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What's your nerdiest feature?

  • 10-12-2009 11:58pm
    #1
    cashback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭


    Is there something about your personality that is a bit nerdy? An obsession that maybe you keep to yourself or a collection you've built up over time? I think everyone is a bit of an anorak about something eg music, football, collecting callcards!

    For me, it's trains. I don't know why but I've always loved them. When I was younger I'd even get a bit excited at the sight of a railway track, never mind actually taking a train (sad.... probably). Had a few hornby sets as well. Now I'm not a train spotter or anything (would be a pretty pointless pursuit in Ireland) but I always take a train if it's an option. I'll take the Trans-Siberian someday hopefully, seven days on a train? Deadly!

    What brings out your inner nerd?


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  • #2
    Leftyflip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Leftyflip


    Boards.


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I guess my right leg


  • #4
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    I'm a massive dr who nerd,and not ashamed to admit it!


  • #5
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Spending pretty much all day every day online


  • #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    You seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites?


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  • #7
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i can speak backwards


  • #8
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    The 17 asian people i have chained up in my basement to do my accounts.


  • #9
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    Every morning, on the train on my way into work, I take out my laptop, listen to Lyric FM, and categorise my all of my emails from the previous day into the seventeen million and one different subcategories I have within my inbox.

    It's very calming ... :o


  • #10
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Glasses and my Smarts.


  • #11
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I'm circumcised.


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  • #12
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    I get far too excited about brains. Not in a zombie way, in a far-less-cool "what does this bit do!?" way :cool:


  • #13
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Leftyflip wrote: »
    Boards.
    That, my knowledge of computers, my thirst for scientific knowledge, and my love of space exploration...


  • #14
    Columbia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    I spend about 15 hours at day at my computer, this is divided up pretty equally between work, browsing, and watching television programs online.

    I collect National Geographics.

    I also think I talk in a nerdy sort of way, although others don't think the same.


  • #15
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Retro Gaming. 'Tis where I'm mostly found on Boards.


  • #16
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Something nerdy about me? Everything is nerdy about me. I am happy in Nerddom.


  • #17
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    I'm circumcised.
    You know the drill, pics or.....


  • #18
    Ross_Mahon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    Beating 16 year old annoying American kids on Xbox live


  • #19
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    boards i suppose

    thats about it


  • #20
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    jokettle wrote: »
    I get far too excited about brains. Not in a zombie way, in a far-less-cool "what does this bit do!?" way :cool:
    So you get a stick and have a poke around so to speak?


  • #21
    ConmanTheKiller
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭ConmanTheKiller


    I`d say the fact i`m studying physics in college, I wear glasses and I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of stargate.

    I also love trains :D


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  • #22
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    So you get a stick and have a poke around so to speak?


    Replace "stick" with "scanning equipment" and you've got it ;)

    We waits till they falls asleep before we gets out the poking shtcik.


  • #23
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I analyse the **** out of everything in my own little mind

    And although I can remember no ones name I meet in real life I can remember something that happened on TV 15 years ago and random actors names


  • #24
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Kiera wrote: »
    You know the drill, pics or.....

    You want to see that? o.O


  • #25
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    snyper wrote: »
    boards i suppose

    thats about it

    Me too.

    That's about it.


  • #26
    ReacherCreature
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Obsession with fighter jets.


  • #27
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    cruiser178 wrote: »
    Even for AH thats not even kind of funny.

    The question was "what is your nerdiest feature"..not "tell us a joke and we'll judge you on it".


  • #28
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    I'd say it's my personality, I used to give grinds to people in my own class during my undergrad, and I used to give grinds to a few people doing their postgrads while I was still an undergrad. Also, I remember random pieces of information and I love environmental economics. Also I've red hair so that might be something.


  • #29
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    everything about me is nerd.


  • #30
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    You want to see that? o.O
    You dont? O_o


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  • #31
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    When I have free time Ill drive to the airport and happily sit for hours watching and taking photos of planes.


  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh, where do I start?

    I work in a computer shop repairing and building PCs.

    I'm obsessed with trains, am a member of the IRRS (went on tours with them too) and I have a small model railway of CIE and Irish Rail stock.

    I'm more interested in what goes on inside a TV than what's on the screen. I even collect Sky TV and NTL/UPC viewing cards.


  • #33
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Kiera wrote: »
    You dont? O_o

    Is your nerdiest feature voyeurism? :D


  • #34
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    tony1kenobi wrote: »
    The question was "what is your nerdiest feature"..not "tell us a joke and we'll judge you on it".
    What kind of a fcuking stupid response is that,do you not listen to the news,your best answer to this thread is serial rapist.
    If i called you an idiot or a **** on this site because of what you said i would be banned.Do you not realise your post is very offensive??or are you trolling??


  • #35
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Karsini wrote: »
    Oh, where do I start?

    I work in a computer shop repairing and building PCs.

    I'm obsessed with trains, am a member of the IRRS (went on tours with them too) and I have a small model railway of CIE and Irish Rail stock.

    I'm more interested in what goes on inside a TV than what's on the screen. I even collect Sky TV and NTL/UPC viewing cards.

    Never realised there were trainspotters in Ireland, thought it was an english thing cos they have a decent rail system, which we apparantely had until independence and iarnroid eireann


  • #36
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Is your nerdiest feature voyeurism? :D
    Yup but i only like watching pandas ;)


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  • #37
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Boards.

    I've a very obsessive passion for Irish folk music... and I fcuking mean obsessive. That's nerdy to some people, but fuck 'em.

    That's it though


  • #38
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Just my personality really

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #39
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Nothing really too nerdy, apart from having red hair!.

    Oh, I do have a HAM radio licence and awards for CW (morse code) competitions, I'd say that counts as pretty nerdy!.


  • #40
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Stee wrote: »
    When I have free time Ill drive to the airport and happily sit for hours watching and taking photos of planes.

    That can get you arrested in some places. Or worse.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Koda Prehistoric Sociology wrote: »
    Never realised there were trainspotters in Ireland, thought it was an english thing cos they have a decent rail system, which we apparantely had until independence and iarnroid eireann

    Oh there are Irish ones, just not as many. I know a couple of them who even work in Irish Rail. A lot of English spotters came over here for years as we held on to locomotive hauled trains but now that it's mostly railcars they've mostly lost interest.


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  • #42
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    It use to be music /special edition magazines with me and and I have loads of em boxed away but now it's mainly all pc related stuff like youtubing ...boards


  • #43
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Nerdiest feature, don don don..... I love Lost!! Also I love RPG games like Final Fantasy and such other than that im a beer swelling chick loving gun toting rock n roller!


  • #44
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    cruiser178 wrote: »
    What kind of a fcuking stupid response is that,do you not listen to the news,your best answer to this thread is serial rapist.
    If i called you an idiot or a **** on this site because of what you said i would be banned.Do you not realise your post is very offensive??or are you trolling??

    Of course it is very offensive.Yes I listen to the news.I watch it too.If you called me an idiot or a c*nt(?) you'd be right, and I wouldn't ban you, because you are entitled to your opinion, which as I already agreed, is spot on. I AM an idiot.

    However this is a public internet forum and I do, sadly, have the right to post whatever I desire once it stays within the parameters of the forum rules.

    If you want to debate then PM me. If you think I'm trolling look at my post count and how infrequently I visit this board....if you just want to shout louder than me, go on ahead....I won't shout louder...and you win.


  • #45
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Noelle Crooked Hoodlum wrote: »
    Oh, I do have a HAM radio licence and awards for CW (morse code) competitions, I'd say that counts as pretty nerdy!.

    Depends. Did you do signals in the army?


  • #46
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    me-skywalker wrote: »
    Nerdiest feature, don don don..... I love Lost!! Also I love RPG games like Final Fantasy and such other than that im a beer swelling chick loving gun toting rock n roller!

    Hey!:eek:
    I love Lost too, I'm not a nerd.:mad:

    Wrestling is way up there on my list, so I'm definitely not a nerd.:P

    /Not the crap that passes as Wrestling these days, but when Wrestling had the :eek: factor.


  • #47
    j14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭j14


    I've just turned 30 and I still buy Star Wars toys. Only last week I spent €200 on three figures! I also have a full size replica Storm Trooper helmet and also two working Light Sabers. I'm a bit of a star wars geek. I also love Red Dwarf and would happily watch that and Star Wars until the end of time.


  • #48
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    tony1kenobi wrote: »
    Of course it is very offensive.Yes I listen to the news.I watch it too.If you called me an idiot or a c*nt(?) you'd be right, and I wouldn't ban you, because you are entitled to your opinion, which as I already agreed, is spot on. I AM an idiot.

    However this is a public internet forum and I do, sadly, have the right to post whatever I desire once it stays within the parameters of the forum rules.

    If you want to debate then PM me. If you think I'm trolling look at my post count and how infrequently I visit this board....if you just want to shout louder than me, go on ahead....I won't shout louder...and you win.
    pm sent


  • #49
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I live on my computer. Yeah, on it.
    My college course is a bit nerdy to some I guess.


  • #50
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    I analyse the **** out of everything in my own little mind

    And although I can remember no ones name I meet in real life I can remember something that happened on TV 15 years ago and random actors names

    +1. Except for remembering names, I'm terrible at that. :)


  • #51
    TheScribbler
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭TheScribbler


    I know I'm a nerd as I love electric trains. I even wear an anorak with my conductor's cap, for gosh sake!


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