Hobbies and passions you don't like/understand but put up with for your friends and family - Self inclusion permitted

[BerriesArnold]

Dominoes. The old folks at my neighborhood would hold daily tournaments all throughout the year. No one won any actual money. Just bragging rights. That and the app "Dots" is big among older senile folks as well.

If you ever want to get an old person out of your hair, just pass them a phone with that app and they'll be glued to that screen all night.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Mom's obsession with Kitaro:it got so bad when I was playing an MMO, she immediately asked if "Kitaro's playing?"
And it was a western MMO. Not a Chinese one.
My younger cousin likes and plays Roblox/Fortnite. I dont get the appeal of Roblox except for the memes. If I had "Fortnite," I would just have my avatar constantly dance.

 

[Cake Farts]

Your powerlevel threads Himmler

 

[Piss Clam]

Cars and motor shows.
My sister-in-law is obsessed with them, and even has a couple of personalized sport cars she practically worships.
Being the only man in the house with her and my wife, she constantly tries to hook me up with her passion with mechanics, and so drags me and my wife to motor shows or when she does maintenance on her cars she insists for me to look on and explain me everything she doing, how the components she's using are top quality, etc.
The only part I honestly like of her passion is when she takes me for a ride around the countryside, which is something I find really relaxing.

I second this, but mostly because I rode motorcycles since I was seven. I didn't get the whole "I gotta get a car" in high school, and just let my friends drive me around.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Using Netflix as background noise.

 

[Prince Jello]

Someone in my family has a collection of lewd anime figurines and wall scrolls, and I want to die every time the mailman rings our doorbell.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

One year my sister was extremely into Hungary after doing a project on it.

The year she was into David Archuleta was also a fun one.

 

[DuckSucker]

I have friends that want to sincerely talk about Star Wars or comic book movies and not just ironically shit on them. So there's that.

I was going to say Marvel movies. I used to be into anime and shit like that so I cant really bitch too much because Im a duckin dweeb but I kinda got out of it right before it became "cool" and especially western shit I really didnt care about all that much anyway. My sister fucking LOVES them though and can dominate a conversation about shit like who Loki is fighting in this next Avengers movie and Im just sitting around going "Wait is Batman DC or Marvel". I feel like somebody's dad.

Im kind of like that with music for her though so I guess fair's fair.

My ex was the type of gal who was only ever into one thing at a time, but holy hell that one thing was all she could think about for at least a month, a kind of Wind in the Willows syndrome. Sometimes it would be a benign or interesting obsession, like gardening, poetry or exotic cooking. Just as often, though, it'd be something expensive (print making), painful (bizarre starch-based potato vegenism) or obnoxious (GOD DAMN CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY).

Kinda sounds like ADD. It really fucking sucks, because sometimes that shit really is expensive. You get way into one thing and this is, now youve found your "thing" and this is gonna be your life and you love it and youre gonna make it work and have like a business with it and then one day you wake up and youre like, "Man Im fucking bored of this now."

 

[Ido]

Liking Homestuck.

My now ex-friends drove me to insanity with Homestuck back when I was close to them, it was the only thing that ever left their mouths. I put up with it for years, so glad I cut them out, they were legitimately terrible people. Even when we were super tight I just couldn't stomach it and would leave early or skip out on things because I couldn't even get a decent explanation on what it was/why it was so great other than "The first parts are shit but it gets better with the trolls!" and I'm not lying when I say it's the ONLY thing they talked about.

I can lump fandoms in this too, because they always killed any interest I had in something if they were vocal. Those things are cesspools and I can't for the life of me understand why people would associate.

 

[Islamic Creampie]

While I'm a gamer myself, I don't understand people going for the entire library of games for a particulr system. Not only is it autistic to need every single game, it's a massive waste of space and money. I know a dude going after PS2. There must be 1800+ games for the console, most of which are worthless shit. He's even gone as far as to go without paying his heat bill in the winter so he could buy some games when they came up.

 

[adorable bitch]

I used to put up with my dad's baseball games and even go out to stadiums with him. He had three daughters who gave no fucks about sports but I liked to pretend I did, for him.

My sister and I also used to watch steven universe together. When I got bored what they were doing, she was still obsessed. Now I just make myself pretend I still like it, for bonding experiences or whatever the fuck. We don't have a lot in common.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I don’t really get mmorpgs, I used to play WoW for a while since my friends got into it, one going from not being that into games to organising raids.

It’s just hours and hours of grinding. (The PvP stuff was sometimes fun though)

 

[skiddlez]

These threads are beginning to get oddly specific.

 

[Red Hood]

I was going to say Marvel movies. I used to be into anime and shit like that so I cant really bitch too much because Im a duckin dweeb but I kinda got out of it right before it became "cool" and especially western shit I really didnt care about all that much anyway. My sister fucking LOVES them though and can dominate a conversation about shit like who Loki is fighting in this next Avengers movie and Im just sitting around going "Wait is Batman DC or Marvel". I feel like somebody's dad.

Im kind of like that with music for her though so I guess fair's fair.

For me it feels a little sad since a lot of the friends I'm talking about were in the TV/Video class with me in High School and we used to talk about well...not to put too fine a point on it, BETTER films and the actual breakdown of shots and narrative techniques and all that. It kind of makes me sad that people I had fun dissecting film noir with only want to talk about capeshit now and have bought wholeheartedly into the "nerd culture" sales pitch.

To be perfectly fair I was just like that for a long time but grew out of it.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Music is stupid. Most gay.

 

[Vocaloid Ruby]

Eating Ass

 

[tumblrkek]

Rap. My friends are WAY into rap and went as far as making a studio in my mothers house where we hang out by covering the walls of a room she didn't use with carpeting to have a place where they can play and create their stuff.
I must be autistic because I don't like when things are too noisy and I'm extremely picky about what I listen to, so I don't really get their music, it just comes off as loud noises to me, and when I take a closer look at the lyrics they create it just looks very melodramatic and doesn't resonate with me at all (but it does with them, I heard one of my buddies once say to another "you've created some of the the deepest shit I'll ever hear" so there's that). I'm very happy for them to have found such a creative hobby so I still support them, like a grandpa who doesn't really get his grandsons would.

Also Civilization 5. I don't get why they play this over AoE2.

 

[Agent Scud]

I don't understand motorcyclists. A number of coworkers ride and it's like a second life to them, they don't even really dump money into it. There's just something about riding that seems addictive to them. I gave it a shot, even got my license, but never really got the appeal.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

https://railrover.miraheze.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Bashers_slang

Trainsperg to English dictionary. Just for educational purposes.

 

[Count groudon]

Make up. My girlfriend is really into it and she's got talent but I just don't understand anything about it. But it makes her happy so I pretend to know what it all is, I mean she has to put up with me constantly sperging about cars, movies, games, and what have you so I'm happy to indulge her.