On Sunday, 16 October 2016 09:56:23 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
Electronics, ham radio, amateur astronomy, microscopy, stamp collecting, woodworking (most of it), metal working. The millenials and teens only want to play video games, text on their cellphones and go to restaurants to be seen. One growing hobby is metal-detecting because of the desperation of the fading middle class.

Desperately fading? Are we talking colours as in the [allegedly] desperate habit of wearing fawn polyester into maturity? Or do they suffer from some half-life which denies them the internal glow of youth? Is there some peculiar metallic content of the middle classes which makes them particularly suitable targets for metal detecting by millennials? And, does this involve burying them first? Perhaps we should be told? Preferably before I have to start searching unnecessarily for my pick and shovel and change out of my fawn polyester jacket and trousers in case I get muddy.