# Quirky hobbies/pastimes which you suspect only you partake in **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278 "2015-07-27T00:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/81 "2015-08-06T21:02:25Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > I’m a huge fan of professional bull riding and travel the country to PBR events. I know I’m not the only one as there are lots oif people at the events but in my social and work circle, it’s considered weird. PBR comes up on TV occasionally at the bar. I end up entranced, ignoring people who are talking to me. That’s some crazy action. I got thrown the one time I road a mechanical bull back during the week they were popular and I was hurting for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/82 "2015-08-07T19:34:55Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Well, [here goes one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QwP9XJn_3I), not much to see but a short glimpse of a mama bear with two cubs as they crossed the road. Neat video and nice choice of music. Thanks for pointing out the bears. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/83 "2015-08-07T22:52:12Z")
> [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](#): > > I do this, also. I’m absolutely smitten by older photo postcards of houses and commercial buildings. I have collected some old-time photos of the town where I currently live, and I am trying to locate some of the subjects to recreate the photo as of today. I would not call it a hobby as much as just an interest to see how things have changed. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/84 "2015-08-08T08:31:23Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I search Google Maps Street View to find the locations of photographs. For example, [this image](http://s2.dmcdn.net/Jp5wc/1280x720-Thu.jpg) from the new _Man From UNCLE_ movie. After a lot of searching, narrowing down countries and then cities and then recognisable landmarks, I found it was [here](https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Palazzo+Valentini/@41.896727,12.4770567,584a,20y,90h,41.58t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x132f604d35b560af:0xb9795d4d7e020f01!6m1!1e1). I’ve started doing this, mostly trying to find filming locations around Los Angeles, but I did find the location of [this photo](http://www.democratichub.com/portals/_default/WikiImages/main/george-s-patton-widef.jpg) (intersection of Broadway and 6th St., downtown L.A., camera facing south). I’ve located several 3 Stooges filming locations, and it’s amazing what’s still around after 70-80 years. I’ve also started using Google Earth to look at the locations of old baseball parks, and then try to find old photos of them to see if I can determine where home plate was. And this may be more of an obsession than a hobby, but I spend way more time than I care to admit finding the perfect album art for the iPod/iPhone. 1000x1000 pixels is my standard. I’ve gotten pretty good with Photoshop just from cleaning up poor scans of old record sleeves, and lately I’ve started reconstructing obscure single sleeves, especially if they’re variations of an album cover that I already have a good copy of. I know it sounds like a lot of work for a two inch iPhone display, but I use an old computer and bluetooth speakers as my home stereo, and I like to have the artwork displayed full screen. I guess the weird part is that I’ve never been any kind of collector of vinyl or anything, and I don’t own, and have never even seen a lot of the sleeves I photoshop except for crappy scans I find on the web. ---
**Author:** ![cybersnark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@cybersnark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cybersnark)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/85 "2015-08-10T01:15:58Z")
I collect antique military instructional handkerchiefs, mainly Victorian and pre-Victorian. Some examples of French ones here: [http://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?\_from=R40&LH\_PrefLoc=2&\_osacat=0&\_odkw=mouchoir%20militaire&LH\_TitleDesc=1&\_sacat=0&\_nkw=mouchoir+d%27instruction+militaire&\_trksid=m194&ssPageName=STRK:MEFSRCHX:SRCH](http://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?_from=R40&LH_PrefLoc=2&_osacat=0&_odkw=mouchoir%20militaire&LH_TitleDesc=1&_sacat=0&_nkw=mouchoir+d%27instruction+militaire&_trksid=m194&ssPageName=STRK:MEFSRCHX:SRCH) ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/86 "2015-08-10T04:01:50Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > I collect old church/club/organization fundraising cookbooks. Like those published by the Junior League of Peoria, or the Mountain Riding Club of Bozeman. Where each recipe is contributed by a different person (usually named something like Mrs Enid Beyersdorf…or more accurately Mrs Walter Beyersdorf) and usually include gelatin, liver, or both. I don’t even actually make the recipes, but enjoy the look inside the culinary habits of a certain time and place. Actually, and I feel bad saying this, that’s pretty mainstream. What I think you could do for quirky is something like only collect Baptist cookbooks. My quirky hobby is that I’m a boot whisperer. I collect boot manipulation techniques for figure skaters. It sometimes saves money over buying customs, or getting a boot to last for another couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![mildredpierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@mildredpierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mildredpierce)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/87 "2015-08-18T07:24:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe I should make a website for people who have pointless collections of round things. Aren’t all round things pointless? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/88 "2015-08-18T12:09:59Z")
I save my change, not for rare coins or simply amassing it, but in order to have some money around the house other than what’s in my wallet in case the ATMs go down etc. But I don’t want to have too much, so I have a complicated system to balance having some rolled money around versus in the bank versus having to drag more than 30 rolls to the bank at a time. Yes, I still roll them because otherwise how will you know how much you have? Plus, rolling change is fun. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/89 "2020-02-29T02:21:44Z")
My quirky pastime is dropping in on vintage MPSIMS discussions and marveling at the odd little corners of the interesting lives here. I would never reply to one of them and resurrect a quirky thread, of course… ---
**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:** [February 29, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278/90 "2020-02-29T02:33:28Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My quirky pastime is dropping in on vintage MPSIMS discussions and marveling at the odd little corners of the interesting lives here. > > I would never reply to one of them and resurrect a quirky thread, of course… I like quirky old threads, as well. I also collect. I collect lots of things. One of my weirder collections is tiny notebooks. I have about 300. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278.md?page=4)