to be desperately embarrased to be married to DH? He has No Shame!

[HaveYouTakenLeaveOfYourCervix]

and is currently on the telephone to a computer chap admitting, with a straight face, and No Shame At All,that he needs a new graphics card......

I don't even thin I can type this......

he needs a new card for...................

Straight face and serious voice discussion..............

oh god....................

a new thingy for.......................................

His computer train simulator.

'A direct quote from my husband...

"I read a really good book about the periodic table the other day"

He said it to my Dad, who is a complete nerd academic type, but even he had a little snigger at hubby!'

Oggy, I've read two books on the periodic table since the summer, and I've played several online games reassembling it.
I don't need the knowledge, I was just interested.

moreBeta : I saw a bloke on a train (naturally) using his laptop actually designing tracks and stations for one of these simulators. It was really technical and every so often he flipped from the design screen to run the video of the simulation he had built. He was using real track data and photos and converting them to input into his laptop.
I can't believe my thoughts after reading your post were "Wow! Cool!"

O. M. G!

:o

"DH here spends his spare time painting little soldiers and refighting various wars but usually WW2 with them. He speaks of it. In public. A lot."

Not my DH, but my dad

I vividly remember after my parents split up, and my dad got a job in another city and had to move. He chose the house on his own, and when we arrived, he showed us the converted attic and announced, "This will be my WARGAMES room!" with a massive grin.

A part of me died that day - I have avoided little soldiers and painting and WW2 ever since though he was handy when I was doing WW2 in History lessons

Damn you all, I read this thread out to DH as a joke. Should have known better, he's gone off to get a train simulator. He's already forbidden from having an Old Republic mmorpg, we had DC2 instead.

Just read the original post, I haven't read all replies, sorry. Just wanted to sympathise. My dh just got a graphics card for his birthday, for his online spaceship gaming, how sad, at 34 yrs old!!

Afternoon delight - one of DH's "must haves" when we bought our house was a huge spare room and a double garage for wargaming. His pride in his wargaming room is a wonder to behold. I refuse to enter it.

Afternoon delight - one of DH's "must haves" when we bought our house was a huge spare room and a double garage for wargaming. His pride in his wargaming room is a wonder to behold. I refuse to enter it.

cervix - I feel your shame and pain

DH plays train sim too

and buys "Steam World".

He's really good looking though

Personally, I think this all sounds lovely.
If the hobby isn't impacting on you financially, and you can share space effectively then all is well.
Wonder what a similar thread would look like with OH's complaining about their partners weird obsessions...

Mine also plays

Flight sims where he flies to New York etc in real time

Submarine sims, boat sims and then one where he flies WW2 aircraft in squadrons with other people online whom he talks all night via some computer gizmo wizardry

:(

My DH enjoys building models and creating landscapes for his railway.

Our house is full of Railway Modeller magazines.

My father is just the same. .

Dusty- this thread isn't serious you know!

Yup, I know it isn't serious, and I'd hate for it to take a wrong turn.
Apart from me, this is pretty much an Aspie household here. We all do weird obsessions and hobbies to a particularly fine and detailed degree.
Basis rules are that you stick to your space unless it's negotiated, and that you can spend your own money once the boring household, uni and college stuff is paid for.
You are allowed to be puzzled at another's choice of weird hobby, but not rude or dismissive. And you don't throw away or tidy up junk that isn't yours because it might be a prized and rare artefact. Not a pile of crap.

I am enjoying this thread a lot.

If anyone is interested. There are loads of free online simulation wargames games springing up now that are really quite good. Great for father sons bonding (do/did girls play wargames?).

World of Tanks is something DSs play a lot of online and sometimes they invite me into their platoon. The DSs usually let me use the artillery and tank killers because they don't move much and are more technical while DS1 is more of heavy tank driver and DS2 favours fast moving medium tanks.

Problem is that the maps cover too small an area so the artillery quickly end up in duals with tanks at close range and get over run or blown up rather standing off at a distance. In practice, German 88mm anti tank guns could have killed a Rusian T34 at over 5km but the game designers downgraded its effectiveness so it's not totally realistic.

There is World of Warships and World of Warplanes too.

Minecraft.
I can't cope with everything being squares and cubes. Hurts my brain to look at it. My two children played it a lot.

My DH has a magazine subscription to Tractor Magazine - it's a magazine all about vintage tractors! It arrives in a transparent bag, so even the postman knows hubbies dirty little secret

Oh please don't let DH find out about World of Tanks/Warships/Warplanes. I couldn't take any more.

Its bad enough that he is so geeky but at times, he ask for my opinion about what colour things should be. He is trying to lure me in. I must stay strong.

At least I am not alone now. It feels better to know that there are other weird hobby widows.

Oh please don't let DH find out about World of Tanks/Warships/Warplanes. I couldn't take any more.

Its bad enough that he is so geeky but at times, he ask for my opinion about what colour things should be. He is trying to lure me in. I must stay strong.

At least I am not alone now. It feels better to know that there are other weird hobby widows.

I will be bold and admit I like trains, I would love a garden railway, if I could be arsed to work out all the techical stuff to install one. I am not sure I would like a simulator programme though, got to be the real thing for me. Does that make me a geek? Oh heck yes!!! My DH thinks I am mad. I feel your DH's pain.

anna - oh he would luuuuurve World of Tanks.

You can get alternative camouflage colours for each tank so if you are on a desert operation you have desert colours and so on for arctic conditions or urban warfare, etc. It affects the distance your tank can be spotted at and if you spend additional points you can buy camouflage nets and extra optics, gun layers, spall liners, as well as the usual upgraded armour, guns, engines and suspension consistent with later editions of each tank.

You can even paint your tank custom colours like pink and blue if you want so you could play together as a team.

Well, if he ever needs a talk partner, DS and I are available LeQ.
(I was a member of the Tolkien society at uni. Sadly, no badges)

God I so wish I had a geeky DH...in our family I am the geek and he is the cool one.