8 Queer Hobbies of People Around the World

There are 7.97 billion people on the earth each having a different skill set, mindset and choices that make them unique and help them to stand out from the crowd. Somehow, hobbies play a crucial role in identifying a person’s interest in a particular area and it makes us know better about them. 

There’s an influential saying, "Find 3 hobbies that you love, One to make money, one to be creative, and one to be in shape." This article is particularly on the queer hobbies of people around the world.

If you have a simple set of hobbies, I’m sure you will include some of the following hobbies in your list to make your life more fun.

So let’s begin.

1. Tattooing Vehicles

This hobby is one of my favourite hobbies that I came across, the title is predefined, and this involves making designs on your cars, bicycles, or anything just to make it look more attractive and unique from the other vehicles running on the road. 

This was ideated by a Taiwanese pensioner, who is fond of tattooing Buddhist literature texts onto Vehicles. There’s also a story behind this man, his grandson promised to buy him a bus so that he can make the best out of this hobby. In regard to this, a famous luxury vehicles company, Lexus, launched an SUV into a UX design car, having an estimated value of $146,000.

2. News Bombing

The strangest of all, news bombing is a hobby of a UK-based man, who loves to visit the live location of the news reporter and stand behind the reporter, in a way, he is visible in the camera. He believes that the media only allows attractive people to be on camera.

This might be a sarcastic hobby, covering a serious issue. While scrolling through Instagram reels or youtube shorts, we must have seen a man dancing while a journalist reporting news on the camera.

3. Bug Fighting

The people of Japan, never fail to amaze us with their unique set of hobbies. This one is known as Bug fighting, as the name suggests, we are supposed to place various insects in a plastic bag and let them fight so that they can record the battle.

These videos are then put on many social media platforms to get views. This hobby is followed by the people of Thailand too, which people gather once a year to see the Beetles fight. Some people gamble for the same while others consider it a fun activity.

4. Fork Bending

By reading the name, it feels like what a useless hobby it is, but have a look at the cool forks, now this hobby looks cool. No?

This is also followed by the people of Japan, this is conceptualized in order to get more concentration. It is believed that the one who will be able to bend a fork with minimal effort, will have expertise. People are expected to make some crazy and creative bends out of forks.

5. Toy Voyaging

Yes, you heard it right, we all love our toys, so why not send them on a voyage. Here, we can look onto a website named Toy Voyagers to send the toys on a thrilling adventure. The place can be anything you wish and you can write to your toy through a Travel log. This travel log also helps to send and receive pictures from the toy whenever required.

A ToyVoyager is a toy with a unique ID, whenever we find it, we are required to put it on the ToyVoyagers website to get the current location of the ToyVoyager. This is indeed something fun.

6. Train Surfing

This hobby, based in Germany, is dangerous as it sounds. This involves jumping off the train and hitching a ride, Many people died doing this. It can be either moving from one train to the other or jumping. This practice was not started as a hobby, but it was started as a means of survival, back in the ’80s when people did not have enough money to travel.

7. Painting the largest ball of Paint

This has been in legacy since 1977. It is known that a man named Mike Carmichael painted a baseball and since then, the same ball was painted with 3500-pound paint, with 22,894 coats on it. This is now a famous tourist attraction and involves painting from a different colour each time.

8. Hikaru Dorodango

This, too, originated from Japan and followed till today. This involves taking mud and rolling it into a circle and then repeating the process again and again. Children of Japan are familiar with this hobby now and it is also famous in some other parts.

The most strange hobbies have no count, there are many more but these are the strangest of all. Hobbies are hobbies, they are just a source of refreshment after a long tiring day, However, we should not be judged by people on the basis of that.

Written By: Khushbu Arora

Edited By: Nidhi Jha