"Chris Clarke" (shiftsandgiggles)
04/23/2014 at 10:21 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"Chris Clarke" (shiftsandgiggles)
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If you've ever tweeted the hashtag #avgeek, I want to you to exit your World of Warcraft game, put on some pants, slowly climb those steep, dark stairs out of your mom's basement and quickly make your way to the nearest video store and pick up a VHS copy of The Right Stuff . Now watch the movie in its entirety and report back to me how many pilots would not punch you in the nose if you called them an avgeek.
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The Transporter
> Chris Clarke
04/23/2014 at 10:51 |
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Chris Clarke
> The Transporter
04/23/2014 at 11:00 |
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The Transporter
> Chris Clarke
04/23/2014 at 11:05 |
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I'm not hip with the tweeters and the facetubes and the googles, so I didn't know that #avgeek was even a thing. Since I don't really have a dog in this fight, my jimmies remain unrustled.
Argent
> Chris Clarke
04/23/2014 at 12:08 |
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Meh. The author seems to be basing his whole article on the 20-30 year old definition of geek, with big glasses and suspenders. As someone who has graduated from high school in the past 5 years, from what I remember from my school, the definition of "geek" is simply a person who is passionate about something.
Howie
> Chris Clarke
04/23/2014 at 14:33 |
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I loved that movie! And loved this scene
Followed by this one
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Chris Clarke
> Howie
04/23/2014 at 14:38 |
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Perfect! Gives me goose bumps.
user314
> Chris Clarke
04/23/2014 at 15:59 |
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I wonder if he knows that most of the USAF/NACA/NASA test pilots were engineers, and that they would have (after the term was explained) wholly embraced the term "geek"? Talk about making up a problem to write about. Come to think of it, does he write for Gawker too?