So, what sort of weird assed stuff do you do, or have as a hobby?
Me?
Well, several, really.
But, as an example, I have the flags of all the nations of the world. In fact, I have them with me, most of the time. If not, then they are in my car. Only small ones, of course (Would have to be; my car isn’t big enough for all the full sized ones.) made of paper, on small bamboo skewers for flagpoles.
And they are quite accurate, by the way, including such things as the new Afghan flag, with the changes from the old monarchy flag from which the current was taken. And with the approved reverse for the Saudi flag, rather than just a mirror image. (Don’t want the words to be backwards, or the sword to be pointing in the wrong direction, you know.)
I even have a few non nations, like Hong Kong, or Macao, Puerto Rico, and such. There are about two hundred of them.
I generally give them to people I meet who are from other countries. It’s fun. Although I have learned that some folks don’t want the flag of the country they left. Kurds who came to the US are really not interested in an Iraqi flag. I haven’t been able to find a flag for Kurdistan. I have the old South Vietnam flag, and have found that most Vietnamese immigrants I meet prefer it to the current flag of Vietnam.
Of course I have learned to keep more than one of some flags, since there are a lot of immigrants from specific countries in my area. Peru, El Salvador, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Korea, India, and Guatemala seem to be the most represented. So, I generally have two or three of those. I replace the ones I give away in a day. Still, I run out pretty often, because people tend to associate in groups on the basis of homeland.
US flags, too, of course. I go through a lot of those.
Tris.