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The Straits Times (Singapore): Expensive but worth it: Exhausted by the digital world, I turn to grandma hobbies
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The Straits Times (Singapore): Expensive but worth it: Exhausted by the digital world, I turn to grandma hobbies
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(I have in mind to take up one of my grandfather's hobbies, which learning how to use large medieval weapons 😂 I recall him demonstrating extremely heavy and large polearms with real blades on the end to us little grandchildren 😬 ).
@ai6yr "it will be a valuable lesson" - Death
being a Ren faire dork has caused me to learn many things, #1 NEVER practice sword play with live steel. hand surgery is expensive and the rehab takes almost a year to get back to 100%
@coolcalmcollected Yikes! I suspect the blades on the end of his weapons were probably not sharp, lol. (but, dunno, I was in elementary school)
@ai6yr Y'know, grandma hobbies. Like starting a Scandinavian speed metal band, or learning to tattoo, or getting more time with the furnace and doing some simple steel casting.
@ai6yr I truly abhor that phrasing for things that I (grandma-aged) love doing.
I mean, I’ve been doing all of these since my teens. Was I a grandmotherly 16 yo?
Are men who write letters grandmotherly? Are grandmothers necessarily or primarily grandmotherly?
@ai6yr If the apron fits, my friend 🤣
Hard copies don't get bitrot, just plain old ordinary rot, so keep them dry.
@ai6yr Considering my grandma's main hobby was doing the new york times crossword puzzle in pen every day of the week, that's kind of a weird thing to make into an insult.
***I'm all for going analog, and advocate it, but "grandma hobbies"!?!?!