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  • Sarahundefined Offline
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    The people you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult

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      Not to be confused with [Nerd]. A geek does not have to be smart, a Geek is someone who is generaly not athletic, and enjoys Video Games; Comic Books; being on the internet, and etc.

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        One of four titles used to classify someone based on their technical and social skills. The other three titles are nerd, dork, and normie. The difference between the four titles can be easily shown in table form:
        ................ Technical ...... Social
        Title ............ Skills ......... Skills

        Normie ......... No ............. Yes
        Geek ........... Yes ............. Yes
        Nerd ............ Yes ............. No
        Dork ............ No .............. No
        Normie: A normal person. Blah.
        Geek: An outwardly normal person who has taken the time to learn technical skills. Geeks have as normal a social life as anyone, and usually the only way to tell if someone is a geek is if they inform you of their skills.
        Nerd: A socially awkward person who has learned technical skills due to the spare time they enjoy from being generally neglected. Their technical knowledge then leads normies to neglect them even further, leading to more development of their technical skills, more neglection, etc. This vicious cycle drives them even more into social oblivion.
        Dork: A person who, although also socially awkward, doesnt have the intelligence to fill the void with technical pursuits, like a nerd, and is forced to do mindless activities. Almost always alone. Usually with an XBox. Like playing Halo. All day. Every day. Not even understanding how the Xbox is making the pretty pictures on the screen. Very sad.

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          The term geek originally referred to the carnival performers whose act consisted of biting the heads off chickens and eating glass. Over time it came to be applied to anyone who got paid to do work considered odd or bizarre by mainstream society.
          The term now enjoys a special status within the technical community, particularly among particularly knowledgable computer programmers. To identify oneself as a geek indicates a recognition that most people still consider programming computers to be a bizarre act, along with a certain fierce satisfaction in being very good at their inglorious profession.
          That most software geeks now easily earn twice as much as the average laborer just sweetens their defiant embrace of the term.
          Note: Unlike the word nerd, which is always pejorative, geek often carries a positive connotation when used by one of the group. The use of the term by outsiders is considered insulting.

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            It doesnt seem to refer to computer programmers as much as it once did when computers werent so damn cool handy. Geeks are pretty much people who have a real understanding for a certain topic eg Films, music, cars. Its usualy that they are totaly obsessed about the topic, or its just something they think alot on.

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              sure, you kick their ass and steal their lunch money and pick on them now, but you wont be laughing when drives up the garage and you have to fix his porsche or ur boss will fire you, and then you realize that the guy in the porsche with a smoking hot wife is the guy you picked on when you were in high school, and you attempt to avoid eye contact but the guy says hey dont i know you from high school? and then you say yea and he laughs and drives off, then you go back to your mobile home and complain to your 230 pound wife what happened at work, and who knows, that 230 pound wife could have just have been the slutty hot cheerleader chick you used to date back in the good ol days, u never know....

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                A Geek is a very knowledgeable person who sometimes act in a manner which can be considered odd or abnormal. They also know that they are slightly odd or abnormal and fully accept this. Because they accept this they don’t try and be normal like nerds do and ultimately “fit in” better than nerds and so are seen to have better social skills.
                Geeks are superior to all other people because the have the knowledge and social ability to get to where they want to be.

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                  Someone with a HUGE amount of knowledge in one, or multiple subjects. Usually acociated with computers. Seen as weak and unathletic, but dosnt have to be.

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