Yet again. Please. Just say what your husband’s bloody hobby is.

[AliciaQuays]

Stop all this highly irritating coyness.

Urskeks I'm jealous. I've always wanted to play D&D but never found anyone else who's interested!

Cycling, hockey (the ice kind - we’re Canadian), basketball, football. It doesn’t bother me though - he works long hours, but has always been sporty, so I’m glad he has something to do that he really enjoys, and it gives him testosterone time with male friends . Other than him, we’re an all female household!

I have always wanted a metal detector and a model railway. I already have an allotment and a banjo. I have the interests of a 65 year old man called Alan.

@Rubyupbeat I feel the same. Things are very unfair in our household - my husband has a huge burden of responsibility due to my chronic illness. Many people in his shoes would become resentful and isolated. I’m very happy for him to have an interest outside of his daily grind to keep him healthy and happy, and would be pushing him out of the house for his own sanity if he didn’t.
Most of this thread has been a fun read, but there’s a strong whiff of bitterness here and there.

I'm a LARPer!!! Someone has to take DC2. We have ears & everything. 🧝‍♀️⚔

DH plays 5-a-side footie. He's the sensible one.

I don't think any of the posts on here are depressing or bitter particularly. Mostly it's just having a laugh. Besides, MAMILS are fair game. There are LOADS where I live, and climbers, and I have never known one of either who wasn't a selfish knob.

tomhagen some Austin 7s but no ancient vacuum cleaners (unless retained for containing "useful bits"). Probably not your neighbour!

AIBU to think that some Mumsnetters have zero sense of humour and wouldn’t recognise a lighthearted thread if it jumped up and bit them?

Anyway, everyone knows now to say “cycling” rather than “doing his hobby” which is ridiculously clunky.

The point is that posters don’t come on here to say “my DH’s hobby is cycling and it is very time consuming, but he has cut down a lot since the children were born and now only goes out once they have been bathed and put to bed”. They take issue with the ones who don’t recognise that life changes when you have small children.

I just Googled 'most obscure hobbies' as so many on here are convinced only their DH + 3 people do that hobby so it must be outing.....

Mooing (v popular in SW America apparently)
Toy Voyaging (taking pictures of teddies in holiday spots)
News broadcast bombing
Alligator wrestling
Extreme dog grooming
Soap carving
Competitive food eating

.. so I then spent an unhealthy amount of time looking at each one, and only on 'news bombing' could I identity a person. How the hell that would then translate to MN I have no idea.

So I have concluded the 'outing' brigade are just trying to sound more interesting than they are, by proxy.

Cycling
Golf
Tennis
Me

dont fucking call my thread lighthearted

Plus. I find women who say how hot their h is a bit 😬. It’s so live laugh love isn’t it.

That’s probably another thread.

Alicia they should probably refuse to say if their husband is hot or not - "as outing"

My husband has a nicer arse than me. He doesn't cycle.

Did you just live laugh love me, hun? Handbags!

From reading this thread, golf is a dying sport! Had MN existed 30 years ago, golf would have been the shorthand for me hiding from the family all weekend.

@ScreamingLadySutch it's very brave of you to out yourself as having dated a budgerigar. I think I may have also had an ex who was a secret budgie.

I find "hobby" quite a minimising term. I prefer "obsession" when discussing mine. It makes the fact I forced DH to leave work early because of today's new release seem less petty....

I always think it's golf.
Or salsa. But that's only because a colleague of mine goes every week.

Shooting and fly fishing

Picking his nose. He really can dig around in there for hours looking for treasures.

😂@Allington

I saw my "hubby" walking towards me this afternoon and I thought who is that pot bellied oddball?
Tbf he probably thought the same about me.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g
@glueandstick
@SheilaHammond

He also rants about UK kippers for breakfast. The smell is terrible. Should I LTB?

@LadyCarolinePooterVonThigh you may still be the neighbour! Ever kept a horse in your garden?

I would imagine toy voyaging is inadvertently quite popular on MN. The amount of ppl who've done a sister a solid and faked being a lost teddy for a sad DC!

How come no one has mentioned doing an open uni course? That takes 16 hours a week and thousands do it.

Or being a councillor? Thousands of them- very time consuming.