how’s this!
Posted on September 16th, 2004, under Randoms
my results:
| You are 0% geek | Boy, you really broke through the bottom on this one. You are SO not geek. I recommend staying away from conventions, computer stores, colleges, universities, or anywhere else people might display the slightest interest in something other than what’s on TV at the present moment. Your mere presence among geeks of any degree is incredibly dangerous to the continued existence of the known universe. Here, I’ll say it slow so you can understand: Anti-geek + Geek = Big Boom. Now go read a book, for god’s sake. |
On September 17th, 2004 at 2:25 am, gil said:
C’mon, Mel… You write about Deleuze! You hafta be at least 10-12% geeky for that alone.
:)
On September 17th, 2004 at 9:49 am, mc gregg said:
i know, i can’t believe it! if i stayed away from all the places in their list i’m not sure i’d ever leave the house. but i’m even more puzzled by the pictures accompanying the scores for the test. gil, as one of my few known US readers, is the girl in the picture someone i should know? jean got drew barrymore, who i’m sure i’m much geekier than. but my picture seems, well, a little bit B grade in the porn sense rather than the coming of age flick sense - tho i admit there ain’t much difference, and by asking i may be implying that you are an expert on either of these genres!
On September 17th, 2004 at 11:35 am, Random Stranger said:
This was my score (below - if HTML coding is allowed here - SHEESH !!! I am a geek !!!).
No, I am 10% geek. I spent quite a bit of my late teens getting baked and watching Akira (please note, I lived in Gatton during my late teens) so I think that’s what got me across the line.
Those records surveyed were frighteningly bad. I scored a straight run of zeros. And I actually own some pretty bad records. If anyone reading this owns any of those records, you should think about pawning them. Even Weezer, you know Rivers picks up girls online right?
I’m most upset by my designated Arn-nolt avatar. I thought geeks were usually (at least) soft leftists by merit of a lifetime of exclusion.
Marking papers. It smokes. Anyone wanna come round this weekend and get baked and watch Akira?
You are 10% geekOK, so maybe you ain’t a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you’re probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you. Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
On September 17th, 2004 at 11:54 am, mc gregg said:
hey random stranger, will you be posting the accompanying picture on your own blog by any chance? i need to know if my answer to the gender question needs changing…
and how dare you suggest parting with weezer! oh dear. but really, we should all think about compiling an australian version of this test.
On September 17th, 2004 at 12:43 pm, jean/drew said:
It seems apparent that if you elect to be female for the purposes of the test, the images represent your position on the continuum between geekiness (i.e. obsessive intelligence without charisma) and bimboness (i.e. porno-esque sex appeal and shopping skills without intelligence). In order to maximise the geeky detail as to the results of the test,
can someone please do it as :
a. a geeky female (who would this be? i wanna know. and where would we put gretel killeen in the oz version?)
and
b. a non-geeky male (my money is on a photograph of some football jock and/or keanu reeves)
On September 17th, 2004 at 3:27 pm, Random Stranger said:
Q: And where would we put gretel killeen in the oz version?
A: Hell.
PS: Why aren’t there any amateur emo-pornographers hanging out here like at my blog?
On September 18th, 2004 at 8:48 am, gil said:
I could be wrong, but I believe the non-geeky image is Britney Spears.
(And, for the record, I appear to be 61% geeky, which got me a picture of Drew Carey.)
On September 18th, 2004 at 9:22 am, mc gregg said:
61% ??? that is amazing. do you think that confirms the US centrism of the test, or do you just have a really bad cd collection?! once i receive confirmation from my personal britney advisor, i am going to add this to my blog description: ‘mc gregg, britney spears of cultural studies’. it will fit well with comments made in recent public appearances.
and in response to random stranger: because this blog is classy. to wit, no more dissin’ gretel. she is a highly competent woman in an unforgiving job. a symbol of our times…