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Poll: Are you a nerd?

First thing, if you don't know what a nerd is, then go check the, "what is a nerd?" thread.
This poll includes the vast diversity of nerd species from D&D fanatics, to academic book worms, and sci/fi buffs.

What are your nerdish tendencies?

I have been cross bread with virtually all known variants of nerds. I enjoy sci/fi and anime (mostly in the post apocalyptic vein); I play video games (as time allows); I have thousands of Magic The Gathering cards; I have varied academic interests; I am currently learning various programing languages.

This is a couple years old, so the amounts may have changed, but.... 'tis good for a ponder or a laugh....

Nerd vs. Jock

Is it better to be a jock than a nerd?

Michael Jordan made over $300,000 a game. That equals $10,000 a minute, at an average of 30 minutes per game. With $40 million in endorsements, he made $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head. If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.

If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.

He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.

He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.

He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round. Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.

If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year. He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics.

He'll make about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.

While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.

This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past Presidents will for all of their terms combined.

Amazing isn't it?

However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today.

Game over. Nerd wins.

At school I would not be considered a nerd I have a lot of friends, have cute clothes, get good grades and such... blah blah blah.
But at home I am a complete "Nerd". I read all the time (most of them are Vampire books.) watch the history channel and love spending weekends hanging out at home.

more of an anime nerd! i love that stuff! but i like being a weird gamer also so like i'm happy to be a nerd!!!!

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I read almost two books a day, watch that stupid(but surprisingly funny) show Avatar: the Last Airbender, and I love to draw Anime, whether or not I'm good at it.

totally nerd here. I wish I was the money making variety. Instead, I'm the kind that sits, writes his own books, plays videogames, and watches cartoons while chugging chocolate milk. I was surprised with that Avatar show. My brother had it on and I thought it was going to be another pathetic american anime. It's actually surprisingly good.

there are dumb nerds. Like, freaky nerds, but lacking the intelligence.

i'm a nerd and proud of it. what's the problem with nerds? c'mon, if we didn't have nerds, we wouldn't have computers or cell phones or anything. right?

Ill let you decide if Im nerdy or not:

I am studying psychology at university.

I live with two guys both of whom are studying computer courses to do with internet and games design. One of them is currently writing a computer game, the other is designing a programme that designs cities!

I read fantasy novels like theyre going out of fassion... although come to think of it, have they ever been in fassion?

I can quote chunks of Hitchhikers Guid and Red Dwarf.

I can quote the entire Jim Henson film The Labyrinth.

I count my mum, daddy and granny among my best friends (and I suppose you can add that I still call my father daddy into the list of my nerdyness).

I play D&D on a regular basis and have the most awesomest character ever! She is a rogue/scout called Dally and is the most unremarkable looking woman you will ever see... that is untill you see her move! She can climb like nobodys busness and her method of fighting is basically hit it hard and fast and be out of reach by the time they realise what has happened. (Sorry to go on, but I cant help boasting about her cos I love her so much. Although she is a total brat and I would slap her one if it wasnt me who was RPing her, lol.) I suppose the icing on the cake is that my boyfriend (and DM) actually named my breasts after my characters main moves; Sneak Attack and Skirmish. Anyone who understands the full extent of that joke shall be crowned the monarch of all nerds (Ill give you a clue, its to do with the feat that allows you to stack the damage of those two moves and my own name in real life, lol).

X Amber X

I don't think I'm a nerd. I mean, I do wear glasses ocassionally when I get tired of my contacts ... but ...
I sucked at Math, was prolly only good at Art in school - the Sciences were halfway moderate for me.
I'm such a conundrum.

RJ

*Finds cattle prod* HEHEHEHE.... mwhahahahah gots something for you, RJ