h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For a swede that is very exotic.There was some film on TV,but i'm still don't have a clue what's it all about.How can that be interesting?For me it seems quite dull.I havn't tried it yet,maybe i should?

What? Train Spotting or Heroin?

Have you tried some contact-spray on your circuits?

Sorry, I thought you were referring to the film 'trainspotting' which is about heroin addiction. As for real train spotting I have got no idea what it is all about, but unless you are a terribly sad individual with no friends then I wouldn't try it if I were you.

It was a stupid question in the first place,and it seemed rude which i didn't ment it to be.My own opinion i could have kept for myself,i guess i have to learn how to ask properly.I've noticed that is a very
sensitive and delicate task on the Internet.
I was thinking of a film about someone standing at a station watching
trains with binoculars and checking time tables and it seemed to be a popular activity.The other film i havn't seen.

No problem. I agree with you - I really do fail to understand what train spotters get from their activity. What can possibly be interesting about collecting the numbers of trains. Perhaps there is a train spotter somewhere in h2g2 who can enlighten us, but I doubt it.

What could possibly be interesting about spending lots of spare time on the internet posting messages about nothing of any value with people you've never met? Hmm. Discuss.

Train spotting is an adiction. Rather like Heroin I suppose (I don't have 1st hand knowledge of the latter pastime). Once you're hooked you can't wait until your next fix. You'll do anything, like get up at 4am to get a train to Penzance just to get the next one back again.

Perhaps I need to write up an article on the subject to explain the subtle nuances.

But, yes, I'd agree. Like an awful lot of hobbies it is completely pointless - except to provide amusement to the person doing it.

"What could possibly be interesting about spending lots of spare time on the internet posting messages about nothing of any value with people you've never met?"
Reading the comments

That was, of course, a tongue-firmly-in-cheek rhetorical question.
One of my favourite pastimes now I've given up trainspotting, and haven't yet resorted to heroin.

I did a search and found nothing . And i'm still interested so please write an article.

Yes, it is dull. You get a book with all the train numbers on them, and then you mark them as you see them. If you're serious you note the time and place. If you're scary you take a photo. Beyond this you see a lot of them these days with video cameras.

It's just filling the time before you die, "why, what else do you do?". Just in a way most people find disturbing and worthy of mockery. Ultimately its just trying to impose order in your life, in a small way.

Are there really any train spotters left?

Not after that advert with the train spotter shouting "There's one!", and "There's another!", and "And another one!". I remember a Black Country accent so it was Noddy Holder or Lenny Henry.