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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:01 PM Dec 2018

Badly describe your hobby.

So my friends sent me this. You're supposed to say something funny like "I strap dead trees to my feet while being dragged all over a lake by a speedboat" if you like to water ski.



I thought and thought about it and I don't think I have any hobbies. I've only had five days off of my current job since mid August, including 20+days where I had to work double duty. I'm helping my wife build her company (that is exploding exponentially) and I love it. It will hopefully be able to take care of my family in the future without us both working our bodies and minds to the point of exhaustion.

I'm too busy for a hobby, but maybe later I'll have time.



In the meantime, it's to you. Badly describe your hobby if you have any.

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Badly describe your hobby. (Original Post) NightWatcher Dec 2018 OP
I mow down tender saplings and blooms while sending small wildlife scurrying the other direction hlthe2b Dec 2018 #1
You enjoy that? NightWatcher Dec 2018 #4
Apparently, I was too successful in badly describing my hobby: hiking mountain trails hlthe2b Dec 2018 #17
I'm just tired NightWatcher Dec 2018 #19
Ok Srkdqltr Dec 2018 #2
My hobby is so weird, it's the same described badly Croney Dec 2018 #3
The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak AJT Dec 2018 #21
Yes! Croney Dec 2018 #25
I sew colorful threads and yarns on PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #5
I like to sit in a hole in the water going nowhere at great expense.... Sancho Dec 2018 #6
I dig it. NightWatcher Dec 2018 #10
I make sounds with my mouth in different pitches. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #7
I slip plastic and metal into plastic, metal, and glass to capture moments. Solly Mack Dec 2018 #8
I tie holes together.. luvs2sing Dec 2018 #9
Looking good. NightWatcher Dec 2018 #14
LOL Zoonart Dec 2018 #24
Just one hobby? I have lots! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2018 #11
I tap small squares as I try to mia Dec 2018 #12
I write numbers 1-9 in blocks Cousin Dupree Dec 2018 #13
I herd cats. n/t akraven Dec 2018 #15
I listen to the past-hours at a time. Boxerfan Dec 2018 #16
I rip young green nuisance plants out of the ground LakeArenal Dec 2018 #18
I break colored glass into small pieces... RainCaster Dec 2018 #20
I torture innocent plant material Zoonart Dec 2018 #22
I sit in a room all by myself and rejoice in slashing fabric and demigoddess Dec 2018 #23
I occasionally help make sawdust. Lars39 Dec 2018 #26
I buy big pieces of cotton fabric... Cracklin Charlie Dec 2018 #27
I move rocks around. cvoogt Dec 2018 #28
Like the post above me, I dig holes, look for pretties, then I fill the holes back up. GemDigger Dec 2018 #29
I go to meetings where people yell and scream at each other LeftInTX Dec 2018 #30
I pedal my legs off to give my ass a ride gratuitous Dec 2018 #31
I walk through beautiful parks cursing and carrying a heavy bag of metal poles on my back JDC Dec 2018 #32
My hobby is proof that I have the skill and patience to stab something thousands of times csziggy Dec 2018 #33
I take pre-packaged Rincewind Dec 2018 #34
I turn perfectly good lumber into sawdust onethatcares Dec 2018 #35
Feeding moose cabbage - akraven Dec 2018 #36
I learn to crochet. zanana1 Dec 2018 #37
I hit yellow fuzz with the stretched entrails of cats. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2018 #38
... Major Nikon Dec 2018 #39

hlthe2b

(102,138 posts)
1. I mow down tender saplings and blooms while sending small wildlife scurrying the other direction
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:05 PM
Dec 2018

as sweat drips down my brow.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
4. You enjoy that?
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:10 PM
Dec 2018

I'd sell my plasma if I had to in order to pay a yard guy to handle that for me. I LOATHE it, but am stoked you enjoy it.

Srkdqltr

(6,229 posts)
2. Ok
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:06 PM
Dec 2018

I take large pieces of fabric cut them into small pieces then sew them back into large piecea. (Quilter)

Croney

(4,657 posts)
3. My hobby is so weird, it's the same described badly
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:09 PM
Dec 2018

or described well. I collect vintage Strawberry Shortcake dolls and related items and sell them on eBay. You would not believe the expensive cultural time warp these adults live in. Me included I guess.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. I dig it.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:15 PM
Dec 2018

I'm having my hole in the ground resurfaced in February and can't wait to just float in it for hours starting this spring.

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)
16. I listen to the past-hours at a time.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:20 PM
Dec 2018

And wander aimless just listening.

Very good Zen / exercise.


And occasionally I find something special with yellow and maybe some ice. Pink was my favorite blast from the past this week & a personal best at over 4 rabbit favorites. Seriously.

LakeArenal

(28,806 posts)
18. I rip young green nuisance plants out of the ground
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:22 PM
Dec 2018

and meticulously replace them with tweezer sized seeds while on my knees or squatting as the sun burns my skin.

Then stare at it for weeks waiting for something to happen.

RainCaster

(10,842 posts)
20. I break colored glass into small pieces...
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:31 PM
Dec 2018

... Then I wrap their edges in metal and solder them together.

Zoonart

(11,834 posts)
22. I torture innocent plant material
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:35 PM
Dec 2018

Into sadistic postures and then sheer them within an inch of their lives.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
23. I sit in a room all by myself and rejoice in slashing fabric and
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:35 PM
Dec 2018

trying to find ways to keep it together, especially when someone comes in and wants to talk to me.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
27. I buy big pieces of cotton fabric...
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 11:00 PM
Dec 2018

Cut it into little pieces, and then sew all the little pieces back together into one big piece.

Quilting.

cvoogt

(949 posts)
28. I move rocks around.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 11:42 PM
Dec 2018

I dig holes, get rocks and put them on display in my home. Eventually I'll decide I don't like some anymore, get rid of them, and get more.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
29. Like the post above me, I dig holes, look for pretties, then I fill the holes back up.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 11:58 PM
Dec 2018

My name is my hobby.

LeftInTX

(25,140 posts)
30. I go to meetings where people yell and scream at each other
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 12:42 AM
Dec 2018

There is a guy we call Lurch who is scary and dangerous. The place if full of swindlers. One guy speaks pidgin and he runs things. No one understands him but his followers. Everyone is cheating and shouting...shut up and order...people sometimes use phrases like, "Point of order". One big fat guy gets in everyone's face. One lady slaps another in the face. Homeless people create fake addresses...they then use these fake addresses for personal gain...After the meeting, my friends and I chat...we try to make the next meeting sane...it never happens...

csziggy

(34,131 posts)
33. My hobby is proof that I have the skill and patience to stab something thousands of times
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 12:50 AM
Dec 2018


Actually this picture is cross stitch which I normally don't do. These days I stitch things like this:

Rincewind

(1,201 posts)
34. I take pre-packaged
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 04:38 AM
Dec 2018

low explosives, put them in cardboard and plastic tubes and shoot them at god. (Fly model rockets)

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