> "wanker otaku"??? O shit, I couldn't resist. Is this rather odd
> combination of a famous British vulgarity with an overly polite word for
> 'home', some kind of obscure slang I missed out on last time I was in
> Sydney?
Otaku, "comics geek" (transliterally, "home-boy" or something like that), with the same resonance as "Trekkie". Get with the program, man!
-- Dennis