Weird/Funny stuff you are super interested in (AS)

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What are the weirdest things you are super interested in?
Well, weird by other peoples standards, that is.

When I was a kid I was fascinated by mind altering substances. I didn't want to do any of them, I just found them interesting. I would spend hours reading trip reports on erowid and would look at countless energy drink reviews. I was like the nardwuar of illicit substances. One day my mom saw my computer was on erowid and brought me into the room to talk. She and my dad looked through my search history to find hundreds of trip reports about any drug you can think of. They were shocked and I tried to explain but they didn't really get my explanation. One of the funnier moments of my childhood, like imagine going through your kids history to find thousands of results about drugs like lsd and DPH. After that I became bored of the topic and moved on to something else to extensively research.

You see, I was at my computer all the time as a kid, and would find things that I would research the crap out of.

I was and still am very interested in reptiles. When I move out of my parent's house I plan on buying quite a few of them. I can name you the top 10 most expensive ball python morphs off the top of my head.

What are some of the stranger things you guys are interested in?

Watching videos of long car trips on highways.

Listening to entire old radio broadcasts.

Do obscure '90s video games count as weird?

Not to me, I actually used to collect obscure video games from the NES and SNES era . I had aquired upwards of 500 (S)NES games, but sadly, they were lost in a fire

When I was 17, video games were in their toddlerhood. We had Space Invaders and Asteroids.

The medical profiles of dictators.

Trypophobia images

Reading ridiculous responses to "why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?"

Trimphones (http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/images/sm ... o_card.jpg)
TV idents
Early computer graphics systems
Deformities both acquired and congenital
Occupational and recreational fatalities
Medical equipment
Packaging
1970s fashion
Historical pop music charts
Celebrity deaths

Biographical information on my favorite tennis players (Istomin, Federer, Nadal)

Medical and mental health topics

Cats (Far and away my favorite thing). Cat videos are just adorable!

All of the countries of origin of my favorite tennis players (Spain, Serbia, Russia, Uzbekistan). I did research on Orenburg, Russia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Moscow because of Denis Istomin.

Watching videos of jiggers being dug
German helmets to the point of wanting to wear them
The swastika
Sweet Peas and characters that look like green sweet peas
The Kinks
The penis
Pimples, cysts and boils getting popped on YouTube
Vintage and antique TV sets and the history of TV
Sgt. Schultz
Routemasters
Cockney London
Old German music from the 30s and 40s.

* The differences in accents and tap water in different parts of Australia
* How people are affected by different types of disabilities or mental health problems
* If people are right or left handed
* How much DNA is shared between family members
* Some ships and boats (ones I've been on)
* State borders
* Ghosts.

The thing is, I think my interests are perfectly normal...until I'm telling someone about them and their face/words let me know that my interests are not at all typical.

Radio Shows- why that's not still a thing, I have no idea
Wax cylinder recordings
Cooking with rations during WWII
Old instructional videos- on manners, relationships, grooming, etc. It pretty much doesn't matter.
Old recipes for forgotten food that everybody used to cook and nobody's heard of anymore
Home items everyone used to have but doesn't anymore (ex: breadboxes)
Home items that used to make life easier/more comfortable but have somehow been forgotten or are no longer used (dumbwaiters, home relaxation kits, laundry chutes, cooling cabinets, milk doors [I'd love one of those for home deliveries])
3D printing (whether it's for merging art with cell phone covers, or printing a copy of a skeleton for study, or 3D printing a house, etc.)
Home automation devices (I look forward to a fully automated retirement someday)
Old coded communication techniques (flower language, signal flags, phonetic radio alphabet [had that memorized when I was a kid], distress signals, etc.)
Old school tests, textbooks, and assignments from the nineteenth century through the 1960s or so- entrance exams and final exams in particular
Solar ovens
Sustainable architecture- green materials, passive and active green features, etc.
Community gardens/urban gardens
Kit houses from the 1900s
Past visions of the future (Disney's Tommorowland and such)
Animal tracking and old traps
Natural dye sources, and the colors they produce
Time capsules, especially accidental ones
Old fallout shelters, especially the ones designed/built by the homeowner
Old airline, cruise, and train menus
How influenza impacted daily life during WWI- precautions people took, schools and churches and such being used to quarantine/treat
Automat restaurants


I'll post more if I think of more

Smooth Skin...like really smooth, tanned shiny skin. Legs in particular.

Behind the scenes anything - Movies, books, biographies. Anything.

People in wild makeup. I love looking at tutorials of people transforming themselves to look completely different.

Which leads me to drag queens. I am eternally fascinated by drag queens. So much that I don't tend to think of them as male or female at all. Or even something in between. I think of them like "That is male, that is female, and that is Drag Queen".

Languages. I have the lofty goal of being a polyglot one day.

Pictures or photos or people and animals with large eyes.

Maori Haka videos. I can't get enough of them.

Medical things (of course). Particularly psych stuff.

Glass harmonica playing.

Bjork videos

Women with bright lipstick and full lips.

Really dark girls or really pale girls (like out of the ordinary dark/pale).

Boy, you really can go on listing things for like hours with this one, can't you?

-waxy substances
-edible wild plants and foraging
-spatial efficiency and sustainability in gardening
-junk metal
-gravestones
-marine/otherwise underwater biology

to name some!

What's weird about TV idents and packaging? I sometimes go on YouTube and watch TV idents but mostly just Cartoon Network ones since it's my favorite channel. Heck I'm subscribed to a channel that all they upload is Cartoon Network idents. Plus with packaging. I love looking at packaging for anything. Even things I find boring or don't care about. I love looking at the packaging of it. It's fun to me looking at the logos and things on it.

Anime (japanese) voice actors?
Symbian Nokia phones?
Diminutives?

Whilst they may not have been strictly weird, I used to obsess over the band Korn and Tom Hardy's depiction of Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises".