Do you have any interests you can't talk about IRL?

[PipTheAlchemist]

So really I don't talk to my liberal grandma about the new AK I just got

Shoot her with it, for the lulz

 

[NoReturn]

The mysterious origins of the Basque language and people. There is no consensus on where they came from, since the typical telltale signs of migration pattern are absent both genetically and linguistically. Nobody seems to really care though. Also, why are there so many of them in Northern Bumfuck Nevada?

Tell me more.

Why me, my family, and much of my community migrated from northern Spain to Nevada
Civil engineering, specifically underground structures/tunnels etc.
Nuclear engineering
Tesseracts and alternate dimensions


Mind your damn business.

I wanna know things.

Blood Meridian, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, and Infinite Jest among other books. I am a /lit/tard.
I'm a nutjob conspiracy theorist (only the ones with documentation and evidence though), also, basically this:
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I have a desire to know more.

Gardening, lots of outdoor stuff, I keep bees, garden, spend a lot of time innawoods identifying plants and fungi. Trying to learn something about them. I also collect nuts and seeds and grow trees. I love growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers. I'm always trying to learn something new and improve. Problem is all of my friends are more into indoor hobbies and whenever I try and talk about what I'm growing or what I learned I can see their eyes glaze over. I even had one guy at my local game store accuse me of lying when I tried to talk about my garden and all the stuff I do outside. Cause apparently you can't be into ttrpgs and go outside a lot.

I feel you. I can't brag about my garden spiders because no one cares.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Not that they’re degenerate interests I’d be ashamed talking about, just don’t know anyone interested enough to sperg about them with.

Horror movies/books being one of the big ones. The people I know either hate horror, or they only like the basic bitch Mongoloid horror coming out now.

 

[veri]

-lolcows
-computer stuff
-technology related laws
-cryptocurrency
-theories and conversations about social phenomenons (ex. troons and how the internet has impacted society)
-internet dramas and stuff like that

i wish i knew people irl to be autistic with!

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Well, I told a coworker/colleague (whichever you prefer, same thing) that I'd be interested in writing a paper on American concubinage, but who would want to tell a woman, "yeah, I wrote a whole research paper on sex slaves"?

Edit: (Even worse yet, a Black woman as a White man.)

Spoiler: The story there

I asked a professor once if there was a market in sex slaves and he said they were, it was called the "fancy trade." The more I learned about this, there were tons of slaves in the United States that were primarily White, due to 1-drop rule Whites breeding with slaves over generations created women that no modern person would call anything but White, but were fully legally Black and so admissable as slaves. One Vice President, Richard Mentor Johnson, had a concubine that was an octoroon, only 1/8 Black, and it was a big controversy in its day. White slaves is something completely ignored by popular memory (people talk about the fantasy "Irish slaves" but not the actual White slaves that were just Black by technicality) and fancies are something I think everybody kind of assumes exist but its too impolite to bring up.

Allegedly, lighter fancies sold for a lot more, so just off that alone you have topics related to things like how changing the race changed the price of a fancy. Obviously most fancies were just Black or mulatto, and they were largely sold in libertine New Orleans.

Also, stuff related to different patterns of concubinage, like in the US massa was more likely to have a mistress, whereas in Russia the nobility would have large harems but the individual likelihood of being harassed was much lower, just because in Russia the nobility owned way more serfs per capita.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I am a pretty devoted Boerphile (or Weeaboer, if you will), to the point of spending money on collecting Afrikaner and Boer Republican historical memorabilia/artifacts, rare books/maps, flags, and amassing a pretty decent library of obscure memoirs, academic texts, and the like. Zero interest in Rhodesia or Anglophone South Africa, though, except where it impacts on Boer and Afrikaner culture and history.

If normies press me on my interest in the region or my collection of artifacts, I just tell them that I admire the language and culture of this Dutch-speaking ethnic minority in South Africa.

No need to frighten normies with any reference to Afrikaners or European colonization or white settlers or apartheid. If I'm feeling really adventurous, I might mention that the language of these Dutch-speakers has diverged enough from European Dutch to be codified into a new language called Afrikaans, which was carefully cultivated and nurtured into a living language suitable for commerce, academia, and science so that the Dutch-speakers wouldn't be swallowed up by the Anglophones.

I have only ever met one normie who expressed more than a surface level interest in my Boerphilia due to her former boss/sugar-daddy being a proud Afrikaner emigrant who collected antique Boer War rifles, but she turned out to be a BPD psycho bitch, so it probably wasn't even a genuine mutual interest.

I'm nowhere near as into Rhodesia as you are into Boers, but I do collect flags and I own a Rhodesia flag.
One day campus security came to my apartment, in college, why I don't recall, I think related to my fire alarm going off. Old man looks at Rhodesia flag and asked me about it and I could have shit bricks, this was long after the Charleston shooting. I explained to him I was a historical flag collector and had an interested in Rhodesia, the British colony that became Zimbabwe. (I had written a term paper on the Bush War.) He was contented with that, but it drilled in for me how inflammatory that, and my Spanish Falangist flag, would be with the 1-in-a-million person who recognizes it.

You know, this is like saying water is wet, but normies are often interested in history but only history that's from, like, the Canon of Things Hollywood Makes Movies About. So they'll care about ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome (way more the latter two), Vikings, Middle Ages and Crusades, Renaissance, Colonialism, Victorian Britain, Communism, Mesoamerica, WW1 and WW2, Sengoku Jidai. They won't give a shit and aren't the least bit interested in anything outside of that bubble, no Thirty Years War, no Latin American history, no China that's not Communist or Genghis Khan related, no Byzantines, nothing at all from India, etc.

It's just odd, because there are tons of very interesting stories/cultures but it's like they consciously shut out anything that doesn't conform to an honestly pretty arbitrary list of topics you might hear about in public school, like the recognition of something gives it value.

 

[millais]

I'm nowhere near as into Rhodesia as you are into Boers, but I do collect flags and I own a Rhodesia flag.
One day campus security came to my apartment, in college, why I don't recall, I think related to my fire alarm going off. Old man looks at Rhodesia flag and asked me about it and I could have shit bricks, this was long after the Charleston shooting. I explained to him I was a historical flag collector and had an interested in Rhodesia, the British colony that became Zimbabwe. (I had written a term paper on the Bush War.) He was contented with that, but it drilled in for me how inflammatory that, and my Spanish Falangist flag, would be with the 1-in-a-million person who recognizes it.

You know, this is like saying water is wet, but normies are often interested in history but only history that's from, like, the Canon of Things Hollywood Makes Movies About. So they'll care about ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome (way more the latter two), Vikings, Middle Ages and Crusades, Renaissance, Colonialism, Victorian Britain, Communism, Mesoamerica, WW1 and WW2, Sengoku Jidai. They won't give a shit and aren't the least bit interested in anything outside of that bubble, no Thirty Years War, no Latin American history, no China that's not Communist or Genghis Khan related, no Byzantines, nothing at all from India, etc.

It's just odd, because there are tons of very interesting stories/cultures but it's like they consciously shut out anything that doesn't conform to an honestly pretty arbitrary list of topics you might hear about in public school, like the recognition of something gives it value.

I live dangerously with the flags. I flew a Boer Vierkleur at my workplace for most of last year, and I currently wear a homemade Vierkleur on my hat and a homemade Oranje-Blanje-Blou flag patch and a homemade Orange-White-Blue-Green Vryheidvlag cockade and armband on my jacket.

For the past couple months, I had been flying the Stars and Bars (the first iteration with just 7 stars, that flew over all the heady victories of '61 and '62) from atop some heavy machinery at my workplace, but after 2 different people questioned me about it, I took it down and have now hung it up in my office instead. One old lady didn't mind at all but was extremely worried it would trigger some hypothetical libs into doing something violent if they recognized it, and the other lady took real offense but I had developed enough goodwill with her over the past few years to smooth it over with a quick explanation of my interest in the war, to the point of picking up a souvenir flag from the local museum and reading a good number of memoirs and the Shelby Foote trilogy.

Better I took it down anyway as the fly edge of the flag is starting to fray pretty bad and it wouldn't have survive more than another 2-3 months outdoors.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Yeah. Too many things! I've made peace with the fact I'm a social misfit a long time ago, but it can still feel alienating and even frustrating. Hardly anyone I know shares my love for sculpting, writing, drawing, reading, and cooking. As far as reading goes, they either don't read at all or they only read what's on the best seller list. As far as cooking goes, they don't like to try foreign or experimental recipes like I do. They also don't like cooking for fun.

On top of that, I have a lot of weird niche interests that never cross most people's minds. There's no one outside my family that I can talk about Internet stuff with. I can't talk to them about other topics I love either, like history, philosophy, animation, movies, video games, comics, and keeping a dream journal. I know I'll get shit for that last one, but whatever!

I accept that all the normies in my life are who they are. They'll like what they like and that's okay. At least I can talk to my family about this stuff. Online, I always have Kiwifarms and 4chan!

 

[deerPropaganda]

Mass shootings (especially Columbine

Nice.

I accept that all the normies in my life are who they are. They'll like what they like and that's okay. At least I can talk to my family about this stuff.

If I had more testosterone I would have comitted a mass shooting.

 

[Womanhater69]

I've talked to people about it, but I can't functionally find someone that knows about traditional archery, bowyery and its mechanics.
Most of the time I end up speaking in the void, because they don't understand it or don't ask questions. Now I just hush up about it.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

If I had more testosterone I would have comitted a mass shooting.

Nah. I don't want anyone to get hurt or die.

These days I look at it the way Carl does on phyiscal fitness:

Like he said, you do what you like to do and I'll do what I like to do.

 

[deerPropaganda]

Nah. I don't want anyone to get hurt or die.

These days I look at it the way Carl does on phyiscal fitness:

Like he said, you do what you like to do and I'll do what I like to do.

What do you do if they find out what you like and don't like you? Like they actively harass you over it. This is in relation to my openess about Chris chan.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I live dangerously with the flags. I flew a Boer Vierkleur at my workplace for most of last year, and I currently wear a homemade Vierkleur on my hat and a homemade Oranje-Blanje-Blou flag patch and a homemade Orange-White-Blue-Green Vryheidvlag cockade and armband on my jacket.

For the past couple months, I had been flying the Stars and Bars (the first iteration with just 7 stars, that flew over all the heady victories of '61 and '62) from atop some heavy machinery at my workplace, but after 2 different people questioned me about it, I took it down and have now hung it up in my office instead. One old lady didn't mind at all but was extremely worried it would trigger some hypothetical libs into doing something violent if they recognized it, and the other lady took real offense but I had developed enough goodwill with her over the past few years to smooth it over with a quick explanation of my interest in the war, to the point of picking up a souvenir flag from the local museum and reading a good number of memoirs and the Shelby Foote trilogy.

Better I took it down anyway as the fly edge of the flag is starting to fray pretty bad and it wouldn't have survive more than another 2-3 months outdoors.

If it’s not offensive to your sensibilities, fly it with a Union flag opposed to it. I used to fly an Army of Tennessee flag out of retarded libertarian Neo-Confederate sentiment, then out of spiteful fuck you sentiment, and finally took it down and have felt better ever since. But a Union vs Confederacy motif would be nice. (Have also though of getting Russia and doing Ukraine vs Russia that way, I already have Ukraine).

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

By the way, I have come to realize that advancing yourself socially by doing interesting things is a complete lie, unless you interpret interesting as meaning popular/glamorous. Like, people will be interested in talking about you going rock climbing, say, but not your violin. Most people don’t even “do” anything.

You just wander into people occasionally who like things you like.

 

[deerPropaganda]

You just wander into people occasionally who like things you like.

Not in my experience. Though, I think all of my interests are nich and internet based.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

What do you do if they find out what you like and don't like you? Like they activity harass you over it. This is in relation to my openess about Chris chan.

If they're going to be weird about it, then I guess there is going to be legal trouble. Generally, I keep to myself and don't talk too much about the stuff I like since I know most people don't share my interests anyway. I just accept they don't like me and move on.

 

[Abella]

I’ve got a few:
•vtubers: I don’t feel comfortable trying to explain why I find womanchildren with facerigs being terrible at games entertaining.

•bugs: I think they’re neat, but they’re bugs so people hate them by default.

TTRPGS: outside of my playgroup I don’t talk about them because people just don’t understand.

 

[millais]

If it’s not offensive to your sensibilities, fly it with a Union flag opposed to it. I used to fly an Army of Tennessee flag out of retarded libertarian Neo-Confederate sentiment, then out of spiteful fuck you sentiment, and finally took it down and have felt better ever since. But a Union vs Confederacy motif would be nice. (Have also though of getting Russia and doing Ukraine vs Russia that way, I already have Ukraine).

The Union flag aesthetic is weak. The CSA flag aesthetic is pretty kino in comparison.

A week before the Russian annexation of the DNR and LNR, I was in the middle of fashioning a blue and yellow hatband since back then everyone had forgotten about the War in Donbas, and the Ukrops were still being tarred by the MSM as Banderite fascists, but then the current war started and the Ukrops started looking pretty lame after getting the globohomo whitewash treatment.

 

[stares at error messages]

1. Suicide
2. American empire
3. How people who immigrate to the USA think that it's a pain to go egg picking in the morning. And then Americans pay to go on vacation where they can go egg picking early in the morning.
4. How people love themselves for no reason irrationally.
5. How gay everything is.
6. How stupid people are.
7. How entertainment products don't make you happy, but you supposed to keep buying them anyway for some reason.
8. How Autism is conflated with savant syndrome.
9. How it's better to be disconnected as a savant rather then disconnected because you have been tortured by retards all your life.
10. Most literature is about metal illness, but people don't notice this.
11. How people ask open ended question but don't want genuine responses but also don't make the questions multiple choice.
12. How people ascribe natral processes to other races and time period but don't ascribe the same natral propreties to their own lives, society, or thinking.
13. How this is all to gay and boring to be a simulation.
14. How trannies are ruining porn for normal people.
15. How Europeans are overly trusting to a fault.

Is that what you had in mind?

Edit:
16. How people think banning guns is a good thing, but on the other side of this you are making it easy for people to be victims of home invasions and other crimes and some how banning guns isn't seen as a reasonable threat to personal safety from being home invation or held up at knife point.

 

[stares at error messages]

I got my own cult.

Tell me more. How did you start it? Do you have tax exempt status? Is Exempt status entity allowed to won other enitites and is the tax exempt status inherited? How often do you have to minister to you members; does this effect you tax exempt status?