OK.....I'VE JUST HAD A MOMENT OF CLARITY.......HELP

[pitchin4eva]

It all started with LOTR & now years later it has dawned on me now........I'm a dork aka geek aka nerd etc. :thud

Can anyone offer me advice to get by the shock and ease my transition into dorkdom? :help :lol

[lcummins]

Mustn't resist... give in to your desires... let the Dark Side take over... :evil

[Figwit]

Give in to your dorkness. You're a dork and there's not much you can do about it. Welcome to the dork club.:doh

[tielo1]

The Lotr movies lead to polystone.
Polystone leads to collecting.
Collecting leads to dorkiness.

Just get over it, it's harmless fun!
You could spent your money on alcohol and hookers.
Or spent your money on all the above... oh,...thats me :mwaha
:toast

[pitchin4eva]

dammmmmmmmm...........i knew i was missing out on something buying all this polystone :lol

[Mr Fell Beast]

You could spent your money on alcohol and hookers.


:mwaha :mwaha :mwaha :mwaha

[tomandshell]

Go up to a stranger at the mall and tell them that you spend time chatting online with relative strangers about your collection of fantasy/science fiction statues and check out their response. Remember that this is the Sideshow FREAKS forum! We all have a little inner geek that we nurture with each purchase from Sideshow. (Although everyone who comes into my office and sees Gandalf on Shadowfax "geeks out" along with me. The geek gene is more widespread than we realize...)

[CaptainCaveTroll]

In my opinion, there are degrees of geekness and some are more afflicted than others. I think I only have a very mild (almost negligible) streak of geekness which will eventually subside.

[BSHERRIS]

Go up to a stranger at the mall and tell them that you spend time chatting online with relative strangers about your collection of fantasy/science fiction statues and check out their response. Remember that this is the Sideshow FREAKS forum! We all have a little inner geek that we nurture with each purchase from Sideshow. (Although everyone who comes into my office and sees Gandalf on Shadowfax "geeks out" along with me. The geek gene is more widespread than we realize...)

So, so true!!

B.

[darthrage]

Well put tielo1!
Yes I agree, there are degrees of geekdom, but just go with it. The average response I get from my collection from "outsiders" is wow, that's cool. So it can't be ALL bad.

[TheWitchKing]

In my opinion, there are degrees of geekness

Couldnt agree with you more CptCavetroll, and to that note after attending SDCC, I feel much better on my level of geekness. Some people literally are the definition of geek and how serious they take things. But hey if their happy, Im happy with my mild level of geekness. Many wouldnt know my hobby or see my nerdy side of me unless they come to my place or I begin to talk about it.

[wrathofsauron]

Feel the force of the DORK SIDE!!!!!:thud

[jlcmsu]

Yeah, I'm happy with where I am at in the world of geekdom :p

[Diesel]

some of you are total geeks... and after seeing some more pics from SDCC it's definitely confirmed...

while others of us only have a little geek in our personality...

[jlcmsu]

some of you are total geeks... and after seeing some more pics from SDCC it's definitely confirmed...

while others of us only have a little geek in our personality...

Your point is? If I'm personally in the total geek categorie thats cool with me. I can go to sleep every night being just fine with that.

[lcummins]

I grok my geekyness! How's that for geeky!? :bang2

[Nessasita]

omg... does that mean???? ... that... I ... am ... a... :thud

[Goldberry]

My moment of clarity has arrived too in form of an empty bank account. :bonk

In general I would say that geekiness reaches a high when people start selling their statues and try to obtain the Artist Proof editions just to have an even more exclusive item.

[Gunner1973]

I have a theory that everyone is a geek about something be it a sports team or cars or movies, whatever. I think everyone has one interest that they are so into they know absolutely everything about it. A friend of mine is a mad Arsenal fan (A football team in england) and he has a huge knowledge of the club and collects the programs from every game, its just another form of geekiness. So dont worry if you feel a bit geeky sometimes, after all at least we have an interest in something thats just harmless fun. Just remember EVERYONE IS A GEEK!!!!!!!!

[adoptedscot]

:clap :clap ,,yay, I like that theory,,:clap :clap

[Diesel]

I'm personally in the total geek categorie

noooooo...? :rolleyes

you're the damn definition...

[Beruthiel1]

Next time I go to a cat show, I'm going to call all my fellow cat fanciers that they are geeks. Think I'll come out of that showhall in one piece? :thud

[jlcmsu]

Thats cool with me if I am.

[CaptainCaveTroll]

I read somewhere that there are high concentrations of geeks in certain parts of the world. Certain nationalities are prone to geekness and this theory has been upheld when I have frequented many holiday destinations.

Geeks are easily identifiable by their uniform:

Khaki shirt always tucked into shorts
Khaki shorts with multiple pockets for all emergency items such as map, compass and dictionaries (even when going downstairs to the pool)
Neck-a-chief - (optional) - tied round neck as if on safari
Sandals
Socks - please note that extreme geeks will have socks on as well as their sandals
Bumbag - with all their money, passports etc

Other key points is that they have a crap sense of humour, they can converse in English as well as their own language in order that they can speak with geeks worldwide.

[adoptedscot]

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[Eleventy1]

In general I would say that geekiness reaches a high when people start selling their statues and try to obtain the Artist Proof editions just to have an even more exclusive item.
:lol

Now that is an unsurpassed level of geekiness. :thud

[big al]

Im a geek but i dont think of myself as one, not until my GF tells me about how geeky i sound talking so passionately i feel that theres no Faramir statue (if only id talk abnout other things as passionately she'l often say!:dunno )
If it gets this bad you know youv hit rock bottom though!
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He must work out!:p

[LOTR Fan]

:mwaha I have seen that fellow on Jimmey Kimmel, that may be a bit much?!?! :dunno :rollin

[Heart Of Stone]

I am single because I have yet to find a nice young lady that will allow me to induldge in my addiction for polystone . Oh well , I'll just keep looking .










By the way , I'm 26 , loveable and live just outside of Austin Texas , Hint... Hint... ;)

[Diesel]

i'm sure josh is single...

[Fubeca]

Yeah, just go to SDCC and you will feel way to normal! I mean after my conversation with the stormtrooper at SDCC I'm okay with just collecting Poly!


And posting here



and turning my house into a LOTR shirne



and then....



and then....




and then....




:bonk

[CaptainCaveTroll]

In general I would say that geekiness reaches a high when people start selling their statues and try to obtain the Artist Proof editions just to have an even more exclusive item.

Goldberry - There is no way I can argue with you on this one as, from your posts, your views and your pics, you clearly have a Phd in Geekiness.

[TolkienCollector]

If you've ever seen the LOTR fangurls in action at Collectormania, you'd realise that we are in no way, shape or form Geeks!! :whip :help :whip :help

:bonk :eye :bonk

[creecher]

It takes one to know one, so we all know at least two. There are lots of them, so that means there are at least twice as many as that, and that's only the ones we know of. I think it reasonable to say there are more of us geeks than there is of them geeks. That being the case, as more of them geeks spring up, there will be more of us geeks.

Now for another moment of clarity. Possibly induced by TC, above.

The amount of product pandering to us geeks is on the rise, so it may one day come about that the term Sideshow Freaks becomes redundant and will be changed to Sideshow Geeks. There is a long way to go yet. Geeks is a derogatory term, so, until legislation is passed and geeks become a politically correct term, Freaks is what we are. Don't be stooged into being tossed into the cess pool of, what it is a geek represents. We are value producers, and as such, have self esteem. We are freaks, and I stand by that. Stand and fight the tyranny, that will be imposed upon you, if you allow yourselves to be termed a geek. The difference may be subtle, but the distinction is prominent. We are an anomaly, and thus not the regular kind. Not what is normally termed a geek. We are Freaks. Say it with me. :yay

Freaks rool, okay.

[CaptainCaveTroll]

If you've ever seen the LOTR fangurls in action at Collectormania, you'd realise that we are in no way, shape or form Geeks!!

To adapt a well-known saying... 'In the kingdom of the dogs, the one with the shiniest fur is the queen'

In other words, if they're all mingers, the least ugly one will shine!

[TolkienCollector]

We are Freaks. Say it with me. :yay

I'm a Freak!!!!!!!!!!!

:bonk :eye :bonk

[creecher]

:clap I'm a Freak.

Geeks are those that Pitchin was referring to. Those that really don't know, and are in awe of Freaks and their booty. :ar

That's us. :yay

[gOzum]

Im not Greek, but I am a Freak. :ted

[Heart Of Stone]

in awe of Freaks and their booty.




mmmmmmm..............booty !

[tielo1]

Look at history:

First there were computerfreaks
Then there was Bill Gates
Now there are ex-computergeeeks who are miljonairs and live with hot women.

So there is hope in this poly world...

[Nessasita]

By the way , I'm 26 , loveable and live just outside of Austin Texas , Hint... Hint...

lol... I am single too but you are too far away lol and probably too old :lol

[elwood49]

If I collected all this stuff and fell into one of the following categories, I would sell everything and seriously reassess my life:

1. Can't get laid, and no prospects of a significant other (see Dave's thread on the 40 yr. old virgin).

2. No job or a dead end one.

3. No friends outside of the internet.

4. Live at home with parents or in parent's basement.

5. Financial trouble from buying so much.

[Goldberry]

Goldberry - There is no way I can argue with you on this one as, from your posts, your views and your pics, you clearly have a Phd in Geekiness.
So, how many Artist Proofs have you managed to snag up so far, CCT? :peace

[CaptainCaveTroll]

Only 7 and my next quest for the RWOS AP.

[buzzardio1080]

GOLDBERRY i can vouch for cct and his aps
his collection is mental.
surley we are none of us are geeks.
surely lotr collectables collections carnt be GEEKY
maybe obsessive and excessive but surley not geeky
(or is this the denial calling of a mega geek lol)
GEEKS are people who have like lotr themed weddings and dress up like the characters from the films (with the exception of women dressing up as princess leah in jabba barge get up,thats not geeky ,(ahem)).
if u ask me the geeks are the ones who go out and spend 100 quid in yates of a saturday night and put another 100 quid up there nose.
all my mates (yes i have some) think my statues are awsome
ps im 29 years old , married , 3 year old "cave troll" little boy
not a geek
never will be
love my weta

:peace
oh and cct thats one hell of a quest, i aint never seen an ap steed anywhere.
:dunno

[Winged Shadows]

"never seen a RWOS"

They do exist, I saw a couple on ebay a LONG time ago.

[Gazmog]

GOLDBERRY i can vouch for cct and his aps

So can I, especially since I sold him one...a CT statue. :D

[Winged Shadows]

Gaz...I remember your Troll...didn't Sideshow send you a replacement that turned out to be an AP? (or something along those lines anyway)

Do you have any regrets selling it?

[Dark Enemy of Middle Earth]

Judging from general forum replies it seems that most, apart from the self confessed are in the 'mild' geek category (including myself - I hope) and not quite into the dwain dibbly league just yet. I passed the 1-5 test above with flying colours.

Guess its the same with most hobbies/collections it can range from mild to severe.

Think I am collecting for the nostaglia of childhood (had nearly every SW's figure and vehicle pre teen years, thankfully they were a lot less fragile and considerably cheaper than weta......awwwwh....happy days.:p

[coyote]

Think of it as geeks with money, cause if you collect polystone, you gotta have more than a little.

[Wetafiend]

Oh yeah, your not alone in your geekdom.:wave I started out a comicbook geek when I was a wee lad. Then one day I ran into busts & statues. Started with Bowen then splintered off into LOTR and Star Wars. Now I have no room. I think all us collectors are geeks. Just our lot in life.

[buzzardio1080]

GAZMOG, I CANT BELIEVE U SOLD YOUE AP TROLL
ALMOST SACRALIGOUS

[Heart Of Stone]

lol... I am single too but you are too far away lol and probably too old



That's too bad Nessasita . You sound very interesting in your posts . I wouldn't say 26 is too old , I'm in my prime and feel very young at heart . Oh well , let me know if your in Austin some time , wouldn't mind meeting you . :wave

[creecher]

Lucky my parents don't have a basement, Elwood, or I'd have to sell. :x

[Heart Of Stone]

Number 300 ! :party

[Nessasita]

That's too bad Nessasita . You sound very interesting in your posts . I wouldn't say 26 is too old , I'm in my prime and feel very young at heart . Oh well , let me know if your in Austin some time , wouldn't mind meeting you .

What I meant is that I am older than you lol... I am 34... thanks for thinking that I am interesting... I do not think so myself... just am happily disturbed ;)

[Heart Of Stone]

What I meant is that I am older than you lol... I am 34... thanks for thinking that I am interesting... I do not think so myself... just am happily disturbed



34 , that's not to old for me . Never have payed much attention to age (unless it's a legal issue) , but oh well , the distance thing always gets in my way . Not sure where you live but , as my luck runs , it's probably somewhere very very far away . Oh well , I'll keep checking the singles sites . :dance ;)

[Nessasita]

Massachusetts and good luck on your search :grouphug

[Heart Of Stone]

Thanks Nessa , you too ! :wave

[buzzardio1080]

ERM I FEEL LIKE A GOSSEBERRY
SO IM ER GOING
ERM

[Heart Of Stone]

AAAHHHHH ! Come on back Buzz , it's safe now ! :lol

[buzzardio1080]

lol
ok cheers
]:wave

[Heart Of Stone]

:puke





:wave :lol

[TURINS BANE]

Geeks are people that live in dark rooms, there only friend is the computer/internet. And Whom lean to speak fluent klingon, and have a caption Kirk costume in there closet just in case they meat a girl, and feel the need to impressed, and get frisky. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!





>D

[EriatarkaESP]

I'm female, straight.... and a firm believer that Orlando Bloom ruined everything LOTR.... So I'm pretty sure that that makes me a TOTAL geek. (See Foxtrot comics if this confuses you.) :gollum

Also, I cannot be defined by my geekiness. That's... somethingism. :stake



:speech

[Diesel]

Geeks are people that live in dark rooms, there only friend is the computer/internet. And Whom lean to speak fluent klingon, and have a caption Kirk costume in there closet just in case they meat a girl, and feel the need to impressed, and get frisky. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!

jc :yay