Stupid stereotypes

[Skatepunk60]

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Edited February 8, 2006 by Skatepunk60

[Jess Ragan]

I think you're trying to overcompensate a bit by bragging about your "extremeness". Personally, I don't mind being considered a nerd. Nerds are highly intelligent and successful, after all.

Besides, namecalling isn't going to change the way I live my life... if people don't like that I listen to 80's music and play older video games, too bad so sad for them.

 

JR

[Skatepunk60]

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Edited February 8, 2006 by Skatepunk60

[Saqqqq]

hey are you a pumpkins fan?! (got that from that ZERO written across youre skulls forehead!)

 

yeah, ima geek and a nerd at heart! *yay for me*!! i love it, nope, certainly not outwardly appearance wise, nor would you think it from the pyschos and slackers i hang out with, but when I want to relax and clear my mind, theres nothing like playing my childhood games on my childhood console(and im only 20!).. i think it adds a bit of character actually, instead of shelling out £40 for a new Dreamcast game!

 

so, i admit to being a geek to everyone who asks me, im a nerd at heart! pretty proud of it too hehehe.

[Hakogame 箱亀]

I'm more of a weirdo than a nerd or a geek, I think my loatheing of japanese anime and computer animation keeps me from being either one of those.

[StanJr]

Its like any other type of stereotyping, there will always be those who fit and feed the stereotype, but often there are a great many who are just "normal", diverse and unique people that do not fit so well in the box. Don't let it bug you, if you are comfortable with who you are, others shouldn't be able to sink your boat. Its unfair, its not fun, but in the end, stereotyping is just someone showing off their ignorance and lack of understanding.

 

Too bad your own hypocritical statement about rap undermines your previous point. There is nothing wrong with rap, its just not your scene. Rap IS a form of music as much as any other, just not one you like. No big.

 

Sensible Stan

[liquid_sky]

im punk, but i dont go around screaming it in everything i do, i think that is alot like the posers using it as a fashion statement and exploiting the scene. Rap is more of free verse spoken poetry than music, but thats just how i see it.

[Unbeliever]

Well, I think I'll add my comment. Hmm, a geek? Yeah, I've been called that. But, since I could care less what other people think of me, I just smile that fractured toothy smile o'mine and say, "yeah, I am. I bet you can't buy YOUR games for $2.00 a pop!!" Heh, something ultimately satisfying as they stand in shock, if only for a minute, by that statement. Atari was big in it's day, and thanks, to all the "geeks" of today who still enjoy retrogaming, it lives on. I think my Atari has enjoyed more life now than the Playstation before it (which is sitting up in the closet, go figure). Pitfall has been played many hours now, and all the others I enjoy are right behind it.

[Nateo]

When I say I like Atari, people think I'm a nerd, and I sort of am! Tall and skinny, snow white skin, muscles as squishy as mashed potatoes, yep, that's me! But all of that's going to change, cause I just started working out! I take Karate too, so I kind of do a sport, and that dosen't make me a complete nerd.

[Ze_ro]

Usually when I tell people I'm into Atari, they just get huge nostalgic flashbacks, and we get into conversations about the best games for the VCS, etc, etc...

 

It's usually when I tell them that I have about 350 cartridges, and about 11 systems that they start thinking I'm weird

 

But in the end, I'm an electrical engineering major... I enjoy programming in assembly language (and yet despise C++ and Java)... I took classes on electric fields because they were interesting, and I hope to learn more about quantum mechanics in future classes. I think people calling me a nerd or a loser are probably understating things

 

Despite all that though, I really don't think I *look* like a nerd... though I suppose that's all a matter of perspective.

 

--Zero

[Ian Primus]

Everyone considers me a nerd, but that doesn't bother me. I am a nerd. My computer is totally homemade, and includes erector set drive mounts and duct tape to boot. I own my weight in game systems/carts. I have enough computer hardware to fill an entire u-haul truck. I not only know what an 8 inch floppy is, but I have some, and a drive. I have actually worn out mice. I have actually built a computer from legos. I have managed to go through 3 soldering irons in a year. I can drink an entire pot of coffee in one sitting. I figured out how to change the value of an integer number in Apple IIe basic so that 2+2 comes out as 6... Yup, i'm a nerd. But I guess that being addiced to obsolete games could be a good thing... I once won a bet that I couldn't beat a friend at any game. He let me choose - he watched me play Asteroids on the 2600 for an hour and a half and only die once, only to die in about five minutes when it was finally his turn. - "This joystick is too stiff!" was his excuse... Of course, my favorite question I ever got from a friend (different friend) was when I introduced him to Space Invaders. "What fires?" he asked. "Well, considering that the controller only has one button, I think that you can find it by trial and error" was my response.

 

Ian Primus

ian_primus@yahoo.com

[orangekombi]

When I tell people about my Atari collection, they just laugh and don't think I'm serious. Probably cause I don't fit the typical 'nerd' stereotype.

I'm Punk. I love Punk music. But I also like rap and other styles of music aswell. Punk isn't about being 'cool' and having to wear the right kind of clothes. It's about being yourself.

Bragging about how 'Punk' you are is not very Punk. You seem to fit the 'Teeny Bopper Bubblegum Pop Punk' stereotype. I bet your favourite bands are Blink 182 and Good Charlotte.

 

Live lightly.

"Live your heart and never follow"-(Hot Water Music)

[Joel D. Park]

You could call me alot of things..

 

I'm kind of a nerd. I'm a computer programmer, and play a ton of video games.

 

But I'm also kind of a Redneck. I live in West Virginia.. I grew up on a farm where I still work on occasion. And I've got a back woods accent.

 

Finally, I don't know what category this falls under but I'm 24 years old but 95% of the TV I watch is Animated.

 

But I definately don't like Japanese Aname.

[ratfink]

Y'know, so many people are "punk" these days that the only way to be rebellious is to wear a suit and a tie, comb your hair and NOT have any piercings or tattoos.

[Skatepunk60]

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[Skatepunk60]

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[liquid_sky]

first off, jah... have you ever pool skated? i never have but from your experiances it sounds like something you might like to try

 

i listen to stuff like dead ****ing last, agnostic front, sick of it all, black flag, circle jerks, madball, hardcore punk to stuff like propagandhi, struung out, good riddance, laggwagon, guns n wankers, u.s. bombs.. to classic rock.. to grunge.. just because someone is diverse dosent mean anything. and blink 182 is NOT punk. punk is more of an attitude than a sound, but they have neither. Greg of bad religion says it best, and i leave with some quotes.

 

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

 

PUNK IS: a movement that serves to refute social attitudes that have been perpetuated through willful ignorance of human nature.

 

PUNK IS: a process of questioning and commitment to understanding that results in self-progress, and through repetition, flowers into social evolution.

 

PUNK IS: a belief that this world is what we make of it, truth comes from our understanding of the way things are, not from the blind adherence to prescriptions about the way things should be.

 

PUNK IS: the constant struggle against fear of social repercussions.

[Nukey Shay]

"Punk is one thing that the Japanese quite haven't gotten a handle on. You see these bands whose members are desperately trying to express their individuality, while looking and sounding like every other member in the group." -Dave Barry

[StanJr]

Yet Japanese punk was an imitation and adaptation of post WWII Western culture. Hmmm...

 

I agree with you, Skatepunk. All that "thuggin'" and "cappin'" anything (although "cappin'" is old now) is dumb and is bred of ignorance and fear also. Its basically a social mechanism that allows young males (predominately urban, yet no longer strictly a race thing) to "front" or project an image that they are tough and strong. Sadly, there is not much reality in that image and when it is broken the damage is pretty severe.

However, the hip-hop culture is far more than that (like saying all nerds are dudes with pocket protectors, etc). There is a rich and powerful tradition of both music and spoken word in rap and hip-hop.

As for Punk, in the Renaissance, they called it "Humanism," a hundred or so years later it was called "Romanticism" (at least if we accept the quotes of Greg from Bad Religion)

 

As for me. I think people are just people. Its pretty tough to find anybody who will perfectly fit any stereotype. You are who you are.

 

Stan

[jahfish]

topic extremeness: well, it's all relative .... i mean my girlfriends daddy used to drive car rallys 40 years ago, and said that every car is 1000% safer nowadays and way easier to drive (servo-steering, ABS disc brakes, ..... sounded like this example was way easier back in the days.

 

skateboarding? i started in '79, with a calipso board (hehe, remember those aluminium classics). i believe this board was extreme, not the new ones with super bearings, wheels in any grade of hardness for every surface .... surely you can go further. i've been later doing airs, kickflips and all that with the wooden boards, did incredible ollies with my Natas Kaupas board (first board with big tail for olliing), but nothing has beaten the feeling over beeing in the halfpipe with a calipso ....

 

ok you wanna be extreme: make a rock'n'roll (skate trick) in a half pipe with the calipso board, then we'll talk about

 

 

2nd thing: don't mess with hiphop! i am deejay since 10 years and have 5000 hip hop records. but i gotta go now ... we can discuss that later

 

greetings

[jahfish]

i've been pool-skating in berlin, we had two here. i've even skated pools in california, back in 86.

 

that time i was a big fan of gang green, snfu, suicidal tendencies (been skating with mike muir and the others in hamburg/germany), stiff little fingers, Bad Brains & HR, .... hey, at a time i also liked led zep

 

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However, the hip-hop culture is far more than that (like saying all nerds are dudes with pocket protectors, etc). There is a rich and powerful tradition of both music and spoken word in rap and hip-hop.

 

defenitely. in europe the hiphop movement is way more established, as it still regroups the "4 elements". breakdance is still really dig, as well as grafitti. not just deejaying & rappin'.

 

US artists are often pretty impressed of what's happening here.

 

yes! these thugs really sucks.

 

let me tell you ... hiphop is not what you see on MTV or mostly hear in the radio. that's rap, discovered by the majors and turned into pop. (remember, pop=popular) it's the bullshit they sell to the masses.

 

check out the video clip from The Roots of "what they do". a real funny one, they take a piss on all the classic hiphop cameos in the media ...

 

 

hiphop doesn't come out of a 1 million $ studio. it must be raw and funky music. two turntables and a mic can be enought.

 

 

check a track called "longevity" by J-Live, even buy is actual album. i really recommend it. that's hiphop, not puffy P daddy diddey. surely he's very good .... in making pop music.

 

there's so much bullshit cover versions on the charts, it's unbelievable.

 

you see my philosophy in the signature?

 

that's what i recommend to all of you: protect your audiovisual environment. you and your friends, kids, .... don't let em watch, see and hear too much bullshit. throw away the magazines and read a book, shut off the TV and

 

and ban wrestling!

 

eeeh, but not as atarigame

 

BTW, talking about hiphop, records, art and all that .... last year i did a great record cover for the german ITF scratch champion 2000 DJ Hype.

 

front

 

back

 

vectrex fans, feel free to trade a signed copy (from hype and me) for any atari or vectrex related item

[Malix]

A lot of good thoughts. This is a tough question to deal with or form a response to. I am sitting here at my cubicle in my suit thinking about my love of punk rock and what it is to be a nerd. Kind of freakin funny. I think the answer or solution is who really cares. I enjoy what I enjoy, if you think that is dorky or nerdy so be it.

[Skatepunk60]

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Edited February 8, 2006 by Skatepunk60

[someguy]

Why do you care what other people think?

[+Cafeman]

I haven't understood half the things stated in this thread. I must not be nerdy enough!