My friends grandpa breads pigeons, he does nothing with them after tho.
There is/was this guy who would make really intricate linoleum tiles with meticulously cut out texts describing his delusional ideas about conspiracies around resurrecting dead people. It’s seriously wild stuff.
He made it his life’s mission to spread this idea by distributing those tiles across a large area around Philadelphia but eventually covering a large part of the east coast. He covered the back of the tiles in tar and found an ingenious way of depositing them on busy roads, where other cars would then drive over them and firmly imbed them in the asphalt.
While that in and of itself would probably be classified more as a mental illness than a hobby, it did sprout a community of people who went to spot these tiles on the streets to document and map them. It is also believed that some copycats have emerged over the years.
There’s an amazing documentary about it called “Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles”. I highly recommend it.
eating shit and carrying shit around in your mouth and putting shit on the couch WHY DOES SHE DO THIS
Magnet fishing
It starts all harmless…
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.
Bryan Ropar has forgotten more about plastic chairs than you know about anything.
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!
Was your friend’s last name dahner?
How did she do the rendering?
depends on what you use, I recommend blender, it’s free and open source. when plenty of tutorials
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
A blender seems like overkill, there won’t be much left to draw.
Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.
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:
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?
Isn’t every man a psiren enthusiast unless they have access to wax?
People who watch airplanes land and take off
Eh, not that wild, folks used to do train and ship spotting, so planes are okay too.
chicago used to have a lake front airport such that you could go to a beach. Sun, swim, and watch the small aircraft take off and land.
Toronto still has that. Nudist beach at that.
“Ball peener”
You try to cover your penis with your balls. There is more, but dont ask…
Ok from the name I would have assumed an artist who works specifically with flat sheets of metal and a rounded hammer.
You must have made that up, there’s not even a definition on Urban Dictionary.
Also, is this a hobby or a kink, because it reminds me of kinks like chastity, plapping and such.
One time I was at a bonfire and a friend of a friend, looking like he was up all night, said he was up all night watching tornado siren videos on youtube
Siren enthusiast here, it’s a surprisingly large community that’s really started to blow up these past few years. There are so many models and sounds that there’s always something interesting to find and I find them pleasant to listen to. Sirens are very powerful machines that move a ton of air, and they’re capable of shaking the ground and rumbling your chest when you’re near one. We have an annual Sirencon in Wisconsin every year where we bring our privately owned sirens (usually bought for cheap after they’ve been retired from service) and have a good time firing them up.
I personally enjoy learning the history of the sirens themselves and finding surviving units of rare historical models, especially those from between 1910-1950 when they were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t. There was a ton of innovation and cool designs. A lot of people associate sirens with air raids, but their original primary purpose was to replace bells, air horns and whistles at fire departments that needed an audible signal to summon volunteer firefighters to the station upon a fire call. Being electric, the siren didn’t need air pressure or steam which could run out, and couldn’t be confused with church bells.
I tested a military handcranked one once, it sure is a very special thing, the slow buildup, the sound and the wrrrrr vibrations.
Hand crank sirens are pretty fun! I’ve got one from China, an LK-100. It’s especially satisfying hearing the pops at low RPMs.
Watching? Does he like to listen to fireworks too?
Nick Mullen?
Extreme Ironing
that’s just a blacksmith
What makes it extreme?
The locations, free falling and such.
Seen photos of it done on the side of a cliff, and the roof of a moving car.
No iron
I would like to learn more
I dunno if it’s really a hobby, but one time I heard about bug collectors. They’re not people who go around catching insects, instead they’re people who go around catching STDs. On purpose.
Wow, I bet they don’t even bother warning their sexual partners about it. I wish I had never learned that.
Actually, from what little I recall about it, I think they do alert their partners about it, or maybe they just stuck with fellow bug collectors.
There’s a few who have a kink of spreading those parasites to unknowing people. Back when the internet was a village I made a wrong turn and can’t un-know this now…
I met a worm farmer when delivering a package.
I had no idea that was a thing.
People buy earthworm and put it in their garden, it helps with the plant
You can buy worms for fishing at stores. Someone has to breed them to maintain consistent supply.
They are really hard to lassoo though.
This is only the second time I’ve heard about it. The first time, someone was talking about worm composting (vermicomposting), which uses worms to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich compost.
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 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
