Other Hobbies?

[AndyR]

It's interesting watching the "wot is a hobby or not?" debate.

I was getting ready to chip in with "when going to the odd game of cricket turned into going to all 5 days of all three London test matches, and all London ODI's and every Surrey home game I could get time off for, and some away games, and the associated hole that made in my bank account... then I think my nearest and dearest started classing it as one of my "hobbies"..."

But then I had scary thought:

How many of us here class our guitar "interest" as a "hobby"?

And for those of us who say, indignantly, "No, it's a calling..." or "No, it's what I do..."

How many of our nearest and dearest see it in the same light??!  :roll: :lol: :lol:

[Philly Q]

Still guitar-related, but I collect guitar magazines obsessively and have them going back over 25 years.  :oops:

Do you - or anyone else want some more guitar mags
I have a collection going back 25 years and need to get shot of them as they are clogging up my mum's garage
All in boxes but it takes up a lot of room

I don't really have any space for more stuff, to be honest, Jonathan, but.... what have you got?   :lol: :oops:

I might already have a lot of them, but (to be cheeky) would you split the collection?  I have some gaps in my Guitar World collection that you might be able to cover.  I'd pay for them of course!  :)

[AndyR]

I don't really have any space for more stuff, to be honest, Jonathan, but.... what have you got?   :lol: :oops:

We could all hear you thinking this while you were typing it!! :lol:

[dave_mc]

^ :lol: i have way too many guitar mags too.

I dont think there is any ;)

Nothing passive, to my mind is a hobby. Sit and look = passive.

A hobby is doing something. DIY, art, crafts, music, sports, athletics, mechanics, getting out and wandering round some woods, killing and eating things, growing and eating things, that manner of stuff.

Hobbies arent, IMHO, stuff you simply like. Cooking can be a hobby, eating cant, amature film making is a hobby, watching them aint, football is a hobby, going to see the sunday game is not (yes, I changed my mind - going to see people play a sport isnt a hobby, and niether is going to gigs :P). The list goes on.

Do I have some sort of harsh and draconian defintion of hobby? Does anyone get what I'm saying here?

i guess i disagree with your definition of a hobby then. that kind of logic can lead to the daft kind of thinking which is pretty prevalent nowadays that e.g. building a wall or washing your garden path is more constructive/useful than reading or academic work.

also, on a side note, by the looks of things round my house plenty of people consider eating a hobby... :lol:

[indysmith]

ROFL
I love this forum; you ask people what their hobbies are, and they just argue about the definition of the word "hobby" :lol:

[AndyR]

It's great innit! :D

[dave_mc]

ROFL
I love this forum; you ask people what their hobbies are, and they just argue about the definition of the word "hobby" :lol:

:lol:

noodle wondered what my definition of "perfect" was in your thread, too.

great forum. :lol:

[Philly Q]

I don't really have any space for more stuff, to be honest, Jonathan, but.... what have you got?   :lol: :oops:

We could all hear you thinking this while you were typing it!! :lol:

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

[il˙ti]

ROFL
I love this forum; you ask people what their hobbies are, and they just argue about the definition of the word "hobby" :lol:

Come to think of it, that is pretty funny.

[MDV]

Fine! I'm outvoted.....I'm gonna go sulk....is that a hobby ;)

[AndyR]

Fine! I'm outvoted.....I'm gonna go sulk....is that a hobby ;)

Yes... As long as you're not doing it passively :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

Onanism.

Best answer so far!
May have some forumites reaching for the dictionary as well!

[MDV]

Fine! I'm outvoted.....I'm gonna go sulk....is that a hobby ;)

Yes... As long as you're not doing it passively :lol:

Oh, its active alright!

What if I have to drive somwhere to pay to watch other people sulk?

[AndyR]

Onanism.

Best answer so far!
May have some forumites reaching for the dictionary as well!

Yeah I liked that one too  :lol: I was so tempted to answer it with a "Don't be a w***er, use words we all understand" but decided against it, would have kinda spoiled the joke at the time...

And there must be very few "swearing" filters that are high-brow enough to catch words like that... (we've been calling each other onanists at our place of work for many years!)

[MDV]

Onanism.

Best answer so far!
May have some forumites reaching for the dictionary as well!

Yeah I liked that one too  :lol: I was so tempted to answer it with a "Don't be a w***er, use words we all understand" but decided against it, would have kinda spoiled the joke at the time...

And there must be very few "swearing" filters that are high-brow enough to catch words like that... (we've been calling each other onanists at our place of work for many years!)

I think the joke would have been enhanced. (For those that know what onanism is...)