Originally posted by vetran
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Previously on "Darmy this you? Did you use the Balcony as the kitchen was full with a mainframe?"
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Originally posted by radish2008 View PostWe should take back control of the word geek. My friend calls himself a geek because he likes Dr Who.
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The 1975 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published a decade before the tech revolution, gave only one definition: "Geek [noun, slang]. A carnival performer whose act usually consists of biting the head off a live chicken or snake." The tech revolution found new uses for this word, but it still often conveys a derogatory sting. Today, Dictionary.com gives five definitions, the fourth of which is "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken." [4]
The definition of geek has changed considerably over time, and there is no longer a definitive meaning. The term nerd has a similar, practically synonymous meaning as geek, but many choose to identify different connotations among these two terms, although the differences are disputed. In a 2007 interview on The Colbert Report, Richard Clarke said the difference between nerds and geeks is "geeks get it done" or "ggid"[5] Julie Smith defined a geek as "a bright young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace—somewhere exciting, a place more real than his own life, a land he could conquer, not a drab teenager's room in his parents' house".[6]
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Originally posted by BR14 View Postwho're you calling a geek?
mainframes predate the word geek
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Must be lots of opportunity for new perversions. Maybe we could combine philias and phobias. Arachnophobes having sex while covered in spiders, Acrophobes while zip wiring etc.
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Originally posted by BR14 View Postwish MY kitchen was that big
"I wish my kitchen was big enough for a mainframe"
No wonder we are considered Geeks.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostGerman women in hospital after threesome goes wrong | Daily Mail Online
and my new favourite phrase:
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Darmy this you? Did you use the Balcony as the kitchen was full with a mainframe?
German women in hospital after threesome goes wrong | Daily Mail Online
Two women are in hospital with broken bones after a THREESOME went wrong with one falling off a balcony as she reached climax and the other slipping as she ran to help in Germany
First woman broke bones after toppling from balcony as she reached her climax
Her naked friend ran to help only to slip and break bones in her arm and neck
Man involved in threesome, in Bad Breisig, Germany, then had to explain the scenario to medics
The man in the threesome told them that 'during the lovemaking, there was a positional quarrel', with one of the ladies leaning against a balcony railing which led to her plunge.Tags: None
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