While awareness bracelets are almost always for a good cause they have gotten a little out of hand in the past year or two. What started as a way to promote awareness of serious diseases like cancer, became a bit of a "fashion statement." (I only put that in quotes because I'm not sure Fab would agree they're fashionable in any way.)
On their advertisement page for the Geek Awareness Bracelets, $1.99, Thinkgeek says: "By wearing any of these bracelets, you will show you care by shouting to the world and showing your support for geek awareness in every aspect of life. Whether it's hacking your PSP, watercooling your overclocked box, sniping a noob, or simply taking stuff apart and putting it back together — because you can — you always embrace geek."
While I'm all about hacking my PSP and shouting my geekiness from the rooftops, I'm not ready to adorn my body with rubber geek bracelets. What do you think: Are they geek chic, or totally geeky?
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these are totally geeky!
1totally geeky...all the way!
2Seriously do we need a bracelet for geek awareness? It's not a disease, or some serious affliction.
3Geek Chic. I'd wear it!
4It's ridiculous. Stephen Colbert's WristStrong bracelet is funny, and all the money goes to the Yellow Ribbon fund. But just to have every "cause" or word or whatever stamped on a rubber bracelet is retarded.
5Haha, Geek Awareness?
They're just making it sound like
more of a stigma than it already is (for the strange reason that it is). I'd still buy one though; not for the cause it's weirdly for but one of them says I SEE FRAGGED PEOPLE, and I do.
6I'm generally a fan of many forms of geekiness. And honestly, I like these better than most of the "awareness" bracelets I've seen, as I find these a bit humorous. However, I can't personally call them either "Geek Chic", as I don't really like them that much and would never wear them, and I can't call them "Totally Geeky", as that's not quite the word I'd choose to describe them.
7do people still wear those things? yuck. i wouldn't wear them.
8lame...its just going to collect dust 2 weeks later.
9Too much geek.
10This embodies acness! I am a geek chic and I live in a house full of geeky boys. Tecnology is a big part of my life - even my boyfriend is a network manager! I shall be buying a few of these.
11Just too funny!
12Oh I love them! Yea, Ill express my geekiness, Id definatley wear.
13UGH.! Those bracelets are ugly enough as it is!!! But to have a stupid "geek" logo, ugh. absurd.
14Why not? I mean all those sports people have their rubber bracelets. Why not geeks?
15Maybe if they donated the money to something.
For Example:
Tux is My Homeboy: Donate to Linux
16I See Fragged People: Donate to Child's Play
Think Geek: Donate to Science/Math/Engineering/Technology scholarships
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