Socially acceptable obsessions

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I think any kind of music where you are performing up on stage, actually. I noticed this with my kind of music as well. Granted, we were performing in bars...

Kind of off topic, my wife was reading up on shibori on the net, except she thought the word was 'shibari'. Boy, was she surprised!

Yeah but unfortunately, yer stuck with lots of people who, when you ask their favorite Doctor, they only know 3 of them: #9, #10, and #4.

"Who's yer favorite Doctor?"

"um....that guy with the scarf, I guess?"


"ok, what's your favorite storyarc with him?"

"UUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Flavor of the Month BS; never been a fan of it. the only upside to something becoming popular again is you get new merchandise and a return to TV or whatever for it; ya mostly get tons of posers who like the "current in-thing".

Socially acceptable obsessions that average people will make an excuse for even when they think the obsession might be cutting into time they think you should be spending on something else:

One's spouse/marriage/family if one is not seen as a doormat (but if one is passive or perceived to be henpecked or controlled, the obsession is viewed critically)
One's Master's thesis or doctorate
The details of anything that makes you a lot of money

Socially acceptable obsessions that average people will make an excuse for even when they think the obsession might be cutting into time they think you should be spending on something else:

One's spouse/marriage/family if one is not seen as a doormat (but if one is passive or perceived to be henpecked or controlled, the obsession is viewed critically)
One's Master's thesis or doctorate
The details of anything that makes one a lot of money

I just thought of another:
Information on an illness that is immediately threatening one's own life or the life of someone in one's immediate family

Last edited by FiveEggsIn on 03 Aug 2009, 3:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Just curious. Are you familiar with the books, or just the movies. (I was a huge fan of the books when I was a teenager.)

I will say that a socialy acceptable interest is the political issues. Getting the persoons with who you're talking to are not too far from your ideas, of course.

I have read the books, yes, although there are favorite parts that I've read more often and so am more familiar with than others.

It might sound strange when we're talking about perhaps the most classic fantasy novels of all, but I am not actually a huge lover of fantasy fiction/movies! Definitely my favorite, and most interesting, aspect of the entire LOTR trilogy is the hobbits at home in the Shire, because despite them being a non-human race, the prosaicness of the setting means that it can almost be treated as historical (my preference) as opposed to fantasy.

Another favourite of mine - and apologies if this has already been mentioned, but the forums are slow tonight - but I love tinkering with PC hardware, and with Linux. That's pretty mainstream. And certainly more so than Doctor Who was between 1989 and 2005 (I can make jokes like that, though, because I watched it all through the 80s!)