Your hobbies past and present

What hobbies past and present have you done in your life?

Share your list and info about the hobby if you like.

I have quite a list -

Current
martial arts
weight lifting
cooking
travel
Photography
Dungeons and Dragons
Internet surfing


Past
Stamp collecting
coin collecting
gun collecting and shooting
archery
Bee keeping (did not last!)
Fishing
boating
hunting
training working dogs for searches
military miniatures and models
woodwork
football
basketball
tennis
baseball
baseball / football card collecting
boating and canoeing
camping
hiking

None.......

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Originally Posted by Milkman

None.......

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Come on! :(

Current. (when I get time)

Making bleepy music on my computer
Learning more geeky computery stuff
Cooking, which I wish I had better facilities and more time for
Photography although not so much now I have a crappy camera
Generally having a go at making stuff instead of buying it

Past, teens to mid 20's

Shotokan Karate, got to brown belt and couldnt keep it up due to work, should have got my black belt.

Skateboarding
BMX
Collecting and practising martial arts weapons of various sorts, nunchucks, butterfly knives, throwing stars, bo staff and the like
Football
Swimming
Gymnastics
Diving
Snooker
Pool
Darts

Current:

RC Racing

Past:

Wakeboarding.

The wakeboarding was in the present list until I broke my ribs this time last year trying to jump too high off the big ramp after too many beers.! :)

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Originally Posted by chitown

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Originally Posted by Milkman

None.......

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Come on! :(

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None...really.

Well, I used to dabble in photography.

Now I surf the internet. Read books occasionally. Used to travel, but am too lazy to work now.

You work out too, no?

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Originally Posted by chitown

You work out too, no?

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I stopped a couple of months ago. Too lazy.

I have mentioned on TD many times that I don't have a hobby and am jealous of people that do. It is just that I have never found anything that would interest me for longer then 5 minutes.

I used to blow up frogs but I didn't use explosives like Luckydog, I used the traditional straw up the bum pneumatic method.

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Originally Posted by chitown

Bee keeping (did not last!)

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My only entomological interests were pulling the wings off flies and then either throwing them on a spiders web or leaving them near an ants nest or exploding them with a magnifying glass.

You are allowed to do this even when you are an adult as insects are not vertebrates and so they don't come under any cruelty to animals acts - but you are not allowed to blow up frogs.

Biking
Making love
TD

Now,

kayaking
mountain biking,
DIY,
Tiger beer research

Past,

go karting
quad biking,
scuba,
young lady research

Cuddling cats and annoying people

and swimming and cooking and annoying people

Does catching flies count as a hobby?

Might be worth its own thread actually. :)

I'm having trouble defining what a hobby is.

How about learning a language. With a tutor, expanding vocab.

It's for interesting and also as a semi-necessity.

Is learning a foreign language, a hobby?

I suppose it is, because it's something being done, that isn't related to work.

^ Yes it does. I forgot that on my list.

Since being in China I haven't really had any hobbies except Chasing down Chinese pussy, (That's had to stop since I got married)
In previous lives
Model airplane kit building as a kid.
Archery
Fishing
4 wheel driving
Hiking
Guitar
gym (is that classified as a hobby?)
photography (began as a hobby, went professional)
Flying
Can reading be classed as a 'hobby' or pastime?
Chinese, by the way, consider sleeping a hobby.
I don't think they understand the concept actually.

Now:

Digital image manipulation
Making music (digitally)
Drinking beer
Anything IT or multimedia related
Hoarding torrents (music/video)
Online gaming - Poker, RPG's, Golf
Showing people where the 'on' button is on their computers
Being a 'newbie' pain in the arse on TD

Past (we're talking yonks ago here):

BMX
Barrel raiding (stealing beer/cider etc... from barrels kept in the backyards of pubs)
Climbing trees
Making scary arse swings on said trees
Making 'dens'
Brewing beer - tried it for a few months and never managed to make a batch that was palatable

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Originally Posted by MeMock

Does catching flies count as a hobby? Might be worth its own thread actually.

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bladdy hell, has CMN stolen your password and login?

Okay, that has convinced me, off to start a thread :)

Thanks KW.

Nowadays:
Cricket, cooking, weights, reading, internet, films, "socialising", making lurve, etc.

Then:
Karate, (semi and full contact circuit), hiking, going to concerts, gigs, festivals, motorcycles and touring, recreational drugs, shagging.

Last 40 odd years

Making Music/singing
Going to concerts/music festivals
Camping
Gardening
Cooking
Photography
Throwing/organising parties - Lately, mostly for kids

Before that I tried a lot of things, then stuck with the above.

Lots of sports but from a pure hobby standpoint:

Rebuilding/restoring antique clocks
Furniture building and restoration
Fly fishing
Cooking