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Title: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Bob G on December 30, 2021, 10:37:55 AM
From our local magazine:

Axe Throwing. Just 150 yards from Leicester Train Station.

I mean, you might have had a few grumbles over the festive period, but this is quite a strong response to a delayed train service!

Bob
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 10:57:39 AM
Welly wanging is much less messy and more enjoyable
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 11:00:57 AM
Don't you get your foot wet when you take the welly off to wang it?  ???
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: chrism on December 30, 2021, 11:24:44 AM
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 10:57:39 AM
Welly wanging is much less messy and more enjoyable

Or black pudding hurling  :smiley-laughing:
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: joe cassidy on December 30, 2021, 11:27:25 AM
Wife-carrying is a sport in Finland.
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: guest311 on December 30, 2021, 11:28:56 AM
chasing cheeses down a very steep hill  :hmmm:
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 12:08:14 PM
Quote from: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 11:00:57 AM
Don't you get your foot wet when you take the welly off to wang it?  ???

@dannyboy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=4209) I never said it was my welly being wanged :no: >:D
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 12:19:26 PM
I suppose I could be posh and rephrase my comment -

Does not one get ones foot wet when one takes ones welly off in order to wang said welly?
:P
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: njee20 on December 30, 2021, 12:24:46 PM
It's unorthodox I know, but I thought I might take up railway modelling. I talk about it plenty...
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Dorsetmike on December 30, 2021, 12:42:46 PM
Owzabout zum Wurzel mangling.
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Quote from: njee20 on December 30, 2021, 12:24:46 PM
It's unorthodox I know, but I thought I might take up railway modelling.

Well they do say that 'there's nowt as queer as folk'.  :)
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 02:12:02 PM
I suppose somebody might be interested in running down a hill barefoot, chasing a rolling cheese, carrying somebody's wife on their back, whilst wanging a welly full of black pudding. Then, when they get to the bottom, going back up the hill to get an axe.  ???
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 02:24:59 PM
More entertaining if they had the axe on the way down though  :D
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: railsquid on December 30, 2021, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: njee20 on December 30, 2021, 12:24:46 PM
It's unorthodox I know, but I thought I might take up railway modelling. I talk about it plenty...

Is that like fashion modelling, but with train driver uniforms?
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 03:52:53 PM
Quote from: railsquid on December 30, 2021, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: njee20 on December 30, 2021, 12:24:46 PM
It's unorthodox I know, but I thought I might take up railway modelling. I talk about it plenty...

Is that like fashion modelling, but with train driver uniforms?

Oh Lord - please don't let Trainfish see that one :no:
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: The Q on December 30, 2021, 05:19:52 PM
Dwile  flonking,  good East Anglian sport that.. much more fun than Welly wanging.
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 07:08:26 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 03:52:53 PM
Quote from: railsquid on December 30, 2021, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: njee20 on December 30, 2021, 12:24:46 PM
It's unorthodox I know, but I thought I might take up railway modelling. I talk about it plenty...

Is that like fashion modelling, but with train driver uniforms?

Oh Lord - please don't let Trainfish see that one :no:

Now there's an outfit I haven't tried.                                                         Yet.

(https://i1.trekearth.com/photos/42810/mecanicul-2.jpg)
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: guest311 on December 30, 2021, 07:37:14 PM
if that was what train drivers looked like, I'd travel on trains more often  :-[
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 08:15:00 PM
Quote from: class37025 on December 30, 2021, 07:37:14 PM
if that was what train drivers looked like, I'd travel on trains more often  :-[

And I might even travel back home to do that.

(Just a thought though, what is the young lady doing with her right hand?)
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 08:27:52 PM
I have my own thoughts on that but couldn't possibly comment. :angel:
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: dannyboy on December 30, 2021, 08:35:00 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 30, 2021, 08:27:52 PM
I have my own thoughts on that

Yeh - that is what I thought as well.  :)
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 08:39:25 PM
Maybe the co-driver is underneath the console making adjustments so she can get a good feel for the controls?
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Bob G on December 30, 2021, 09:03:43 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on December 30, 2021, 08:39:25 PM
Maybe the co-driver is underneath the console making adjustments so she can get a good feel for the controls?

I think they might actually have one-man (or perhaps now one gender-fluid driver) operation

But I prefer the joystick idea much more than our old fashioned rotating knobs.

I wonder if she has a deformed back, and needs physio-therapy. That would explain why she is sitting squint.
It is also a foreign train, and those eastern European drivers are somewhat more photogenic than the typical pacer driver of old.

Bob
Title: Re: New Hobbies for 2022
Post by: Bealman on December 30, 2021, 11:28:55 PM
You're all quite mad.  :laugh3: