[Closed] what do you do that other people may regard as foolish...

Any sort of winter hillwalking/climbing.
Camping.
Going out after dark.

STW?

Mountain Biking.

Edit, only because I'm considered relatively normal otherwise.

[i]unfitgeezer...what do you do that other people may regard as foolish...apart from cycling/mtb

GaryLake...Mountain Biking.[/i]

that and not reading the OP's post, eh Gary 😉

Wwaswas: damn you, I was editing as you posted!

(Lunchbreak eating/half reading momet)

I spend on average 10 hours a week, every week, mucking about with mauls, chainsaws, bags, logs, barrows etc to heat my house with logs to save [i]only[/i] £1800 a year in fuel bills.

I spend on average 10 hours a week, every week, mucking about with mauls, chainsaws, bags, logs, barrows etc to heat my house with logs to save only £1800 a year in fuel bills.

Yes but you gain about 10,000 man points.

Chainsaw juggling...and sit behind a desk for 8 hours every day.

They think I'm a fool because,

1) I chop wood to burn on an open fire and own a chainsaw for bigger stuff
2) I built my own car (Se7en style kitcar)
3) I do all my own car repairs - upto and including full engine replacement on my drive in any weather
4) I don't do Christmas or any form of organised religion

Given time I could think of many more 😆 and I'm proud of the fact that 'they' think I'm odd 8)

I [u]don't[/u] watch football. Lots of people at work therefore think i must be strange.

Stoner, 520 hours for £1800 means you're saving £3.46 per hour worked.

Get a minimum wage second job and do it for 260 hours a year and then ride for the extra 260 you've now got free 😉

Getting up at 5am this morning to go swimming before work.
but to be fair I though it was foolish as well when the alarm went off!

Pretty much everything, it works for me though, kinda...

Get a minimum wage second job and do it for 260 hours a year and then ride for the extra 260 you've now got free

And pay MORE tax? Not on your nellie sunshine!
I embody the Laffer curve 🙂

Stuff like this:

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Most of my friends think I'm nuts. But that's okay...

I spend on average 10 hours a week, every week, mucking about with mauls, chainsaws, bags, logs, barrows etc to heat my house with logs to save only £1800 a year in fuel bills.

PMK2060 - Member

I don't watch football. Lots of people at work therefore think i must be strange.

to save only £1800 a year in fuel bills

Have you heard of insulation?

My Victorian solid wall house doesn't even cost half that to heat and it's full of holes / has bugger all insulation.

Well, according to many on here, going outside without a mobile phone and/or ID is reckless.

exercise with a dodgy ticker
drink beer with a dodgy ticker
drink beer then cycle

I love working at heights.

Working on these at 4am, standing on the hand rails, no safety harness / ropes (as they don't have these in China).

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zilog6128 - I think it's possible people who would struggle to find 2 hours per week day or 8-6 on a Saturday to undertake an activity like this might find it odd.

I think everyone has a choice but it's a lot of time out of anyone's waking week to spend doing something that on a pure time/money saved estimate is fairly marginal.

Stoner is lucky to be able to 'indulge' himself in this but it's not something a lot of us could do.

(I also suspect the amount he's spent on the kit needed to run his house on woodchips etc will balance out the £1800 savings a bit too.

Nice view 😉

TBF, £1800 would be oil, pellets are about £1,500.
And it's a 3,000 sq ft barn, insulated as much as practicable when we converted it (i.e. DER = 85% of TER, and <100kWh/sqm pa) but we work from home so it's kept at 18degrees all day long.

It's the things I don't do that people find foolish..........

STW - considered by the world at large to be absolutely blinking barking, and quite rightly so

Apparently (according to a guy in my road cycling club) I am foolish to have a 'women's ride' without having a man with us "in case we have a puncture or something" 😯

I think I was rendered temporarily speechless ... a somewhat rare occurance for me 😆

Apparently (according to a guy in my road cycling club) I am foolish to have a 'women's ride' without having a man with us "in case we have a puncture or something"

I think I was rendered temporarily speechless ... a somewhat rare occurance for me

you should return the favour by offering to join a man-ride incase theres the sudden need to talk about emotions and stuff 🙂 (or if they need anyone to ask for directions)

Think riding off-road solo at night takes some beating it terms of other people's perception of foolishness.

Others at work think i'm mad/crazy/stupid for cycling to work in the winter, as i always have. Its less than 2 miles away. A woman said this week as it was cold, she got a taxi and it only cost a fiver!

I cant understand why everyone doesn't cycle to work, if they can, to be honest

1. Ride my bike to work in all weather

2. Don't watch TV

3. Have more than the average number of children

4. Spend alot of time writing

5. Hate Labour almost as much as many on here hate the Tories

6. Still try to keep up with NHL hockey, even though I haven't been back to Canada in 10 years

I could go on.

I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on internet forums. And on that note I am off to get some work done.

Others at work think i'm mad/crazy/stupid for cycling to work in the winter, as i always have. Its less than 2 miles away. A woman said this week as it was cold, she got a taxi and it only cost a fiver!

Related to that, my neighbour thinks I'm mad for riding a bike to work when I have a perfectly good car.
She asked me how far it was, I replied 15 miles and she just couldn't grasp not only that I would willingly ride 15 miles *each way* but that I actually enjoyed it and that I was capable of riding that sort of distance and doing a days work as well. She seemed to assume it would take about 4hrs each way...

Muppet.

As to what was actually foolish, I used to go MTBing out to a small quarry and go free climbing. On my own. That was definitely pretty silly.

Cycling at night.

Someone boggled at me and called me brave last week as they saw me leaving work in cycling kit. It was about 11 degrees, I was still wearing my summer weight tights!

she just couldn't grasp not only that I would willingly ride 15 miles *each way*

When I was at uni I had an argument with a chap whose father had sold some small car part to a chap who lived in Bristol 40 miles away, and he'd cycled over to get it. He genuinely thought that there was something wrong with him.

Running alone at night (well, at night at this time of the year). It's actually quite relaxing as you really get a sense of separation from the rest of the world. Night trail running is pretty awesome too.

I also d the Army thing and get to travel the world's crappest hotspots. That's fun, but people at work think I'm mad.

I used to go out for 3 hour training rides in the winter after my wife had gone to bed at 10pm or so. It was absolutely lovely - quieter roads than you'd ever find during the day, genuine peace.

I'm sure people would have thought I was nuts if they'd seen me 🙂

Swim 2.4 miles
Ride 112 miles
Run 26.2 miles

All in one day. The biggest comment was "you're not doing this for a charity?" as if it wasn't possible to be doing it for the achievement of finishing...

Ride motorbiikes on racetracks.... many people can't grasp my desire to do this. Especially considering the amount of injuries i've sustained over the years.

Being outdoors doing anything in winter.

People seem to think the UK becomes inhospitable in winter, despite the fact we have it pretty mild compared to a lot of far more active places.

Pretty much everything.

*has low self esteem maybe* 🙁

zilog6128 - I think it's possible people who would struggle to find 2 hours per week day or 8-6 on a Saturday to undertake an activity like this might find it odd.

I'm sure the general population regard spending more on a pushbike than on your car as exceedingly weird.

Taking part in the 'puffer.

Leaving the house before sunrise in the winter at the weekend to ride when you could be having a long lie.

It was about 11 degrees, I was still wearing my summer weight tights!

I think you're mad too Molgrips, 11 degrees is shorts temp.

Taking part in the 'puffer.

Well that IS foolish.

Motorbikes.
Drinking.
Drugs.
Smoking.
Climbing.
Night rides.
Juggling.
****ing.

[i]Motorbikes.
Drinking.
Drugs.
Smoking.
Climbing.
Night rides.
Juggling.
****ing.[/i]

All at once?

In the woods ,in the dark,on a bike,with a head torch. 🙂

People at work think it's very silly .

Motorbikes.
Drinking.
Drugs.
Smoking.
Climbing.
Night rides.
Juggling.
****ing.

that's one hell of an evening.

Swimming outdoors in speedos in a very high and fast river last Thursday is my current top thing that people thing is a bit silly. Frost on the ground and all the puddles were frozen. Haven't done my first snow swim yet, but I dunno how long it can be now. Brrrr.

Cycle to work in all weathers.

Avoid setting my alarm clock for multiples of 5 because all the other numbers are fine too. Get an extra minute in bed going for 6.36 and not 6.35. What is so special about those multiples?

I think when you're into cycling it can be difficult to get an impartial view. People who know you will humour you like you might humour someone who has a caravan. Neighbours who know you by sight are usually the most likely to come out with some sort of statement that pretty much sums up how weird cycling appears to the rest of the population.

We have some decent people living nearby but I am clearly the weird one in the street. They've told me I'm 'athletic' 'sporty' or 'very active' (like I'm 90 years old or something!) but I'm not I just ride my bike now and then. I can only imagine what they really think.

I turn my bike upside-down to fix punctures.

I recently blow torched our window sills, the furniture was wrapped in plastic sheeting, somehow it all caught fire, I swatted the flaming molten plastic with my bare hands whilst making abnormal noises, I got burnt. I think that's all pretty foolish.

I used to spend a fair bit of my time drinking and taking drugs but got a bit bored of it and ended up getting into running and mtbing instead.

A large part of my social group though are friends who I knew mainly through drinking and necking drugs and consequently they think that because I've run a couple of half-marathons and spend the odd weekend mtbing in the peak district I'm some kind of Ironman. After I entered Sleepless in the Saddle (in a team of five) I think they thought I was one-step away from getting a wildcard entry to the tdf.

I'm actually an average runner and pretty turd at mtbing and I could make an effort to set them straight, but to be honest I prefer the flattery.

I continue to use racist terms, despite it being pointed out to me that they might be offensive.

I love working at heights.

Glad you mentioned that footflaps. I don't work at heights but people think I am strange for my love of heights. Any excuse to get up a ladder, work on a roof etc.

I guess a lot of people think that is foolish.

[i]I guess a lot of people think that is foolish. [/i]

WCA's probably reaching that conclusion 🙁

Repair things myself.

[i]I continue to use racist terms, despite it being pointed out to me that they might be offensive. [/i]

Is this because you are racist, because you don't care if you cause offense or because you aren't able to stop yourself?

shhhh! I'm not really referring to me! 😉

I used to spend a fair bit of my time drinking and taking drugs but got a bit bored of it and ended up getting into running and mtbing instead.

A large part of my social group though are friends who I knew mainly through drinking and necking drugs and consequently they think that because I've run a couple of half-marathons and spend the odd weekend mtbing in the peak district I'm some kind of Ironman. After I entered Sleepless in the Saddle (in a team of five) I think they thought I was one-step away from getting a wildcard entry to the tdf.

I'm actually an average runner and pretty turd at mtbing and I could make an effort to set them straight, but to be honest I prefer the flattery.

Absolutely with you on this one. Most of my friends are exactly the same - "what, you aren't coming to the pub until 3am because you're getting up early to running/biking?" They really can't understand why anyone would do that 🙂

Dogging. Well no but that's what the oldish woman next door calls dog walking, not sure how this came about but I daren't correct her.

MTBing at night.

Commuting on a m/c.

Doing work on my house, car, m/c, MTB etc myself - only getting someone in when I've no real idea how to even start doing it.

This

But then loads of mate are into it too so we are collectively odd?

Ride a motorcycle.
Ride track days. Lots of my biker mates think "they'll kill themselves" if they venture onto a circuit where there's no on-coming traffic and no lamposts.

not bury them very deeply.

My eccentricities are considered endearing by most.

I still cup farts and smell them, does that count?

shifter - Member
Ride a motorcycle.
Ride track days. Lots of my biker mates think "they'll kill themselves" if they venture onto a circuit where there's no on-coming traffic and no lamposts

i no longer ride on the road as it frightens the life out of me! tracks are much much safer imo.

I enjoy putting stuff into other peoples trolleys when they leave them at the end of the aisle in the supermarket - usually something from the family planning/joy of sex aisle 🙂
My ex thought I was just a foolish child..........

I enjoy putting stuff into other peoples trolleys when they leave them at the end of the aisle in the supermarket - usually something from the family planning/joy of sex aisle
My ex thought I was just a foolish child..........

Do you realise how many divorces you may have caused!

Taking people coasteering in winter for a living.

Drinking McEwans Export out of choice.

Using a van with extra seats in it as a family vehicle.

Supporting Newcastle United.

Being in the circle pit at a punk gig is one of my most favourite things, not even sure how I could describe it to most people!

Work. 🙁

[i]6. Still try to keep up with NHL hockey, even though I haven't been back to Canada in 10 years

I could go on.[/i]

Not much to keep track of just now is there? apart from the talks!

Me. Another 'not liking football' despite being from the North East. It's often a conversation stopper, 'who do you support, Sunderland or Newcastle'? 'Couldn't care less, can't stand football'.

& sea fishing. At night.

My job 😛

Work in a job a I hate for not much money.

EDIT: nearly a snap.

the stupidest thing I keep doing lately is putting that ride off until tomorrow night..

the kids will be in bed earlier tomorrow, the weather will be better, I won't be so full of cold..

I've been doing this for nearly two weeks, and the couple of times that I was right up for it, ready and had a clear window of opportunity - the kids declared themselves riotously ill..

it's driving me mental