to think that if you have to wear..

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..a top that says Geek on it, then you probably aren't one?

I saw a teenage boy with

I'm a Geek Not a Nerd written on it.

Glad he cleared that up

Well that makes perfect sense..

Just clarified with DS: a geek is someone with an obsessional interest in one particular thing, whereas a nerd is someone who is generally clever in the fields of science/maths/computing.

I don't think it's meant to be taken quite as seriously as you seem to be taking it, OP.

YABU. I have a shirt that says "Talk Nerdy to me".

Unless it says "You're a cock juggling thundercunt" I doubt anyone will mind what they wear. How can you tell someone isn't a Geek as they are wearing a t-shirt with Geek on? Don't be judging books by their covers

Agree with your DS Meditrina, it is an important distinction to some.

"I don't think it's meant to be taken quite as seriously as you seem to be taking it, OP."

How dare you say that, it's hugely, mindblowingly important

damn, did I forget to write "lighthearted alert" in the OP?

I want one of these. I am a total science geek too.

This top will be worn by recent fans of The Big Bang Theory.

Its the mustache image on clothes I don't understand. Least geek is a word and just just facial hair

BBT is full of nerds, not geeks :o

WIBU to stop the next person I see wearing on these and ask them about overclocking and Ruby on Rails?

< pssst not being entirely serious or am I?

Back in the heyday of Usenet from 90s to about 2002, it was generally agreed that if the obsessive interest actually had an applicable use (e.g. computer geekery that actually got you a job) then you were a geek. If the knowledge was essentially useless trivia (e.g. encyclopedic knowledge of every Star Trek episode ever), you were a nerd.

I always call DH a geek, by that definition he is the nurd to end all nurds, but geek is a much better word.

XPosted Great so I can call him a geek.

His obsession with all things computer and science related keeps him in a nice well paid job and allows me to be a SAHM.

It also means I will never have a tiny house as it will always be buried under technical junk and the cardboard boxes EBay sent it in.

dd had a t shirt with geek girl on it or 'something' she is geeky not nerdy though i think these quirky t shirts are funny and mine wear big bang t shirts and justice league and batman on them

I must confess my number one trait in a man is that he is a nerd. Preferable to geek, depending on subject. As if he was (like a friend of mine) a geek about tropical fish and star wars, I would be less interested than if he were a geek about, for example, politics, social policy, music, art, literature. sigh