What do your non-gamer mates call your hobby?

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**MajorTom11**

Those who know about it call it 'Dolls'

**DIE HUMIES!**

Small army men game

**Mastiff**

I call the hobby "effective birth control". My wife is quite supportive though. She knows I could be wasting my time and money driniking and throwing 'toonies at the peelers.

**Griever**

"Those little guys"
"Those statues"

**Luco**

The little men.
Hoodie Marines
or just Warhammer.

**Asherian Command**

"nerd control."

**ZacktheChaosChild**

Stupid.

A lot of my friends aren't very smart.

**Lead Farmer**

My family calls it Orcs & Gorks. Guess what my first army was... That was a wierd Chrismas.

**lindsay40k**

I encourage my non-gamer friends to call it World of Warhammer as it's a marvellous way of proxy trolling WoW-addicts within my circle of gaming friends

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Lead Farmer wrote:My family calls it Orks & Gorks. Guess what my first army was...

Tau?

**Potato_God**

MY friends think it's kind acool, but they still make fun of it somethin fierce. it's pretty funny though.
"where's P.G.?"
"playin with Space-Dolls."
"oh."

**General Seric**

Most call it Warhammer, but one calls it "that game with the plastic figures", but some don't even know about it.
Most of my friends are wargamers, and most the others have their own weird hobbies, a number play the Pokémon games.

**Azure**

They're always just referred to as "those models that he paints, hey that one looks cool!"

**bleeding-fingertips**

A waste of money.

**Surfboard66**

Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

**bleeding-fingertips**

Surfboard66 wrote:Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

You must be collecting the Butt Thuker orc army.

**Jihadnik**

War Barbies! i stole that from someone on Dakka and spent months converting my non gamer friends from saying dollies to War barbies!

**Dr. Temujin**

Brother SRM wrote:plastic spacemen

That makes me think of those popular 1950s cartoons of guys in fishbowl spacesuits.

That space game; plastic miniatures; that thing you do.

**Surfboard66**

bleeding-fingertips wrote:
Surfboard66 wrote:Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

You must be collecting the Butt Thuker orc army.

Nahh man, just some deffskull orkz. I don't know why people give this hobby such strange names?

**Micromegas**

Hams and warhams, usually ham or hamming it up.

**MudgeBlack**

Jihadnik wrote:War Barbies! i stole that from someone on Dakka and spent months converting my non gamer friends from saying dollies to War barbies!

I love that!!

**Beer_&_Bolters**

My non-gaming friends usually call it 'nerding it up'.

**mega_bassist**

Most of my friends either play or know what it is, and we call it 40k simply, but by g/f calls it "nerd night" also.

She always asks how my "little blue men did in battle" when I get home...gotta love her

**asimo77**

Well this is boring but everyone here just says Warhammer or 40k

**biccat**

"Gaming" or "dorking out."

SWMBO refers to my models as "turtles."

Originally, while painting Khador 'jacks (might have been Cryx nightwretches) she said it looked like I was painting miniature turtles, and the name has stuck. Doesn't matter if they're 40k, WM, infantry or vehicles, they're all "turtles."

"what are you doing?"
"painting turtles."

**Pyronick**

"Geeking Out" or my wife will call them "Your little men"

Lately she's been mimicing me on the way I talk about them by pretending to push up imaginary glasses and saying "MULHIVAN!" *Snort*... Probably shouldn't have taught her that but it's pretty funny!

Thanks Connan!

**Johnynoi**

My missus says "are you going to the Warlock shop" when its gaming night. She doesn't mind it though. My 7 year old god-daughter is a bit crueler though and says with a gleefull grin "are you going to play with your wee men" or "why are you a geek Uncle Johny" and once when walking past the local GW during a particularly busy academy session "look theres the geek shop full of geeks!!!".

All the little kids inside looked terribly horrified, embarrassed and ashamed!

I blame her mum.........

**CyRevenant**

I've always called it "Toy Soldiers." Most of my friends do too.

My non gamer friends get confused when I do this and some of then insist I call it Warhammer. Though to refer to the game most played we usually say 40k.

Hams or Warhams just sounds bizarre.

**arkapello**

as i have orks, "dork-hammer" seemed a catcher. Plastic crack has always been fairly accurate too, but thats more of an in-thing... i think maybe it comes from a podcast or something? seems a bit too original for our lot.

**DeathReaper**

Well When I first tried to explain it to my GF, I do not think she herd me correctly when I said the mini's that I am painting are for Warhammer 40k,

She calls it "B2K Barbiehead"

but go figure, she is a cubs fan.

**bleeding-fingertips**

Pyronick wrote:"Geeking Out" or my wife will call them "Your little men"

Lately she's been mimicing me on the way I talk about them by pretending to push up imaginary glasses and saying "MULHIVAN!" *Snort*... Probably shouldn't have taught her that but it's pretty funny!

Thanks Connan!

I like that, "Your little men."