Really boring hobbies/interests: what's yours?

5starpool · 24-06-2007 02:35AM

I briefly collected stamps too, no idea why. Only lasted a few months though I think when I was around 10. Now football stickers, they were a different matter. Those and league ladders every week in the 80's. After world cup 90 though sticker collecting never seemed as good anymore.

Dudess · 24-06-2007 04:05AM

challengemaster wrote:

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)

No, it's not a typo by rebel72. Given his/her pseudonym, I'm inclined to think he/she is from Cork (just a wild guess

), where "it's nothing got to do with me" is said all the time.

galactus · 24-06-2007 04:34AM

Have a lot of boring hobbies but will admit to stamp collecting in my younger years.

Was clearing out stuff in my parents place today and came across my old stamp books.Some of Hitler stamps, freaked me tbh.

Just think, could have been in the Nazi Youth if i was born 40 years earlier.
:mad:

TwoShedsJackson · 24-06-2007 09:10AM

Baseball statistics.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/b-pvb.cgi?year=0&n1=wiggity01#choice=&throws=&minPA2=0&minPA=0&n1=wiggity01&as=batter&year_game=career&opp_id=&orderby=Name

biko · 24-06-2007 11:56AM

Was in a UFO spotters club at 15. Sat out in fields with telescopes and all.
Never saw one.

ROCKMAN · 24-06-2007 12:22PM

I 'm a cheek ,I collect beer-mats .

Only one rule.

I must have used the mat or the bar personally that they comes from.
I have 1400+ from nearly every County and 12 different Countries...........

I'm not a alcoholic, I'm not a alcoholic

thefinalstage · 24-06-2007 03:16PM

I collect old coins from all manner of countries even new coins from other countries find their way in.

mikemac · 24-06-2007 03:24PM

I used to collect those Eircom callcards.
You know those ones you use in phone boxes instead of loose change.

Now due to mobiles they are hard to get and a lot of staff in newsagents haven't a clue if you ask for a callcard.

tampopo · 24-06-2007 03:37PM

boreds wrote:

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

Have you seen the new '50 year anniversary of the EU 2 euro' coin? I've already got three of them.

o1s1n · 24-06-2007 06:05PM

micmclo wrote:

I used to collect those Eircom callcards.
You know those ones you use in phone boxes instead of loose change.

Now due to mobiles they are hard to get and a lot of staff in newsagents haven't a clue if you ask for a callcard.

I remember everyone was collecting them back when I was in third class. My stamp collection and I looked down on such a rabble of "fashionable" collectors.

Do they still make them? I thought they would have been discontinued years ago.

Dudess · 24-06-2007 06:14PM

My love of grammar and punctuation has led to another long love affair - typing documents. I'm always delighted to type for others, particularly friends' CVs and cover letters - for free! I just love laying them out and deciding where to use bold text, italics, underlining etc (I'm not joking). I love typing too - 70 words per minute last count.

No, I'm not a secretary - I work freelance in the media. But I often have to do office temping, so I get to live both dreams!

January · 24-06-2007 06:20PM

micmclo wrote:

I used to collect those Eircom callcards.
You know those ones you use in phone boxes instead of loose change.

Now due to mobiles they are hard to get and a lot of staff in newsagents haven't a clue if you ask for a callcard.

Same as me so. You walk into a shop and ask for a calling card, they ask you how much and print it out on a piece of paper like the mobile phone credit. It's crap these days.

little miss · 24-06-2007 06:39PM

Doing Jigsaws. Still love doing them...

DublinWriter · 24-06-2007 06:49PM

Dudess wrote:

My love of grammar and punctuation...

I was walking down Henry St. the other day and I saw the following sign:

"You're keys cut while you wait"

I felt so angry that I nearly tore the sign down and ripped it apart with my bare teeth! Like me, you've probably read "Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynn Truss.

I also cut out and collect recruitment ads that really go beyond the pale. The best example of which I clipped from the Irish Times recruitment section a couple of years ago looking for someone to fill a secretarial post who must possess "excellent spelling and grammer".

I used to collect coins as a kid. Coin collectors always looked down at stamp collectors and I think everyone looks down at Callcard collectors!

The saddest hobby of all? I'm sorry if I offend anyone with this, but people past the age of 16 who still play Subbuteo. Sadder still are those who do so AND compete at European level.

I worked with a guy about ten years ago who used to do just that. He said he attented the European Subbuteo finals that particular year and the German contestant was dressed in a German National Soccer kit and was doing star-jumps to 'warm-up' before his match.

stovelid · 24-06-2007 07:10PM

Wouldn't call it a hobby exactly but I have always loved reading maps. Atlas maps, ordnance survey or street maps, whatever. Is that boring enough?

Dudess · 24-06-2007 07:11PM

I'm keys cut while I wait, eh? Interesting concept.

Yep, headline on a news in brief about flour in folic acid in Cork's Evening Echo the other day: "Flower contains folic acid".

I actually did a bit of sub-editing for a while - I thought it would be ideal work for me. In fact I didn't get on well at all. There isn't anywhere near the emphasis on grammar, punctuation and spelling that I thought there would be. It's really only about how fast you are - being meticulous (or would that be anal?

) just slows things down.

DublinWriter wrote:

Like me, you've probably read "Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynn Truss.

I asked for a copy of it one Christmas!

Zaph · 24-06-2007 07:15PM

rebel72 wrote:

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

Without being overly picky I'd just like to point out that the word is pedantic

I collected stamps. Still do, although to a much lesser extent than I did even as recently as 8-10 years ago and I really only specialise in a couple of things now, but my collection is worth quite a bit so it wasn't a complete waste of time.

kelle · 24-06-2007 07:30PM

I love knitting!

Dudess · 24-06-2007 07:53PM

kelle wrote:

I love knitting!

But knitting's cool now - Kate Moss went through a phase of it! :rolleyes:

Earthhorse · 24-06-2007 07:53PM

DublinWriter wrote:

"You're keys cut while you wait"

Similarly, the Spar in Ranelagh used to have (engraved in the marble doorway no less) the words "Were open 24 hours".

Oh, so you were open 24 hours but you're not anymore? Thanks for the tip!

Is it more boring to have a boring hobby or not have any hobbies at all?

Mrs. MacGyver · 24-06-2007 07:58PM

I really enjoy knitting and needlepoint (can't think of anyone in their 20's who does embroidery or needlepoint so i feel a bit odd).

I also colect antique ceramics and glassware, especially eggcups! (stop yawning!)

Dudess · 24-06-2007 08:00PM

Earthhorse wrote:

Is it more boring to have a boring hobby or not have any hobbies at all?

Interesting quandary.

I remember someone telling me about a chavvy organisation in Cork (either a lap-dancing club or a pirate radio station - can't remember which, as both of them were mentioned in the conversation) giving out Valentine cards one year - the greeting was "your mint".

My mint, eh? What about it?

Sleepy · 24-06-2007 08:34PM

I have a slightly obsessive interest in all things to do with World War 2. Can sit for hours watching the History channel.

I collect glasses (pint glasses etc) but it's a rather casual thing. I just pick up ones I think are peculiar or particularly nice.

gary the great · 24-06-2007 10:07PM

I collect cleansing wipes. You know the ones with advertising on them that you'd get in a resturant or on aeroplanes etc.

I must have around 50 of them now.

superconor · 24-06-2007 10:10PM

Hate to see bad grammar.
Very interested in languages and linguistics. Sister bought me a book on it for Xmas. Love Spanish to the point of buying films and books in Spanish.
Interested in WWII, specifically Nazi's. No bad reason, just find them very very interesting.

Revelation Joe · 24-06-2007 10:23PM

Trains.
Steam ones, diesel ones, electric ones, I like 'em all...

And I love looking at maps too, especially looking for odd place names. I still remember seeing 'Bastardstown' for the first time

I used to work with a guy who collected milk bottles.

red_ice · 24-06-2007 11:07PM

PC Computer games
programming
webdesign (i go for the graphic design side of things)

Its not fair, i really dont want any of those as a hobby or an interest, infact the last 2 are on and off, but the first one is a fkin drug. I cant stop even when i dont want to play them, im playing them. Nothing better to do around the house!

Mawg · 25-06-2007 02:57AM

I do a few things which I think alot of people would percieve as being boring (unless they gave them a go:rolleyes: )

Firstly, I do alot of art, I could spend hours drawing or writing, inventing characters and worlds. To me this is great craic, but to most others, a total drag. I just get lost in my imagination so easily.

I also play RPGs, pen and paper RPGs to be precise. (For those of you who've never heard of 'em, it's basically sitting around with a group of people, having one person "tell" a story, and each other person act out the part of a character in that story.)

I got alot of stick from my mother as a child for being a daydreamer, but to be honest, I wouldn't have myself any other way.

kelle · 25-06-2007 05:46AM

Dudess wrote:

But knitting's cool now - Kate Moss went through a phase of it! :rolleyes:

Thanks, Dudess. I don't feel so boring now!

HammerHeadGym · 25-06-2007 07:38AM

Sleepy wrote:

...the History channel...

In my house we call this the Hitler channel, and depending on wheter or not we've had a smoke we might add; All Hitler, all the time. Which never gets old for some reason.

Really boring hobbies/interests: what's yours?

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