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Ok cool, so if I have no personality I can just pick a couple from the list: one to get me active and another to keep me creative.
I honestly have no idea where to start. I don’t know what I like. I’m tired and I just want to sleep.
sleeping is not an attractive hobby to most women
Might I suggest reading (specifically hard-copy books)? Doesn’t require much energy, and if you do it in bed with a dim light chances are you will get your sleep too (+ higher potential for vivid dreams, but that may just be me, YMMV).
It’s also, like, super attractive, apparently.
Thank you for the suggestion. I have been reading more recently, just recently finished Neuromancer by William Gibson.
When you say hard copy books, do you mean hard-backs? Are paperback books acceptable?
Paperback books are totally acceptable, really just meant physical copies over EPUBs or PDFs on your phone or something.
Nothing necessarily wrong with those, but if you’re gonna read in bed I prefer paper - no blue light, notifications, and other stuff that detracts from sleep quality.
Ah I see, yeah it’s way too easy for me to ignore digital books on my phone in favour of YouTube videos and social media and is one reason I haven’t bought a kindle yet.
Also there’s a friction to a paper book that you just don’t get from a screen. It’s hard to describe precisely over text because I’m not a UX designer.
But the feel of paper on your fingertips as you turn the page, doing a small fold-down of a corner as a bookmark (sorry to those people who hate that, I only do it to my own books absolutely not to borrowed ones), seeing the progress you make, getting the lighting angle just right with a comfortable reading position, the weight of it in your hands and closing it when you’re done reading for now feels definitive.
OH and the intoxicating smell of a second hand bookshop that you KNOW you shouldn’t walk in because you’ve already got so many books waiting to be read but you’re always going to walk in because you can’t help but “have a browse”, then you blink and when your eyes open you find yourself at the till with two more books are in your left hand and your plastic hovering over the card reader beeping back at you.
Lol wait, arguing online is considered a hobby?
Why are you constantly doing it if it’s not fun for you?
Because life is tough, responsibilities are stressful and work is full of bullshit. Getting easy dunks on morons online is free dopamine. I wouldn’t call it a hobby though, more like a coping mechanism.
right, anymore you’d call alcohol or drug use a ‘hobby’.
Apparently so is porn and traveling, so I guess it’s a pretty inclusive list.
her: “hey babe what’re doing”
me: “just working on hobbies and myself watching porn and smoking marijuana”
her: 30% turned on
Me:
4 from the top 0-2 from the bottom
I have a large garden, love to cook, have a backyard forge, and have traveled to around 50 countries.
I don’t know if I’m in to comics and making cocktails enough to call them hobbies but they’re things I enjoy.
100, 25, 75, 50, 6 and 8.
Your target is… 592.…what? We arent playing countdown?
Is it Sean Bean in the Dictionary Corner?
“Surely you’ve had worse things spat at you, Susie.”
That sean bean impression was amazing every time haha
I’m genuinely sickened that 3%+ of respondents consider manosphere attractive
They probably thought it was referring to spherical man butts
Who doesn’t love a good butt
I for one despise butts. Especially spherical ones 🤫
And here I thought we were friends, and now you’re telling me you hate an aspect of me 😢😂
Ehhh, take this upvote
I never heard of manosphere before this post
My takeaway is that gaming is a neutral.
The secret is couch co-op
My wife used to think that a man who knew how to work on cars was sexy until I built a racecar in the garage, and she saw the parts invoices.
She also used to think a man who cooks is sexy until she learned that I am a GOOD cook and consequently that means I don’t want help, I want you the fuck out of my kitchen, don’t sample the ingredients they are weighed and portioned for a damn reason and if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak again it will be the last time I ever cook for you.
Yeah! You’re supposed to use mustard.
I’m the primary cook in my family, and my wife loves it. But she also is a fantastic sous chef. She helps me out with everything.
It’s awesome having an extra set of hands in the kitchen and is also great bonding time.
My wife has 3 university degrees, she is significantly smarter than I am. She also reached under the blade when I was cutting to get a piece of carrot to snack on…
I can’t do a good job and teach and watch for harebrained dumbassery at the same time.
if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak
Monster!
Grabs Heinz 57
You can come over on burger night… with the mustard guy.
Hey I’m the good cook husband with a car problem too.
My wife never wanted to help cook though, she loves that I take it on by myself most times.
And I get the kitchen mostly to myself (though I’m sharing it with my son more now, which is slower, but pretty fun).
I taught my 4yo daughter to answer “Yes Chef!” When helping me in the kitchen. Its pretty adorable.
My 6 yo did “yes boss” for a while. But that’s less common lately. He still does it when we’re working in the garage sometimes though and it’s the best.
You might be right, but I don’t envy your wife.
What are these hobbies???
Yeah my hobby is Arguing Online
Spoken like a madman
Drinking
???
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Fuck you, those can be hobbies! *drains shot*
Hey, pass me the hobby!
But you can combine those two hobbies, it unlocks some form of super power!
One of my hobbies is “drinking”. I love craft cocktails and craft beer. I collect craft liquors and share them with my friends. I even make my own cider and beer sometimes. Maybe home brewing doesn’t fall into the “drinking” hobby as much.
Come visit us at !cocktails@lemmy.world
I do consider it a hobby, and would put it as a subset of cooking. I like cooking and entertaining, hospitality, making good drinks is part of that, and historically that means alcoholic drinks.
ITT: people missed to poke fun at “blacksmithing”
Who on earth is blacksmithing as a hobby? Is that even possible except if your occupation is actually being blacksmith? Like, would you set up blacksmithing equipment in your garage?
My brother-in-law does smith knives for fun at home
Hobbyist blacksmith here.
I read a book on blacksmithing, built a small forge in the backyard, and put my tools in the garage. It’s fun, fascinating, and surprisingly approachable.
Knifemakers typically.
you should watch forged in fire. the best competition show ever
Yeah you can easily set up a home forge.
looks at the apartment
I think my neighbours would prefer I didn’t
“Metal Fabrication”
I have friends that 3d print and woodwork, plus one who was setting up a forge to smith when life threw some bad stuff at him (fire, car accidents, etc). It doesn’t seem strange to me. Lots of people like hobbies and smiting/knifemaking seems relatively popular, if a bit expensive.
On the other hand that woodworking friend had a whole lathe so a small forge doesn’t strike me as odd. A bit of googling suggests you can get some backyard forges between $70-300, and can just DIY and make your own. By contrast my camera (OM-D Em1 Mk III) cost me somewhere between $1.5-2k, with just one of my lenses also costing $1.5k.
My GPU also cost that.
To start blacksmithing you need a space to pile up some charcoal, hairdryer and a tube, a hammer and tongs + something that can be used as an anvil(i have used a piece of old railway on a log
Yes. One of my coworkers has done exactly that.
That’s good to know. But I can imagine the electricity bill.
Blacksmithing is mainly done with coal, not electricity. So just imagine all the dust in addition to cost for that instead =)
I don’t want to.
Propane forges are pretty cheap. The real money is in the anvils…
Interesting, I didn’t know these existed. Thanks!
Yeah! For sure. You can pick up a little 3 venturi one for knife making for under $200. I’m no expert by any means, but I have my fun.
So I gather this not about the hobbies themselves being attractive but about what’s attractive for a partner to have as a hobby, or even specifically a male partner? What was the question exactly?
I feel like the hell been ‘reading’ and ‘comic books’ is a bit unfair.
I mean there plenty of written stuff that’s demonstrably worse than anything in comics.
And comics that are absolutely amazing, like Sandman and Persepolis
Sandman isn’t flawless but it’s the best stuff not by Moore. Fables (the first story that ends around 12-16 at least) was a fun read after finishing Sandman.
I think they should’ve polled superhero comics separately from comics in general.
My favorite lately is Bea Wolf, a retelling of Beowolf. Oh! And Pebble and Wren.
Did that say blacksmithing?
I’ve never met a woman who’s remotely into woodworking…
The implication is their level of attraction to their partner
Ah thanks. Too much half asleep to interpret it
I read all the time, everyday. In fact, I’m reading right now. 😎
I guess my astrophotography hobby has cancelled out my drinking and porn hobbies lol
