Ridiculous Hobbies

[Telarkaster]

Those cars are cool. Do you have any Corgis?

[Kafka0622]

Board games. Lots of them. I own 360 of them at the moment.

[Brad Pittiful]

Originally Posted by TC6969

Back around 2000/01 if you shopped around, you could find those for 50 cents.

I think I bought my Grandson 3 to 400 of the darned things!

everything depends on condition

you can get the new ones for 1 buck...the old ones have value and while some could be had for 50 cents at garage sales a flea markets some of these models go for big money...i have one worth $2000...ive seen some recent auctions of some models crack the $10000 mark

Originally Posted by Telarkaster

Those cars are cool. Do you have any Corgis?

thanks!

i have a few corgi juniors...still have two i got as a kid...a jeep and a mini cooper



old corgi bat mobile with a new hot wheel bat mobile

[e-merlin]

I can't think of a single one of my hobbies that's not ridiculous. I mean, building a 400Hp Chevette in and of itself is not something many people can get behind. Add to that the enthusasim for cheap whiskey, repurposing old computers, finding odd pickup configurations for Teles, and a penchant for certain talk radio programs, and I'm pretty much the poster boy for figuring out how to waste the 10 hours per week I'm not working or sleeping.

[TequilaCaster]

My biggest time waste is reading books about quantum physics. As my wife points out..."You're never going to do anything with it, so why do it?" (Ha! Wait till she feels the sting of my neutrino flavor changer with arbitrary mixing angles!)

[Freejack]

Originally Posted by Kafka0622

Board games. Lots of them. I own 360 of them at the moment.

That's a bit more than me, but I have several thousand RPG books and I have my wargames from when I was a kid (including an apparently rare copy of Gettysburg with squares instead of hexes).

But no one I know would consider you a loser because you have them. A hoarder maybe, a collector possibly, but not a loser.

Carl

[Freejack]

Here's my gaming gear, most of it. I have shelves of miniatures, almost 3,000 dice, and a drawer full of card games and mini-board games. I may be a little over the top, maybe OCD, but none of this is loser material.





Carl

[nickwort]

I collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. I'm pretty lame.

[Slow Reflexes]

Originally Posted by kelnet

Let me add another piece of criteria.

Do you do something that would make other people look at you and think, "What a loser!"?

Let's be honest, folks.

Yeah... still this place.

But I used to play a LOT of Everquest. Before I graduated to a much cooler game in Counterstrike. I believe that I had more than just one character with played time measured in years.

Prior to that, I was big into Myth (not Myst). Was actually ranked in the top 10 in the world for Body Count.

[CarterK]

Originally Posted by Freejack

Here's my gaming gear, most of it. I have shelves of miniatures, almost 3,000 dice, and a drawer full of card games and mini-board games. I may be a little over the top, maybe OCD, but none of this is loser material.





Carl

You also have circular ghosts in that room. Are they friendly?

[bigmuff113]

I stay up late watching pedal demos.

[Freejack]

Originally Posted by CarterK

You also have circular ghosts in that room. Are they friendly?

It took me a while to figure it out. It's the glare from floating dust

Carl

[gpasq]

Bird watcher. I travel all over chasing birds that are where they shouldn't be, and keep lists of all the ones I've seen.

[forgivenick]

Originally Posted by gpasq

Bird watcher. I travel all over chasing birds that are where they shouldn't be, and keep lists of all the ones I've seen.

Hahaha.
I used to do this one too.
I am selling my pentax pf80eda scope tomorrow though.
All I need are the zeiss binos for now.

My ridiculous hobbies now are limited to mt bike endurance racing and chasing my guitar tone...quite an endurance event in itself!
I couldn't bear to only have one hobby, but I am too broke to have more than two.
:)

[63dot]

Taking graduate school courses without a goal. I like to learn and be pushed and it's something I did without a goal from 1999 to 2008. I know I could have done what some people here do with something similarly expensive and buy gear or at least go on some vacations.

Before that, I actually took those classes thinking I could use them for a career but I haven't seen where what interests me gets translated into a career in a very small resort town. I am taking a break from all that right now but pursuing the pursuit of knowledge here on the internet and/or books (interest in physics) even though it's not as focused and maybe not as fruitful. Stuff like this site keep me easily distracted when I go online. :)

[Paul in Colorado]

I'm a musician. I already got a hobby!

OK, I mess around with cameras. I've been told that some of my photos could be postcards. That's good isn't it?

Sometimes while watching TV, Laura will design clothes and I'll draw stageplots for bands, or make flowcharts for guitar rigs.

[Jupiter]

Since I started trying to build a guitar from scratch a couple months ago, I've practically stopped playing. Ridiculous or just ironic?

[rusty adam]

Just comic books and a bit of d&d for me... oh and spending ridiculous amounts of time on forums like this one, thinking about guitars, amps and pedals I'll never be able to afford... then again that doesn't seem so ridiculous because everyone here does exactly the same thing.

[yark14]

I run. What makes some people think of it as unusual is that I like it to be hard. , the harder the better. Few examples: running at noon in the Texas heat, or a trail so difficult no one in their right mind run, or sprint intervals at stupid paces. The more challenging, the better.

I don't do easy light jogs on the treadmill or 'round the block.

[uriah1]

Fishing
Not catching