Everyone has something they can’t stop themselves from nerding out over - but often it’s hard to find people to talk to about it. So go ahead, share your interests, and tell us about them!
The municipal waste management industry.
I even learned game dev in unity so I can work on a game about the waste management industry.
For context I dont even work in that field.
I wish any of my friends were into fantasy /Science fiction. I can’t sit down and have coffee with a friend to gush about the latest Brandon Sanderson book or talk build orders in Homeworld
Time Team. It’s one of my all-time favorite TV shows. It was (and sort of is) a British archaeology TV show where real archaeologists have three days to uncover information about a site, usually in Britain. It was on for over 20 years. Most of the episodes are on YouTube.
AND YET I CAN’T FIND ANYONE TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH!
I met someone who worked as a tour guide at a site that Time Team did an episode on. They told me a couple of interesting things about behind the scenes stuff, it might spoil it for you if I spill though.
Ok so there was a dig being carried out already before Time Team visited, and they’d made a few interesting finds. Time Team asked them to put one of them back in the ground, and cover it up, and then they would film one of the Time Team guys ‘finding’ it. The site crew absolutely refused to fake something and for a TV presenter to take the credit for the find of one of their people (who may well have been a volunteer, I don’t remember, but difs tend to rely on volunteers for a lot of work), and they were all pretty disillusioned with the show after that. Also, apparently Tony Robinson was a twat, really rude and shitty to everyone, which is a real shame, because I loved him in Maid Marion and Blackadder when I was younger.
This was the site, in case you’re interested: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-fascinating-facts-about-liverpools-old-dock
Could you link some of your favourite episodes? I’d love to check it out!
Too many to pick from, but here’s a couple of good ones:
Wow fuck that’s a blast from the past. I used to watch that years ago. I think it was on discovery over here
Quantum entanglement and string theory, but only when im super stoned.
Late 90s early 2000s Japanese mixed martial arts and kickboxing. Pride, pancrase, k1. People still talk about the UFC today, i just think “you don’t even know…”
