All through the day, the main stages were accompanied by a giant screen showing closeups of the band on stage. Above the screen was one of those scrolling text banners. People in the crowd could text messages to the screen and they’d show up on the banner.
Some of this was predictable: teenage girls saying “Liam is sexy lolz” and random maroons saying “Raaaaaaaage” and so on. What took me by surprise was the full-on uprising of the geeks. Serious geek chatter dominated the banner. There were countless references to Chuck Norris, to WoW, to LOLCats, to NomNomNom, etc. Above all else, there was Trogdor the Burninator. Trogdor’s name appeared on the banner literally hundreds of times throughout the day.
My question, then: was this geek hijack of the text banner (at a huge rock gig) unusual? Or am I just so old and crusty that I don’t realise this is what such banners are like everywhere?
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As the geeks are generally the only ones who put any thought at all into it, I’d say it is the same everywhere.
Nope, it’s just the geeks ruling NZ under Labour.
At the Gold Coast BDO it’s traditionally “Jo S is hot!!” “Queens of th Stone Age Kik ass!” “Jo S is really hot!!” etc.
No geeks allowed round here, thanks very much. We ship ’em off shore.
But Jo S isn’t hot and Queens of the Stone Age suck… I’m confused.