To wonder what the actual fuck all these hobbies are

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

My town is full of hundreds of these hobbists today, all the shirking husbands going past on their million pound bikes with their stupid clothes on. I pity their wives and their children.

I always think when they say their H is off doing his hobby that they mean he's got another woman.

Am I wrong?

Having a "hobby" sounds like something you have to make up when you are forced to write to a "penfriend" in primary school.

I don't mean that it's bad to do things, I mean the word itself.

"What are your hobbies?" < a question asked by an adult to a child they have no interest in but for some reason have been forced to converse with.

Maybe it's because it rhymes with jobby. I'm psychoanalysing now...

DP's hobby is Kyudo.

Mine is sitting on my arse in my jammies eating skips while he's out at Kyudo.

I have the better hobby I think

I have been known to enjoy outdoor pursuits waggles eyebrows suggestively

In practice this means a lot of walking, a lot of shooting, a lot of fumbling in the dark and even more doing an impression of a drowned rat.

Never got the point of fishing though.

Since Dc was born I have had to limit the time spent a bit, clay shooting is good because with a lot of local grounds I can be out and back in the space of a good afternoon nap.

On a serious note, I do always wonder if like Across the OPs in these scenarios have a lot of family support.

If I had family support I wouldn't mind if my DH went away the odd weekend. I could too - hell, I'd probably find something to start!

But when you're all alone in the trenches together one person can't really absent themselves several times a week. Not without causing gibbering resentment.

Cod - on a completely unrelated note, I had an ovarian cyst removed about 5 years ago and guess where it was hiding........ In my Pouch of Douglas! All I could think (after recovering from the hideous pain) was "I wish Cod was still on MN so I could tell her"

I think I actually do just exist tbh. Finding hobbies unappealing is my falling. I need Why Don't You - the MN edition.

I quite fancy following in this lady's steps however...

Woman visits EVERY Wetherspoon's pub in Britain during incredible 21-year beer-drinking journey

Ah. It's been done recently. Sorry guys

Before anyone worries, I'm quite happy btw. Just think my life could be enriched if only I could be bothered to lift my arse off the sofa.

It's always cycling on MN.

Right demographic, time consuming and requires high expenditure on toys.

Gives rise to lots of complaints not least because a MAMIL always looks like a wanker.

I thought a hobby was something you invented for your CV to make you seem interesting.

Judging by some of the men on MN their hobby is being a perve in the Sex Topic.

DP's main hobby is being a pain in the arse, which is very time-consuming.

Gaming is not a hobby it's just a waste of time.

TBF there's a lot of hobbies that are a waste of time.

Isn't the definition of a hobby something you do just to waste some time before you hit the grave?

Just think my life could be enriched if only I could be bothered to lift my arse off the sofa.
Nah, there's loads you do while still sitting on the sofa!
I bought MrZ a boat so that when he retired he could spend a lot of time on his hobby (although I'd never actually call it that, I'd just say "fishing"). And so he can bring me lobsters, obvs. Gives me plenty of time to sew, knit and lounge about on the sofa.
It feels a bit unnatural to say "He's off doing his hobby" and I'm not precious enough to believe that saying what the hobby is will immediately identify me/him.

@SparklingBrook yes that's the only time as an adult you use the word "hobby" rather than just talking about a thing that you do.

Bonjour unknown penfriend. Je m'appelle Trills. J'ai douze ans. J'ai les yeux marrons et les cheveux marrons. J'ai un frere, il s'appelle Chris. Mes loisirs son pissing about on the internet, drinking gin, and reading trashy historical fiction.

DH and I just "do things". As DD has got older, we've had more time to do things. Neither of us would say that we "have a hobby".

Here in the US, it's worse, though. If you do "something" people say "Oh you're a somethinger?" and are genuinely interested.

eg. I like making (and eating) cakes. They say "oh, you're a baker?" which to me means a full-time, top-level employed in this profession type of thing. No, I'm a teacher, who makes cakes and eats them!

But it's how the language is used around here.

So - just in case I'm accused of being deliberately coy about the things we do - between us DH and I are a: gardener, baker, quilter, golfer, gamer, movie-go-er, drinker, pub go-er, hanging at with friends-er, kickboxer, Scottish country dancer, kayaker, and probably some other things we like and do from time to time-er.

YY Trills you have to put 'socialising' even if you hate going out, so that you look all fun and a real 'people person'.

I suppose my hobby could be "Costa Coffees of North West England" seeing as most weekends DS2 wants to go trainspotting and that's where I end up waiting for him to finish doing whatever trainspotters do.

Dh's hobby is and has always been motorbikes. When we were young and poor we thought it made him seem a bit dangerous and interesting.
Now we are infinitely more middle aged and middle class it seems quite dull so when we speak about it publicly we refer to his hobby as leather clad fun. As in "do you think you'll have any leather clad fun this weekend?"
It amuses me anyway...

I like the cut of Wetherspoons lady's jib. That might be my new hobby. it's really an extension of my current hobby