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Got my Geek Chip today
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on April 08, 2005, 01:51:57 pm ---I have a friend that works at RIM as a senior software programmer. He's easily making 6 figures and he still lives at home. It's a Greek parent thing... They can never let go...
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None of my friends are Greek.
Zero_Hour:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 08, 2005, 11:15:24 am ---
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on April 08, 2005, 11:11:07 am ---Over the last few years the term 'geek' has become much more fashionable.
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Fashion does not change meaning and connotation. It's still a term of derision in my eyes.
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Actually "Fashion" does exactly this. It might not change it in your eyes, but it's probably why people are surprised that you take offense.
I too had all those fun terms slogged at me for years - nerd, geek, whatever. I just remember thinking to myself, "I may be a geek, but you'll be lucky if you ever make more than $25k a year." But then I was a spiteful youth. :P.
tommy:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 08, 2005, 12:59:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peale on April 08, 2005, 12:54:01 pm ---When I was in high school, it was an extremely derogatory term.
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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: tommy on April 08, 2005, 02:41:04 pm ---Geek has to do with looks not if you know what a pcb is.
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Hrm... don't think it did then, at least. I was a muscular 5-10 and very much looked the part of your slightly above average teenage jock.
tommy:
Geek its the guy with a pencil pouch walking around talking to himself, nobody calls a jock a geek, atleast where i went to school.
Im 27 , maybe we have a big generation gap here.