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	the__ivorytower 2012-08-17 01:23 am UTC (link)
	I saw that yesterday and laughed and laughed... (Reply to this)

	singe 2012-08-17 02:57 am UTC (link)
	Snort! (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2012-08-17 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	So true. It's ________ geeks all the way down. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2012-08-20 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	Merlin Missy has a wonderful metaphor for this sort of inter-geekish snobbery: "You're Wearing the Wrong Duck on Your Head." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cmdr_zoom
2012-08-21 08:34 pm UTC (link)

Alas, despite the blogger's call for understanding and harmony, it's not going to happen. As this comic points out, and the overwhelming weight of evidence regarding all matters of interest - not just hobbies and/or things branded as "geeky", but politics, religion, etc - appears to demonstrate, we're just not wired for it. The things I like are better than the things you like, my way of doing X is better than your way, and my opinions are fact while yours are lies and/or delusions.

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And even if we happen to be in agreement on the generalities of something, we will inevitably find some detail to disagree on, and argue about, because my tastes in sub-sub-sub-item A(b).c are clearly superior and correct. It is by the differences as much as by the similarities, the negatives as much as the positives, that we define our preferences and identities... if not more so.

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	cmdr_zoom 2012-08-21 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	tl;dr: "I am this, I am not that. People who are that are wrong." (because if they're not, then I would be wrong, and that can't possibly be.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2012-08-17 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	Perfect. (Reply to this)

	kookaburra 2012-08-19 10:36 am UTC (link)
	Wow. Just last week I found myself having a conversation like this, trying to explain the rift between road cyclists and triathletes. It's a universal principle. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	notjo 2012-08-19 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	There's a rift between road cyclists and triathletes? Please explain? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kookaburra
2012-08-19 04:44 pm UTC (link)

Road cyclists view triathletes as wannabes who endanger the whole paceline when they try to tag along on a group ride, and have no sense of tradition/fashion because they wear dorky clothes.

Triathletes view road cyclists as effete, lazy snobs who slack off by emphasizing pacelines, drafting and tactics over raw speed. Also they have no sense of fashion because they worry too much about tradition and wear dorky clothes.

On the cycling forms I'm on every so often someone from the triathlete subforum will come over to the roadie subforum (and I'm assuming vice versa, but I'm more of a road/utility cyclist so I don't hang out in the triathlete area so I don't see it) and the most pathetic, pointless little slapfights ensue.

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	romana03 2012-08-19 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	follows link, watches evening disappear (Reply to this)(Thread)

	romana03 2012-08-19 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	And by link, I clearly mean lack of link but goinging to xkcd anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sadisticferret 2012-08-20 02:36 am UTC (link)
	One of us, one of us. (Reply to this)(Parent)

innervoice_chan
2012-08-23 04:30 pm UTC (link)

This is just so true.

I've been lurking around different parts of fandom for over 10 years. I thought I knew fandom pretty well by now.

Two days ago I stumbled into the previously-unknown-to-me world of fanedits. (http://fanedit.org/ifdb) Turns out it's seriously A Thing with forums and meta and discussion and three dozen subtly different versions of Star Wars.

THERE IS NO BOTTOM.
(and I am happily falling further down the rabbit hole...)

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