# Which Hobby Attracts The Most Tedious Wankers? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hobby-attracts-the-most-tedious-wankers/423543 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hobby-attracts-the-most-tedious-wankers/423543 "2007-10-22T04:55:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 72
### Author: ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack) #### Post date: [October 22, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hobby-attracts-the-most-tedious-wankers/423543/72 "2007-10-22T19:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I’d like to add Japanophiles. The people I’ve met who are _really_ into Japanese culture and language, anime, manga and the like tend to be the geekiest of the geeky; the most socially inept, doughiest or skinniest, borderline Asperger’s-ish geeks of them all. Despite their admiration for a culture that values cleanliness, Japanophiles also don’t seem to bathe too often, based on the funk that permanently wafts forth from the anime/manga section of the local Borders. [/QUOTE] Heh. I seem to have struck a rich vein of hatred for audiophiles. As for Japanophiles, I spent about seven years living and working there, and _nobody gives a shit_ about Japanese popular culture. Plenty of people come to learn the language, you meet quite a few who are there to practice their martial arts, but almost everyone sane combines it with having a life: you’re there to pick up a few bucks, polish your Nihongo a bit, see some of the country, meet the locals, have a couple of beers and maybe meet some girls. Learning Japanese in order to understand the intricacies of J-Pop or _Lupin Sansei_ is rather like learning English in order to wank over old Porky Pig catoons and The Spice Girls. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hobby-attracts-the-most-tedious-wankers/423543)._