Are You a Collector?

[Colonel Crackskulls]

I'm not wrong often but when I am I admit it. You Garatty, you make sense. As I take pride and excel in everything I do and am admired by all who are lucky enough to meet me, coming up in here and acting like I own the place was a less than desirable action on my part. Don't let this admission of guilt and  the  power of  your words go to your head tough guy. I'm keeping my eye on you. So what you all like  to collect?  Skulls? bloody knives? I collect toys.

[Garraty_47]

I have always accumulated books.
Years ago I enacted a massive purge when the books for which I had no shelf space filled numerous boxes.

Since then I've tried not to let any books glom onto me if they aren't either reference material or something I know I'll want to reread occasionally but I very obviously have more books now anyway.

I can't even swear off any new ones because I already submitted a pre-order for a book to be published in October.

I'm much better about the whole thing these days though.
All my books, shelved, can easily fit into one room.

[Colonel Crackskulls]

I have always accumulated books.
Years ago I enacted a massive purge when the books for which I had no shelf space filled numerous boxes.

Since then I've tried not to let any books glom onto me if they aren't either reference material or something I know I'll want to reread occasionally but I very obviously have more books now anyway.

I can't even swear off any new ones because I already submitted a pre-order for a book to be published in October.

I'm much better about the whole thing these days though.
All my books, shelved, can easily fit into one room.

A well read man it seems. Are you proud of your country son?

[Garraty_47]

A well read man it seems. Are you proud of your country son?

Yes to the first.
No to the second.

[Brent]

Yes to the first.
No to the second.

That is how I would answer both questions.

[Frood]

I collect pussy pubes.

One for every vagina that I've poked.

I'm aiming to knit a musty throw pillow.

I also seem to acquire gadgets. I'm a bit of a sucker for a new gadget...

[Oliver the Second]

I used to collect comics and sci-fi stuff back in the 80's, still got most of it but it's probably not worth that much. Don't really follow the genre anymore, I guess tastes change as you age. Haven't looked at it for years, maybe I'll take a stroll down memory lane...

I also had a habit of collecting software, I would archive every version of Lotus 1-2-3 that I could get my hands on, WordStar, Paradox, operating systems, floppy disks with viruses on them, programming languages, shareware, hell I even collected AOL discs for a while... kept them all because I thought I might want to check them out some day... never really did anything with them except for the time I forgot about the floppy with the Michelangelo in the drive and I rebooted on March 6th... partition table go bye bye...

Gathered a couple mini-collections of DVDs and video games since but asides from that haven't been collecting much of anything except dust.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

I collect music. I've some 20 terabytes of it in various formats, around a third of it are digitizations of the original multitrack masters and stems, some dating back more than fifty years. I enjoy loading them up sometimes and messing about with them. these days more for my own amusement rather than understanding how they went together in the first place. It's good mental exercise. Any I've inherited a bunch of old physical media through the years, archiving it at my leisure. More recently I landed an original test pressing of Ian Dury's "Fuck off Noddy" which I'm intending to preserve, since there's precious few outlets where you can hear it.

I do have a tendency to collect films and recordings that express.... unpopular ideas, shall we say. You can learn a lot from these... the fragility of those that ban them for one thing. It's something I recommend people undertake to do, the educational aspect of it is well worth your while and can open your eyes a great deal. Do try not to make it obvious where you've stored them though, the Powers that Be don't like us going off the reservation.