HOBBY

[InspMorse]

DH's 'HOBBY', my HOBBY, DC's HOBBY...
AIBU to feel irrational rage when I read this? Just tell us what the activity is FGS.

Just substitute cycling for the oh so identifying hobby. Most of us do.

I would guess at golf, masturbation and strangling animals.

I actually really hated the word even before all the secrecy.

Like anyone has ever been identified becuase they said that the dh like to play golf, cycle or paint little plastic models

It drives me BATSHIT. I can’t even begin to explain how annoying I find it.

I’m guessing wanking?

Everyone thinks they’re so unique with their hobbies even though it’s usually cycling, martial arts, running or similar.

I just find the concept of a hobby a bit weird-I mean I have interests. I devote time to them. But the word hobby just doesn't seem to apply. I wouldn't call any of them hobbies. Playing golf definitely isn't a hobby for example. WTF does it actually mean?

But it's "outing", as the OP is the only person in the country that likes to go fishing, or owns a drone, buys jigsaws, or whatever.

Or, for a laugh, substitute digging for the DH’s secret hobby. Like the letter in the guardian this week.

That’ll make the thread much more fun.

But it doesn't matter! The problem isn't the war games figurine painting. It's often the obsession or commitment the person is putting in and not to family or relationships or prioritisung money etc.

Dogging. Autocorrect doesn’t approve of dogging it appears.

strangling animals

I am going to use this as a substitute for hobby FOREVER

UnimaginativeUsername Funny, I thought that letter was about dogging.

It might matter. I’m sure the wife in that guardian letter would care that the hobby was dogging rather than cycling or whatever he’s been pretending he’s been doing for the last 8 years.

I think digging would be a better hobby than dogging.

I think digging would be a better hobby than dogging.

That depends on whether you have a garden.

It drives me BATSHIT. I can’t even begin to explain how annoying I find it.
^ Sums it up! I actually feel angry.
Unless it's unspeakably dirty or illegal, just tell us the activity!

A lifetime ban should be mandatory for anyone who does this.

It is weird to read isn’t it? I don’t think I’ve thought in terms of hobbies since primary age when we were sometimes required to write about our hobbies in English or to pen pals. I think we more commonly refer to interests, if at all, rather than hobbies once we are adult.

However I suppose it is a valid all encompassing term to use on a forum, although I don’t know why more people don’t just specify sewing/painting/cycling/hockey as they surely would in real life. It’s hardly identifying. “DH goes cycling two nights a week and Sunday mornings...” would appear to encompass thousand of families in the UK, “...does his hobby” always puts me in mind of Airfix models, stamp collecting or train spotting; the hobbies of the 70s!

MN hobbies are usually cycling, golf or football training,
but every time I read 'hobby' I imagine the husband doing full and detailed reenactment of Waterloo with tiny handpainted plastic figures. In a shed.

The thing is, using the word 'hobby' actually makes it sound a bit grim
If my DH started announcing he was off out to partake in his 'hobby' I'd be a bit

In my head hobbies are weird things that anti-social closeted types grunt over in their back bedrooms: painting orcs, making reborn dolls (same thing I suppose), things to do with remodelling cars, polishing obscure medals, making little aeroplanes that will never be played with etc etc.
Cycling/running/swimming etc aren't hobbies, they're sports.

DH's 'HOBBY', my HOBBY, DC's HOBBY...

Not bothered by the hubby hobby secrecy, I'm usually more annoyed when they don't use an apostrophe e.g. DH hobby, DC hobby etc

I actually feel angry

Then maybe you need a hobby.

ShutYoFace
Perhaps you're right. Maybe I'm subconsciously jealous of all these mysterious hobbies.

Some people have very obscure and weird hobbies that would out them. I have a hobby I don't want anyone to know about. I like it that my hobby is very unusual, the last thing I want is everyone knowing about it.