Seeing this video above got me thinking as to who I really was: Geek or Nerd?
If you are like me I guarantee that you've come under fire from people who are lauded as "high society" in Secondary School (Guys who want women to be socks and girls who want their men like dividend stocks; basically, both are scum). Due to the fact that they are usually legendarily thick and unable to close their mouth, they would have called us both with reckless abandon - Incidentally, if one dared to point out the difference, he'd got violently excommunicated for being a "literary faggot".
Anyway, I detest improper use of words like the use of "Gimp" to describe not a male sex slave but "Not cool, nerdy, ugly, stupid. This word can apply to people, places, things, or ideas." (Urban Dictionary), so this is my simple take on the Geek vs. Nerd dilemma based upon the highly-scientific evidence of this video (Well who would you ask? That pusher by the gate who hasn't gotten it up in since the Thatcher era yet has an entourage of squealing sluts wherever he goes?):
- Geek = Trivial Extrovert - This person tends to identify with a crowd based around a bizarre, non-mainstream subject matter; Trekkies, Sonic Fans and PC gamers all fall under this umbrella. Basically these are ordinary people following something extraordinary.
- Nerd = Immersed Introvert - These people prefer to practice their craft on their own and are usually obsessed with something other people find trivial and orthodox; Railfans, Pleasure Pilots and Stamp Collectors are all found here. Put simply, these are the extraordinary who find interest in the ordinary.
My personal theory regarding how these interact is that the Nerds invent things by tinkering with the mundane, then the Geeks will latch onto the resulting production and support it, eventually making it mainstream. Keep in mind that these two do in fact blend together to form no distinct black/white but a very granular spectrum throughout the grey; My personal estimate for my Geek/Nerd ratio is 30:70. What's yours?
One last note, there is no such thing as an 100:0 or an 0:100, just like there are no men completely masculine or women completely feminine. The aforementioned "high society" may even suggest they are neither, but that'll be proven wrong as soon as they are spotted in a football shirt or a wonky picture with their friends of them topless with "S.L.U.T.S." painted in lipstick across their bellies (lol, geeks for hedonistic sex).
