I'd never met her type, she ignored me and that's all right.

[reddragdiva]

[Poll #372355]

Not that I'm bored at work or anything.

Update: "I" meaning you, of course.

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Well, approximately a person with social skills, anyway.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

[x] person who is bored at work too.

[reddragdiva]

Bugger!

[vampwillow]

er ... hold on a moment. Are we answering this as "I am a" meaning ourselves, or as "I am a" meaning you?

[reddragdiva]

"I" meaning you!

[karen2205]

That's 'not a goth' as in 'no idea what goths are' not 'goth pretending to not be a goth for fun'.

And geek as in 'yeah, I'll have a play about with my computer etc - no one else can do it, so I might as well have a go'.

What on earth is a BOFH? (yep, I don't do popular culture references).

[arkady.livejournal.com]

A Bastard Operator From Hell (http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html).

Technically I am a BOFH - an LUL BOFH. My "system" is the Underground and the flow of information therein. But I don't actually count as a real BOFH. An honourary one perhaps.

[wyrdlinks.livejournal.com]

Bastard Operator From Hell...

http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html and now to be found on The Register

A question of semantics

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Does "notagoth" mean "wears black PVC/fishnets/leather trenchcoats, dyes their hair unnatural shades and goes to g*th clubs because that's where their friends/potential sex partners are but will swear on a stack of Bauhaus vinyl that they're not a goth", or apply to anyone who doesn't participate in the g*th subculture/share its semiotics/think that the Sisters Of Mercy were anything more than just another post-punk band/&c.

Re: A question of semantics

[vatine]

In my case it's a definite case of "I am only named that way". And that I am not from any Gothia, neither East Gothia nor West Gothia, I am from Svealand.

Re: A question of semantics

[reddragdiva]

Denial of and association with, hence use of the single word.

Re: A question of semantics

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Nobody has accused me of being (or trying to be) a goth for some years, so I guess I leave that one blank. I'll assume that I've managed to pick up some social skills along the way whilst living among actual people, and tick that box.

Re: A question of semantics

[rosefox]

Hmm. I guess wearing a purple stretch velvet dress to work and having a four-month-old black dye job with green streaks combined with being perky at 8 a.m. and not owning any eye makeup means I qualify.

(Reluctantly perky, but perky nonetheless.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Update: "I" meaning you, of course.

That's NOT AT ALL obvious, fule!
Discount my answers.

[reddragdiva]

You can go back and change your answers, you know! Click on 'View answers', then click on 'Fill out Poll'.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Oh, you can?
Interesting, that makes LJ polls rather different than what I thought.
Editing proceeds apace.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

You can go back and edit your answers, you know....

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure :>

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

Ooh - thank you for reminding me I am now a retired-BOFH!

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I am now old enough to be president of the united states.

[reddragdiva]

VOTE OGW! HE'LL FUCK UP THOSE RED STAPLERS AT NASA PERSONALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I amn't a goth, but I'm not so degenerate as to go round saying "I'm not a goth".

[bellaantimatter.livejournal.com]

Just because I'm capable of lifting heavy things doesn't mean I want to, though.
Or what if more than one apply? And what about hte definition of notagoth vs goth?
Dammit, too many questions, you owe me a beer now, I shall collect when I move to EnGerLand for school. (I'll be the one dressed in black and carrying a 50 Kg lead weight and complaining about it)

heheheh

[reddragdiva]

Goodness me! When's this happening?

[bellaantimatter.livejournal.com]

As soon as CSM accepts me. I haven't applied yet, mind you, but I'll likely start that process in the next year... so not next academic year, but the one following. SO I may collect sooner if I have an opportunity to be "over there". I know we tried to arrange somethig LAST time I was there, which was a rather rushed fly-by, but if I gave enough warning...

[kest]

My god a lot of people answered this poll. And most of us claim to have social skills!