Goofy hobbies
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I enjoy detecting too, but you really have to have a lot of patience, and you really have to enjoy digging in the dirt.. It's an easy hobby to get into and easy to fall out of, and keep going back and forth..
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BadassBob
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Must be a thing with people named Bob
. I did that as well from my early teens to my mid-20s. I bred Central and South American cichlids, and sold quite a few to the local mom and pop shops. Eventually, it got to be too much work, and one day I just up and sold my breeding pairs and quit.
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Must be a thing with people named Bob
That's why I like my pig hobby.. at least I can eat them when I get tired of them :yum:
Countryford
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I collect vintage appliances. Not just small ones, but large ones as well. I have 3 refrigerators, 3 stoves, 2 dishwashers, 1 chest freezer, 7 clothes dryers, and 9 washing machines all from the 1920's to the 1970's.
BadassBob
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I had some big fish, by aquarium standards anyway. For the most part, the ones I was breeding got to be the size of a large crappie or other pan fish. I had more than a few people tell me "that one would make a nice sandwich"
MKF83
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:yes:... Although I enjoy my collections and hobbies and they haven't become an immediate burden on my life, It is time to thin the herd. The writing is on the wall that I may run into attachment problems down the road. I'm dwindling my collections down to self contained shelves or wall units that can display the best of the best I have collected. Anything stored away is getting Sold or donated.
Ammo reloading
Model car building/painting (Just finished the Ecto-1A from Ghost busters)
Welding
High power Rifle competition
Bulls-eye Pistol Matches
yo-yo collecting
Video game collecting
Model Rockets
Trout Fly tying
Jeep Offroading
Glass Insulator collection
Antique "Smalls" collecting
stamp collecting
coin collecting
O scale railroading
Fishing / boating
1980s Toy collecting
computer building
Curbside picking
garagesaling
speaker collecting (not intentional)
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Used to collect some audio magazines before the internet, Porsche racing posters and manuals, a few Porsche cars, LS3/5a speakers, JBL and now IMF speakers (see below), and generally anything my ADHD and OCD self finds interesting for the moment.
Also used to do a lot of scale model slot car racing as a teen, still love it but no tracks nearby, and not many like to build true scale replica stuff to race (MESAC member). I do like to bike, play tennis, occasionally golf, and drive Porsches, at least when they're running.
My next hobby is trying to unload all the stuff I've gone apeshit over the past 30 years. Its a hunter-gatherer sort of thing that needs to turn into a small/large pile of money someday, lest it end up as an estate sale.
Also used to do a lot of scale model slot car racing as a teen, still love it but no tracks nearby, and not many like to build true scale replica stuff to race (MESAC member). I do like to bike, play tennis, occasionally golf, and drive Porsches, at least when they're running.
My next hobby is trying to unload all the stuff I've gone apeshit over the past 30 years. Its a hunter-gatherer sort of thing that needs to turn into a small/large pile of money someday, lest it end up as an estate sale.
I had some big fish, by aquarium standards anyway. For the most part, the ones I was breeding got to be the size of a large crappie or other pan fish. I had more than a few people tell me "that one would make a nice sandwich"
Hey, Bob- Which fish were you breeding? I was partial to the CA panfish also, like Synspilum, Argentea and Regani. Beautiful fish. I've actually been thinking about setting up one tank with a single show fish.
loonze
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Making knives, a well made knife will last several lifetimes. An appreciation for weapons-everything from ''weapons of opportunity'' improvised, or very fine custom stuff-I was pretty active in what is now called MMA , before it became popular or strangled with a ton of rules and regulations. cheap,odd,old,weird or just different cars ,trucks,vans, ect-if you never heard of it or haven't seen one in forty years.....I'm probably driving it daily.
BadassBob
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I started out breeding Citrinellum, then on to Labiatum, Managuensis, and Festae as well. On the South American end, my favorites were the Nemotopus, little aggressive buggers. They undergo the most drastic color change I've ever seen when it comes spawning time. I've been thinking about getting back into the hobby myself, but with just one aquarium and one fish this time around like yourself. I really loved the Citrinellum, and may go that route again. Very beautiful and very intelligent.
I had a beautiful piebald Midas that I sold and I regret it ever since. Truly a majestic fish. Tough, smart and very interactive. I think you convinced me to try one again. I used to put plastic toys in the tank and he would play with them.
I had Nemotopus once. They were in a tank with some full grown Synspilum and they were like Stukas attacking B17s in WWII. I had to get rid of them. The 12" Synspilum were cowering in the corners of the aquarium.
BadassBob
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I kept mine separate from the others as well. I had 3 pairs in a 55 and they did good with each other. I never tried to house anything else with them because I knew it would be trouble.
Pio1980
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Guy down the way had a neet finned monitor top kitchen fridge ftom an old store here. If I had room I would have tried for it, dunno where it is now.
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My spare fridge is a cool old red 1920's Monitor Top GE, that I got from a member here... Use i mostly to keep the beer cold
I could not do that -I get too attached to my pets. And it eat a pet is "SICK".
Pio1980
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Farming ideally is a compromise of respect and reality, tho' some favorites may endure as pets.
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Marantz Fan
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Still into film photography. I shoot fine art portraits with 4X5 and 8X10 view cameras and still run a wet darkroom.
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That's where you have to not to let them become pets, and keep the mentality of them being livestock..
My wife won't even try to pet any because she said she doesn't want to get attached..
Those that have the mentality to be able to raise livestock for food, live in the country.. Those that don't, shop at the grocery store..