I’m passionate about music, geek out on coffee and starting to become a denim snob. In theory that makes me a douchebag hipster.
What are you passionate about, geek out on, are a true snob of or own more than most?
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Kind of the layman’s definition of a hipster, but whatever.
Who can argue with good music and good coffee? Jeans are tricky and probably depends on your age. I only want something that fits decent for a fair price. Something between Levi’s and an expensive brand. $70 on sale is usually my sweet spot and nothing wrong with the Levi’s now selling at target imo.
denim snob... wtf? What's your husband do for fun?
like so many things, the best answer for jeans is 2 words: Cost-co!
$70 for jeans? Huh-whhhaaattt?
oh, and to answer your question: I'm passionate about good sex, geek out on learning about ways to have better sex and am starting to become a snob on sex. I think that makes me a dirty ol' prevert!
I like birds too. If I'm a snob on anything, I guess it would be sunglasses.
I’m passionate about history, geek out on golf, and am a snob on….well, not really anything I’d like to think.
I’m all the way to the Paris commune series of Mike Duncan’s revolutions podcast and I wait anxiously for anything from Dan Carlin.
I may be the worst golfer of all time but I’m forever convinced that just a few tweaks here and there will unlock my game and I’ll become really good. Yeah, I know….
I’m all the way to the Paris commune series of Mike Duncan’s revolutions podcast and I wait anxiously for anything from Dan Carlin.
I may be the worst golfer of all time but I’m forever convinced that just a few tweaks here and there will unlock my game and I’ll become really good. Yeah, I know….
Golf is frustrating for me and I just have begun ignoring it because I don't feel like I have the time to devote to it to get to the level of competency I want, but overall I'm a pretty good athlete, and it frustrates me not to be pretty good at golf. I get tee to green pretty well, but damn, I can rack up strokes around and on the green like nobody's business.
These past several years I suppose my biggest passion has been firearms. Not to the point of snobbery, I can be just as happy with a budget firearm as a boutique/antique firearm, though I have both. My close second is cooking and all that comes with it.
I geek out on self sufficiency/how to video topics like off grid life, bush craft, camping, gardening, building etc.
As a follow up to my second passion of cooking, I am a snob when it comes to cookware and seasonings/spices/condiments. I believe that the most ordinary of foods can become extraordinary when you use the right tools in the preparation and cooking stages.
I geek out on self sufficiency/how to video topics like off grid life, bush craft, camping, gardening, building etc.
As a follow up to my second passion of cooking, I am a snob when it comes to cookware and seasonings/spices/condiments. I believe that the most ordinary of foods can become extraordinary when you use the right tools in the preparation and cooking stages.
I’m both passionate about and geek about music. Relatedly my vinyl collection. But…that’s about it. I’m just not really into much else. I have passing fads like coffee, beer, golf, or whiskey. But I drink Aldi coffee most of the time, drink garage beer most often, quit golf several years ago, and don’t hunt out any particular whiskey. Pretty much the only things that have stuck are music and cooking.
Indiana Basketball.
I'm such an Indiana Basketball snob, I do my best not to discuss it with the common folk. I'm not coming over to your house to watch a game, in fact don't text or call me during the game. If you read something in the paper about Indiana Basketball and try to tell me like I don't already know, I want to puke.
I'm such an Indiana Basketball snob, I do my best not to discuss it with the common folk. I'm not coming over to your house to watch a game, in fact don't text or call me during the game. If you read something in the paper about Indiana Basketball and try to tell me like I don't already know, I want to puke.
I’ve always heard that there’s no reason I can’t be as good around the green as the pros are. Chipping and putting are all about technique and practice, not just pure athletic ability. Of course, that’s easier said than done. I suck equally from tee to the clubhouse.
I try to hit a few balls every day and I can play a decent round of two here and there but I’m usually in 85-95 range pretty consistently.
I’ve played a lot of sports throughout my life and golf is by FAR the hardest one to be good at, in my opinion.
Don't worry, I won't text or call you ever!
And if you've maintained that diehard status through the last 20 years kudos to you. Feel like my love for IU bball and it's importance to me dwindle a bit each year now.
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That's another frustration: I feel like I'm pretty good at most "touch" things like FT's, cornhole, darts, pitched on rec league softball teams because I could throw strikes and place the ball, masturbation... ahh, but I digress.
Well, you're doing what I always thought it would require for me to get decent and that's hit balls everyday. I just keep putting it off telling myself maybe when I retire.
Oh, and there's a reason you can't be as good as the pros around the green: you aren't one!
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I like videos on camping, canoeing, wilderness tripping too. That's how I fall asleep most nights. Relaxing to watch someone paddling, fishing and camping their way through Quetico or the Boundary Waters!
Golf may be the cruelest of all games. One good shot in an otherwise miserable 18 holes and you are convinced there's potential. The god of golf must have a sick sense of humor.
New Hardcore History addendum came out recently (within the last week or so)
Passionate about my grandsons, geek out on nostaligc tv shows. For instance Peacock took The A Team off their app but then I found out the show is on Tubi so I geek out. I don't care about clothes so as long as it fits and I don't embarrass my wife then I am ok with it. There is nothing I am snobbish about. We buy generic coffee and just about everything else. Brand names don't mean much.
a few folks commented about liking wilderness tripping videos. This guy has a whole series on wilderness trips, both canoe and backpacking that I like. Generally does a week or 2 trip but condenses it down to an hour or 2 long video. A bit of a strange personality, but like him otherwise. Except, he has 1 habit that for some reason drives me bonkers: he pronounces portage, port-ahhj, instead of port-ige. It's a portage, nothing fancy, and no reason to change the pronunciation!
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Music, grilling, and history for me - especially books on WWII. I used to have to fly a lot for my previous employer and would read books on the flights, so I have a boatload of books. I made the switch to digital on music a long time ago but I still prefer reading an actual book instead of reading it on a computer screen. The last two years work has kept me from reading as much, but whenever the economic crash hits I'm going to enjoy the first six months out of it.
I too prefer a "real book" to electronic, but it does make it convenient when traveling.
I've posted it on here before, but have you read a book called Beneath a Scarlet Sky? Supposed to be a true story of a teen growing up in Milan Italy towards the end of WW2. The only reason I say "supposed" is that I have no doubt it's based on interviews from a real person, but mostly just his accounts and the entire tale is so fantastic, it's hard for me to believe some of it wasn't embellished on his part. Regardless, amazing story. I've read it a couple times and no one I've recommended it to hasn't loved it.
Care to share some of your lesser known recommendations?
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (James Hornfischer) was really good - it covers the naval Battle off Samar where a huge Japanese surface fleet surprised a small group of American escort carriers and their destroyers/destroyer escorts. Really well written and documented.
Escape From Davao - John Lukacs - Covers the fall of Battan , the death march to prison camps, and the subsequent escape by a group of POW's
Operation Storm (John Geoghegan) was really interesting in that it covered some new ground for me - late in the war the Japanese had developed a class of submarines that actually carried several attack planes. The initial plan was to attack the Panama canal and destroy the locks, but they only were able to make several of these before their shortages of materials prevented further development.
Damn Canadian's and their accents. Pro-jects and ahboot are the main pronunciations that I bag on with our Toronto guys. They're so damn good natured about it though. Their trash talking game is progressing very slowly.
I'm passionate on outdoor/wilderness stuff including hiking, camping, hunting and fishing. I geek out on economics, especially the austrian stuff. I'm not really thinking of anything that I'd call myself a snob over, except maybe BBQ.
Do you watch the NWFS videos on YouTube? Those are so soothing for me.
@kkott if you like the wilderness canoe tripping stuff, here are a couple of more channels to check out. I subscribe to them, in addition to Lost Lakes you posted above.
All Candian, eh? The Wabakimi series is great, but they're all good.
Another Canuck. Goofy looking dude, but goes to some incredible places.
Jim Baird. You might recognize him from the Alone TV series. He and his brother won it the season that they did the 2 person version. You need to wade through some of the homesteading stuff, but he does/did some crazy trips including canoes and trekking in the arctic. Some of them are 3 hours long or have multiple episodes that are 10 hours or more total.
Jim's brother, Ted Baird. It's similar to Jims.
All Candian, eh? The Wabakimi series is great, but they're all good.
Another Canuck. Goofy looking dude, but goes to some incredible places.
Jim Baird. You might recognize him from the Alone TV series. He and his brother won it the season that they did the 2 person version. You need to wade through some of the homesteading stuff, but he does/did some crazy trips including canoes and trekking in the arctic. Some of them are 3 hours long or have multiple episodes that are 10 hours or more total.
Jim's brother, Ted Baird. It's similar to Jims.
No, but I will! Thanks! Surprised his haven't come up from some of my other searches.
Thanks, I'll check them out. I've seen some of Jim Baird's but don't like him as well as the Lost Lakes guy. Have you ever seen the Kayak Catfish guy? Craziest thing I've ever seen, but I get linked to his videos from some searches I've done (I watch a saltwater kayak guy called EliasV i think). But I've probaly watched an hour or 2 of his shows, and he doesn't edit: Live catfish (or carp) fishing from a kayak... so lot's of bait-waiting time. Never yet seen him catch a fish. Basically he keeps his phone on monitoring the Live Youtube channel and keeps a running dialogue going with his live viewers... and many of them DM him $$ on the spot! "Hey, Betty Jo in Missouri sent me $50; thanks Betty Jo, this next one's for you!". Weirdest thing I've ever seen, but he is engaging in a "I bought new mud flaps for my pickup at Walmart yesterday" sort of way.
I love the Elias guys saltwater videos. Being from IN, saltwater is a whole new ballgame, and much more exciting: way bigger fish that are more aggressive and fight harder. That's what I'd like to do in retirement: get me a little fishing/flats boat, live at the coast and fish, dive and spearfish. Be a fun new interest to develop. But Elias, is a helluva fisherman and catches some big fish in a kayak. He'll go 2-3 miles offshore too, weather dependent. Crazy stuff!
check out at about 11:25 on this video. This is my fear of being in a kayak in saltwater (this guys channel is decent too, but Elias is better and in NC for me):
Music is my passion too, then Travel, Genealogy & Wine. (besides following IU sports)
So I've been a wine guy since early 80's B-town. (not a snob, as I love $20 Priorats almost as much as $200 cabs) but Germany is my wine geek-out passion.
So yeah, nobody likes "sweet" wine so I'm that guy with cases and cases of world class German Riesling in my cellar while everyone else gives me the "Spock eyebrow raise" while sipping their reds - LOL.
In fact if there are any other wine geeks on here we could start a separate thread and bore every one else - LOL.
I know what you’re saying. I’m currently really I to Portuguese red blends. The taste great, they’re affordable, and they are perfect table wine.
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