My wife and I are huge nerds. She’s a philosophy nerd with a real nerd-boner for all of those fruitcakes comin’ outta ancient Greece. (She especially likes Plato, even though I unwaveringly refer to him as “Socrates’ little touch-puppet.”) I, on the other hand, am a science fiction and fantasy nerd. Books, comics, games — I love ’em all. (And when I realized the mysterious bad guy in Star Trek Into Darkness was Khan Noonien Singh, I nearly snorted a Cheerio up my nose.
For reasons I will never understand, my wife just cannot get into sci-fi. Space ships, laser beams, warp drives, lightsabers and aliens are all lost on her, even though sci-fi has clearly been predicting the future of technology since the 1960s and now serves as a beacon for all of humanity’s hopes and aspirations for entering into a golden age of enlightenment and prosperity the likes of which the galaxy has never known god dammit.)
But you know which genre my wife does like? Fantasy. She loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy and she owns all of the Harry Potter books (in German, by the way, which somehow makes them seem even nerdier). So of course we’re both crazy about the HBO series, A Game of Thrones. I read all the books and she listened to me rave about them. Then, after the TV series came out, we ordered the DVDs and had them shipped here to Germany.
The only bad thing about loving a series like this is when it comes to an end. As we finished the last disc one night, my wife turned to me, punched the pillow sitting on her lap and said:
“But I want to watch more King of the Thorns!”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
LOL. Dude, wish there were people like you in my circle of “friends”. Whenever I am stuck in a purely german conversational group where I can contribute nothing but a smile and a nod, I compose myself and imagine crawling out of Shawshank prison years later and having a torrent of english wash over my deprived soul. Also, I just finished Dance with Dragons and fervently hope that G.R.R. Martin doesn’t kick the bucket before finishing the series.
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Haw haw haw haw! I love it! Great visuals, Pramoy.
Which part of Germany are you in?
And have you considered a blog of your own? Could be sweet, judging from your comment.
Have a great day!
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Hey dude! Thanks! you made my day. :D
I live in a small town called Attendorn in North Rhine Westphalia. All the meetup groups are elsewhere and the population of cattle exceed that of the people.
Yeah I have had dreams of writing but I only usually manage to turn out something when I am down and depressed. I’ll definitely give it a go now since I have all the time in the world. Cheers!
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Definitely! I keep a steady antenna up for all things funny. Whenever I find it, I write it down, take a picture of it or record a video. Then the hard part is done for you and you don’t have to write from a place of depression.
Good luck and I look forward to reading more!
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