Deep Interests In Real Life

Minjor

Outside of forums/boards.ie do boardsies have many friends they can have good discussions with about interests, particularly if it's more niche?

Or do you rely more on internet forums to find people that want to talk about that interest? A mix of both?

Some of my closest friends have little interest in music. I'm a lot more into it so I stop myself from getting too in depth about it when I'm around them. It's not too easy to find people into stuff like Jazz, which I kind of like listening to.

solomafioso

No. *cries*

danslevent

I have only one friend that I can discuss books in depth with. We always read the same books and lend each other books. It's wonderful!

Canis Lupus

Minjor wrote: »

Outside of forums/boards.ie do boardsies have many friends they can have good discussions with about interests, particularly if it's more niche?

Or do you rely more on internet forums to find people that want to talk about that interest? A mix of both?

Some of my closest friends have little interest in music. I'm a lot more into it so I stop myself from getting too in depth about it when I'm around them. It's not too easy to find people into stuff like Jazz, which I kind of like listening to.

Jazz isn't music, it's random noise.

Ficheall

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Jazz isn't music, it's random noise.

Ah now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99R7VW9QqyY

Angry_Mammarys

Yeah I've a few different friends for different subjects to talk about.

Minjor

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Jazz isn't music, it's random noise.

You could say that about any music, usually boils down to just not liking it, or understanding what's going on in the music.

There's Jazz I hate, the solos have to sound good on the ear for me to really like it. I probably like Fusion and Latin Jazz more than other types.

Links234

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Jazz isn't music, it's random noise.

Why that's the most ridiculous thing I've read in the last 2 minutes!

Frosty McSnowballs

Friends?

Hotfail.com

I've about 2 friends who don't act like idiots most of the time, the rest of them get "offended" if I say anything even slightly controversial (i.e. anything Facebook/twitter doesn't tell them) so I don't try to discuss serious topics with them anymore. They're grand like, just don't think for themselves in the slightest. Can chat away about anything normal (music/books/games etc.) to all of them though.

One fella gets annoyed if I say I dislike anything that he likes, most of which is just stupid internet shít like your man in space singing the David Bowie song. That was so fúcking stupid.

Links234

Minjor wrote: »

Outside of forums/boards.ie do boardsies have many friends they can have good discussions with about interests, particularly if it's more niche?

Or do you rely more on internet forums to find people that want to talk about that interest? A mix of both?

Some of my closest friends have little interest in music. I'm a lot more into it so I stop myself from getting too in depth about it when I'm around them. It's not too easy to find people into stuff like Jazz, which I kind of like listening to.

Hmm, I've got a lot of pretty niche interests I think, bit of a comic book nerd, love games, listen to loads of Japanese metal bands, watch crazy horror movies and the like as well as a fair bit of anime, and I like a lot of craft beers I think in real life, I share a lot of these interests with other people, so I guess on boards I interact with people who have more general interests.

Apart from the Japanese metal thing, I don't find too many folks online or offline who share my love of Japanese metal :pac:

Turtyturd

I like comics, growing up before the film versions made them popular meant that you had to wear a disguise when buying them incase you bumped into someone you knew while getting them.

I am kinda glad that I had nobody to talk with about them in person because from conversations I have heard it seems impossible to do so without sounding like a toned down version of a character from that big bang sh*te.

Hotfail.com

Links234 wrote: »

Apart from the Japanese metal thing, I don't find too many folks online or offline who share my love of Japanese metal :pac:

Strangely enough, I know quite a few in real life And I don't like the stuff at all :pac:

Nib

danslevent wrote: »

I have only one friend that I can discuss books in depth with. We always read the same books and lend each other books. It's wonderful!

Awwwww... book friend!

Links234

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Strangely enough, I know quite a few in real life And I don't like the stuff at all :pac:

Cool! You should tell them to get on boards! Any idea of which bands your friends like?

Hotfail.com

Links234 wrote: »

Cool! You should tell them to get on boards! Any idea of which bands your friends like?

My friends can't come on boards, they'll see me bitching about them! :eek: :pac:

And no, not a clue.

takamichinoku

A good few of my closer friends would have fairly similar interests to me, I guess. It can be extremely handy to be able to let your conversation flow freely without having to avoid things that might require a load of explaining otherwise, but there was also something of a false allure to it; two people liking the same one thing in and of itself is meaningless, can have totally different reasons behind it, contrasting ones even.
Definitely seriously overvalued the notion of having friends who actually liked things I liked when I moved away from home though, wasted a good bit of time on people I didn't click with at all.

SaoirseRose

I find that real friendships arise more from a shared outlook on the world and way of 'being', rather than being instant BFFs just because you both like Snow Patrol. It actually makes life a whole lot more interesting when you've people around who will challenge you to open your mind to new ideas and interests.

Hotfail.com

Hotfail.com wrote: »

One fella gets annoyed if I say I dislike anything that he likes, most of which is just stupid internet shít like your man in space singing the David Bowie song. That was so fúcking stupid.

What? WHAT?

Chris Hadfield is the coolest man in the world AND in SPACE. He's in SPACE goddammit! :mad:




/defriends Hotfail.com

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

What? WHAT?

Chris Hadfield is the coolest man in the world AND in SPACE. He's in SPACE goddammit! :mad:




/defriends Hotfail.com

He's not in space any more, though I wish he was after having to endure him singing that song that I won't even mention in one of my locals.:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEm_IbdfJM

umop.episdn

I like collecting My Little Pony figurines


....and shoving them up my niche...whilst listening to jazz, playing boardgames & reading manga comics.

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

He's not in space any more, though I wish he was after having to endure him singing that song that I won't even mention in one of my locals.:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEm_IbdfJM

He's one of my favouritest space people after ET. Although I hate Danny Boy, it's so sickeningly maudlin.

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

He's one of my favouritest space people after ET. Although I hate Danny Boy, it's so sickeningly maudlin.

I hate anyone that sings Danny Boy, so it's ET and the spaceship from Flight Of The Navigator for me.:)

Hotfail.com

Candie wrote: »

What? WHAT?

Chris Hadfield is the coolest man in the world AND in SPACE. He's in SPACE goddammit! :mad:




/defriends Hotfail.com

It was stupid.

Hotfail.com

Hotfail.com wrote: »

It was stupid.

SPACE? Stupid???

Internet Jackass wannabees are stupid, Hatfield is an astronaut! It doesn't get cooler than that

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Anything I'd be interested in my friends would be too. I wouldn't have an awful lot of deep meaningful discussions or hobbies, but they'd all be shared. I couldn't imagine being close friends with people who had little or no interest in things

Hotfail.com

Candie wrote: »

SPACE? Stupid???

Internet Jackass wannabees are stupid, Hatfield is an astronaut! It doesn't get cooler than that

They're both stupid! :pac:

Lenin Skynard

Candie wrote: »

SPACE? Stupid???

Internet Jackass wannabees are stupid, Hatfield is an astronaut! It doesn't get cooler than that

It doesn't get any nerdier than that you mean. Nerdy is the opposite of cool. It's the ancient order.

AzureRaven

I've got a real interest in history. I do have a few friends who enjoy chatting about things with me. I've found some contacts on social sites so, I've been lucky in those regards.

House of Blaze

Not really no.

Im into 3d modelling, and I can never find someone who would appreciate the fact that I've just successfully baked a highpoly normal map onto my lowpoly mesh...

El Guapo!

For years I could never get any of my friends into mma. They all dismissed it as rubbish. I had practically nobody willing to even try watching it. Since Conor McGregor came into the UFC, everyone's watching it. And all of a sudden all of these people are experts and come out with ridiculous stuff.
Now I kinda wish they'd all fcuk off back to football and leave me to talk to normal people about the sport.

Jesus Wept

El Guapo! wrote: »

For years I could never get any of my friends into mma. They all dismissed it as rubbish. I had practically nobody willing to even try watching it. Since Conor McGregor came into the UFC, everyone's watching it. And all of a sudden all of these people are experts and come out with ridiculous stuff.
Now I kinda wish they'd all fcuk off back to football and leave me to talk to normal people about the sport.

Its good, reminds me of wwe

Adamantium

I remember in the 90's and early 00's RTE used to show F1 every weekend for the whole day, and now that Eddie Jordan and Eddie Irvine retired, they thought people stopped caring, we didn't and would gladly watch it on quiet day. Also Xena, Baywatch, Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team, Airwolf all got replaced. That was a quality 6 hours every saturday afternoon on RTE 2.