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I collect military helmets and hats!! Isn't that super exciting!!!!

I have

Two Fritz helmets
Wehrmacht helmet, French Occupation
Wehrmacht helmet, WWI
Britsh Airborne Helmet, WWII
British Infantry Helmet, last Zulu War.
An American navel hat, circa about 1840s (this is a replica so not so valued)
USN hat from a class A uniform (if the navy has those)
aviators hat, US Army Air Corp, WWII
Doughboy Helmet WWI, Arrowhead division, I wanna say 91st. I don't have it with me now, its in the states.
Chicom soft hat, and little red book!!
Boonie hat
Three soft caps US army.

I am currently looking for a Japanese helment. A French and Soviet WWII helmet would be good to.

Utterly useless hobby, eh?

I study genetic inheritance. I do experiments with punnet square, research in the newest breakthroughs.

When I was in high school, I collected pencils. For no reason whatsoever. I just happen to be a bit of a klepto and ended up with a desk full of other people's pencils. Except I always left the pencils all at home and never had anything at school to write with.

I hang around on nation states....

Occaisonnaly I multiply very large numbers together in my head for fun.

I edit music on my computer. I guess that qualifies as a strange hobby...

I draw pictures in mspaint for whoever asks. Does that count?

No, on a serious note, my hobby is the study of philosophy, all the different types of views on everything, particularly political philosophy. I also used to have an almost geekish knowledge on WW2 armour, now I can just list huge amounts of tanks, and my opinion of them.

Collecting Transformers, making nerdtronica music, and freaking out squares.

... and freaking out squares.
*pretends to be a trapezoid*

*pretends to be a trapezoid*

I see you've already been freaked.

Sometimes I use my laptop to make power noise music. I guess that counts as a weird hobby...

I collect military helmets and hats!! Isn't that super exciting!!!!

I have a vietnamese helmet. :p

Well, there are these really messed-up forums where I go, and I have multiple accounts so that I can pretend to be different 'countries'. How one person can be an entire country is questionable, perhaps, but when you look at some of the people here you suddenly realise that such questions are the least of your worries.

Oh wait. That's here.

Um.

Yeah.

No, I don't have any unusual hobbies. I like to see how far I can jump down stairs before hurting myself, claiming 'the more I do it on purpose, the less it'll hurt when it happens for real!'. That's not exactly the pinnacle of normality, I suppose.

heh my hobbies include obssesing over girls i love to the point were im so depressed that they dont return the feelings but want to be friends wich utterly destroys me......debating how given land and leadership i could make communism work......and bass guitar....eh but you ppl think im wierd from my first hobby dont you? goths have feelings....emo-goths like me have too much feelings.....heh well at least i dont stalk any of them :)

Kanabia's here!

I like to see how far I can jump down stairs before hurting myself, claiming 'the more I do it on purpose, the less it'll hurt when it happens for real!'. That's not exactly the pinnacle of normality, I suppose.
Cool, I do that too.

No, I don't have any unusual hobbies. I like to see how far I can jump down stairs before hurting myself, claiming 'the more I do it on purpose, the less it'll hurt when it happens for real!'. That's not exactly the pinnacle of normality, I suppose.

FUCKING AWESOME!

Cool, I do that too.
I have succeded in doing every flight of stairs in my building in one bound, I need a dorm with longer staircases....

:p ya try leaping down a 24 set or like go to D.C and do the oposite of rocky

Cool, I do that too.

I knew I wasn't alone! Now I can show people this forum and laugh. They thought I was crazy... I knew I wasn't crazy... unless you're crazy. Are you crazy? What am I saying, you used pink in your signature, of course you're crazy... great, I'm still crazy. Thanks a lot!

My dad has a peculiar hobby, I suppose. He collects stamps. But not any stamps. He only collects first class stamps. Not the pictorial ones, or the special edition ones, just the common-as-muck first class stamps. He sticks them on the backs of doors. My parent's house is now littered with them, much to the amusement* of my mum.

* See: Antonyms of 'amusement' for mum's actual thoughts on the matter.

on a more extreme tangent of jumping down the stairs, have you seen those free runners? I was watching a program a while ago, can't remember the game. But it ends up with this French guy jumping from the top of a ship, to the deck, a height of roughly three storeys, and taking it in his stride. Very impressive. At another point, he also ends up on top of the Albert Hall, and can't remember quite how he got up there.

I want to learn how to skateboard.

I have a vietnamese helmet. :p

sweeeeeet!

Are you crazy?
These will answer all:
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I draw pictures in mspaint for whoever asks. Does that count?

No, on a serious note, my hobby is the study of philosophy, all the different types of views on everything, particularly political philosophy. I also used to have an almost geekish knowledge on WW2 armour, now I can just list huge amounts of tanks, and my opinion of them.


I have an obscene knowladge of armoured vehicles period. Specificly tanks.
I call individual A7V's by their name and number, and refer to them individually.

Oh, and I collect, and modify, tank models.

I've always wanted a pickelhaus helmet.

I have two soviet officers' overcoats, one summer and one winter.
A Colonel and a Captain.

Also a soviet fur hat and a bunch of medals and junk.

I suppose if I collect anything it is clothing.


Wellll, also old books.
The jewels of my old book collection are a first english edition of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and a first edition set of Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples.

I used to cover myself in large amounts of clue and when dried, pretend that I'm 'peeling' and I like to play connect the dots with the freckles on my arm.

I like to build WWI and WWII models, ive been doing this since i was 9 and i've amased over 300 fully painted and built that are stored in my closet. I also like to play warhammer 40,000 and collect z-bots.

These will answer all:
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http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?icriv3gqgqg
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?icqxjq15j7e4
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?icqvi417iwes
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?icqufld7c9o

:D

Yeah, that pretty much covers it :p. Mad as a hatter! But a very good artist though...

Me, I shove explosives in cardboard tubes with pointy plastic tips.

Yes, I build model rockets.

And they don't hurt when they hit you.

Me, I shove explosives in cardboard tubes with pointy plastic tips.

Yes, I build model rockets.

And they don't hurt when they hit you.
My cousin tries to build them from scratch. Once he ended up accidentally detonating one and setting his front yard afire. That was pretty funny.

i grow out my hair......

and act and write songs and stories

Hmm...
I spend nearly all my freetime in a chatroom...then some of that time on forums.
I draw...on computers, cos I haven't got myself a new sketchbook. I have also drawn webcomics...
Photography...editing them on computers. I will master every psp8 tool, I will!
Video editing. Not so much a hobby as necessary, my dad thinks he's good at it but sucks. Must edit yearbook videos...must borrow camcorder and upload the videos first....
Archery. Yep. I shoot long metal pointy things at large round straw or foam things from a big metal thing combined with a thin twisty thing.

I hang around on nation states....
Nods head

Ive almost started to make military models again.Sigh for want of a better thing to do.

I guess my hobby, making jewelry, isn't that strange. But, I meet a lot of strange people doing it, so does that count?

I just got a shipment of ear threads, so I will be adding beads to those as soon as I get my bead room set up. My next big bead project is to build a new headboard for my bed and cover it with beads.

I just finished stenciling patterns above the fireplace in the house and next I will be painting designs on my shower curtain. Of course, this has nothing to do with beading, but I like making things that no one else has...

Nods head

Ive almost started to make military models again.Sigh for want of a better thing to do.

What? So spending all your time hunched in front of a computer is preferable to spending all your time hunched in front of a table inhaling dangerous chemicals?

I'm a political science major. That's a strange hobby in itself.

What? So spending all your time hunched in front of a computer is preferable to spending all your time hunched in front of a table inhaling dangerous chemicals?
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Well anyways i like buy them and then never really finnish them
So its like a girlfriend you waste your money and never get anything in return. :eek:

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Well anyways i like buy them and then never really finnish them
So its like a girlfriend you waste your money and never get anything in return. :eek:

Well, I build lots and lots of various models and I find it to be one of the most rewarding hobbies ive ever been involved in. Better than wasting away in front of a computer...

Well, I build lots and lots of various models and I find it to be one of the most rewarding hobbies ive ever been involved in. Better than wasting away in front of a computer...
Well I used to make them heeps when i was young[sic] i stopped when i was 16 i got a Ferrari F40- i never made it but i did stuff the body trying to get some paint off of it.

So now i occasionally buy something and start it. ;)

Last project was an Afrika Korps attack group.

And i might make a diorama of the attack on the Merville battery.
It would look like this. ;)
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?icvarl13bk6o
Yay for understrength battalion attacks. :eek:

i kill small furry things.


I'm also a vampyr.

does airsoft count? as wierd, i mean. i know it's a hobby.

my hobby, burning things. it is very relaxing and some things smell good when they burn or the give off a cool color

I hang around on nation states....

What? Who would do such a silly thing? ;) :D

my hobby, burning things. it is very relaxing and some things smell good when they burn or the give off a cool color
mmmmmm FIRE

fire is our friend and anyone who miss uses it deserves to get burned(pun intended)

jumping off things is fun too.

I stencil T-shirts... But in all the "excitement" of moving house I might have lost my paint, transparencies, marker and roller. :( No tthat that's strange...

I like doing cryptic crosswords. *braces self for the yells of "NERD"*

I stencil T-shirts... But in all the "excitement" of moving house I might have lost my paint, transparencies, marker and roller. :( No tthat that's strange...

I like doing cryptic crosswords. *braces self for the yells of "NERD"*
i like burning crosswords or at least the books they are in because they annoy me. give me a good word search any day.

i like burning crosswords or at least the books they are in because they annoy me. give me a good word search any day.
BAH! Wordsearches suck. Give me a good challenging cryptic anyday. Monkeys could do a wordsearch! *makes monkey noise*

*rips wordsearches out of puzzle-book and torches*

did i give you permition to use fire. even though i too would burn the word searches crosswords would go up first. also leave the monkeys out of this they didn't do anything

I knew I wasn't alone! Now I can show people this forum and laugh. They thought I was crazy... I knew I wasn't crazy... unless you're crazy. Are you crazy? What am I saying, you used pink in your signature, of course you're crazy... great, I'm still crazy. Thanks a lot!

your asking if neo-anarchists is crazy? you'll find out soon enough - shes competly insane. but in a hilarious, "i wish i was crazy too" way.

and neo, i mean that in the best possible way. your my favorite wacko.

being crazy is a fun hobby too :cool:

being crazy is a fun hobby too :cool:

my invisible friend told me you were crazy. i knew it.

my invisible friend told me you were crazy. i knew it.
why did you ask you invisable friend. mine is much more reliable and Harvy(thats his name) is famous for some role he did in a movie. if you don't believe me just ask Pedro the flying computer

Oh, and I'm pretty involved in www.rctankcombat.com.
A bunch of us build 1/6th scale remote controlled tanks, armed with paintball guns, and fight it out.

Really quite fun.

Oh, and I'm pretty involved in www.rctankcombat.com.
A bunch of us build 1/6th scale remote controlled tanks, armed with paintball guns, and fight it out.

Really quite fun.
REAL FUN(cogeekugh) :rolleyes:

When I was in high school, I collected pencils. For no reason whatsoever. I just happen to be a bit of a klepto and ended up with a desk full of other people's pencils. Except I always left the pencils all at home and never had anything at school to write with.


I use to love pencils too. Especially the ones with pretty designs/colors and nicely scented.

my invisible friend told me you were crazy. i knew it.
I am your invisible friend.

I collect My Little Ponies. And Discworld books. And 1000-piece jigsaws. And a whole bunch of other crap. I also customise ponies, and do various other silly art projects.

Oh, and I occasionally sleep for 10-18 hours straight. Can I put down 'sleeping' as a hobby?

Playing NationsStates.

My hobbies include convincing as many people as possible that I ought to be committed for my own safety without actually being committed, and hurting myself. :)

Coins (Australian, medieval, dutch, Papal)
Stamps
Gemstones and other rocks
Figurines
Other knick-knacks

i collect rare seeds, tubers, and spores. i have gotten an amorphophallus tuber, i really like it! and a few cycad seeds. most of the other seeds are common plants that live around here that i've collected. and i've gotten 2 acorns from a burr oak. there is about 180 seeds in my collection at this time.

"Hey Ya'all gotta a strange hobby?"

I write "target posts," on a forum called Nation States General, for female Canadian radicals to take pot-shots at. :D

Come to think of it, I don't collect anything. I'm boring.

It's Kanabia and Eutrusca! Good day. :)

It's Kanabia and Eutrusca! Good day. :)

Hello Oksana :)

Hi. :)

It's Kanabia and Eutrusca! Good day. :)
Hi, pretty lady! How're you this morning? :)

Hi! :) What if I'm not pretty? :rolleyes:

Oh, and I'm pretty involved in www.rctankcombat.com.
A bunch of us build 1/6th scale remote controlled tanks, armed with paintball guns, and fight it out.

Really quite fun.


Sweet. I'm sure there's peoplke doing it here in Japan, but I doubt I'd ever be able to find them. :(

Hi! :) What if I'm not pretty? :rolleyes:
What? You don't think you are? Tsk! I saw the picture you posted. :p

And even if you weren't, it would still be easy to find nice things to say about you: intelligent, witty, great personality, etc. :)

I study hentai and have learned many wonderful things form it. My sig would be longer but there is a stupid 500 character limit and was forced to make an abridged version. :(

Aww, thanks Eutrusca. I think I'm pretty, but not in that picture. I deleted it though. I'm going to post a different one. The closeups show what I look like better. If you want me to I can email you them.

I throw knives

I study genetic inheritance. I do experiments with punnet square, research in the newest breakthroughs.
Really? Geneticist? wow. that's what I wanted to do, but I ended up as a biology and botany teacher.

When I was in high school, I collected pencils. For no reason whatsoever. I just happen to be a bit of a klepto and ended up with a desk full of other people's pencils. Except I always left the pencils all at home and never had anything at school to write with.
I did that when I was a kid, too. I still do but only with really cool pens I find in my classrooms.

Occaisonnaly I multiply very large numbers together in my head for fun.
I do that, too... we're too much alike...

woah! wtf? I'm not dishwalla2. That's my friend... guess she put it on auto loggin or something, hold on a second.

woah! wtf? I'm not dishwalla2. That's my friend... guess she put it on auto loggin or something, hold on a second.
*sighs* Much better, back to my own account.

I edit music on my computer. I guess that qualifies as a strange hobby...
That isn't strange. I love editing music.

My hobbies include fixing cars, coaching sports, playing music, sex, contemplating a way to revise communism so that it couldn't be as easily corrupted, etc.

Originally posted by Dishwalla2
Really? Geneticist? wow. that's what I wanted to do, but I ended up as a biology and botany teacher.

No, I'm not going to be a geneticist. It thought about it, but I do not have the patience for it. The curriculum at most universities is based around genetics for medicinal purposes. I'm more interested in racial evolution.

No, I'm not going to be a geneticist. It thought about it, but I do not have the patience for it. The curriculum at most universities is based around genetics for medicinal purposes. I'm more interested in racial evolution.
Once I finish my med school I'll have the credentials, but I'm a teacher and I'd only give that up if I got my dream job as a geneticist working directly for the cdc but considering I'd be fresh out of med school and there are only 3 top geneticists for the cdc that's not going to happen.

i collect any millitaria and weapon,sort of strange...
i have several hats and caps
a scotish claymore sword
a bayonet 1942
a bowie knife 1900
an american marine corps sabre
a colt 45
a peacemaker
loads of wbbing and packs and maps and ..stuff
a lee-enfeild rifle
saving up for a bren-gun

Originally posted by Compulsory Controled

Once I finish my med school I'll have the credentials, but I'm a teacher and I'd only give that up if I got my dream job as a geneticist working directly for the cdc but considering I'd be fresh out of med school and there are only 3 top geneticists for the cdc that's not going to happen.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't two race, ie: black and white, only phenotypic in a person if they are only 25% black, not 50%? It's a "theory" I've been working on.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't two race, ie: black and white, only phenotypic in a person if they are only 25% black, not 50%? It's a "theory" I've been working on.
As a theory it does make more sense, however the observations* trying to prove either way were halted. They were doing some down in Boston a couple months ago and they never published the results.
*It was pretty much a census type of survey
But at the moment only rodents have been fucking around for the sake of science. *lol*

I throw knives

Got an assistant? ;)
The type that stands there as a target to *miss* ?

Does a strange hobby include going to more schooling even though I don't need it and it won't help my career?

I know quite of few "Mulatto" people and those who show both their African and Caucasian traits, had only one black grandparent and three white grandparents. Thos who only showed their African traits had one white parent(pure white) and one black parent(pure black). I think in this sense, genetics should be given more attention. I personally believe in the white Diaspora, and that belief doesn't mean I can't believe in religion, evoution, or creationism.

I like to play old computer games. I hooked up my NES again last week and I already finished Super Mario Bros. 3 twice

I know quite of few "Mulatto" people and those who show both their African and Caucasian traits, had only one black grandparent and three white grandparents. Thos who only showed their African traits had one white parent(pure white) and one black parent(pure black). I think in this sense, genetics should be given more attention. I personally believe in the white Diaspora, and that belief doesn't mean I can't believe in religion, evoution, or creationism.
name and asl? I'm Matt. 27.m.Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
As far as religion gets intertwined with science I'm not sure where I stand. I've been very indifferent abotu that lately. I've always been a very* religious person all through my childhood and adulthood. However, many factions of catholism don't make sense taking science in account.
*In my opinion, compared to the people I grew up with.

Hey, LP. I love Mario and Sonic. I deleted my picture. I'm going to post a different one. I can always just send you the closeups, the lighting is just so much better in them. :(

Got an assistant? ;)
The type that stands there as a target to *miss* ?Nah! I throw my own made at thick industrial cardboard when I'm bored at work.

I like to play old computer games. I hooked up my NES again last week and I already finished Super Mario Bros. 3 twice
Awesome!

I have no hobbies, but I am thinking of taking some up sometime...unless...
is procrastination is hobby?

Hey, LP. I love Mario and Sonic. I deleted my picture. I'm going to post a different one. I can always just send you the closeups, the lighting is just so much better in them. :(
Whoo! I can't wait

I have no hobbies, but I am thinking of taking some up sometime...unless...
is procrastination is hobby?
I guess we can say it is... lol
Only problem is we'd have to consider boredom a hobby, then.

I climb narrow spiral staircases to stand in cold rooms with other obsessives, trying to make a lump of metal several times my body weight and twenty feet above my head move how I wish it using only a rope with a strange fluffy bit on it.

I'm a bell ringer. Hurrah!

Originally posted by Compulsory Controled
name and asl? I'm Matt. 27.m.Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
As far as religion gets intertwined with science I'm not sure where I stand. I've been very indifferent abotu that lately. I've always been a very* religious person all through my childhood and adulthood. However, many factions of catholism don't make sense taking science in account.
*In my opinion, compared to the people I grew up with.

I'm Allie. I'm 17 and I live in Wisconsin. This is my take on religion. Right now I'm agnostic:

The world was most likely created due to a sequence of chemical processes. We most likely did evolve from other species of primates. The coincidence of the bible and Adam and Eve can be justified. Adam and Eve could exist because cave men lived far apart from each other. Caves were found in Spain, France, and Germany. Mesopotamia was where Adam and Eve were presumed to live. Now Known as the region of the Tigris and Euphrates river, between Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The Paleolithic era was most likely when humans were evolving from primates, which would explain why specific humans like Australopithecus existed but died off because they did not evolve to the point of survival. At this time, I believe that humans were dark-colored(black). It is possible for cave men to produce white(caucasian) offspring because, in my opinion, the first peoples posessed both a dominant and recessive gene for all coded skin colors or degree of melanin. Due to this, it is possible for black people to produce white offspring. Phenotypes tend to be dominant if the organism has two dominant alleles. Of course, dark skin is always more dominant over light skin. This can also explain racial traits. Many Arabs have a mix between hair texture of a African person and white person. They tend to have very dark eyes. Asians have fine hair and dark eyes, etc. I believe that the Bible begins with Mesopotamian civilization not Paleolithic time. That is why it is not in the bible. This is also why Adam and Eve could be depicted as white people. They could have been white. No one is sure of exactly when the white Diaspora occured, but I believe in it. That is why Northern Europe was the only place with Caucasian people prior to imperialism.

I spend a lot of time with my buddies drawing weird comics that have a lot of leather clad perverts in 'em.

I like converting people (in pictures/paintings/artpaddings) to pirates

I like converting people (in pictures/paintings/artpaddings) to pirates
You mean like, drawing moustache in their face and stuff? That's great!

You mean like, drawing moustache in their face and stuff? That's great!
Not moustaches. Beards, eyepatches, anchors on their arms, hats.... pirate stuff

Not moustaches. Beards, eyepatches, anchors on their arms, hats.... pirate stuff
Right... and what kind of statues and paintings? I mean, they'd catch you quite fast if you did it in a museum or in an art gallery.

He's talking about on Artpad.

He's talking about on Artpad.
What's that?

What's that?
artpad.art.com

artpad.art.com
Oooh! That's a nice page!

Well, I think I have a lot, but this is all I can think of right now:

1. I collect paper clips so I can make paper clip necklaces, bracelets, tiaras, etc.

2. I collect twisty ties (like on Barbies) so I can make twisty tie necklaces, braclets, tiaras, etc

Criticising people
Such as the guy above has a dumber signature than me. :p