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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Nosher on 30 July 2014, 12:56:38 PM

Title: Hobbies other than bunging dice
Post by: Nosher on 30 July 2014, 12:56:38 PM
Had an opportunity to drag some figures out today but because its so gloriously sunny I went and played golf instead.

Got me thinking. What hobbies do people have other than Wargaming?

My list is mainly sporting - Cricket, Golf, Volleyball, Smashing reps out at the gym and eating....
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Post by: Ithoriel on 30 July 2014, 01:09:10 PM
Board games, computer games, eating out, movies, National Trust/ Historic Scotland sites, reading.

Mr Energetic, me :)
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Post by: barbarian on 30 July 2014, 01:12:46 PM
Airsoft. :)
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Post by: old smokie on 30 July 2014, 01:13:21 PM
Board games, computer games, eating out, Astronomy, movies, vising historical sites, reading and flying  :)
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Post by: FierceKitty on 30 July 2014, 01:20:20 PM
Baroque music, couchsurfing, cats, shogi, cooking, venery, collecting shin hanga prints and netsuke.
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 July 2014, 01:29:46 PM
Gardening, walking, climbing.
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Post by: Leman on 30 July 2014, 01:56:12 PM
Walking, including battlefield walking, films, music (mainly the variety found on BBC 6 Music).
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Post by: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 02:39:23 PM
With a ten month old baby and a house falling apart I don;t have time for hobbies :D
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Post by: Steve J on 30 July 2014, 02:57:26 PM
Gardening, walking, reading. Would like to play some sport but simply lack of time these days :(.
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Post by: Orcs on 30 July 2014, 02:58:22 PM
Shooting - Rifle and Clay pigeon
Computer games
Reading
Kayaking

Plus the usual "enforced hobbies" of gardening and DIY
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Post by: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 03:06:28 PM
If we count those, JAFO, then DIY, cleaning the house and mowing the lawn/watering/gardening are my number one leisure activities :P
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Post by: Orcs on 30 July 2014, 03:32:07 PM
Quote from: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 03:06:28 PM
cleaning the house ???

I have a woman for that.  :d  Hope she doesn't read this or I will be washing up and hoovering for weeks  ;)
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Post by: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 03:44:13 PM
I'd say the same but I'd end up the same :D
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Post by: FierceKitty on 30 July 2014, 03:48:06 PM
Serve you both right too.
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Post by: Leman on 30 July 2014, 04:42:18 PM
Quote from: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 02:39:23 PM
With a ten month old baby and a house falling apart I don;t have time for hobbies :D
......or punctuation.
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Post by: toxicpixie on 30 July 2014, 04:47:55 PM
This is treu ;)

Prof reading happens to other poeple!

As does sleep.
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Post by: Techno on 30 July 2014, 05:16:31 PM
What is "Hobbies", Precious ?
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: fsn on 30 July 2014, 05:41:02 PM
Wake, work, eat, worship the Dark Lord, sleep.
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Post by: Orcs on 30 July 2014, 05:45:55 PM
Quote from: fsn on 30 July 2014, 05:41:02 PM
Wake, work, eat, worship the Dark Lord, sleep.


You forgot "stroke my pendraken Centurion tank " :D
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Post by: Orcs on 30 July 2014, 05:49:44 PM
Quote from: Techno on 30 July 2014, 05:16:31 PM
What is "Hobbies", Precious ?
Cheers - Phil

They are the things we "normal" folk  do in our spare time,  that you have spent most of your working life getting paid to do. ie. Making wargames models, painting models, photographing models and even playing with wargames models.  ;D ;D

Sorry Phil, you walked right into that one
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Post by: Genom on 30 July 2014, 05:58:48 PM
I like watching Rugby (Union) and Medieval re-enactment as I'm not sure boardgames and the kind of computer games I like don't count as bunging dice around.
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Post by: Techno on 30 July 2014, 07:51:23 PM
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 30 July 2014, 05:49:44 PM
They are the things we "normal" folk  do in our spare time,  that you have spent most of your working life getting paid to do. ie. Making wargames models, painting models, photographing models and even playing with wargames models.  ;D ;D Sorry Phil, you walked right into that one

Ah....yeah......But it's not a hobby if you get PAID to do it ! ;)
Cheers - Phil

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Post by: Ithoriel on 30 July 2014, 10:41:37 PM
Quote from: Techno on 30 July 2014, 07:51:23 PM
Ah....yeah......But it's not a hobby if you get PAID to do it ! ;)
Cheers - Phil

As the actress said to the bishop :)
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 31 July 2014, 12:04:48 AM
Two bishops in a bar, one looks at the other and says "Tou know, I've never met an actress?"
The other replies "Me neither."
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Post by: Hertsblue on 31 July 2014, 07:54:09 AM
Keeping the spare tyre down in the gym, reading, photography, learning French.

Oh, and Beryl Reid's famous catch-phrase was "as the art mistress said to the gardener"
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Post by: Leman on 31 July 2014, 07:56:14 AM
I'd like you to plant it really deep? Presumably in a grey shed.
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Post by: DanJ on 31 July 2014, 08:17:38 AM
Walking, climbing, gardening (digging and weeding where I'm told and cutting miles of hedges) and a bit of sea kayaking but currently having trouble fitting the last one in.
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Post by: Steeleye on 31 July 2014, 08:33:40 AM
Hmmm hobbies.

Writing Fanfic, designing boardgames, drinking beer, listening to music/radio (both of which I can do while I'm doing anything other than writing), reading the Pendraken forums, reading things like books by Stirling, Weber, Drake and Stoss. Looking things up on the internet, watching movies/TV on DVD, walking and really meaning to go to museums and other places of interest but not quite managing it because of all the other stuff I'm doing.
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Post by: Leman on 31 July 2014, 12:12:46 PM
Aren't Sterling,Webe Drake and Voss a firm of accident claims solicitors?
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Post by: Techno on 31 July 2014, 02:09:50 PM
No, no, no....
You're thinking of Sue, Grabbitt & Runne.  ;)
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: DanJ on 31 July 2014, 02:54:46 PM
Quotedrinking beer

Drinking beer isn't a hobby, it a way of life, like reading and walking the dog
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Post by: nikharwood on 31 July 2014, 04:00:23 PM
Film, music, walking, dogs, shooting, reading, football, cricket, internet, horses, writing, photography, playing guitar, poker, drinking, cooking, surfing, RPGs, theatre...myraid other things...

Work - the curse of the hobbied classes  :( ;) :)
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Post by: Steve J on 31 July 2014, 04:31:46 PM
Too true Nik :(.

Also forgot to mention field archery, that has had to take a back burner for a few years due to sheer lack of time.
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Post by: Subedai on 31 July 2014, 04:50:00 PM
Writing and any associated research -especially about the Mongols
Reading -mostly Mil. Hist., Sci-Fi or Horror
Watching football as at 58 years young I am still too old to play (West Ham on TV), Woodstock and Sittingbourne FC live
Walking
Recently taken up a daily exercise regime including the occasional run.
Watching films
Listening to Music -most genres except for C & W, Blues and Trad Jazz. Particulary fond of Classical, Heavy Metal and Mike Oldfield.
Title: Re: Hobbies other than bunging dice
Post by: Orcs on 02 August 2014, 07:16:17 AM
Quote from: Techno on 30 July 2014, 07:51:23 PM
Ah....yeah......But it's not a hobby if you get PAID to do it ! ;)
Cheers - Phil

True, but it explains why you do not need a hobby.  And therefore why you do not  understand what they are
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Post by: MooseDontBounce on 05 August 2014, 02:40:10 AM
Ice hockey goalie and golf.
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Post by: Techno on 05 August 2014, 07:20:44 AM
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 02 August 2014, 07:16:17 AM
True, but it explains why you do not need a hobby.  And therefore why you do not  understand what they are
:P ;)

I really would like to start painting wee men again at some stage, though.
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: TinyTerrain on 05 August 2014, 06:30:47 PM
Just got a new (or should I say renewed hobby).......canoeing

Cheers,

Craig
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