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g3org3y
7,059 posts
61 months
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Read some books.
Do people still play Championship Manager? I swear I lost months of my teenage life to that ruddy game!
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crofty1984
9,926 posts
74 months
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dave0010 said: People both on here and friends have mentioned just tugging on my gentleman's sausage for hours at a time.
I don't have a dog or any animal as rent and no pets aloud. either inside or outside hobbies considered. w  king.
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Rotary Madness
2,090 posts
56 months
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Eddh said: Riknos said: You misread this. It's 5 days 19 hours total play time, so 139 hours total over a space of 8.5 months...
So averages at 1.7 hours a day.
Some of the people at the top of the leaderboards on XBOX have 90+ days in the same period...! Pff.. I racked up around 100-120 days of /played time on WOW. I flat out refuse to work out how much of my life I put into EVE Online. Played for something like 6-7 years, and remember putting in many an all day session...
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kowalski655
955 posts
13 months
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If you want to spend hours indoors glued to a PC screen then flight sims are good. Get Flight Sim X if you have a decent PC, or Flight Sim 2004 if its not so modern, then head to flightsim.com and download literally gigabytes of free stuff-awesome scenery of every country, just about any plane you can think of (and a few you cant!) and stuff to make the game look superb, and all for free. Even the commercial stuff can be cheap if you look out for sales, and there are a lot of those.
Then you can spend hours flying, whether it be pootling around a local airport in a biplane, or flying non-stop LHR-LAX in a 747 with all the procedures and ATC as real life. Whatever takes your fancy. I would recommend sim-outhouse as a good community site too.
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v8will
2,532 posts
66 months
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kowalski655 said: If you want to spend hours indoors glued to a PC screen then flight sims are good. Get Flight Sim X if you have a decent PC, or Flight Sim 2004 if its not so modern, then head to flightsim.com and download literally gigabytes of free stuff-awesome scenery of every country, just about any plane you can think of (and a few you cant!) and stuff to make the game look superb, and all for free. Even the commercial stuff can be cheap if you look out for sales, and there are a lot of those.
Then you can spend hours flying, whether it be pootling around a local airport in a biplane, or flying non-stop LHR-LAX in a 747 with all the procedures and ATC as real life. Whatever takes your fancy. I would recommend sim-outhouse as a good community site too. I used to be into flight sim in a pretty big way, still have my old CH yoke and pedals. Would think nothing of a transatlantic jaunt on a Saturday evening.
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Zad
8,756 posts
106 months
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Minecraft isn't a bad call. Unlike Warcraft, you can just leave it and come back to it any time, whereas the WoW endgame relies on a group of organised people all regularly coming together at a pre-arranged time. That's what soaks up time, and in the long run makes it more like work.
The real secret of Minecraft is in all the add-on software like Buildcraft and Red Power. These turn it from being basic Lego into Lego Technic and Mindstorms.
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Yachtworker
769 posts
25 months
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How far do you live from the coast?
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Pig Skill
1,368 posts
73 months
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What about RC planes or helicopters - that sort of stuff
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Justin Cyder
6,555 posts
19 months
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rb5er said: Suprised nobody has said fishing. Cheap to get basic gear and catching a big fish is very satisfying. What's in it for the fish?
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Mystic Slippers
405 posts
73 months
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Avoid online mmorpg`s i wasted a lot of time playing Evony,ending up taking over my life i used to worry about feeding my millions of troops  and getting attacked whist offline.On the plus side the chat was cool and met (in a virtual sense) a lot of cool and funny people.
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Marty63
1,585 posts
44 months
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SystemParanoia
8,678 posts
68 months
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Merlin28
653 posts
18 months
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I walk a lot that is fairly cheap just costs a cup of tea and some chips. You may have to pay petrol depending on where you live and where you want to walk. Also I cycle which again is cheap and I have a radius of 60 miles from my house I can explore with my bike or drive somewhere and explore again costs cups of tea/pints and chips/pies.
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Skodasupercar
470 posts
47 months
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A few people mentioned RC car racing and RC helicopters.
They are NOT cheap hobbies!! I plowed a stupid amount of money into a low cost racing series in my early 20s. I did well at it, but that came at a cost. The cost (like £1000 for a few years racing).
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themanwithnoname
548 posts
83 months
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Skodasupercar said: A few people mentioned RC car racing and RC helicopters.
They are NOT cheap hobbies!! I plowed a stupid amount of money into a low cost racing series in my early 20s. I did well at it, but that came at a cost. The cost (like £1000 for a few years racing). This, my father in law races the 1/10 touring cars, I had a go using his 'old' car, which was last years parts and probably £800 before radio gear. The current kit closer to £1200 if you shop around. Heli's can be cheap until the first time you crash one, and you will crash one, even the £40 4 channel ones are a fiver a time in rotor blades and you'll use 5 sets getting competent. Indoors. Once.
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tom felty
578 posts
33 months
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dmulally
2,843 posts
50 months
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Skodasupercar said: A few people mentioned RC car racing and RC helicopters.
They are NOT cheap hobbies!! I plowed a stupid amount of money into a low cost racing series in my early 20s. I did well at it, but that came at a cost. The cost (like £1000 for a few years racing). RC helicopters attract red belly black snakes as I found out. Plus I couldn't even get the fricken thing to take off and land.
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rohrl
3,930 posts
15 months
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Campanology
Camping
Amateur Dramatics
Shouting
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IanUAE
1,223 posts
34 months
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Help out a local car / bike racing team? This is what I do and next season we will be racing in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
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Fatboy
7,292 posts
142 months
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iggysport said: Minecraft. But say goodbye to the rest of your life. Or even better - World of Tanks immense fun, charging across europe in WW2 tanks... Can be totally free, or you can buy upgrades etc. Not played it much, but my mates love it...
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