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TIL there's a trend called hobby dogging where people take an imaginary dog through an obstacle course.
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Air guitar for people without pets.
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Is a pet even involved for air guitar?
Only if you want to do it correctly..
And here I thought that was just a joke from the Jimmy Kimball show.
That's an amusing article, but I wonder why is the link to an American small-town newspaper site covering a German hobby?
Don’t call it that to any British people, though, as to them, “dogging” has a very different meaning.
But it is still a hobby.
All fourteen seconds of it, anyway.
Ten of those seconds are apologising, too.
it's a right giggle though!
Maybe the Westminster kennel club dog show can host.
Why not get fun with it and put a balloon or something on the leash?
I've never seen a HTTP error 451 before.
Damn me neither. Didn't even know it existed. So specific.
You probably also want to learn about 418 then
That one I knew ;) I think from the 1st month of my CS major in college from a teacher who thought that would be a good way to wake us up when explaining HTTP codes.
429 Bot Blocked
client_ip:
request_id: 39087919053
Damn, guess they don't want me there
You could just power down for a while.
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons
We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.
Me neither it looks like
Ooh didn't know uBlock stopped that error. I'm on mobile atm so that's probably the reason
uBlock Origin works on Firefox for Android.
People can say what they will, but I see this as a great option for folks who shouldn't have a dog (or can't) but would otherwise benefit from social interaction. @tacotroubles@lemmy.world mentioned a beer league version. Fantastic! So many ways to wrap this instead of wrapping it as cooky or with an agenda in mind.
@tacotroubles@lemmy.world mentioned a beer league version.
I assumed that would be the default. Haha.
I really don't know what to think of this. Is it cute? Sad? Should they talk to a therapist and take their meds or are they fine?
i mean sometimes we see people doing stuff and we know they have issues and for sure need some help, BUT, they could be dealing with it in a way worst way, so I don't mind. You go imaginary dog people.
Honestly, they probably are working through something, but if this helps that, and it certainly isn't hurting anybody else, I wish them the best.
I think it's the people who don't play who should get the meds!
I really like the shrek edit from Crufts
That one's impressive because they actually took footage of a real dog and edited it out so well, it doesn't look like anything is amiss when Shrek is pasted over it.
How long would that have taken to do? It's pretty clean
Probably several years of education and/or practice
I remember when "dogging" was the hobby everyone was talking about. When was that, 2015 maybe? Good times.
like 2years ago or something then
Makes as much sense as fantasy football.
The future vegans want
I bet it would be a great beer league. Get a little sloshed then you take your invisible cockerdoodle through the course!
Hobby dogging is not that weird. Look for hobby motocross
And hobby horse is a thing too. Don't see anything wrong with this.
Wrong? Nothing wrong here, just weird
Seriously?
I live to see hobby sexing and hobby warefarring