‘My husband’s hobby’

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Blah blah ‘my husbands hobby’ or ‘special interest’, they’re always ‘heavily involved in’ or ‘invests a lot of time and money in his hobby’

It’s cycling. It’s fucking CYCLING and more specifically its cycling at bedtime/bath time. Can we all agree that there is no need to be a tease and it’s not even slightly ‘outing’ your husband is one of millions across the country with a beer belly and a Lycra drawer.

YANBU: It’s always cycling

YABU: No, my husband does something even more tragic like tail transport modelling, or pigeon fancying

Mine does the gym/boxing/MMA stuff. I don't even think he can ride a bike.

I just don’t understand how a person can thin saying their husband is a cyclist is in anyway outing!!! Drives me mad.

Outing hobbies are I don’t know-
Collecting Care Bears or something. I don’t any man who does so if I did and someone put that on here it would probably be the same person! Cycling - I know probably 50 people who ‘cycle’ to some extent as a hobby.

When I was a kid it was washing the car .... going to the pub.... or golf. All activities favoured by the adult male that needed to be done alone. Today’s male is expected to engage more with family life there’s even parental leave for the keeners. This is a tricky situation for them however fair play they have embraced an activity that again is not suitable for children to join in and if they don’t stop gets them several miles away from the house. I salute their ingenuity.

YABU. My dh's hobby is badminton. I can assure you that it is just as annoying as cycling!

Ooh bloody cyclists keeping themselves fit and travelling around using zero emissions, clogging up the roads, grrr.

My ex used to make model battleships. Sad fucking git.

DH is a Briney and collects My Little Ponies. He gets mad if DS brushes their hair in the wrong direction or mixes up their names

Well maybe for some of us the annoying hobby is 12th century reenactment and the associated "authentic" crafts, such as making their own chain mail and weaponry.

I'd bloody love it too be cycling.

YABU my husband does miniature wargaming. It's infinitely more tragic than cycling and takes up all of his time, money and brain power. He isn't even just into one type like warhammer, to date he has 8 different games. Our house is filled with the shit.

I'm still happy it's not football or cycling though, at least with games I don't have to watch him do it.

My DP’s hobby is airsoft, basically like paintball but with airguns in the woods with lots of other men.

It takes all day Sunday, he has to be there (not just out of the house) by 8am which in turn wakes me up early, and he dresses up head to toe in camouflage gear. I’ve banned him from bringing the guns in the house.

I wish he cycled!

The one I’m reading currently I strongly suspect it’s pool or snooker!

And it's all taken so seriously. As if it's actually a sport. It's what children learn to do and ride miles on them without even breaking a sweat. But no, the middle aged man has to have all the gear and 'train' extensively. Give over, you can chat to your mate constantly whilst doing it and you're carrying a load of timber. It's not a sport, it's an extension of a childhood past time (unless of course you are actually a competitive athlete). And you cause traffic backlog for no real reason - not because you are using it as a form of transport to actually get somewhere like to work, in an environmentally friendly way (which is the only acceptable reason for adult cycling on roads). Rant over.

@MsAwesomeDragon Oh wow, that is just so cool. Does he have a sweaty Hauberk?
Does he do the full contact fighting?

Mine was playing guitar. He effed off for buskers, gigs and 'band practice' almost every night for hours and hours.

My DH’s hobby is archery... BUT he brings the kids.

Mine is watching pride and prejudice type films/ series on Netflix while knitting. Sometimes the kids watch too.

Whatever happened to golf? No Lycra / road hogging opportunities I suppose.

Vulpine the issue here isn't with people cycling to work rather than public transport or driving, it's hobby cyclists who use that hobby as an excuse to be out of the house & away from "family" type things so they can spend all their free time cycling. 2-3 evenings a week after work "training", long training runs or events at the weekend requiring them to be out all day both days.

Definitely not a case of cycling instead of other means of transport - you see them driving down the roads in their big cars with the bikes on a roof rack on their way to something.

YABU mine plays the euphonium in a social band! 😂

Warcraft, bloody Warcraft

Still at least he's at home and it's only a tenner a month so it could be worse

If they say they are "training " then it makes it sound very important and worthwhile

HA euphonium wins !

The ex's weekend hobby was welding his lazy arse to the recliner chair with the TV remote glued to his hand.
Still better than cycling.

This is funny. It's changed how I view cyclists too. Nothing wrong with family dodging if it's 50:50 but it never is.

Could be darts or snooker for some I suppose

@TwiddleMuff wins the thread 😂

I always assume it’s the 17th century pursuit of shin kicking