Why Do Other Geeks Leave the House?

JG_Elliott asks: "Being a geek getting more and more frustrated with shopping trips, I've turned to the internet to buy things to save time and effort. This made me wonder, other than leaving the house for work/lectures/school, why do other geeks leave the house? What is in the big wide-world that you can't get online (other than real sex)? What do other geeks get up to in their spare time, that they recommend, as something to do out of the house?"

Comments

Uh..

[hookedup]

To go see the new star wars..duh.

eat,sex,shit

[el00343]

...that's about everything I can't do online. Of course,if you have a laptop,everything changes

Re:eat,sex,shit

[unixbob]

you leave the house to go for a shit?

Supermarket

[dacarr]

Because, quite frankly, you can't get decent produce by sending somebody else to get it.

Re:'enlightenment' topic

[Dr. GeneMachine]

and you do need a change of scenery every so often.

Change of scenery, huh? Replace your windows with plasma screens. Works wonders, I can tell you.

Re:Only one thing

[GigsVT]

When I bought my house, I figured I'd get the low end model, since I thought that in 12 months, a house that was twice as big with twice the features would be out for about the same price.

Sigh.

Why not?

[Vincman]

I think a more interesting and honest question is 'Why do people not leave the house?'. Is is related to past experiences? Is it a result or cause of social phobia? Is it related to the satisfying of short-term objectives? Is it related to intelligence or laziness? Is there a correlation between any variable (e.g. happiness) and time spent ouside?
So does the good of outside-activity outweigh the bad, or vice versa? The relationship between obesity and inmobility has already been discussed numerous times.
In my opinion, there are lots of reasons to leave the house, which outweigh spending time inside. The best answer was already given: Life is out there! Nothing beats the sweet smell/feel/taste of ... (fill in gap yourself)!

Re:Why not?

[Tackhead]

> I think a more interesting and honest question is 'Why do people not leave the house?'

What's outside the hosue is as boring as the Sims, but it's even slower, the speed-up key can only be used once a day, and it only works at night, when you're at home trying to game, rather than you just pushing fast-forward during the day when nobody's home!

The list of defects goes on. Like, there's no fucking save/restore feature either! Spend six weeks setting up a menage-a-trois with your boss' wife and just one lousy goat, and you might as well pull out the old .45 and reformat.

No way, man. The game outside the house is teh sux. I wouldn't even warez it.

Re:Why I leave my house.

[sydb]

So you've noticed sex can be geeky to? You know, you half-wake in the middle of the night from a C-hacking dream with the raging horn and your s.o. lying next to you, there's only two chars' difference between hacking and **cking, one thing leads to another, we've all been there, right? As the int main(int argc, char *argv[]){..}s scroll through your minds eye, your scrolling through her pie! Know what I mean??

Right???

Stop looking at me like that!!

Leave the House

[Anonymous Coward]

Apart from work, I leave the house to be Rejected by Women at parties.

It's better than drinking alone alone.

(I'm joking THey Run screaming before they can reject me :P )

Re:Life

[chrismear]

Leaving the house was the best thing that ever happened to me. ... Humans have human needs.

You do know they make indoor toilets now, right?