Who has the most unusual but legal hobby?
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crankedup said:
Kicking off then, I am interested in all things from the 1920's early 30's era. Art deco, life styles, clothing, Gangsters, prohibition and the 'Bright young things' and of course the music. I use a 1920's car to tow my vintage caravan (1929) to shows, exhibitions, re-enactments, promotions and such like. Slowly getting together the correct attire for the era. This is now my tenth year and my interest keeps growing, the TV series Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders has done much to draw attention back onto the era.
Thought about rock climbing but can't stand heights.
That, except with the '50s.Thought about rock climbing but can't stand heights.
Pistom said:
I'm a ceramic tile spotter specialising in tiles by a Pilkingtons and H&R Johnson.
I don't collect them but love identifying them in the various places we go.
Not a lot of people know that the corner tiles in Sainsbury's supermarkets were hand glazed and if you look carefully you can see the inconsistencies in the glaze.
A lot of tiles were produced in quite dirty factories and on windy days, dust would blow onto the glaze. You can see which tiles were made on windy days.
My party trick is identifying the colour, style and model name of tiles.
It gets really exciting when you spot a tile on a none standard biscuit such as a Pilkingtons tile on a Johnson biscuit. That is very rare as the 2 companies were competitors but there was a time when the spray drier was out of operation which meant Pilkingtons had no choice but buy in biscuit. I believe that is where the saying "taking the biscuit" comes from.
I offer a slide show presentation on types and styles of dust pressed ceramic tiles 1976-1983.
i know it's a piss take but if it was true i could appreciate the effort in doing something like thatI don't collect them but love identifying them in the various places we go.
Not a lot of people know that the corner tiles in Sainsbury's supermarkets were hand glazed and if you look carefully you can see the inconsistencies in the glaze.
A lot of tiles were produced in quite dirty factories and on windy days, dust would blow onto the glaze. You can see which tiles were made on windy days.
My party trick is identifying the colour, style and model name of tiles.
It gets really exciting when you spot a tile on a none standard biscuit such as a Pilkingtons tile on a Johnson biscuit. That is very rare as the 2 companies were competitors but there was a time when the spray drier was out of operation which meant Pilkingtons had no choice but buy in biscuit. I believe that is where the saying "taking the biscuit" comes from.
I offer a slide show presentation on types and styles of dust pressed ceramic tiles 1976-1983.
I have collected car brochures from the age of 8. I am now 44 and I have crate upon crate of them. I reckon there must be a couple of thousand of them here.
I used to write letters to car companies and posh dealers at home and abroad posing as a potential customer. Ofthen the letters would explain my busy lifestyle travelling globally so I would get my PA to write to for example BMW North America requesting specific brochures.
Those were the days when My PA was me, I was 14 or so and a smart looking letter written on an Amstrad 8256 would do the trick.
I came home from school one day to find a Range Rover brochure, price list colour and upholstery swatches on the kitchen table. My letter to Solihull had been so convincing, they'd sent a salesman out from the dealer to hand deliver them. My old man felt obliged to take the Range Rover out for the offered test drive. I got a big lecture from him about wasting people's time.
I still collect. now it's mainly cars I will potentially own, but not always. At least now I don't make up cock and bull stories. I just fill in an online form.
I think it is a hobby that is not long for this world.
I used to write letters to car companies and posh dealers at home and abroad posing as a potential customer. Ofthen the letters would explain my busy lifestyle travelling globally so I would get my PA to write to for example BMW North America requesting specific brochures.
Those were the days when My PA was me, I was 14 or so and a smart looking letter written on an Amstrad 8256 would do the trick.
I came home from school one day to find a Range Rover brochure, price list colour and upholstery swatches on the kitchen table. My letter to Solihull had been so convincing, they'd sent a salesman out from the dealer to hand deliver them. My old man felt obliged to take the Range Rover out for the offered test drive. I got a big lecture from him about wasting people's time.
I still collect. now it's mainly cars I will potentially own, but not always. At least now I don't make up cock and bull stories. I just fill in an online form.
I think it is a hobby that is not long for this world.
Read and watch a lot of horror in your formative years, then work in a medical school and this sort of fascination happens...
www.dead-interesting.com
All perfectly harmless of course. If I could, I'd earn from it
www.dead-interesting.com
All perfectly harmless of course. If I could, I'd earn from it
wildcat45 said:
I came home from school one day to find a Range Rover brochure, price list colour and upholstery swatches on the kitchen table. My letter to Solihull had been so convincing, they'd sent a salesman out from the dealer to hand deliver them. My old man felt obliged to take the Range Rover out for the offered test drive. I got a big lecture from him about wasting people's time.
I used to do something similar with porno mags. I'd phone up pretending to be a big advertiser looking to block book pages of adverts & they'd send me copies of their magazine. I'd get bundles of mags turning up at home then I'd sell them at school. Got rumbled after a couple of years when one of them did a follow up call but my Dad answered the phone.
My unusual but legal hobby is now rock tumbling. I find rocks and put them in a machine & it polishes them over a few weeks.
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I Race this, we have about 8 at the club. there a full development class and have to fit in a theoretical box. it mostly carbon with fiberglass hull's, all home built.
currently it's semi hydrofoiling but need some serious mod's to make foil fully.
Mini 40 class http://modelmultis.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/min...
Andy
currently it's semi hydrofoiling but need some serious mod's to make foil fully.
Mini 40 class http://modelmultis.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/min...
Andy
Edited by TheConverted on Friday 17th October 09:33
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