Non-Geek Hobbies

[DariusMonsef]

Yes we know you are a geek. You're here on Kirupa.com and if you're like me you spend way too much time here.

So what things do you like to do that are not geek related? Like I can think off the top of my head RegGolgi likes to fish...

Just trying to get to know the world, one random person at a time.

** Edit **I remembered that's his name and the sentence is a little weird without the .com

[Millad]

I play football everyday. >train taekwondo...

run, and swim every weak (-:
with friends

[thoriphes]

I like to not be on kirupaforums, play guitar, soccer, football wit de boyz, drink, call my peeps, fall asleep to music, drive anywhere my car takes me, lounge.

[ahmed]

deal pot (very true!) :P

smokes up at least twice a day, pimps at night, goes back and smokes some more, deals on free time...


[edit]

who edited my post :bad: :P

[Kitiara]

I also play football (proper English football, that is). And pool. :beam:

[thoriphes]

oh yeah, (real) pool is another one of my favorites.

kit, ya wanna play pool? (yahoo)

[Millad]

Kit what do you mean about

proper english football ? (-:

[ahmed]

I play soccer (or football) occasionally, and pool too.. those are the only non-geek things i can think of :)

[Kitiara]

By proper English football, I mean what Americans call 'soccer'. :)

I play right midfield. :beam:

[Voetsjoeba]

It seems that there's a bit of confusion with soccer and football. To me, soccer and football is the same. Some of you see soccer as the sport with the round ball, and football with the pointy (mostly brown) ball. Well, what is football to you guys, is called "rugby" to me :beam:

Hope I didn't create any more confusion :P

[ahmed]

american football and rugby are two different things (i used to think they were the same, too) :)

[T-O]

arg skateboard.... and some times i head to the gym to train my herculess god like body.. :p


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[DariusMonsef]

Yes football, futbol, soccer... it's all very confusing.

I play Proper English football on an indoor and outdoor men's league teams.

I'm also a bit of a fitness nut. I work out everyday or so and know what I eat. Like you know all those nutrition facts on the side of the package... yeah I read that stuff.

I do sprint distance triathlons.

I surf when I can. (Ocean is required, not keyboard)

[Freddythunder]

neat thread!
I play guitar - just got a twelve string a couple days ago!!
I play Ice Hockey - Ironic because I live in the desert of Arizona
I play keyboard - started in 8th grade
I hit the bar - on the weekends
I sometimes play foozball - I used to like everyday in 99.
Golden Tee - video golf - just as addicting as kirupa.com
Watch airplanes - I know it's dumb, but I found this place at the end of the runway where the planes are so low you can hit them with a rock (never tried, I think that would be real stupid!!).
Cook - I like making Itialian food - good stuff
Xbox - now that I won that Xbox, I'm addicted to that too - but that is kinda geekee huh.
Work on cars - not so much a hobby, but a crappy car that I have to fix quite often, but I enjoy it. :crazy:
Write books - I've only written one, but I plan to write more.
Bartend - It's a job and a hobby and takes away some of the geekiness.
Girls - what can I say, I'm a scorpio..:P
Massage - an old girlfriend tried to get me to go to the school because she said that I was good at it, but never did; I guess I can consider that a hobbie?...but I don't do men...
Roadtrips!! - Living in Phoenix, you go on a lot of roadtrips to San Diego, LA beaches, Las Vegas, Flagstaff AZ(snow), and Mexico.

I think that's it. Whew.

[Niann]

I don't have any non geek hobbies...

Oh wait! I like to mountian bike, and go driving on the weekends. (When I am not at work) =)

Cheers!
-Niann

[thoriphes]

*heehee, plays with footer pic*

[DariusMonsef]

ok freddy reminded me of a few.

Writing: I write screenplays (4 in progress, 0 complete) Short Stories, Poetry.

Karaoke: Yeah that's right. I'm not afraid to say it.

[grandsp5]

Street Biking is fun. I play badminton a lot. Just got off the varsity team because I graduated. Soccer, especially at midnight in the local park. Beach a lot. San Diego is good for that. Hang out with friends, see movies (all of my friends work at AMC so I get in free :) ) play lots of N64, sleep and eat. The last 2 are my favorite.

[norie]

i like to ride my bike, and go to the gym (when im ont being lazy). Most of the time im busy getting into some drama with girls :beam:

[DigitalPimp]

In my non-geek time which is pretty much when I'm not at work I like to:

Party, ride my bike, hit the gym, paintball, drive around in da Pimp mobile (sorta like the batmobile but bettah) (waits for soul to draw a picture;)), and ride dirt bikes.

[Freddythunder]

Okay, I'm not a stranger to Karaoke, I'm usually really drunk though and I only do a couple songs that are funny like Ode to my car - Adam Sandler and Just a Gigalo - David Lee Roth

This is one of the worst pics of myself, but it's great for a laugh. I used to be a band in 96 so, when I'm drunk, I can really get into it...why am I putting this here!!
http://www.freddythunder.com/coppers/img027.jpg

Oh, brother...

[Mik3]

MOuntain bike, ultimate frisbee, tennis

[RussianBeer]

HHahahaha, no matter how many non-geek things we do.. we're all geeks!

Okay: Me:

surf whenever I can get a board thats good for me
freedive or nightdive and spear fo' fish
try to get in to bars Yeah, this one is great fun because I am under 21, but just about anywhere in the world I can drink except the USA!
Weightlift As i can only go everyother day its not that effective :(
Check out chicks at starbucks favorite pass time..
:beam:

And of corse:
Drink vodka
Sing Communist Party Songs
Drink more vodka
Plot the distruction of you Capitalist pigs!

[Clayman]

i go shooting, skateboard, camp, go camping, travel, play bball, ride my go-ped, and a whole bunch of other stuff i cant remember right now

[Maxtr0sity]

Originally posted by ahmed
deal pot (very true!) :P

smokes up at least twice a day, pimps at night, goes back and smokes some more, deals on free time...
Hmmmmmmm, so thats your secret.

*Calls in for delivery*:azn:

=)

[Soul]

I like to go through my collection of Victorian soaps.. every night

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

Okaaaay. :)

I've realised that I spend a scary amount of time decorating and sorting out my house. Does that count as a hobby? :P

[Soul]

Don't you like my soaps?

http://www.durrettcheese.com/images/soaps.jpg

[thoriphes]

no. that counts as weird. (-:

[Soul]

I'm allowed to have a collection! It's just like collecting stamps or pens!

[kirupa]

In my non-geek time, if I ever have such times, I prefer reading. My most recent endeavors after having finished The Complete Volumes of Sherlock Holmes (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553328255/) are to finish Who Says Elephants Can't Dance (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060523794/) , half-way through Swimming Across: A Memoir by Andy Grove (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446679704) , and one CD left in the audio version of Good to Great (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0694526088/)

Besides that, I play WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne (http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/W3XP-player-profile.aspx?Gateway=Azeroth&PlayerName=bombay.sin(x)) with NaliWarCow (the same one who drew the disturbing pic of 28 and a vicious man-eating tiger-donkey (thx CP!)). I also try to make sure I watch every episode of Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Becker, The Practice, Yes Dear!, Modern Weapons, Sworn to Secrecy, and anything on the National Geographic/Animal Planet/Discovery/TechTV that I usually miss.

Bah - how could I have forgotten the two things that I truly hate (and have been hating for the past two years): working out and running (alternating daily).

Edit 1 thx to Thor: I signed up for Computer Club, but for some reason the club never met the first time, and by the time I found out the place the club was going to be held the second time school, I was kidnapped into the most useless clubs; namely FBLA (Future Biz Leaders of America) and Key Club (which is were most of the incriminating pics of nali and I were taken).

QuickEdit: I hope you are happy now RB...I for one am not :)

Cheers!
Kirupa :ub:

[RussianBeer]

Kirupa, Ethan said NON-Geek! ... :P

[eyeinfinitude]

When im not here trolling the forums or at work or at school, I'm out doing one of these things:


<li>fishing
<li>shooting pool
<li>bowling
<li>working out at the gym
<li>bar hopping
<li>drawing
<li>movies

[DariusMonsef]

Soul puts the soap on his skin.

[Soul]

Nooo!!! That was a secret :( How else am I meant to get it this baby soft :sure:

- Soul :s:

[kirupa]

I thought it was Alpo's Canned Premium Chow for Mountain Huskies =) It gives your skin and hair a natural shine (and softness)....not that I would know or anything. Even though I have noticed the more I eat at the school cafeteria, the faster I am able to run, the higher I am able to jump, and the better I become at playing frisbee.
:thumb:

[DariusMonsef]

Soul puts the soap on its skin, or else it gets the hose again….That's right, precious, it gets the hose again.

[Freddythunder]

At least it can't be considered a dirty habbit.

[thoriphes]

wow, kirupa (jeez, i keep thinking you have a real name that's not 'kirupa'), you lead a very simple life. i like that :thumb:

I would've been more outgoing had i gotten my license earlier. now that i have it, i have to wait another week for my darned insurance to kick in. I really have no life. I would rather go out with friends to party and whatnot instead of sitting at this here computer or watching a movie by myself; however I find myself doing those things anyway, as much as I want to get out. It's real sad sometimes. I'd pace around my room trying to figure out what to do that night, but before i would know it, it would be late in the evening already.

at college, i didn't much like going to parties with my friends because they were absolute ****s when they got drunk. i still got out though. drunk girls are the most interesting people you'll meet ever. I never took advantage of that, though and i never would. I could get really smashed, but i'd still keep my ethics.

i am/was in a band once. we played covers and played at about 5 gigs; nothing too big, friend's house, school, birthdays. it was the greatest feeling. not once did i get embarassed to play in front of everyone. as a matter of fact, my first gig was at school, i started playing the first song, but i didn't hear what i was playing. i was lead guitar, but our vocalist also played guitar, so i was safe. I looked around confused and wondered what was going on, I checked my guitar and everything and looked stupid. then one of my friends in the crowd gallantly turned up the volume on my amp. that was it. I felt so stupid for not checking that first.

i didn't do much at high school, i did crew for my first or second year but left to handle some other matters. I was going to do ice hockey but my parents didn't want me to, that pissed me off to no end. I was going to do lacrosse, but same thing. GAH! I ended up playing piano for the choir *cough*loser*cough* which was ok. I played at concerts, church, the homeless, whatnot. I was in the French club for about 15 minutes (just to get in the picture for the yearbook). i was also in the video production club, where we did crazy stunts, like jackass to a lesser degree. we got one of my friends' hand stuck in a vending machine, which we videotaped as he squirmed about trying to get free. good times. good times.

well that's about enough of me. i'll leave it up to you guys to decide whether or not what i did was non-geeky.

[kirupa]

Definitely non-geeky. After all, does this :bu: look geeky to you?

[Coppertop]

just a quick note to Kirupa: That's not a spotted horse! its a vicious tiger-donkey! (check out the thread in random)

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wellllll this could be a bit difficult. lets see:

Football (Soccer): I play defence, and I have the strongest most accurate Toe-Punt in the world!

Guitar: I play hard-rock!

practice Tae-Kwan-do at home: and various other martial arts.

I am sure there is something else that I do....

[thoriphes]

oh i forgot to mention i was also in the programming club :nerd:

[Coppertop]

Thats my kinda hobby!

[kirupa]

editing previous post: don't want to spam :)

[vts31]

i like to party that includes: being drunk, stoned, happy, stupid etc. I enjoy bodybaording, drawing and lsitening to experimental music. yah

[reverendflash]

if I'm not working, or just being a pain here... I am usually found in front of a stage, listening to some sort of live music... I'm fortunate, SF has a lot of free concerts throughout the summer/fall, plus there are quite a few I have to pay for, but I still must go se them. Ben Harper is the 15th.......

I've seen him at least 10 times, but I am just as excited as if it were the first time...

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[Soul]

Awww Revs in love ;)

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by Soul
Awww Revs in love ;)

since the day I saw him in 1993...

:love:

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[thoriphes]

Ben Harper? sounds familiar...

[reverendflash]

www.benharper.net

right now, Jack Johnson is opening for him...

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[RussianBeer]

Jack Johnson!

The Hawaiin Super Hero (even though he aint hawaiin)
Jack rocks!

[norie]

Friday Night, 10:16pm:

where i am: at home on the computer.
where i should be: out, partying.

im pathetic ;(

[Raydred]

"Non-Geek Hobbies"

what is this? I dont understand!

Ive never heard of this term Non-Geek, and Hobbies in the same sentence, im confused...

*does geek things on his computer*

[Millad]

Im not so good at english but what is realy a Geek ? I:-)

[Coppertop]

like a nerd, only, not quite as.... nerdy.... something like that.

[ahmed]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geek

:beam:

some of them are bad :(

[Millad]

ok but im not a Nerd, I hate them lol :b:

[ahmed]

trace("geek" == "nerd") // outputs 'false'

[Freddythunder]

Denial's not just a river in Egypt, Blastboy!!

[NaliWarCow]

"I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart"

well my geek hobbies include flash, computer games, surfing the net.... Oh wait, you want NON-geek hobbies, well here's a list

1)

[Millad]

NERDS ARE NOT SMART

They are smart just in pc stuff or something...

BUT they are not expert in living or having friends or maybe sport lol :cool:


I hate them because they think they are the best.

Dont take me wronge I allways say what I mean :crazy:

[DariusMonsef]

If you are wondering if you are a geek, here is your way to test.

You argue your point that you are not a nerd and that geeks are cooler than nerds. Which they totally are!

[Coppertop]

so it is settled, we are all geeks, not nerds, nerds suck, geeks rule.

Does that sound right?

[DariusMonsef]

This is just my 2 cents, but I think Nerds are mathmatically and scientifically smart. They spend hours trying to solve quantum physics equations. Nerds are also socially retarded.

Geeks are computer smart. They spend hours trying to photochop pictures of people into other photos. And while they tend to still be socially retarded, it is not as severe as nerds.

P.S. Geeks can be nerds too, and nerds can also be geeks.

[grimdeath]

well umm a long time ago a few year far far away i used to draw alot, then i found this thing thats called a pc and i stopped drawing which is very $t00pid on my part, i used to also read comic books 91 diffrent titles a month to be exact i got over $50,000.00 in comic books, i used to also play videogames alot nowadays i watch my 4 year old play, the only thing i do that normal people do is work go to college and go to the movies everynow and then either than that im always being a geek or trying t bu an ubersuperdupergeek
:crazy::nerd:

[nobody]

I skateboard.. draw.. hang with ppl.. complain.. ya know.. whatever

[websense hater]

I play lacrosse... sleep, eat, play baseball, basketball, and cross country, and of course spend way too much time on kirupa.com

[minimalistik]

Im am trying to be much fitter, so I take up swimming.

[grinch]

I skateboard a lot, and have a good workout ;) Oh yeah, and I have a girlfriend :)

[999]

I spend my summers jet skiing, wakeboarding, and trying to achieve the ultimate tan which in N. Dakota is 3 shades darker than white.

I spend my winters eating, trying not to freeze, and achieving the ultimate white which in N. Dakota is 3 shades lighter than blinding.

[Skinny_T]

When I'm not on Kirupa I like long walks on the beach and candle lit dinners with that special someone.

[Lacuna]

If you are wondering if you are a geek, here is your way to test.

You argue your point that you are not a nerd and that geeks are cooler than nerds. Which they totally are! + what was said after

I completely agree :) lol. I'll admit I've had the geek/nerd argument.


~ Lacuna :love:

[Lacuna]

Other than geek stuff eh? Hmmmmmmmmmm

Love the beach, snowboarding, and my man. :D

~ Lacuna :love:

[frozenRage]

not geek activities eh?
hmm....

Boxing
Taekwondo
Riding

um yeah, thats pretty much it :beam:

[fdss]

i used to play the bit of football (australian rules) and football (soccer) until my team split up... :(

i used to play clarinet, piano and keyboard...

videogames: xbox, ps1, snes (lol)

[vafer]

back in my "jock" years... that's before I started web design, flash etc. I was on scholarship for NCAA Div 1 track and field plus Cross Country. On the track side of things I ran a 4:15 sec mile (1600 meters) and a 1:51 sec 1/2 mile (800 meters) and during the winter season I ran a 67.2 sec 500 meters (that is 1 and 1/4 laps around a outdoor track and 2.5 around an indoor track, just in case you were wondering) :).

Now I am married and run when I want to during the week and ride a road bike on the weekends.

[grinch]

i used to play the bit of football (australian rules) and football (soccer) until my team split up... :(

i used to play clarinet, piano and keyboard...

videogames: xbox, ps1, snes (lol)

Videogames aren't a NON-NERD hobbie ;) But nice try. :)

[stewball]

back in my "jock" years... that's before I started web design, flash etc. I was on scholarship for NCAA Div 1 track and field plus Cross Country. On the track side of things I ran a 4:15 sec mile (1600 meters) and a 1:51 sec 1/2 mile (800 meters) and during the winter season I ran a 67.2 sec 500 meters (that is 1 and 1/4 laps around a outdoor track and 2.5 around an indoor track, just in case you were wondering) :).`

Thats pretty impressive, I quite admire long distance peeps for theirs staying power. I do hurdles, high jump, 4x100m relay, and sometimes 100m. I run hurdles in 13.66 and run for school and stuff, but I'm just doing webdesign and seeing girls the rest of the time.

[SmoothDime]

american football and rugby are two different things (i used to think they were the same, too) :)

two different things. lol. did you not notice the helmets and padding?

[[uber]]

i don't have any...god i suck

[foodpk]

I draw, although I've been ignoring that 'talent' lately, i have to get back to it. I also play some drums and am finally getting my own drumset now. I love partying, spending time with chicks, being drunk, I have a boxing bag and I box, I also box with friends. Used to train ju-jitsu but don't anymore. I run 4 or 5 times a day. Other than that, hanging out with friends and doing fun things. And making scenes is also nice. Like walking up to someone random on the street and yelling in their face: I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU!!!

[grinch]

Uber, btw, your footer is so kick a55!!!!

[λ]

I play football (soccer) and hurdle :)

[jerez_z]

I mountain bike and ski... I'm also working on my running habit. so far its an occasional thing (maybe once a week) I like playing sports too (soccer, football <- not rugby, baseball etc) but only unorganized (just with friends etc)

[MxNecromancer]

I play Tennis,Baseball,Soccer,Basketball.
I Listen to Rock music and go to Rock concerts
I have an addiction to Xbox but thats all geekish :-P

[EZEkiel]

mountian biking, fixing classic cars [eg: my 52 ford pick up :beam:] paryting which included drinking, drugs, friends, playing pool and most likely breaking something, play tennis, basketball, and enjoy kicking the football around with mates (aussie rules RESPECT!!)

and seeing i only get the weekend off from work i do some more then others, but thats the way life goes when you are wroking for the man!!

[:ninja:EZEkiel:ninja:]

[brownie]

I play guitar and keyboards and love gardening.

Just to confuse the football issue
In Australia we have 3 kinds of football and none of them are soccer

Rugby League
Rugby Union
and Australian Rules

[prstudio]

Play the drums, work out, run a lot, my fastest mile is just right at 5 minutes, spending any kind of time outdoors...other stuff.

be a geek, but be a buff geek :)
exercise both muscles.

[lostinbeta]

I enjoy my spare time plotting my death while figuring out what I'm doing with my life. I don't know if that's a non-geek hobby, but it's quite emo so I think it just might be a geek hobby. If that's the case... I have none... but I do enjoy nature.

[kirupa]

Hmm - gym, movies, improv comedy, and student government. I also enjoy taking pictures :nerd:

[.soulty]

My total oasis... playing basketball.....which i have not been doing since ive been out injured for about 4 months.. bad knee...:(

other than that, hobbies are, movies, drawing, creating/listening to music, designing(thats no geeky?),photography, use to be all sports (tennis, futball, rugby) till my knees got all messed up. ummm thats all i can think of at the moment.

[Seb Hughes]

I play minigolf :hugegrin:

[T-O]

This is old :P

[G]

go to the gym, train at boxing and drink :)

[xen]

write songs, play guitar, sing. work out in the gym.. etc.

[Ben Smith]

Football, sing, listen to music, throw some discus (my record is 25.46m!)

[senocular]

Most of my hobbies are geeky.

In high school I biked alot - kind of had a little gang going there cruising the 'hood in the evenings and causing mischief. We also played sports almost every day after school, either Football, basketball ("white boys" full-contact basketball), ping pong, wiffle ball or street hocky. Good times.

In college I was too busy helping other people (or being asked to help) to really have much free time, though fridays or the weekends sometimes including drinking with some friends or going out.

Now, I work full time, dont drink anymore, lost most of my friends from college (or HS for that matter) as a result of my apparent ability to select friends who like to move out of state after finishing school, am not often physically capable of doing much anything too active such as biking, and spend most of my free time on the puter or watching movies - possibly the geekiest non-geek "hobby" there is.

[zacus]

trace("geek" == "nerd") // outputs 'false'


= geek + nerd

[zacus]

ok ok, for serious now, :P

well i dont have many HOBBIES that are not geeky

(btw i think a geek can be someone who reads comic books or something whereas a nerd is obsessed with being punctual and smartass at school :P, basically)





anywayyy
i have the all time geekiest hobby.... of all time, ever... EVER
which is of course WH40K

or warhammer, yes i know im partly, or mostly ashamed

i mainly do it for the artistic part of painting and moddeling, and im actually pretty good, but thats beside the point

ok next would be MMORPG, WoW to be specific

well im not sure if this is considered geeky but i do alot of art and film makeing with my film buddies

apart from that im pretty "normal" u know go to parties and do stupid stuff that means basically nothing a wek later.. meh its fun


good thread btw, keep it coming ppl :P

[fester8542]

Drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and fight

[McGuffin]

Golf: I'm around a 7 handicap
Hockey: Pretty good at it.
Soccer: Played rep for most of my childhood, still am pretty good at it
Running: Used to be able to run a mile in under 5 minutes, now I can only do a mile in under 7, but I'll get it back down again ;)
Weight training: Don't lift much, but I'm in good enough shape.

Other assorted sports as well. Generally everything I do off the computer is 0% geeky, and everything I do on the computer is 100% geeky :)

[lostinbeta]

trace("geek" == "nerd") // outputs 'false'


Ahmed, I really think that all depends on your approach/view of it because..

trace(typeof("geek") == typeof("nerd")); //outputs 'true'

:trout:

[billystar]

another golfer here.... 9 handicapper, just been out playing in Portugal

i play field hockey too, toured the caribbean and europe back in the day, but now i just play rollerhockey in Hyde Park

Trainers are a hobby of mine, I own a ridiculous number. Faves are the new Adidas Rod Lavers

Living in London, I go out a hella lot. Always so much cool stuff to do, why spend my time reading or going to movies