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What are your unconventional special interests? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There was a nicotine + adhd thread today in c/[email protected] and I got to write a few paragraphs about my favorite subject: anything tobacco.
I don't know particularly what is so cool about it, but I just can't get enough information on the subject. Old fashioned snuffboxes, cigarette boxes and holders, pipes... And the rich history and culture of each brand and style and how it evolved in every part of the world is just so interesting to me.
So it made me curious about what are some of the other more unconventional special interests around this community

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently my wife and I collecting rocks counts as special interest because most of our friends are baffled by our collection, and the fact that we go out of our way to hunt down rocks + fossils.

Apparently out of all my friends I'm the only one who thinks it's fucking awesome to hold a 410 million year old seashell in my hands, or an awesome chunk of mica. The highlight from a few wknds back was when I found a wicked hunk of quartz + feldspar with a bunch of garnets in it. Our excitement is our own, and no one else's

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Rocks are cool, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't appreciate a collection of them.

My mother is trying to downsize her stuff because her health is going downhill, she gave me the best of her rock collection and it's on the shelf next to me while I type this ... they're really nice rocks.