Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 26 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Yeah, I bet Carbomb's great-uncle was well into Mario. That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. He was into Space Invaders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 5 hours ago, Carbomb said: Got some good ones, though, including a lot of pre-Euro stuff, so francs, drachmas, marks, krone, pesetas and escudos. Do you mean the Slovak koruna or the Estonian kroon? All the other currencies in Europe by that name are still in everyday use. 🤓 For my birthday one year as a teenager, my dad thought it'd be a good idea for a present to sign me up for a subscription to a monthly (and far from glossy) magazine for football programme collectors. I did not renew it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 10 minutes ago, Fog Dude said: Do you mean the Slovak koruna or the Estonian kroon? All the other currencies in Europe by that name are still in everyday use. 🤓 Swedish krone. Didn't know they weren't using the Euro. Thanks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 1 minute ago, Carbomb said: Swedish krone. Didn't know they weren't using the Euro. Thanks for that. No problem. You must've been asleep during the referendum in 2003, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 Just now, Fog Dude said: No problem. You must've been asleep during the referendum in 2003, then? Just wasn't paying attention. Certainly not in 2003, that was my graduation year for my BA. If it had nothing to do with Japan, chances are I didn't know or want to know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Fair enough. An obsession with Japan sounds a lot more exotic! I hope it was somehow related to your degree, but since final year tends to be full of procrastination, I bet it wasn't. You didn't start collecting anything Japanese, did you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 6 hours ago, Gus Mears said: Can I just state my case right here for having the stupidest collection on the forum? I currently own several hundred thimbles which I have in two enormous holders up in the loft. I have never sewed, I never intend to sew. I collected them between the ages of about 6-15. You'll be shocked to hear that I was an only child. Fuck knows what the motivation for it was. It couldn't have been to look cool. I see your collection of thimbles and I raise you my collection of 200+ discarded shopping lists that I've found in shopping baskets and on floors of supermarkets. I've collected them over the past 10 years or so. They all in a box in the spare room somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 (edited) 29 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: I see your collection of thimbles and I raise you my collection of 200+ discarded shopping lists that I've found in shopping baskets and on floors of supermarkets. I've collected them over the past 10 years or so. They all in a box in the spare room somewhere. Now this intrigues me. To be clear, they are other people's shopping lists whom you don't know? If so that's both slightly sinister and weirdly interesting. I would have to put them in some sort of order and put them in books so you can browse them at your leisure. Then sooner or later I'd have to make some stats up. Edited August 2, 2018 by DEF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannibal Man Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Got a mate who's into collecting old horror VHS which I can understand because the films are a load of daft old enjoyable shite, the artwork is great and you've got the scarceness factor of a lot of them after Tories bunged a lot of them into furnaces and police raided peoples houses and never gave them back. All fairly straightforward to me, got a handful myself but never the bigger more expensive stuff. Picked up a few recently of two Japanese copies of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 and 2 and delved into some of the Facebook groups to see if I could pick up any others for cheap, and all of them are without exception full of absolute fucking head the balls. I forgot to turn notifications off for the groups and every other day there'll be drama over some bollocks on eBay, drama about rival groups and drama about what kind of categorization of tapes people are putting up for sale. I could understand if these were the type of videos above but 90% of the stuff for sale and trade and discussion is stuff like ex rental copies of Mr. Mom, Maximum Risk and Leonard Part 6. People go absolutely fucking banana for this bollocks. It's like a game of Risk come to life except Graham in Taunton has sold Greg Turdarse a slightly mold damaged copy Phantasm 4 rather than Madagascar closing it's borders. Still good having some of the horror ones though, mates got his spare room decked out like a video shop. Proper great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Fog Dude said: Fair enough. An obsession with Japan sounds a lot more exotic! I hope it was somehow related to your degree, but since final year tends to be full of procrastination, I bet it wasn't. You didn't start collecting anything Japanese, did you? No, my BA was Japanese Studies - was definitely related to my degree. Doesn't preclude an obsession with Japan though. I have collected various Japanese books, albuns, and films, but nothing "collector-y" - just stuff I wanted to watch/read/listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Cod Eye Posted August 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2018 I'm a twat for deciding to start collecting things, and then binning them off after a while as I can't be arsed anymore. I've been even worse since my disability kicked into high gear and has basically left me a cripple. I think I do it to replace the things I used to do and give me something to focus on. Currently, I'm in the grips of an autograph collecting spree/addiction (in particular autographs of horror icon/actors) and it's costing me a fortune in travel to get them, and I've even taken to paying for some that are hard to get or are of folk that has died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I only really consistently collect movies, but they have to be in near mint condition so if the disc is in any way heavily scratched (light or minimal is fine) or smudged or the case is broken or the artwork is bootlegged and/or sun damaged then I don't buy them. I used to be really big on picking up blind bag figures if they looked cool even if it wasn't something I was necessarily into but then companies started ramping prices up on them and it just didn't seem worth dropping £5-10 on them, in fact just this week I had a sort through my shelves and put bundles of figures and bits onto Ebay just to reduce space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 2, 2018 Author Moderators Share Posted August 2, 2018 2 hours ago, wordsfromlee said: I see your collection of thimbles and I raise you my collection of 200+ discarded shopping lists that I've found in shopping baskets and on floors of supermarkets. I've collected them over the past 10 years or so. They all in a box in the spare room somewhere. That sounds like the kind of thing that would get considered a piece of art of some sort, and you'd see an interview about it in the paper, and then they'd get collected and published in a coffee table book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 My brother in law collects comic books, he's been collecting since he was about 5 and is now 43. His comics have a bigger bedroom in his house than his son and daughter do, and than he and his girlfriends room. He also has a pretty huge collection music collection but he actually listens to that. He owns multiples of the same comic books too and has started to sell some of them for a tidy sum. He could sell one a week for the rest of his life and I still think it would barely touch the edges of his collection. I also suspect he is mildly on the autistic spectrum... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted August 3, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2018 I don't collect anything physical, but I get very obsessive with collecting things in games. Someone else mentioned Pokémon Go, that's my main weakness at the moment, I'm constantly out walking trying to get candies to evolve something to fill the dex. I was also really obsessed with Xbox Achievements to the point where I had to just sell it and my 80+ games because it was getting out of control. The tipping point was getting into bed at 4am on a school night after playing through Kung Fu Panda purely for the Gamerscore. I replaced it with a Playstation and got sucked into collecting trophies, which has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Sometimes I get really obsessive and other times I don't even look at what trophies a game has. At the moment I'm not bothered, although I have just started Ni No Kuni 2 and I can already feel myself aiming for the platinum. I blame all of this on Super Mario 64. Going in to massive levels, but taking each bit at a time and being rewarded with a star for completing smaller objectives, was extremely addictive for 8 year old me. It made something that seemed so daunting (ie first going into Lethal Lava Land) feel manageable and extremely enjoyable. Its the constant rewards, albeit small, that are fun and keep you going back for more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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