maintaining the dictatorship of capital
Learning French.
then I’m the biggest bourgeois there ever was
I was learning French :(
Golf has to be up there
Nah, golf doesn’t have to be
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Ecological disaster, using land as a status symbol showing off how much you can afford to have and not use, the obvious class dynamics between players and those who work the joint, golf has to be in the running for most bourgeois hobby
Mini golf is fine and has fewer of these issues
Hunting the most dangerous game
A decent book, I do wonder how close to non-fiction it is.
Really? Do I have to say it? we all know that its sexual abuse of children.
Not sure I’d call that a hobby, but I can see where you’re coming from.
Electoralism
Electronics.
Granted it’s really cheap to get into, especially if you get most of your parts off AliExpress or small kitchen appliances that get thrown out.
For a lot of areas you essentially have to build up your own personal “factory”. BGA soldering stations (even DIY setups) are… Mmmm…
<small>not cheap.</small>(I really want to get into BGA stuff!)
And offloading the manufacturing onto someone else (eg: The many PCB manufacturers in existence.) is still pricy.
Also: Counterfeit parts! Don’t… Don’t buy rare parts or things for mainstream production off AliExpress. Use proper distributors for that sort of stuff. Getting 74LS00’s off AliExpress for a one off project is fine, but not for creating multiple things.
Especially anything that can by dangerous. I better not catch any of you women buying stuff like mains USB phone chargers, fuses, or X class safety capacitors off the likes of AliExpress of Amazon. That’s asking for trouble.
Thankfully you can get pretty far with Chinese microcontrollers, prototyping boards, and a soldering/hot air station and hot air gun. If you’re feeling real adventurous you can get away with Harbor Freight’s soldering iron.
Not nearly as “bourgeois” as gaming though, and you could argue home electronics is “less of a waste of time” due to the fact you’re creating physical items.
Fuckin’ love my spider solitaire and Avelog’s “Mouse Simulator” though.
custom mechanical keyboards is pretty bougie
Collecting things such as baseball cards, shoes, or cars then never using them and putting them in glass boxes.
Ehhh. For some of those, I can understand. I have a contamination idiosyncrasity; so, for certain items of importance, I very much like to keep them clean as they came/made in. Books, of all things, is one of those categories. I get so bothered by potentially dirtying them or marking them, even after precautionary measures, to the point I get distracted or refuse to use it. Which sucks. So they just sit there to admire, and just maybe I might open it every few months.
Horses, boats, hunting.
Didn’t know Sentinelese were bourgeoisie
boats
Rich man’s folly and poor man’s dream
A lot of poors in farm country hunt and fish with rickety weapons and flat-bottom boats that may or not have outboard motors. They’re a clean shot, too, since ammo is expensive.
depending on where you are; you can get some cheap hulls and throw on a motor from marketplace all for under 500 bucks. You can get a boat set up for a lot cheaper than a car. Lots of people who are not wealthy use boats to feed themselves in certain parts of America.
Lots of people who are not wealthy use boats to feed themselves in certain parts of America.
It’s not a hobby for them, though, but means of living. That also include people who do hunt for food or rare but still existing ones who use horses to make living traditional way, for example in some places in Central Asia. Question was about hobby.
That’s true. Hunting and fishing means food when money is scarce and keeping wild hogs out of the garden.
Fine dining, interior decoration, boating and of course pedophilia.
Covering up the murder of your entire family with a huge explosion so you have the 20 tons of gold hidden in the old military base on your father’s private island to yourself, causing a rash of speculation and conspiracy theories about what could have happened on that fateful day
Who is this about?
Oh and also child abuse of course
the bourgeoisie
Dog Breeding has to be one of the most bourgeoisie past-time.
art collection
I’d say golf. Petite bourgeois and labor aristocrats LOVE it as well.
the only correct answer is golf
