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Hobbies and interests - members lists

zone_tripper
over 13 years ago

I just thought I'd start a topic about what interests and hobbies we have.  Here's some of mine...

  • Tabletop roleplaying games, especially "Doctor Who" (the FASA, Virgin, and Cubicle 7 ones), "Serenity", "Victoriana" and "GURPS".
  • Re-enactment and LARP events.
  • Collecting Doctor Who inspired LARP props.
  • Collecting replica historical coins.
  • Collecting fake pound coins.
  • Video games; mainly, Fallout 3 and GTA at present.
  • Voluntary work; for 15 years, I have been volunteering for a local nature conservation charity.
  • Reading; mainly non-fiction (although I do like Dr Who short story books and collections) such as the Victorian era/1800s, the UK home front during WW2, UK home defence during the Cold War, NBC warfare, special forces, Special Operations Executive, the Goth subculture, amongst others. 
  • Drawing (when I have the patience).
  • TV programmes such as Doctor Who (been a fan since the 1980s), Firefly, Torchwood, Time Team, QI, Have I Got News For You, etc. 
  • Music - Carl McCoy/Fields of the Nephilim/Nefilim, Last Rites, The Eden House, Katie Melua, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, etc.
  • All things Goth and the Goth subculture.

 

 

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  • over 12 years ago

    In my teens and 20s I had a thing about Russia - mainly the post 1917 communist era, which I think was inspired by watching a documentary called 'The  Last Gulag' late one night on channel 4. This led to reading lots of Solzhenitsyn followed by biographies of Stalin, Kaganovich and others, and a failed attempt to learn Cyrillic and the Russian language (I was always crap at languages so it was doomed from the start!)

    Currently I'm fascinated with economics: not the number-crunching side of things - I'm also sh*ite with numbers - but the whole of the economic/financial/political/social world. I have an intense dislike for the Austrian school and neoliberalism & if I had time in my life (or the ability for that matter) I think I'd try and come up with a new economic system that integrates the work of Smith and Keynes (who are not as incompatible as people think IMHO) with a few ideas of my own for good measure. Unfortunately, I was not blessed with a great memory like many people on the spectrum seem to be, so I find that when studying subjects like economic theory, rather than gaining any real expertise, I'm simply left with a feeling - what I suppose could be described as the 'essence' of what I've learned and how I think things should be. This really pisses me off as I can never defend my corner coherantly in debate!

    In another thread (can't remember where now), someone left a link to a wiki page with a quote from Schopenhauer (I think), that made me feel much better about my learning & memory problems. It made me feel less of an intellectual loser - so thanks to whoever that was!

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  • over 12 years ago

    In my teens and 20s I had a thing about Russia - mainly the post 1917 communist era, which I think was inspired by watching a documentary called 'The  Last Gulag' late one night on channel 4. This led to reading lots of Solzhenitsyn followed by biographies of Stalin, Kaganovich and others, and a failed attempt to learn Cyrillic and the Russian language (I was always crap at languages so it was doomed from the start!)

    Currently I'm fascinated with economics: not the number-crunching side of things - I'm also sh*ite with numbers - but the whole of the economic/financial/political/social world. I have an intense dislike for the Austrian school and neoliberalism & if I had time in my life (or the ability for that matter) I think I'd try and come up with a new economic system that integrates the work of Smith and Keynes (who are not as incompatible as people think IMHO) with a few ideas of my own for good measure. Unfortunately, I was not blessed with a great memory like many people on the spectrum seem to be, so I find that when studying subjects like economic theory, rather than gaining any real expertise, I'm simply left with a feeling - what I suppose could be described as the 'essence' of what I've learned and how I think things should be. This really pisses me off as I can never defend my corner coherantly in debate!

    In another thread (can't remember where now), someone left a link to a wiki page with a quote from Schopenhauer (I think), that made me feel much better about my learning & memory problems. It made me feel less of an intellectual loser - so thanks to whoever that was!

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