# Hobbies for the not-so-wise **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147 "2017-11-09T21:32:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/1 "2017-11-09T21:32:47Z")
**Bungee Cell Jumping** : Like regular bungee jumping, but cordless. Not only a not-so-wise hobby, but a poor business venture due to serious lack of repeat customers. On the plus side, equipment expense is minimal. **Debaseball** : Played by normal baseball rules except that the big screen shows all of the players’ most embarrassing life moments while the PA announcer narrates. No DH, pitchers must bat and be equally abused. **Yogurt** : Striking odd poses and holding them while live bacteria is encouraged to grow on your body. **Cartography** : Taking pictures of supermarket trolleys. **Phil Atlely** : The study of Prince Phillips dietary habits. **Dressage** : Wearing clothing that makes you look older or younger as the circumstance may require. **Roadeo** : Dodging traffic on a busy interstate highway while on foot. Must still be standing after 8 seconds to qualify. Contestants will be judged and awarded a score based on amount, type and speed of traffic as well as style points for slick moves and near misses. **Roadeo Clown** : One who distracts traffic from the Carboy after either 8 seconds expires or a vehicle wins, whichever come first. Yes, I’m bored. Yes, you are too. Please add more. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/2 "2017-11-09T21:45:27Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > **Roadeo** : Dodging traffic on a busy interstate highway while on foot. Must still be standing after 8 seconds to qualify. Contestants will be judged and awarded a score based on amount, type and speed of traffic as well as style points for slick moves and near misses. [Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutJ564zcYU) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/3 "2017-11-09T21:46:03Z")
I’ve played a lot of paintball. Also shot a lot of guns. The gun guys don’t get the paintball thing. I explain paintball is fun because you you can shoot your friends more than once. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/4 "2017-11-09T22:02:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > **Cartography** : Taking pictures of supermarket trolleys. > Yes, I’m bored. Yes, you are too. Please add more. [The Stray Shopping Cart Project](http://www.montagueprojects.com/the-stray-shopping-cart-project/) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/5 "2017-11-09T22:08:39Z")
The dancing car game. Long, no traffic road. And you do fast and dangerous spins and snappy turns. Yea, I was a out-of-control teen! Lucky I am alive! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/6 "2017-11-09T22:39:23Z")
**Big Game Hurting** : For people who like the adventure of stalking wild animals but who are opposed to guns and killing. You go to Africa, track down a trophy animal like a lion or a rhino or a cape buffalo; and then you go up and slap them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/7 "2017-11-09T22:42:35Z")
**RPG’ing** : Players simulate fantasy adventures by rolling dice and shooting anti-tank weapons at each other. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/8 "2017-11-09T22:50:29Z")
My daughter plays the ‘Dumb game’. It gets her out of doing unpleasant tasks. She pretends she doesnt understand what to do and asks others to show her how it’s done, til they have it done. She has been doing this for years with great success! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/9 "2017-11-10T13:38:33Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > [Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutJ564zcYU) Kind of, but he would lose style points for trying to escape. > [@running\_coach](#): > > [The Stray Shopping Cart Project](http://www.montagueprojects.com/the-stray-shopping-cart-project/) Oh, my! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/10 "2017-11-10T13:50:23Z")
**Dogeball** – Renaissance Italian rulers get together and throw large rubber balls at each other. whoever gets hit is “out”, and, if one Doge catchers a ball, the thrower is at. Last Doge standing wins. Games are boring because there aren’t any Doges around anymore, so people hoping to participate or watch end up throwing the balls at iPhones showing internet memes. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/11 "2017-11-10T13:56:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > **Big Game Hurting** : For people who like the adventure of stalking wild animals but who are opposed to guns and killing. You go to Africa, track down a trophy animal like a lion or a rhino or a cape buffalo; and then you go up and slap them. A few years ago I found myself hung up on stalking antelope in the Nevada desert. I had no real interest in killing them but it was fun to see how close I could get. I never got close enough to kill one with a bow and arrow anyway. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/12 "2017-11-10T14:40:28Z")
**Full-Contact Bridge** – Players vie for the opportunity to be the first to execute a “Grand Slam”. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/13 "2017-11-10T18:38:39Z")
> [@Mr.Goob](#): > > I’ve played a lot of paintball. Also shot a lot of guns. The gun guys don’t get the paintball thing. They do when they find out you can shoot the things out of actual muzzle-loading firearms. 🙂 As for other not-too-smart hobbies my first thought was politics followed by the ever popular javelin-catcher. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/14 "2017-11-10T18:53:57Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > They do when they find out you can shoot the things out of actual muzzle-loading firearms. 🙂 > > As for other not-too-smart hobbies my first thought was politics followed by the ever popular javelin-catcher. It’s possible to catch a javelin by standing to the side and grabbing it as it goes by. The hammer-catcher, however… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/15 "2017-11-10T18:58:50Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > They do when they find out you can shoot the things out of actual muzzle-loading firearms. 🙂 > . /Nope smiley goes here. I have actually done research & testing on this. (Does not work unless you use a plastic shotgun wad,a severely reduced charge, and don’t overdo it ramming it down.) ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/16 "2017-11-10T20:28:31Z")
Kayaking - capture a yak and ride it into a nearby Kay’s Jewelry store. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/17 "2017-11-10T21:16:17Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > Kayaking - capture a yak and ride it into a nearby Kay’s Jewelry store. Every krash begins with k. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/18 "2017-11-10T22:10:49Z")
I collect beach needles and botulism samples, and hand-sort them at night by candlelight. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/19 "2017-11-10T23:40:07Z")
Pitbull pranking…you go to dog parks and pick on pit bulls til they start growling at you. Then try to out run them to the gate. More gore=more points! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147/20 "2017-11-11T00:54:19Z")
Juggling…with venomous snakes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbies-for-the-not-so-wise/801147.md?page=2)