As many of you know, I’ve recently picked up my crochet hooks. I’ve completed my first few projects (a shawl for mass, for one – now that our parish has a repaired a/c system, it can be a meat locker at that early morning mass!) and now I’ve rediscovered how relaxing embroidery can be. I’ve almost finished my first item. There’s something really calming about the pulling of thread through the fabric, and seeing something pretty come out of nowhere. Crochet items require I follow a pattern, counting stitches and such, that it can sometimes be a problem doing it while visiting. Embroidery has no such concerns.
So I did a quick search on hobbies. Here are some for men:
Chess
Ham radio
Woodworking
Ballroom dancing (I always said there was nothing sexier than a man who can dance!)
Working on cars – classic or otherwise
Metalworking
Marksmanship
Hunting/Fishing
Gardening – manly gardening, like acres of corn and stuff
Sports
…and others
There are some familiar hobbies usually considered “wimmin’s work”:
Sewing – clothing, quilting, embroidery, etc.
Cooking – unless it involves open flame, such as over a campfire or on a grill
Crafts
Singing
Gardening – flowers, usually
Painting
Window shopping (but carrying all of those windows home can be a problem!)
Of course, in this day and age, there are no “men’s” or “women’s” hobbies. In my college years, I was eager to build my own VW engine – I even had a chassis. Alas, time and money delayed my adventure into automotive creation until the dream got put permanently on a shelf. Hubby and I both have considered glass blowing and woodworking, but, again – other things got in the way. We like to travel, so maybe we’ll do more of that some day – just get in the car and go. Many women these days shoot as well as any man, and Sarah Palin certainly broke through that “women don’t hunt” barrier.
I’m sure that our recently retired Couch resident can figure out a few hobbies she’d like to pick up!
Friday “Get a Hobby!” Open Comments
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What, DH stole your VW hobby? That ain’t right, tell him to move over, I got a motor to build!
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mharper42 can get into cat breeding.
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Thread Injecting. Thread Injecting is not on the list.
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I try to practice marksmanship with my Diana Model #36 .177 air rifle on a daily basis. Grackles do not stand a chance in my back yard.
I don’t play chess, but I am pretty darned tough on backgammon and pente
I like wood working and leather working which requires thread injection
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I live inside the CoH city limits. No hogs. And the number of cats I have is already more than the law allows. Good morning, Hamsterville. I have plans to do a bit of yardwork this morning, so gotta gulp my coffee & a small breakfast, then suit up.
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I live inside the CoH city limits. No hogs.
Just because you are inside the city DOES NOT MEAN that you are out of danger of feral hogs. A couple of years ago a 400 pounder was killed at River Oaks Country Club on one of the holes near the bayou. If you are anywhere near a river, bayou, creek, etc you could encounter a feral hog, or a coyote for that matter.
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Morning all.
Katfish: Your what’s his secret was fabulous. Everybody should see that. It wouldn’t have worked to well with me as I refuse to put my life out on the web. -
#6 bone
or an agulator. -
It’s summer!
And you know what that means! New beach attire for squack! -
Here’s more from Ted Cruz on the debt ceiling, if you have time for his 11-min statement on the Senate floor. It’s the 2nd video in this link.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/23/wacko-bird-ted-cruz-goes-after-angry-bir -
Getting my news dump before I leave with Lovely, and found this chilling testimony. The description is graphic, so don’t listen if you haven’t eaten yet.
Ex-abortionist testifies. -
G’Morning All
Don’t know about feral hogs in Houston. but a coupla months back there was a hit and run bobcat in residential northeast Sugar Land. -
George H. and Barbara. You gotta love ’em.
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#9 Homer: I am glad that there are some decent things for plus sized wimminzes to wear. Most high fashion models are a disgrace, they look like street junkies with the dull, sunken eyes and bones sticking out everywhere, not at all attractive. It kinda makes sense that they would look like that however, as most fashion designers are men who have no interest in wimminzes, so they try to make them look like young teenage boys – sick and big time.
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As we all know, those who partake of the holy herb are harmless.
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#16: Didja notice that they left alcohol out of the list? Correlation does not equal causation. Do you recall reading in the history books how organized crime flourished under prohibition, can you see how organized crime is flourishing under the current drug regime?
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#16 – pfpfpfpfpfpfptttttttttttttttt whatta crock
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I’m thinkin Mharper needs her a cute little pot bellied pig! (think Bacon Magnate) 🙂
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“The drug czar should be ashamed of himself for attempting to deceive the American people in this manner,” said Steve Fox, the national political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group in Washington.
“We could release a study tomorrow showing that 98 percent of arrestees in the United States drank water in the 48 hours before they engaged in criminal behavior. Does that mean that water causes crime? Fortunately, the American people are smarter than the drug czar thinks they are.”Without entering into this causation/correlation debate, that is an idiotic statement, and I’m smarter than Mr. Fox thinks I am. Water is not a mind-altering substance.
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Just listen to me…
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while 😉
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#21: That pretty closely describes my kid’s mom, definitely NOT MRS. BONECRUSHER. The pseudo-male in the video represents the “new castrati” as Limbaugh describes them, nothing will ever improve in this situation.
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Boruch Spiegel has bigger, brassier huevos than all you people combined.
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When the bulk of we non-mooslimes realize that the mooslimes view us in the same way that the NAZIs viewed the Jews and that they are committed to act in a similar fashion, we will have hope in solving that particular civilizational problem. As long as the bulk believe the garbage spewed forth from the like of Barry “head up hiz azz” Obunga, we are all in mortal jeopardy.
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#21 – OMG ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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This woman is in firm control of boundless lunacy:
HEADLINE: Pelosi: IRS Targeting ‘Wrong’ But ‘Not Illegal’
There is a video, ifn you can stomach it, of this D-bag making the statement. Isn’t this the same moron who boldly proclaimed that the position of the Catholic Church was not clear on abortion?
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Water is not a mind-altering substance
If you breathe enough of it, it is.
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Dude! I am sooooooooo baked.
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21 is perhaps all that needs to be said on the subject.
Game over.
Albeit from the comments:
“Just say “No,” kids. You won’t die if you do without. There’ll never be worthwhile women until you demand them.”
Easy for you to say, Bubba. You see that hottie?????? Whew!!! -
A real man would have said, YES DAMMIT! It is all about the nail and until it is gone there is nothing to discuss.
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Yeah, yeah. I know about the pussification of the male of the species.
But in this case, Darwin’s right. They’re all going to die off.
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A real man wouldn’t be there on the sofa with a psycho.
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Good morning Hamsters. Ugh, Summer his upon us like the proverbial ton of bricks. The skyscrapers pile on in July and August, but right now is bad enough after our gloriously cool Spring. Ick. But we did make it down to 71 around 6:30, which is slight help considering the humidity was working on dreadful. Thoroughly comprehend why anybody who can leaves town until late September.
Wonder what new scandal du jour will be added to the stack. Scandals appear to be a cottage industry in the White House and throughout the Administration, all of course, totally unknown to King Obama’s court until somebody reads about it in the Saturday NYT 6 months later, buried amongst the want ads. By now you can drive a truck through that thin and vanishing excuse—I didn’t know. -
Wonder what new scandal du jour will be added to the stack.
I guess it would make me a raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist to mention that the first black prezidunt is the most corrupt in the history of this nation, and that he has done more damage to our country than any foreign enemy ever has. Not that he ain’t a born foreigner, because we all know that he is.
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A real man wouldn’t be there on the sofa with a psycho.
That’s exactly what I said, right before I walked out.
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I think Michelle Malkin and I see the situation the same way.
HEADLINE: Obama’s bloody recipe for more Benghazis
Nice article and after reading through most of it comes this question:
Which side are Obama and his lawyers on, anyway? As I reported in “Culture of Corruption,” Covington and Burling, the former private law firm of Close Gitmo crusader and Attorney General Eric Holder, has provided dozens of Yemeni Gitmo detainees hundreds of hours of pro bono legal representation and sob-story media relations campaigns.
While these bleeding-heart lawyers dismiss the perils of Gitmo recidivism, the numbers don’t lie. I repeat: The office of the Director of National Intelligence reports that 27.9 percent of the 599 former detainees released from Guantanamo were either confirmed or suspected of later engaging in jihadist attacks. -
Shannon, if you wuz involved with a wimmins with a nail in her head, you didn’t walk out soon enough. (Ooooo, judgemental, huh?)
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#38 M42: I guess you wimminzes don’t realize that men can put up with some amazing BS, that is until the objective is achieved, then not so much.
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Stumbled upon this,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-mystery-of-the-second-skeleton/309305/
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The Benghazi “militant” ringleaders have been identified. But we don’t want to whack them, despite having done so to others who were guilty of lesser acts and in countries that are far more stable. We don’t want to mount a military mission for fear of raising the hackles of the “government” of “Libya”, despite the facts that it controls essentially downtown Tripoli only, the “freedom fighters” committed an act of war against the US, and Bronco & Co. don’t want to send them on a Cuban holiday, but try them in a civilian court.
We’re sending the FBI back in to investigate some more and get the “government” of “Libya” to allow extradition. -
#41 – buncha spineless WISSES!!!!
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#40 Fascinating indeed! I read every word and am disappointed that there are not more pictures and x-rays to look at. Using the gene/protein understanding that causes the disease may enable them to prevent/reverse osteoporosis; what an incredible gift.
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#40 TexCan
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I had to go back and again view #21.
It is so funny.
Is there a man alive that’s never had that conversation? On some level?
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I wouldn’t want to be around a psycho man. Why would it be different for you guys? How is that “acquiesce to gynelogic”? Sounds more like co-dependence to me.
Let’s see where EG stands on the woman with a nail in her head. What say you, EG? Is sex, whether one night or long term, worth the agony?
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The video actually had nothing to do with sex.
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So the sex angle was all just in the comments here…
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How is that “acquiesce to gynelogic”?
“acquiescing to gynelogic” is more about choosing one’s battles and/or simply going along to get along.
Wimmins have strange “thought processes” that most dudes do not understand in the slightest. Those of us who have been married or otherwise around wimmins a long time simply choose to ignore the irrationality as much as possible and nod & mumble a lot. -
Dayaam, that
Global WarmingClimate Change is going to kill us fer sure!!. -
Apparently the Gang of 8 Amnesty is not even going to pass in the Senate.
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,well the agony IS unavoidable so what’s You’re pernt? 🙂
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#52 Kat
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#53 – Thank GOD only metaphorically (but it may as well have been physically)
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Sometimes you long for a high-velocity lead nail in yer noggin, as it were.
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Men like to solve problems, that is what we do, we don’t care about why, who, what or when… we just want it fixed. Woyems don’t get it. If you have already fixed the problem tell it’s fixed and get me a beer. We don’t need to hear about how you felt about it.
Sheesh… beer and a sandwich – done. -
Hey bunsonburner your proctologist called and you are doing it all wrong.
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News you can use, related to my hobby
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/05/23/operation_swill_new_jersey_six_ways_to_tell_if_your_bar_is_selling_mislabeled.html
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I saw a headline earlier today about TGI Fridays serving rubbing alcohol with brown food color as Scotch. I’ve been thinking my whole life that drinking rubbing alcohol would kill you. And now that I can google it, it says it can sure make you sick. So this sounds like a criminal act at TGI Fridays. Not just cheating you, harming your health.
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Okay. I found a nailgun, cheap.
Whenever any of you guys are ready.
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