Top Ten Geekiest Hobbies (with effects on sex life)

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Dorkstorm: The Annihilation
The ten geekiest hobbies
By Seanbaby

You can tell a lot about a person from the hobbies they choose, especially if it requires them to be tied to a bathtub full of hot dogs with a panel of judges and a proctologist with a tape measure watching. But enough about coin collecting. We’ve contacted renowned experts on geeks, as well as many actual geeks, to compile this list of the dorkiest things you can do with your time. Each activity will be ranked on both how badly it humiliates the participant and how negatively it affects his or her sex life. These are not rough estimates. These are scientific facts based on the research done by captive supergeniuses working in controlled conditions with test mice and test mice dressed like tiny wizards.

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10. Comic Books: This is kind of a dork/geek linear superposition

9. RPGs: 100% geek (guilty as charged)

8. Scrapbooking?! WTF?! No self-respecting geek scrapbooks! That's a dork activity, 100%!

7. Star Wars: 100% geek (guilty as charged)

6. Vampirism: Not sure if it's goth or geek.
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The dark creatures breed some pretty sexy people jammed into some skimpy leathery outfits.

Damn skippy. I went to a gaming convention once (once!) and the sexiest people there were the ones doing vampire LARPing.

(Note to self: Never again roll my eyes and say, "Oh, bite me!" to a vampire babe.)

5. CCGs 100% geek, but to excess it becomes 100% dork. (guilty as charged)

4. Everquest: geeky, but not definingly so. In the extreme, it becomes merely dorky.

3. Star Trek: 100% geeky, can't be overdone to dorkiness. One of my best friends from grad school was a very attractive female trekker, who attended cons in costume (either as Dr Crusher, or Deanna Troi, or as a Klingon warrior babe). She routinely got glommed.

2. Furries/Plushies: I hate to admit it, but this is geeky, rather than dorky, as the people I know who are into this scene are computer people and engineers. They claim they're into it for the comics. Suuuuure...

1. LARPing: geeky. See the bit on vampires. They often go hand-in-hand.

[Book Lover]

1. 3 out of 10, but I still *feel* geeky

Let's see, Star Trek Barbie and Ken still on shelf at work: check. Small dice bowl with actual d10s, etc. also on shelf at work: check. Dozens of packs of Magic cards safely packed away and covered with thin layer of dust: check. Hmmm, maybe I'm not as geeky as I once was...

[Tardisian]

2. RenFaire-ing...

which I just got into, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien, The Pretender....DU? ;)

[Pithlet]

3. What are CCGs and "Plushies"?

I'm kind of scared to find out what Plushies is about :scared:

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9. CCGs = card-collecting games

For furries/plushies, try this article:

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2003-12-18/feature.html

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[yellowcanine]

4. RPGs? Rocket Propelled Grenades? This is a hobby? Who knew?

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[mrboba1]

5. that's what popped into my head too

guess I'm not a true geek!
:P

[redqueen]

18. Role Playing Games n/t

[yellowcanine]

6. I would add collecting baseball cards, beer cans, matchbooks - actually

any collecting hobby has high geek potential depending on how intently it is pursued. Train spotting and parade videotaping are right up there as well. I actually met a parade videotaper once.

[SarahB]

7. My SO for the past 14 years has developed a recent thing....

For Gothic looking women. It think he wanted to get as far as possible from the Miss All-American look like I have. It's ok though, I even bought him a subscription to a site with naked ones for our anniversary this year. (I'm even a cool woman to split up with I tell ya!)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. God, you didn't even hit the DORKIEST hobbies of all time

such as...

Spending hours downloading music you never listen to.

Memorizing every line of the movie "Dune" (the one with Sting). When you are NINE.

Totally getting into things like PB Teen catalog and actually buying things out of it, only problem you aren't a teenager and you don't have kids.

Talking to someone, realizing you share the same love of some obscure poet or writer and laughing yourselves silly quoting lines from said writer, annyoning the shit out of everyone around you.

Taking your TELESCOPE WITH YOU TO CAR DEALERSHIPS to make sure it fits in the trunk when picking out a new car. Top that.

You know not the COOL dorky stuff like gaming, but the stuff that just pushes dorkdom to the OUTER limits right into "makes people slightly uncomfortable when you talk about it."


*Disclaimer: only reason I know about the Outer Limits of Dorkdom is because I live with and know well several people who are contenders for Biggest Dorks of All Time. And they rub off on me a lot.

[jdj]

15. And the telescope wins!!!!!!!!!!!

Best I have ever heard.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I am a scrapbooker that married a Trekkie...so I guess that evens us out

back to normal. :hi:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Spelunking?

i.e. the sport of cave exploring. First, it is hard to find women who want to bathe in mud and near freezing cold underground water over a week-end. The few girls who have actually accepted an invitation to go spelunking with me have absolutely freaked out when they saw for example a bat colony at the entrance to a cave and especially when I asked them to strap themselves into a harness and rappel down a 150 foot shaft into the dark... and they stop taking my phone calls thereafter.

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12. I did that for PE at college. It was a blast!

[redqueen]

19. Those girls are wimps

you need a real woman if you're looking for a spelunking partner, obviously.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Yes on 9, used to be yes on 10

and, I'm a bit of a Star Wars fan and a bit of a Trekkie (never been to a convention for either, or for RPGs, either.

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14. Who left out anime/manga/J-Pop?

I'm a bit too old for most of what's on the list, but one or both of my kids have been through all of them except scrapbooking and (shudder) furries. (Well, they were into Star Wars/Star Trek only as viewers, not heavy-duty fans. And vampirism only via a Vampire LARP, not for its own sake.)

But the real leading edge of geek fashion these days involves anime, manga, and J-Pop. Not to mention the set of related eccentricities that includes cosplay, Malice Mizer videos, and Goth Lolita fashions.

Oh, and Chinese Wuxia movies, of course.

And even just talking US stuff, the lineage of Babylon 5/Farscape/Firefly has far more geek street cred than Star Wars and Star Trek rolled together.

Frankly, I think that list is seriously out of date.

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16. Good point about B5

I'd add Buffy the Vampire Slayer to that list, as well.

What is manga, J-pop, Malice Mizer, and Goth Lolita (I'm assuming the latter consists of goth clothing for 12 year olds? If so, that's disturbing...)

Oh, and Wuxia? What's that?

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20. Definitions

Manga are the print version of anime -- Japanese comic books, more or less, but with the artistic and thematic sophistication of anime. There are manga versions of most well-known anime -- you can find a lot of them in translation these days in graphic novel form.

J-pop is Japanese pop music. Most of it is very light and bubblegum, but not all. There's also J-rock, J-rap, and other forms.

Malice Mizer -- think a combo of Kiss, David Bowie, and Marilyn Manson, with heavy cross-dressing and a general Japanese flavor.

Goth Lolita is Victorian Goth crossed with Alice in Wonderland -- not actual twelve-year-olds so much as 20-year-olds trying to look terminally doomed.

Wuxia is movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Hero." (Which is being released here in a few weeks and is possible the most visually gorgeous movie ever made. The ads are starting to show up on tv.)

I don't want to put up images and overburden the fansites, but you can Google any of these and find examples.

[Tummler]

22. History of the wuxia pien

From Mark Pollard of KungFuCinema.com:

"All throughout Chinese film history there exists two major categories of martial arts film, the wuxia pien and kung fu. Where kung fu, which is grounded in reality and has its roots in Hong Kong's Cantonese serials based upon the legends of famous martial arts masters like Wong Fei-hung, the wuxia pien has existed as a popular storytelling genre in written form since the 9th century. To know wuxia pien, is to know the very foundations of martial arts cinema and its continued popularity in all mediums."

Much more:
http://www.kungfucinema.com/categories/wuxiapien.htm

I had no idea that wuxia films were "hip" in any way, shape, or form. They've been a staple of the Hong Kong film scene throughout most of its history.

[Nay]

17. They left out "voracious reading habit."

Voracious reading of any kind and on any (or many) subjects has always been geeky. It's why I'm geeky. I also scrapbook. And I collect bookmarks.

[Aristus]

21. How about a geeky hobby that can IMPROVE your sex life:

Try community theater. Trust me, theater babes LOVE sex! ;-) :evilgrin:

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23. And homebrewing.

Try going to a UU church, especially around a solstice or equinox, bearing mead. The pagan wenches will be all over you. :evilgrin:

[Archae]

24. Gawd, am I a geek...

"10. Comic Books: This is kind of a dork/geek linear superposition"

Nowhere near what I used to be. But still like a couple titles.

"9. RPGs: 100% geek (guilty as charged)"

Belong to 2 RPG groups.

"7. Star Wars: 100% geek (guilty as charged)"

I enjoy the movies, Gave up on the novels. The comic books suck, they always sucked.

"3. Star Trek: 100% geeky, can't be overdone to dorkiness. One of my best friends from grad school was a very attractive female trekker, who attended cons in costume (either as Dr Crusher, or Deanna Troi, or as a Klingon warrior babe). She routinely got glommed."

An original Trekker (NOT Trekkie!) here, since 1966, been to a couple conventions but never in costume.

"2. Furries/Plushies: I hate to admit it, but this is geeky, rather than dorky, as the people I know who are into this scene are computer people and engineers. They claim they're into it for the comics. Suuuuure..."

Contrary to the POS article from the horse's ass who wrote that Houston newspaper article, "Furrys" and "plushies" are not always together, in fact most Furrys (like me,) consider Plushies, (people who have sex with plush toys,) to be simply bizarre.

And there are some DAMN good comic books in the Furry genre.
Extinctioners
Shanda The Panda
Omaha The Cat Dancer
Xanadu (No, nothing to do with the musical)
Katmandu

And look up "Zig Zag Tiger Skunk" on the internet, you're in for a treat.

So am I a geek?
You bet.

But a nice geek you wouldn't mind hanging around.

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25. You forgot "Kevin & Kell"

I like that comic, although that's as close to "furry" as I come.

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26. Zig Zag Tiger Skunk? I don't get it.

I looked it up, found the webpage.

I just don't get it.

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27. How did they leave out fantasy sports??

When football season is going on, it's a wonder that I even have a girlfriend.