The seriously obscure stuff you love.

[zippypinhead]

What are you a fanatic about that it seems nobody else knows or cares about?

 

[zippypinhead]

I suppose it's only fair for me to start off. We all have our quirks.

I have some really odd collections. For example, I've been collecting nickels compulsively for about 25 years. I don't actively seek them out and hoard them, or anything. I just set aside any nickel I get as change. I have no idea how many I have -- thousands. I keep them in a literal treasure chest. The original idea was to get a million nickels by some point in my life. I had read a newspaper article about how some guy collected a million pennies over decade or two, and that's how it started. I decided on nickels because I like nickels best out of all the American coins. I like them because I used to flip coins all the time, as a nervous habit, I guess, and nickels are by far the most satisfying flipping coin. They've got good weight and circumference, and you can really get them spinning in the air. So, because I like flipping coins (great exercise for dexterity and coordination) I haven't spent a nickel in over two decades.

 

[SaffronBurke]

I hecking love Red Dwarf so freaking much, and almost nobody I know has heard of it.

 

[asia_lynn]

I'm know a ton of random facts but they're not based around any particular subject and they dont tie into each other. Like, I can tell you the exact elevation of the peak of Kilimanjaro but I can't tell you anything else about it.

I am obsessed with Peru to the point that I'll read/watch/eat/wear/sleep with anything that even remotely involves Peru.

Also I'm sure lots of people here are with me on this compared to my day to day life but my life pretty much revolves around speaking out against slut shaming.

 

[summerlily72]

What are you a fanatic about that it seems nobody else knows or cares about?

Yeah

 

[Mara_Jayne]

Collecting old vinyl records from late 1930s through early 60s. I love oldies music and have only one crate full but I haven't been actively looking lately. I have lots of my fave Glenn Miller and many other Kings of swing along with Sinatra and Dean Martin and more. I badly want to land some Peggy Lee, Kay Starr, Ella Fitzgerald and Andrews sisters. Most who hear me playing it always comment that it makes them think of Christmas music that's probably because the only good Christmas music was from that time.

Also I collect fossils and interesting rocks. I've always collected rocks (who doesn't when they're little) I still have my collection and add to it when I go to different places. My favorite bit of the collection are the horn coral fossils. When I was little I thought they were teeth lol. I'm a huge dinosaur fan, thanks Jurassic Park, and a little paleontologist at heart. I have a pretty decent collection of horn coral just from walking the creeks while camping. I've gotten pretty good at spotting them and usually bring a hand full or two back home each time.

Great now I wanna go camping and thrift shopping lol. Oh! I know! I'll hit a few flee markets on the way to camp! Come on weather, be warm, stay warm.

 

[Shhhamrock]

I hecking love Red Dwarf so freaking much, and almost nobody I know has heard of it.

Let’s be friends. Backwards is one of the best bits of tv ever made.

 

[Lucid1]

I recently got into metal detecting. Finding stuff that has been in the ground for hundreds of years is quite the adrenaline rush. Best find so far is an 1890's silver dollar.

 

[Deleted member 43650]

Also a HUGE vinyl nerd here...or snob, shall I admittedly say. I collect early American Minimalist and Serialist composition on vinyl. I get SO excited about stuff like La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich et al...and I'm typically the only one LOL. Also have a huge prog-folk collection - mostly late 1960s - early 1970s German 'Krautfolk'. I only go for first-pressings, acetate test pressings, ltd ed releases...always have to be complete with the original inserts and everything. I'm very particular about it. Needless to say, if there's one thing you guys will hear me bragging about, it's my vinyl collection ;P

I also collect vintage fetish zines and booklets (Tijuana Bibles, for instance). Predominantly femdom and foot fetish media. I love these items because they are artifacts of a time during which access to alternative sex media was so clandestine and taboo, the mediums were often mail-order zines or word-of-mouth publications. I've also started collecting old gay pornography for similar reasons - much of the gay 'pornography' prior to the 1960s was covertly published as 'muscle magazines' given the highly controversial nature of the subject.

 

[Deleted member 43650]

I suppose it's only fair for me to start off. We all have our quirks.

I have some really odd collections. For example, I've been collecting nickels compulsively for about 25 years. I don't actively seek them out and hoard them, or anything. I just set aside any nickel I get as change. I have no idea how many I have -- thousands. I keep them in a literal treasure chest. The original idea was to get a million nickels by some point in my life. I had read a newspaper article about how some guy collected a million pennies over decade or two, and that's how it started. I decided on nickels because I like nickels best out of all the American coins. I like them because I used to flip coins all the time, as a nervous habit, I guess, and nickels are by far the most satisfying flipping coin. They've got good weight and circumference, and you can really get them spinning in the air. So, because I like flipping coins (great exercise for dexterity and coordination) I haven't spent a nickel in over two decades.

This is fascinating and cool! I want to send you a nickel! Seriously though, I'm rooting for ya! Check in with us when you hit that goal

 

[JickyJuly]

This version of Alice in Wonderland from the 80s. It was a TV special. I have the VHS version somewhere. I've made so many people watch it with me and no one ever gets as excited over it. Seriously. Look at the cast list. The costumes make everyone look like they're in a school play too. It's priceless. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088693/?ref_=nv_sr_3
also the reason I've had a crush on Lloyd Bridges and wanted to be Carol Channing my whole entire life.

 

[Mila_]

I love really weird videogames like "Papers, please", "Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP" or "Eufloria"

 

[Deleted member 43650]

I love really weird videogames like "Papers, please", "Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP" or "Eufloria"

LOL Papers, Please is epic. There are so many great, quirky independent dev games out there

 

[MizDelilahDee]

I guess mine isn't crazy weird, but I love collecting emoji pillows. My kid, on the other hand, is into weird stuff which makes it hard to buy stuff (toys, clothes etc) for him. The reigning obsession this month is Pacman. He's 4.

 

[gddp]

Lol, this question actually goes well with a comment someone made during my last stream.
Apparently for me it's "extensive knowledge of very obscure Hollywood movies that someone in their 70s might have." Also I'm scary? :0 A lot happening in this comment...

 

[n_i_c_u]

What are you a fanatic about that it seems nobody else knows or cares about?

I started reading comics back in the early 80's. It was fun at first and I just read and reread those comics I did have . Eventually I became a fanatic and EVERYTHING needed to be in mint condition and bagged and boarded. It took all the fun out of it but I have a ton of mint condition comics from the late 80's to the 90's.

It got so fanatical that every dvd set I purchased (mainly MST3K) and cd (they started doing cardboardish packaging and special packaging--You pay 50.00 for something and you hope it arrives in mint condition) haaaaadddd to be in mint condition and then I would buy duplicates so I could listen/watch one and archive the other. I would even repurchase dvd sets and cds, or complain so much that they sent me a replacement. It honestly was fanatical trying to have everything be 'Just Exactly Perfect.'

I'm crazy. It loses the fun worrying about dings and dents. I have so much stuff boxed up and the value on dvds has gone by the wayside. It can be profitable to have a two mint condition copies of Deadpool's first appearance, but, still, I don't think I even read them and enjoyed them (though I'm not much of a Liefeld fan) and the MST3K dvd's have all lost value. Still, waiting for a delivery and having it be mint condition was one of the coolest experiences.

 

[CharlieCharma]

I collect tarot cards, comic books, and lipstick. I have over 100 different shades of lipstick. Like a few hundred dollars worth. I love lipstick so freaking much. I have a shade for every occasion and look.

 

[RebelleHart]

I have a small but treasured collection of novelty condoms from around the world. I try to get one from a tourist shop in every city I go to. The bigger the pun on the packaging the more I will love it. My favourite one is from Amsterdam and is supposedly weed flavoured haha.

 

[ShyCollegeSlut]

Cows...but i'm likely not the only one. I enjoy petting them, feeding them, cuddling with the calves, and moo-ing at them like a weirdo. I also really like eating them. Grass-fed beef tastes great, and I know they're well taken care of up until the time they are butchered.

 

[eyeteach]

Coins, specifically U.S. silver coinage. Back before silver prices skyrocketed I was one wheelin' and dealin' EBay sonuvagun where US proof sets were concerned, pre 1964 of course. Dealers were darn near giving them away at the prices they were offering and I'd buy as many as I could. I also bought rolls of dimes, quarters, & half dollars. When silver prices reached nearly $40 an ounce I sold nearly everything I had and made a shitload of moolah. I'm also in to Indian head pennies.

Another thing I'm into is collegiate girls softball, I guess because I used to coach the sport in a previous life. The emphasis this year on batter's being out of the box making contact with the ball really pisses me off. Slap hitters work hard on putting the ball in play and this rule penalized them...let the damn girls hit already!

 

[theswankyslut]

Random funny sex stuff is my vice lol I have so much random stuff from the early 80’s to day!

 

[Lintilla]

I have my general ham radio license, going for extra... whenever I get around to it. I know Morse code, but I'm still pretty terrible. I just wish I could afford to move somewhere I could put up an antenna and get more into it.

I guess Red Dwarf is no longer terribly obscure, for the purposes of this thread I love British comedy, and if it's sci-fi it always gets extra points.

 

[paige_orion]

I am obsessed with post-apocalypse stuff. My parents really dug Kevin Costner, so I grew up on a healthy mix of fantasy movies and Postman and Waterworld. Those were my fave movies ever as a kid - I've watched them probably a hundred times each. Then I was introduced to the Mad Max franchise as a youngling, and my obsession was pretty firmly rooted forever. I adore post-apocalyptic fiction and I am a super hardcore fan of the Fallout games - that is one of my top zen ways to chill. I hate shooter games, but Fallout is different! I love post-apocalyptic fashion - my closet looks pretty strange because of it. I've even attended a post-apocalyptic desert festival, where there was an actual Bartertown set up, and everyone dressed up in character and there were so many PA cars and people gambled using bottle caps. It was pretty magical.

I always dig seeing the new, creative ways people choose to depict the end of the world. I think it's really fascinating, both the decline of civilization, but even more so, that survival spark in the human heart that helps people keep going in the face of adversity, and that never ending desire to build something better out of the ashes.

 

[Privacy]

I hecking love Red Dwarf so freaking much, and almost nobody I know has heard of it.

I looooove Red Dwarf, haven't watched it in years but the Rimmer Munchkin song gets stuck in my head on a regular basis

This isn't that obscure but I adore tea, all tea, to the point of taking classes to become a tea sommelier the same way people do wine haha

 

[SaffronBurke]

the Rimmer Munchkin song gets stuck in my head on a regular basis

That song is horrendously awesome.

I'm also in to Indian head pennies.

I used to have about 50 Indian Head pennies that amounted to a $2 value. Some roommates stole them. I was pissed. I had one from 1900! It was not only an Indian Head, it was also wheat back. I've also come across a few Buffalo nickels. But always the ones with the dates missing, how disappointing!

 

[eyeteach]

That song is horrendously awesome.



I used to have about 50 Indian Head pennies that amounted to a $2 value. Some roommates stole them. I was pissed. I had one from 1900! It was not only an Indian Head, it was also wheat back. I've also come across a few Buffalo nickels. But always the ones with the dates missing, how disappointing!

How awful of those roommates to do to you, I would have been pissed too. One of the coins I held on to is a 1908-S Indian head, its a semi-date key and worth in the $140-145 range. I absolutely love those old cents, collecting those are a wonderful, cheap introduction to coin collecting.

 

[DFT]

Cows...but i'm likely not the only one. I enjoy petting them, feeding them, cuddling with the calves, and moo-ing at them like a weirdo.

I like to greet cows gathered at water tanks near a road. They look up, probably think "damn that guy's annoying" and go back to what they're doing. Cows are polite and tasty.

Don't waste your breath greeting a horse. They can't be bothered to respond.

Me, I like old tools. Kind of like old coins. With coins I like to imagine what they've been spent on, with tools what they've built.

 

[AudriTwo]

vintage taxidermy

 

[Deleted member 37064]

View attachment 75231 Random funny sex stuff is my vice lol I have so much random stuff from the early 80’s to day!

Remind me of a gal I knew back in High School. She had a box on her shelf with a label on it of "Cum". First time I was in her room, she asked if I'd like to cum in her box.

 

[Anatomica Doll]

anything that is occult, paranormal, macabre/grotesque, and esoteric. oh, and mortuary science!