Do You Hide Your Hobby?

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:26 pm

Hide? No. Do I make it be known? Sometimes, depends on the people and moment. I'd hate to have a hobby that I had to keep secret. I like anime and there isn't anything anyone can do to stop me

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Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:44 pm

Garridy wrote:Its called conversational tact. There are times when certain subjects are best not brought up, depending on the environment you are conversing in.

Tact is over rated

I'd rather be known for being so overtly blunt and truthful, that people don't waste my time asking me if I'm serious.
And no one ever has to waste effort reading between the lines with me. No, there's nothing between the lines eh.

Subtle is also over rated.

Wolfy2hk · Post by **Wolfy2hk** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:10 pm

Never really tried to hide it, even my CD's are stock full of anime openings and ending songs as well as playing them on my car cd player.

chosef · Post by **chosef** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:09 am

I don't hide it... I just don't bring it up.
Even if I find out someone is a fan (happens often lately) I just say "So yer watching anime huh" and that's it. I never discuss anime/manga because i find it to be boring. I have internet for all my weaboo needs, IRL I'd rather talk about other stuff

LeoHamasaki · Post by **LeoHamasaki** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:57 pm

I don't as well! Everybody knows I love anime! XD~

Shui · Post by **Shui** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:16 am

It depends on the person I'm talking too.
I don't hide it from my family, I don't hide it from my friends, I hide it from assholes and normal persons.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:30 pm

I have nowhere else to put my amv contest trophies, so I can't hide it.

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:37 pm

No I don't hide it. But I don't exactly show it off either. If they ask me about it, I tell them the truth.

RidleyJack · Post by **RidleyJack** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:23 pm

I'm used to live with a rule to myself: If I do something, I can tell anybody, because if you know me, you know there must be a good reason for that, and if you don't know me, then I don't care.

That said, I don't provoke a conversation about anime with people who may not be interested in. I answer and even go further if anyone else starts with it.

I'm 23, and I always find older people to have a wrong idea about anime; as many of you already said, they think they must be "stuff for children", when they are lucky enough to avoid mistaking with hentai. Oh well, what I always try to do, when I smell this position, is to explain that I've found several anime which were actually deeper and more clever than many well-regarded Hollywood productions.

That brings the thing back to the first assumption: people near me usually know my way of being extremely serious and not childish at all, and therefore trust me and get curious.

Giacomo

RidleyJack · Post by **RidleyJack** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:24 pm

RidleyJack wrote:I'm used to live with a rule to myself: If I do something, I can tell anybody, because if you know me, you know there must be a good reason for that, and if you don't know me, then I don't care.

That said, I don't provoke a conversation about anime with people who may not be interested in. I answer and even go further if anyone else starts with it.

I'm 23, and I always find older people to have a wrong idea about anime; as many of you already said, they think they must be "stuff for children", when they are lucky enough to avoid mistaking with hentai. Oh well, what I always try to do, when I smell this position, is to explain that I've found several anime which were actually deeper and more clever than many well-regarded Hollywood productions.

That brings the thing back to the first assumption: people near me usually know my way of being extremely serious and not childish at all, and therefore trust me and get curious. If they don't... Well, I don't really have to demonstrate anything to anyone.

Giacomo