I like to put coins into a box with windows and then attempt to grasp items with mechanical fingers on the end of a cable. If I am successful, the item is carried over and dropped down a chute of darkness to be retrieved and then placed on a shelf of remembrance once I am home.
@PlacidPenguin That’s a great question, and I’m glad you asked! I always appreciate Germans yelling at me in German, since I actually understand a little. Next, it’s a niche, I suppose, but I really enjoy being yelled at in Faroese. And finally, like half the people in Finland get together with other Finns and yell at people, so that.
@mehcuda67@PlacidPenguin The ones usually yelling at me are contemporary Faroes (assuming we are talking about the people). They like to use words put together by much older Faroes - or more likely one particular Icelandic dude. Sometimes they use English words and ancient melodies, though.
Several times a year I prepare and ferment various liquid concoctions and store the results. The times in between, I enjoy consuming the resulting potions.
I dump and sort many small particles - usually made of cardboard-like-material - into piles, then rearrange the piles within themselves and each other until an image of some sort magically appears. Then celebration ensues.
@mike808@tightwad First marriage 1907: he was a student renting a room from her mother. They ran off to London for a few months, and eventually got around to marriage when she started to show. Second marriage: she didn’t get divorced before she started living with hubby #2. They got married in 1916, two days after the divorce from #1 was final. Lively lady. I never met her.
I feed rectangles made of a cotton/linen blend into machinery. I then rotate a metal shaft towards my body, setting an intricate configuration of gears, levers, and wheels into motion; hoping that the machine gives back my original cotton/linen rectangle along with many others.
I don a fuzzy animal costume I spent thousands on and go to events to hug others who spent thousands on their fuzzy animal costumes. But seriously, it’s the greatest thing in the world for making someone’s day. (That’s me at far right.)
I keep a large vehicular object in my garage in an incomplete state. From time to time I pile other unrelated objects only to later remove them and pile them elsewhere but never get much farther than that.
I like to put paper or metal pieces on a sticky mat and use a machine to cut them. The expletives make it fun.
And count my stockpile of xanax. The doc tells me I can’t get it on medicare. So, I’m saving up. I did take a whole pill this past horrible, rotten weekend.
@lisaviolet You certainly can get alprazolam on Medicare, as long as you have a prescription. It’s about $8. for 60 of the .5 mg pills at WalMart. I hate doctors who lie to patients.
@OldCatLady I’m glad you told me that, now I’m sure. When I got home from that visit, I went online to see if it was a Medicare thing.
He’d said that even if I paid for it myself, it still wasn’t allowable under Medicare. I couldn’t find anything to support it. This was just last year, so maybe there was talk about changing what was available.
@arielleslie lol i went to my local Walmart last night and they had clearanced all of their knitting and crochet needles to 50 and 75 cents. Obviously, i couldn’t let that go unbought. I already have some of the sizes but. …50 cents? !?!
I buy things, and then I own them. Later on, I still have them. Sometimes I lose them in a catastrophic flood. After that, sometimes I buy them again, if I can. It’s all pretty fulfilling, except for the catastrophic flood part.
Sometimes I like to take small invertebrates, put them on a string, and drown them in a pond. I also feed fish lunches, and sometimes try to put them on the same string and drown them in air.
I blow air into a long metal tube with holes in it. Sometimes I do it with other people blowing air into metal tubes of various varieties (some with holes, some with slides, and some with buttons) and a couple others plucking strings on large wooden boxes.
@macromeh@msklzannie@tightwad for flute yes, but even so, part of that air gets split and is spun into the tube (otherwise there would be no pitch or much sound even). For the rest of the long metal tubes you blow into them through some kind of mouthpiece.
Nazis, not in the white supremicist way, but in the WTF humanity, you really f’d that one up. Let’s just say that grad school while fun makes for an interesting discussion when you are asked what you do and your response is Nazis.
I leave an environmentally-controlled house and pretend that something is chasing me. I do it for at least 4 miles a day, but sometimes much more. Sometimes lots of other people do it at the same time. It makes our legs hurt and our breathing ragged.
@InnocuousFarmer - WORKS?!? Well, I guess it works better then leaving him little sticky notes with behaviour suggestions. It doesn’t work as well as yelling “NOOOO” when I actually see him peeing on the furniture, but I don’t always catch him in the act…
I use a series of clicks, vocalizations and hand signals to create a specific language to communicate with my non-human housemates. I then use this new language to let them know how I’d like them to handle various situations, so we can live together in harmony. I can also use this language to teach them fun activities and compete against other multi-species teams for fun - and colorful ribbons.
I tug on taut strips of metal that result in vibrations in the air. I vibrate air with my throat at the same time. Usually with a couple other people who are also vibrating air with their throats. One of them tugs on 50% more (but smaller) strips of metal and the other shakes and bangs on various things.
@SSteve Very nice playing and singing.
I was intrigued by your bass - I’ve never seen one in that style, and I used to sell Fender products for a living.
Googled it and found out they’ve been making Jaguar basses since 2006, which made me scratch my head a bit, because it doesn’t seem like that long since I quit working at the music store, but we were authorized Fender dealers, and I definitely would’ve known and remembered if I had still been there when they introduced them.
Damn, time flies…
But anyway, sounds great and must be pretty versatile, too, in terms of getting a J or a P type sound.
I’m not a particularly accomplished or dedicated bass player, but thanks to my connections from years of selling instruments, I own a '72 Jazz, all original, in sunburst and tortoise shell - it plays and sounds (and looks) great, but sometimes I wish I could get a P sound, too.
Have thought about seeking out and buying a matching P-bass, but the prices have doubled since I bought the J, and I really don’t play enough to justify the expense. (Doesn’t mean I won’t still do it someday, though. )
@DennisG2014 Thanks. I love being in this band with James and Kathy. I’ve never been in a band that worked so hard to get the vocals just right.
I like the Jaguar. I got this one in 2009. Honestly, I’ve always been terrible at figuring out how to get a tone (or knowing the difference between P-bass and J-bass tone) but this one sounds great just plugging it in. I almost never use the active electronics. I did some bass parts on James’ recordings of originals. We used the Jaguar straight into his audio interface and he loved the sound. (And he has a very picky ear.)
My first bass back in 1976 was a Fender Musicmaster but I sold it to buy my Ovation Magnum in 1979 (which I still have). My other 70s bass is a 1973 Gibson Triumph Les Paul. It was my main bass back in the early 90s until I got a Jerry Jones but I rarely break it out any more. That thing weighs a ton! I don’t think my back could handle it these days.
@SSteve Cool.
You know, I think these days I’m glad I never took playing (guitar or bass) too seriously.
If I weren’t such a casual, occasional player, I’d never have been able to talk myself out of buying all the beautiful instruments I see - I’d have a great collection, but I’d probably be living in my car with it. lol
But I am very much in love with the '77 Gibson SG and '72 Jazz bass I’ve had for many years now, and since they’re the last guitars I ever purchased, I was able to afford a house to keep them in.
I pay people to render animals naked, and then I process said animal coverings via a system of washing, spinning, and coloring. Afterwards I use the results to make things you put on your head and hands.
@moonhat Ha. I do not partake in taxidermy. But I do have a weasel that a taxidermist friend gave me. He’s all flattened out and has googly eyes. My husband is terrified of it.
I enjoy perusing various collections of instructions for pastimes I will then gather the materials for, only to reach a basic level of understanding, but not master.
I am also often asked to combine and administer various levels of heat or cold to a wide range of organic materials for consumption in a social setting.
I lock myself in a small room, play with my computer and talk to myself via a small metal object. I then put weird cups on my ears and play with my computer again. I repeat this many times a day.
I vibrate my lips against a small ring of metal. Acoustical energy travels through about 18 feet of metal and issues from another, much larger circle. I can touch both ends of the metal at the same time, and I use my hands to help modify the acoustical energy.
@mehcuda67@therealjrn It’s been so long since I sent ‘acoustical energy’ thru a tuned bent tube that I’ve lost track of how long it really is.
/french horn nerd
I take a spherical object and strike it with a trampoline like device, causing said object to increase in velocity, and most times achieve maximum momentum. Then another individual does the same to me.
I have just recently taken up making my hands ache and develop blisters (and only once stabbing myself and drawing blood, which is pretty good for a beginner) by using small knives obsessively to remove piles of wood shavings from blocks of wood, ideally leaving behind an esthetically pleasing wooden shape, which I then rub with layers of assorted volatile chemicals, oils and/or solvents in an effort to give the shape a smooth, shiny, esthetically pleasing surface.
Once I’m satisfied that the object is finished, I set it aside with a slowly growing collection of esthetically pleasing objects which are largely forgotten in favor of current works in progress.
It has quickly become quite an obsessive/compulsive activity and I am currently trying to decide whether or not I really want to spend a bunch of money to move on to larger more specialized knives and a mallet to make larger blocks of harder and more attractive species of wood into larger and (hopefully) more esthetically pleasing shapes.
I have to take my time and consider this carefully, because I also have a hobby of collecting expensive hobbies which inevitably get set aside in favor of whatever new expensive hobby has caught my attention.
I don’t have any hobbies, so I can’t explain them badly.
@PlacidPenguin Your new hobby is photography. Go get’em.
The pictures are in various threads on the Meh forums, but I’ve taken pictures of my big penguin plushie wearing Meh t-shirts.
@PlacidPenguin Sounds like a hobby to me.
@Targaryen
Sure beats my day job.
I invest my money in hookers & blow. The rest I fritter away.
But really OP–you should go first.
@therealjrn Woman burns down a tree to get a young man to notice her. Now everyone is fighting.
@Targaryen It was a nice tree!
@therealjrn Trees are clearly very important.
@Targaryen @therealjrn
I like to put coins into a box with windows and then attempt to grasp items with mechanical fingers on the end of a cable. If I am successful, the item is carried over and dropped down a chute of darkness to be retrieved and then placed on a shelf of remembrance once I am home.
I like to hear angry foreign people yell at me. Sometimes bagpipes are involved. Also hand gestures.
@mschuette
Which 3 countries/languages produce the best yellings on average?
@PlacidPenguin That’s a great question, and I’m glad you asked! I always appreciate Germans yelling at me in German, since I actually understand a little. Next, it’s a niche, I suppose, but I really enjoy being yelled at in Faroese. And finally, like half the people in Finland get together with other Finns and yell at people, so that.
@mschuette
Next time you get yelled at in Faroese, ask them to teach you the chain dance.
@PlacidPenguin I LOVE the chain dances! Here is one of my favorite songs:
@mschuette
Something about the average age of the people in that video…
@mschuette @PlacidPenguin Ancient Faroes?
@mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin The ones usually yelling at me are contemporary Faroes (assuming we are talking about the people). They like to use words put together by much older Faroes - or more likely one particular Icelandic dude. Sometimes they use English words and ancient melodies, though.
I play with thingies and I go pretty far.
Several times a year I prepare and ferment various liquid concoctions and store the results. The times in between, I enjoy consuming the resulting potions.
@macromeh beer?
@Targaryen Beer, cider, wine. Just put 5 gal of apple cider in the fermenter last week. My basement smells like a cidery.
I dump and sort many small particles - usually made of cardboard-like-material - into piles, then rearrange the piles within themselves and each other until an image of some sort magically appears. Then celebration ensues.
@LemonTheCat me too. It’s addicting
@LemonTheCat @moonhat This. I find it immensely relaxing.
I visit an electronic hub multiple times a day, reading and commenting on odd or relevant topics. Quite addicting
I was thinking maybe meh until you said relevant.
I read and post to an internet forum.
@jst1ofknd hey, me too…wouldn’t it be hilarious if we posted on the same one!!!
i steal people’s souls.
I get drunk and pretend to play guitar in front of a bunch of people.
(No. Really.)
I stalk dead people, and sometimes publish what I find. My father was born five months after his parents married. His brother was a two-month miracle.
@OldCatLady Ok, I need to know how this was possible…
@OldCatLady @tightwad Brother from another mother.
@mike808 @tightwad First marriage 1907: he was a student renting a room from her mother. They ran off to London for a few months, and eventually got around to marriage when she started to show. Second marriage: she didn’t get divorced before she started living with hubby #2. They got married in 1916, two days after the divorce from #1 was final. Lively lady. I never met her.
I feed rectangles made of a cotton/linen blend into machinery. I then rotate a metal shaft towards my body, setting an intricate configuration of gears, levers, and wheels into motion; hoping that the machine gives back my original cotton/linen rectangle along with many others.
@jksquared I’ve heard it works better if you use small metal disks instead of parchment
I don a fuzzy animal costume I spent thousands on and go to events to hug others who spent thousands on their fuzzy animal costumes. But seriously, it’s the greatest thing in the world for making someone’s day. (That’s me at far right.)
I keep a large vehicular object in my garage in an incomplete state. From time to time I pile other unrelated objects only to later remove them and pile them elsewhere but never get much farther than that.
I like to put paper or metal pieces on a sticky mat and use a machine to cut them. The expletives make it fun.
And count my stockpile of xanax. The doc tells me I can’t get it on medicare. So, I’m saving up. I did take a whole pill this past horrible, rotten weekend.
@lisaviolet You certainly can get alprazolam on Medicare, as long as you have a prescription. It’s about $8. for 60 of the .5 mg pills at WalMart. I hate doctors who lie to patients.
@OldCatLady I’m glad you told me that, now I’m sure. When I got home from that visit, I went online to see if it was a Medicare thing.
He’d said that even if I paid for it myself, it still wasn’t allowable under Medicare. I couldn’t find anything to support it. This was just last year, so maybe there was talk about changing what was available.
I make flour sculptures.
I also use air to move fiberglass.
I take carefully wrapped string and make it tangled.
@arielleslie me too!
@katylava
@arielleslie lol i went to my local Walmart last night and they had clearanced all of their knitting and crochet needles to 50 and 75 cents. Obviously, i couldn’t let that go unbought. I already have some of the sizes but. …50 cents? !?!
I buy things, and then I own them. Later on, I still have them. Sometimes I lose them in a catastrophic flood. After that, sometimes I buy them again, if I can. It’s all pretty fulfilling, except for the catastrophic flood part.
Sometimes I like to take small invertebrates, put them on a string, and drown them in a pond. I also feed fish lunches, and sometimes try to put them on the same string and drown them in air.
I gather ugly, old, rusty bits of junk, scrub ‘em up, slap ‘em together with panache, and the result is swift, loud, beautiful conveyances.
I repair 3D printers. That wasn’t my intended hobby when I purchased said 3D printers, but there you go.
@squishybrain hey, I have that affliction too!
@djslack My condolences
Seriously though, I love it. Would love it better if Blender didn’t keep kicking my ass with it’s obtuse interface.
I put batteries in the refrigerator.
There isn’t a way to say that that’s worse…
I hang out on the Meh forums and as of late, make up crappy haikus to describe the product of the day.
Oh, wait, that’s not a bad description, just a bad pastime …
I blow air into a long metal tube with holes in it. Sometimes I do it with other people blowing air into metal tubes of various varieties (some with holes, some with slides, and some with buttons) and a couple others plucking strings on large wooden boxes.
@luvche21 this one time at band camp?
@nolrak nuh, band camp would have had wooden tubes and no wooden boxes.
@luvche21 flute?
@msklzannie close. My metal tube is curved and has a piece of wood where I blow air into it
@luvche21 oooh, sounds saxy
@luvche21 I had been confused by the initial description since I thought I remembered you mentioning the saxophone previously.
@msklzannie @macromeh bingo! I guess my point was to be as confusing as possible, oops?
@luvche21 @macromeh @msklzannie I thought what you did was blow air across the tube
@macromeh @msklzannie @tightwad for flute yes, but even so, part of that air gets split and is spun into the tube (otherwise there would be no pitch or much sound even). For the rest of the long metal tubes you blow into them through some kind of mouthpiece.
Nazis, not in the white supremicist way, but in the WTF humanity, you really f’d that one up. Let’s just say that grad school while fun makes for an interesting discussion when you are asked what you do and your response is Nazis.
@bleedmichigan I reckon we could do with a lot more talk about how you get Nazis, and the kinda of lengths you’d have to go to, to not get Nazis.
I stare at light from a box.
I leave an environmentally-controlled house and pretend that something is chasing me. I do it for at least 4 miles a day, but sometimes much more. Sometimes lots of other people do it at the same time. It makes our legs hurt and our breathing ragged.
@dtertman This will help I think.
https://zombiesrungame.com
I speak encouraging words to a urinating dog in the hope of convincing him NOT to urinate when he’s NOT being encouraged.
Though phrased like that, it DOES seem crazy!
@aetris and that… works?
@InnocuousFarmer - WORKS?!? Well, I guess it works better then leaving him little sticky notes with behaviour suggestions. It doesn’t work as well as yelling “NOOOO” when I actually see him peeing on the furniture, but I don’t always catch him in the act…
I use a series of clicks, vocalizations and hand signals to create a specific language to communicate with my non-human housemates. I then use this new language to let them know how I’d like them to handle various situations, so we can live together in harmony. I can also use this language to teach them fun activities and compete against other multi-species teams for fun - and colorful ribbons.
I shoot people and frame them. I also enjoy running on butter knives while slapping a piece of rubber in a cold environment.
@riskybryzness photography and ice hockey?
@carl669 Yep! I’m not good at the hockey part, but I do enjoy going out and shooting pucks around.
@carl669 @riskybryzness So…just common pucking around?
@carl669 @therealjrn no pucks given.
@cinoclav Are you a troll or are you fluffing pillows?
@cinoclav Hey there buddy, what are your hands doing under there?
@KittySprinkles Exactly what you think.
@cinoclav
@cinoclav @KittySprinkles Roughing up the suspect?
I attempt to assemble words into hopefully humorous phrases that match the meter of songs that others have created.
I take pens and notebooks and put them in envelopes, then send them to strangers in exchange for cash.
@ChadP ?? I don’t get this one
@moonhat my hobby
@ChadP wow, very cool. Who knew?
@moonhat /shrug
@ChadP omg that is cool! My son would LOVE that
I push buttons in response to things that happen on a digital screen.
I tug on taut strips of metal that result in vibrations in the air. I vibrate air with my throat at the same time. Usually with a couple other people who are also vibrating air with their throats. One of them tugs on 50% more (but smaller) strips of metal and the other shakes and bangs on various things.
@SSteve Banjo, guitar, bodhrán, tambourine, maracas?
@OldCatLady Exactly.
@SSteve Very nice playing and singing.
I was intrigued by your bass - I’ve never seen one in that style, and I used to sell Fender products for a living.
Googled it and found out they’ve been making Jaguar basses since 2006, which made me scratch my head a bit, because it doesn’t seem like that long since I quit working at the music store, but we were authorized Fender dealers, and I definitely would’ve known and remembered if I had still been there when they introduced them.
Damn, time flies…
But anyway, sounds great and must be pretty versatile, too, in terms of getting a J or a P type sound.
I’m not a particularly accomplished or dedicated bass player, but thanks to my connections from years of selling instruments, I own a '72 Jazz, all original, in sunburst and tortoise shell - it plays and sounds (and looks) great, but sometimes I wish I could get a P sound, too.
)
Have thought about seeking out and buying a matching P-bass, but the prices have doubled since I bought the J, and I really don’t play enough to justify the expense. (Doesn’t mean I won’t still do it someday, though.
@DennisG2014 Thanks. I love being in this band with James and Kathy. I’ve never been in a band that worked so hard to get the vocals just right.
I like the Jaguar. I got this one in 2009. Honestly, I’ve always been terrible at figuring out how to get a tone (or knowing the difference between P-bass and J-bass tone) but this one sounds great just plugging it in. I almost never use the active electronics. I did some bass parts on James’ recordings of originals. We used the Jaguar straight into his audio interface and he loved the sound. (And he has a very picky ear.)
My first bass back in 1976 was a Fender Musicmaster but I sold it to buy my Ovation Magnum in 1979 (which I still have). My other 70s bass is a 1973 Gibson Triumph Les Paul. It was my main bass back in the early 90s until I got a Jerry Jones but I rarely break it out any more. That thing weighs a ton! I don’t think my back could handle it these days.
@SSteve Cool.
You know, I think these days I’m glad I never took playing (guitar or bass) too seriously.
If I weren’t such a casual, occasional player, I’d never have been able to talk myself out of buying all the beautiful instruments I see - I’d have a great collection, but I’d probably be living in my car with it. lol
But I am very much in love with the '77 Gibson SG and '72 Jazz bass I’ve had for many years now, and since they’re the last guitars I ever purchased, I was able to afford a house to keep them in.
I pay people to render animals naked, and then I process said animal coverings via a system of washing, spinning, and coloring. Afterwards I use the results to make things you put on your head and hands.
@KittySprinkles oh my gosh. Ok… I get it now. I had to read it a few times. I kept thinking you did taxidermy and it was freaking me out
@moonhat Ha. I do not partake in taxidermy. But I do have a weasel that a taxidermist friend gave me. He’s all flattened out and has googly eyes. My husband is terrified of it.
I enjoy perusing various collections of instructions for pastimes I will then gather the materials for, only to reach a basic level of understanding, but not master.
I am also often asked to combine and administer various levels of heat or cold to a wide range of organic materials for consumption in a social setting.
@Hussypants Could I please browse your craft room and library?
@OldCatLady Yea! Sharing crafty time tips is the best.
I lock myself in a small room, play with my computer and talk to myself via a small metal object. I then put weird cups on my ears and play with my computer again. I repeat this many times a day.
@readnj Voice overs?
I vibrate my lips against a small ring of metal. Acoustical energy travels through about 18 feet of metal and issues from another, much larger circle. I can touch both ends of the metal at the same time, and I use my hands to help modify the acoustical energy.
@mehcuda67 Are you from France?
@mehcuda67 Trombone? Trumpet? French horn?
@compunaut @mehcuda67 18 feet of metal is too long for a trombone or trumpet.
/band nerd
@mehcuda67 - Are you a plumber?
@mehcuda67 @therealjrn It’s been so long since I sent ‘acoustical energy’ thru a tuned bent tube that I’ve lost track of how long it really is.
/french horn nerd
@compunaut @therealjrn @aetris
)
My main horn. (You might notice a small addition from a goat contest
@aetris @mehcuda67 @therealjrn That’s a nice piece of brass
/image nice piece
I take a spherical object and strike it with a trampoline like device, causing said object to increase in velocity, and most times achieve maximum momentum. Then another individual does the same to me.
I set the mood for microorganisms to get busy in a dark bucket for a period of weeks. Then I drink their waste product with friends.
I try to get it in a hole as quickly as I can, finishing with the least amount of effort as possible.
I have just recently taken up making my hands ache and develop blisters (and only once stabbing myself and drawing blood, which is pretty good for a beginner) by using small knives obsessively to remove piles of wood shavings from blocks of wood, ideally leaving behind an esthetically pleasing wooden shape, which I then rub with layers of assorted volatile chemicals, oils and/or solvents in an effort to give the shape a smooth, shiny, esthetically pleasing surface.
Once I’m satisfied that the object is finished, I set it aside with a slowly growing collection of esthetically pleasing objects which are largely forgotten in favor of current works in progress.
It has quickly become quite an obsessive/compulsive activity and I am currently trying to decide whether or not I really want to spend a bunch of money to move on to larger more specialized knives and a mallet to make larger blocks of harder and more attractive species of wood into larger and (hopefully) more esthetically pleasing shapes.
I have to take my time and consider this carefully, because I also have a hobby of collecting expensive hobbies which inevitably get set aside in favor of whatever new expensive hobby has caught my attention.
tl;dr? I’m a dilettante.
Me and the hubby ride tadpoles, usually many miles.
I drag a cylindrical bit of plastic across a flattened area of plastic. Other people pay a few dollars a month to keep me from stopping.