not to alienate anyone but.....10 dorkiest hobbies are...Drumroll please....

10. Comic Books
Public Humiliation: 49.5%
Our studies show that comic book geeks are normally solitary, but engage in very noisy arguments when gathered in numbers. These are usually based on the most recent superhero movie, and how much it sucked. This sucking is always measured in direct relation to the number of continuity problems between it and an issue of The Incredible Hulk, which to be honest, had some problems of its own like the Abrams tank with the completely wrong size smoothbore turret and the Hulk�s hair just all of a sudden being parted the other way! Safety Tip: If your comic book geek isn�t loudly complaining about something, check carefully � you might have blacked out and killed it.
Damage to Sex Life: 68.7%
When you�re finished showing someone your chart of all the ways Magneto�s hat in X-Men 2 was incorrect, it�s going to be a long, uphill battle to then have sex with them. And to make matters worse, the faulty shape of the dong port in the movie�s version of Magneto�s hat will make having sex with it even harder.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Comic book geeks wear a uniform of a faded Green Lantern t-shirt and a confrontationally unkempt appearance.



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9. Role Playing Games
Public Humiliation: 63.4%
Dungeons and Dragons combines the nerdiness of a fantasy setting with the fruitiness of improvisational theatre, and as if that weren�t enough for them to deal with, the rest of us think these people are going to go crazy and kill us. It�s really hard for society to do more to tell you that if you play this game, you�re on your own.
Damage to Sex Life: 78.0%
We weren�t exactly sure on this figure, since a 78% means that there�s still a 22% chance of a woman walking by role players and one of them saying, �A minotaur? Here in the Dungeon of Kajmar!? Very well, I swing my axe of axing at th- why hello there, pretty lady. My name�s Twinkleberry, The Spritish Pegasus. Why, as a matter of fact I AM single.�

Distinguishing Characteristics: An RPGeek either wears a black heavy metal shirt or, in tragic attempts at stylishness, a button-up shirt with a wrap-around dragon and flames.



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8. Scrapbooking
Public Humiliation: 86.2%
Most people tend to avoid scrapbookers in an effort to prevent their photo from being pasted between a floral border along with a word bubble shouting, �Are we having fun yet!� Scrapbookers have an insatiable hunger to date and catalogue precious moments, and many fear that these keepsakes are being collected to one day be used in an evil plan to flood the world with vomit.
Damage to Sex Life: N/A
People who make scrapbooks do not have sex organs like you and me. As required by the Code of the Scrapbookers, after the completion of their first book of cherished memories, surgeons replace their genitalia with paste dispensers.

Distinguishing Characteristics: You�ll know these people because they�re always leading a small parade of their offspring in karate, ballet, scout or soccer uniforms. And according to shocking facts learned from these people�s sweatshirts, their children THINK THEY�RE AN ATM!



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7. Star Wars
Public Humiliation: 82.1%
Before the lame-ass new Star Wars movies, we might have let it go if we saw a Lando Calrissian or an Ewok waiting in line for a movie. Not anymore. Anyone disguised as a Jedi in this day and age had better have been helped into that costume by a caregiver assigned by the state to assist their special needs. Related Trivia Fact: Admiral Ackbar is the guy with the fish head from Return of the Jedi that screams things like, �Shorshenblorg borshchortle!�
Damage to Sex Life: 54.6%
Dressing like Darth Vader creates a number of sexual obstacles. First you have to find someone who doesn�t mind dating the dark lord of geeks, and from this point on the sentence is moot since you won�t, and then they have to safely be able to dig their way through your codpiece of cybernetic space enhancements. Impossible. Plus, the speech that Darth Vader gave to Natalie Portman in Episode II (about how she was so great because she wasn�t like sand) is going to hang over the heads of evil single Jedi for generations. On the other hand, the strict moral code of the good Jedi prevents them from touching naked women with anything other than a light saber. And that, of course, would kill them. On the third hand, I have this theory I�ve been meaning to test that jumping into a room naked and screaming like Chewbacca would be super erotic. Keep in mind, however, that my last theory, �Wouldn�t it be sweet if these were like, FLYING condoms?� went largely ignored by the sex community.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Overweight, casually strolling into the center of the room, and then when you least expect it, bursting into a blinding Jedi combat storm with a golf ball retriever.



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6. Vampirism
Public Humiliation: 90.0%
When enjoying Tim Burton movies and the Cure aren�t enough to express your artistic depression, you turn to vampirism. This type of geek gathers with its kind to simulate vampiric society through a game of milling around and giving each other spooky threats in untraceable fake accents. Beginner�s Tip: The costumes and makeup required for this hobby are elaborate, so if you don�t have time every morning for a Dracula makeover, you can send the same message by just wearing a sign reading, �I hate my parents and my classmates beat me.� To make this slightly more vampiric you may want to add the word �Blah!� at the beginning and end of the sentence.
Damage to Sex Life: 14.9%
One danger of vampiric sex is that many singles within in these communities are actually undercover vampire hunters waiting to jam a stake into you while you�re struggling to untie your corset. Aside from that hazard, though, it�s all good news: The dark creatures breed some pretty sexy people jammed into some skimpy leathery outfits. If you don�t mind making out with someone who, like you, tastes like stage blood and cigarettes, you can lead an exciting sex life of the night.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Vampires are difficult to spot. Keep an eye out for the group of restless magician corpses with simulated human remains dripping from their mouths. One way I�ve found to make sure they�re real vampires is to scream, �Skeletor!� and see if they cheer in agreement.



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5. Collectible Card Games
Public Humiliation: 96.8%
Some experts claim that living a moment of completely pure humiliation is impossible, since that can only be achieved through some kind of lethal masturbation accident. But those experts have never seen the shame on a grown man�s face who�s just been caught by someone he knows playing Pokemon cards with a 10-year-old stranger in a hobby store.
Damage to Sex Life: 89.3%
All the carefully constructed card decks and assault strategies become useless once these geeks discover that a woman�s vagina contains no defending dragon harpies. Ha ha, that�s one of those double ironic jokes, because anyone who took high school biology knows that they actually DO.

Distinguishing Characteristics: This geek is always carrying a backpack, at least one more type of case for emergency miniature statues, and a thick layer of atrophied blubber to drip feed them nutrients.



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4. Everquest
Public Humiliation: 70.1%
Since this game is played over the computer, most people would never know you played it unless you told them. However, if you�ve ever known anyone that�s played Everquest, you know that the part of their brain that allows them to keep the details of their quest for level 8 Vorpal chaps to themselves has long since been destroyed.
Damage to Sex Life: 99.8%
While other geek hobbies act as intercourse repellent, this game is so addicting to its users that it will actually destroy any sex life they might have, through some kind of groin miracle. And with all the male players pretending to be girls to get magical gifts, no one�s inter-gender social skills are going to be finely tuned when or if they ever pull themselves away from imaginary adventuring.

Distinguishing Characteristics: If someone looks like they and their gut have spent the last three days together in the same clothes, and they�re secreting Mountain Dew out of their pores, that�s a good sign of Everquest. The other is the wistful look in their eyes that yearn to gaze upon lizard warriors killing hobbits.



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3. Star Trek
Public Humiliation: 86.2%
These geeks used to be called Trekkies, but now insist on the less derogatory term Trekkers, which is the image control equivalent of adding a koala bear to the Nazi flag. They tend to be unobtrusive, but for every hundred Trekkers polite enough to obsess in their own homes, there�s some bastard singing at the karaoke bar in Klingon and a computer repairman demanding that his coworkers address him by his Starfleet rank. Before you laugh, though, there�s almost assuredly a third one building something that can vaporize your non-Star Trek ass from orbit.
Damage to Sex Life: 93.4%
While it�s true that ladies crave fat men with pointy ears and a strong armpit odor, those green aliens that Kirk used to bone created a standard of beauty for Trekkies that no Earth woman can live up to.

Distinguishing Characteristics: If someone approaching you is more machine than man and threatening to assimilate you, it�s either a Star Trek enthusiast or an android lost in time. Either way, it�s your duty as a human to smash it.



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2. Furries/Plushies
Public Humiliation: 99.95%
Furries are people who dress like animals to have sex with each other, usually without regard for gender of their mate or the species of their costume. If that�s tough to wrap your head around, picture McGruff the Crime Dog coming to your school and humping your mascot�s leg. Plushies have a similar hobby, but instead of having sex with nerds dressed as animals, they consummate their relationships with their stuffed animals. I�m sure you�ve heard of these people; they�re the main reason the Care Bears declared war against us.
Damage to Sex Life: -9.2%
For a plushie out on the prowl, the good news is that barnyard puppets just can�t say no. And as for the furries, they don�t seem to be picky about who they mount. Maybe because they�re ecstatic to find other people with the same debilitating social handicap as themselves, but most likely because everyone looks hot as a six-foot chicken. I mean, who�s with me, how do you not [Censor�s note: you really didn�t want to read this part we cut] all the way into its chicken hole!?

Distinguishing Characteristics: You�ll know furries and plushies because they�ll either be wearing a crotchless panda suit or just a screaming teddy bear firmly against their crotch, respectively.



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1. Live Action Role Playing
Public Humiliation: 100%
Live action role playing, or LARP, is a nerd�s parent�s worst fears come true: Dungeons and Dragons has finally made their child go crazy. These people dress up like fantasy characters and go on adventures where other nerds play the parts of enemy monsters, which would be fine if the participants were in the second grade. When adults do it, it�s like a renaissance faire and backyard wrestling met, had demonic babies, and gave them weapons.
Damage to Sex Life: 100%
If you and your team of paladins are thinking about leaving your mom�s basement to move your fantasy quests into society, you might as well leave your genitals behind.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Aside from the barbarian clothes and giant monster heads, it�s impossible to know who might be LARPing. The only way to be sure is when they throw make-believe fireballs at you from their very fingertips, but by then... it�s already too late.

And Way Above Number One:

Spending time at Above Top Secret.

Lemme see I do:

10. Comic Books
9. Role Playing Games
7. Star Wars

God I am such a dork. But a good looking one at that.

Question:




...Just precisely whose definition of "dorky" forms the paramenters of that list?...

# you. Comic books are cool. You should have included "collecting stamps". Now that is lame.

Come on Morbid, be proud of your dorkiness. wear it as a badge of honor.

Just because some people dont conform to your superficial standards does not mean they are dorks. I am not offended by your comments, but some may be.

I agree with MA,
ATS is abnormally nerdy... and increasingly so.


And if you try to leave people get mad at you


..However, I find myself investing EXTRA time into my social life just to overcome my feelings of ATS nerdiness (and I yearn for my recently departed campus days).

Originally posted by NotTooHappy
Come on Morbid, be proud of your dorkiness. wear it as a badge of honor.

Well, I don't need to wear your dorkiness badge, and I don,t collect comic books, but I actually think they're cool, and that it's some kind of art. So, you can call us art lovers, but not dork.

But I agree that the rest of your list usually leads to dorkiness lol ..

(no offence meant)

Originally posted by Dreamz
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3. Star Trek
Damage to Sex Life: 93.4%
While it�s true that ladies crave fat men with pointy ears and a strong armpit odor, those green aliens that Kirk used to bone created a standard of beauty for Trekkies that no Earth woman can live up to.

Distinguishing Characteristics: If someone approaching you is more machine than man and threatening to assimilate you, it�s either a Star Trek enthusiast or an android lost in time. Either way, it�s your duty as a human to smash it.

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*puts away my spock ears and uniform* I doubt all that, just go to a convention sometime.

And as for the last comment; LOL! Better get rid of that costume, lest I get smashed.

Insane conspiracy theorists are the dorkiest by far. Who would believe those idiots anyway? That list of dorky things are simply what some consider dorky. There are no scientific measurements for this sort of thing.

Furries I've never even heard considered dorky/nerdy at all, just perverse. Though it seems to be such a infintesibly small group of people that I don't even see how it made it to #2 position in light of all the other more popular forms of dork-dom.

No its not meant to mean you are dorky.......I am just saying these are the so-called 10 dorkiest. Who cares if your a dork, I am and take pride in my own imagination.

Why is everyone so defencive about being a dork? It's OK to be a dork. If you deny being a dork you're an uberdork. that's that.

This is the most shallow thread. Be who you are. Its not like everybody is only one type of person. FIght the system and dont clasify yourself socially by what you do.

Trekkies got to be some of the wierdest people on the planet. I am interested in fine scale models (these are not toys), just look at the modeling magazines. Of course my primary interest is WW2 German aircraft (1931-1945). Among the modeling people are those who build Sci-fi models. I have always had some disdain for the Sci-fi modelers since there is no prototype (actual aircraft for comparision of fidelity of detail). People who build models of actual space craft do not fall in this category. Here is my story about the weirdness level of trekkies. A buddy and me were at an IPMS show (International Plastic Model Society). I was admiring some nicely made WW2 fighters when my buddy asked what I thought of a certain model of the starship Enterprise. I told him that I really did not pay attention to sci-fi models since there is no actual prototype for comparison. He said I should see this particular Enterprise because the guy who made it built it to studio specifications. In short this model was built exactly the same as the one they used to make the original Star Trek series. I looked an it was somewhat impressive. THE MODEL NEVER MADE IT HOME and here is why. Some trekkie saw it an wanted it. The trekkie found the guy and ask him how much he wanted for it. The guy responded, "It is not for sale". The trekkie then ask the builder, "Well name a price." The guy who built the model replied, "Well I will take $20,000 for it" thinking it would shut the trekkie up. The trekkie disappeared and came back about an hour later with a cashier's check for $20,000. Now who is going to tell me that trekkies are not totally weird.

Originally posted by omega1
This is the most shallow thread. Be who you are. Its not like everybody is only one type of person. FIght the system and dont clasify yourself socially by what you do.

It has nothing to do with classifying yourself, Its meant for entertainment purposes.

err umm
im a number 1 i even know that the roleplay name for florida is Trimerus and i have only been here 3 months lol. Also i play warhammer whitch i think comes in under miniture battling

It has nothing to do with classifying yourself, Its meant for entertainment purposes.

Just because you think it is as simple as that doesnt meen it is. This thread brings up the topic of social classing by hobbies. That, in my book, is horrible, That is my only point. People can think what they want, but if someone likes Star Trek or reads comic books does not meen that they are a dork. Society seems to look at it that way, but since when was society right?

Could someone define "dork". I think that, that would clear things up a bit. I know it used to be american slang for male genetalia.

Originally posted by omega1

It has nothing to do with classifying yourself, Its meant for entertainment purposes.

Just because you think it is as simple as that doesnt meen it is. This thread brings up the topic of social classing by hobbies. That, in my book, is horrible, That is my only point. People can think what they want, but if someone likes Star Trek or reads comic books does not meen that they are a dork. Society seems to look at it that way, but since when was society right?

Look, don't take stuff so seriously. Its all in good fun. Because the title of a thread online says the word dork in it does not mean by any means that you are one. Its a societal thought , like you said that stereotypes individuals. It does not mean that you are, have your own mind, know what you are and care less what other people say.