Do You Hide Your Hobby?

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Postby 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 :D!
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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
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Postby LeoHamasaki » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:57 pm

I don't as well! Everybody knows I love anime! XD~
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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. :P
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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.

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Postby 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.

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Postby Sepvicious » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:30 am

I don´t hide it. In my clique i´m actually a anime-missionary xD
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Postby Sepvicious » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:33 am

Sepvicious wrote:I don´t hide it. In my clique i´m actually a anime-missionary xD


Oh, i hide my Hentai from my parents ^^
Maybe my English is not perfect, but...!
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Postby hasteroth » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:06 pm

Sepvicious wrote:
Sepvicious wrote:I don´t hide it. In my clique i´m actually a anime-missionary xD


Oh, i hide my Hentai from my parents ^^


I agree with you fully. My mom found my dummy stash and she killed me. I'd hate to see what would happen if she found the actual one. Though it's easier to hide now since I got a laptop.
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Postby refrigerator » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:08 pm

Well I only own one anime shirt, I used to have another one
but it got lost somewhere. I try to keep it to myself, I don't
want to be as bold. I do have a pretty hefty manga collection.
It's better just to keep these kind of things to yourself
because being a " rabid " fangirl/boy bullshit is kind of sick.
Imo I think it's more of an " LOOK AT ME I HAVE SUCH COOL SHIT "
which is so childish. : p
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Postby Hareoic » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:26 am

I wore the button I got for taking second place in the Viewer's Choice category at Anime Iowa's AMV Contest this year on my backpack until just a few hours ago, when somebody complimented it. They didn't seem to have any idea what it meant, and I knew they were just being nice, but it embarrased me enough that as soon as I got home, I removed it.

At least nobody's seen my notebook yet :roll:
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