Most attractive hobbies

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I was sent this the other day.

And I looked around on the internet, and found an article all about it.

Which had quotes like this:

Basically, women want a bilingual traveling blacksmith who does archery, gardens, and reads — or some combination like that.

which make me wonder how on earth the human race will ever continue.

Out of those Top 15, I reckon I’ve got about 7 or 8 covered. And an extra 1 if “painting” means like living room walls and stuff. You can leave me out on the archery and blacksmithing thing – when was this survey done? 1650? – but, for someone who doesn’t read books, I think I’m doing alright.

Of course, what I really need is a Top 15 of what Mrs 6000 likes.

And what she doesn’t like. Because they listed those things as well.

I was quite interested in a couple of these things: who puts “arguing online” as a hobby?!? And I am happy to say that I had to look a couple of them up.

Funko is a collection of large headed plastic model figures. And…

The manosphere is a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism.

How weird that that should be bottom of the list. And how even weirder that 3.1% of women said they found it attractive.

Quite chuffed that my occasional flutter on Sheffield United (and Mrs 6000’s bit of racehorse) is my only entry on this bottom list.

There’s also a really interesting correlation between these charts and the ones for what men think women perceive as being attractive and not. Nearly right, boys! Good effort!
Click through on the link above for that.

New Doves

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First new music from Doves in 4 years. And it’s darker and stormier than you might remember them, but still with that gritty Jimi Goodwin sound.

New album out on Valentines Day next year, and it’s apparently going to follow the same path:

Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, “Renegade” feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel, thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing… Blade Runner set in our home city.

I’m ready whenever they are.

Let’s go away

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A few days away after what has been a fairly hectic year.

As alluded to here, we’re heading a couple of hours north of Cape Town for a few days, and hoping to chill out completely for a little while. It’s well deserved.

I’m not sure what the connectivity is like up there, so I’m popping a couple of posts up in advance, but I’m hoping to have some time to write and ‘tog while we’re away, so look out for new stuff on here and on my Instagram.

But in the meantime, the beers, wine and braaivleis are all loaded up, and we’re ready to go.

Let’s go away. See you on the other side.

Taste intact

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Spotify surprised me with my 2024 Wrapped this afternoon, and I’m pretty happy with the results.

I listen to whatever I want to, whenever I want to, and so there’s always the worry at this time of year that when it’s all added up, it’ll be a bit… eww.

But no. This is fine.

A timely reminder that you can enjoy my curated playlists here.

So, this year then. 15,000 odd listening minutes (doesn’t include my radio stuff, obviously); 1,700 odd different artists. So I clearly didn’t spend too much time on some of them. 

But yes. Overall: lovely.

M3 burning bus drama: The Reddit reaction

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No wonder the traffic was so bad as I raced past it on a pretty quick (for me) 5.5km run this morning. Because apparently, just on the town side of where I was, was this:

And when this sort of thing happens, its bound to make people wonder what’s going on.

So yes: all very well to ask this sort of question: it’s an unusual incident, and a reasonable thing to be curious about. But if you’re going to ask on Reddit, then you’re going to get those helpful Reddit answers.

Like this:

This is (probably) completely accurate information. OK, it’s unlikely to assist with relieving any of the curiosity of the initial inquirer, but you can’t fault the willingness to engage.

And it’s more helpful than this sort of thing:

Ja Nee. Rubbernecking only makes things worse, hey? Don’t do it.

At the present time, there is no indication as to why the bus caught alight.
But the traffic is still awful.