Who Wants to be a Geek?

[iceman]

Kinda random I'm sure.. surely people don't think amateur astronomers are GEEKS, but I got an email from a casting agent for "Beauty and the Geek Australia", asking me to post on IceInSpace to see if anyone is interested in being on the next series :)



I'll leave it to any interested parties to email her directly, but unfortunately I'm out of their age bracket ;)

[mozzie]

ah 18-30 leaves me out mike....:lol:
plus iv'e been hit with the ugly stick :rofl:

[RB]

LOL Mike I'm reading this on the iPhone and I thought you said 'Beauty and the Greek'.
Oh well .....

:P

[sheeny]

I don't know what you're holding back for... I'm 18 with 33 years experience... but I already have a nice girl. Why would I want another?

Al.

[Steffen]

Well, you'll just have to play the role of the geek then ;)

Cheers
Steffen.

[Jen]

:rofl::rofl::rofl: that's so funny c'mon all you geeky IIS fellas get ya dancing shoes on :) :lol:

[FlashDrive]

That's right Al ...why go out for a Hamburger .. when you've got Fillet Steak at home ..!! :lol:

Flash ..!!

[Octane]

I think I remember someone else getting one of these on here a couple of years ago? For some reason, I keep thinking Narayan. Or, maybe he posted about it.

Seeing stuff like this reminds me how old I'm getting. :S

H

[Astro_Bot]

How come geeks always have to be guys? Why don't they have a series of geeky girls vs jocks? :shrug: :nerd:

18-30? I dimly remember being that young. I think.

[FlashDrive]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Esseth]

Haha saw one of these up on the Sci-fi Channel forums a couple of years back when I was all shipped up.

Might throw my hat in the ring, although I don't think they want people that have been going to the gym for the last couple of years and starting to get into decent shape... Maybe I should watch an episode first lol.

[mithrandir]

I think they did have a geek girl on one series. She didn't win though.My younger child will leave that demographic this year.

The house up Dural way where they filmed the previous series was sold recently.

[troypiggo]

H - you should enter. You'd clean up! :)

[Jen]

Im too old dam it LOL LOL :lol:

[mr bruess]

18-30 age restriction makes
Contiki Holidays look generous in holiday tours for 18-35s.

[Nikolas]

Why would anyone want to condone this lowbrow show? It's an insult to intelligence and to commonsense. Shows like this are an indictment to the society we are living in and only serve to make the cause of science one of ridicule.

[Octane]

lmao, Troy.

H

[ZeroID]

I've just been carbon dated and I don't qualify ....dammit ! :mad2:

:P

[LewisM]

Missed it by that much (said in a Maxwell Smart voice).

I was hit by the ugly stick repeatedly until knocked unconcious, dropped over a cliff being left for dead, bounced back up. And in the end, married an international fashion model who is also a psychologist (now at uni studying med, to become a psychiatrist)

Weirder things have happened in this world.

[Shark Bait]

:lol:

I've got a head like a bucket full of smashed crabs, so I'd probably fit right in on their show....

[rmuhlack]

totally agree

[TrevorW]

I'm to handsome to be a geek :P;):thumbsup:

[Varangian]

Surely if you're into astronomy you're a geek!

As a perceived non-geek for many years (playing AFL) I can say with 100% surety that perceived non-geeks would definately perceive amateur astronomers as geeks. :lol:

I think everyone outside the sciences perceive amateur astronomers as geeks.

[AstroJunk]

I'm old enough to split myself in two and enter as both a Beauty and a Geek :rofl:

(And still have enough of me left to throw in a precocious child as well!)

[Astro_Bot]

Maybe what we need is a Geek Pride parade. :P

[madbadgalaxyman]

Anecdote 1 :
Years ago, I was stationed in Darwin, and founded the Darwin Astronomy Group. We had set up a couple of 'scopes right in front of the cinema, for a public star party:

I was very happy because I had got this British girl's keen interest, seemingly both in astronomy and in me!!

However, after I had spoken for a while about astronomy, she exclaimed, rather dismissively:

"You're just like Patrick Moore!"

Anecdote 2:

Unfortunately, astronomers can sometimes have an image problem. I know that a friend of mine (male gender), who is very presentable in looks and who has an affable and urbane manner in a 'publicly acceptable way', used to set up his telescope regularly along a well-frequented street in Darwin. For the most part, despite the many females that turned up to look through his telescope, he never 'got the girl'.

Anecdote 3:
Just try telling a prospective romantic partner : "I do science for a hobby, and most of my hobbies are scientific"
This is probably the worst thing you can say in this situation!!
If I had said "I am a bi-sexual punk poet who dances naked in a vat of baked beans", instead of saying that I do science, I would have had greater success with the girls!
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Madbadgalaxyman's comment of the day (seriously now):
Much of human behaviour depends on mere 'stimulus and response'/
In this, we are not so different from other animals.
Those who get on with other people, or who 'get the girl' or 'get the boy', have simply learned to provide the appropriate stimuli in a social situation. People with scientific hobbies, or who are very learned, find it difficult to do this.

NOTE ADDED in EDIT:
I am sorry to say, but intellectual is not sexy, in our society. If it was, the girls would be flocking to my harem just to listen to my substantial accumulated knowledge in several different sciences.

[Varangian]

Good post Robert.

[Steffen]

Who can resist a vat of baked beans...

[RickS]

Dancing in them might attract girls, but eating them won't :lol:

[scagman]

I think Shane Warne may not agree with this.:lol: