very hard to get nowdays, I had an original early 20th century copy from my grandfather."
The Outline of History is freely available on Project Gutenberg and Ebooks@Adelaide. Both of my go-to places for e-books. Both also have A Short History of the World.
The Outline of History is freely available on Project Gutenberg and Ebooks@Adelaide. Both of my go-to places for e-books. Both also have A Short History of the World.
