What is a geek?
This is a question I was genuinely asked once, not in a philosophical manner or anything like that. The question was posed by a gent of an older generation and was unfamiliar with the word that has suddenly become emblazoned across the t-shirts of many a student purchased from trendy hipster clothes shops. (These t-shirts piss me off by the way, but I won't go into a rant about that just yet.) As always when confronted with a question like this, my ability the produce an eloquent and well thought out answer on the spot was non existent. Instead I will have fumbled out an incoherent jabber of words that may have slightly resembled a sentence. It's much easier to answer these things when you have the privilege of hindsight, time and the backspace key. There is what I suppose is the accepted image of a geek/nerdy type. The word is synonymous with those who love science fiction & fantasy. Lonely greasy haired teenagers with acne who sit at computers gaming or having online ...