Socially Acceptable Hobbies. - General

I've been trying to learn how to speak Klingon. Not exactly a lot of people's definition of "socially acceptable"

My school is essentially this: Sports? Socially acceptable, even 4ths Soccer, which is essentially kicking a ball around for a few hours every day. Music? You had better sing, otherwise you are a band kid ([I]oh no![/I]) Theatre? Pfft, what a useless thing. lolol, acting isn't hard guys, and techies are just nerds who can't do anything else :downs:. Gets really fucking irritating after a while. I love all three, but a school dominated by 'bro' culture is really fucking aggravating when all they talk about is themselves, their girlfriend of the week (in a degrading and disgusting manner), or the current football/baseball/basketball star/team. "Hey look guys, I'm a white upper-class male who will never have to do a single day of work in my life! My job will be dictated by what position I get put in in my dad's company. USA is the best guys! Fuck yeah, America is always right! Fuck poor people, they are poor by choice/ just really fucking lazy. I'm so witty, I can make jokes about homosexuals! I can make terrible, misguided comments about girls I barely know!" And it is nearly every single one of them.

Trains are Cool. There.

[QUOTE=Zedicus Mann;32188409][IMG]http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/senior_year/pe.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I read this in the Soldier's voice from TF2.

[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;32186932]Same thing happened to me, I used to get bullied for being "good at using computers" by morons who don't even know what to do of their useless life. At least I can do something, morons.[/QUOTE] A little to angry I see, just because they make fun doesn't mean they're useless, a good amount of them will probably move on to make more money than you, it's not like computering is a big money job, i mean it's alright but not so much so that you'll rule the world. [editline]8th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Grasp;32191978]My school is essentially this: Sports? Socially acceptable, even 4ths Soccer, which is essentially kicking a ball around for a few hours every day. Music? You had better sing, otherwise you are a band kid ([I]oh no![/I]) Theatre? Pfft, what a useless thing. lolol, acting isn't hard guys, and techies are just nerds who can't do anything else :downs:. Gets really fucking irritating after a while. I love all three, but a school dominated by 'bro' culture is really fucking aggravating when all they talk about is themselves, their girlfriend of the week (in a degrading and disgusting manner), or the current football/baseball/basketball star/team. "Hey look guys, I'm a white upper-class male who will never have to do a single day of work in my life! My job will be dictated by what position I get put in in my dad's company. USA is the best guys! Fuck yeah, America is always right! Fuck poor people, they are poor by choice/ just really fucking lazy. I'm so witty, I can make jokes about homosexuals! I can make terrible, misguided comments about girls I barely know!" And it is nearly every single one of them.[/QUOTE] Upper middle class is not fucking company owner, that is upper class. Upper middle class is just general suburban nice houses shit. People need to stop exaggerating the riches of the upper middle class.

If I hear one more dude spout off some pointless statistics about some team or player in some sport, I am going to punch a hole in a goddamn wall.

I saved tons of money by buying the train DLC on sale for $300 compared to $1000 normally. #trainhobby

[QUOTE=Clementine;32192943] Upper middle class is not fucking company owner, that is upper class. Upper middle class is just general suburban nice houses shit. People need to stop exaggerating the riches of the upper middle class.[/QUOTE] I think that when people come from places like here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut[/url] they are a tad more than just upper middle class. Also, if anyone wants to know the school I am talking about; [url]http://deerfield.edu/[/url]

[QUOTE=Craptasket;32187393]DIY stuff, building a 1W laser and burning shit was pretty satisfying.[/QUOTE] 1W? Teach me your ways, oh noble one

I like trains

[QUOTE=SnowCanary;32187308]Most athletic kids are bigshots who try to impress girls.[/QUOTE] That is very untrue. Unless my high school and the surrounding ones are special, I'd have to say that most sports players aren't the arrogant douchebags you all seem to think we are. Just because the one quarterback goes after every girl doesn't mean most athletic kids are like that. Edit: Wow everyone here hates us sports players, and to be honest you guys are really exaggerating how bad it is. Unless you're in middle school there are 3 guys per grade tops that have "a girlfriend of the week".

I used to play a lot of sport, and in all honesty, I was really good at most sports I tried. Most of my club teams were excellent to play in, even if they were mostly horrible players, they were nice. When I got into representative soccer, everything just went down the shitter. My teammates were those arrogant sporting assholes everyone on here hates, and I'd get abused and yelled at if I fucked up in a game, when someone else did, nothing would happen because they were all 'bros' and I was the weird kid you was into computers and music while being better at the fucking game then about 3/4 of my fucking team. The sport stereotype usually fits in the representative part of most popular sports, because you have to be an arrogant asshole to catch the eye of the selectors who get paid off by parents and shit. And pick kids who are fucking horrible at the game but they have a parent who is highly placed within a certain part of the administration section of said sport.

[QUOTE=Grasp;32193150]I think that when people come from places like here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut[/url] they are a tad more than just upper middle class. Also, if anyone wants to know the school I am talking about; [url]http://deerfield.edu/[/url][/QUOTE] That place's median income is lower than my town's, everyone here is just upper middle class.

You can have your nerd hobbies, everyone has them. But like if you ever get into a conversation with a girl or someone and if she has the nerve to ask what you do on your free time, you should have at least one "socially acceptable" hobby to say you do. Like "oh I surf/lift/mma/sports/whatever" Not "oh I like collecting fucking [B]trains[/B]". People and girls especially won't be impressed by your 20,000 dollar train collection. But if you don't give a shit about how you portray your self, and you don't mind looking like a huge nerd, go ahead and flaunt your train collecting to the world. As of now, 99.9% of people will not think collecting trains is cool, its just the fact of life.

I have no hobby unless you count sitting on my PC doing jack-shit all day.

I had an older man come into my shop and ask about covers for chairs etc, when I asked him what it was for to try and help him better he wouldn't say. After a while he confessed that it was for model trains and he knew it was odd, which was funny because I didn't care, he could have wanted it for his buttplug collection and it wouldn't have mattered to me.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;32193570]It sounds like the only place you talk to girls is at clubs or bars (IE places full of easily impressed chicks). Saying you like sports/whatever isn't a guarantee a person will think you're interesting, in fact it can be repellant because everyone else with a penis likes sports too, it's like bringing up something like the fact that you drink water or breathe air. Besides, lying and saying you like something like sports enough that you count it as a hobby, when you don't even like is a massive douchebag thing to do.[/QUOTE] If you're saying that girls won't ever ask you what you do as a hobby outside of a bar you're kinda wrong heh. And maybe impress is the wrong word, its mainly just to make you look normal instead of a train collecting aspi. and by sports i meant like if you played a sport. Not like watching sports as a hobby.

I dance. I guess that's socially acceptable to a certain extent.

Shooting, biking, hiking, running, photoshopping, writing. Take a pick.

does the biking one involve you in a detailed and explosive manner

I decided I had three paths in life: Musician IT Tech Train Driver I picked #2 in the end but I've still got a very keen interest in Music and an occasional interest in trains. Luckily I haven't been to school in 6 years so I'm unlikely to get beaten up for not liking sports.

I like trains too. :smith: [editline]9th September 2011[/editline] Followup to UberMensch's comment, you can do a lot of stuff in the railroad industry. It pays good, see the country, and it's easy. Driving a locomotive is probably the easiest thing you could do.

I do warhammer 40k which i suppose is like model trains in a way. Model trains are really expensive though, and the people that are dedicated to it make them look amazing.

I started working out at the gym again, I also want to go bike 2 times a week and go swimming. But seeing as I'm in my last high school year I need to focus on learning.

I play with Lego on occasion because why the fuck not.

I paint miniature plastic men and it is awesome. (Warhammer 40k)

I collected model trains when I was a kid, I have like 20 full metal train models (mostly japanese) and I still find them fascinating. I also collected Hotwheels cars, and I have about 200 of them. Nowadays I just sit on the computer all day and occasionally play airsoft.

model trains are pretty cool, I got one right above my head, haven't used it in years tho.

[QUOTE=areolop;32186524]People in high school are arrogant, and like being smartasses. Its common for someone to be bulled because of a different view or 'hobby.' An example would be myself, I am training to become a police officer. People in my school all have the "fuck the police" mentality (mainly because everyone is rich)[/QUOTE] haha reminds me of that movie "Elite Squad" there's a couple hilarious scenes involving that disconnect

It's the other way around here, while people aren't shunned for liking sports (hell, two of our classmates have been in national U-18 teams for rugby and basketball), they aren't exactly at the top of the social tree because of that, they're at the top for being [B]FUN[/B] and [B]INTERESTING[/B]. Your american stereotypes for high schools just doesn't work here, I guess.