Interests or hobbies you couldn't care less about.

[bowhunthard88]

I have no interest, literally no interest, in: vehicle mods without regards to practical/usable function, golf, any televised or hyped competitive sport (although I did/do enjoy rifle shooting competitively), drinking beyond recreationally, gambling/lottery tickets; and I'm sure I could go on, but I digress... And I won't go into my "dislike" list lol.

 

[kyler1945]

religion, with a lower case “r”. This definition: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.

Not Religion with gods and what not that we can’t talk about here.

But religion, as in, the behavior which doesn’t allow for an environment that we can talk about big R religion here without fanfare.

I have no interest in that hobby.

 

[bowhunthard88]

religion, with a lower case “r”. This definition: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.

Not Religion with gods and what not that we can’t talk about here.

But religion, as in, the behavior which doesn’t allow for an environment that we can talk about big R religion here without fanfare.

I have no interest in that hobby.

Never mind... To this tone, I just backspaced my comment, but I fully agree and that falls into my "dislike" column.

 

[Exhumis]

Man we all have alot in common. I have less than zero interest in any sports.
And fishing. Sorry folks but I just can’t get behind it. I understand it and I understand why people like it but for me it’s like watching paint dry.

 

[bowhunthard88]

I can fish, but now it's more of a time-filler for "allowed" blanks... Now we're encroaching on lukewarm likes. I used to be an absolute trout fishing fanatic though, my yearly counts would be 3k+ landed between NJ, PA, and upstate NY.

 

[bigmike23]

Could never get into fishing either. I have a coworker who is a fishing fanatic. For him it's all about catching the biggest fish possible on the lightest line possible. Using 100lb line with a steel cable at the end and a DeWalt drill hooked up to the handle sounds way more fun lol

 

[gettingstarted]

Same as majority of folks here, :
No politics, sports at all

Fishing, I could do occasionally (while waiting for hunting season), but I just simply don't get too excited about it.

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[elk yinzer]

Turkey hunting. I play around with them, it's decent clean fun, but I don't get how anyone would obsess over it. And they are beautiful creatures but nothing about any individual turkey is visually impressive in the sense that antlers are. Great, you can hang your poultry from the limb, God made that convenient, but no, I don't really want to see a photo of it thansk. It looks the same as the other 10,000 photos of turkeys hanging from a limb I've ever seen.

Boats except as a vessel for fishing or skiing/wakeboarding/tubing or some similar activity. Just a means of transportation. Same with planes, trains, and automobiles. Or saddles for that matter, just a way to get in the tree not some tribal thing.

Blondes, tats, and body piercings.

Surprised how many of you ladies were bad enough at sports to hold a grudge about it.

 

[elk yinzer]

Fishing to me has a season. I love fishing, but it's April-September, then it's onto hunting season. Similarly I don't give much thought to hunting from end of turkey season to September. And ice fishing is for the birds. I think I could get with the kind in Minnesota where they haul camps out onto the lake and have a good time, but to sit out there in the wind or hotbox some tent to catch panfish, no thanks, not into it.

And I also dislike tournament fishing a lot. Especially the weigh-in type. CPR is a little better, but I don't think fishing is supposed to be a competition and tournaments can bring crazy insane pressure to freshwater fisheries.

 

[DB4x4]

I forgot one:

Modern video games

Let me clarify... I loved NES, SNES, and Sega growing up. I still love all the old school games all the way up to N64. After the N64, everything got weird and complicated. I know folks that are obsessed and play multiple hours every single day. Get a life. Go outside and touch some grass, for God's sake...

 

[Zero One Actual]

Politics.
Motorcycles.
Lifted trucks with oversized tires that rarely leave the pavement.
Drinking. Playing cards.
Vehicles or vehicle payments
Fantasy sports. (Fantasizing about athletes?)
WNBA. MLS.
Facebook. Instagram. TikTok.
Lawncare. Gardening.
Genealogy.
Car restoration.
Music. Dancing.
Cooking.
Home brewing.
Humans.

“Get off my Lawn!”……..”actually, wait. I don’t care about my lawn either!”

 

[Zero One Actual]

Network television.

 

[HuumanCreed]

Caremel....just dont get it. No one has given me a good explanation about how vanilla and white chocolate is actually different either....

 

[elk yinzer]

We may be diverging more into unpopular opinions, but...

Crappie is not a prime eating freshwater fish. It is perfectly edible, but middle-lower class. Good taste, but not firm enough texture. From warm water they can be straight mush. Super easy to catch and clean, beautiful fish, but not great eating. Just ok.

And there are a lot of "trash" fish that are a good bit better eating than trout.

 

[BTaylor]

Caremel....just dont get it. No one has given me a good explanation about how vanilla and white chocolate is actually different either....

Caramel is sugar, butter, cream and salt, what's not to like. Same for Vanilla, drop a couple vanilla beans in a bottle of vodka and let it sit in the closet for 6 months or so. Again what's not to like. Woke Chocolate is for flatbrimmers, I'm out.

 

[Newhunter1]

I work as a director for an alternative program and am currently sitting with a 15 year old girl in my office that I'm having my staff hotline her parents.
Things I hate: Parents who beat their children,
Parents who cuss and degrade their children
Parents who shame and tell their children that they don't want them...but then won't let someone who will love them unconditionally take them.
Drugs...marijuana...parents who smoke weed with their 12-17 year old children and wonder why they aren't doing well in school or their environment.
Parents who refuse to raise or discipline their children because they want to be their friends.
Parents who come to the school drunk and try and threaten my teachers without the whole story or a half truth story. (I escorted him off my property)
Parents and students who believe that they are entitled to anything...this is alternative education...you're entitled to an education...nothing more.

Any professional sports that take a knee for my flag.
Politics...
gun control...

 

[HuumanCreed]

I work as a director for an alternative program and am currently sitting with a 15 year old girl in my office that I'm having my staff hotline her parents.
Things I hate: Parents who beat their children,
Parents who cuss and degrade their children
Parents who shame and tell their children that they don't want them...but then won't let someone who will love them unconditionally take them.
Drugs...marijuana...parents who smoke weed with their 12-17 year old children and wonder why they aren't doing well in school or their environment.
Parents who refuse to raise or discipline their children because they want to be their friends.
Parents who come to the school drunk and try and threaten my teachers without the whole story or a half truth story. (I escorted him off my property)
Parents and students who believe that they are entitled to anything...this is alternative education...you're entitled to an education...nothing more.

Any professional sports that take a knee for my flag.
Politics...
gun control...

Agree with you 100%.

I also hate parents who live vicariously using their kids. My daughters were in tears Sunday because one of the player on the other team was basically playing rugby/soccer. They are part of a church sponsored kids soccer league, mostly 4-6 year olds who can barely walk with the ball in front of them. They were playing a friendly scrimmage with another team, scores weren't even kept. One of the boy on the other team was CLEARLY more experienced then everyone else, we questioned why he was even in this league but whatever. The thing that really pissed me off was the dad who was yelling at his son the entire time. "Go push them out of the way, use your elbow, get at it!" etc etc etc. The coach from BOTH teams kept telling him to stop and they are just kids having fun. But he kept at it "Well he's got to learn how to be aggressive, need to go at the ball, play hard, don't let anyone get in the way," etc etc...

I felt sorry for the kid mostly, even when he kicked my daughter in the shin so hard that it bruised her. He didn't meant to, probably was more worried that his dad would yell at him if he played bad. Sorry you were never a soccer star, but don't live through your kid.

 

[Iron_llama]

golf: a willful misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.

I've been saying this for years! I had to take a golf class in college (it was a required course, amazingly enough) and took perverse pleasure that all the supposed benefits from golf could also be found fishing (if you fish from a muscle-powered boat). In my very, very (very) late 30s and I've still never played a round of golf in my life.

Golf
Watching golf
Watching competitive fishing
Televised poker tournaments
Horse racing
NASCAR
Basketball
Whatever passes for Top 40 music these days. I'm not sure if Dua Lipa is a person or a band or something that requires surgery - I think maybe a person? - but it sounds unpleasant.
Most 'reality' television. Especially shows about a topic I'm interested in, like gunsmithing or barbecue, that don't teach me anything about the topic at hand because they're rambling on about what JimBob said to MaryBeth's cousin's girlfriend's baby-daddy. Worst Cooks in America would be a much better show if Alton Brown ran it and made it as educational as Good Eats.
Celebrities. Like, caring about what a famous person does in their private life so much that there are multiple magazines and television channels devoted to the topic.
Following, and emotionally investing in, the drama in the Royal Family. Fine, Canucks, that's your head of state, but Americans? Have some self-respect.

Televised trophy hunting is something I actively dislike because it rewards and legitimates horrible sportsmanship. Taking a 90-yard archery shot at a buck or a 200-yard offhand muzzleloader shot at a moving antelope because you have to kill something before the production deadline is reprehensible, and Outdoor Channel shouldn't reward such conduct with air time.

In a moment of self-awareness, hobbies I enjoy which I'm sure others would rather I don't talk about:
Saddle hunting
History podcasts
Minor league baseball (especially St. Paul Saints, Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders, and Los Tecolotes de Los Dos Laredos)
Motorcycles
Politics
Guns

 

[Nutterbuster]

Too long to list everything. As a younger middle-aged white guy from the deep red, Southern-Baptist south, the things I don't like that get me side-eye from my peers are:

The beach. I remember it before the state decided to rape it. Can't go down there without getting worked up so I don't go.

Saltwater fishing. See above.

Sports. Never have managed to watch a ball game to completion.

Golf. I actually used to play and be tolerable as a kid and enjoyed the time with my dad, but I went through a growth spurt and it just messed with my swing and I never recovered. He kinda quit playing, so I've never got back into it.

Motorsports. Trucks, ATVs, and boats are a means to an end. I have no love for them in and of themselves.

Country music. Especially the country/pop/rap mix most of the flatbills listen to.

Work culture. I try not to judge other people's life choices, but if you keep talking about your overtime and swing shifts I can't help but hope it's all worth it.

Firearms. Again, means to an end. I don't wanna go to the range with your or see your AR build.

 

[Empostarr]

There's plenty of hobbies or interests that I don't personally get, but I can respect that to others they bring them joy or calm or whatever it is they get out of it. Just like I don't expect anyone to care about or understand all the hobbies or interests I have.

What I could care less about is when people make their hobbies their entire personality.

I have way too many hobbies and interests, but none define me. I can understand the allure of stuff like a nice vintage car, a new gun, or even watching a sports game, but to make those a defining characteristic of your life is wild to me. I bought a new carbon steel frying pan recently that I was way too excited about and researched for weeks, but I'm not telling everyone I meet about it, not getting into tribal arguments about it and why it's better than all other cookware, nor posting photos of myself with it all over or wearing clothing about it from head to toe. And I'm definitely not getting into physical altercations with people because they like different cookware or their pan performs better in a comparison.