Suggest to me a hobby, interest, pastime or activity

HOS 1997

Just what is says in the title.

All suggestions are welcome (including the all the amusing ones I'm anticipating).

I thank you in advance for your contributions.

joshrogan

Falconry seems to be the latest "hip" thing to do for today's youth.

donvito99

emigration

losthorizon

Bee-keeping, bowling, archery or fencing. Interesting in all four. I'm doing a bee-keeping course at the moment.

FatherLen

cartwheels

PhlegmyMoses

You could take up this new craze called jogging or maybe it's pronounced yogging. I think it's a soft J.

Where To

You could try the internet OP.

I hear it's good.

Underdraft

1) Find/invent a cheap alternative energy source to oil.
2) See how long you can last before you're hunted down and executed.

El Guapo!

losthorizon wrote: »

Bee-keeping, bowling, archery or fencing. Interesting in all four. I'm doing a bee-keeping course at the moment.

http://www.epiclol.com/cdn/pictures/2011/12/hm-yes-quite_1325139314_epiclolcom.jpg

df1985

Gym is definately the most addictive once you stick to it and it becomes routine.

Sunnyisland

shoplifting.





You have to be very strong.

HOS 1997

df1985 wrote: »

Gym is definately the most addictive once you stick to it and it becomes routine.

Do you think so? Bored out of my head going to the gym. Maybe need to change what I do but nearly ready to give up going.

Seachmall

Programming.
Lock-picking.
Poker.
Juggling.
Alcoholism.
Fitness.
Electronic engineering.
Reading.


No friends required!

Larianne

Scuba diving! It's an expensive enough hobbie but if you are a graduate of a uni/college you may be able to sign up with those clubs and its much cheaper.

iamstop

Gash gobbling.

Nah seriously though,

Gash gobbling.

df1985

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Do you think so? Bored out of my head going to the gym. Maybe need to change what I do but nearly ready to give up going.

Variation is important and also set targets for yourself to meet within x amount of weeks, months etc. when you see results you then want to push yourself on more I find.

Thats my experience of it anyway. I couldnt not go to the gym now,im no underwear model but it becomes part of your life and routine.

Giselle

Flying lessons, hill walking, rallying, survivalism, gardening.

Shryke

Exercise of any kind. You get fit, look better, feel better.
Reading, writing, playing an instrument and have more sex, just because.

mikemac1

Riding

Juwwi

Buy yourself a metal detector and head to the beech with it.

Snowie

Rock climbing.
why, its satisfying, it pushes you mentally and physically it forces to control your fears and get the job done and when you couple your first hvs fvck me your hands will shake like michel jay foxs plus Irelands got some pretty kick ass climbing

Relatively cheep hard part finding climbers to climb with...

stimpson

http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=danger%20wanking

All the cool kids are doing it.

mattjack

Digging holes.

John Doe1

extreme ironing?

Horse rimming?

gsxr1

pole dancing .

Canis Lupus

Cycletouring.

TeddyTedson

• Join the gym and get shredded brah. 6 days a week of intensity, rawwr!!
• Join a footie team or organise some 5 a side.
• Learn to play the guitar and/or keyboard, forget everything else:P.
• Start swimming, it's great.
• Join an MMA club.
• Start doing some art maaan:D

Annasopra

public speaking (Toastmasters)

mikemac1

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Start doing some art maaan:D

Out of here ya beatnik hippie :mad:

El Weirdo

Jesus, 30 replies and no one's suggested fapping.

AH really has gone to fuck.

InkSlinger67

El Weirdo wrote: »

AH really has gone to fuck.....

.....themselves

It's fapping hour for AH'ers. 19:00 - 20:00 on a Sunday, please call again.

mconigol

Dentistry

senorwipesalot

Where I live the youngsters while away the hours by lamping rabbits,snaring foxes and other sadistic pursuits........evil bastards.

Ghandee

robbie1977 wrote: »

Buy yourself a metal detector and head to the beech with it.

Trees are made from wood though.

theg81der

Vexillology

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+vexillology%3F

dxhound2005

If you are a contrarian you might choose one from the recent thread here Pastimes or Hobbies you definitely would not do.

I would recommend the venerable art of Dx'ing.

http://www.dxing.info/introduction.dx

holystungun9

human statue / street performer.

HOS 1997

mango salsa wrote: »

public speaking (Toastmasters)

Wouldn't have thought of that, might look into it.

LH Pathe

sorry; can't help you

There must be something you feel a affiliation with. Unless.. em tracksuited neds on the corner?! No that'd be disenfranchised hmm.. Shìt even i have one and I hate "everything"

Batsy

Here's one for each month of the year. All of these customs and traditions are held in Britain each year, but maybe the Irish might want to take up one or two of them:

JANUARY

Haxey Hood Game, Haxey, Lincolnshire. In the 13th century a gust of wind whipped off the hood of the Lady de Mowbray. Farm workers chased and retrieved the hood, so delighting her that she ordered the pursuit of the hood be repeated, and it is still repeated to this day.

FEBRUARY

Hurling the Silver Ball, St Ives, Cornwall (First Monday after Candlemas (2nd) )

The game starts at 10.30am. The silver ball is thrown from the wall of the parish church by the mayor into the waiting crowd, then passed from one to another on the beaches and through the streets of the town. The person holding the silver ball at 12.00pm takes it to the mayor at the Guildhall and receives the traditional reward of five shillings.

MARCH

Oranges and Lemons Children's Service, London

In the days when the River Thames at London was wider than it is now, barges carrying oranges and lemons landed just below the churchyard of St. Clements Dane.

On the last day of March, local primary school children gather at the church to attend a service. They recite the famous nursery rhyme and, on occasions, play the tune on hand bells. At the end of the service the children are presented with an orange and a lemon each from a table outside the church .

Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.

You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.

When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.

When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.

When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney.

I do not know,
Says the great bell of Bow.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

APRIL

Nutters Dance - Bacup, Lancashire

One to give the PC Brigade coronaries. The Bacup Nutters Dance traditionally takes place on Easter Saturday in the small Pennine town of Bacup. Each year a team of folk-dancers with blackened faces dances through the town from boundary to boundary.

MAY

Stilton Cheese Rolling, Stilton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 10am-3pm

A cheese-rolling championship and May Day celebrations.

Participants compete in rolling large rounded blocks of wood along the high street for a prize of stilton cheese and bottles of port.

JUNE

Nettle Eating Contest, Marshwood, Dorset

Held as part of a charity beer festival at the Bottle Inn in the village of Marshwood near Crewkerne, the event attracts entrants from around the world. Challengers attempt to out eat the current champion nettle-eater.

JULY

World Toe-Wrestling Championships

Held at the Bentley Bridge Inn in Derbyshire every July

AUGUST

St Bartholomew's Bun Race , St Bartholomew's Hospital, London

On St. Bartholomew's Day, 24th August, children run around the church of St. Bart's. After completing the circuit they are given a bun and the adults are given a biscuit especially baked for the occasion.

SEPTEMBER

The Horn Dance, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire

The ancient Horn Dance is an annual event held traditionally on the first Monday after the first Sunday after September 4th.



The famous Horn Dance is performed by six Deer-men who wear reindeer horns. The dancers follow a 10 mile course and perform the ritual in 12 different locations in and around the village, whilst the musician plays tunes such as “The Farmers Boy” and “Uncle Mick” on a melodeon, with accompaniment from a triangle.

OCTOBER

Punky Night, Hinton St George, Somerset

Traditionally on this night, children in the South of England would carve their ‘Punkies’,(pumpkins) into Jack O'Lanterns. Once carved the children would go out in groups and march through the streets, singing traditional ‘punky’ songs, calling in at friendly houses and competing for best lantern with rival groups they meet. The streets would be lit with the light of the Punkies.

Today, in Hinton St George, Somerset, the children still carry candle-lanterns made from hollow out pumpkins through the streets in the evening.

NOVEMBER

Tar-Barrel Racing ,Ottery St Mary, Devon

Ottery St. Mary is internationally renowned for its Tar Barrels, an old custom said to have originated in the 17th century.



The annual event involves people racing through the streets of the town, carrying flaming wooden barrels of burning tar on their backs. It strikes horror into every Elf N' Safety nutjob.

DECEMBER

Haslemere run, Surrey

A three-and-a-half-mile fun run with a pint of winter ale for each runner two miles into the race.

The race begins at 11am at the Crown & Cushion pub on Wey Hill.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/curious/december.html

senorwipesalot

Cockfighting.

Ghandee

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Cockfighting.

We called it sword fighting at our school.

Artur Foden

flight simulation

Jen Pigs Fly

Cow tipping

SerialComplaint

Felching.

starlit

Painting

Laisurg

df1985 wrote: »

Gym is definately the most addictive once you stick to it and it becomes routine.

That really depends on the person, I've been going to the gym for a fairly long time now and have all the workouts/form/diet down and It still just feels like lifting heavy stuff o.O

muracan

Angling...you'll never go short of a feed of healthy fish!

Gummy Panda

Laisurg wrote: »

That really depends on the person, I've been going to the gym for a fairly long time now and have all the workouts/form/diet down and It still just feels like lifting heavy stuff o.O

Do you not feel more alpha, the stronger you get?

df1985

Laisurg wrote: »

That really depends on the person, I've been going to the gym for a fairly long time now and have all the workouts/form/diet down and It still just feels like lifting heavy stuff o.O

surely you feel much better though and wouldnt want to stop? as great as the physical benefits are I find the mental benefits just as important from regular exercise. clears my head anyway!

senorwipesalot

Stalking then perhaps.