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This was mostly self-deprecating in this case, so it gets a pass from me. And I mean, if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is: https://www.cityseg

by simias 6y ago

This was mostly self-deprecating in this case, so it gets a pass from me. And I mean, if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is: https://www.citysegwaytours.com/uploads/3716/Chicago-Two-Hour-Segway_gallery3.png https://www.citysegwaytours.com/uploads/3716/Chicago-Two-Hou... But dorky stuff can be a lot of fun. Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker but "dorky" doesn't have a super negative connotation to me, it can be quite endearing actually.

rdiddly 6y ago
The helmets don't help. Without those... still dorky? Not sure. Less so, at least, but does the dorkiness decrease enough to pass under the threshold of ultimate dorkiness? Dorky is such a razor-edge. Basically it means you're doing something culturally unusual that maybe has connotations of being "too technical" at the expense of, I guess aesthetics. Like using technology to get around instead of moving through the world like a graceful gazelle with pure and beautiful movements that approach art, you know like all of us do all the time when we're not on Segways riiiight? (cue 5 seconds of news report on obesity epidemic with the usual footage of random overweight people lumbering down the street) Thing is, even iPhones were dorky at first. So then how did iPhones become cool (except secretly as a Gen-Xer who lived 10 years of life without so much as an Atari, I still think you're all dorks and myself too but anyway) but Segways remained dorky? Ironically the only explanation I come up with is that they (Segways) never became wildly popular. But that's essentially a circular argument. I dunno, I dont expect I'll ever be able to explain the behavior of "the crowd."
- aswanson 6y ago
  IMO, the dorkier, the cooler.
  - malinens 6y ago
    they needed to embrace dorkiness!
    - rdiddly 6y ago
      Yes - you have to OWN the dorkiness!
aswanson 6y ago
Lol. Thanks for that laugh. Ironically, as you get older, doing something 'dorky' in public and not caring what anyone thinks is a signal of total individualism/self-assurance. Which is cool in my book.
jodrellblank 6y ago
> "if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is" Segway made it into Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" parody song https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=74 https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=74

by simias 6y ago

rdiddly 6y ago

The helmets don't help. Without those... still dorky? Not sure. Less so, at least, but does the dorkiness decrease enough to pass under the threshold of ultimate dorkiness? Dorky is such a razor-edge. Basically it means you're doing something culturally unusual that maybe has connotations of being "too technical" at the expense of, I guess aesthetics. Like using technology to get around instead of moving through the world like a graceful gazelle with pure and beautiful movements that approach art, you know like all of us do all the time when we're not on Segways riiiight? (cue 5 seconds of news report on obesity epidemic with the usual footage of random overweight people lumbering down the street) Thing is, even iPhones were dorky at first. So then how did iPhones become cool (except secretly as a Gen-Xer who lived 10 years of life without so much as an Atari, I still think you're all dorks and myself too but anyway) but Segways remained dorky? Ironically the only explanation I come up with is that they (Segways) never became wildly popular. But that's essentially a circular argument. I dunno, I dont expect I'll ever be able to explain the behavior of "the crowd."

aswanson 6y ago
IMO, the dorkier, the cooler.
- malinens 6y ago
  they needed to embrace dorkiness!
  - rdiddly 6y ago
    Yes - you have to OWN the dorkiness!

aswanson 6y ago

Lol. Thanks for that laugh. Ironically, as you get older, doing something 'dorky' in public and not caring what anyone thinks is a signal of total individualism/self-assurance. Which is cool in my book.

jodrellblank 6y ago

> "if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is" Segway made it into Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" parody song https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=74 https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=74