A message to geeks everywhere!
Geeks, who doesn't love em, eh?
Chances are, if you are reading this there is geek blood running rampant through your veins. Hell, I admit I can be extremely geeky, I have an encyclopedic knowledge of much of what pop culture has to offer, Obscure (and not so) 70's/80's/90's cartoons and TV, Comics, Cult Movies, Anime, Toys, Videogames... the lot.
So heres a message to geeks everywhere, in the vain hope it gets drummed into some of you...
WHEN YOU ARE IN PUBLIC - TONE IT DOWN TO AN ACCEPTIBLE FUCKING LEVEL.
Too many times have I been in a pub, for a night on the town, only for some geek or other ending up dragging me into a conversation about something incredibly geeky.
Heres the fucking skinny, guys. when I go out to a pub, I do it for one of three reasons: -
Going to a pub and ending up in an in depth discussion about, for example, Spike's path to redemption in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is fucking depressing. Im drinking beer to numb my mind, i dont need the conversation to help, If you want to talk about Buffy in a pub keep it to the level of WHO HAS THE BEST ARSE, or something.
Theres a time and a place for everything... And if I were you, I'd keep it reserved for conventions and the internet.
/Rant
(This message was bought to you by the campaign to tell people being geeky in public is NOT BIG OR CLEVER, in fact, its a bit weird and youll find less people talk to you.)
Chances are, if you are reading this there is geek blood running rampant through your veins. Hell, I admit I can be extremely geeky, I have an encyclopedic knowledge of much of what pop culture has to offer, Obscure (and not so) 70's/80's/90's cartoons and TV, Comics, Cult Movies, Anime, Toys, Videogames... the lot.
So heres a message to geeks everywhere, in the vain hope it gets drummed into some of you...
WHEN YOU ARE IN PUBLIC - TONE IT DOWN TO AN ACCEPTIBLE FUCKING LEVEL.
Too many times have I been in a pub, for a night on the town, only for some geek or other ending up dragging me into a conversation about something incredibly geeky.
Heres the fucking skinny, guys. when I go out to a pub, I do it for one of three reasons: -
- GET PISSED
- Socialise like a NORMAL MEMBER OF SOCIETY (rare, but, meh)
- ALL OF THE ABOVE
Going to a pub and ending up in an in depth discussion about, for example, Spike's path to redemption in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is fucking depressing. Im drinking beer to numb my mind, i dont need the conversation to help, If you want to talk about Buffy in a pub keep it to the level of WHO HAS THE BEST ARSE, or something.
Theres a time and a place for everything... And if I were you, I'd keep it reserved for conventions and the internet.
/Rant
(This message was bought to you by the campaign to tell people being geeky in public is NOT BIG OR CLEVER, in fact, its a bit weird and youll find less people talk to you.)
posted by Mentski at 11:04 PM
1 Comments:
thing is, ol' chappee, you allow yourself to get dragged into these conversations...tsk tsk...have more willpower..admit it, the faintest hint of a geek conversation, just one slight mistake in the geek's facts, and your there, unable to help yourself, corrcting them and proceeding to engage them in word speak stuff.....no point shouting at the geeks, and we are many, you just need more willpower...alternativly, go to the pub a bit earlier and drik more quickly..that way you simply won;t be able to have,, 'The Conversation'
I speak from years of Dr Who conventions and Fitzroy Tavern nights....getting very drunk, very quickly is the only way...the geek gene won;t let you avoid trouble unless you do...
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