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Original poster

Come and fess up to the ways in which you are really square/bit of a nerd

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baubleybobbityhat · 09/01/2012 20:42

I love a nice big jigsaw, me. Preferably something like a thatched cottage surrounded by flowers.

I am too embarrassed to do them at home because my 80 year old mother and inlaws who are in their 70s share my enthusiasm and I just think if any of my uber-cool London creative/media-type mates came calling and saw a bugger like that on my dining table they would think I was a very sad case and immediately drop me.

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Dawndonna · 09/01/2012 22:14

Oops!

KurriKurri · 09/01/2012 22:14

I love detective stories, and have read hundreds of them (I like looking for old ones in charity/second hand book shops)

Redrubyshoes - I have just shouted to DH 'you are not the only person who is obsessed with the names on Stobart trucks' - He has got me joining in, if he is driving and concentrating, I have to look for the name.

AfternoonNap · 09/01/2012 22:14

Redruby certainly gets my vote :)

TalcAndTurnips · 09/01/2012 22:13

bibbity - my DH recommends South, by the man himself.

He read it on his way to South Georgia, the lucky bastard

ChitChatInChaos · 09/01/2012 22:13

I do cross stitch, tapestry and I knit.

I also love jigsaws and SciFi/Fantasy

Do I score a trifecta???!!!

LeQueen · 09/01/2012 22:12

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NorksAreMessy · 09/01/2012 22:11

I went to a Star Trek convention and met Gates McFadden and Michael Dorn.

But my books are arranged by colour

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baubleybobbityhat · 09/01/2012 22:10

I'm wondering if redrubyshoes and her Stobart trucks is out-nerding everyone else on the thread so far?

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MrsChemist · 09/01/2012 22:09

Dawndonna, I aspire to have my books ordered using the Dewey decimal system. It would take too long to sort though.

Hmmm....
I studied computing at uni (not very successfully, though I can read java and C++)

I enjoy role playing games and board games.

I have more than one World of Warcraft t-shirt.

I still have braces.

I love a good sci-fi B movie.

I used to collect manga novels (expensive hobby though at £6 a book)

I have the characters from Final Fantasy VII lovingly adorning my shelves, joined by Marcus Fenix (Gears of War) Domo-kun, Optimus Spud and the Force FX Mace Windu light sabre.

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baubleybobbityhat · 09/01/2012 22:07

Oooh Remus, have you got a favourite book about Shackleton? I really want to read the story but I know there have been many published. Do you have an opinion on the best?

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SnapesDoxy · 09/01/2012 22:07

I enjoy many dirty fantasies about our lovely Professer Snape.

I have watched all Buffy, all Game of Thrones, all Stargate (SG1, Atlantis and Universe), all Firefly and many other Sci-Fi series. I also read demons, princess, knights and magic type books.

I love showtunes as well as heavy metal. I dress as a goth when away from my job.

I am training to be a teacher because I love my subject and want to stay in it and inspire children in my dreams to become great scholars.

I am a fat ginger nerd girl and so all the nerds love me, enabling me to have been a massive slut for many years before I met lovely DP (who is also a massive nerd)

PersonalClown · 09/01/2012 22:06

You know that everyone is supposed to have a Doppelgänger??
It's either that or me and TastesLikePanda are channelling each other.

I'm slightly more skatey/alternative/rock looking and am permanently plugged in an iPod. I do love a good musical. Although I am indulging in cheesy 80's and early 90's right now.
Love Shack anyone??

MotherAbigail · 09/01/2012 22:05

I like a nice glass of sherry and reading about the Tudors (if I can do both things together. so much the bettter. I excitedly spent 4 hours in the Tower of London saying things like 'ooh, this is where they put Anne Bolyen!' as though it was some glamorous tour of Hollywood

timetosmile · 09/01/2012 22:02

I also wear a vest in the winter and tuck it snugly into my high-rise jeans
And am obsessive about shutting curtains at dusk 'to keep the heat in'

ImpOfThePerverse · 09/01/2012 22:02

Jigsaws - love them. I'll also quite happily play solitaire, minesweeper and mah-jong on the computer when the internet stops working.
I really enjoyed some of the maths in a recent OU course, I discovered I find factorising strangely satisfying.
I'm sure there are loads more, I have many nerdy tendencies.

JayVazzle · 09/01/2012 21:59

Redruby- we have a winner

LeQueen · 09/01/2012 21:59

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AttillaTheMum · 09/01/2012 21:59

Also go church

AttillaTheMum · 09/01/2012 21:58

I sew and do cross stitch. I love musicals too

AfternoonNap · 09/01/2012 21:57

I go to church - terribly unfashionable.....
weevilswobble, could we be long lost twins? Songs of Praise and Countryfile - Only a nice cuppa and a fig roll can top that.

openyerlugholes · 09/01/2012 21:57

I'm not much of a nerd, I think. Although I did have a pathological love of physics at school.

I am undoubtedly square though. Love jigsaws, lists, anal about housework, detest slang and swearing (read MN through half closed eyes with permanent distaste etched on my face). That may constitute 'prude' more than 'square' though.

redrubyshoes · 09/01/2012 21:54

I write down the names of the Stobart trucks when I see them in a little book.

The names are just above the wheel arch below the driver's door if any one is interested.

Dawndonna · 09/01/2012 21:52

We have around 3,000 books. Is it nerdy to have them arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System?

BettyDrapersWardrobeElf · 09/01/2012 21:51

I am a massive geek.

I too love dictionaries and insist on correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I love a jigsaw but will only do them by myself. I can't bear anyone interfering by adding pieces.
I love libraries, but only ones at institutions of learning.
I like to make patchwork cushion covers.
I only listen to radio 4 (I am 30)

JayVazzle · 09/01/2012 21:51

Omfg I mean bonding not binding.

I do not believe in binding small
Children I promise.

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