My Name is Jonathan And I'm a Geekaholic

Today when I visited Stack Overflow, I was excited to see I had unknowingly earned a gold badge:



Unfortunately, that excitement quickly turned to despair when I saw what it was for:



At this point, there are two things that go through one's head:

1) I should show this to my girlfriend.
2) Perhaps if I did not have said badge, I might have said girlfriend.

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