Men's most attractive hobby (acc to women) MIQ

Men's most attractive hobby (acc to women) MIQ

  • Playing an instrument

    Votes: 64 36.2%

  • Singing

    Votes: 6 3.4%

  • Golf

    Votes: 7 4.0%

  • Woodworking

    Votes: 18 10.2%

  • Sailing

    Votes: 21 11.9%

  • Horseback riding

    Votes: 15 8.5%

  • Motorbike riding

    Votes: 8 4.5%

  • Photography

    Votes: 38 21.5%
  • Total voters
    177
  • Poll closed .
For a second there, I was worried!

Golf and motorcycles are at the bottom of the list, and I don't see vacationing at golf resorts, driving an old truck, frequenting The House Of Blues and Michael Berry's Redneck C&W Country Club, or tactical shooting on the list.

Photography seemed to be my only half attractive feature - until I remembered that I have an unlisted characteristic, which always works - "forcing" her to design and buy expensive jewelry.

I know I'm safe for a while - at least as long as she's sane.

(I realize that this wouldn't be enough with a crazy woman !)

Texsport
 
Well, I asked Frances to vote -- I wouldn't care to guess at an answer -- and she came up with a tie between photography and motorcycling. Then, she would, wouldn't she? She no longer rides a Moto Guzzi 500, and the biggest bike she's ever ridden was a BMW 90S café racer.

Her reaction was first, that it's a meaningless question: "I don't know what other women think, and besides, who is going to choose a man on the basis of his hobbies. When I met Roger, I'd have listed amateur dramatics as an attractive hobby, because I was involved in it and went out with men from the same societies. But amateur dramatics wouldn't have taken me around South India on an Enfield Bullet in 1990, or up to Estonia on an R100RS a couple of years ago. And I wouldn't have had my first book cover (Roger on the same R100RS, for Motorcycle Touring in Europepublished in 1984), and..."

She also said, "When I first saw the question, I thought it was badly phrased. The most attractive hobby as far as American men are concerned appears to be watching football. This may explain why I'm not married to an American."

Then again, motorcycling and photography wouldn't have had her producing a play with Quentin Tarantino in it. He was 16 at the time... (The Ritz at Torrance Community Theatre)

Cheers,

R.
 
Lol, this is more fun than I imagined, so I won't spoil it before the poll is closed. Some got it right. You should ask your her in case you are him, not second guess what she might pick 😀.
 
Roger Hicks said:
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She also said, "When I first saw the question, I thought it was badly phrased. The most attractive hobby as far as American men are concerned appears to be watching football. This may explain why I'm not married to an American." ...
Cheers,

R.
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Sorry for the bad phrasing but this is pretty close to how they asked it on the air, at least as far as I remember.
And I can't imagine that even for American women guys with the hobby "watching football" seem attractive. As far as the men are concerned that hobby for sure will be in the top three.
 
Hmm....the most attractive hobbies for men, according to women. If it's what women would like them to be, I'd say probably cooking, gardening, and fixing things around the house. At least that's what my wife wishes mine were!
 
icebear said:
Sorry for the bad phrasing but this is pretty close to how they asked it on the air, at least as far as I remember.
And I can't imagine that even for American women guys with the hobby "watching football" seem attractive. As far as the men are concerned that hobby for sure will be in the top three.
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Dear Klaus,

She wasn't blaming you: she realized that the question was relayed as originally sloppily phrased. As she pointed out, the most attractive hobby for American men appears to be watching football, but this is a long way from asking "What is the hobby that women find most attractive when a man pursues it?" In response to the latter question, you are of course quite right that it is profoundly unlikely to be football.

What's even more amusing, of course, is that Americans don't even play much football, whether soccer or rugger. Instead they blunder into one another while wearing armour. A friend who attended a school in northern California where they played both rugby and American "football" said that his favourite fixture every year was when the rugger team played the American "football" team, with one half of the game played to one set of rules and the other to the other. The result of the game was always the same, apparently: a modest win for the rugger team in one half, and a thundering win for the rugger team in the other.

I can't stand either sport. Or soccer. Or baseball (a game played by little girls in the UK, under the same "rounders"). Or cricket, though my first wife was the captain of her school cricket team because, as she explained, "It's the only game where you break for tea."

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Dear Klaus,

She wasn't blaming you: she realized that the question was relayed as originally sloppily phrased. As she pointed out, the most attractive hobby for American men appears to be watching football, but this is a long way from asking "What is the hobby that women find most attractive when a man pursues it?" In response to the latter question, you are of course quite right that it is profoundly unlikely to be football.

What's even more amusing, of course, is that Americans don't even play much football, whether soccer or rugger. Instead they blunder into one another while wearing armour. A friend who attended a school in northern California where they played both rugby and American "football" said that his favourite fixture every year was when the rugger team played the American "football" team, with one half of the game played to one set of rules and the other to the other. The result of the game was always the same, apparently: a modest win for the rugger team in one half, and a thundering win for the rugger team in the other.

I can't stand either sport. Or soccer. Or baseball (a game played by little girls in the UK, under the same "rounders"). Or cricket, though my first wife was the captain of her school cricket team because, as she explained, "It's the only game where you break for tea."

Cheers,

R.
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By God, them's fightin' words right there, Mr. Hicks.

There are only two things we like better down here in Texas more than a good game of kick-ass football- makin' love to our beautiful Texas women, and BS'n people.🙄
 
Rick Waldroup said:
By God, them's fightin' words right there, Mr. Hicks.

There are only two things we like better down here in Texas more than a good game of kick-ass football- makin' love to our beautiful Texas women, and BS'n people.🙄
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Easy Rick,
as Roger addressed the phrasing issue to me and I have not a problem with that, you don't have to make it into one.😉
 
Its not listed but cooking is one that I know is a slam dunk winner(come on girls lets here your insight)- but of the listed options: my head says photographer otherwise why would you mention it on RFF and my heart says instrument…..
 
A couple of important ones are missing from the list: Plumbing and general construction work (for example hardwood floors, rewiring lamps and switches, removing walls, etc.).

Wait until the toilet doesn't work and see if horse riding can compete 🙂
 
semi-ambivalent said:
Ha! Smart man you. I never bought roses because baking and serving a loaf of bread was almost 100%. It should be Photography because most women can't resist (stereotypical) bad boys, and money is easy to find from other, merely hopeful, professions.

Edit: (Actually checks the poll.) Yes, musicians, the archetypal bad boys. I was thinking "Blow Up", but then I'm so old I've forgotten how to be a bad boy...
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Right, take up the hobby of 'Bad Boy' and you will always score.
 
Roger Hicks said:
A friend who attended a school in northern California where they played both rugby and American "football" said that his favourite fixture every year was when the rugger team played the American "football" team, with one half of the game played to one set of rules and the other to the other. The result of the game was always the same, apparently: a modest win for the rugger team in one half, and a thundering win for the rugger team in the other. .
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Interesting.
 
Okay, I am totally confused here - all along I had thought women considered MAKING MONEY to be the #1 hottest hobby that men could be engaged in.

Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Who cares. Live for yourself. If women don't like it, too bad. You have one life to live, don't blow it just to make someone you don't need want you.
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Amen to that!

By the way - WTF is is with women and musicians?? 😕
 
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