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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by gilleain on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:00AM (#31097932)
Hah, even some aristocratic examples:

"The 5th Duke of Portland is known to have been a hobby tunneler, although he did no digging himself but rather had workmen build his tunnels."

Hobby tunnel manager, perhaps?

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by padobson on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:29AM (#31098366)
Vicarious hobby tunneler, more likely.

Eccentric aristocrats get trapped by the social norms of their classmates. There's even lore around this. For example, people who don't think Shakespeare actually wrote anything[0] also tend to believe it was written by some aristocrat who couldn't reveal they participated in something as vulgar as creative writing.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_authorship...

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by brewdad on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#31100944)
New video game idea: Tunnel Digger Simulator.

Dibs!

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by racnid on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:27PM (#31101712)
I think that's called Minecraft already?
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