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Fellow men, I need a Hobbie before the women drive me demented

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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    You could watch all 36 hours of Handmaid's Tale with them and at the end tell them to consider it a warning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    WTF is fart porn??

    Is it people on the internet farting ?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Buy yourself a hornby trainset like caledonian bell.

    Argos takes care of it.

    Or

    Sacelxtric

    Wacky Racers.

    Tell any jealous envious niece to watch a dozen wacky races cartoons before she gets a go


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,671 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    I was just about to post
    this is after hours, ffs - 3 pages and no-one has asked the obvious "is she hot".

    then i thought i better go back and check to see exactly who it was that moved in. He said sister, i read sister-in-law

    carry on


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,795 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Is she hot though?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    wally1990 wrote: »

    Send help (or at least tips for your fellow man to escape this madness and mind his mental health!)


    A hobby isn't going to help you.

    Only being less grumpy will. Or at least not AVOIDING the issue ...but learning how to deal with it.


    Infact ....hobbies often make this worse for men i have noticed. As its avoiding the issue.

    The issue being they never learnt how to deal with incessant chatter ...only to avoid it.

    And YES i understand incessant chatter can be ..ANNOYING

    My father ..MY GAWD ...he doesn't LET anyone else talk sometimes.

    There is no malice in it.

    But what i do ...is I daydream. With the odd hmm mmm hmm mm

    When we are in the car ..i play music ..it stops people chatting.

    The alternative ..is learning the art of turning the conversation into something that interests you. But i think that might be a bit much for the OP.

    But i promise avoiding the problem will have you in a hole ....i.e living in a shed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Then charge them for a go on it.

    Oh, I remember that film now.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,541 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Buy a shed. And just sit out in it watching sports or reading the paper. Pretend you're building stuff.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    listermint wrote: »
    Buy a shed. And just sit out in it watching sports or reading the paper. Pretend you're building stuff.
    #Shedlife

    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Well whatever you do ..don't choose learning a language ..you need to talk a lot.

    Maybe jogging ? yoga?

    Someone mentioned cycling?

    Trains?

    Building models?

    Drones?

    Flying mini planes?

    We always wonder how our fathers get like this. I mean sad and demented playing with trains etc. I guess this is it !


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    It certainly sounds like those women are.
    You should meet my dad ......


    'lets have a conversation'

    'have a conversation with your old dad!'

    unfortunately my mother is just as bad

    i've learnt to deal though ....without being grumpy


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    Become a naturist.

    Your own space and endless peace and quiet.

    Incessantly scratching your sweaty man bits adds a nice touch.


    Thank me later...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭thunderdog


    Sounds like you might need to go for the ‘yap for fap’ exchange scheme. Each time all of them are yapping away, you find a nice quiet place for a fap instead. It will take your mind off the constant yapping at least. Not a hobbie per se, but definitely time well spent


  • Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭sf80


    The alternative ..is learning the art of turning the conversation into something that interests you. But i think that might be a bit much for the OP.

    But i promise avoiding the problem will have you in a hole ....i.e living in a shed.

    What you fail to grasp is that many men like living in a shed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    sf80 wrote: »
    What you fail to grasp is that many men like living in a shed.

    My partner doesn't even live with me and he absolutely loves his shed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Put football on TV. Avoid eye contact.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭chiefwiggum


    Build models!


  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    bilbot79 wrote: »
    Put football on TV. Avoid eye contact.

    Cheaper to put football on the radio in that case.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Build models!


    I was thinking more...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    Stamp collecting or learning the rock guitar. Also cave diving and local archaeology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Then charge them for a go on it.

    The chair or ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    My partner doesn't even live with me and he absolutely loves his shed.

    I've seen 'Men Sheds' fitted out better than most houses.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Strumms wrote: »
    The chair or ?

    I take it you haven't seen the film? Let's just say when I ask him what he's doing in the shed he tells me he's making me such a chair to see me through the next 6 weeks....


  • Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭drake70


    kowloon wrote: »
    Watch burn after reading, build your own handcrafted chair.

    Just found an animated gif of the chair :D


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Women are just the worst



    As the old saying goes.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Not all women exhibit this incessant behaviour. It pays to be able to spot the characteristics early on so that you chicanery like this doesn't happen. Living with three women is painful enough. I did it briefly in first year of college and found it distasteful. But don't get me wrong I do absolutely worship women.


    4:05 of that clip for demonstration

    Brewing is actually a solid hobby. You can invest as much or as little in it as you like. And it pays dividends in delicious beer, or wine or whatever your poison is.

    If you don't have a shed, you at least deserve a room to yourself. Layers of eggcartons and carpet overlaid is great for absorbing sound coming in from outside and they'll dampen the room if you want to facilitate a half decent recording setup. It's very therapeutic to mess around with audio you collect and create. Audacity is freeware which gives you a great go at the basics.

    You could even tell them you're getting into ad hoc recording and found noises, record them yapping and play it back for them as a demonstration of the audio fidelity or something. They might have a revelation about the inane crap they spend all day gabbling about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,103 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    thunderdog wrote: »
    Sounds like you might need to go for the ‘yap for fap’ exchange scheme. Each time all of them are yapping away, you find a nice quiet place for a fap instead. It will take your mind off the constant yapping at least. Not a hobbie per se, but definitely time well spent

    Don't do a Jeffrey Toobin, be sure to turn off zoom.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    I hear serial killing keeps you pretty busy! :P

    When they ask you in the documentary, why you had the insatiable urge to kill... just tell them you couldn't stop the voices.

    (The voices of all the women who won't stop chattering! :D)


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 962 ✭✭✭irishblessing


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Its gas

    hahahahahaha this is why the Irish are definitely the best at the oul banter :D


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