The Most And Least Attractive "Male" Hobbies

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27 Sep 2024, 5:36 pm

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Writing is considered a cool hobby by most. However, I don’t like it when people ask if they can read you a poem they wrote as a pick up line or to impress you. This also happened to me once or twice-ish. When I was somewhere between 15-17, a guy approached me while I was in the poetry section of the library.


My father impressed my mother because he could pull off Elvis songs. Men still do stuff like this on University campuses sort of throwing around their knowledge of philosophers/poets/writers/musicians in front of women. the classic "arts major" guy (kinda all an arts degree is useful for nowadays, impress people at parties).

Serious writing is (for me) an impressive hobby. I have on many occasions fancied myself putting together a book, but I don't have the patience. I might have missed the boat now, ChatGPt can probably do a better job in several years.



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27 Sep 2024, 5:41 pm




https://youtu.be/hIdsjNGCGz4?si=kld5v4zOOrnUvAeA


Some people fake it really well, and others fake it poorly like some characters who’ve tried to groom people on WP.

They don’t impress anyone.



PS That photo is inappropriate, unnecessary, and offensive.


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27 Sep 2024, 5:42 pm

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PS That photo is inappropriate, unnecessary, and offensive.


I'll remove it



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27 Sep 2024, 5:43 pm

cyberdad wrote:
TwilightPrincess wrote:
Writing is considered a cool hobby by most. However, I don’t like it when people ask if they can read you a poem they wrote as a pick up line or to impress you. This also happened to me once or twice-ish. When I was somewhere between 15-17, a guy approached me while I was in the poetry section of the library.


My father impressed my mother because he could pull off Elvis songs. Men still do stuff like this on University campuses sort of throwing around their knowledge of philosophers/poets/writers/musicians in front of women. the classic "arts major" guy (kinda all an arts degree is useful for nowadays, impress people at parties).

Serious writing is (for me) an impressive hobby. I have on many occasions fancied myself putting together a book, but I don't have the patience. I might have missed the boat now, ChatGPt can probably do a better job in several years.

I’m a believer in “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.” It may be hard to pay the bills with an art major, but that doesn’t mean it’s useless. I had many enjoyable conversations in college centered around art, theatre, literature, and philosophy, but there’s a difference between having an intelligent conversation and someone showing off. I like the former, not so much the latter.


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27 Sep 2024, 5:46 pm

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I’m a believer in “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.” It may be hard to pay the bills with an art major, but that doesn’t mean it’s useless. I had many enjoyable conversations in college centered around art, theatre, literature, and philosophy, but there’s a difference between having an intelligent conversation and someone showing off. I like the former, not so much the latter.


Also there is a saying, whatever idea you come up with, its more than likely somebody else already thought of it. Imagine spending a decade writing a book only to find Joe Bloggs somewhere else already published it.



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27 Sep 2024, 5:48 pm

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IsabellaLinton wrote:
PS That photo is inappropriate, unnecessary, and offensive.


I'll remove it


Thank you.


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27 Sep 2024, 5:55 pm

cyberdad wrote:
TwilightPrincess wrote:
I’m a believer in “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.” It may be hard to pay the bills with an art major, but that doesn’t mean it’s useless. I had many enjoyable conversations in college centered around art, theatre, literature, and philosophy, but there’s a difference between having an intelligent conversation and someone showing off. I like the former, not so much the latter.


Also there is a saying, whatever idea you come up with, it’s more than likely somebody else already thought of it. Imagine spending a decade writing a book only to find Joe Bloggs somewhere else already published it.

When it comes to art, the book, work of art, or whatever won’t be exactly the same. It’s fine to have similar concepts and ideas as long as one isn’t plagiarizing. Sometimes the differences in the details can make all the difference in the world.


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27 Sep 2024, 5:58 pm

I have a problem with chatgpt, it learns from other people's ideas right? if somebody else plugs their ideas, it will generate a manuscript. But I assume that's only a problem for fiction.

It won't be an issue for autobiographical/personal exploration.



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01 Dec 2024, 10:14 am

On the dating apps, I see women post pictures of themselves hiking, traveling, skiing and cooking. Thus, it makes sense that they would find this attractive in any guy.