If you’re reading this for a start, I reckon you’re a bit of a nerd. Because if you’re reading this, then chances are you have a blog. Or are at least a friend of mine with the knowhow to use a computer for something other than looking at porn and betting online (3 of my mates use computers solely for these reasons. They aren’t nerds. The rest of them pretty much are in one way or another).
However, I reckon I can trump you all in the nerd stakes.
I’ve been on E-Bay recently you see. Now a lot of people use E-Bay to buy sensible items like books, CDs, records, clothes, car parts, computer hardware, kitchenware and electrical equipment for a little bit less than they’d pay in the shops. But not me.
This week I’ve bought the following pointless items of nerditude for next to nothing:
A big, chunky plastic Superman. I don’t know why. It’s not like I have any shelves to put it on. But it will go well with my Spiderman cushion and Superman mug.
Oh yes. Those are Superman cufflinks. You know, for the one shirt that I have with those massive cuffs that gets used every time one of my non-nerd friends gets married.
No, no, not the couch - that would be a sensible thing to buy. No. I bought the massive Darth Vader multi frame wall thingy. You know, for my bedroom. Girls like that, right?
So whats the nerdiest thing you own?
NB: in my head, the word NERD wherever used above is automatically replaced with the word COOL so don’t hold back…
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Ive bought a Ghostbusters Ray Stanz figure , a Stay Puft Marshmallow man and a Run-DMC figure off ebay….
I also have Spider-man, Darth Vader and R2D2 Potato Heads, All 4 turtles, Michael Myers, Leatherface and Freddy action figures.
Im going to stop now.
Nerd stuff….hmmm Nerd Stuff….ehmmm ok… Does the Lord of the Rings Trilogy Count ?The ones with a millionthy hours of extra footage & Commentaries ? No…? Ok…
What about the box set of the original Black & White Flash Gordon Series’s ?
Or…a “Fat Bastard Doll” from Austin Powers with a string that you pull and he says “Get in MY Bellly” (well he used to, but the batteries dies years ago, no he’s just an unanimated Fat Fuck)
Ok…..A Masters of the Universe Annual from 1983 ?
(probably doesn’t count since I got in 1983 ie not from ebay like an uber-nerd)
Ok…What about Urotsukidoji on DVD (Japanese fucked up anime). Thats gotta give me some Nerd points, right ?
But I think you take the biscuit with the Vader wall thingy ! I bow to your Nerdiness sir.
(By the way I think a preview option before posting comments would be a good idea)
With the anniversary of my birth fast approaching my lovely wife gave me free rein to buy what I want on eBay, so this week I have been mostly buying the 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime Masterpiece edition.
As an extra I also bought two little tiny smokestacks that attach to him to make him more resemble the Japanese released version.
I also bought the re-issue Predaking box set.
And I’m about to buy a Series B Lady Lavery £20 from 1968 because not only do I collect Transformers but I colect coins and notes
Oh, and the othernight I got the Charlton years football DVD for €1 delivered.
I love eBay.
And the prize has to go to meh…the most ridiculously nerdy person I know.
I am not nerdy at all if I do say so myself.
dorks.
go Katie. you read blogs though… be careful. it’s a slippery slope.
Yeah Katie, I remember a recent converstaion of yours about the pros and cons of Tesco vs Superquinn… not exactly the coolest ever subject.
And Superquinn is way better
dammit.
This is fantastic stuff!! You’re all MASSIVE nerds!
Oh I forgot to say… the Vader picture is the coolest picture I’ve ever seen. Girls are gonna LOVE that giant black helmet.
I have Jay and Silent bob figures, a bender mask, and the bike from Akira……plus other things..
The bike from Akira sounds deadly.
I also have a Charlie Brown t-shirt (not a picture of him, his actual t-shirt) a glow in the dark friday 13th Hockey Mask.
And a t-shirt with a zombie C3PO eating R2D2’s braaaaaaaaains.
Hey, Snap. I have the glow in the dark Jason Hockey Mask too.
I think it’s under my bed keeping the cat away.
The bike from Akira, Manuel ??? ..mmmmm….Drooolll…
I don’t think I own any nerd stuff- you know the no space argument to death by now- but I think everything about me and my life is inherently nerdy. And I love it.
Full collection of Sandman comics.
Rare video of Meet the Feebles, Peter Jackson’s 2nd film about Muppet type creatures who put on a nightly entertainment show, but deal in drugs and make porno on the side.
My entire apartment could probably trump even the biggest nerds, and it’s oddly mostly down to the missus since she owns a huge amount of the stuff because she hoards everything
- SpongeBob Squarepants Shower Radio,
- King Rollo annuals,
- Transformers soap (not suitable for actual use since it’d stain the bath permanently),
- original Toy Story characters including an original Buzz Lightyear,
- Star Wars postage stamps,
- assorted Top Trumps (Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean spring to mind)
- original Cars characters from the credits where Pixar parodied their own earlier movies,
- South Park characters,
- Limited edition Carnegie Museum hand-painted scale-model dinosaurs from 1990-1992 (they guard the kitchen presses),
- we have a Lego town in the corner of the living room a massive coffee table, and most of the Lego comes from between 1982-1988 according to a website,
- a 2-headed stuffed snake,
- Star Wars Lego,
- original Star Wars action figures
- original Batman and Catwoman figures from the movies in the early 90s
- tons of other Disney stuff
- original My Little Pony characters (one of them minds my comb in the bathroom),
- the McDonald’s Transformer that turns from a bag of fries into a robot (everyone remembers them),
- 6-foot cardboard skeleton
The best thing about posting that list is that it’ll come in handy for insurance purposes.
There’s millions of other things that I’m sure I’ve forgotten, and the worst of it is, more and more stuff keeps appearing all the time.
Yeah, remember when Peter Jackson was good?
Anybody got a Millennium Falcon ?
I think I used to but my parents chucked it out…
No one mentioned He-Man and Skeletor.
Not even Neilo!