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

[Antwan Kumiya]

I have a baseball card collection. Should I kill myself? It’s probably worth like 8-10k In total if I had to guess

 

[BrotherMan1488]

I wonder why? child

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o we drove by a mushroom factory the smell was like Patrick S Tolmsons ass

honestly dont remember seeing any jews lots of niggers in Orlando
sweetie pie

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

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It was incredible how in the span of just a few years, all of the "experts" on what we'd studied had been replaced by over eager dipshits who were hellbent on "monetizing" their content with clickbait videos and clickbait articles.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

WHAT IS THE HOBBY?

I read that entire novella and still don't know

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

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.

Framing a house is presumably very difficult but I could probably do a pole barn. In my experience of being used for free labor by relatives it’s really easy to rip shingles off and have the company install the new ones because you need a few air compressors and pro grade nail guns. I would never install the actual roof part since I don’t Iike working in the air because I don’t want to pull an Artie Lange Sr.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

WHAT IS THE HOBBY?

I read that entire novella and still don't know

He’s talking about gay porn. The industry just really isn’t what it used to be.

 

[RobertMewler]

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.

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.
Internet doesn't care about degrees or expertise, all it cares about is "who got the most clicks for their video?"

This is why going to a used book store and seeking books published before, say, 2000 (pre mainstream internet) is the tried and true method to actually learning a new skill.

I've come to realize that books printed in the pre-internet era are dense with knowledge because the author intended to throw everything at you (in detail) as if there were nowhere else you could obtain this info.

I've gotten books for carpentry, gardening, patio/fencing, and framing from the 70s and 80s and they're incredibly rich not only in instruction but with the history of the art form in itself. They don't just tell you how to do something but why you're doing A versus B and how the chosen way was developed over time. Pick up a Black & Decker book printed in 2020 and it's so spare. Yes, it tells you what to do but you don't walk away thinking you actually learned a craft.

 

[johnnynoname]

Framing a house is presumably very difficult

yeah....this forum is totally composed of Black people

 

[Cartoon Redux]

Funko Pop collecting is probably my most hated hobby. They're ugly, they all look the same, and even the "rare" ones are mass produced plastic trash. More shit to flood our landfills in the coming decades. How is it that nearly everyone you meet has several of these fucking things?

The one guy's whiny post where he thought jack stands cost thousands of dollars is probably the faggotiest thing I've ever read here (including nikocado asshole pics). Of course his favorite pastime is watching half naked sweaty men rolling around on the floor. Guarantee he was raised by a single mom.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Not being from the States - is adults who don't have kids actually going to Disney World on their own a common thing? That blew my mind when I read it here recently. How is that not considered ridiculously creepy, pedo behavior?

I’ve known grown women - without kids - that are CRAZY about Disney and go multiple times a year. I always assume they were molested to actual enjoy going to Disney without kids which sounds like a complete nightmare to me but then again I wasn’t molested.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Funko Pop collecting is probably my most hated hobby. They're ugly, they all look the same, and even the "rare" ones are mass produced plastic trash. More shit to flood our landfills in the coming decades. How is it that nearly everyone you meet has several of these fucking things?

The one guy's whiny post where he thought jack stands cost thousands of dollars is probably the faggotiest thing I've ever read here (including nikocado asshole pics). Of course his favorite pastime is watching half naked sweaty men rolling around on the floor. Guarantee he was raised by a single mom.

I can’t stand funko pops - the guys I see buying them all look the same - fat, greasy hair, neck beard. Also smell bad.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

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.

I lived in Orlando for almost 5 years and NEVER went to the actual Disney park. The only part I went to was the House of Blues because they got a lot of great artists of all genres to play there. People from elsewhere would see I live in Orlando and say “Must be great to be able to go Disney whenever you want!” And Id have no idea what they were taking about.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

I lived in Orlando for almost 5 years and NEVER went to the actual Disney park. The only part I went to was the House of Blues because they got a lot of great artists of all genres to play there. People from elsewhere would see I live in Orlando and say “Must be great to be able to go Disney whenever you want!” And Id have no idea what they were taking about.

Nice 3 posts in a row, stupid.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

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.

I wouldn’t say people that drink are fags but those who try to make it more than you like get to drunk are fags. Like that movie “Sideways” which was people making excuses for their alcoholism and hiding it as “wine tasting / wine pairing”

 

[DMbA]

Funko Pop collecting is probably my most hated hobby. They're ugly, they all look the same, and even the "rare" ones are mass produced plastic trash. More shit to flood our landfills in the coming decades. How is it that nearly everyone you meet has several of these fucking things?

The one guy's whiny post where he thought jack stands cost thousands of dollars is probably the faggotiest thing I've ever read here (including nikocado asshole pics). Of course his favorite pastime is watching half naked sweaty men rolling around on the floor. Guarantee he was raised by a single mom.

You don't think every mechanic has a 2000$ Jack in the shop in order to work on cars Jim nehehehe

 

[Harry Powell]

Anything that requires a lift or jacks should likely be done by a professional. I absolutely laugh at these YouTube channels with some faggot "teaching" his idiot followers how to "fix" their cars in their driveways. Yet they are using $10,000 worth of power tools and equipment as if normal people just have a $1,500 pressure washer or a $500 engine hoist lying around in their garage to break out so they can spotlessly clean their car or swap the transmission and engine as some fun weekend project.

I saw one where a guy is talking about casually cleaning underneath your car then he breaks out $2,000 in industrial jackstands like everyone is just going to go out and buy those so they can clean the salt from their cars.

Drinking is for fags. 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.

Watching sports is for losers period. 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. I am down to just watching the UFC as my last sport and likely will stop watching after this week if I even bother to watch this weekend at all.

If you aren’t invested in seeing a nice short white Christian man who works his ass off possibly KTFO a giant sand nigger, then why were you ever watching ufc to begin with?

Agreed about drinking and video games. Giving them both up, after a year or two you can’t believe anyone is wasting their time with them

 

[TheUserRedditBanned]

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.

Yeah the neon lights are retarded. If you're gaming, presumably you're in a dark room so you can concentrate on the monitor, so why the flashing rainbow lights 2 feet away from the monitor? Stupidity.

 

[Treat Yourself]

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.

The worst part is that it's all they sell. You have to look hard for shit that ISN'T bukkaked with LEDs if you're building your own. It's the wooooorst.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

The worst part is that it's all they sell. You have to look hard for shit that ISN'T bukkaked with LEDs if you're building your own. It's the wooooorst.

It's a tough one, man

 

[You Got A Problem Pal]

Anything that requires a lift or jacks should likely be done by a professional. I absolutely laugh at these YouTube channels with some faggot "teaching" his idiot followers how to "fix" their cars in their driveways. Yet they are using $10,000 worth of power tools and equipment as if normal people just have a $1,500 pressure washer or a $500 engine hoist lying around in their garage to break out so they can spotlessly clean their car or swap the transmission and engine as some fun weekend project.

I saw one where a guy is talking about casually cleaning underneath your car then he breaks out $2,000 in industrial jackstands like everyone is just going to go out and buy those so they can clean the salt from their cars.

Drinking is for fags. 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.

Watching sports is for losers period. 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. I am down to just watching the UFC as my last sport and likely will stop watching after this week if I even bother to watch this weekend at all.

Most auto repair/preventative maintenance is really simple to do. You could even say that ANYONE CAN DO IT. Autozone has a tool rental program where you pay a deposit fee for a tool and get the deposit back when you return the tool. The reason people want to do things themselves is because a lot of the "professionals" are total scumbags charging ridiculous prices. The average blue collar worker is a total moron, so it not surprising that people feel confident in doing things themselves.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

yeah....this forum is totally composed of Black people

If you had any real skills you wouldn’t have been waiting tables for the last 15 years.