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

[baubleybobbityhat]

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.

[DreamsOfSteam]

I know more about steam engines than a 28 year old girl ever should.

[FayKnights]

I love playing point and click games on the Ipad, the ones where you have to find hidden objects and solve puzzles. I also secretly play Harry Potter Lego on the DS and last but not least I love downloading library books onto my EReader.
My name is FayKnights and I am a geek.

[nursenic]

How did you come up with the idea for your parlour/after dinner game, Spiderslegs?

I really need to know the thought processes involved.

I think you are a really strong contender, BTW.

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

Oh. Now I need a necklace with my name in amino acids. Damn.

[fuzzpig]

I have over 500 apps on my iPhone mostly logic puzzles. I do need to weed a lot out though.

[overmydeadbody]

I can solve a Rubik's cube in 2 minutes. Not only that, but I solve it at least ten times a day.

[neverputasockinatoaster]

I love you lot!

Love jigsaws but no time/space to do them (feel a purchase of a jigroll coming on)
I love Terry Pratchett and Robin Hobb (although the one about the soldiers was pants hence why I cannot remember its name) and if the book has elves, swords and magic in I'll probably love it.
I used to knit, I love to do Batik and I am teaching myself to crochet.
I once phoned OH from a carpark so he could listen to the sound of a car engine as it was a bit Phwoaar!
My 'thing' is religions, I am currently reading lots about Judaism.....
I go to church and I like to sing.
Felt tips and coloured pencils should always be arranged in colour order......
Our Honeymoon was to St Nazaire so that we could visit the submarine pens.....
If I had the money I would wear dresses akin to an imaginary medieval princess.....

[neverputasockinatoaster]

Forgot to say that I endured years of torment at school for finding Shakespeare funny. As in laugh out loud funny. As in jumper stuffed in mouth so that awful bully who said I looked like a womble wouldn't hear me and add it to the ammunition he already had to make my life miserable.

[overmydeadbody]

I forgot, as well as the cube obsession, I run my computer on Ubuntu, and DS's computer too.

I can take apart and fix my washing machine when it breaks.


I have lots of stationary. And all coloured pencils and felt tips are arranged by colour order. According to the rainbow.

Not nerdy, just obsessive, but all my books and CDs are arranged by colour order too, because it looks nice.

[spiderslegs]

Nursenic, we had wine, we had a blood pressure monitor, we had reference material, we had exhausted the 'it's just words though, what does it actually mean' game (another favourite), it was a natural progression...

[spiderslegs]

Overmy you know it's wrong to order your books by spine-shade don't you?

[nursenic]

Respect, Spiderslegs to the owners of minds/brains which can devise such an excellent after dinner game. Total respect.

[bilblio]

overmy I'd love to order my books by spine colour but DH has forbidden it. :(
I also love a good spreadsheet.
Used to morris dance and really want to take it up again.
Went to a folk festival for my honeymoon, and stayed in a tipi. :o
Also love musicals which I've passed on to 4yo DD. She'll often be caught singing "meet me in St Louis"

[Bossybritches22]

DD1 is (as I mentioned) a geek & spent a happy hour reading this thread and chortling with delight.

Her favourite apparel at the moment is a rainbow coloured jacket with a fleece lining & a hood. Her BF nicknamed it her "Happy Dementor Coat", I shall try & post a piccie tomorrow.

Her happiness was complete when DD2 reported back that when they were walking to the bus this week 2 midget (Y7's-boys) were overheard to say

"see that girl in the stripy jacket-she's on our bus.She's well weird just sits there knitting "

That's my girl, proud to be different, my job is done!

[spiderslegs]

Thank you nursenic as you probably have access to the equipment, I invite you to try it, you won't regret it.

[Snapespeare]

bilblio 12 year old DS2 has just discovered 'meet me in st Louie' and has also perfected the 'all i do the whole day through, is dream of you' song and dance routine from 'singin' in the rain'

I love how our geeky bits are passed through generations ( He knits as well...and loves classic doctor who, he knows more than me, his knowledge is encyclopedic!)

[nursenic]

I do have the equipment and lots more! Will try your game out and get back to you, Spiderslegs. What a great combination of mind enrichment and fun! You should think of a name for your game...

[stubbornstains]

Spiderslegs: What about attaching yourself to the BP monitor and then shouting out all the answers on University Challenge?

[overmydeadbody]

Oh yes spiderlegs, I know it's wrong to many people, on many levels, but I don't care, as it looks pretty.

I have just spent the last hour re-organising all the cds so they are in colour order too. My friday night is complete.

[inmysparetime]

I spent today reclassifying and reshelving all the non fiction books, and arranging all the fiction alphabetically (ours and the childrens), to take account of all the books we got at Christmas.
I keep looking at the shelves and feeling proud!

[Tee2072]

I haven't read the whole thread but droves it's Klingon, not clingon.

And Littlepurpleprincess comic book is the correct term for the individual issues, Graphic Novel is all of them bound together in one book. Although technically they are graphic trade paperbacks.

Also, once had this conversation in a meeting (I worked for a large business park management company)

Facilities Manager: What shall we call the new canteen?
Me: Bob.

If you don't get that? You aren't truly a scifi geek.

I also do jigsaws, watch all scifi, love libraries and own nearly 2,000 books, although they are not currently classified or filed because we just moved and I am still sorting them out.

[inmysparetime]

Tee sort the books out, it feels good to see them sitting there on the shelves in the right order

[Tee2072]

My goal is by the end of January, inmysparetime!

[fuzzpig]

I got really excited the other day in a supermarket when I saw a "nerd gift card"

I was imagining all the geeky things one could buy with it.

Until I realised it was actually a Cafe NERO gift card

[alistron1]

Crosswords - tick
Completism - tick ( I collect ladybird books and chalet school books)
Anne of Green Gables - tick (have got all of the Anne books inc. rainbow valley and rilla of ingleside)
I am a massive Doors fan and know EVERYTHING about Jim Morrison and can talk at length about them/him to anyone at any time.
I am a weather geek and model watcher. I know my GFS from my ECM.
I am obsessed with helicopters and know what kind of helicopter is flying over me just by the sound of it.
We have squillions of books, and one shelf is dedicated to my Stephen King library and another to my patricia cornwell collection. We have 5 sets of shelves overflowing with books.

The dewey decimal idea is calling to me. I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

DP is a physicist by degree, when he was a teen he used to solve the rubiks cube in a local toy shop and people used to come and watch him. He can speed cube as can DD1 (he has just disputed this fact because he can't solve it in 30 seconds - he can do it in less than a minute though). He has watched every episode of the twilight zone ever made. He wants to build a steam engine.

Our home computer runs ubuntu.

And to top it off, my youngest son wants to spend his eighth birthday in a few weeks time riding the Number 11 bus route. if you are a brummie you will know that this is a 'famous' bus route