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compilerbitch ([personal profile] compilerbitch) wrote2007-01-31 05:45 pm

Things I *don't* do as a hobby

Inspired by Scott Adams' wonderful oneliner from his current Dilbert blog:

Atheism is religion the same way that NOT collecting stamps is a hobby

I just started wondering if you lot had antihobbies. An antihobby isn't the absence of a hobby -- I mean, there are loads of things I don't do, like polevaulting for example, but I can't say that I make a hobby of not polevaulting.

<flamebait>Vegetarianism, for some people, appears indistinguishable to others as making a hobby of not eating meat.</flamebait>

Discuss.

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[identity profile] tea-at-bettys.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
We didn't have a television til I was nine and we regularly got letters demanding licence payment. And when I was an undergraduate we got demands two years running when we already had a licence because different people had bought the television and the licence. I had fun writing rude letters but maybe that's just me!
Also, how are you supposed to prove that you don't have a television?

[identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the basic idea is that you're supposed to hand them written evidence that they can later use against you if they can show any of it to be factually correct. I take the export control view of this -- don't export bangy things to countries that might later chuck them back at you, so I didn't actually write to them at all. From what I saw, there was no obligation to do so, so I didn't.