I started photographing aquatic insects. Not really big into it but every once in a while, mostly spring time
Magnet fishing
Once i watched a video of someone fished up a live(or dead? It just puff and not explode) grenade. Whole bridge have to be closed down for bombsquad.
It starts all harmless…
That game was dope in kindergarden.
For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist…but
Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.
Biologist in university here…I know a person who has a dedicated garage freezer to store their roadkill and animal samples for dissection. That’s…that’s supposed to be the garage fridge filled with sodas for a tactical gaming refresh for the kids, no!
How did she do the rendering?
depends on what you use, I recommend blender, it’s free and open source. when plenty of tutorials
A blender seems like overkill, there won’t be much left to draw.
Do you say “will it rend? That’s the question” everytime you use Blender?
you gotta say “its rending time” before rending all over the place
Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.
Was your friend’s last name dahner?
Trainspotting (a now largely obsolete English hobby). Back when trains were a thing, nerds would gather at at the front end of the platform to write down the numbers of the engines. Exciting stuff. If you ever saw a movie called ‘The Station Agent’ with Peter Dinklage you kind of get the idea. Now a slang for a pointless, useless activity (which is where the movie about Scottish heroin addicts gets its name from).
A close second is commenting on the internet.
Relevant song! https://youtu.be/wOzDRzSRBiY
Wholesome!
There are airplane and bus spotters too. I don’t think it weird though, people geek out about all kind of things. Trains are cooler than cars anyway _
Back when I worked on a school boat we had a German kid in to cruise ship spotting. Every time we encountered a cruise ship he’d run to the chart house with his special notebook and write down all the AIS info and whatnot. We regularly saw what were in my opinion way cooler boats like tallships and navy warships but he didn’t care about anything else.
If there’s one thing I learned from being a siren enthusiast, it’s that if it exists, there’s a community and hobby formed around it. Neurodivergence is a helluva drug.
Quick! You can only take 3 sirens to a deserted island with you, which three do you choose!?
BNCO Mobil Directo (variant with a Wisconsin gas engine), a Federal Signal model 500-SHTT, and a B&M 20-AR-10.
Of course, this being a deserted island and all, the latter two wouldn’t be able to function and I’d probably only have limited fuel for the Directo, but they’re my favourites so it’s better than nothing lmao
You know your interest is obscure when it throws Google for a loop:
Yeah, AI has absolutely no clue when it comes to sirens lmao. The Air Raid Sirens Wiki is where you want to go if you want to learn about sirens.
Isn’t every man a psiren enthusiast unless they have access to wax?
like loud things or fish people?
Loud spinny devices that do loud things.
Sea sirens are loud and can swing in circles, so they still count
Okay, what I mean is the kind of siren that is made of metal and/or fibreglass, contains a mechanical chopper/motor or electronic speaker, and is most often found on wooden poles and rooftops and used for civil defense!
Unfortunately, I’m afraid the sea isn’t too kind to warning sirens lmao
i don’t care what you do with your mermaids, but stuffing them with that stuff, even if its for civil defence, sounds unethical.
Yes?
My friends grandpa
breadsbreeds pigeons, he does nothing with them after tho.
Like this?
Oops
To late, I’m into it. Got more bird/bread based stories?
CAKE FARTS
DOES THE CAKE FART OR IS THE FART CAUSED BY CAKE? WHY ARE WE YELLING? FUCK YOU.
I read that as “weirdest holiday” and was going to say National Talk Like a Pirate Day - anyway sorry for the interruption, please carry on.
The telephone pole appreciation society…
You reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of early-ish internet history that is still up: the Traffic Cone Preservation Society
True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.
Example?
Yeah, since really gristly crimes are the normal interest here, I’m picturing someone obsessed with, like, shoplifting arrests.
Jaywalking fans are the real freaks.
Don’t kink shame… sometimes catty corner just does it for some freaks.
People who idolize serial killers…there’s folks who buy and sell dirt from Dhamer’s grave, the dark romance folks being creeps at cons asking writers/actors how they’d fantasize raping someone, the fangirling and marriage proposals sent to killers…
Butterfly collecting because you have to kill one to collect it.
the fediverse.
What a silly hobby!
A weird hobby of mine used to be collecting pictures of camgirls balancing shoes on their heads. I misclicked the [ x ] on a camgirl popup ad, and discovered that it wasn’t a big link to some site, but an actual chat room with a live girl. For anyone unaware, you can talk to them for free, while they try and lure you into paying for whatever acts you want to see. I told the first one I don’t believe they are real because I didnt, and to balance a shoe on her head so I can see its not just a collection of prescripted gifs or something. She did it. Screenshot. Did it to a few more for the lols. I had a few thousand over a year or two before I finally lost interest.
Also telling them how cool it was they keep tarantulas as pets, because I just saw it go behind that poster on the wall.
I dont feel proud of myself now, they were at a point in their lives where taking their clothes off for a few quid on the Internet was a good idea, and I was just fucking with them. Was fun though.
Wow, shoe-on-head takes me back.
We 2007 baybeeeeee!
And now they’re undeniably a hard right winger
The tarantula thing is pretty funny.
I don’t remember the name, but the being hanged by chains attached to your skin thing is really weird
Think it’s just called “suspension”. I know someone who has done it professionally at least once
To learn more, watch the movie The Cell!
The fire alarm collecting community is larger than you might expect. I first got one recommended to me on New Year’s of a guy setting off all 20 or so of his linked fire alarms when the clock struck midnight. He needed hearing protection the next room over.
