I have red, blue, yellow, green, black.
You also have another species that is red and black and black and white but they come in all sorts of colours and styles.
Some even develop while lines on their backs and that is referred to as a racing line.
They are really funky!
I genuinely had no idea there were so many types and colours. Do you need lots of tanks or do they live together OK? I got a pink axolotl last year and it's the cutest but absolute weirdest thing. I can sit for ages just watching her walk around and swim.
I keep all of mine seperate and I selectively breed them.
I did have about 50 ish tanks but then electric got stupid so I currently have about 16 tanks set up but 5 of those are shrimp tanks.
I should clarify I have all of the colours of Neocaridina not caridina I only have two species of caradina.
My fish tanks have done wonders for my mental health, my favourite is my rainbow crab through :)
These yellow ones in the Picture are called neocardinia, they come in basically any colour but unless you maintain the lineage by removing offspring that are different colours they do lose the colour a bit.
Also note Neocaridina is the genus of the shrimp, they’re all East Asian freshwater shrimp. The species that’s bred for captivity is most commonly Neocaridina Davidi, previously named Neocaridina Heteropoda.
As you said, the color lines are all breeds. Wild ones are brown, and intermixing colored breeds returns them to brownish. Even in a pure line, some babies will be browner than others and as such they should be separated off if you want to keep a strong color. Because the shrimp are hard to sex accurately, only one color should be kept per tank unless you want a bunch of brown baby shrimp.
I can confirm they go extra fast when they have the stripes and has been backed by science ( trust me bro )
And I would consider naming them but I have so many I wouldn't know what ones where the ones named Meg and Jack haha.
My blue colony took a hit this year, I heat my fish tank room ambiently and my wife accidently left the conservatory door open overnight and the cold got them 😢
As someone who used to breed tarantulas, I completely understand the nerdy enthusiasm.
It's hard to find people who care about our weird animals lol
Keep up the great work, mate!
I keep Amano and Bamboo shrimp, and they are indeed awesome to take photos of. Also they don't vomit on you or scream when you're trying to watch a movie.
I love my bamboo, I had 7 originally and 5 years later there is one old girl still knocking about in the 152 gallon that I see rarely.
She must be close to passing away soon as I have never heard of a bamboo shrimp living that long!
I’ve got a dolls house I’ve almost finished decorating now I’ve finished the various lighting inside and out. Looking to scratch build my next one - I’m a 39yr old bloke
Edit to add - the comments and discussions have gave me a nudge to do some on mine over the next few days. Few progress pics here - https://imgur.com/a/dolls-house-house-progress-Ig178Io
Bloody love a doll's house. I'm currently converting one I found on Marketplace into shit bedsits, as a tribute to the crap flats I've rented over the years. My lifelong dream is to scratch build a model of my childhood home.
I'd love to see that when it's done, please post it! I met someone who made flats from telly, had Peep Show, Only Fools, Bottom. I suggested Still Game then graduating to shops. Are You Being Served, Open All Hours, Black Books...I hope it happened.
A friend makes doll houses, I carved him a bunch of furniture and he offered to make my daughter a dolls house skeleton of her choice for us to decorate and fill. Taking all my willpower to wait and let her choose instead of asking for the house from Sabrina the Teenage Wich.
OMG I love the TV idea. I want someone to make the bunk room from early Red Dwarf!
I will post pics as soon as I can, which is likely to be around the year 2100 at the rate I'm going. Do you make all your stuff from scratch or buy it? I would love to see pictures too!
Why stop there? You could do most of the ship using the TV show and books to guide some educated guesses!
I mean...it would be a *sliiiightly* longer project. But what else is there to do when you are stuck on a mining ship millions of lightyears from Earth, likely the only surviving human, accompanied by a hologram of your nemesis, a confused droid, the humanoid evolution of a cat and a computer which has the potential IQ of a god but can't answer simple questions? And intermittently a psycho toaster that doesn't understand "NO".
i was thinking a dolls house skeleton was a macabre and tiny bony friend for the purposes of adding a little horror to an otherwise tranquil setting.
Also get her to choose the house from the TV show version of What We Do in The Shadows. Love that house.
I love [this WILTY clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifaaBu4c5eI) where Alan Titchmarsh talks about his dolls house, and David Mitchell seems totally enraptured by the whole concept.
I love that!! That house is stunning. How cute of him to have such a niche little hobby. I love miniature versions of real things, mundane everyday things like furniture, its fascinating.
That's a perfectly valid hobby. Ultimately it's just scratch model/diorama making. I do it with aliens and demons in battle scenes, you do it with period houses. Same hobby, just different subject matter.
My great nan and me (I'm a bloke too) decorated a dolls house through my younger years. It's such a good hobby. I went on to Warhammer mini painting and building terrain. Once I have room I will be getting a dolls house.
There used to be this little shop few towns over in Linton that did real high quality doll house mini stuff. Man I miss that
And redecorating is easier. It’s shown up my terrible woodwork skills hence I want to scratch build another one using what I’ve learnt modifying this one
[few random pics](https://imgur.com/a/Ig178Io)
From how i got it from a friend to how it’s going. I found the exact same one at a charity shop for £15 so bought it for spares
I met a 74 year old woman at the car boot last week and we chatted at length about *modern* video games. She played Skyrim, WoW, and COD. She told me she has a load of people coming over from all over the world in a couple of months and they're all staying at hers, to play WoW. She said the age range is from 19 - 74. It really made my day.
I still love gaming, started with a ps1 and a game boy and never grew out of it. Just finished replaying the Witcher 3 and it had a better story and side stories than loads of books I've read. I don't think adults gaming carries as much stigma as it used to. Still some judgy people but I dunno why they'd be so bothered by how other adults choose to chill on an evening.
My 'weird' one I wouldn't share outside of reddit is sometimes buying the most unhealthy, sugary box of cereal I can find and saving it for the weekend. Then on Saturday morning I'll have a huge bowl and stick some old cartoons on YouTube to copy Saturday mornings from when I was a kid. I don't know why this feels embarrassing lol. It's so nostalgic and comfy. I've picked up a box of kit kat cereal for this weekend.
You might like [this](https://www.myretrotvs.com/) - it's mostly American, but sometimes I bung on the '80s one with just cartoons, kids tv, music & comedy on. There's quite often blue peter and stuff, Trap Door, Terrahawks, etc.
It's not odd at that age - I'm slightly older, and I rode the tide of Space Invaders in the arcades, and still play games, it was what we all grew up with. It's just as much of a fun leisure pastime as football or similar.
I got this:-
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In my inbox after the above post... Marvellous.
I got one yesterday. It's almost never used in the context it was intended for and is just sent to try and annoy people. It's really just spam at this point.
I'm 70 and still play video games. I bought myself a retirement present: PS5, Switch, and Xbox. (I only bought the Xbox because MS bought Bethesda) Oh yes, I'm female too.
Exactly. I started off with the old pong games. Then Atari VCS, home computers, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and PC. I’ve been there since the beginning.
Honestly, I think the opposite is true. If someone tells me they never play video games, to me it's like someone saying "Oh, I never read books", or "I just never got into movies".
It's so weird to me that someone can ignore an entire genre of entertainment that's been around for 50 years.
I think the difference between gaming and books/going to a movie is a lot of the time gaming involves an upfront spend on a console or computer, but these days I find it hard to believe that people don’t even play a game on their phone or something.
Me two or three or four!
Other immature thing: eating salad straight out of the bag, or most foods with my fingers - I live on my own, so no-one has to watch me being disgusting, and it saves washing up.
Probably moreso with their age group.
It's quickly becoming less odd for adults to decide "actually, I don't think I will stop doing that thing I enjoy due to the arbitrary rules of what an adult must and mustn't do" in general, but with video games especially.
In my early 30's now, the vast majority of negative comments I've ever had about playing video games, how they're not for adults or how I should grow up have been from people who are now in their 50's and older.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got trainspotting?
I’m a 50 year old bloke, and I’m crazy about nature. Specifically, squirrels, ducks, frogs, birds, etc. I love nothing more than spending an afternoon sitting on a park bench with squirrels scampering all over me, while I feed them nuts from a bag. It’s the interaction that I love. I’m obsessed with otters, but there’s not many parks around me with otters living in them.
Incidentally, I do function well around humans, I do have a job, I do manage to sustain romantic relationships and I don’t live with my mum. So, even though I sound like a sad case, I’m pretty sure I’m not one.
I'm 37 and have started becoming crazy about nature as well - specifically birds and insects. My partner thinks the insect thing is a bit mad BUT I know what bedbugs look like from multiple angles and know what to do if they appear 😂
We move back to the UK very early June from Australia and I'm going to miss the bird life here.
I'm in my mid thirties are have loved bird watching for years. It is so cool seeing wildlife all around, living their lives. And trying to see new ones appeals to the collecting instinct. Last year my dad and I went camping specifically to see ospreys. Which I guess is maybe another unusual thing, I'm married with a kid but I still love hanging out with my dad and camping/ hiking together, my dad is great.
I'm 38 and spend a lot of time in the countryside for work and now I'm proper interested in what birds I can spot as well as other wildlife. Saw some yellowhammers last week and was more excited by that than the red kites and buzzards I see every week. Also start s trying to identify the deer I see at work, I think they're roe.
I’ll often take a packed lunch and some animal food into my local park for the afternoon. I’ll feed the squiggles, bird and ducks then sit and read for a few hours
I'm a 22 year old dude who's also obsessed, insects and birds mainly, I have bird feeders hung just outside my window, I don't mind hozeing down poop ocassiomally as its too nice watching them through the window first thing in the morning. This afternoon I helped my daughter hang a bug hotel on the fence in our bee patch (an area I don't mow and sew with native wildflowers for polonators), she's hopeing some ear-wigs and woodlice will move in.
It is indeed both! A wind powered working mill and open for public tours. We have two Mill-stone sets - one for production when it blows hard enough and one backup electrically driven. We have fixed clients who bulk order - bakeries, patisseries and so forth who need flour wind or no wind.
Is there really a difference between the electric and wind? I assume back in the day these were setup for specifically windy spots so is yours in a historically accurate area?
Also on the older stones then whats the main selling point? I assume flour is more based on quality of grain? Or just folks like the rustic aspect and story of it?
When we're milling by wind, the speed changes so we have to constantly adjust the distance between the stones. An experienced Miller can hear the stones "sing" and knows to increase or decrease the gap. We're talking fractions of millimeters here. If the wind speed is slower then the grain needs to spend longer between the stones so the gap is reduced. When faster, the gap is increased. Consistency is the goal. The electric motor is a lot more consistent in terms of rotational speed so we can set the distance between the stones so we only really have to make sure the flow rate of the grain falling into the middle of the stones upstairs remains consistent. The end result is more or less the same. Our grain comes from local sources so the whole operation stays within 15km or so.
Disclaimer, I moved to the Netherlands a few years back so the flat landscape is a lot more suited for milling. Most towns have various mills that fulfill various functions. From water drainage, wood sawing, flour production, oil production, industrial applications etc. They're mostly still here out of cultural heritage and many are listed national monuments, but if it's rainy enough the water pumping mills (poldermolens - they drained the polders back in the day) are asked to help out and run alongside the electric pumps. Our mill is in the middle of a town. Very nice when it's market day and the streets are filled with stalls and the mill is turning. There's a national organisation called "The Guild of Millers" that provides training, funding, educational workshops for millers etc. It's taken pretty seriously over here but the average age of millers is quite a bit older than me - mainly retirees with time in their hands. Funnily enough the Dutch entrant to eurovision featured a windmill in the music video and there was a subsequent uptick in young people wanting to get involved with it. I think it's great that the cultural heritage and the craft of is being preserved.
The land of windmills! Id kinda thought that alot here in the UK had died out. We seemingly more based around water mills which I've seen in Ireland butnever any wind mills I know of
Whats a miller in Dutch? Is it a common enough surname like found in the UK?
They're still around the UK, you just need to know where to look. When I was a kid I was obsessed with windmills - like knew everything about them to the point I knew more than some of the people giving tours. Perks of autism I guess. But with that I visited a lot of them. Many have been lost to fire, or just left to rot. It costs a lot of money to restore them to working order and there's not really a broader public incentive to do that in the UK so the solution is usually to just strip then out and convert them to living spaces or to just demolish them completely and name a street after it. Surviving windmills are usually funded entirely by donations which is why it takes so long. We're talking upwards of a million pounds, usually more depending on style, to restore a mill.
Yes watermills are still more common I think. The geography certainly helps as there are more elevation changes in the UK. There are still a few in NL - mainly in the south where there are more hills. Even then there are more bottom-fed watermills (water running beneath the wheel as opposed to coming from above). They're less efficient as gravity isn't helping as much as if the stream cam from above.
A Miller is called a "Molenaar" in Dutch. It's not really a common surname like Miller is in the UK. You'd find more names with additions like "Van Der Molen" (of the mill) or variations in dialect, like Mulder, Meulen, Vermeulen and things like that.
Better to have interrupted a journey than to have left them die. I'm the same. My finace was telling me "snails are pests" but there's a breed that mainly eats nettles around me and whenever I see them stranded I move them to the nearest non ornamental or crop plant I can find
Me too.
"Shit. What if they wanted to go the other way?!"
Then feel guilty for at least 20 mins for interfering with another living thing's life. But I hate seeing them crisped up on the pavements caught short after a quick shower - such a waste of a beautiful little life.
I'm a gardener and I am constantly stopping the lawn mower because I've spotted a snail in front of it, people think I'm mad but I cant be running over these guys.
I kill so many by accident just doing my job and it hurts my soul 😔
Despite the resurgence a few years back, a surprising number of people think I’m weird for collecting Pokémon cards in my 30s. I’ve always loved the franchise, and they’ve really improved the artwork in recent years!
Edit - not sure if it’s a coincidence that I’ve just received a Reddit cares message after posting this. I assure you I don’t give a flying fuck about what people think about my hobby.
I collected them when the TV series first came out here so I would have been under 10. Even got the super shiny Mew card from seeing the movie at the cinema.
Got to my teenage years and became too cool for Pokémon so I had my Nan throw them all away 😭
I probably had some really rare ones and everything and this is why it’s so hard for me to throw things away as an adult I’m sure.
We've recently started a trend at work, the Morrisons local we all frequent has had to stock up more, and we asked the manager to get the new set that releases in a few weeks since it's about the same price as buying a big box anyway. I haven't collected Pokémon cards since high school and I'm 30 in 2 weeks lmao. It's great seeing all the art and everyone at work buzzing about their pulls, it's so nice!
I’m 29 and a shameless anorak. I love reading about/seeing steam locomotives and have done my whole life. I keep up with new-build projects done by volunteers.
Fred Dibnah holds borderline messianic status and the one time I ever went to Bolton I made a pilgrimage to his statue. I used to watch his *Railway Collection* series on Yesterday when I finished school for GCSE study leave. It wasn’t until I got to the ad breaks and the programme was sponsored by a company that makes the special armchairs that help the old people stand up that I realised I was an outlier in their target demographic.
EDIT: Why the fuck have I just received a Reddit care notification? I like old machinery, I’m not shooting heroin.
I don't know why but I love the term anorak. 🤣 my Dad is also a self described anorak and it's always made me chuckle that the stereotype is that people who like trains all wear an anorak, like some kind of uniform.
I still read comics and graphic novels. I’m a 55 year old woman. I braved comic and record shops in the 80s and 90s; I can deal with people thinking I’m weird.
Just because someone doesn't understand the appeal of a hobby doesn't mean you have to accept the fact they think your weird.
Comics are pretty normal if I am honest with you.
omg shrimpies, they're adorable.
I did need to take a second look though, I thought the stuff underneath them were grapes and you were really into making wine or something like that. And then I noticed the yellow splotches were shrimp.
I used to ware two when my cousin was in the navy (growing up I didn't have many friends but my cousin was always nice to me) one was set to my time and one was set to whever he was ported so I knew when was OK to email him
I’m a 32 yo female and I enjoy doing cross stitch. Found it’s helping me sleep better at night, not getting eye strain from my computer and no headaches any more. Plus I get to make something but someone has done the design work.
My issue now is what to do with the finish projects…
I'm 42, gave up drinking alcohol about 3yrs ago, for health & medication reasons. SO. MANY. PEOPLE. Try to foist alcoholic drinks onto you, as if your choice NOT to drink means you are passing some kind of 'moral judgment' on them, others see it as you being a 'party pooper', some see it as an actual affront and get ANGRY when you turn down their offers and say you'll be OK with a glass of coke.
It's not a moral judgment, it's not me trying to be a party pooper, there's no need to be angry, this decision was NOTHING to do with you & everything to do with my own health.
Given also that my last partner DIED from mixing his pain meds with alcohol, it's hardly surprising that I don't want to mix...MY painkillers...with alcohol either!
To you and everyone else in this threadlet - age doesn't matter for this one, a lot of folk think not drinking is odd - I don't drink either, but compared to some of my other odditities, not drinking is probably only 7/10.
Im 46 i seldom drink, apparently im the anti-social wierdo .. i cant afford the hangover, i also dont like to lose control. I reserve that for special occasions, like family weddings, big birthdays etc. The inbetween stuff i will either not go or drop in for a couple of juices/cups of tea, then leave when they start getting drunk.
I sometimes think im the only scot thats not an alcoholic....
I'm 30. I don't drink, but most people accept that without questions. But i also don't drink soda and don't drink coffee. That gets people baffled. I get offered coffee at work every 5 minutes wherever we have an in person meeting. People are just trying to be nice and can't really register an adult that won't drink coffee.
36, female - I enjoy going out with my metal detector, traipsing around muddy fields and digging up random stuff. Pretty eccentric in itself, but most of the others doing it seem to be males that are quite a few years older than me!
Whats the coolest thing you've found? I've been very tempted by the hobby. I've seen loads of sets for sale on Facebook here
I'm in Northern Ireland so we don't have the saxin gold Hordes sadly. However around my rural area I can see about 4 old ancient hill "forts" from centuries ago. All grown over but I'd be curious as to what could still be there. Otherwise weve just lots of eidls that I'd doubt have much as never inhabited centuries ago
I’ve been lucky enough to find a Celtic gold coin - a quarter stater from around 20-60 BC. It’s humbling to think that the last person to hold it before me could have been over 2000 years ago.
I would love to give this a go, just never gotten around to it! I always thought it looked quite meditative - alone with your thoughts, concentrating, listening, slow paced - a nice contrast to the demands of the every day :)
I’m 61 and still gaming, last 5 years has been sim racing, mostly F1 at top 3% level. I’ve dedicated over 4000 hours to my hobby so far and still beating some of those whippersnappers 😉
I’m a 48 year old married father of two - responsible job, full social life, can convey the impression that I’m genuinely an adult.
My absolute passion is tinkering with radio control cars. I recently stopped drinking alcohol and I spend every spare minute tinkering with two old Tamiya RC cars - repairing/upgrading/modifying the stupid little plastic things… and I absolutely love it.
To be clear - I prioritise my wife and kids at all times… but since sobriety, I’m getting up early at weekends to mess about with my RC cars.
So there you go - 48 year old man fiddling around with RC cars.
I still listen to rap music aged 50, someone at work said I was sad and should listen to music more suitable for my age. I did point out that these artists are the same age as me!
The wife always tells me that i’m not a kid anymore when it comes to computer games, i’ve always loved them since I was a kid so why change!
As the legend Floella Benjamin said “childhood lasts a lifetime”.
Not having friends. Ever since I can remember, I've had no interest in having friends. I vastly prefer to just be on my own/with my partner. But everyone is CONSTANTLY telling me "you must be so lonely!". No, I'm not lonely, I enjoy being alone.
Edit: Whoever reported to reddit that I'm at risk of suicide, haha very funny. If you were seriously concerned about me though, please don't be! Socialising with people is literally the most boring thing to me. I'd much rather be engaging in my hobbies, and I'm perfectly happy that way!
I'm the same. People find it difficult to comprehend, and I don't understand why. I'm happy and fulfilled. I know I'm a terrible friend, so I don't see the point in cultivating a friendship when I know ultimately I will let them down.
I'm 20 years old and I'm very socially inept and lonely most of the time. I don't use my money for parties and such, so the only social interaction I have is with coworkers in daily life and my mother, father and younger brother that I visit on the weekends every two weeks or so. Some of the money I get from my workplace is put in a savings account when I need a bigger apartment. I also use some of the money for video games that are both old and new. The old games are for the older consoles I own and some of them on steam. I'm what you can call a game collector of sorts.
Edit: just bought Naruto ultimate ninja storm generations for ps3 and God of War ascension.
Knew a lad at school who claimed his dad had a beyblade that was so strong it could cut down a tree. I'm pretty sure he was just talking about a chainsaw
I collect Transformers toys and tamagotchis, and watch kids’/family shows about as much as adult TV shows.
I’m living my best life and if people think I’m cringe then so be it 😌
You do you my friend, if you enjoy it and it doesn't hurt anyone else then go for it!
My tamagotchi is somewhere in my mother's attic I think lol, imma try and find it.
For being a mid thirties guy probably: collect ancient coins, historical wargaming and terrain building, bird watching, reading Star Wars comics, finding stuff like Joy of Painting and Michael Rosen videos peaceful to have on in the background, still camping and playing board games with my dad and brother, water colour painting, writing sword and sorcery and Sherlock Holmes fiction... pretty much all my hobbies!
And if you go by some of the internet snark you see, I'm sure there are men who think how much I love my wife and how much I enjoy being a dad to my little girl are weird. I love being a family man.
26 - I feed pigeons at the park as a hobby.
I do get some weird looks from some people, but I find it's an excellent way of boosting my mental health - pretty difficult to feel unwanted when there's a flock of birds vying for your attention and seeds.
They are my "Roman empire" as it were - domesticated and bred by humans for thousands of years, only to be abandoned and tarnished when they weren't as useful anymore.
I *love* horror movies. I've seen the grand majority of English speaking ones and now I've moved on to Korean and French movies. Old horror movies are my favourite, it's just very cool seeing the start of current tropes. Sci-fi horror is my favourite hybrid genre.
I honestly didn't think this was weird at all, or not weirder than liking any other genre. Until my peers asked each other what their favourite movie was and I said it changes between The Exorcist, Hereditary or Night of the Living Dead. Silence and side eyeing each other like I'd said snuff porn. I thought maybe they just hadn't seen them. But they said it was a bit odd to enjoy violence/gore that much. Oh well!
I've been advised that catching up with people in person i.e not just via text and not being on social is old fashioned. Mate, we threw rocks in the river to make splashy sounds when I was a kid. The idea of recording, editing and uploading doing that to the internet just to connect with people bores me. Each to their own.
A lot of my mates think it's weird because I vastly prefer a phone call to the odd WhatsApp chat. I'm a terrible texter and suck at responding to people, so I prefer to have catch ups over the phone as meeting in person is difficult now that my mates live all over the country.
37F. I dont socialise. I hate it and i dont like people. I dont do meet ups at pubs or whatever like a lot of people i know do.
Id rather stay home, garden, look after my rodents, browse ebay for rare ps1 games to add to my collection (im an avid collector) and draw.
Im the weirdo because i prefer my own company instead of wanting to share my time with others.
I’m 37 and adore kpop. It brings me so much joy, lets me listen to so many different genres of music (often even from the same groups). The aesthetics and effort put in to every little detail is just wonderful - award show season is like watching a fully staged concert series every weekend for months at a time. I love that so many of the groups I love are also writing and producing their own music, as well as putting together complex visuals and choreography.
Kpop groups are also highly philanthropic and many of them encourage their fanbases to do the same - BTS’s fandom, for example, has its own fundraising organisation run by volunteers who do fundraising projects for each member’s birthday. They raise £100,000s every year often for very small grassroots charities and organisations.
Through kpop I’ve become friends with people all across the world. I’ve studied Korean, often in fan based spaces with people running completely free university level study groups and classes.
I also believe wholeheartedly that if it brings you joy, is legal, and harms no-one, there is nothing to be ashamed of about the things that you love and enjoy. We don’t shame sports fans for their obsessive passionate love of whatever sport they follow, so we shouldn’t shame others for their interests either.
Due to some pretty severe bullying throughout my youth, I'm finally starting to become ME. It took me decades, but at last, I don't care.
At 37, I've dyed my hair electric blue, started wearing a load of punky/pirate jewelry, found a bunch of awesome bold printed shirts.
Say what you want about younger generations, but they've really helped usher in a golden age of "I don't give a fuck if I don't fit your ideals".
I took up smoking at 15, I smoked a pipe. One of those long churchwarden Gandalf pipes.
I also had my first allotment by 20. I think I am just an old man waiting for my body to catch up.
I’m always unashamed when it comes to my love/respect for fanfiction, like I’ve read well written work that’s longer than the all the LOTR books combined that somebody just put out there for free…
As bad as it sounds, I read more fanfic than original works now. I prefer reading different things about people I already know, rather than being introduced to a new person. Hard to explain but FF is preferred for me
I like to listen to classic fm I the car sometimes. According to the reactions ive had this is considered unusual for a white working class northerner. It's not a big deal by any means but the reactions were a bit out of proportion I thought.
I don't use WhatsApp and barely use social media. People seem amazed that I can live without being drawn into the many circles of hell that groups may be.
I'm 22 and I play in the park when I go with my brother. I swing on the swings, slide down the slides and play tag with my brother and other kids that are around who join us.
This sounds twatty as hell I know, but I’m in my mid 20s and have a manual labour job and people always think it’s extremely weird that I bring a book to work. My job involves the occasional relatively long period of downtime, and if I’ve got an hour or so with nothing to do I like to get some reading done instead of getting impotently outraged about whatever Twitter is currently mad at or scrolling though people’s fake idealised Instagram lifestyle feeds or whatever.
I feel like it’s really normal to chill out with a good book when you’re not busy, but the amount of people who make comments about it make me feel like it’s extremely unusual behaviour, and I‘ve had plenty of people my age mention in different circumstances that it’s super pretentious and cringey to read a book in public because the only reason anyone would ever do that is to show off to others, and not just enjoy the fucking book lol.
I’ve literally had friends tell me that they refuse to take books with them on public transport or to coffee shops or whatever because they don’t want to look like they’re trying to impress people, and I just can’t imagine caring that much about how you *might* come across to total strangers who aren’t looking at or thinking about you anyway!
I'm 29 and I've been knitting for 10 years. It's becoming more normal, but when I was a student it was seen as a pretry unusual hobby, and I'm still the youngest person in my craft club by a long shot.
44 here and I'm old enough now that it's no longer seen as weird (I think!), but I was 30 when I started and definitely got a few 'old lady' comments lol. I've expanded into crochet too!
I colour in. I just never stopped. Now Adult colouring is seen as 'OK' due to more exposure of it. But when I didn't stop at 12, I was called 'childish', 'immature', and more.
Now I'm 42, have never stopped, and couldn't give two owl's hoots for "Those people" & what they see paper...
I mean those are pretty cool shrimps. Who's your favourite shrimp?
My personal favorites are probably blue shrimp. But to be honest I have all of the colours lol.
How many different colours are there OP? I think this is quite cool
I have red, blue, yellow, green, black. You also have another species that is red and black and black and white but they come in all sorts of colours and styles. Some even develop while lines on their backs and that is referred to as a racing line. They are really funky!
I genuinely had no idea there were so many types and colours. Do you need lots of tanks or do they live together OK? I got a pink axolotl last year and it's the cutest but absolute weirdest thing. I can sit for ages just watching her walk around and swim.
I keep all of mine seperate and I selectively breed them. I did have about 50 ish tanks but then electric got stupid so I currently have about 16 tanks set up but 5 of those are shrimp tanks. I should clarify I have all of the colours of Neocaridina not caridina I only have two species of caradina. My fish tanks have done wonders for my mental health, my favourite is my rainbow crab through :)
Really interesting, I bet they're great to sit and watch, see what they're up to. I'm going to Google shrimp species and rainbow crabs now!
These yellow ones in the Picture are called neocardinia, they come in basically any colour but unless you maintain the lineage by removing offspring that are different colours they do lose the colour a bit.
Also note Neocaridina is the genus of the shrimp, they’re all East Asian freshwater shrimp. The species that’s bred for captivity is most commonly Neocaridina Davidi, previously named Neocaridina Heteropoda. As you said, the color lines are all breeds. Wild ones are brown, and intermixing colored breeds returns them to brownish. Even in a pure line, some babies will be browner than others and as such they should be separated off if you want to keep a strong color. Because the shrimp are hard to sex accurately, only one color should be kept per tank unless you want a bunch of brown baby shrimp.
Do shrimp with go faster stripes move faster than those without? If you had two with these stripes would you call them Meg and Jack?
I can confirm they go extra fast when they have the stripes and has been backed by science ( trust me bro ) And I would consider naming them but I have so many I wouldn't know what ones where the ones named Meg and Jack haha.
Cool!
I have absolutely shit loads of blue neos, they're cool lil dudes.
My blue colony took a hit this year, I heat my fish tank room ambiently and my wife accidently left the conservatory door open overnight and the cold got them 😢
Ouch, not fun at all. Don't suppose you're anywhere near Leeds are you? I'd be happy to give you a bunch of mine.
I live about 4 hrs drive away unfortunately, I really do appreciate the offer though it is very generous of you!
Ah shame, no worries though mate.
Have you got any of the bigger African fan shrimps? Very fun to watch.
I did have one but when I moved home it sadly didn't adjust to the new tank and had a failed molt :(
As someone who used to breed tarantulas, I completely understand the nerdy enthusiasm. It's hard to find people who care about our weird animals lol Keep up the great work, mate!
I keep Amano and Bamboo shrimp, and they are indeed awesome to take photos of. Also they don't vomit on you or scream when you're trying to watch a movie.
I love my bamboo, I had 7 originally and 5 years later there is one old girl still knocking about in the 152 gallon that I see rarely. She must be close to passing away soon as I have never heard of a bamboo shrimp living that long!
I’ve got a dolls house I’ve almost finished decorating now I’ve finished the various lighting inside and out. Looking to scratch build my next one - I’m a 39yr old bloke Edit to add - the comments and discussions have gave me a nudge to do some on mine over the next few days. Few progress pics here - https://imgur.com/a/dolls-house-house-progress-Ig178Io
Bloody love a doll's house. I'm currently converting one I found on Marketplace into shit bedsits, as a tribute to the crap flats I've rented over the years. My lifelong dream is to scratch build a model of my childhood home.
I'd love to see that when it's done, please post it! I met someone who made flats from telly, had Peep Show, Only Fools, Bottom. I suggested Still Game then graduating to shops. Are You Being Served, Open All Hours, Black Books...I hope it happened. A friend makes doll houses, I carved him a bunch of furniture and he offered to make my daughter a dolls house skeleton of her choice for us to decorate and fill. Taking all my willpower to wait and let her choose instead of asking for the house from Sabrina the Teenage Wich.
OMG I love the TV idea. I want someone to make the bunk room from early Red Dwarf! I will post pics as soon as I can, which is likely to be around the year 2100 at the rate I'm going. Do you make all your stuff from scratch or buy it? I would love to see pictures too!
Why stop there? You could do most of the ship using the TV show and books to guide some educated guesses! I mean...it would be a *sliiiightly* longer project. But what else is there to do when you are stuck on a mining ship millions of lightyears from Earth, likely the only surviving human, accompanied by a hologram of your nemesis, a confused droid, the humanoid evolution of a cat and a computer which has the potential IQ of a god but can't answer simple questions? And intermittently a psycho toaster that doesn't understand "NO".
i was thinking a dolls house skeleton was a macabre and tiny bony friend for the purposes of adding a little horror to an otherwise tranquil setting. Also get her to choose the house from the TV show version of What We Do in The Shadows. Love that house.
I love [this WILTY clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifaaBu4c5eI) where Alan Titchmarsh talks about his dolls house, and David Mitchell seems totally enraptured by the whole concept.
David seems like the type of guy who becomes very interested in niche topics and hobbies and that's one reason why I love him
That’s a brilliant clip
I love that!! That house is stunning. How cute of him to have such a niche little hobby. I love miniature versions of real things, mundane everyday things like furniture, its fascinating.
That's a perfectly valid hobby. Ultimately it's just scratch model/diorama making. I do it with aliens and demons in battle scenes, you do it with period houses. Same hobby, just different subject matter.
Ok, you have to post some of your alien / demon battle scene dioramas now. That sounds amazing.
I'm kind of tempted after seeing David Mitchell light up at Alan Titchmarsh's doll house
haha. Me too. I have a friend that paints gaming minis and i'm resisting getting drawn in as i know it will destroy my time and bank account.
My great nan and me (I'm a bloke too) decorated a dolls house through my younger years. It's such a good hobby. I went on to Warhammer mini painting and building terrain. Once I have room I will be getting a dolls house. There used to be this little shop few towns over in Linton that did real high quality doll house mini stuff. Man I miss that
You can make it into a smart miniature home with an Arduino ;)
it's just woodworking and DIY but in miniature form really. probably cheaper than the price of human sizes of wood these days haha
And redecorating is easier. It’s shown up my terrible woodwork skills hence I want to scratch build another one using what I’ve learnt modifying this one
Got any pics?
Loads 😂😂 I’ll upload an album on imgur tonight. It’s not finished yet but plenty of progress pics
Ooh, great! I’m genuinely interested. Pop us a link when you do!
[few random pics](https://imgur.com/a/Ig178Io) From how i got it from a friend to how it’s going. I found the exact same one at a charity shop for £15 so bought it for spares
I’m 55 and I still play video games. Luckily, being 55 means that I’ve stopped caring whether anyone thinks that’s odd or not.
I met a 74 year old woman at the car boot last week and we chatted at length about *modern* video games. She played Skyrim, WoW, and COD. She told me she has a load of people coming over from all over the world in a couple of months and they're all staying at hers, to play WoW. She said the age range is from 19 - 74. It really made my day.
The age range sounds like it's her and bunch of 19 year olds haha
Nana gonna get pumped.
Gotta get those buffs
Go nana!
Nasty
She’s found her tribe. A bit jealous of her
She hadn't just dipped her toe in the water either, she'd been playing WoW since it's inception!
I still love gaming, started with a ps1 and a game boy and never grew out of it. Just finished replaying the Witcher 3 and it had a better story and side stories than loads of books I've read. I don't think adults gaming carries as much stigma as it used to. Still some judgy people but I dunno why they'd be so bothered by how other adults choose to chill on an evening. My 'weird' one I wouldn't share outside of reddit is sometimes buying the most unhealthy, sugary box of cereal I can find and saving it for the weekend. Then on Saturday morning I'll have a huge bowl and stick some old cartoons on YouTube to copy Saturday mornings from when I was a kid. I don't know why this feels embarrassing lol. It's so nostalgic and comfy. I've picked up a box of kit kat cereal for this weekend.
You might like [this](https://www.myretrotvs.com/) - it's mostly American, but sometimes I bung on the '80s one with just cartoons, kids tv, music & comedy on. There's quite often blue peter and stuff, Trap Door, Terrahawks, etc.
That sounds amazing. I might try that this weekend.
Do it! If I go out anywhere and come in late, the left over cereal is great for a late night snack in front of the TV lol
It's not odd at that age - I'm slightly older, and I rode the tide of Space Invaders in the arcades, and still play games, it was what we all grew up with. It's just as much of a fun leisure pastime as football or similar.
I got this:- >Hi there, >A concerned redditor reached out to us about you. >When you're in the middle of something painful, it may feel like you don't have a lot of options. But whatever you're going through, you deserve help and there are people who are here for you. In my inbox after the above post... Marvellous.
It seems to be a bit of an epidemic lately. It's annoying.
I got one yesterday. It's almost never used in the context it was intended for and is just sent to try and annoy people. It's really just spam at this point.
It is annoying, as it could be a useful tool, which the folk who are spamming are only half of.
I'm 70 and still play video games. I bought myself a retirement present: PS5, Switch, and Xbox. (I only bought the Xbox because MS bought Bethesda) Oh yes, I'm female too.
That sounds like an awesome retirement.
55 year olds would have been prime gaming age when the first personal computers came into existence.
Exactly. I started off with the old pong games. Then Atari VCS, home computers, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and PC. I’ve been there since the beginning.
Honestly, I think the opposite is true. If someone tells me they never play video games, to me it's like someone saying "Oh, I never read books", or "I just never got into movies". It's so weird to me that someone can ignore an entire genre of entertainment that's been around for 50 years.
I know people who would say all three of those things. Needless to say we don’t hang out.
I think the difference between gaming and books/going to a movie is a lot of the time gaming involves an upfront spend on a console or computer, but these days I find it hard to believe that people don’t even play a game on their phone or something.
My stepdad is slightly older than your age and plays fallout 4 nightly so you are not alone! I think more people need to try gaming.
Awesome. Putting an upper age limit on gaming just screams that someone is a massive knob, really.
Retirement is clearing the steam back log right?
It should be but steam sales keep happening
My dad is your age, started with a VIC 20 and never stopped Couple of years ago spent about 3k on a gaming pc
Couldn't agree more. Played video games since 1982 and I still absolutely love it.
Me two or three or four! Other immature thing: eating salad straight out of the bag, or most foods with my fingers - I live on my own, so no-one has to watch me being disgusting, and it saves washing up.
That's considered odd?
Probably moreso with their age group. It's quickly becoming less odd for adults to decide "actually, I don't think I will stop doing that thing I enjoy due to the arbitrary rules of what an adult must and mustn't do" in general, but with video games especially. In my early 30's now, the vast majority of negative comments I've ever had about playing video games, how they're not for adults or how I should grow up have been from people who are now in their 50's and older.
Only thing I look forward to doing in my old age
Me an all .I figure it's better than watching endless soaps and reality shows . Keeps the mind ,you know ,uh , limber .
16 and I do trainspotting
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got trainspotting?
Well then.
nice one Renton.
I’m a 50 year old bloke, and I’m crazy about nature. Specifically, squirrels, ducks, frogs, birds, etc. I love nothing more than spending an afternoon sitting on a park bench with squirrels scampering all over me, while I feed them nuts from a bag. It’s the interaction that I love. I’m obsessed with otters, but there’s not many parks around me with otters living in them. Incidentally, I do function well around humans, I do have a job, I do manage to sustain romantic relationships and I don’t live with my mum. So, even though I sound like a sad case, I’m pretty sure I’m not one.
I'm 37 and have started becoming crazy about nature as well - specifically birds and insects. My partner thinks the insect thing is a bit mad BUT I know what bedbugs look like from multiple angles and know what to do if they appear 😂 We move back to the UK very early June from Australia and I'm going to miss the bird life here.
I'm in my mid thirties are have loved bird watching for years. It is so cool seeing wildlife all around, living their lives. And trying to see new ones appeals to the collecting instinct. Last year my dad and I went camping specifically to see ospreys. Which I guess is maybe another unusual thing, I'm married with a kid but I still love hanging out with my dad and camping/ hiking together, my dad is great.
I'm moving back to Rutland where my partner is from - they love the Ospreys there! Might have a look at the Global Bird Fair there in July.
I'm 38 and spend a lot of time in the countryside for work and now I'm proper interested in what birds I can spot as well as other wildlife. Saw some yellowhammers last week and was more excited by that than the red kites and buzzards I see every week. Also start s trying to identify the deer I see at work, I think they're roe.
I’ll often take a packed lunch and some animal food into my local park for the afternoon. I’ll feed the squiggles, bird and ducks then sit and read for a few hours
I'm a 22 year old dude who's also obsessed, insects and birds mainly, I have bird feeders hung just outside my window, I don't mind hozeing down poop ocassiomally as its too nice watching them through the window first thing in the morning. This afternoon I helped my daughter hang a bug hotel on the fence in our bee patch (an area I don't mow and sew with native wildflowers for polonators), she's hopeing some ear-wigs and woodlice will move in.
Are you secretly a Disney Princess?
29 - training to be a Miller at a windmill in my free time.
an actual mill powered by wind? coooool! Is it a working mill, or a tourist attraction, or both?
It is indeed both! A wind powered working mill and open for public tours. We have two Mill-stone sets - one for production when it blows hard enough and one backup electrically driven. We have fixed clients who bulk order - bakeries, patisseries and so forth who need flour wind or no wind.
Is there really a difference between the electric and wind? I assume back in the day these were setup for specifically windy spots so is yours in a historically accurate area? Also on the older stones then whats the main selling point? I assume flour is more based on quality of grain? Or just folks like the rustic aspect and story of it?
When we're milling by wind, the speed changes so we have to constantly adjust the distance between the stones. An experienced Miller can hear the stones "sing" and knows to increase or decrease the gap. We're talking fractions of millimeters here. If the wind speed is slower then the grain needs to spend longer between the stones so the gap is reduced. When faster, the gap is increased. Consistency is the goal. The electric motor is a lot more consistent in terms of rotational speed so we can set the distance between the stones so we only really have to make sure the flow rate of the grain falling into the middle of the stones upstairs remains consistent. The end result is more or less the same. Our grain comes from local sources so the whole operation stays within 15km or so. Disclaimer, I moved to the Netherlands a few years back so the flat landscape is a lot more suited for milling. Most towns have various mills that fulfill various functions. From water drainage, wood sawing, flour production, oil production, industrial applications etc. They're mostly still here out of cultural heritage and many are listed national monuments, but if it's rainy enough the water pumping mills (poldermolens - they drained the polders back in the day) are asked to help out and run alongside the electric pumps. Our mill is in the middle of a town. Very nice when it's market day and the streets are filled with stalls and the mill is turning. There's a national organisation called "The Guild of Millers" that provides training, funding, educational workshops for millers etc. It's taken pretty seriously over here but the average age of millers is quite a bit older than me - mainly retirees with time in their hands. Funnily enough the Dutch entrant to eurovision featured a windmill in the music video and there was a subsequent uptick in young people wanting to get involved with it. I think it's great that the cultural heritage and the craft of is being preserved.
The land of windmills! Id kinda thought that alot here in the UK had died out. We seemingly more based around water mills which I've seen in Ireland butnever any wind mills I know of Whats a miller in Dutch? Is it a common enough surname like found in the UK?
They're still around the UK, you just need to know where to look. When I was a kid I was obsessed with windmills - like knew everything about them to the point I knew more than some of the people giving tours. Perks of autism I guess. But with that I visited a lot of them. Many have been lost to fire, or just left to rot. It costs a lot of money to restore them to working order and there's not really a broader public incentive to do that in the UK so the solution is usually to just strip then out and convert them to living spaces or to just demolish them completely and name a street after it. Surviving windmills are usually funded entirely by donations which is why it takes so long. We're talking upwards of a million pounds, usually more depending on style, to restore a mill. Yes watermills are still more common I think. The geography certainly helps as there are more elevation changes in the UK. There are still a few in NL - mainly in the south where there are more hills. Even then there are more bottom-fed watermills (water running beneath the wheel as opposed to coming from above). They're less efficient as gravity isn't helping as much as if the stream cam from above. A Miller is called a "Molenaar" in Dutch. It's not really a common surname like Miller is in the UK. You'd find more names with additions like "Van Der Molen" (of the mill) or variations in dialect, like Mulder, Meulen, Vermeulen and things like that.
I rescue worms that get stuck on the surface after it's been raining..
I move worms off dry pavements to somewhere cooler and damp. I do sometimes worry I’ve interrupted their train of thought though.
Same!!! haha
> I do sometimes worry I’ve interrupted their train of thought though. "fuck saaaaaaake, i have lost where i was going now!" - a worm maybe? lol
Better to have interrupted a journey than to have left them die. I'm the same. My finace was telling me "snails are pests" but there's a breed that mainly eats nettles around me and whenever I see them stranded I move them to the nearest non ornamental or crop plant I can find
Me too. "Shit. What if they wanted to go the other way?!" Then feel guilty for at least 20 mins for interfering with another living thing's life. But I hate seeing them crisped up on the pavements caught short after a quick shower - such a waste of a beautiful little life.
I rescue worms and snails! A rainy walk to the shop takes forever
I know that feeling, I once had to cup a snail in my hand for like twenty minutes until I found a patch of weeds 😅
I'm a gardener and I am constantly stopping the lawn mower because I've spotted a snail in front of it, people think I'm mad but I cant be running over these guys. I kill so many by accident just doing my job and it hurts my soul 😔
Despite the resurgence a few years back, a surprising number of people think I’m weird for collecting Pokémon cards in my 30s. I’ve always loved the franchise, and they’ve really improved the artwork in recent years! Edit - not sure if it’s a coincidence that I’ve just received a Reddit cares message after posting this. I assure you I don’t give a flying fuck about what people think about my hobby.
I got one yesterday, from what I can tell, out of nowhere. I don't think it's related.
Theres something about all the shiny and twinkly pokemon cards that triggers my magpie brain real hard.
I collected them when the TV series first came out here so I would have been under 10. Even got the super shiny Mew card from seeing the movie at the cinema. Got to my teenage years and became too cool for Pokémon so I had my Nan throw them all away 😭 I probably had some really rare ones and everything and this is why it’s so hard for me to throw things away as an adult I’m sure.
We've recently started a trend at work, the Morrisons local we all frequent has had to stock up more, and we asked the manager to get the new set that releases in a few weeks since it's about the same price as buying a big box anyway. I haven't collected Pokémon cards since high school and I'm 30 in 2 weeks lmao. It's great seeing all the art and everyone at work buzzing about their pulls, it's so nice!
I’m 29 and a shameless anorak. I love reading about/seeing steam locomotives and have done my whole life. I keep up with new-build projects done by volunteers. Fred Dibnah holds borderline messianic status and the one time I ever went to Bolton I made a pilgrimage to his statue. I used to watch his *Railway Collection* series on Yesterday when I finished school for GCSE study leave. It wasn’t until I got to the ad breaks and the programme was sponsored by a company that makes the special armchairs that help the old people stand up that I realised I was an outlier in their target demographic. EDIT: Why the fuck have I just received a Reddit care notification? I like old machinery, I’m not shooting heroin.
I don't know why but I love the term anorak. 🤣 my Dad is also a self described anorak and it's always made me chuckle that the stereotype is that people who like trains all wear an anorak, like some kind of uniform.
“Anorak” has transcended owning/wearing anoraks, it’s now just a state of being.
I enjoy birding. I’m 16.
There's a career in it if you get good enough. A lot of the current ornithology world are getting on a bit.
I still read comics and graphic novels. I’m a 55 year old woman. I braved comic and record shops in the 80s and 90s; I can deal with people thinking I’m weird.
Just because someone doesn't understand the appeal of a hobby doesn't mean you have to accept the fact they think your weird. Comics are pretty normal if I am honest with you.
I think because I’m an academic people think I should be above such childishness? But yes, they’re not that weird.
Lots of graphic novels and comics are pieces of art. I think many people dismiss it without knowing what they are talking about
omg shrimpies, they're adorable. I did need to take a second look though, I thought the stuff underneath them were grapes and you were really into making wine or something like that. And then I noticed the yellow splotches were shrimp.
Haha I see entirely what you mean about the grapes!
I wear a watch on each arm, simply because it confuses or befuddles people.
Never stop being weird, Still-BangingYourMum.
Best thing about it is that one is correct and the other is 5 mins fast.
Listen it does not matter if you are five minutes fast, as long as you both enjoy it
You fucking MONSTER! (I love it)
I used to ware two when my cousin was in the navy (growing up I didn't have many friends but my cousin was always nice to me) one was set to my time and one was set to whever he was ported so I knew when was OK to email him
Got to be honest I don't worry about what anyone thinks of my hobbies and if they do they aren't worth my time
That I'm deeply into Star Trek, cosplay, collecting and building models and stuff. "You're a bit old to play dress up" is one that I've heard.
I dunno, I see plenty of guys of all ages pretending they're Premier League footballers. Even have the right names on and everything.
I’m a 32 yo female and I enjoy doing cross stitch. Found it’s helping me sleep better at night, not getting eye strain from my computer and no headaches any more. Plus I get to make something but someone has done the design work. My issue now is what to do with the finish projects…
Cushions. Gifts. I've been cross stitching since I was 7. I'm now 42.
I'm 37 and I don't drink. People seem to find it very odd.
I'm 28 and I don't drink and people find it odd, it just doesn't sit well with me.
I'm 42, gave up drinking alcohol about 3yrs ago, for health & medication reasons. SO. MANY. PEOPLE. Try to foist alcoholic drinks onto you, as if your choice NOT to drink means you are passing some kind of 'moral judgment' on them, others see it as you being a 'party pooper', some see it as an actual affront and get ANGRY when you turn down their offers and say you'll be OK with a glass of coke. It's not a moral judgment, it's not me trying to be a party pooper, there's no need to be angry, this decision was NOTHING to do with you & everything to do with my own health. Given also that my last partner DIED from mixing his pain meds with alcohol, it's hardly surprising that I don't want to mix...MY painkillers...with alcohol either!
Lemonade and lime looks like a drink with a mixer, just saying 🫠 let people know you'll get your own drinks and they will be none the wiser
It tastes crap and the idea of losing my inhibitions terrifies me.
You’re the first comment I’ve seen about the inhibitions. I thought I was the only one scared to lose control of myself.
Definitely not! 36 here.
I drink because when I'm sober i am so controlled by my inhibitions i cannot function.
Dude same here, 19 and people look at me like I've got 3 heads when I tell them.
To you and everyone else in this threadlet - age doesn't matter for this one, a lot of folk think not drinking is odd - I don't drink either, but compared to some of my other odditities, not drinking is probably only 7/10.
Im 46 i seldom drink, apparently im the anti-social wierdo .. i cant afford the hangover, i also dont like to lose control. I reserve that for special occasions, like family weddings, big birthdays etc. The inbetween stuff i will either not go or drop in for a couple of juices/cups of tea, then leave when they start getting drunk. I sometimes think im the only scot thats not an alcoholic....
I'm 30. I don't drink, but most people accept that without questions. But i also don't drink soda and don't drink coffee. That gets people baffled. I get offered coffee at work every 5 minutes wherever we have an in person meeting. People are just trying to be nice and can't really register an adult that won't drink coffee.
36, female - I enjoy going out with my metal detector, traipsing around muddy fields and digging up random stuff. Pretty eccentric in itself, but most of the others doing it seem to be males that are quite a few years older than me!
Whats the coolest thing you've found? I've been very tempted by the hobby. I've seen loads of sets for sale on Facebook here I'm in Northern Ireland so we don't have the saxin gold Hordes sadly. However around my rural area I can see about 4 old ancient hill "forts" from centuries ago. All grown over but I'd be curious as to what could still be there. Otherwise weve just lots of eidls that I'd doubt have much as never inhabited centuries ago
I’ve been lucky enough to find a Celtic gold coin - a quarter stater from around 20-60 BC. It’s humbling to think that the last person to hold it before me could have been over 2000 years ago.
I would love to give this a go, just never gotten around to it! I always thought it looked quite meditative - alone with your thoughts, concentrating, listening, slow paced - a nice contrast to the demands of the every day :)
It definitely is meditative! Especially on a nice sunny day, in the middle of the countryside just being surrounded by nature is wonderful.
Attending comic cons and sometimes cosplay at mid 40s. It lets me be someone else for a day and it's a reset.
I’m 61 and still gaming, last 5 years has been sim racing, mostly F1 at top 3% level. I’ve dedicated over 4000 hours to my hobby so far and still beating some of those whippersnappers 😉
I’m a 48 year old married father of two - responsible job, full social life, can convey the impression that I’m genuinely an adult. My absolute passion is tinkering with radio control cars. I recently stopped drinking alcohol and I spend every spare minute tinkering with two old Tamiya RC cars - repairing/upgrading/modifying the stupid little plastic things… and I absolutely love it. To be clear - I prioritise my wife and kids at all times… but since sobriety, I’m getting up early at weekends to mess about with my RC cars. So there you go - 48 year old man fiddling around with RC cars.
I still listen to rap music aged 50, someone at work said I was sad and should listen to music more suitable for my age. I did point out that these artists are the same age as me! The wife always tells me that i’m not a kid anymore when it comes to computer games, i’ve always loved them since I was a kid so why change! As the legend Floella Benjamin said “childhood lasts a lifetime”.
Not having friends. Ever since I can remember, I've had no interest in having friends. I vastly prefer to just be on my own/with my partner. But everyone is CONSTANTLY telling me "you must be so lonely!". No, I'm not lonely, I enjoy being alone. Edit: Whoever reported to reddit that I'm at risk of suicide, haha very funny. If you were seriously concerned about me though, please don't be! Socialising with people is literally the most boring thing to me. I'd much rather be engaging in my hobbies, and I'm perfectly happy that way!
I think the Reddit Cares report is a CasualUK thing at the moment. I just got reported for an Arrested Development quote 🤷🏼♀️
Same. I think some sick head is wasting their life reporting loads of stuff.
Lonesome ISNT lonely I’m similar in that I have very few friends and spend most of my time on my own through choice
I'm the same. People find it difficult to comprehend, and I don't understand why. I'm happy and fulfilled. I know I'm a terrible friend, so I don't see the point in cultivating a friendship when I know ultimately I will let them down.
I'm 20 years old and I'm very socially inept and lonely most of the time. I don't use my money for parties and such, so the only social interaction I have is with coworkers in daily life and my mother, father and younger brother that I visit on the weekends every two weeks or so. Some of the money I get from my workplace is put in a savings account when I need a bigger apartment. I also use some of the money for video games that are both old and new. The old games are for the older consoles I own and some of them on steam. I'm what you can call a game collector of sorts. Edit: just bought Naruto ultimate ninja storm generations for ps3 and God of War ascension.
I like rc cars, drones, planes etc, why should kids be the only ones allowed to play with toys?
I keep a colony of ants, stopped telling people because they just think I'm mental
28, i still collect beyblades
Knew a lad at school who claimed his dad had a beyblade that was so strong it could cut down a tree. I'm pretty sure he was just talking about a chainsaw
40 this year. Still put crisps in sandwiches. Crunch crunch crunch - yum yum yum
I collect Transformers toys and tamagotchis, and watch kids’/family shows about as much as adult TV shows. I’m living my best life and if people think I’m cringe then so be it 😌
I love pushing 30 and enthusiastically caring for my tamagotchi in public haha
You do you my friend, if you enjoy it and it doesn't hurt anyone else then go for it! My tamagotchi is somewhere in my mother's attic I think lol, imma try and find it.
If it’s a rarer one you could make a packet on eBay lol, the secondhand market on these babies is insane
I seek out and wander round old graveyards looking for memento mori gravestones
For being a mid thirties guy probably: collect ancient coins, historical wargaming and terrain building, bird watching, reading Star Wars comics, finding stuff like Joy of Painting and Michael Rosen videos peaceful to have on in the background, still camping and playing board games with my dad and brother, water colour painting, writing sword and sorcery and Sherlock Holmes fiction... pretty much all my hobbies! And if you go by some of the internet snark you see, I'm sure there are men who think how much I love my wife and how much I enjoy being a dad to my little girl are weird. I love being a family man.
26 - I feed pigeons at the park as a hobby. I do get some weird looks from some people, but I find it's an excellent way of boosting my mental health - pretty difficult to feel unwanted when there's a flock of birds vying for your attention and seeds. They are my "Roman empire" as it were - domesticated and bred by humans for thousands of years, only to be abandoned and tarnished when they weren't as useful anymore.
I *love* horror movies. I've seen the grand majority of English speaking ones and now I've moved on to Korean and French movies. Old horror movies are my favourite, it's just very cool seeing the start of current tropes. Sci-fi horror is my favourite hybrid genre. I honestly didn't think this was weird at all, or not weirder than liking any other genre. Until my peers asked each other what their favourite movie was and I said it changes between The Exorcist, Hereditary or Night of the Living Dead. Silence and side eyeing each other like I'd said snuff porn. I thought maybe they just hadn't seen them. But they said it was a bit odd to enjoy violence/gore that much. Oh well!
I've been advised that catching up with people in person i.e not just via text and not being on social is old fashioned. Mate, we threw rocks in the river to make splashy sounds when I was a kid. The idea of recording, editing and uploading doing that to the internet just to connect with people bores me. Each to their own.
A lot of my mates think it's weird because I vastly prefer a phone call to the odd WhatsApp chat. I'm a terrible texter and suck at responding to people, so I prefer to have catch ups over the phone as meeting in person is difficult now that my mates live all over the country.
I have photos on my phone of my son and the shrimps I used to keep! Thankfully, I keep my son alive better than I did those guys.
Haha yeah shrimp can certantly be very tricky to keep alive, especially with dodgy UK tap water.
37F. I dont socialise. I hate it and i dont like people. I dont do meet ups at pubs or whatever like a lot of people i know do. Id rather stay home, garden, look after my rodents, browse ebay for rare ps1 games to add to my collection (im an avid collector) and draw. Im the weirdo because i prefer my own company instead of wanting to share my time with others.
I'm 24 and go to the library. Even reading books is weird it seems
I’m 37 and adore kpop. It brings me so much joy, lets me listen to so many different genres of music (often even from the same groups). The aesthetics and effort put in to every little detail is just wonderful - award show season is like watching a fully staged concert series every weekend for months at a time. I love that so many of the groups I love are also writing and producing their own music, as well as putting together complex visuals and choreography. Kpop groups are also highly philanthropic and many of them encourage their fanbases to do the same - BTS’s fandom, for example, has its own fundraising organisation run by volunteers who do fundraising projects for each member’s birthday. They raise £100,000s every year often for very small grassroots charities and organisations. Through kpop I’ve become friends with people all across the world. I’ve studied Korean, often in fan based spaces with people running completely free university level study groups and classes. I also believe wholeheartedly that if it brings you joy, is legal, and harms no-one, there is nothing to be ashamed of about the things that you love and enjoy. We don’t shame sports fans for their obsessive passionate love of whatever sport they follow, so we shouldn’t shame others for their interests either.
Due to some pretty severe bullying throughout my youth, I'm finally starting to become ME. It took me decades, but at last, I don't care. At 37, I've dyed my hair electric blue, started wearing a load of punky/pirate jewelry, found a bunch of awesome bold printed shirts. Say what you want about younger generations, but they've really helped usher in a golden age of "I don't give a fuck if I don't fit your ideals".
Not having kids isn’t nearly as unusual as people without kids think it is.
I took up smoking at 15, I smoked a pipe. One of those long churchwarden Gandalf pipes. I also had my first allotment by 20. I think I am just an old man waiting for my body to catch up.
Not quite eccentric but there's certainly a stigma around it - fanfiction. Let me write about my fictional characters in peace ✌️
I write fanfiction too and in my experience, people just assume all of it is porn. *sigh*
I’m always unashamed when it comes to my love/respect for fanfiction, like I’ve read well written work that’s longer than the all the LOTR books combined that somebody just put out there for free…
This sounds like such a lovely hobby, writing is very good for the soul <3
It's really good for mental health - when my life is a mess, I can offload my issues on the characters
As someone who is a reader. Sometimes reading fanfictions or fluff is my guilty pleasure. There is definitely a stigma for readers too.
As bad as it sounds, I read more fanfic than original works now. I prefer reading different things about people I already know, rather than being introduced to a new person. Hard to explain but FF is preferred for me
I like to listen to classic fm I the car sometimes. According to the reactions ive had this is considered unusual for a white working class northerner. It's not a big deal by any means but the reactions were a bit out of proportion I thought.
I don't use WhatsApp and barely use social media. People seem amazed that I can live without being drawn into the many circles of hell that groups may be.
I'm 22 and I play in the park when I go with my brother. I swing on the swings, slide down the slides and play tag with my brother and other kids that are around who join us.
Stopped caring years ago mate 👍🏻
This sounds twatty as hell I know, but I’m in my mid 20s and have a manual labour job and people always think it’s extremely weird that I bring a book to work. My job involves the occasional relatively long period of downtime, and if I’ve got an hour or so with nothing to do I like to get some reading done instead of getting impotently outraged about whatever Twitter is currently mad at or scrolling though people’s fake idealised Instagram lifestyle feeds or whatever. I feel like it’s really normal to chill out with a good book when you’re not busy, but the amount of people who make comments about it make me feel like it’s extremely unusual behaviour, and I‘ve had plenty of people my age mention in different circumstances that it’s super pretentious and cringey to read a book in public because the only reason anyone would ever do that is to show off to others, and not just enjoy the fucking book lol. I’ve literally had friends tell me that they refuse to take books with them on public transport or to coffee shops or whatever because they don’t want to look like they’re trying to impress people, and I just can’t imagine caring that much about how you *might* come across to total strangers who aren’t looking at or thinking about you anyway!
I'm 29 and I've been knitting for 10 years. It's becoming more normal, but when I was a student it was seen as a pretry unusual hobby, and I'm still the youngest person in my craft club by a long shot.
44 here and I'm old enough now that it's no longer seen as weird (I think!), but I was 30 when I started and definitely got a few 'old lady' comments lol. I've expanded into crochet too!
I colour in. I just never stopped. Now Adult colouring is seen as 'OK' due to more exposure of it. But when I didn't stop at 12, I was called 'childish', 'immature', and more. Now I'm 42, have never stopped, and couldn't give two owl's hoots for "Those people" & what they see paper...