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I'm a target shooter. I used to shoot mostly rifles, but I've been shooting with my 9mm Springfield (5'' XD Tactical) for years now. I don't think it's unusual since I've been shooting since I was a little girl, but I've found that many people think it's highly unusual. I haven't been to the range in a while, though, because I don't shoot when I'm pregnant. I'd like to compete in practical shooting competitions someday.
I shoot better (one-handed) with my left hand than with my right. That's unusual b/c I'm right-handed.
I've been wanting to try an airsoft gun for a while now. I'm interested to see how different it is from a regular gun.
We plan to set up an archery target somewhere on our property at some point. And a zipline.
I also knit, cross stitch, and garden.
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I collect stickers and make stationary with them. I also like to sew sans patterns, which is sometimes quite an adventure. And I enjoy experimental cooking.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: I practice pickpocketing
*crosses Samp off her "Hatrackers I Want to Meet In Person" list*
haha you have to sign up willingly to it before I'll try to pickpocket you.
PS: if you are in any kind of sketchy place/country just never ever EVER have your wallet in your back pocket ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever trust me
quote:That sounds like a challenge to me!
FACT: barring optimal shelter circumstances (you live next door to a government bomb shelter designed to sustain the Senate for fifty years and they let you in, and there's tea and everything's peachy inside) the place you want to be looking to camp out in is a CostCo or similar bulk retailer.
If anyone has seen the inside of a costco, they know what I'm talking about. They are monolithic collections of every feasible survival good in ample supply, and the places are built like fortresses. Bottled water, in particular, is in incredibly large quantities. There's a pharmacy in it. They have every kind of canned good imaginable in spades. The places can be barricaded off easily.
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Hey me too, I bought an MP5 Navy back in 1999, I haven't had a chance to play with it since then.
Utah County Airsoft Forums: UCA is a local team that we have played with in the past. There are some nice guys there, cant remember all their names but they were fun to play with.
quote:FACT: barring optimal shelter circumstances (you live next door to a government bomb shelter designed to sustain the Senate for fifty years and they let you in, and there's tea and everything's peachy inside) the place you want to be looking to camp out in is a CostCo or similar bulk retailer.
If anyone has seen the inside of a costco, they know what I'm talking about. They are monolithic collections of every feasible survival good in ample supply, and the places are built like fortresses. Bottled water, in particular, is in incredibly large quantities. There's a pharmacy in it. They have every kind of canned good imaginable in spades. The places can be barricaded off easily.
Bulk stores like that seem just about on par with malls and call centers for the primary source of undead zombies. Seems pretty sketchy to me.
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I love covering books in contact paper. Completely addicted to doing this. I'm just about to run out of contact paper. It's very sad.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: FACT: barring optimal shelter circumstances (you live next door to a government bomb shelter designed to sustain the Senate for fifty years and they let you in, and there's tea and everything's peachy inside) the place you want to be looking to camp out in is a CostCo or similar bulk retailer.
If anyone has seen the inside of a costco, they know what I'm talking about. They are monolithic collections of every feasible survival good in ample supply, and the places are built like fortresses. Bottled water, in particular, is in incredibly large quantities. There's a pharmacy in it. They have every kind of canned good imaginable in spades. The places can be barricaded off easily.
JT to friend, six months ago: "If, by chance, zombies attack, meet me in Wal-Mart."
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I play in the SCA, which is just one hobby, but encompasses numerous other hobbies:
1. historical fencing 2. dancing 3. sewing (I'm working on a Tudor-era gown currently, something like this ) 4. Spinning 5. Embroidery, which is the latest one that I'm trying to learn 6. Also, I'm an officer in our local group and retinue for our current royalty
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I collect old guns. I have not bought anything recently though. Lack of space and budget has caused me to be a lot pickier with my purchases now.
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quote:FACT: barring optimal shelter circumstances (you live next door to a government bomb shelter designed to sustain the Senate for fifty years and they let you in, and there's tea and everything's peachy inside) the place you want to be looking to camp out in is a CostCo or similar bulk retailer.
If anyone has seen the inside of a costco, they know what I'm talking about. They are monolithic collections of every feasible survival good in ample supply, and the places are built like fortresses. Bottled water, in particular, is in incredibly large quantities. There's a pharmacy in it. They have every kind of canned good imaginable in spades. The places can be barricaded off easily.
Bulk stores like that seem just about on par with malls and call centers for the primary source of undead zombies. Seems pretty sketchy to me.
Not to mention that there would be hundreds of people fleeing to the biggest shopping centers around, that is just about the easiest mistake you could make in my book. Plus, i live in vermont, i know a cabin in the mountains that are twenty times as safe and defensible.
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Well my hobby isn't very unusual but it hasn't been mentioned yet... I scrapbook. I used to scrap obsessively - every day - but time is preventing it these days. I also scrapbook layouts for online contests and such winning free supplies once in awhile Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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Because I seem to be unable to NOT mention it whenever the slightest opportunity arises: my hobby is tournament Scrabble. My secondary hobby is studying intellectual property law related to Scrabble. I am an even bigger nerd than my high school acquaintances predicted I would turn out to be.
I write, but it is not supposed to be a hobby.
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I reload my own ammunition. It's cheaper then buying new rounds and fun to mess around with the different types and weights of bullets, different powders and primers, etc. My next hobby is probably going to be building an AR-15.
I have another hobby of letting weeds get out of control in my yard, fixing the problem, then allowing the weeds to get out of control, then fixing the problem, then...
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quote:Originally posted by Xann.: Not to mention that there would be hundreds of people fleeing to the biggest shopping centers around, that is just about the easiest mistake you could make in my book. Plus, i live in vermont, i know a cabin in the mountains that are twenty times as safe and defensible.
If and only if you are in a very remote area is taking the wilderness route a good idea. If you're like most of us, the relative population density will make it impossible for all the survivors in the undeveloped area possible to all feed themselves. As people get hungry, they will start killing each other and raiding houses for food when they run out. You will not survive in your cabin, and it isn't going to be the zombies that kill you.
Some people, arguably, will be able to sustain themselves using game population. In very remote and climate-favored areas, rudimentary farming can sustain small groups, but that will only happen after most of the people who escaped the cities have starved to death or been shot by others who were desperate for food. This is not even a zombie fiction reality, either. Any sort of apocalyptic situation that completely shuts down civilization will also shut down the ready supply of food. The food will run out, agriculture systems will not have water, and you will have tens of thousands of people in many areas who will, unfortunately, run out of food and die within weeks of doing so.
A costco, though, can sustain a healthy number of individuals for years, and is a very defensible location. Malls do not have the same defensibility and 90% of their stock and space is useless for survival. All the bulk retailers have really sturdy buildings, but costcos almost seem purposefully designed for zombie apocalypse, between the heavy-duty exteriors, limited points of entry, pallet supply, large quantities of potable water, roofs that open up for natural lighting in most locations, and many of them have adjacent underground fuel tanks.
All preparedness plans involve consideration both of zombies and of other humans. We are not pretty beasts when it comes down to kill-or-starve.
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quote:Originally posted by Xann.: Not to mention that there would be hundreds of people fleeing to the biggest shopping centers around, that is just about the easiest mistake you could make in my book. Plus, i live in vermont, i know a cabin in the mountains that are twenty times as safe and defensible.
If and only if you are in a very remote area is taking the wilderness route a good idea. If you're like most of us, the relative population density will make it impossible for all the survivors in the undeveloped area possible to all feed themselves. As people get hungry, they will start killing each other and raiding houses for food when they run out. You will not survive in your cabin, and it isn't going to be the zombies that kill you.
Some people, arguably, will be able to sustain themselves using game population. In very remote and climate-favored areas, rudimentary farming can sustain small groups, but that will only happen after most of the people who escaped the cities have starved to death or been shot by others who were desperate for food. This is not even a zombie fiction reality, either. Any sort of apocalyptic situation that completely shuts down civilization will also shut down the ready supply of food. The food will run out, agriculture systems will not have water, and you will have tens of thousands of people in many areas who will, unfortunately, run out of food and die within weeks of doing so.
A costco, though, can sustain a healthy number of individuals for years, and is a very defensible location. Malls do not have the same defensibility and 90% of their stock and space is useless for survival. All the bulk retailers have really sturdy buildings, but costcos almost seem purposefully designed for zombie apocalypse, between the heavy-duty exteriors, limited points of entry, pallet supply, large quantities of potable water, roofs that open up for natural lighting in most locations, and many of them have adjacent underground fuel tanks.
All preparedness plans involve consideration both of zombies and of other humans. We are not pretty beasts when it comes down to kill-or-starve.
I think you missed the part where i said that i live in vermont i don't have to worry about people attacking. But when your thinking of going to Costco or Walmart, so is every single other person in town. You can bet that everyone you know will be showing up at these giant safe houses, and i doubt they would stay safe for long under those circumstances.
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I thought of another hobby- warhammer. I paint the miniatures too. The unusual part is that I play vampire counts. I am LDS mother who wears pink and is generally a happy, goofy person- which does not fit most people's image for a vampire army. When I briefly played 40K, my army was pink. Posts: 2223 | Registered: Mar 2008
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quote:Originally posted by Xann.: I think you missed the part where i said that i live in vermont i don't have to worry about people attacking. But when your thinking of going to Costco or Walmart, so is every single other person in town. You can bet that everyone you know will be showing up at these giant safe houses, and i doubt they would stay safe for long under those circumstances.
Hence, the beauty of my plan.
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Possibly TMI, but it's the closest I could think of to a hobby. I think it's more of a life goal than anything else.
I hate public restrooms. They're vile, unkempt, and I fear to think of what germs and diseases fester in them. Because of this, I try to avoid them if at all possible. Either way, one of the few times I needed to use a public restroom was while I was down in Vegas, specifically in the Caesar's Palace casino. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was a remarkably clean, and freakishly stylish restroom. After that I made it my goal to use the bathroom in every major Vegas casino. So far, I have Caesar's Palace, and the Stratosphere. But I'll need to go down a couple more times to get them all.
Other hobbies I have are, well... I can't really think of any. I like playing with smule, the iPhone ocarina application. I also write political comedy sketches with my brother.
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I have a bunch of hobbies that were, at some point in time, completely engrossing. Chronologically:
Hot wheels (couple hundred, donated away)
Baseball cards (complete set of '93 Topps cards, including Golds and Black Golds--lots of other assorted rarities--though they're probably not worth much any more)
Yo-Yo, devil sticks, magic tricks, juggling (my "street performer" phase--the only one I still practice is juggling)
My latest hobby was hopping on the poker bandwagon. Love playing cards with friends...
Although it will soon be my "career", working with pianos in general is a hobby of mine. I love playing, teaching, tuning, and re-building them. People have asked whether piano business is bad in the current economy--I tell them "People need beautiful music now more than ever".
quote:I regularly have conversations with myself, it's like predicting what people will say. Although I'm usually wrong it's still fun!
Holy crap, I do that too! Good to know I'm not the only one.
As do I, just not as often as I used to.
I also like doing origami and have made some shadow box scenes with it, my favorite being this tall box featuring a sunflower (modular origami - easily over 100 separate pieces) and lots of little insect-type critters living on or around it (catepillar - the origami thorn in my side, bee, praying mantis, etc.). It resides in my aunt's kitchen these days.
The back of my sliding door to my 'officle' at work also featuers a bunch of kirigami (the art of paper folding AND cutting) pieces. Think snowflakes, just a lot more intricate than your early elementary school attempts.
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quote:Originally posted by Launchywiggin: Although it will soon be my "career", working with pianos in general is a hobby of mine. I love playing, teaching, tuning, and re-building them. People have asked whether piano business is bad in the current economy--I tell them "People need beautiful music now more than ever".
Optimistic, eh?
Mine's badly in need of tuning. You game? Posts: 691 | Registered: Nov 2008
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quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: I am learning contact juggling. (note: this youtube clip isn't me, unfortunately, but one day I hope to be that good.)
I've been working on head rolls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yiq9oZfPQ — also not me) since April. Tried 'em? I've been getting a lot more solid the last couple of weeks.
Other hobbies of mine:
Go, once in a while
juggling
chinese pole — taking a break from this one, but I'll be back at it come January
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: I research equine color genetics'
That's very interesting Breyer (and PSI) - because my oldest son is currently so totally engrossed in poultry genetics that he is driving me batty! He spends hours with books and online studying everything about every genetic feature, and is sure he is going to develop his own particular special breed. He has a very specific color outcome he wants, which will be hard to obtain. But I've learned a lot about genetics by listening to him rant about it.
Hmmm. I guess my current hobby would be data mining every tidbit of information I can find on the web about any young gentleman who happens to express any kind of interest in my daughter. Posts: 9538 | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester Hence, the beauty of my plan. :
Remember to take as many zombies as you can out with you! It makes it easier on the rest of the population.
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quote:Originally posted by scholarette: I thought of another hobby- warhammer. I paint the miniatures too. The unusual part is that I play vampire counts. I am LDS mother who wears pink and is generally a happy, goofy person- which does not fit most people's image for a vampire army. When I briefly played 40K, my army was pink.
Just imagining some Chaos Space Marines or Terminators charging into battle with pink colors. Posts: 686 | Registered: Sep 2001
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I actually played eldar so they are kinda sissy anyway. The starter set I got of space marines were purple, so not quite as girly.
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I suppose you could say I collect short stories. It's a decent collection, I have about 4000 in my library. I have to keep a spreadsheet to keep track of which ones I have and haven't read yet.
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