Watch out who you call a nerd

I find the term 'nerd' quite endearing and will happily admit to being a science nerd. The word 'geek' however has more of an IT feel to it to me and wouldn't ever use that term for myself.

Some people (read 'Americans') may take a bit of offence at being called a 'nerd' over the internet (read 'internerd') and, you know, want to drive 2000km to kill the person who called them that... right? That's normal... totally. Yup. Normal.

Yeesh.