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Post by tory on Jan 17, 2024 16:06:37 GMT
You go into someone's house for the first time as a guest and they show you this. What is your initial reaction?
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jan 17, 2024 16:20:26 GMT
i'd probably use it as a prompt for conversation, but without much interest or enthusiasm about the thing itself. I wouldn't regard it as that strange. I approve of people collecting, it creates a passion that gives real pleasure.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 17, 2024 16:28:47 GMT
"So, you like Star Trek, huh?"
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jan 17, 2024 16:33:07 GMT
"So, you like Star Trek, huh?" Is that what it is?
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jan 17, 2024 16:33:52 GMT
Are they 10? If so, hey, that's pretty cool! If they're my age, I'd shake my head and walk out. I'm sure they'd do the same if they saw my albums.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 17, 2024 16:40:16 GMT
My stock reaction to things like this is "Wow, that's pretty wild", so I'd say that, and maybe ask a couple of questions all while thinking of an excuse to leave.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 17, 2024 16:40:46 GMT
'they show you this' is key here
if I just saw it, I wouldn't think much at all. But if they 'introduce' it to me, I'd think they were a bit simple
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 17, 2024 16:41:47 GMT
Not like you to post photos of your bedroom here Toby
ha ha ha ha
ha ha
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 17, 2024 17:05:51 GMT
"So, you like Star Trek, huh?" Is that what it is? No
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Post by adamcoan on Jan 17, 2024 17:44:36 GMT
"So, you like Star Trek, huh?" No need to ask what his partner thinks. There won't be one.
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Post by Sneelock on Jan 17, 2024 17:55:45 GMT
I'd say "wow" because I'd be impressed. Once I saw a bin full of models used in old Flash Gordon and the then new Flesh Gordon. I nearly shit my pants with excitement. I'd never even seen Flesh Gordon at that point.
you either geek out on that sort of stuff or you don't. I do!
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Post by fonz on Jan 17, 2024 18:48:50 GMT
Knock one of those football death stars on the floor and hoof it through the window
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Post by fonz on Jan 17, 2024 18:49:38 GMT
Now. If it had been Marvel Legos there’d be a conversation to be had
“ Legos”
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Post by riggers on Jan 17, 2024 18:49:57 GMT
Geek culture is a funny one. It's become a huge thing over the last decade or so, hasn't it?
I don't get it myself, I have old friends, grown men who bang on about Space Wars and all that on FB and I take the piss and say it's for kids and stuff, but really it's not that different to people like us and our obsessions.
The young disabled lad I used to work with and have now become a kind of uncle/mentor figure to, is a proper geek about all this stuff. Over the last few years I've had to go and watch all sorts of Marvel films and what have you with him, and had my ears bent by him about Animé, Manga, computer games...but he's also into his music and partly as a result of my influence, he's developed quite an interest in the Beatles , Stones, Zep etc...we watched 'The Kids Are Alright' and 'The Filth And The Fury' together and it was brilliant to witness his excitement and enthusiasm for them, which was very similar to how he reacts when the latest update on some computer game or other comes out or whatever...
So, as much as I like to say stuff like 'I liked it when Spock battered that Dalek' when he or my other geeky friends talk about Star Wars stuff, we're really not that different I suppose.
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Post by rayge on Jan 17, 2024 19:03:08 GMT
Knock one of those football death stars on the floor and hoof it through the window Would you open the window first?
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