Really boring hobbies/interests: what's yours?

Dudess · 23-06-2007 09:35PM #1

Was watching a programme earlier featuring an enthusiastic member of the British Brick Society.
Naturally I sniggered at this "loser" but then I remembered I'm not really in a position to do so, considering grammar and punctuation hugely interest me - to the point where I asked for a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for Christmas one year. I also enjoy watching shows like Balderdash and Piffle and a one-off programme called The Pedant's Revolt - about grammar purists like me (only I don't think I'm pedantic). It was repeated - I watched it both times.
I figure most people have at least one sad, pitiful interest, so Boards users: post 'em up!

o1s1n · 23-06-2007 09:38PM

My own secret shame is I was quite the philatalist when I was younger. Have a large and somewhat expensive collection of stamps. Went to conventions in Dublin and everything.

*hangs his head in shame*

Nowadays I collect Sega Megadrive games, Cels from Akira and am trying to get a complete 2000AD collection together. Not quite as boring as stamps but still pretty geeky :cool:

Oh! and then there's airsoft. But that's far from boring.

boneless · 23-06-2007 09:40PM

Voyeurism.... of the natural world, that is!! Birdwatcher and nature freak!

lemansky · 23-06-2007 09:40PM

Aviation to the point of obsession....but thats not relevant here as its gone so far so as not to be an interest...more a way of life!

I suppose I do have an obscure obsession with special police units around the world though,like the ERU or SWAT or CO19,or GSG9...oh god here I go...

Dudess · 23-06-2007 09:49PM

o1s1n wrote:

My own secret shame is I was quite the philatalist when I was younger. Have a large and somewhat expensive collection of stamps. Went to conventions in Dublin and everything.

Stamp-collecting itself isn't really anything to be ashamed of. It's one of those things that's considered geeky, but acceptable. I went through quite an obsessive phase of it myself when I was 10 or 11. But going to conventions... oh dear.

My brother collects football programmes from decades back - Sunderland v Preston North End etc.

o1s1n · 23-06-2007 09:55PM

10 or 11? ah here now, I was only 8 or 9..by 10 I'd seen the error of my ways and had started making up for it with heavy smoking and drinking

I remember some English group would send me out a little booklet full of stamps with a price list every month. You'd take out the ones you wanted to keep and send the book back with some form of payment.

Stamp collectors must be a trustworthy bunch!

Wishbone Ash · 23-06-2007 10:05PM

What about those who discuss wooden pallets in the The Pallet Board.

"Connecting pallet people around the world"

Dudess · 23-06-2007 10:27PM

o1s1n wrote:

10 or 11? ah here now, I was only 8 or 9..by 10 I'd seen the error of my ways and had started making up for it with heavy smoking and drinking

Yeah? Well my stamp-collecting phase lasted a few months. I bet yours started when you were like 4 or something, so boo hiss to you! No wonder you started heavily smoking and drinking at 10 with all those years of shameful memories to suppress.;)

o1s1n wrote:

I remember some English group would send me out a little booklet full of stamps with a price list every month. You'd take out the ones you wanted to keep and send the book back with some form of payment.

Stamp collectors must be a trustworthy bunch!

Bless 'em! I love that ever-so pleasant and polite breed of English people who have village fetes and say "more tea, Vicar?"

Earthhorse · 23-06-2007 10:42PM

I too have an obsession with grammar. So much so that the people in work pasted a photo of my face onto a cartoon superhero's body and put up posters round my desk captioned "Grammar Boy".

My boring hobby is that I play boardgames. Not your everyday Monopolys and Go For Brokes mind but more specialist hobbyist games like Tigris & Euphrates and Tikal. Not exactly how your average person spends a Saturday night.

Dudess · 23-06-2007 10:55PM

Wishbone Ash wrote:

What about those who discuss wooden pallets in the The Pallet Board.

"Connecting pallet people around the world"

Now THAT's the kind of thing I'm talking about!

Earthhorse, you've helped set that ball rolling nicely!

dermo88 · 23-06-2007 11:10PM

Banknote collecting.

Judt · 23-06-2007 11:14PM

dermo88 wrote:

Banknote collecting.

So, like, you're just a pragmatic saver?

o1s1n · 23-06-2007 11:21PM

Well if you're looking for boring hobbies, I don't think you can do better than Pylon of the Month.

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/bigh/bigh/pylonof.htm

And no, its not something I'm into.

Wishbone Ash · 23-06-2007 11:26PM

dermo88 wrote:

Banknote collecting.

I'm a bit of a notaphilist myself!

Capt'n Midnight · 23-06-2007 11:30PM

I've always thought that necrophilia was dead boring.

445279.ie · 23-06-2007 11:31PM

I hate when people use double negatives. Like "it's nothing got to do with me" therefore it has something to do with me!!!

And I hate when people say "I seen it over there" :mad:

p/s I'm not pedantic either

Dudess · 23-06-2007 11:32PM

o1s1n wrote:

Well if you're looking for boring hobbies, I don't think you can do better than Pylon of the Month.

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/bigh/bigh/pylonof.htm

Oh wow! I love it!

And no, its not something I'm into.

Are you sure, o1s1n? I mean, you did find the link...

445279.ie · 23-06-2007 11:32PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

I've always thought that necrophilia was dead boring.

Wishbone Ash · 23-06-2007 11:37PM

Dudess wrote:

Now THAT's the kind of thing I'm talking about!

"Our staff including Dr. Ed Brindley, renowned pallet expert, and Jeff McBee, pallet market analyst, can help answer your questions."

Where else would you get it?

445279.ie · 23-06-2007 11:39PM

Wishbone Ash wrote:

"Our staff including Dr. Ed Brindley, renowned pallet expert, and Jeff McBee, pallet market analyst, can help answer your questions."

Where else would you get it?

Conversation around the dinner table must be rivitting (sp?)

challengemaster · 23-06-2007 11:43PM

rebel72 wrote:

I hate when people use double negatives. Like "it's nothing got to do with me" therefore it has something to do with me!!!

I think you got that one fairly.. wrong.. "it's nothing got to do with me" -> "it's got nothing to do with me" = correct / makes a bit more sense.. but no double negative...

Try, say... "It aint got nothing to do with me" ?

(exsqueeze le grammar)

Shiva · 23-06-2007 11:47PM

o1s1n wrote:

I remember some English group would send me out a little booklet full of stamps with a price list every month. You'd take out the ones you wanted to keep and send the book back with some form of payment.

Sterling Stamp Service ?

They used to advertise in 2000 AD ...thats where I signed up for them.

I was big into stamp collecting too when I was a kid.
I used to try get all the local kids into it too, then sell them the stuff I'd get on approval that I didnt want. I was an entrepreneur even back then

445279.ie · 23-06-2007 11:51PM

also "I don't know nothing" therefore I know something

Think I'm starting to bug the people working with me cos they say I'm petantic :rolleyes: the cheek!!

Wishbone Ash · 23-06-2007 11:53PM

challengemaster wrote:

Try, say... "It aint got nothing to do with me" ?

That's no good for nothing!

RoundyMooney · 24-06-2007 12:03AM

This guy collects street lights.

The sad fact is, I used to be involved in this field to a degree, and referenced his site more than once. They say acceptance is the first stage and all that...

Dudess, kudos on being a stickler for grammar, there are all too few of us out there.

Shiva · 24-06-2007 12:07AM

RoundyMooney wrote:

Dudess, kudos on being a stickler for grammar, there are all too few of us out there.

Agreed.

The more people we can get to talk more properer than what they do normally, the better.

RoundyMooney · 24-06-2007 12:12AM

ITYM "agree'd"

I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen some post whore with nothing else to say chime in with that exact phrase

Ruu_Old · 24-06-2007 12:23AM

o1s1n wrote:

My own secret shame is I was quite the philatalist when I was younger. Have a large and somewhat expensive collection of stamps. Went to conventions in Dublin and everything.

*hangs his head in shame*

Nowadays I collect Sega Megadrive games, Cels from Akira and am trying to get a complete 2000AD collection together. Not quite as boring as stamps but still pretty geeky :cool:

Oh! and then there's airsoft. But that's far from boring.

When you said we had the same childhood, you weren't joking! :eek:

P.S

Penny Black.

o1s1n · 24-06-2007 12:32AM

Shiva wrote:

Sterling Stamp Service ?

They used to advertise in 2000 AD ...thats where I signed up for them.

I was big into stamp collecting too when I was a kid.
I used to try get all the local kids into it too, then sell them the stuff I'd get on approval that I didnt want. I was an entrepreneur even back then

THAT explains how I came across them! Been wondering that for a few years.

Ruu wrote:

When you said we had the same childhood, you weren't joking! :eek:

P.S Penny Black.

One of my mothers friends had a Penny Black and always said she'd drop it around to the house for me. Never did :mad:

Yeah, Sega and stamps. What an age we lived in.

StephenC_IRL · 24-06-2007 02:10AM

I collect apple mac computers

, i dont know why, I just love them, I have like 16, the oldest one is from 1986, its older than me. I have them all nice and working and clean, Im not ashamed

WindSock · 24-06-2007 02:34AM

I used to collect coins. damn that Generic Euro coming in, now I just sit at the internet and smoke crack* all day instead.

I love the really boring trainspotter type hobbies though, and more the people that know, and are not afraid to laugh at themselves.

*May not be true, I just said it to look cool and fit in

Really boring hobbies/interests: what's yours?

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