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

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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.

We had a regular poster on here a while back called Norbertdentressangle.

I feel like I have come home. This is even better than the Ordnance Survey thread. (sigh of deep satisfaction).

A roads. I mean, isn't it fascinating that you could be on the Euston Road in the heart of London, and you could carry on along that same road until you hit the sea in Pembrokeshire, and it would always, always be the A40?

Container ships. Winning prizes for my vegetables at village shows.

My particular historical obsession is D- Day.

I, also, have read the Silmarillion twice (dons the high- crowned winged helm of geekdom).

Also, where is University Challenge in this thread? Am I the only one who has to shout out all the answers (that I know) out loud?

LeQueen did you see the poster upthread who has a Middle earth map jigsaw? That is geek squared.

I have a very large collection of photographs of manhole covers I have seen in various countries I have visited.

Some have the name of their city cast into the ironwork.

Nerdy? Moi?

I have doffed my mantle of nerdness thanks to this thread.

I shall carry on with my Eddie Stobart name collection.

I'm so pleased to read that I am not alone!
Another Countryfile viewer, and University Challenge. Jigsaws are fab although I think mine and Dhs obsession with Scrabble may top it off for me, we have a book where we have kept the scores from the year dot and yes the scrabble even came on our honeymoon.
Have a spreadsheet for everything. All books in alphabetical order with individual series chronologically.
Grow all our own veg...R4 seems to have become the new R2 for me...
I'm finally happy to be a geek!

I love weather. I classify clouds on any journey. I take barometer and temperature readings at home and I spend hours watching rainfall radar on the metoffice website.

I love a good map.

Can't go anywhere without reading up on the history of the area and spewing forth relevant facts as we visit.

I like to know the latin names of the plants I grow on my allotment.

I get childish amounts of excitement playing with bicarbonate of soda and vinegar when cleaning the sink/making hokey pokey.

I use a thermometer to make yoghurt - 48 degrees baby - all the way.

I love to drive at night and use the correct trucker language of light signals to converse with fellow drivers.

I read Pratchet, Eddings and anything else with a goblin, a sword and a girl with a frying pan in it.

I have a friend who, if you give him a postcode, can tell you exactly where in the UK it is for.

My husband once timed himself doing a rubiks cube with his feet.

A match made in heaven. I think so.

I love maps. My Dad bought me an OS map for Xmas. I poured over it. DH laughed.

I loved history at school and spent 3 hours looking at the Bayeux Tapestry on holiday in Normany (brother VERY bored).

JayVazzle & LittlePurplePrincess - am also an attachment theory geek. I'm doing some research with one of the AAI authors at the moment

I am proud to be described as a geek squared.

LotR jigsaw is this one
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/MEP:_Map_of_Middle-earth

I love looking at maps. I could pour over o/s maps or road atlases all day.

I have listened to radio 4 since my teenage years

carve cross posted saying the same thing!

I love this thread!! Passed the jigsaw entry test and can add cryptic crosswords, books, nature programmes, nature books, board games and a one time stamp collection to my geek credentials. Cant find anyone else who watches "all creatures great and small" on here though. I now have several series on DVD please tell me I am not alone in this bizarre obsession!

Come come these are all just pats on the back disguised as nerd confessions...'my intimate knowledge of ancient aramaic and 16th century physics'. Here at last is a true geek:

When the going gets tough... I read Malory Towers....

Ohh,maps and atlases,how could I forget them.DH and I spent a happy Sunday afternoon working out where all the local bridlepaths went,with the aid of google earth.

I could once also tell you the phone codes and postcodes of just about everywhere from Milton Keynes in the South,up to Sheffield.I'm a bit rusty now as it is 10 years since I last used my knowledge professionally,maybe I should brush it up? Who knows when I might need to know the area code for Corby?

i love you all. i suggest a giant commune. :)

Harry Potter, Doctor Who (DVDs arranged chronologically) knitting, jigsaws, arranging books by author (ficton) and subject matter (non), musicals, sudoku, board games (jenga gets a special mention, not technically a board game, but hilarious fun when drunk) grammar pedantry (even though mine is sometimes sadly lacking) musicals (pre 1967, except annie, sondheim and wicked) & historical accuracy of theatrical costume, props and set.

waxlyrical ACG&S was one of my all time favourites.Why it is never repeated I don't know.
'Knaw then vitnery'

Could we throw in a little blackadder? Red Dwarf (the early series' before they had a big budget)?
I'm with you on the continuity errors and historical accuracy fronts and often shout at the TV for such reasons
Anyone for an obsessive tea ritual?

I am an active member of a G&S society and so are my DCs
I keep buttons from clothes I no longer own, just in case....
I go through drop down menus, to see what all the choices do.
I like old OS maps, and comparing them to new maps to see what's changed and what has remained.

I have over 90 rubiks puzzles. 54 of them are cubes.

inmysparetime I do the comparing new maps with historical maps thing too - google earth timeline adds another dimension :)

Oh, MrsDeVere, I do that with solitaire too, and I won't let myself go to sleep till I win a game. Sometime, I have very late nights!

I love Doctor Who, the original series, not the half-baked crap they make now. I love the dodgy special effects, the suspect acting, the outrageous costumes, the genuinely scary enemies and the genuinely crap enemies, the assistants that didn't know everything and were not smug like the current ones, more than one episode per story, the cliff hangers, the Doctors face appearing in the title sequence, love love LOVE it all.

Matt Smith can do one.