Things you have lost interest in over the years
Discussion
simon_harris said:
F1, used to make sure I was at testing, Monaco, Silverstone. Haven't watched a race since 2021
Indeed. Once it switched onto Sky, even when I had a Sky subscription, I got out of the habit of watching and then it is easy to forget it is on.I only get snippets of news when it breaks into the national news, such as when that Bear Man fellow got a drive the other weekend.
I made the effort to watch the Vegas grand prix last season, but that just turned out to be a street track with lots of bright white lights, so could have been pretty much anywhere.
Driving..... Gone from loving a drive in my old Caterham / Evo / Motorbike to it becoming a stress full nightmare.
When you're not dodging huge great big holes in the road, you have to drive at 20mph on roads that are safe at twice the speed, and every time you get a chance to stretch your legs, you run up behind someone whose just dawdling along at 1/2 the speed limit.
Speed limits are arbitrarily imposed with no real need for them. NSL to 50mph limits? Why?
And the biggest joke I saw last week, was a 20mph limit all through Bloxham in Oxfordshire, which ended just before the turn in to the Secondary school. So everyone starts accelerating past the school... stupid or what?
When you're not dodging huge great big holes in the road, you have to drive at 20mph on roads that are safe at twice the speed, and every time you get a chance to stretch your legs, you run up behind someone whose just dawdling along at 1/2 the speed limit.
Speed limits are arbitrarily imposed with no real need for them. NSL to 50mph limits? Why?
And the biggest joke I saw last week, was a 20mph limit all through Bloxham in Oxfordshire, which ended just before the turn in to the Secondary school. So everyone starts accelerating past the school... stupid or what?
Truckosaurus said:
simon_harris said:
F1, used to make sure I was at testing, Monaco, Silverstone. Haven't watched a race since 2021
Indeed. Once it switched onto Sky, even when I had a Sky subscription, I got out of the habit of watching and then it is easy to forget it is on.I only get snippets of news when it breaks into the national news, such as when that Bear Man fellow got a drive the other weekend.
I made the effort to watch the Vegas grand prix last season, but that just turned out to be a street track with lots of bright white lights, so could have been pretty much anywhere.
t repeated every week is just tiresome. I now record them all, fast forward through the stupid games and punditry from unqualified pundits!After getting married a few hobbies dropped by the wayside due to losing interest and being conscious of how much time my main hobby (golf) takes up and not wanting to take the Mick.
Football - still sort of follow it but can't remember the last time I watched a full game.
F1 - used to watch religiously until the Hybrid era, then the lack of screaming V8s/V10s meant I lost interest fairly quickly.
Gaming - used to spend ages on the PS4, now just dip into Gran Turismo and PGA 2K21 every so often.
Tech - used to love mucking about with computers and setting up the home network, now after 15 years in the industry I'm less interested.
Football - still sort of follow it but can't remember the last time I watched a full game.
F1 - used to watch religiously until the Hybrid era, then the lack of screaming V8s/V10s meant I lost interest fairly quickly.
Gaming - used to spend ages on the PS4, now just dip into Gran Turismo and PGA 2K21 every so often.
Tech - used to love mucking about with computers and setting up the home network, now after 15 years in the industry I'm less interested.
TheJimi said:
Electronicpants said:
Crossfit/going to the gym.
5-6 times a week, to walking the dogs and lifting the shopping out the car now and again.
Mate, get back in the game.5-6 times a week, to walking the dogs and lifting the shopping out the car now and again.
I remember standing in your garage and being impressed at your progress & targets whiteboard.
Mon! Get in
Covid killed it, and I can't see the point now, haven't put on any weight and I'm fully able to do whatever I want to do without 5-6 hours of pain and falling asleep at 9pm anymore, maybe I will at one point.
Horse riding - was thinking about giving up then got injured in a fall and haven’t done it since.
F1 - but haven’t watched for years
TV - so much stuff I used to watch but now bored by most things
Cars - I still love driving but opportunities few and far between to have an enjoyable drive and I can’t be bothered to run a special car for the very odd occasion I could enjoy it
Eating out - expensive and generally not as good as my wife”s food
Alcohol - I can’t drink like I used to snd it really doesn’t agree with me so mostly avoiding it.
F1 - but haven’t watched for years
TV - so much stuff I used to watch but now bored by most things
Cars - I still love driving but opportunities few and far between to have an enjoyable drive and I can’t be bothered to run a special car for the very odd occasion I could enjoy it
Eating out - expensive and generally not as good as my wife”s food
Alcohol - I can’t drink like I used to snd it really doesn’t agree with me so mostly avoiding it.
Electronicpants said:
TheJimi said:
Electronicpants said:
Crossfit/going to the gym.
5-6 times a week, to walking the dogs and lifting the shopping out the car now and again.
Mate, get back in the game.5-6 times a week, to walking the dogs and lifting the shopping out the car now and again.
I remember standing in your garage and being impressed at your progress & targets whiteboard.
Mon! Get in
Covid killed it, and I can't see the point now, haven't put on any weight and I'm fully able to do whatever I want to do without 5-6 hours of pain and falling asleep at 9pm anymore, maybe I will at one point.
Aye, it's been a while to be fair!Shame to hear you've stopped training though, but no judgement, folk change - per this thread.
Keep an eye on your inbox, I'll message you.
Jammez said:
Ironically, cars!
I used to be completely up to speed on all the manufactures models now I have no idea who offers what.
Maybe a result of me being a little older and loosing interest in new cars and maybe because the ranges on offer are now so vast it's impossible to understand!
Indeed. I used to be completely up to speed on all the manufactures models now I have no idea who offers what.
Maybe a result of me being a little older and loosing interest in new cars and maybe because the ranges on offer are now so vast it's impossible to understand!
Show me the profiles of any cars of the 60s/70s and I'd probably be able to identify them.
Cars these days and it would be a handful I could identify. They all look the bloody same!
Can agree with others about F1 too, but that came a long time ago when Senna died.
av185 said:
Paying stupid money £££ for very average restaurant food and drinks.
Far better spending time and effort cooking proper quality food at home/with friends tbh.
Yep still good to go out but far less appealing now as so many increasingly now taking the piss with prices no wonder many places are dying on their feet.
I am 100% with you on this! Took my wife out for dinner on friday night (being a bit lazy) Went to the local italian that has just re-opened under new management & chef) to show support. 1 burrata, 1 calamari (cheap frozen sFar better spending time and effort cooking proper quality food at home/with friends tbh.
Yep still good to go out but far less appealing now as so many increasingly now taking the piss with prices no wonder many places are dying on their feet.
t) followed by a salmon tagliatelle and a spinach and ricotta cannelloni with next to no ricotta, and 4 lime and sodas.SEVENTY EIGHT FECKING QUID!!!
to add insult to injury the service was s
t, the salmon way way overcooked and the tomato sauce for the cannelloni obviously straight out of the tin because it was metallic and bitter.I am not a bad cook but getting increasingly fed up with pricing of dining out for food that I can make better and more cost effectively at home.
F1 - used to watch every week, haven't really bothered since the 90s.
Rallying - used to watch anything and everything but a combination of the end of Group B, RAC became Rally Wales and TV coverage changed from cameras all the way round to course to mostly in car with odd bits of trackside.
Rallying - used to watch anything and everything but a combination of the end of Group B, RAC became Rally Wales and TV coverage changed from cameras all the way round to course to mostly in car with odd bits of trackside.
Top level Football
UFC - Sold out
Boxing - Hard to tell whats real and whats corrupt, youtubers
Drinking/Pub - Really isnt as good as it once was. Price/Quality
Time with my mates
Anything that now feels a rip off, which most things are....bah humbug....opportunists everywhere
Replaced with
Non-League Football
One Championship
Craft Beer - Quality not Quantity outlook (maybe age)
Cars - browsing AT rather than buying
Investing - blame IM for that
Kids/Family rather than mates (age thing but also less mates, better quality now, real mates)
UFC - Sold out
Boxing - Hard to tell whats real and whats corrupt, youtubers
Drinking/Pub - Really isnt as good as it once was. Price/Quality
Time with my mates
Anything that now feels a rip off, which most things are....bah humbug....opportunists everywhere
Replaced with
Non-League Football
One Championship
Craft Beer - Quality not Quantity outlook (maybe age)
Cars - browsing AT rather than buying
Investing - blame IM for that
Kids/Family rather than mates (age thing but also less mates, better quality now, real mates)
super7 said:
Driving..... Gone from loving a drive in my old Caterham / Evo / Motorbike to it becoming a stress full nightmare.
When you're not dodging huge great big holes in the road, you have to drive at 20mph on roads that are safe at twice the speed, and every time you get a chance to stretch your legs, you run up behind someone whose just dawdling along at 1/2 the speed limit.
Speed limits are arbitrarily imposed with no real need for them. NSL to 50mph limits? Why?
And the biggest joke I saw last week, was a 20mph limit all through Bloxham in Oxfordshire, which ended just before the turn in to the Secondary school. So everyone starts accelerating past the school... stupid or what?
All due to the tosspots in charge now at Oxfordshire County Council that is. Spent a f fortune installing 20mph signs limits all across Oxfordshire, only to find just exactly what the Police roads/traffic chief told them: 'We cannot enforce these limits'. When you're not dodging huge great big holes in the road, you have to drive at 20mph on roads that are safe at twice the speed, and every time you get a chance to stretch your legs, you run up behind someone whose just dawdling along at 1/2 the speed limit.
Speed limits are arbitrarily imposed with no real need for them. NSL to 50mph limits? Why?
And the biggest joke I saw last week, was a 20mph limit all through Bloxham in Oxfordshire, which ended just before the turn in to the Secondary school. So everyone starts accelerating past the school... stupid or what?
Made no difference to the guy in charge at Oxfordshire County Council re 'Roads' - he replied (how about this!) 'Just because the Police Chief says something, doesn't mean he's right.' What an arrogant arse, eh? In real life the councillor in charge of the roads, is a - wait for it... a 'Music lecturer' with a professional background in 'Church Music'.
He's as dim as they come with regard to roads and safety.
When OCC found out drivers were ignoring the 20mph speed limit in my area, 'he', in all of his wisdom (none!), decided to spend more of the public's hard-earned money. All the signs he demanded had to be increased in 'size'.
What a f prat! Still made no difference. Potholes? They don't matter to these tossers!
When they first installed the 20mph signs, the fools left many of the original 30mph (some 40mph) signs and road marking limits in place! Confused, everyone was! When notified of their schoolkid errors they got council workers to work quickly covering up the original signs with black bin bags. You couldn't make this s
t up! The 'Lunatics' are in charge of the asylum, in this case Oxfordshire County Council.
There is a brilliant stretch of road (20mph) in Witney in Oxfordshire, approx a mile and a half stretch on the Woodstock Road, then for the last 100yds of so it suddenly changes to 40 mph! I was stuck behind a 20mph waller only this morning on this stretch of road.
Have you guessed yet? As this rare stickler for the new speed limit (fortunately, not too many of 'em) reached the 40 mph sign, she sped up to 40mph for the short stretch and then braked like mad at the junction. Unbelievable.
Gant I'm reliably informed even has a spoof account on the Oxford Mail website where he spouts everything and anything about 20mph being the best thing since sliced bread - it saves lives he says. No it doesn't. He is simply a Lib-Dum(b) Green 'car hater'.
Edited by dandarez on Tuesday 19th March 16:11
Lots,
Popular music, okay it's an obvious one, but there was a time I was a little sad I didn't recognise most of the songs on Radio 1 anymore, these days, it's just noise. I'm not ready to say the music of era was better, because it wasn't, it was just my era.
Bedroom antics, hard to say, but my desire is seriously on the wane and hoping the planets have aligned with the wife hardly seems worth the effort.
F1, not alone or helped by a dominant Champion I don't like (few outside Holland do it seems), but the tail end of the current regs are predictable. I watch Drive to Survive with glee, I rarely if ever watch the races.
Nightclubs, flash bars, that sort of thing. My Wife is going through her own "just turned 40" crisis and likes all that crap again, I could do without.
Consumer 'stuff' I couldn't give less of a toss if I tried, I lost interest in the latest thing a while ago, but now when I see the guys out there with the fashionable dryrobe, dog breed , shoe, phone, watch or whatever, I feel a little sad inside, it's part of the human condition but it does no one any good.
Most enthusiasts' cars, roads are busier than ever, limits lower, fines bigger, camera everywhere and should the worst happen, so are the legal consequences, and against that backdrop most manufacturers are still pushing bigger, heavier cars with more and more power and grip. Not to mention cost - last years 'must have' car was a 500bhp estate for £100k. I can't afford that, but I can't even find any interest in the thought of it.
Popular music, okay it's an obvious one, but there was a time I was a little sad I didn't recognise most of the songs on Radio 1 anymore, these days, it's just noise. I'm not ready to say the music of era was better, because it wasn't, it was just my era.
Bedroom antics, hard to say, but my desire is seriously on the wane and hoping the planets have aligned with the wife hardly seems worth the effort.
F1, not alone or helped by a dominant Champion I don't like (few outside Holland do it seems), but the tail end of the current regs are predictable. I watch Drive to Survive with glee, I rarely if ever watch the races.
Nightclubs, flash bars, that sort of thing. My Wife is going through her own "just turned 40" crisis and likes all that crap again, I could do without.
Consumer 'stuff' I couldn't give less of a toss if I tried, I lost interest in the latest thing a while ago, but now when I see the guys out there with the fashionable dryrobe, dog breed , shoe, phone, watch or whatever, I feel a little sad inside, it's part of the human condition but it does no one any good.
Most enthusiasts' cars, roads are busier than ever, limits lower, fines bigger, camera everywhere and should the worst happen, so are the legal consequences, and against that backdrop most manufacturers are still pushing bigger, heavier cars with more and more power and grip. Not to mention cost - last years 'must have' car was a 500bhp estate for £100k. I can't afford that, but I can't even find any interest in the thought of it.
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