lol....Every time I call my 80 year old mother she starts the conversation with "what have you been doing, Diving?" My usual answer: "diving and working"
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Fish_Whisperer
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LOL! This is a great thread! I go through the same thing, though. My other great passion is playing the piano, even though I still really suck at it. It's no coincidence that all of my friends are either divers or musicians. LOL
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Rickster:
At least you have those two in the correct order.
I have a long and distinguished list of subjects that cause eyes to glaze over:
Architecture - "Have you ever considered the ramifications of the use of plan libre and open space versus the more defining, yet confining aspects of raumplan?"
Music - "Vox amps are class A, so you really get about twice the power that you do from a similarly sized AB amp. And they are so responsive..."
Volleyball - "The attack all starts with the passing. Without that you've got squat. If the passes are too high, it allows the block to form. Too low and the setter can't get there in time to get a good set..."
Flyfishing - "You don't have to get up in the middle of the night to fish the San Juan. The water doesn't really warm up enough for the bugs to be active until about mid-morning. You can usually sleep in, grab breakfast and be on the river by 9:30 or so..."
Diving - "No, you're not SUPPOSED to hold your breath, and the most of the sharks aren't really that interested in you anyway. And the jellyfish don't actively pursue you."
Any one of these can send them diving for cover. Feel free to use them when trying to get rid of someone at your next party encounter.
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LOL! I can talk to you about amps and diving. (Though I far prefer tube amps) "Party of two? Your back corner table is ready." LMAO
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This is what my friends think of me...Underwater=Darren... No worries...you will get used to it...over time.
No worries...you will get used to it...over time.
Well, over the last twenty years, my circle of friends has narrowed to include almost all horse people, because they were the only people who could tolerate listening to the minutiae of dressage ad nauseam. Now my horsy friends are trying to cope with non-stop diving . . . Guess I need to make some more friends.
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LOVE IT! I will be using this early and oftenKevfin:
... Thanks Kevin!Claudette
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Whew! I sympathize. I think my co-workers are often ready to kill me, though they actually do like looking at the weirder pictures. I need some shark pix though; they're impressed enough about the extreme close up of the jellyfish and the shot of my dive buddy two inches from one. "Weren't you scared! Can't they kill you?" "Egg yolk jellies? No." It's a frequent topic because otherwise people would simply think I was hungover on a Monday morning. Heh.
I'm good at eye glazing subjects. I'm interested in just about everything, thus possess a wide range of topics through which I can bore people into a coma. Horses, ice skating, anthropology, biology, diving... I can even bore many of the divers with marine biology.
And since channel surfing ended up with a four hour commitment to watching a Blue Planet marathon, I've collected even more tidbits to ruin a polite conversation. Mwa ha ha ha.
I'm good at eye glazing subjects. I'm interested in just about everything, thus possess a wide range of topics through which I can bore people into a coma. Horses, ice skating, anthropology, biology, diving... I can even bore many of the divers with marine biology.
And since channel surfing ended up with a four hour commitment to watching a Blue Planet marathon, I've collected even more tidbits to ruin a polite conversation. Mwa ha ha ha.
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Ishie, you totally rock! LOL! I'm the same way... I'm interested in everything. People tend to get upset when they ask a $5 question and get a $20 dollar answer. LOL
It almost seems like many people have a hard time relating to others being enthusiastic about something.
It happens with diving, though some are sincerely interested.
It happened with collecting snowblowers, though I have a following .....
http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/snowblower.html
And it even happened even camping though I hear from many families.....
http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/camping.html
I don't think it's as unique to diving as we sometimes feel. Kind of like TSandM said. I think that I've noticed that those who are active in something passionately, no matter what can relate. Others just can't comprehend passion.
It happens with diving, though some are sincerely interested.
It happened with collecting snowblowers, though I have a following .....
http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/snowblower.html
And it even happened even camping though I hear from many families.....
http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/camping.html
I don't think it's as unique to diving as we sometimes feel. Kind of like TSandM said. I think that I've noticed that those who are active in something passionately, no matter what can relate. Others just can't comprehend passion.
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