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

Birthdays past 18 or 21 are pointless.
If you don't buy your friends presents for the fuck of it anyway now and then, and you aren't starving artist/student poor, you're kind of a shitty friend. It's like going to a bar and only buying a round once a year.
 
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MerriedxReldnahc said:
My buddy J is a great guy, tremendous guy, I love hanging out with him, but I cannot for the life of me keep up with him when he talks about Smash Bros. I'll play it sometimes becasue I like it, but he's all into competitive Smash and knows all this technical shit that doesn't even make sense to me. He tried to teach me to "wave dash" once and I still don't even remember what that is. I was at his birthday party last month with a bunch of other nerdy guys who were STOKED for the upcoming Smash. All I know is that I like Captain Falcon and Little Mac.
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I still don't understand "competitive Smash". It's still a party fun game as far as I know.
 
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My partner loves games like sid meyers civilization or risk and so does my dad and I just don't understand I find those games go on forever and are so boring so when they gush about it I pretend like I know what they are talking about and not just drone them out.
 
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My dad is really into camping and fishing. Like, really into it. As in if there's not a significant chance of dying on the trip, then it's not worth it in his eyes. He spent a month in the woods along the Canada/Minnesota border a few years ago with nothing but a canoe, two fishing poles, a small backpack of camping and emergency supplies, a GPS unit, and a map. This was real back country shit, too.

I've got to admit, you have to have a shit load of balls to do stuff like that. Guy is turning 60 next year too, and shows no signs of slowing down. I've been with him on a couple of his less insane trips, and even those almost killed me.
 
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A good friend has a passion for trying to preach about smart-meters being bad in terms of radiation and government control after a couple of drinks.
scorptatious said:
I've never really liked Country music. My folks, of course, love it.

Exceptions of course being the country songs in Fallout: New Vegas. Now that's REAL cowboy music.
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Country sucks but 'Big Iron' by robbins is a bloody tune.

A mate of mine is passionate about happy hardcore music and always makes me listen to a shit new tune he's found whilst I pretend to appreciate it, secretly hiding the disgust.
 
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Douglas Reynholm said:
A good friend has a passion for trying to preach about smart-meters being bad in terms of radiation and government control after a couple of drinks.


Country sucks but 'Big Iron' by robbins is a bloody tune.

A mate of mine is passionate about happy hardcore music and always makes me listen to a shit new tune he's found whilst I pretend to appreciate it, secretly hiding the disgust.
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Don't you mean "CHOOOOOOOOOON" by any chance?
 
atari said:
Oh geez I feel you on the doll thing. At my grandmother's old house she had a ton of the creepy fuckers, to the point where she had a guest bedroom dedicated to them. While I can understand it, I've never really seen the appeal of owning them, dolls are just creepy as fuck IMO. When I was little and we'd spend the night at her house, I'd do anything to not have to sleep in the doll room, I'd often cry out of desperation to avoid it lmao. She moved out of her house a few years ago and had to get rid of most of the dolls due to moving to a smaller apartment, but I'll likely never forget the memories of my sleepless nights surrounded by them.
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My last girlfriend was crazy about those creepy as hell Pullip dolls that are overpriced as fuck. Every time she would talk about them, she would drone on and on, and my god, did my eyes glaze over big time.
I wanted to listen to her, of course, but not about these awful pieces of nonsense.

Worse still was her financial situation, yet she still had to spend hundreds of dollars on these ugly as shit dolls, and needed more and more. She probably could've been set for life to just sell the ones she already had.

Yep, I kinda hate dolls now. I also sympathize.
 
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As you can probably guess from the Us Nerds XD thread, I fucking hate Protofreelance model railroaders (Rivet Counters to you British Kiwis). The model railroad club in my area primarily protofreelance model railroaders, which means that they have the temperament of a sick spoiled toddler when it comes to anything fun or not prototypical. They also hate children and anyone who is not well versed on prototype models.

One memory I have of this group was one of their members throwing a shitfit at a train show because there was a Great Western Railway Hall Class locomotive running on it (For nontrainspergs, the locomotive that pulls the Hogwards Express in the Harry Potter films is a Great Western Railway Hall Class locomotive) Despite the fact the Hall Class is a real locomotive used by a real railroad, the clubmembers were quick to tell the modeler to "Get that fairy train out of here!"
 
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Douglas Reynholm said:
A good friend has a passion for trying to preach about smart-meters being bad in terms of radiation and government control after a couple of drinks.


Country sucks but 'Big Iron' by robbins is a bloody tune.

A mate of mine is passionate about happy hardcore music and always makes me listen to a shit new tune he's found whilst I pretend to appreciate it, secretly hiding the disgust.
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That's a good way to illustrate why at one point "Country" was "Country and Western". They really are distinct genres, but Billboard combined them into just country.
 
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Higgins said:
That was my life when I lived with my family so I feel your pain. At my last shitty job, the employees were into Harry Potter and were generally a bunch of SJs. Miserable cunts they were
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Never understood why Harry Potter is so venerated. It's a fairly average series of kids novels with magic at a boarding school. It's full of plot holes and Harry suffers from designated hero syndrome, as well as a fetish for adverbs and ludicrous black and white morality, yet millennials line up to tongue J. K. Rowling's balloon knot over it.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
Never understood why Harry Potter is so venerated. It's a fairly average series of kids novels with magic at a boarding school. It's full of plot holes and Harry suffers from designated hero syndrome, as well as a fetish for adverbs and ludicrous black and white morality, yet millennials line up to tongue J. K. Rowling's balloon knot over it.
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It’s a mix of nostalgia goggles and the obsession over YA fiction that’s developed in the Millennial generation. I never got into it as a kid and fuck being an adult reading childrens books
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
Never understood why Harry Potter is so venerated. It's a fairly average series of kids novels with magic at a boarding school. It's full of plot holes and Harry suffers from designated hero syndrome, as well as a fetish for adverbs and ludicrous black and white morality, yet millennials line up to tongue J. K. Rowling's balloon knot over it.
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Having movies, it was "cool" enough to warrant being a real nerd by liking it. It's mainstream enough that Stacy dares say she's into it, but now that Fortnite and video games in general are mainstream to the point being a nerd isn't even a descriptive label, staying true to your HP obsession is just a testament to insanity.

With the complexity of Marvel's universe, I'm inclined to say any 14-year old who watched all the relevant movies have more nerd qualities than some chubby mid-20s british fuck who never dared test the waters of another book. Rowling is retroactively tearing her world apart but that's not good enough for Hyacinth to try Discworld or Dragon Lance. You know, actual nerd shit.
 
My Father in law loves American football. He watches all the games of his favorite team, keeps up with his favorite players and coaches, has autographs, jerseys, ect. And even though I'm not in to football, it is really fun to watch a game with him.

He's always more than happy to explain rules and plays if you ask. He'll talk about the history of plays, players, and coaches because he just loves it so much. He just gets so excited and passionate about it I can't help but feel excited too, even if I don't fully understand the rules. If he feels he's being too much of a sperg he'll apologize, but I never find it annoying.

I feel bad because I think he could have been a good player if he didn't have such bad asthma. He's also not the type to paint his face when he goes to a game because as he says, "I'm not that big of a fan, and no one want's to see me with out a shirt."
 
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