Your hobbies
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Topic: Your hobbies
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Your hobbies
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 17:06
| What are your hobbies except music? |
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 17:08
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Besides music eh? Well does reading books count? Or playing a musical instrument? |
Posted By: bizarro laplace
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 17:09
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cross-dressing
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# for band in doom: # if indiekids(band): addband(band, "Post Metal") |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 18:19
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Reading books, playing bridge. Jean and I are an excellent pair, though we currently don't have that much time for practicing. About 3 years ago we were really top and would have feared no-one in the world, and I mean it. We need to practice more. Bridge, by the way, is NOT a pastime for old ladies, mas it is usually depicted in movies. On the contrary, it is more like chess. In bridge tournaments the element of card luck is totally eliminated; it all relies on skills. Bridge is, as far as I know, the only card game for which this is true. Not to forget playing music, of course. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 19:49
growing weed in the basement... making up killer batches of crystal meth in the bathroom.... and cooking up some potent crack cocaine in the kitchen. all while listening to music of course .... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Aeternus wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 19:50
ooohhhhh... I like you.... have you tried that in the French Quarter of New Orleans... that is an experience like no other   ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 20:25
And he also told us about that tournament thing, as i understood it, every team (pair...) plays the same hand and the one who handles it the best wins the round, so to speak. Yep. It's a pretty cool game. ------------- 
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 20:30
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Playing harmonica, reading, writing poetry (when I'm in the correct mindset) & prose, family history/genealogy, researching, history (not really a hobby as such... but it all links in) and I'm about to (most likely tomorrow) attempt a simple crosstitch pattern to please my partner, who seems to think I won't be able to do it... ouch! Oh and I sometimes play AD&D 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms too. -------------   
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 20:45
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Music, reading, video games, general stuff like that. Unfortunately right now I don't have that much free time because I'm either studying or simply browsing the web with my books open trying to study. I would like to get into motorcycling and other outdoor activities. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 20:51
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Yep, I am supposed to have an assignment done for Friday and I must try and do it tomorrow... but I keep getting distracted by everything, however mundane it is. I used to make plastic aircraft kits too, but they've all been boxed away for the moment. I plan to finish at least one of them though, because I was detailing it all with accessories for potential future display. Also add to the list R/C Model Aircraft as well, although I've not flown one for ages. -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 21:12
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I don't think there is a hobby I haven't tried at sometime or other, but I'm sort of between hobbies at the moment. I am an obsesive who tends to get over-involved with things, which ends up taking all the fun out of it and spoiling the enjoyment... I haven't tried hydroculture yet, but I don't have a basement so the glow of the grow-lights in my shed may attract the wrong kind of attention from Mr Plod.
I bought a plastic model aircraft kit of the SR-71 Blackbird sometime back with the idea of re-constructing Roger Dean's cover for Budgie's Squawk album, but that remains unfinished.
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Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 21:22
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I crochet. ------------- 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 22:42
That hobby can get you killed. Collect toys and currently designing my own wood toys in order to concrete a very old project. If not now...  ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 22:45
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Improv comedy Musical theater Mock trial ...does PA count? -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 22:58
How? Unless you mean swallowing it, but that won't happen.  -------------
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 23:02
People like me could throw you by a window or in front of a car. It can also happen to those who plays the recorder. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 23:06
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Ah I see, well I happen to be not bad at it, so at least you'll hear a tune and not a horrible noise. I get the same about ukulele... my parents constantly practice and they play terrible tunes that I never liked, but now I hate them even more... I cannot win! -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 23:12
There are hobbies besides music!?!
Other than trying to dabble in as many aspects of music as I can: I write occasionally. Poems, stories, skits, whathave you. I don't know if walking is a hobby, but if it is I do that as well. I make stupid horrible drawings as well.
I used to golf...then stopped. I used to bowl...then stopped. I like to do either again. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 23:22
You can always give it to a child for a couple of minutes and become responsable of a massacre that will end up with both fathers murdering you with insane cruelty... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 03:27
Ah yes - Asimov's less successful sequel to I Robot ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 04:04
| Having hobbies is a capitalist invention which I refuse to support. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 06:36
Exactly. And in team tournaments, where 2 teams (A and B) made of two pairs each play against each other, it is done like this: Pair 1 of team plays against pair 2 of team B in one room, and the other 2 pairs in the other room, and the cards are simply swapped between the teams. So that pair 1 of team A will hold exactly the same cards as pair 1 of team B and pair 2 of team A will hold the cards of pair 2 of team B. This kind of comparison is even easier than the comparison in pair tournaments. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Christine
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 10:24
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Reading books,short scientific essays,and biographies of composers.
I also enjoy playing the piano,writing songs,watching movies,and inventing characters.  ------------- catsfootironclaw |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 11:11
My forum profile pretty much sums it all up
I love a good movie though. Im a competent Prog/Jazz drummer and drawer as well. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 11:49
Does internet porn count as a hobby? 
What about power drinking?  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Bellringer
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 17:41
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With a name like Bellringer.........campanology!
I also write fantasy short stories and collect children's books.
Contact me if any of this appeals to you. ------------- Psalm 69:6 |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:44
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I run a preserved railway as a hobby; although it is more like a full time job now! ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:46
Or his seventies revisit: I Karate.
By the way, I thought that I Robot was Alan Parsons  ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:50
I was a campanologist for about a year when I was a teenager (tower bells, not handbells.)
 here:
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 There is a peal of six bells, rung every Sunday:
the Treble made by Joseph Eayre of St Neots 1756; the Second made by Taylors of Loughborough 1898: the Third and Fourth made by Hugh Watts 1603; the Fifth made by John Hodson 1653; and the Tenor made by Chandler 1652 (recast by Taylors of Loughborough in 1898). ...I became involved because my dad use to make and replace the Ash stays. ------------- What? |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 23:06
| I fart a lot and eat shoelaces. I sometimes sniff walls. |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 23:10
I race cars, work on cars and am always around cars. Other than that, I seem to always be biking places nowadays. Costume parties are cool too, I go to a ton of those ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 23:26
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I make clay animated reproductions of Max Ernst having breakfast in different islands.
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 00:28
my current math teacher loves the game. He went to Reno over the winter break just to play it. He spent a good amount of time explaining the game and all, we wasted (actually used) a full hour for just the game. cool stuff. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 06:41
well, mine are Summarising Proust, Golf, Strangling Small Mammals and Masturbating.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:05
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Please guys, keep it clean (or it'll stick to your underwear...).
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:23
^^ I'm guessing you aren't a Monty Python fan, James... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:26
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I am, I must have missed that joke though!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:27
I think you could be right, Fanny
In a couple of weeks, you can restart your old hobby of thrashing me at scrabble & swearing at me over the backgammon board.  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:28
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Speaking of which, Jim, when do you want me to pop round? We'll have to arrange something.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:42
James, I believe he might have a window of opportunity on 23rd November, 2013, providing he isn't counting his jars of rusty screws...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:46
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2013? I cannot wait that long! I bet Jim will still be wearing that rather bright shirt though! -------------
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:54
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I guess no one's into Rock Climbing, then.. -------------
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 08:54
no, I'm more into Rock listening.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 11:01
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Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:27
I play a fair amount of music (drums, synths, ukulele, etc.), usually either psych/space rock jamming with a couple loose groups or performing children's music with a singer-storyteller friend. I also like reading, loafing around with my wife, hiking, board games, croquet, and occasionally kicking the old footbag around. I used to enjoy building analog synth modules (from kits), but it got to be a bit too expensive for my taste...
 Cool! I run a semi-regular D&D campaign, a mix of B/X + 1st ed Advanced + Castles & Crusades; nice to see there's at least one other "analog gamer" here at PA. Prog Rock and fantasy role-playing games, always a winning combination! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:26
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Well my mate who DM's is an oldschool 2e player from the '80s and never upgraded to 3 or 3.5e, so I play good ol' 2e occasionally (in Forgotten Realms though, 'cause it's easier and I happen to like the setting and the lore) when time permits for both of us. I had completely destroyed many areas of Faerun last time I played (I'm only level 4!)... don't ask! Very enjoyable though and the game is still going, it's just we're both busy at the moment to continue on with it. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 08:34
count me in... at least in spirit... I used to play them back in the good old days.. and still collect the various books and modules. Would play if I knew someone my age that still played hahahha. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |