The Great ILX What Do You Do (mainly) In Your Spare Time? Survey

I don't see "Making Out" as an option.

Aye, Alfred and I 'make out' a lot.

It really seems like "wasting time on the Internets" should be a poll option.

yeah I said "Making Music/Listening To Music" but the real answer is probably ILX :(

Also "browsing the internet while listening to music" RWALLY ought to have been an option.

As should be "Playing Animal Crossing on DS while listening to postroc on expensive headphones and thinking about reading Kurt Vonnegut books".

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where's the "directing amateur pornography" option?

I second milo.

And knitting.

You should combine your passions.

I couldn't specify my other.

Knitting needles and sex really don't work out too well. Well, maybe circs.

It's already in the works, milo. It involves knitted cozies for the nether regions.

*wishes she had a picture of her vibrator/dildo cozy*

srsly, I bet hipsters would pay big bucks for tattooed naked girls knitting (and kissing)

maybe suicide girls already has a subgenre for this. i, however, would throw in the librarian, and take it to the next level.

buns optional.

* Gambling
* Prostitution
* Violence
* Theft/Burglary
* Dealing Drugs
* Yoga

If you're really good of course the knitting covers the fake half-balls. Amateurs can only protect the shaft.

shit, I forgot vandalism!

this thread has taken a sexy turn

srsly, I bet hipsters would pay big bucks for tattooed naked girls knitting (and kissing)

You mean similar to this? (tiny pic but it is an Elvgren knitting pin-up)
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Ulxn6fq3AojOiM:http://www.solisearch.net/ims/pic.php%3Fu%3D146390gFsq%26i%3D284369

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Yeah, Curt1s is correct as usual.
Like, I've been pondering for awhile this:

Knitting needles and sex really don't work out too well.
-- Ms Misery

...and I still amn't able to get my mind, let alone teh body, round to said "knitting sex" wondrousity.

Should've had a mess around on the internet while listening to music option.

I have a job

just kidding

you?

What about boring shit like cooking, housework etc? It's not all fun and games, you know. (also, the music-listening options are surely an accompaniment to the drugs/drinking/reading/gaming options)

I knew I had forgotten something.

WTF?! No entry for Watching TV AND Getting Drunk at Home?!

Um, is the assumption that all ILXers are single and/or childless? Children take up the bulk of my "spare" time. Of course, I do subject them to my music so I suppose that's combining interests.

I cant pick one of these, I do lots of them! Mostly making/listening to music but also cooking, writing and watching DVDs. Oh and intarwebs lol.

self-destruction.

^^ this

Yeah wait I didnt see the drinking at home option. Hm.

That's the option of last resort. Surely you're doing other things?!?

What? hell no I drink at home al the time, its fun! :)

I mean obviously I'm doing other things at the same time like music and Simpsons and internet and stuff. Last resort? Pft.

internet

I had to say 'other', drinking at home is a kind of side-activity. It can be done in conjunction with most of the other options, as can taking drugs.

In my 'leisure time' I visit friends and relatives and tour (for want of a better word) scotland.

Shagging isn't on the list either.

Oh well, just tick "other" if it's not on the list.

I did, don't take it personally, I think your poll is great. It's up there with the best.

Hehe. If "other" was to get lots of votes I can always do another poll with those suggestions.
But it's not really meant to be definitive, it's just a bit of fun.
A quick poll to see what (hobbies) people do outside of ilx. (I suppose I should have included ILX as an option), but the reason for the poll was because of posts on the other thread about how music doesn't seem to be the lifestyle choice that it was some years ago. And I wondered what most ilxors got up to in their spare time, and maybe to see why music wasn't the main choice. ILX has a broad range of ages so it would be interesting to see comments on whether it was age was the reason music wasn't important for them or of course the other reasons that they just enjoyed doing something else.
I kind of expected dvds to top this as I find more people are interested in DVD collections than music, but you never know with all the gamers around here.

Any reasons why music isn't as important these days or why dvds or games (or anything else) are would be much appreciated. I am genuinely intrigued.

I listen to a lot less music now compared to even a year ago, I don't know why. I guess I'm finding it harder to 'get into' new music, I don't really have the patience to listen and re-listen to tracks like I used to.

Now when I get new music and a track doesn't grip me straight away I skip to the next one, it's a habit I've only recently picked up and I'd like to shake it.

I can't really choose any of these as my main pastime either - it's all about the multitasking baby!

(Baby being the operative word actually - she has changed how I spend my time more than any other factor.)

I know what you mean. If I watch a movie I'll see it all the way through, with a cd it's too easy just to skip a track. It's worse if I am listening to an ipod, I don't think i've ever heard an album all the way through on one go, even when on a train or bus journey.
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in light of this morning's topicality, i move that 'cheating on S.O.' be included in this poll.

'Fantasising'

Perhaps I should have included a "I don't have any hobbies or spare time" option.

I have to say cooking, which is a hobby/passion of mine. I started cooking last night for a party this Saturday. And I cook a lot on the weekends too.

I went with computer games, but a close second is watching TV (downloaded) and a not-so-close third is sports-related etc (kick ball around)

I had to pick "making music/listening to music" because "going to gigs and sitting in the back drawing" wasn't one of the options.

I can't please everyone!

I wonder how many will choose the get drunk at home option

sports activities

euphemism?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I can't choose. ;_;

I don't know why, but these two options strike me as hilarious:

Taking Drugs
Getting Drunk at home

yet, I know they are perfectly valid choices.

I would be surprised if they got zero votes. Would it be sad if people did choose them?

I CHOSE ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS.

Maybe it's just the particular wording. I don't know why I find it hilarious.

Actually, it reminds me of the other day when a coworker (old lady) came up to me and said, "Do you take drugs?" and I gave her an annoyed "pfffft, no." And she said, "Oh, because this fax came and I just thought if you took any drugs you might be interested in it." It was some bullshit solicitation fax about saving $ on pharm's and she's a retard.

Will it be more hilarious if one of them win?

Knitting needles and sex really don't work out too well.

There's a book publised about knitting and SM or something.

Getting Drunk at home

My gran did this for years. However, I think I'd label it more as addiction than "doing in your spare time."

I didn't see knitting while watching telly as an option. :-(

Sorry, it never occurred to me to have knitting as an option. Too late now.
All those who would choose knitting post now saying so.

Yeah, it's a bit strange that "crafts" or the like knitting/sewing isn't on the list, come to think of it.

Also, no gardening. Is that a function of age group? I mean, if we were a bunch of normos, we might well have "DIY" on the list. What a shame that "tinkering in the shed" is no longer a spare time activity.

Only because I don't have a shed.

"tinkering in the shed" usually = "taking drugs" or "getting drunk at home"

Yes, I can def understand knitting not being an option, but CRAFTS?

As someone who left Claire of the hottest Losties poll I can defend Mr. Twisted and say it's hard to remember/think of every reasonable option.

internet nonsense

i'm hoping GAEMZ is gonna be an unexpected frontrunner, but i'm fairly sure ILX0rs will play down their gaming habits.

fishing, bmxing, photography

all at the same time.

^^ fucking liar

(and some gaemz)

:)

Sam, I know and I don't mind really. :-)

actually in order of usage it probably goes from top to bottom:

internet nonsense
photography
gaming
fishing
bmxing

Everyone yelled at me for leaving out Claire though. :(

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(I thought photography said pornography.)

ms mis, leaving out claire on a hottest lostie list does not equal forgetting a reasonable option.

I chose "Reading books" - although I'm also including reading magazines and newspapers and things online in that category.

That sounds perfectly ok with me.

(I thought photography said pornography.)

My kinda gal! :-)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Only 6 hardcore gamers?

i don't believe it either.

Maybe they were too busy playing games to vote?

even i managed to get a vote in. i think they just chose something productive to look cool.

I feel bad now for not picking painting/drawing. Because I do that, too. And no one voted for it.

Only two people besides me clicked "pubs"? Though I would've chosen "hanging out with friends" if there would've been such an option, it doesn't necessarily have to be in pubs.

I was going to have the option "hanging around street corners drinking".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6261546.stm
for g-kit

i got it already

It's a bit biased towards Nintendo

at least HL2 is in there

I'm surprised drinking didn't score higher.