[dagnytaggart]

Anyone have interests and hobbies that are considered strange by your peers?

For example, I'm a 20 year old female, and I like all the normal 20-year-old stuff (like surfing, travelling etc) but I also like:

- Reading about torture throughout history
- Singing opera/musicals (I performed as Christine in a Phantom of the Opera performance...just locally, but people who know me thought that was amusing)
- Classical music
- Reading about diseases/parasites/worms
- Learning languages as a hobby
- Fencing...at least in high school. :crazy: I'm such a nerd.

What about you! What're your hobbies that make people go "wtf? LOL"

 

[Vaka]

Classical music is considered bizarre? Well, I play classical guitar and I happen to really love classical, romantic, and baroque music :mellow:

 

[st0831]

Sex - Fun, education, practical, and sometimes hands-on!
Personality Cafe - Studying people is pretty bizarre.
Political Visions - Dreaming for less conflict.
Programming - To enhance my visions and possibilities.
Love - Finding people to share your world with.
Longevity - Finding ways to reduce stress and live the way I want to.

 

[killerB]

Collecting Erotica, Collecting Buddas, Collecting CDs(I have over 500 eargasms),Collecting sarcastic T-shirts. I don't think any of it's really weird though.

 

[dagnytaggart]

Classical music is considered bizarre? Well, I play classical guitar and I happen to really love classical, romantic, and baroque music :mellow:

Yeah, in my circle of friends. I think most of my friends are ESxP though, so...

 

[SlowPoke68]

Just being me is a hobby in itself.

I used to do 24-hour motorcycle rides. My personal record is just under 1400 miles. I've also been involved with fencing, MMA, poetry slams, various protest groups, writing and recording music, and a lot of home projects I probably shouldn't have taken on.

My ENTP g/f used to make chain mail (like medieval armor). That was before she started going to random AA and Al-Anon meetings just as an observer. Lately she's been getting into canning and knitting. Oh, she's a bull-fighter too.

 

[yesiknowbut]

She sounds cool.

I tell stories and deconstruct myths. Read about anything and everything. Do far too much roleplaying for a middle aged woman (no, not LARP, that's a step too far). Have done all sorts over the years. Met my husband at a fencing class......

 

[Miss Scarlet]

I like collecting x-ray.
Sometimes I'll eat an apple in the shower.

Yes, I'm a freak!

 

[dagnytaggart]

Just being me is a hobby in itself.

I used to do 24-hour motorcycle rides. My personal record is just under 1400 miles. I've also been involved with fencing, MMA, poetry slams, various protest groups, writing and recording music, and a lot of home projects I probably shouldn't have taken on.

My ENTP g/f used to make chain mail (like medieval armor). That was before she started going to random AA and Al-Anon meetings just as an observer. Lately she's been getting into canning and knitting. Oh, she's a bullfighter too.

Oh yeah! Motorcycles. I used to love to take long highway rides...until I had to sell her. :-/ Oh and another for me...dog sledding. Wow. The ride and the dogs are incredible. Gotta do it again sometime...

Armor and bullfighting? Your g/f sounds

 

[YourMom]

I'm really into learning new social techniques/tricks.
I like studying sociopaths since i find them fascinating.
I have a big interest in business, and am always open to non-conventional ways to get ahead.

 

[Quin Sabe]

Finding the weridest music.
Finding the craziest movies.
Coming up with plans to kill people in mass and get way scotch free.
Researching drugs and reading trip reports.
Running pell-mell through a forest, preferably at night with out a trail.
Trying to combine and epitomize a Renaissance man.

I'll have many more bizzare hobbies once I move out.

 

[xrevolutionx]

-Studying personality types (turns out its uncommon outside of here)
-Hunting INFJs for further study
-Teaching my new kitten tricks like walking with a leash and when she's big enough, using human toilets
-Computer case modding
-Convincing people that the nine to five grind is the devil's trap.
-Plotting an escape from said trap.
-Collecting funny random images from the Internet like LOLCats

 

[CJ99]

Juggling
Stilts
Personality Typing (lets face it when your on a forum daily for it thats weird)
Amatuer Dramatics (Mainly musicals)
obsessively researching sleep patterns
obsessively researching happiness from a biochemical point of view
Trying to get into long distance running hopefully into ultrarunning

Then again I also:
Play guitar
Read books
Play lots of Video Games
Watch DVDs


So who knows!?!?!

 

[Liontiger]

Yeah, in my circle of friends. I think most of my friends are ESxP though, so...

I get that. I have a similar situation where many of my friends (ESxPs and ESTJs) consider almost everything I do unusual. "You read fanfiction? Say what?" It's all good, though. Your hobbies don't seem particularly odd, either.

Anywho, here are some things people tease me/make comments about:

- Watching cartoons
- Listening to non-mainstream music (music in foreign languages, instrumental, etc.)
- Typology to the extent that I take it
- Reading and writing fanfiction
- Playing video games (girls don't play video games, pshaw)
- Educating myself on random topics via the interwebs ("Why do you know so much about sex? ")

 

[whiteashes]

My bizzare hobbies can be tracked by bizzaire google searches i make.

many times i did find internet insufficient for the information i am looking for but it does exist in rare corners.
So that's is quite bizarre i often tend to look for things people normally dont.

My peers sometimes perceive me as nerdish. I have fun in things which is so booooring to my friends - i mean technical stuff.

And i dont have fun in many things which people generally enjoy.

Sometimes i wonder there is some bizarre in my wiring. But the best part is i love the way i am. And i feel quite lucky and thank whatever god or parents for being the way i am.

 

[lylyness]

I do Renaissance Faires. Apparently that's weird.

 

[Ravenflight]

I write TV shows and movies. I record music. I collect vinyl. Lately I've been designing a custom suit, and I intend to make it.

 

[Spenser]

I wargame....
I visit civil war battlefields for HOURS just looking ...
I trying to learn the tao
I am reading up on Napoleon's 1812 Russian Campaign

Lots More ....