# The most scariest hobby? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968 "2007-11-18T23:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/21 "2007-11-19T18:12:29Z")
Definitely quilting. Rotary cutters are sharp, man. And you should see my torn-up fingertips after a day of sewing. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/22 "2007-11-19T18:13:06Z")
Hucking waterfalls: > **[Kattawagami Untouched](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/KattawagamiUntouched.html)** > > Kattawagami River Ontario canoe trip “One hot morning as we lay about the dock thinking adventurous thoughts down at the Sudbury Canoe Club, a woman walking along the boardwalk stopped and asked what we were doing, or at least that is what we think she was asking, for she did not speak French or English – only German with a thick Bavarian accent which defies both description and translation. She was a scraggly thing with jewelry attached to her runny nose, so we assumed that she must be a Euro-punk who through a cosmic mistake landed up in Sudbury looking for a meal. Turns out we were right.” “Not being able to communicate verbally, we thought that the best way to explain what we were doing was through example. We loaded the trailer, drove up a skidder trail near River Valley, put the waif in an old, expendable R-5 kayak, and waved in a friendly and encouraging manner as she drifted off the Temagami’s Island Falls. Driving home at the end of the day, our guest had a smile on her face, so we assumed that she liked paddling with us.” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/23 "2007-11-19T18:37:18Z")
Cave diving has to be one of the most dangerous things you can do. The number of deaths does not necassarily appear to be all that great, until you look at how many actually do this insane sport. Imagine having to surface in an undergound pool quickly, and starting to get the bends, but still be a couple hundred feet underground in a cave system. [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/16/Hernando/Lost\_diver\_found\_in\_i.shtml](http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/16/Hernando/Lost_diver_found_in_i.shtml) [http://www.jm000.net/dangers.html](http://www.jm000.net/dangers.html) Look up cave diving death on google, see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/24 "2007-11-19T19:45:20Z")
[Urban infiltration](http://www.infiltration.org/aaa.html) can be pretty scary at times. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/25 "2007-11-19T20:43:27Z")
I’ll put in a vote for [motorcycle racing](http://www.pbpracing.com). ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/26 "2007-11-19T20:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=Dorjän] I’ll put in a vote for [motorcycle racing](http://www.pbpracing.com). [/QUOTE] Nah. That ain’t scary. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/27 "2007-11-19T20:54:25Z")
Growing pot ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/28 "2007-11-19T20:56:30Z")
Bungee jumping with a rope that’s too long has got to be up there. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/29 "2007-11-19T21:00:35Z")
Having a fully equipped wood shop with a fully stocked beer fridge? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/30 "2007-11-19T21:09:27Z")
Scary, guys. Not dangerous. Neccessarily. Go to a true urban pickup game some day ad holler “I’m next”. No, don’t. Unless you know. Scary, but not especially dangerous: Standing at a cyclone fence, with your fingers hooked in it, and having a mach two basketball hit that fence exactly where your nose would be if the fence wasn’t there. Or worse, a 250lb sweaty, aggressive, and very noisey man do the same. Do not run, it only triggers a pregatory instinct. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/31 "2007-11-19T21:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=fifty-six] Growing pot [/QUOTE] in Alaska? I thought… ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/32 "2007-11-19T21:15:10Z")
Playing Gaelic Football in the Dublin Football Championship. Can get very rough, very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/33 "2007-11-19T21:18:32Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] in Alaska? I thought… [/QUOTE] Well maybe not here or Berkeley, CA We are probably a bit safer thank some places. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/34 "2007-11-19T21:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=Lochdale] Playing Gaelic Football in the Dublin Football Championship. Can get very rough, very quickly. [/QUOTE] Do they play “casual” but serious games, like in parks and such? American touch football can quickly loose the “touch” qualifier. Especially if there’s beer involved and girls watching (and cheering). ---
**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 19, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/35 "2007-11-19T21:49:30Z")
Base jumping is pretty damn dangerous. It has some insanely high casualty rate. The guy that invented the sport back in 1978 died doing it in 1984. That should have been a tip-off to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![ThirdCultureKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/36 "2007-11-19T22:43:07Z")
Not the game per se, but the scariest pre-game freakout is watching the New Zealand All Blacks doing the Haka. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKnUMaR5IkA) Especially the part where those guys are going to charge you afterwards. Gah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/37 "2007-11-19T22:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Do not run, it only triggers a pregatory instinct. 😃 [/QUOTE] Like, he MUST impregnate something, NOW! ? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/38 "2007-11-19T22:48:08Z")
I did class B public fireworks displays (smaller hand fired shows) for awhile. By hand fired i mean walking up to the mortar with a road flair,…Very life affirming ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/39 "2007-11-20T01:19:04Z")
[QUOTE=ThirdCultureKid] Not the game per se, but the scariest pre-game freakout is watching the New Zealand All Blacks doing the Haka. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PKnUMaR5IkA/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/PKnUMaR5IkA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Especially the part where those guys are going to charge you afterwards. Gah! 😃 [/QUOTE] Okay, that’ll do it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968/40 "2007-11-20T01:21:53Z")
[QUOTE=fifty-six] Well maybe not here or Berkeley, CA We are probably a bit safer thank some places. [/QUOTE] Cool. 🆒 You wanna pass that over, dude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-scariest-hobby/426968.md?page=3)