[Closed] What hobby can I take up..

Port and cheese

weaving

Ride my bike with lights on. 😀

Cry/masturbate.

Good start, drink and eat too much already, weaving!!

Writing.

Cry/masturbate.

At the same time? that's a bit too niche for someone just starting a new hobby, basics first! 🙂

Competitive eating? Whittling?

Not quite the replies I was thinking but it's a start..

Airfix.

PS3 COD of course!

Airfix now there's an idea, Lego takes me back to my childhood.

Making a Messerschmitt BF109 at the mo and taking my time over it. It'll still look ropey but I enjoy fiddling with it whilst listening to the radio and avoiding all of the crap on TV.

Don't do TV so computer games probably not ideal, I do like the idea of making stuff tho..

I am revisiting my childhood by building and painting airfix model planes to hang from my sons ceiling. Not sure my wife completely buys that I'm just doing it for him .

As a teenager I used to paint model soldiers organised into "historically accurate " ancient armies and fight my mates using incredibly detailed rules that could generate a massive argument / debate . An excellent way of spending time and money.

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The link is for harry the spider if you are doing the 1/72 model I bet you don't apply all the transfers.

climbing wall?

Perfect the sex position number 9. Curled up, in bed alone, crying.

Bridge is a great game to get into - easy to play once you're up and running but very deep. Does need a bit of commitment to pick up - worth it though. Can be played online (for nowt) or at a club.

Poker is fun with mates and v easy to pick up - also deep if you want to get into it, but the online grind experience is pish-boilingly boring (ISTM).

Train on your rollers/turbo, then a good book, bedtime and it's time to go to work all over again.

I build toy cars when it's cold and wet or I'm feeling stressed ... Bit sad but I find it quite therapeutic. Here's some of my current crop of unfinished projects!

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I was thinking about climbing wall for same reasons.

http://www.heliguy.com/Electric-RC-Helicopters/Heliguy-Atom/Main-Group/

...and I'm liking this a lot

http://www.lego.com/en-gb/technic/products/construction/42009/a

climbing wall is a great one. Commit early though: take stuff to work and go on the way home if you can.

Much easier than getting home out of the cold, dark, wetness* getting changed and then trying to leave the house again!

*possibly also starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

I've got a few of these at home, inherited from my Grandpa. Might give one a bash this winter.

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build a home brewery and Brew some beer from all grain

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Home brewing

What about course of diving instruction if you've got a diving pool near you?

I did a couple a few winters ago when I lived in Guildford. Brilliant excercise, fun, scary, challenging phyiscally and mentally; and hugely satisfying when you get it right.

The rush of anticipatory adrenalin when you're on the board, ready to start (and later, visualising being in the same spot) is something I've not found doing anything else. Probably why I wasn't especially good at it!

Xbox and cod

+1 Airfix. 'Cos:

- it's as cheap/simple or as complex/expensive as you like (bit like cycling really...)
- it feels creative, even when you're just blindly following the instructions
- girls find it a huge turn-on
- you may accidentally learn something about history, engineering etc

(NB: one of the above points may not actually be 100% true)

learn to play guitar

airfix for grown ups .. eduard.. i research and build ww1 nieuport aircraft in 1/48 they end up about 120mm long..
http://www.eduard.com/store/Eduard/Plastic-kits/Weekend-edition/Nieuport-17-1-48.html
i have whole squadrons of the things loads of high detail brass bits to add.. they are small detailed colourful and relatively cheap and i make them on a bread board..i can spend anything from 3o seconds to 8 hours depending on what time i have..

airfix for grown ups .. eduard.. i research and build ww1 nieuport aircraft in 1/48 they end up about 120mm long..
http://www.eduard.com/store/Eduard/Plastic-kits/Weekend-edition/Nieuport-17-1-48.html
i have whole squadrons of the things loads of high detail brass bits to add.. they are small detailed colourful and relatively cheap and i make them on a bread board..i can spend anything from 3o seconds to 8 hours depending on what time i have..

airfix for grown ups .. eduard.. i research and build ww1 nieuport aircraft in 1/48 they end up about 120mm long..
http://www.eduard.com/store/Eduard/Plastic-kits/Weekend-edition/Nieuport-17-1-48.html
i have whole squadrons of the things loads of high detail brass bits to add.. they are small detailed colourful and relatively cheap and i make them on a bread board..i can spend anything from 3o seconds to 8 hours depending on what time i have..

Guitar

Holy shit samurai, well done!

Three words, electric drum kit.

sit on singletrackworld arguing..?
watch Hollyoaks..?

I don't know any other things to do.. 😳

Cooking can be good fun if you do not do much at the moment.

Lots of evening classes available and you can inflict your creations on family/friends/colleagues

There are some talented people here on STW, there are some good ideas to look into. Thanks for your posts so far.

Electronics. Build cool stuff.

http://www.heliguy.com/Electric-RC-Helicopters/Heliguy-Atom/Main-Group/

Better than helicopters...quadrocopters.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hubsan-H107L-Improved-Version/dp/B00D8CRR12/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1379969924&sr=8-2&keywords=hubsan+x4

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Easier to fly, more sturdy and you can go from them to really big ones that can carry cameras.

Writing. Let you mind go wherever it wants to and get it down on paper. You'll be surprised and pleased with what you come up with. I've written a novel this way and even had some stuff published. Not sure its better than Airfix, though...

Thanks njee.

Become a lawyer. No need for hobbies then - you can just look back with fondness on all those free evenings you used to have....

Bedwasboy, I rode through your town on Sunday.. if you saw someone on a battered grey Orange 5 🙂

The Hubsan X4 above is very fun for the money!

+1 for many of the above...

helicopters
airfix (well, preferably not airfix but you get the idea)
home brewing
art
music in all its forms. learn an instrument or three. some are more suited to home playing than others...

and god forbid you should want some exercise, there's always the gym

tinker with bikes.
homebrew
drink homebrew
running (hoping for sub 3 next year)
apply for jobs
thinking of an evening class
ebay stuff
finish up heaps of house DIY

I need to relax more.

grum - Member
Cry/masturbate.

Known as "cranking"

See how far you can count, write down were you leave off every night and start again after tea the following night.

Buy a telescope and keep an eye on your neighbours

Attempt to watch every episode of:

Top Gear.
Man V Food
Grand Designs.

It's got my bloke through the last three winters.

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FTFY.
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Jolly well done, though.

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FTFY.

Jolly well done, though.

What?!

Better than helicopters...quadrocopters.

Easier to fly

That makes them worse than helis - if it was easy to fly them it would be boring.

Build daft bikes...

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I want a quadcopter though. 🙂

Fair point, I'm hopeless at creating anything new. I learned very quickly when I started that I absolutely have to have a reference.

To the OP, and this may not help. My wife tried to get me barn dancing to fill some time. NO WAY, I said, I'd rather go ballroom dancing than do barn dancing.

Guess where we're going next Tuesday. 🙁

Looking at the hubsan quadrocopters they do one with a built in camera. Youtube footage looks quite good for such a small device. Off to local model shop tomorrow.... 😀

Ukelele.

Chicks dig it.

Air rifle.

Get some targets set up in the back garden, and then lazily shoot them from your bedroom window.

You could get the kids to create some zombies using old stuffed clothes.

Become a serial killer, there hasn't been a decent one for ages.

you can start up doing things you like and you have interest in.. :p

Amateur radio. Great fun chatting to random people around the world.

Also, get one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/KEEDOX%C2%AE-RTL-SDR-Receiver-Realtek-RTL2832U/dp/B009VBUYA0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1380025792&sr=8-2&keywords=dvb+dongle

And look around the web about what you can do with it other than watch TV (real time air traffic control radar display, various radio uses etc - search google for RTL SDR).

Cheers

M6YDB

I play badminton with a group of mates on Wednesday evenings in winter. Good and fun way to keep fit when its a bit too miserable to climb on the bike for a night ride. Ask your riding mates if they fancy giving it a go... you'll enjoy the rivalry!

Piedi di formaggio,

42008 and 42009 available as a single item on eBay with international shipping from a seller I've used before... that BiN button didn't stand a chance.

My wife tried to get me barn dancing to fill some time

I thought people worked their evenings.

Must be in the wrong job lol

Beelzebub: Tell me about your novel... Is it available in ebook form? How long did it take? And how did you cope with writers' block?

I'm writing one myself at the moment. I estimate I'm 60% of the way through. I'm anticipating completion by March 2014.

Learn a language/photography/magic/or something?
Alternatively, have you got a hackspace near you?

Not being master of my domain...

Recreational drug use. It's mushroom season as well.

Reading.. Novels, or a subject you've always been interested in. Economics, law, architecture or something. That'll keep you busy.

Cooking.

Airfix: awesome hobby. Hang the planes at jaunty angles from your ceiling using a hot pin in the body of the aircraft and some thin cotton. (And a white drawing pin in the ceiling)