Stuff Geeks Love

[hauptmoduln]

I forget where I heard about this. The word "geek" here seems to be a broad label applied to whatever arbitrary segment of counterculture the author chooses to mock. I guess someone was inspired by the way Stuff White People Like lumps all white people into a yuppie box (people who fall outside this pigeonhole are dismissed as the "wrong kind of

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[jholomorphic]

i thought everybody except me (and muslims and observant jews and vegetarians) loved bacon. is it really a geek thing?

[daproofpimp]

I don't *love* bacon. I think it is OK.

I don't find Stuff Geeks Love funny at all. Stuff White People Like is funny (but painful) because I perceive it as insightful (and, to my great shame, I often find myself brutally lampooned). Stuff Geeks Love leaves me cold. Have I stopped being a geek? I always thought of myself as being one, but have felt really outside of the clique lately.

[hauptmoduln]

I eat bacon very rarely, because the fat and salt are a bit overwhelming. I think the geeks liking bacon post is referring to a relatively recent (last five years, I think) internet phenomenon of inordinate fixation. You can find photos of bacon parties where people wear nothing but bacon, etc.. Most of the time, I think these propagating memes are a fairly harmless way for people to establish some interests in common instead of awkwardly searching through the conversation space.

As far as I can tell, there isn't a universally accepted definition of geek, but you may be the "wrong kind of geek".

[leech]

Yeah, that's pretty lame. They somehow manage to capture all the offensive stereotyping of Stuff White People Like, but without the freshness or accuracy.