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    #152
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    crayolastereo wrote: »
    Yeah I'm in a sports club which I actually love (and I usually hate all sports so thats saying something :P) But its just a regular club, no-one knows I'm gay there and I really don't intend on telling them because I think if I were them I'd kick me out of the changing rooms and I don't want to ruin it:P

    The gay friends thing is less out of the question because I don't know any gay people, but that I'm not really allowed to go meet any gay people and my 2 gay friends kind of abandoned me after they went all super camp and I was still sitting there pretending to be straight.

    Back to being on off-topic, is anyone watching the Apprentice? Everyone is all like omg x-factor and I'm here omg his presentation was horrendous :P
    ...and dragging it back on for my own selfish needs :p trying to get out there at this age has been challenging, most of my gay friends were male and I was craving to find a part within the gay female spectrum and holy **** it's tribal out there. I know quite a few girls younger than me and it's nice but I alway felt out of place so it's a revelation to finally find somewhere I feel at home in.

    seriously, the nerd stuff is all well and good but I get to listen to my daughter talk manga everyday after school and that's enuff for me :)


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    #153
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Never saw Red Dwarf, but anyone watch tribe when they were younger? It was about all these kids who lived in a shopping centre because all the adults had died and they were always killing each other and falling off buildings? It was dark stuff for the den. I went back and watched it all over again last summer, it was actually really good, once you get past the really bad 90s costume design...and the really bad acting...and the mary sue characters they had all over the shop. In fact maybe it wasn't very good at all, but I still liked it!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tribe_(TV_series)

    What I find really funny is that the whole reason we got an off topic thread was to make new people feel more welcome, and all we've done is created a secret club for all the nerds to talk about being nerds :P


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    #154
    L.Jenkins
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    Funny story, nearly ever trans or gay person I know is nerdy. It's unreal, but in a good way :D And I remember the tribe. 90s acting was awful, especially anything from australia, not picking on them though. Just never liked Home and Away, it's near impossible to keep up with the story lines and the new characters every week.


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    #155
    L.Jenkins
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    Dont want to edit a post twice, but the best thing to come out of Home and Away was Isla Fisher :P :D

    isla_fisher300.jpg


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    #156
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    Funny story, nearly ever trans or gay person I know is nerdy. It's unreal, but in a good way :D
    Same here, almost every trans woman I know works in IT, or has done in the past. A lot of my friends are gay CS grads too, and I've just finished a CS masters. :pac:


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    #157
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    crayolastereo wrote: »
    anyone watch tribe when they were younger?


    I loved that show! I had totally forgotten the name of it. I loved their fashion...it was kinda like The 5th Element. I remember an Asian dude in black and a cool chick with lots of hair colours. Gonna have to find that I think.

    As for TV I only watch X factor on television and only because it's a family thing. Anything else I watch online, I just can't be arsed with advertisements.


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    #158
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    Funny story, nearly ever trans or gay person I know is nerdy. It's unreal, but in a good way :D And I remember the tribe. 90s acting was awful, especially anything from australia, not picking on them though. Just never liked Home and Away, it's near impossible to keep up with the story lines and the new characters every week.
    define nerdy. Honestly I think it's just a product of the times we're living in, most of the gay people I know are barely computer literate though there's teachers, legals, two looking for their phd's and then there's the non pro's who don't work in any specific field and hardly what I'd consider nerdy. A mate of mine does own his own software development company though but he's straight, go figure.
    The manga thing is generational, it's barely a decade in this country and as I tend to spend a large quantity of my income supporting my daughters addiction it's become a pet peeve of mine. (and I've been to two conventions)
    If it's star trek nerdyness you're referring to, well..I was raised on it but i'm not an altogether scifi fanatic after the fact.
    Give me a sportmonger of any type though and I'll probably love you for it.


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    #159
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    I have a dilema though. I've been in college nearly 8 years. Have a computer engineering degree and finishing a software degree. I can chose to do a Psychology conversion and masters in health psychology (3 years), a BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy or go on and do research in software where I would love to specialise in AI another 3 years.

    I'm really torn between all three as I have reasons and interest for choosing them.


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    #160
    rainbow kirby
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    zxy wrote: »
    Give me a sportmonger of any type though and I'll probably love you for it.
    Hey, I swing that way too :pac:


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    #161
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    zxy wrote: »
    define nerdy.

    Would I be right in saying that the LGBT community of highly intelligent people. Everyone I've met seems to be incredibly bright with a good head on their shoulders despite their field of expertise.


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    #162
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    sweet ;)
    not really sure I'm an uber intelligent individual, probably more middle of the road but never really thought about any correlation between the two. It takes all kinds though right?


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    #163
    L.Jenkins
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    Oh it does :D


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    #164
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    zxy wrote: »
    The manga thing is generational, it's barely a decade in this country and as I tend to spend a large quantity of my income supporting my daughters addiction it's become a pet peeve of mine. (and I've been to two conventions)

    I'm a manga nerd. Used to Cosplay a bit...still kinda do, just not at conventions anymore.

    As for other nerdy stuff, I love Red Dwarf, internet memes/humor, graphic novels etc. And though my job isn't in "geeky" IT, I'm in Youth Work so I can put my nerd knowledge to use sometimes with some of the young people. Quoting Mighty Boosh gets me some brownie points.


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    #165
    L.Jenkins
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    My only experience of Anime and Manga is drawing and what not. What I do have is an electrical manual from the 1930s and an áss look of electronics magazines with schematics for all sorts of projects. I'll be probably be one of very few women to put an art studio and electronics lab in her house just for fun.


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    #166
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    My only experience of Anime and Manga is drawing and what not. What I do have is an electrical manual from the 1930s and an áss look of electronics magazines with schematics for all sorts of projects. I'll be probably be one of very few women to put an art studio and electronics lab in her house just for fun.

    Ya, you're a nerd :p


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    #167
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Why thank you :D I know we'd have a good beers if one could ever be arranged.


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    #168
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    I'll be probably be one of very few women to put an art studio and electronics lab in her house just for fun.
    Combine the two interests and make some really cool robots :D


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    #169
    L.Jenkins
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    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Combine the two interests and make some really cool robots :D

    I like your thinking, I'll keep you :)


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    #170
    Kanoe
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    electrobi wrote: »
    I'm a manga nerd. Used to Cosplay a bit...still kinda do, just not at conventions anymore.
    I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of my kid and her fascinations and she always looked supercool in her cosplay gear, I love her to bits but there comes a time in every parents life when you get to rediscover your own sense of self and being able to separate from the daily routine is important for me, so I leave the manga to the kids.
    As for other nerdy stuff, I love Red Dwarf, internet memes/humor, graphic novels etc. And though my job isn't in "geeky" IT, I'm in Youth Work so I can put my nerd knowledge to use sometimes with some of the young people. Quoting Mighty Boosh gets me some brownie points.
    I think I might have covered all these things at some stage of my life (and worked with kids) do I get brownie points for introducing my kid to the mighty boosh? (I didn't watch it for long as I felt like I'd already taken enough drugs)


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    #171
    L.Jenkins
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    zxy wrote: »
    I think I might have covered all these things at some stage of my life and do I get brownie points for introducing my kid to the mighty boosh? (I didn't watch it for long as I felt like I'd already taken enough drugs)

    Haha, of course!

    brownie.slice-737720.jpg


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    #172
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    you'd need a few to get through it alright :)


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    #173
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    Why thank you :D I know we'd have a good beers if one could ever be arranged.

    I concur. Might turn up like this, (Cosplay)

    black-butler-cosplay.jpg


    ;)


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    #174
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    If I had longer hair, I could do the same. Dye it for giggles! :) With a star trak outfit :P


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    #175
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    black butler?


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    #176
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    zxy wrote: »
    black butler?

    Yes :) Or Kuro****suji, that's Sebastian Phantomhive. Does your daughter read/watch it?

    ^^ lol there's a "bad" word in the middle of it


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    #177
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    she cosplayed as sebastian at her last convention..(and bye bye goes my internets anonymity)


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    #178
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    I must say I find all this manga fasinating, even though I don't read or watch it. For those of you that do love it, I have a trans friend and she's mad into it. You'd love her.


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    #179
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    zxy wrote: »
    she cosplayed as sebastian at her last convention..(and bye bye goes my internets anonymity)

    I think my anonymity disappeared within my first few posts. Ah well!

    It's great you have taken such an interest in your daughters hobbies that you know the names and everything. Also I meant that was Ciel* Phantomhive. Sebastian Michaelis is the Butler, which is who I last Cosplayed.


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    #180
    electrobi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭electrobi


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    I must say I find all this manga fasinating, even though I don't read or watch it. For those of you that do love it, I have a trans friend and she's mad into it. You'd love her.

    Aw sweet. For me it's just a fun and easy way to transform myself. I always enjoyed reading it when I was younger.


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    #181
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    I think I know who you are ;)


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