The Covid 19 Culture Cup - Round Six - The hobby you find most annoying

We're into the home stretch now, and the rounds are obviously getting weirder. It is no coincidence that the culture is lessening as a new participant enters the field, one of the most revered veterans of CC history. That's right, he's back: Tina is here!

For this round, I asked you to submit the hobby you find most annoying. Vote for the two you agree with most.

Some of the picks over the next few rounds, with the reasons attached, are superb. Top notch CC'ing, really returning the competition to its early glories. See if you can guess who picked what. 


A really cultural round leaves Luke as the main beneficiary, his pick of The Raven taking eight points, Risca close behind with seven points for Dylan Thomas' classic. It leaves the standings as follows:
Dolphin Ziggler 22
Guildford 16
King Carlos 16
Beer 15
Risca 15
Luke 15
JDizzle 15
Crimey 12
Dagless 8
Samo 8
Well 7
PJ 7
Jimbo 7
Tiger 7
Jules 7
Galted 6
Superfly 6
Soul 6
Alfie 5
Tina *NEW ENTRY*

Went for cycling and golf.

Wouldn't mind cycling so much if it involved people with sniper rifles on rooftops.

The golfing entry was magnificent, very Tinoesque. I particularly enjoyed the inability to resist mentioning an obscure species of invertebrate. I shall be quite furious if it was a clever bit of trickery by Julius to snaffle my vote.

I don't need your vote Galted. I spit on your vote. 7-6!

Went for making TikToks, because I've heard of them but can't be @rsed to find out what they are, and wine-tasting, which just edged out boasting about craft beer in the "I'm a kn0b" stakes.

JuliusHMarx wrote:I don't need your vote Galted. I spit on your vote. 7-6!

Now that I've sussed out where you're going with your first serve the second set should be a doddle.

Do tattoos count as a hobby?

Samo wrote:Do tattoos count as a hobby?

Hi Samo - somewhat declaring my hand but yes, I thought so. Some people seem to collect them nowadays the way that others collected stamps and train numbers when I were a lad.

I only collect other people's tattoos.

You'd be the first serial killer to have the butler do it.

I voted for the sourdough entry. That was a thing of beauty. Anyone that ends a sentence with 'Mouth Feel' deserves a vote. I make them correct as well, you may as well eat plasticine.

I also voted for Cosplay but misread the entry and thought it said Coldplay.

I have no idea what Cosplay is but too late now. Whoever picked that can thank me later.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I voted for the sourdough entry. That was a thing of beauty. Anyone that ends a sentence with 'Mouth Feel' deserves a vote. I make them correct as well, you may as well eat plasticine.

I also voted for Cosplay but misread the entry and thought it said Coldplay.

I have no idea what Cosplay is but too late now. Whoever picked that can thank me later.

I was put off by the phrase "textural eater". Filth.

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I voted for the sourdough entry. That was a thing of beauty. Anyone that ends a sentence with 'Mouth Feel' deserves a vote. I make them correct as well, you may as well eat plasticine.

I also voted for Cosplay but misread the entry and thought it said Coldplay.

I have no idea what Cosplay is but too late now. Whoever picked that can thank me later.

I was put off by the phrase "textural eater".  Filth.  

Yes, utter filth. And very arousing.

Sourdough/bread making - its good if you do it right, becomes a religion if you do it all the time (and its a completely different thing from shop bought bread - you can't go back.)

There is a tendency with home made bread that people think they'll go all wholemeal because they think it is somehow more healthy and then end up baking bricks.

I'll now get off my high horse and leave you lot to it.

Jesus wept. What to choose?

Many up there do actually beat some of my suggestions. I think I'm rapidly becoming a grumpy old man!

Sourdough bakers - Tossers!
Swingers - Heathens!
Tattoos - Belong on aging naval officers only!
Craft Beers - Marketeers Lemmings!
Knitting - Meh, no issue here. Only seen old ladies doing it.
Wine tasting - Pompous ersewipes!
Strava - Boasting wanks!
Tiktokkers - Immature Imbecilic fools!
Gym - Vain pisspots
Skiing - Upperclass wannbees!
Wife Feng Shui (sp?) - buy her a Wii
Social media influencers - Scourge on society
Cyclists - Spandex wearing clowns!
Golfers - Need to find a more engaging wife!
Lego - Grow up!

Baking though. Who put that as annoying? Weirdo! I bet you 10 of Jimbo's finest pounds (sterling, not weightage) that everyone here would gladly consume any form of homemade confectionary!!!

off to lie down now. My anger levels have peaked just reading about some the "Hobbies" than mankind get up to these days!

tigertattie wrote:

Strava - Boasting wanks!
Gym - Vain pisspots

I am using both of these in regular conversation from now on.

Most of my wanks are for boasting

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Most of my wanks are for boasting

Are the others just performed because of a grim sense of duty?

superflyweight wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Most of my wanks are for boasting

Are the others just performed because of a grim sense of duty?

I’ve really gotten into prison art. Browns and off-whites.