What are your hobbies?

[Denim Chicken]

Kayak Fishing, gardening, beekeeping, paddle boarding

 

[Vtwin]

I probably have way to many hobbies and interests. The long standing hobbies include fishing, hunting, riding and modifying motorcycles, guitar/music, etc.

The last couple years I have gotten involved in a few things that have been on the 'always wanted to do that' list. Learning to weld which helped me to make a small forge to learn some blacksmithing. I added my first drum kit to the music room. Currently getting setup to do some chainsaw milling to make use of some of the timber I have available.

 

[Vtwin]

Wasn't the dead rat necklace she was wearing a giveaway?

She was a very beautiful woman. I probably wouldn't have even noticed the dead rat or wouldn't have cared even I did notice it!

 

[Miller]

I use to wear cologne when I was single and dating my wife. When we got married she told me she had some kind of allergies to any kind of cologne. What? We dated for 3 years and she never said a word. My dad always wore aramis . Even recently he was looking for a certain kind of aramis and it took him awhile to find it. I miss it, I tried many different kinds. But I learned something today, had no idea there was a forum for scents.

Did you figure out which one he was looking for? One interesting thing I discovered in the hobby is manufacturers will discontinue fragrances over time and they become treasures going for a lot of money on eBay. There are also different versions of a cologne due to restrictions that changed their formula. For example the old Polo had oak moss in it. They put chemical restrictions regulating real oak moss in colognes so now the smell is more from a non natural manufactured oak moss. So people will look for older bottles

 

[Runwildboys]

Is being an azzhole a hobbie? Cause if so, that's my 100%.

What? I would have sworn you were a professional!

 

[Birch_Wood]

Ya see, you screwed up and got good at it. If you were bad at it, no one would ask you to build them anything.

That's been my philosophy. Don't ever get good enough at anything that people feel they can impose on me and ask me for anything. They need something and go down their list of friends and I show up on that list, I get worse at that right away.

I make it a practice to let everyone know I am the unhandiest man they ever met. My honey do's were "please, NO's!!!!" And I am proud of that.

I can do a great impersonation of Everybody Loves Raymond in the house.

 

[dreghorn2]

There is one that is really popular but WAY too expensive..even though it can be found on discount sites...Creed Aventus. There is an actual subforum on that site dedicated just to this cologne. People swear women flock to them. No joke. I’ve worn it but it I think it’s a little overrated especially for the money. On the designer end a lot of people love Acqua di Gio Profumo..new version of the old stuff. So if you like wearing the CW you could go grab something else. Just like here, on that board there are obnoxious people. Many of these guys can be pretty loud, sexist and offensive. They call these scents “pant droppers.”

Back in the 70s a guy running in our group read somewhere about a mens cologne called "Andros' or "Andron' something like that. It's claim to fame was that it included pheromones that were irresistible to women.

The guy involved was not a ladies man by any stretch of the imagination but he wore it all the time. I have to say though that i never once heard a girl compliment any us for the colognes we wore, as Coach mentioned back in those days if we wore any at all it was Hai Karate or some other nonsense, but our buddy did get compliments on it all the time. Had me thinking there for awhile.

 

[Birch_Wood]

Did you figure out which one he was looking for? One interesting thing I discovered in the hobby is manufacturers will discontinue fragrances over time and they become treasures going for a lot of money on eBay. There are also different versions of a cologne due to restrictions that changed their formula. For example the old Polo had oak moss in it. They put chemical restrictions regulating real oak moss in colognes so now the smell is more from a non natural manufactured oak moss. So people will look for older bottles

I never asked him, he just tells a funny story about ordering it online. What they sent was not what he wanted. So he called them and said they don't advertise that anymore because they can't get it. He called back the next day and got someone who said the same thing but at least listened to his story. They ended up removing the picture for the website. They had not provided it for years and that ad was on their website. He found it locally at a new department store that opened recently.

 

[Birch_Wood]

To be fair, those kind of allergies can develop and get worse as you get older. Most scented things didn't used to be problem for me when I was younger but steadily got worse the older I got.

Good point. I didn't get allergies until after I was married.

 

[Birch_Wood]

I didn't know people collected them. When I wore it, I had some different ones for variety that my wife liked and Aramis was one of them along with Faberge Woodhue and Ralph Lauren.

I hear the word cologne and gag remembering the halls of my high school when Brut, Canoe and Hai Karate were the thing. Although, I always liked English Leather as a teenager.

Now, I just ingest the alcohol that I would splash on my face and neck and let it seep through my pores like a pheromone. I find that the cheap slutty ones like the top shelf liquors as much as the refined hoity toity hot to trotters. I sip some Pappy Van Winkle and I have to beat them off with an ax handle. And I never leave home without one. I collect ax handles.

That was a laugh out loud response...good job. https://www.tennesseehickory.com/

 

[lukin2006]

I gave up hobbies for bad habits.

 

[lukin2006]

Photography, travel, and avoiding people...

 

[Runwildboys]

Used to draw and paint, but haven't been doing much of it lately. I design the occasional tattoo for someone, but that's about it for several years now.

 

[trickblue]

My regular favorites are Tom Ford's Violet Blonde which I think is discontinued, oldies like Opium and Red, Harmony by Clean, Agent Provocateur's Maitresse, Replica's Lazy Sunday Morning and Jo Malone's Wood, Sage & Sea Salt. New favorites are Dubai Garnet by Bond No. 9 and Couture Couture by Juicy Couture. I got three by Lalique which seem so blended that a single note cannot be detected.

I've always been a one-fragrance guy. Don't like heavy perfumy scents. Been wearing Light Blue by Dolce & Gabbana for a few years now. Perfect for me...

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Anything outdoors. I'm a seasonal hunting guide and love anything to do with hunting especially white tail. Fishing, especially kayak fishing for pan fish. Rafting, we do Hell's Canyon every year with my brother-in-n-law who's a guide in Idaho. Backpacking, mainly in Big Bend, the Guadalupe Mountains, and in the Gilas.

Cooking. I'm a good cook and have done everything from competition BBQ, to Dutch oven, to catering. For a white dude I make killer Mexican.

Reading. I'd read a phone book if that's all that was available.

Gardening. I spend lots of time in the yard poking around.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

I don't really have hobbies, but one thing I like to do is sharpen knives. I want all my knives razor sharp. I love when I volunteer to sharpen my friends' knives and after I sharpen their knives the look on their faces when they use the knives afterwards is pretty cool. Usually then never knew how dull their knives were before.

So are you a strop user or whetstone? I never could use a strop. I use a whetstone on certain blades but my Lansky sharpener is the one I can do the best work with. I've got a Spyderco sharp maker too but can't get the results I want.

 

[Doomsday]

Golfing, cooking, and poker

 

[Miller]

Besides the cologne i spoke of in the OP I will add that my other two passions besides my kids are golf and travel. I already started a travel thread. Cologne just happens to be the only other thing I visit a message board on!

 

[Jammer]

So are you a strop user or whetstone? I never could use a strop. I use a whetstone on certain blades but my Lansky sharpener is the one I can do the best work with. I've got a Spyderco sharp maker too but can't get the results I want.

It really depends on how bad the blade is. I've used belt sanders if they're really bad or if I want to change the angle of the blade. My go to is a whetstone followed by a leather strap. I've had excellent results using paper wheels on a grinder. I was skeptical but it really does the job. If you have a lot of knives it can't be beat for speed/results.

 

[CouchCoach]

Anything outdoors. I'm a seasonal hunting guide and love anything to do with hunting especially white tail. Fishing, especially kayak fishing for pan fish. Rafting, we do Hell's Canyon every year with my brother-in-n-law who's a guide in Idaho. Backpacking, mainly in Big Bend, the Guadalupe Mountains, and in the Gilas.

Cooking. I'm a good cook and have done everything from competition BBQ, to Dutch oven, to catering. For a white dude I make killer Mexican.

Reading. I'd read a phone book if that's all that was available.

Gardening. I spend lots of time in the yard poking around.

I like pan fish almost as much as Jiffy Pop.