What do your non-gamer mates call your hobby?

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**Dances with Squats**

My wife calls it Shame, as in Shame Workshop, due to the inordinate amount of time I've spent hiding it from normo's and my avoidance of the topic in conversation.

Luckily she appreciates the art side of my modelling, the obvious stress relief it brings me and the way it can be used to distract and amuse me for hours on end. Oh and that my collection is worth a serious amount of money. Although if I misbehave she does threaten to stamp on my halflings. Her own shame is that she now knows what the models are and will comment on my work; before catching herself, looking angry/embarrassed and walking off mumbling. I think she's just glad I'm not into boring mainstream sports (men hugging in mud, men chasing an inflated pig and then hugging) or drinking. She does get jealous of my main gaming buddy (who I've known most of my life) and the amount of time we spend wittering to each other, like teenage girls on the phone, about little men.

My non-gaming friends know very little about it (if anything) except sometimes seeing a model on my desk. So far every normo I've exposed to my Shame has been impressed with the painting (although I always think its hard to appreciate the level of skill that goes into painting unless you've actually tried it).

**Grubsnik**

My mates called it 'Games Dorkshop' until they found out I played 40k, then they stopped calling it that.

My other half is WHFB player, so she calls the games 'Fantasy' or '40K'.

**prime12357**

To my girlfriend, my models are always referred to as my "friends," to which I can't complain about. Whenever mom stumbles in, they're "creatures," and to the rest of my friends, it's just the stuff I do in my garage. All in all, it could be worse

**AvatarForm**

Maxim C. Gatling wrote:She Who Must Be Obeyed calls it "your little men" most of the time and "your stupid little toy soldiers" during that special time of the month when she grows hair and fangs...

Whatever, babe. You married it. It ain't going away. You might be able to temporarily banish them to the garage, but they'll be back...Oh...they'll be back....

Sounds like a perfect plot for a short horror film...

**Leigen_Zero**

My gf calls it Warhammer, but she manages to say it in such a way that every time she says 'Warhammer' I feel like my involvement in the hobby is the direct cause of a whole orphanage of war orphans being suffocated by having dead kittens shoved down their throats while watching the staff of the orphanage defaecate over the few possessions they have...

As for my non-gamer friends, it's a bit like fight club, they think it's sad, they don't care, and so I don't bother bringing it up.

**Rogueyopants**

Gayhammer, faghammer, doughhammer, lolhammer, roflhammer, warhammer, dickhammer, plastichammer, GWissomuchbleepingmoneyitsnotevenfunnyhammer.

**Coyotebreaks**

All of my mates are gamers anyway so no worries there. My girl calls my army 'my little men' but then so do I.

My mum keeps on asking me when I'm going to grow up. Her face was a picture when she asked me what I wanted for my 30th birthday and I said some more skaven. Hehe

**gr1m_dan**

A couple of my closest friends called it "Toy Soldiers" but they don't really do it in a horrible way, it's just banter.

A few of my other friends are actually gamers so it's just normal.

Girlfriend is a huge WoW nerd and loves the fluff of GW so just calls me a "nerd" to which she gets it back twice as much! ;-) I lucked out with her!

**Skinnereal**

Coyotebreaks wrote:My mum keeps on asking me when I'm going to grow up. Her face was a picture when she asked me what I wanted for my 30th birthday and I said some more skaven. Hehe

Mine got me into gaming in the first place. She wasn't too chuffed to hear I'd started 40k after 20 years. Oh well.

**daedalus**

Rogueyopants wrote: doughhammer

I don't get this one. Is it a fat joke, or is it because it cost too much money?

**Marshall Ragnar**

My finance calls it my "nerd-ism"

**TheCadianParatrooper**

My non-gamer freind's call them " Your little dudes" then I mutter to the models and the conversation takes a turn to " Did you just talk to It!!!?"

**Viagrus**

Mom: Gaming, Warhammer (i've told her a little about the fluff)
Non- 40k Friends: Rawhammer (some insult to manhood is implied)
40k Friends: 40k, Army men, money-sink,GW's proof that they have us by the b@lls
GF: Plastic guys ( she doesn't give me crap about it but she doesn't really get the idea either, but she does appreciate the painting)

**Potato_God**

One time I couldn't go over a friends house, because I already had an ongoing Apocalypse Game I needed to finish. To this day, whenever I'm busy for extended periods of time, said friend asks if I'm finishing up a "Nerdaclysm match"

**Hereticdave**

Collectively by pretty much everyone who isn't a gamer calls them toy soldiers, but thats ok because thats practically what they are

**Auxellion**

Current girlfriend now calls it "Nerdism" or "That nerd stuff you do"

Yeah

**Thousand Nuns**

My mates normally call it "geek" or little men and occasionally battling, some have learnt to call it 40k to be fair.

**Grenat**

"Your miniatures"

Note the *your*

**sarpedons-right-hand**

The best I've heard was a friend of mine recently who called it 'Warhamster 40p'..... Well, it made me laugh anyways....

As for what the wife calls it, well, this is a family forum!

**marv335**

My wife refers to the local GW as her "Man Crèche"
Somewhere she can drop me off while she's shopping, and pick me up when she's finished.

**Stormfather**

After looking at the tables, one of my friends dubbed it 'The Math Game.' About a year later, his roommate got Battle for Skull Pass, and math or not, both were hooked.

**Sasori**

My wife refers to it as

"you spent HOW MUCH, on WHAT?"

or simply as
"LAME"

Luckily she is a Nerd in other things, so it's ok in the end.

**kitch102**

No-one really knows about it tbh, just my fiance, her sister and bro in law.

I've not been in the position where I'd need to talk about it to my non gaming mates, though as and when I do I've got a speech built up around it being chess on a grander scale. not sure why I get a twisty feeling in my gut when I think about my drinking buddies getting wind of it...

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Thinking about it, my GF actually asked me to paint a model as though it were her, so she's kinda coming round to it. She likes the painting side of it but nothing else. She'll walk in to my local store with me, and then push me out of the door complaining about the smell of "little boys" being too strong

**Killamop**

@MrGiggles, is that Tengwar on your Pic?

On topic, when I was younger I collected the LOTR. I had a massive argument with people at my school (going back some years) as they believed that it was all called Warhammer, so that LOTR was called Warhammer of the Ring.

But I mostly don't tell people about it outside my social group. although my girlfriend calls it "My little toys" which I quite like

**Melkhiordarkblade**

My friend called my Daemonette "The only girl I'll see in her underwear".

LOL

**Noir**

Money Pit. Then I get the urge to go watch the moive.

**tiekwando**

"that nerdy thing" or nothing at all. I mainly do it when i am not in college so none of my friends here know about it.

**RutgerMan**

My friends and actually everyone around me, call them my 'little men' xD in dutch 'mannekes', my hobby they respect

because once i've showed them a book and some of the 'simple' rules they saw the challenge and reespectable intelligence that is required to actually be able to play this game

and the painting they find amasing

my hobby is much accepted

even by my girlfriend who thinks it's cute XD

**Little lord Fauntleroy**

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:My friend called my Daemonette "The only girl I'll see in her underwear".

LOL

Keep him, that man is a true bro.

My friends usually refer to it as "that thing that will stop you ever getting laid".

**Zonder**

Wifey calls it "Playing with my little men" although she has Nid's so she feels shes except from that line...