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Davor wrote:
A nerd/geek can never become a jock and be able to play great at sports and have a great physique

Why not? Getting good at a sport simply takes dedication and practice at it, and getting a better physique just some hard work at the gym or other outside activities.

I was never a 'jock', but when I was in school I both played wargamed and surfed.

 -Loki- wrote:

Davor wrote:
A nerd/geek can never become a jock and be able to play great at sports and have a great physique

Why not? Getting good at a sport simply takes dedication and practice at it, and getting a better physique just some hard work at the gym or other outside activities.

I was never a 'jock', but when I was in school I both played wargamed and surfed.

I didn't say that properly. Ok let's try again.

A nerd geek in the classic sense, very skinny no muscle, or fat and out of shape, just normal looking and very social awkward will in most cases never become a jock. Usually a Jock has good looks, very good body physique and socially acceptable. A nerd/geek as I just said could never do this in most cases. No matter how good they are, we will never have a Bill Gates looking like he can be a Quarter Back or Captain of a Football/hockey/baseball/what ever manly sport you think of. He will never be a UFC fighter/boxer with good looks. He will never be a Brock Lesnar.

But all these people if they play with plastic toy soldiers are Geeks because that is what us geeks do. Call it an "inner geek" which a lot of people don't want it know to others that is what they do. We even have a few posters here who have an "inner geek" they are ashamed of to admit. To say you are not a geek means you are ashamed to say that you are a geek because you like doing geeky things.

Does this make more sense?

...just when I thought this thread could not make me /facepalm any harder.

Whats make you nerd is not how you look, but hobby that most of other peoples dont understand, At least that its what I think.

I have always found it a sign of immaturity to be hung up on others' opinions of you.

Nerd/geek/whatever, the only real reason to shy away from these terms is because of your own insecurities.

The reality is nobody really cares if you're a "nerd" except you.

As someone who has had a rather colourful history, played sports all my life, used (cba these days) to have abbs I could have used to grate Jason Stathams chin on. Im a proud toy soldier geek.

Anyone got an issue with that. Well step into the ring son and see who the real biatch is shall we

Really in this day and age the whole gamers (PC, consoles, modelling) =/= geek/nerd is total garbage.

Another reason why 40K gaming and some other games are considered for Geeks and Nerds. Just look at the forums.

Mathhammer. Number crunching. When ever it's number crunching, it's usually for geeks and nerds.

Monopoly. Is it really number crunching? No. You roll your dice and play, everyone is on equal footing at the beginning. Playing a game like 40K, Warmahordes or what ever, for a lot of people it comes down to number crunching, what army is "better" so that is why Monopoly is a board game for "normal" people and 40K/Warmahordes is for Geeks/nerds.

Maybe that is why Risk is not considered a Geek/Nerd game because there is no number crunching in the game. Again everyone is on equal footing from the beginning.

I believe that is why board games are considered ok to play but when it comes to miniature games, when number crunching is involved, no matter on how much a small or big scale, it's for geeks and nerds to play with.

That is why computers was for nerds in the beginning. Number crunching. Now we don't need to know DOS or what ever came before DOS. To use a console or computer doesn't need number crunching anymore so it's ok to use now without any stigma to it.

Only number crunching that is ok for a Manly man to play is Poker, and Sports stats like Baseball. Then again when it comes to baseball if you know the stats for that game and players, it's more of a compulsion than being a real fan and could have a stigma to that.