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Yes that applies to you, you and you over there with the pink fluffy headphones on (they would look really cute on a girl). You were uncool waaaay before them 'hipsters' got in on the act and more to the point you already know that being a real geek is not always as cool as they make it out to be. When you're not poking your eyes out trying to put in contact lenses; you are pulling bits of last night's dinner out of your beard because yours is actually real. So here are ten reasons (yes we're back to lists of ten, try not to wet yourself with excitement) that being a geek is not all it's cracked up to be. Hopefully what bit of self-esteem you have left will not be well and truly exterminated into oblivion.
1) You have seven copies of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' because everyone knows you love Game of Thrones. They didn't know that you also like diversity maybe this t-shirt, this candle or this 'Red Wedding' scented delight?
2) You spend inordinate amounts of time reading, alone, completely and utterly alone.
3) You might get the best seats in the cinema but there's no one else in the whole theatre, seems that not everyone appreciates the latest Almodovar.
4) You always have something to talk about but it is extremely rare that anyone understands a word you say. Normally their eyes glaze over after about the third sentence.
5) When deciding what to do you have many friends to turn to, instead of WWJD (What would Jesus do?) it's WWBD (What would Buffy do?), WWDRWD (What would Dr Who do?) and for the sake of a quiet life - WITOOWGRRMWD? (What is the Opposite of What George R.R. Martin Would Do?).
6) There's always a new boxset that you absolutely must have - hence your bank account is at a perpetual zero.
7) No one else 'gets' your Halloween costumes.
8) You are crappy at Pop Culture pub quizzes and no one ever wants you on their team. In fact no one ever wants you on any of their teams - you're always the last to be picked
9) Your obsession might just kill you - you spend more time sitting at a computer than is normally good for a human - but then again who wants to live long and prosper when you have no one but your head-friends to share it with.
10) You never have anywhere interesting to go - but on the bright side you can also do away with ordinary social conventions like say: getting dressed.
Feel like you've been playing tongue tennis with a Dementor? Go and eat some chocolate, in front of the TV, on your own. Yeah, like you weren't doing that already.
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