[Closed] Dullest Hobby Ever

i happen to find photography quite interesting 🙁 and enjoy going to the driving range...fishing isnt bad as long as u catch stuff

I confess not to "getting" fishing.
My rides take my down by & along a canal tow-path for 15 mins, and the guys (note: not a single female) with their rods in the air, line in the water and ..... what?
In 4 years, I've yet to witness a single spark of excitement nor anything remotely dynamic about fishing in the canal.
Tell me what I might be missing!

I love fishing, especially at night for big carp.

If you hook into a hard fighting 20lb carp in the middle of the night then that is exciting.

If you don't catch anything then you have been camping. Which is also cool

i used to fish for tench and perch just because everyone else went for carp and pike.
used to love going down to the river with my avon rod (1.25lb test curve), old cetre pin reel, a loaf of bread and a bag of weed trying to catch some chub.

fishing is what you make it and if you enjoy the countryside you are likely to enjoy fishing.

In the professional section, go to the winning image in Car section (the last category, I think).
I also won a 3rd place elsewhere on the site and 3x honourable mentions one submission was of a series of 5 images taken at Mayhem and Clic24 in 2008.

don't think i've ever really had a 'sad' hobby. never bothered to collect stuff.

look at me. look at me!

photos are nice, photography is/can be dull.

one of my mates [thinks he] is a photographer and is really ****ing boring when talking about the subject.

To my mind, swimming is seriously dull

I didn't realise I had any seriously dull hobbies but now I realise that I do 🙂

I like photograpy, and it's giving me a break from this introverted mountain biking forum away from people like terry limp-wrist 🙂

but seriously, i bet people who slag photography off are probably a)Gay and b)Hypocrites (who jump at the chance to see pretty mountain biking photos)

And what's this about photography not being art? I think those B+W prints of New York City people hang on their walls are kinda cool. And did you never see the little girl caught in a napalm attack in Vietnam? The little girl running down the street naked screaming? Did that not convey emotion? Ever heard the saying about a picture and a thousand words?

And just as photographers obsess over f-stops and focal lengths, mountain bikers obsess over TT lengths, tyre widths, shock strokes etc. and people post on here - "What tyres for riding in Calderdale over semi-aqueous ground and some babies head sized metamorphic rocks in the ratio of 40:65 with a chance of mild precipitation?"

seriously, just because you can't do it doesn't make it shit.

Bummerman,

seeing as you're obviously a bit slow, I'll spell this out for you:

I WAS TAKING THE PI$$.

I'm well aware of the irony of calling another hobby dull compared to MTB, but thanks for pointing it out.

seriously, just because you can't read doesn't make someone else shit.

But I thought bomberman [i]was[/i] taking the p1ss ? 😕

I thought the smiley and the comment [i]"but seriously"[/i] where both clues ?
I also thought [i]"terry limp-wrist"[/i] was quite funny.

Oh dear............ I don't think I'll ever get to understand this 'p1ss-taking' malarkey 🙁

Its all about perspective, if its what you're into then all well and good even if its train spotting, have tried quite a few sports over the years but have always wound up doin gthe ones that scare me.

Personally I've never got the whole footy euphoria, and it really annoys me when you tell other men in the workplace you don't like footy they instantly think you're gay, wtf?!

The worst has to the collection of slips from cardmachines that grows in your wallet without you knowing ,till you can't shut the dam thing. 😈

I think what wins the award for "Dullest Hobby Ever", was a couple of blokes I saw when working at the Worcester Beer Festival - they were buying a half of ale, sampling a drop of it then bottling and labelling it!! 😯

It's beer, what are you gonna do with it!!

fishing is what you make it and if you enjoy the countryside you are likely to enjoy fishing.

unless you're averse to killing things 🙁

and is really ****ing boring when talking about the subject.

the boringness of discussing an activity is not related to the boringness of [b]doing[/b] it 🙂 For a fact there's not much to say about photography - you point a camera at things and press the button, and sometimes the resulting shot is brilliant. End of 🙂

I know other people may find golf to be rather boring, but I really enjoy it!

Playing golf is a game of skill, the long process of trying to master all the little pieces that go together to create a good swing. The knowledge that has to be learnt with regards to how the weather can effect your game, and the frustration of trying to up the quality of your short game, and how to read the greens for speed and how the ball will break.

Golf is not really a sport in the athletic manner, but it is one hell of a mind game!

Tell me what I might be missing!

Well fishing is about lots of things but a lot of it im(limited)e is about sitting by the riverbank/seaside/lake shore chillin out in the weather and relaxing. A form of meditation.. rather like road biking or distance running, or mountain walking on your own.. or maybe swimming except you get water in your ears/nose/mouth too often to properly focus on the physical.. 🙂

There was a guy at Preston train station who used to run alongside the trains recording their arrivals at the station waving frantically at any one in his way (and went mental if you spoke/shouted).
He used to play recordings of his favourites to you and could tell you what each one was by sound alone.Proper elite trainspotter.

I was there as I worked with an autistic guy who loved trains to the point of compulsion and even he would get bored with this guy.

Model railways. Oh dear lord that was a narrow escape ...

I like bikes, fishing, golf, photography, collecting crap - god I'm dull but content 🙂

(yes I know you was taking the pi%%)