10 Insane Hobbies People Actually Have!

- Look, that thing that you like doing?
I'm not gonna judge you for it.
At least you're not eating couch cushion stuffing.
♫ You big bad wolf
♫ You big bad wolf
- Listen, everybody has something
that they like to do as a pastime
and some people like to get a little freaky deaky
while others like to maybe dress up as a furry.
Some people like to take their pet rock for a walk
while others like baking treats
while dressed up as a lizard.
No?
Just me, huh?
But I assure you, if you think those things are weird,
the following hobbies that people really have
are going to make a lizard man baking cupcakes look normal.
Here are 10 insane hobbies people actually have.
Number one is dying animals.
There is an alarming number of people out there
who have a desire to dye animals.
Now, it's common for people to groom their pets,
cutting their hair, often into strange patterns,
but these people take those things to the extreme
and wind up making their puppy dog
look like a cross between Big Bird and Elmo.
There are dying designs that have
the entire main cast from the animated movie Madagascar
as well as a Yoda design with an Ewok's face on the rear end
which makes your dog look like a sentient pile
of stuffed animals.
Some people even dye their pets
as completely different animals
such as tigers, deer, or even pandas.
The hobby began in China decades ago,
but the fad only took off around 1999.
There are even competitions all around the world
that exist right now
that judge creativity and colorfulness of people's pets.
Please, stop encouraging these people.
Seriously, your poor bird Yoda dog can't speak for himself.
Number two are eating things that aren't food.
Okay, this hobby is so dangerous
many people believe that it must be an addiction
as no sane person should be excited
about needing to do it at all.
Now, while there is a medical condition called pica
that makes people crave non-foods,
believe it or not there are people
who eat ridiculous crap just for the fun of it.
There are people that are still alive today,
believe it or not, that are eating things like rocks,
tape, nail polish, detergent, plastic, deodorant,
couch cushion filling and even human ashes (gags).
Anybody who actively embraces this lifestyle
should absolutely consider a different hobby.
More than a few people have been hospitalized
with serious health issues and lost their lives
after eating inedible objects.
I imagine that, for those people,
going number two in the bathroom
must be extremely unpleasant.
What is that?
A GI Joe figure?
Oh, that's a nice surprise.
Number three is yarn bombing.
And now for a hobby that makes it look
like a gang of grandmas just marked their territory.
Yarn bombing is a form of street art,
which some consider to be graffiti,
that basically involves making cozies for random
and often very large objects
such as fire hydrants, bicycles, cars,
and even custom pothole fillings in roads.
Some yarn bombing artists have gone further
and undertaken some serious knitting projects
for things like entire buses, statues,
bike racks, public transit seating, and small buildings.
Using colorful yarns and wools,
yarn bombers cover anything that they can think of
with knitted coverings without permanently damaging
or marking the items covered.
One of them is considered to be the oldest street artist
on earth, which is Grace Brett at 104 years old.
This self proclaimed yarnstormer from Scotland
goes out with her fellow scouter stormers
and always seems to be adding color to her hometown.
This is charming although still technically kind of illegal,
but I can get behind it.
You go, granny.
Number four is background guy.
Hey, just because your acting career didn't take off
the way you wanted it to doesn't mean
you still can't get on TV.
Take Paul Yarrow from London
whose hobby gives him plenty of air time.
Since November of 2009, Paul has appeared on a number
of broadcasts, some of which live and some recorded,
but he almost never speaks.
He's known as the background guy.
Basically someone who learns
where news is about to take place
and then goes there in order to stand
behind the person reporting it.
Yarrow has appeared in countless news reports
across many well-known British and international networks
such as BBC, Channel 4, Sky, and Al-Jazeera.
He's even made an appearance on Antiques Roadshow.
For many reporters, having someone distract you
from doing your job can be infuriating,
but to Yarrow's credit, he stands there quietly
minding his own business and once in a while
just kind of, mm hmm, nods.
For many people who watch the news during the height
of his appearances, seeing Yarrow stroll into frame
wearing his trademark beige sweater would often
become the highlight of the report.
Someone needs a new hobby.
Oh man, I got a cold.
Number five is bug fighting.
If training your pet rooster or dog is too boring
and you're craving the thrill of a good fight to bet on,
then this hobby is most certainly for you.
Bug fighting has been going on for literally centuries
and it involves training beetles and other larger bugs
to battle it out in their own much smaller version
of the Ultimate Fighter Octagon.
I imagine them like Pokemon, but much more real.
In Thailand, the best bug for fighting
is the Kwang Song rhinoceros beetle
who will rarely back down from a fight,
especially if a female of the species is nearby.
No seriously, that's a tactic that's often used
by bug owners to spur them on during a championship.
Matches go until one of the insects
is knocked out of the arena or, more often,
until one of the bugs kills the other
and bug fighting is even prevalent on YouTube
with many videos and channels dedicated
to showing off feature fights.
These include preying mantises, spiders,
giant wasps, scorpions, and more
all for entertainment, I guess?
This is disturbing.
Number six is extreme ironing.
Don't you just hate it when all your friends
are going to that adrenaline filled extreme sport,
but you have to stay home and get the wrinkles
out of your shirt?
Man, that's tough.
Well my friend, it's time to add a new hobby to your life
and that hobby is called extreme ironing.
This high octane sport involves doing
extreme actions while literally ironing.
Imagine getting wrinkles out of your t-shirt
while clinging to the side of a mountain
that you just climbed halfway up.
Extreme ironing is alleged to have been started
by a Leicester, England man named Phil Shaw
who got the genius idea to combined ironing chores
with rock climbing back in 1997
and it blew up because today there's even
an extreme ironing world championship,
so get out there and risk your life
while trying to get that crease out of your trousers.
These are weird.
Number seven is suing people.
You know, some people collect bottle caps.
Some people visit a new place every day
and some people sue every person, place,
and inanimate object that they can think of.
At least that's the case with 39 year old
Jonathan Lee Riches who's an ex-convict
who served prison time for wire fraud
and who holds the unofficial record
for the most lawsuits ever filed by one person.
Riches sues everyone from NFL coaches to statues
and monuments to food that you might have
in your fridge right now.
Some of his lawsuits have been completely nonsensical
and targeted things and people
who have no ability to defend themselves in court.
Your honor, that piece of toast owes me $5,000.
It's too dry!
Some of these suits included,
and I'm not exaggerating,
Nostradamus, Che Guevara, Pluto, yeah, the planet Pluto,
every survivor of the Holocaust, the book Mein Kampf
by Adolph Hitler, the Holy Grail,
various Nordic gods and the Roman Empire.
Riches has filed 2,600 lawsuits since January 8th 2006,
all of which have been dismissed.
Number eight is killing dinner.
Though many of us are content
with going out and buying foods from restaurants,
grocery stores, or even snack machines,
many others get their foods
from a much more personal source.
More and more people seem to be developing
the same hobby, changing their eating habits
to only consuming things that they harvest
or kill with their own bare hands.
Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg takes part
in this lifestyle, his first ever kill
being a lobster, then moving on to chickens,
pigs, and even goats.
Now this can actually be a very beneficial practice
to those who want to take it seriously
since you get an intimate knowledge
of how your food is being handled.
People who enjoy this hobby
tend to turn into farmers pretty quick
and usually attempt to take their prey's lives
in the least cruel way possible.
So, that's good, I guess.
Creepy, but good.
Number nine is knitting wool breasts.
While knitting and crocheting aren't
ridiculous hobbies to have,
what a certain 84 year old Sussex woman makes
with her work definitely hits that mark.
Audrey Horncastle knits, of all things, fuzzy breasts.
Oh yeah, you heard me correctly.
She's made over 100 of them
and gives each of them to her daughter, Rona.
In turn, Rona, a community nurse,
gives them out to expectant mothers
to help them learn the proper way to breastfeed.
Though she's only paid enough money
to cover the costs of materials to make
the knitted bosoms, Audrey is quite happy
keeping her knitting job as her personal hobby,
even offering new mothers their choice
in color scheme and welcoming any new boob making challenge.
Additionally, a charity organization
called Knitted Knockers,
which is the best name ever,
accepts donations of knitted breast prosthetics
that are given away to female breast cancer survivors
who may have undergone mastectomy operations.
So if you enjoy knitting,
try knitting a pair of boobs.
It's for a good cause.
And number 10 is playing dead.
(clears throat) You know, when a dog does it
it's super cute, but when a human does it, no.
No.
Playing dead is actually a hobby that 58 year old Chuck Lamb
has been doing for over 11 years.
Back in 2005, Chuck, a father of six from Ohio,
walked away from his full time job as an IT engineer
in order to indulge his hobby of arranging himself
in positions that make people truly afraid
that they've stumbled across his dead corpse.
Called the dead body guy, Chuck has appeared
in movies and TV shows and now makes
up to $1,500 a day doing this.
Before he made his fake death a career,
he was first inspired by watching actors
play dead on shows like Law and Order
and even dreamed of playing one himself.
Besides being an inspiration to many actors out there
who have little to no acting range,
Chuck is a living example
that you should really follow your dreams
and do whatever makes you happy,
even if those dreams are pretty ridiculous.
So, those were 10 insane hobbies people actually have.
What other things do you guys know that people do
as a hobby that are just disturbing?
It could be yourself.
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10 Insane Hobbies People Actually Have!

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