What are the most childish hobbies that are considered okay for adults to have?

[Wa4892]

I like trains.

 

[fenrir]

I like trains.

 

[MilwaukeeStrangler]

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His hog is catcalling me

 

[BrotherMan1488]

I live in Florida which is THE Disney state. 1 out of every 20 cars is someone with a Disney bumper sticker, license plate, and fast pass sign. And half of them have no kids at all. I know a woman who is 30 and childless and lives 3 hours from Universal but goes there EVERY WEEKEND. It is actually fucking insane and I don’t understand it.

Been there once as a child unimpressive they really nickel and dime you Palm Trees are pretty though

 

[Sue Lightning]

Been there once as a child unimpressive they really nickel and dime you Palm Trees are pretty though

I wonder why? child

 

[guest]

What a cope of a thread.

 

[LingerLonger]

I recently had an argument with a moron who insisted that replacing a roof on an old house was "easy", and that anyone could do it after watching a few YouTube videos about roofing.

The worst part of this is that no social media companies have a dislike button or a working 'report for scam' button anymore. So you search for "how to do something" on some social media site. And the first 100 hits are nothing but scams. And the actual relevant tutorials are buried beneath pages of dogshit. And with the endless scroll design of the internet you literally cannot find anything old anymore.

At this point even morons are realizing the 'dead internet' theory is true.

I’d say sports fan skew like 70% -> 30% like this. I don’t really care for the NFL anymore but I understand to a decent extent how play calling works and for the most part the general strategy is obvious given the point difference/time left.

I've been to a bunch of boxing and UFC events. The amounts of boos and complaining when fighters are not blindly throwing wild punches is beyond pathetic. It is obvious that the average UFC fan is a drunkard loser who has never even put on a boxing or MMA glove once in his life. If you have ever trained you will know how exhausting boxing and wrestling are for even a minute. Expecting them to throw punches or chain wrestle nonstop for minutes on end shows an embarrassing lack of understanding of athletics.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I've been to a bunch of boxing and UFC events. The amounts of boos and complaining when fighters are not blindly throwing wild punches is beyond pathetic. It is obvious that the average UFC fan is a drunkard loser who has never even put on a boxing or MMA glove once in his life. If you have ever trained you will know how exhausting boxing and wrestling are for even a minute. Expecting them to throw punches or chain wrestle nonstop for minutes on end shows an embarrassing lack of understanding of athletics.

I said sports not beating the fuck the ever living fuck out of each other.

 

[guest]

[SIZE=18px]Drinking is for fags[/SIZE][SIZE=18px].[/SIZE] I shudder at how much space in my local grocery stores is dedicated to beer. Our local smaller grocery store has probably two full aisles of beers in fridges and then another aisle of beer in cases that are left warm. The Wegmans near me probably has ten times as much beer as well. And every single grocery store near me has a liquor store next door.

Things like healthy drinks, coffee, tea. We don't even get a quarter of an aisle anymore. It's insane. If grocery stores were allowed to cell cigarettes and vapes they would stop selling food tomorrow.

[SIZE=18px]Watching sports is for losers period.[/SIZE] People who never played sports in college think that watching sports is the new height of masculinity. Like the dopes that never served in the military spending all their free time watching war movies and listening to military podcasts. What a waste of time. At some point in my life I stopped watching most sports and it has been so long I don't even remember when that was. And I miss none of it. I can't remember the last time I watched the Super Bowl or the World Series.

Go a week without them and you will miss them. A month? You will start to realize they meant nothing to you. A year? You will forget you ever even cared about watching sports. [SIZE=18px]I am down to just watching the UFC as my last sport[/SIZE] and likely will stop watching after this week if I even bother to watch this weekend at all.

So you're admitting you're a loser? I'm glad you've come to terms with what everyone here noticed a few years ago.
Imagine watching ufc, alone, SOBER, while listening to jocktober in the background as you build your 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzles and having the audacity to call other people fags and losers.
what a miserable life with zero self awareness.

 

[guest]

What a cope of a thread.

Pretty much.
my time wasting activity is better than your time wasting activity!
Nothing anybody else "enjoys" like anime, fantasy sports, disney +, can be put down by any user that has 100+ messages on a forum dedicated to the opie and anthony radio show ™. especially lingerlonger, who spends his time building massive puzzles with jocktober in the background.

 

[guest]

Pretty much.
my time wasting activity is better than your time wasting activity!
Nothing anybody else "enjoys" like anime, fantasy sports, disney +, can be put down by any user that has 100+ messages on a forum dedicated to the opie and anthony radio show ™. especially lingerlonger, who spends his time building massive puzzles with jocktober in the background.

Lol he had good taste in and understands tv shows, but i take offense to that drinking is for fags remark. People who dont drink are fags.

 

[Not bad]

Video games. I play them and I know it's gay. I get drunk while I play them though, children can't do that.

We've all been there, funster.

 

[Jack_Horner]

The worst part of this is that no social media companies have a dislike button or a working 'report for scam' button anymore. So you search for "how to do something" on some social media site. And the first 100 hits are nothing but scams. And the actual relevant tutorials are buried beneath pages of dogshit. And with the endless scroll design of the internet you literally cannot find anything old anymore.

I have a hobby where I'm fairly well respected and a lot of people dig my stuff. I started doing it over 30 years ago. I spent the first five or ten years basically dicking around, and as I got better and better, I began to study textbooks and old magazine articles on microfiche from the library. As I began to make a little money, I invested some of it to meet older guys who were way more advanced in the field. A lot of these guys did it for a living, and were near retirement, so they were more than happy to share their trade secrets (off the record of course.)

About 22 years ago we were at the "apex" of all of this. All of the stars aligned, and we were able to communicate via email, on forums, etc. I think a lot of advances were made from about 2000 to 2005.

The iPhone came along in 2007 or so, and just pulled the rug out from all of us.

It was incredible how in the span of just a few years, all of the "experts" on what we'd studied had been replaced by over eager dipshits who were hellbent on "monetizing" their content with clickbait videos and clickbait articles.

As of 2023, I'd generally argue that if you look for advice on how to do something in this field that I specialize in, you're going to get bad advice online.

Basically, the way that the algorithms works is that they prioritize "clicks" over "actually being correct." It's an infernal feedback loop:

First, some dipshit tries to learn something, and he goes online to learn it. He gets all excited and just parrots whatever the top hits are. Perhaps he'll put a subtle spin on it, but 9 times out of 10, he's just repeating shit he read online and making a YouTube video of it. Then nine more dudes see the same content, and put their own spin on it. So now you have ten people giving out advice, and all ten are wrong. It's like a game of "telephone" where they're just regurgitating bad info.

Even worse - if someone with actual expertise stumbles into the discussion, they just get shouted down. Because there's only one of them, and they're not well known.

A lot of these old guys that I mentioned, the real experts, they've basically backed off from discussing things online. It just gets tedious getting attacked by people who don't know what they're talking about, and having to defend yourself constantly. The Internet doesn't care about degrees or expertise, all it cares about is "who got the most clicks for their video?"

And this post obviously sounds like sour grapes, I know. But the hobby I'm talking about, it's not subjective for the most part. I'm not cooking steaks and getting butthurt because someone thinks I'm doing it wrong. It's a very technical hobby and there's a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things, and as of 2023, a big chunk of the info is just flat out wrong.

Things get particularly retarded now that AI is being trained on the Internet, because AI is a PRO at regurgitating bad information. It has no way to discern, at least at this point. Maybe five or ten years from now they'll start training AI on information that's curated by "experts." Of course, that opens a whole new can of worms, because what does Google know about selecting "experts" in underwater basket weaving or deep sea diving?

 

[Stent]

Hobbies are now aligned to finding the faggots with the most money to spend. Forums and social media are flooded with zilches ( ) who are obsessed with buying all the gear and then replacing it all with newer and better stuff the second they can.

 

[LingerLonger]

The iPhone came along in 2007 or so, and just pulled the rug out from all of us.

It was incredible how in the span of just a few years, all of the "experts" on what we'd studied had been replaced by over eager dipshits who were hellbent on "monetizing" their content with clickbait videos and clickbait articles.

YouTube is the real culprit though. Cell phones definitely made society worse (or at least smartphones). But social media gave anyone an unfiltered voice to post anything without moderation or editing. Expertise has been replaced with popularity or paying off a media company for better search indexing. So instead of the correct information showing up in searches you just get sponsored videos instead even if they have nothing to do with what you are searching for. Pretty much all major search engines are useless now.

This happens in stores as well online. You search for 'product' and get nothing but 'unrelated dogshit' results. And if you complain to the company the email just does into a dead end. And they have no customer support with a real person on the other end. Amazon might as well not even have a search option in a few years.

Basically, the way that the algorithms works is that they prioritize "clicks" over "actually being correct." It's an infernal feedback loop:

Things get particularly retarded now that AI is being trained on the Internet, because AI is a PRO at regurgitating bad information.

The whole point of the new search style on the internet is to focus everyone to just one site. So YouTube becomes the only video site. Amazon becomes the only online marketplace. And so on. Everyone is getting pushed to the same handful of sites now.

One of the worst things that YouTube does is that they allow people to upload correct information that they then bury on purpose. Like someone makes a tutorial video or documentary. And it then gets blacklisted from being on the search engine because the person didn't pay for some indexing fee or social promotion fee. The person goes through the effort to make something useful then no one ever sees it. Instead they get recommended endless useless shit from the connected channels.

Hobbies are now aligned to finding the faggots with the most money to spend. Forums and social media are flooded with zilches ( ) who are obsessed with buying all the gear and then replacing it all with newer and better stuff the second they can.

Yeah everything is about consumption and fear of missing out. If you are not buying the latest thing then you are meant to feel alienated from society. Instead of learning about your hobby and doing something with your hands you work a wage slave job and then participate in society by buying chinese made plastic junk that your favorite influencer told you was popular.

 

[Not bad]

I have a hobby where I'm fairly well respected and a lot of people dig my stuff.

 

['THE NIGGER MAN']

Gamers defended themselves from being called childish by strapping into pretend race car chairs & rainbow LED headsets. Nice "battle station", middle aged faggot.

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@BenDovid is one such faggot.

Dovid straps himself into an infant-sized car seat made of foreskins.

 

[Prince Bvstin]

My friend built a pc tower recently (mid 30s) and he did one of the setups where there are rainbow neon lights everywhere. I said it was the gayest thing id ever seen and he got annoyed. Even his keyboard was rainbow backlit. Its a good pc but I have no idea what the fascination is with making high performance hardware look like hot neon garbage.

 

[guyincognito2.0]

I recently had an argument with a moron who insisted that replacing a roof on an old house was "easy", and that anyone could do it after watching a few YouTube videos about roofing. There's this really annoying trend where everyone pretends everything is a scam, and anyone can do anything after a few minutes of basic instruction. And I firmly believe that these people should be killed. Now all I need to do it watch a YouTube video about executions and/or murder.

Do people in other areas not do a couple of summers of construction work when they’re kids (Ie late high school {for you eurofags that’s 17-18ish})? I learned how to do a ton of stuff like putting on a roof, framing, etc.

 

[DMbA]

Believe it or not but my time isn’t extremely valuable.

that fella sounds like a Pat, sure its easy to just pay someone to fix your shit, but you should at least know some of the basic