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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 08, 2014, 07:22:28 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018550170
Oh my.
Usually the primitives just collect welfare checks and food stamps, though.
Locut0s (5,340 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 08:19 AM
Do you collect anything as a hobby?
Numismatics, Philatelist, Phillumenists, Deltiologists, Bibliophiles, Conchologists, Arctophiles, Cartophilists, Tegestologists unite!
Do you enjoy collecting anything?
I've been very slowly collecting vintage video game consoles and games. I could see getting into other forms of collecting as well.
It's a large campfire, so only PoP (primitives of prominence) brought over here.
MrScorpio (58,133 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 09:01 AM
4. I used to collect comics
I can't afford to do that anymore
pipi_k (18,295 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 09:37 AM
8. Copper
No, not the coins...
Copper kitchen type items. I have a shelf with trivets, cups, canisters, salt and pepper shakers, and more, all made of copper. The backsplash over my kitchen sink is copper too.
And I also have a small collection of funky/sparkly bracelets. I'm not a flashy dresser, but I do like to wear a bit of odd bling every now and then.
PS..and yarn. Lots of yarn. But most knitters/crocheters would probably say the same thing.
<<<collects pre-1861 English copper coins; farthings, halfpennies, pennies, what not.
Aristus (32,107 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 10:08 AM
11. First editions, autographed , if possible.
I've got several shelves full of first editions, some autographed, some not. The most I have by one author is nine or ten by Harlan Ellison.
Most of them probably aren't worth very much on the collectors market. I just like collecting them.
When my dad died, I inherited a number of his first edition books on the history of Nazi Germany. They might be worth something; I need to get them appraised.
^^^not a PoP, but a PoI, a primitive of interest, a different sort of primitive.
hunter (18,064 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 11:35 AM
19. Old film cameras.
It gives me a kick to buy expensive cameras I lusted after as a kid for $10, and an even bigger kick to buy old snap-shooters for fifty cents or a dollar.
I clean them up and get them working, but I usually don't run more than one roll of film through them because the film and developing (which I often do myself) is more expensive than the cameras themselves. But the "look" and randomness of chemical photography is difficult to duplicate. I used to amuse myself writing filters and scripts for GIMP that approached the look of particular old camera and film, but Apple and Instagram took the fun out of that. These days digital pictures manipulated to look like film simply irritate me.
grasswire (38,850 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 01:57 PM
24. 78s!
When I was an officer in a jazz society, someone donated a 78 collection. In sorting it, I found the entire set of recordings of the ODJB at their first recording session. That was very cool, even though I didn't own them.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
grasswire (38,850 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 02:00 PM
26. 12,000 pieces of sheet music
Popular music mostly prior to 1939. Mostly in storage. Agh. An albatross of sorts.
Arkansas Granny (15,630 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 06:01 PM
36. Rocks. They range from specimens of semi-precious stones to
rocks I picked up on a creek bank because I thought they looked interesting. Some have been incorporated into my flower beds outside, some are displayed inside and I even have the proverbial box of rocks. Friends have brought me rocks from different places they've visited, too. One of my favorites is a rock from the Urinals River which flows in the valley below Machu Pichu.
<<<has a fist-sized rock from the Black Sea. I dunno why, but I have one.
trof (44,846 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 07:55 PM
53. Beets.
I have almost 5,000 so far.
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I clicked on that thread figuring for sure I'd see urine samples as one of the items.
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And yet, some of these same people think someone that has a gun collection, even a small one say 15 guns, is obsessed.
CMD
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I clicked on that thread figuring for sure I'd see urine samples as one of the items.
Hundreds of jars, stacked floor to ceiling.
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And yet, some of these same people think someone that has a gun collection, even a small one say 15 guns, is obsessed.
But at the same time, the primitives are pretty big collectors of coins (welfare checks) and stamps (food stamps); they make other numismasts and philatelists look like amateurs.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018550170
Oh my.
Usually the primitives just collect welfare checks and food stamps, though.
It's a large campfire, so only PoP (primitives of prominence) brought over here.
^^^not a PoP, but a PoI, a primitive of interest, a different sort of primitive.
Can you break down the differences between the two a little more?
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grasswire (38,850 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 02:00 PM
26. 12,000 pieces of sheet music
I think the grasswipe primitive may have sheet music and her collection of moth-ridden coats confused.
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grasswire (38,850 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 01:57 PM
24. 78s!
When I was an officer in a jazz society, someone donated a 78 collection.
grasswire (38,850 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 02:00 PM
26. 12,000 pieces of sheet music
Just a few of the things she's picked up with her little red wagon on junk days.
You should see her collection of Oregonian back issues and Happy Meal boxes.
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But at the same time, the primitives are pretty big collectors of coins (welfare checks) and stamps (food stamps); they make other numismasts and philatelists look like amateurs.
:lmao:
CMD
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Can you break down the differences between the two a little more?
A PoP, a primitive of prominence (as compared with a PonP, a primitive of no prominence), is a primitive who's been one of the leading stars in the DUmpster. There's probably about 200 of them, a pretty exclusive group.
Basically, they're merely objects of merriment and laughter, as in real life they don't count for much; even their own lords and masters laugh and guffaw at them behind their backs.
They're just hot air and flatulence, nothing more than that.
A PoI, a primitive of interest, on the other hand, is a primitive who needs vigilant scrutiny and observation, because the PoI poses a real threat to the Republic.
Unlike the other primitives, a PoI is heads above the general run of primitives in cerebrality.....and even worse, a PoI is a doer, not a talker. A PoI actually does things in real life, unfortunately most of which are activities perilous to the Republic and our way of life.
One can jab and poke and make fun of PoP; a PoI, on the other hand, one had better watch, as if watching a coiled-up rattlesnake not quite within, but near to, striking distance. A PoI is dangerous.
There's currently only two PoI; this arresting fellow here on this thread, a physician's assistant in Washington or Oregon (but born and raised in Texas), and Skippy, an overpaid governmental employee out in California.
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Wed Jan 8, 2014, 09:12 AM
Chan790 (15,892 posts)
6. Books: rare books, 1st editions, art catalogues, old books.
I have enough that I should consider once I'm employed again, taking an apprenticeship in a rare-book dealer and get certified as an appraiser and as an archivist/restorer.
It could be a career. Restoring, trading and selling in expensive books. I estimate my personal collections, stored safely across several locations probably has a 5-or-6-figure value. (I'd never keep them in my home, that's asking for trouble.)
Holy shit. How long ago was it that this primitive fired, and he's STILL "looking" for a job?
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Answer: August 17, 2011: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,63258.msg730732
The only thing this primitive doesn't need to worry about appraising is his work ethic, since it's non-existent.
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It could be a career. Restoring, trading and selling in expensive books. I estimate my personal collections, stored safely across several locations probably has a 5-or-6-figure value. (I'd never keep them in my home, that's asking for trouble.)
The channumbers primitive's first and last day of work as an "archivist":
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDY0hiMZy8[/youtube]
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Holy shit. How long ago was it that this primitive fired, and he's STILL "looking" for a job?
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Answer: August 17, 2011: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,63258.msg730732
The only thing this primitive doesn't need to worry about appraising is his work ethic, since it's non-existent.
He's helping to create jobs by collecting UI.