To wonder what the actual fuck all these hobbies are

[cod]

That men on mumsnet seem to have. And why people never just state them. "His hobby" sounds so pervy

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But again ladeez. The hobby takes them away. Staying away.
Where ?

Well if it helps, my husband's hobby is dog agility. It can be VERY time consuming.

Do you give him a treat when he runs around all those little flags?

Lol

Mountains! One of my friend's DHs does the Alps and shit. Except she goes with him and lounges around drinking the wine while he does the King of the Mountain stuff. The force is strong in that one.

I used to call what DH does in his spare time a "hobby" on mumsnet to avoid being too outing.

It's the sort of thing that wouldn't be too identifying in isolation, but taken together with what might be gleaned from my other posts, it'd be considerably more identifying.

Plus calling it a "hobby" prevents the thread getting derailed onto a discussion of the merits of the "hobby".

But anyway, after a previous similar thread, I've decided that from now on, I'll be referring to the "hobby" as golf. Or some other fake pastime.

No. Tell us. Spell it o. U. T. So it can't be googled. Tellusnowordie

Back to the main point - are you the real cod? If so, how have your typing skills improved so much?

When did jogging become running I wonder? With the advent of tracking gadgetry I reckon.

Totally agree 'hobby' sounds pervy! It sounded furtive, as if it should be performed in a flasher mac, in a shed. Hunched over stamp collecting albums.

I know men, who go on cycling holidays and who paraglide. Both hobbies require going away and spending the night away.

Is drinking a hobby? I know loads of blokes that are into that. Some are even beard strokey real ale types.

northcoastmum - I thought that too about the improved typing skills. Cod clearly has taken up typing as a hobby

Amazing the number of men who decide to take up cycling (for hours and hours on end out of the house), curiously around the time a second child comes along. Odd that.

I'd quite like a hobby - they sound good for the soul. But also really, really boring. I've yet to hear of a hobby that doesn't sound either crap or hideously expensive.

I like visiting pubs, but I'm not sure that could be classed as a hobby :(

The pipe smoker's council, the ones who used to award Pipe Smoker of the Year, used to refer to pipe smoking as a hobby.

Possibly the crack epidemic did for that one. And that spot of bother with DLT.

Well DPs "hobby" takes him all over Europe at the moment, but that's because he's in a band and they play gigs over there.

And that's far more fucking outing (ie not at all) than bloody cycling, golfing, kayaking, hill walking or bloody running, so just give it a fucking rest with the mysterious "hobby" shit AND TELL US FFS.

Just cos "hubby" (eurgh feel dirty just writing that!) gets into some stupid trousers and plays golf for 3 days a week it will not out you.
There are literally millions of the fuckers.

Plus I suspect they think an ambiguous word makes them sooo much more interesting than putting "H fucks off to the golf club every weekend".

80% of the time it's cycling. It's THE hobby for extramarital sin seemingly.

I always picture the scene thus:

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of people into all sorts of different things no matter how obscure they are.

The only reason not to say is because said hobby is blatantly a "I can't be arsed to go home and help out with the family" excuse and the op knows it.

No. Tell us. Spell it o. U. T. So it can't be googled. Tellusnowordie

Taking it a bit too seriously!

But, if I were to start a thread complaining about DH spending all weekend building L e g o cities and other L e g o models with his like minded friends instead of taking the DC to the park, for example, I bet there'd be a lot of posts questioning why an adult likes playing with L e g o while ignoring the actual AIBU question.

LOL at pipes

Surely the real @cod bitchplops? And, according to others, suffers from, or revels in, more typos

*ComputerUser" pub going can definitely be classed as a "hobby"

Let's face it, how many of these hobbies that people partners do last as long as they are out the house.

I suspect there are many hobby cyclists, golfers, walkers, figure skaters, taxidermists who put in a solid whole hour into it then fuck off to the pub/clubhouse.

My pub where I work is full of hobby bikers every weekend, many of whom have young kids at home.

Bet they go home and go "yeah we rode for hours, it was brilliant" and never mention the three hours spent at the pub afterwards.

Lego is a good hobby. gavel

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