[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
I’ll just feel pleased that while you’re stewing and simmering in front of your computer tomorrow night, I’ll be in a crowd of people both young and old excited about buying A BOOK. How could anyone have predicted that a dozen years ago?
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And I’ll be fuckin’ me a chick right about then…
…that DL’d the torret!!! 
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[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]
And I’ll be fuckin’ me a chick right about then…
…that DL’d the torret!!! *
I think you guys are missing out.
Non-fans have sex, see.
Fans have sex with chicks wearing a pleated skirt and a striped scarf and nothing else.
My argument stands.
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
I think you guys are missing out.
Non-fans have sex, see.
Fans have sex with chicks wearing a pleated skirt and a striped scarf and nothing else.
My argument stands.
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Oh Christ. You know what Dave’s going to bring home now, right? :eek:
nerd fight!!! nerd fight!!!
I’m with the OP here. Its impossible to not be irritated by the things that irritate us. And adults being into Harry Potter is definitely irritating to me. But I have a really low tolerance for nerd culture. My boyfriend puts me through hell with this. Science fiction paperbacks, Red Dwarf, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhikers Guide, Princess Bride, Monty Python, Star Trek, any movie that ends in “man” (x-men, superman, batman, spiderman) At the end of the day I just want to find all these people and give them wedgies.
But I’m a big reader myself and I’m a research scientist so you can imagine what the laboratory population is like in terms of nerdiness. These are the nerds that wear it like a badge of honor (the worst most annoying kind)
I’ll just be glad when it’s over.
The inevitable, but on-topic Onion hyperlink.
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
Man are people in this thread being condescending. “Herd Mentality”. Right. Thanks for implying that everyone who truly enjoys the HP series because, I dunno, it’s, gee, maybe, GOOD; is just some kind of sheep.
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Wouldn’t that be a FLOCK mentality?
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
But I’m a big reader myself and I’m a research scientist so you can imagine what the laboratory population is like in terms of nerdiness. These are the nerds that wear it like a badge of honor (the worst most annoying kind)
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We ought to be ashamed of liking stuff you don’t then? :dubious:
Oooookay.
No, actually, I understand what you mean. There’s a difference between reveling in the goofy (as a matter of fact I do know how silly I look) and being socially inept and seriously creepy. I’m still just barely young enough to be a silly dork and get away with it, AND I can talk to the opposite sex without bringing up Harry Potter or gaming or science fiction or fantasy EVEN ONCE!
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
Fans have sex with chicks wearing a pleated skirt and a striped scarf and nothing else.
My argument stands.
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Cite?
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
Cite?
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My post is my cite.
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
My post is my cite.
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Well, in that case, let me close the shades, put on the Harry Potter movie soundtrack, and read it again…
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
But I’m a big reader myself and I’m a research scientist
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How could you be those two things and not be a nerd? Seems inconceivable to me!
As to the OP, I agree with the OP, although I can’t get myself as worked up about it. But seeing people do stuff they normally wouldn’t do because of a book seems creepy to me too.
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo]
How could you be those two things and not be a nerd? Seems inconceivable to me!
As to the OP, I agree with the OP, although I can’t get myself as worked up about it. But seeing people do stuff they normally wouldn’t do because of a book seems creepy to me too.
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Can you verbalize why? Not trying to be snide or defensive here, but I’m honestly puzzled by your attitude.
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
Fans have sex with chicks wearing a pleated skirt and a striped scarf and nothing else.
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I find your agruments intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
Can you verbalize why? Not trying to be snide or defensive here, but I’m honestly puzzled by your attitude.
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If you meant my comment to lobstermobster about being nerdy, it was a joke. C’mon, being a research scientist and big reader is nerd city. It’s amazing she escaped without becoming one.
But I don’t think that’s the part you meant, so here’s the other part.
Why do I think it’s creepy that people do stuff they wouldn’t normally do because of a book? I think most of the reasons have already been mentioned. I’ll “overdramatize” to make the point. These examples are not about the Harry Potter book, but for instance, when people go to a concert and someone gets smashed to death by the crowd. Or people sit all night on a sidewalk to get tickets to a show and risk getting frozen to death. Or when people use their life savings to buy tulips on a craze, and then kill themselves when the price drops. Those are creepy to me.
I realize this is on a much smaller scale. But my local bookstore has a release party on the night the book is released where people generally bring their kids and stay up past midnight to get their first release copy. Making little kids stay up that late to get a book seems unusual behavior to me. Or when people post things that others have asked them politely not to post. That’s generally not how people behave here.
It just all gives the sense that people are not behaving very rationally. I realize that we’re not all robots and that we have emotions. But when people behave in a way that seems quite out of character for a piece of entertainment, it just seems a little creepy to me.
My co-workers and I had a debate tonight on which group we’ve encountered at the mall is crazier:
The nerds who sat outside in 20 degree temperature all night for a Nintendo Wii
The urban teenagers who will line up at Footlocker at 5AM on a Saturday in order to get new basketball shoes
The geeks who have at this very moment pitched a tent outside Barnes & Noble in order to be first in line to get the Harry Potter book. One of the guys even said he intended to read the last chapter as soon as he got it, and then go to bed.
It was a debate with no clear winner.
Even if the HP series wasn’t a rather over-hyped phenomenon, I think the fact that this is the long-awaited conclusion of the series is reason enough for some level of mania.
Name anything else happening in the arts and entertainment within 30 days of today that generates excitement among millions of people worldwide, and I’ll be more sympathetic to the OP’s complaint.
I like how in the act of complaining about the number of Harry Potter threads, the OP actually contributes to the cross-forum total of Harry Potter threads.
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
I think you guys are missing out.
Non-fans have sex, see.
Fans have sex with chicks wearing a pleated skirt and a striped scarf and nothing else.
My argument stands.
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And your name?
Hear-me-moan Granger.
[Bender]I think I’ll write my own book! But without the Harry Potter! And without the Free Crack![/Bender]
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess]
Liking a certain book, or movie, or music, whatever is fine and dandy. There’s something about overwhelming, fanatical popularity for something that creeps me out, though. Some people take it so seriously that it becomes one of the most important things in their life, and when a person’s logical sense of priorities is impaired, that to me is fucked up.
That’s probably one of the main reasons why I’ve avoided Harry Potter altogether. I avoid other mega-popular things for the same reason. I really don’t like the herd mentality of it all.
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If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear you’d travelled forward in time, copied the post I would have have made when I got home from work, then travelled back in time to post it whilst I was still at work, thus thwarting my chance to make exactly the same statement.