Exquisite Suffering 129: Trampoline Terror!
Added 2021-11-17 15:01:02 +0000 UTCThis simple and forgotten game bounces right out of our minds. Fortunately, Kole makes an admission that drives Gary up the wall, and we spend a good deal of time talking about how reasonable it is to preserve your old things.
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Mostly agree with Gary, but I stil have my old college papers. They didn't require scanning and they aren't cringey as hell so seems ok
Gorehoff
2022-01-27 11:33:41 +0000 UTCMy wife has journals from elementary school that her parents kept and I love that we have them. It’s very sweet
Chris Hudson
2021-12-17 20:29:03 +0000 UTCWay late to chime in, but I agree with Gary about salting the earth of all things school related and I also wrote I think a freshman English paper about "L337speak" and I retroactively cringe to think about it.
Joshua Kane
2021-11-30 01:35:31 +0000 UTCYou can look through old shit you wrote and wonder at the completely different person you used to be. Like you’re the Nameless One but instead of being a monster to your loved ones you turned in cringe for a grade. Personally I only have a couple of longer research papers from college I wouldn’t mind being able to check out but they’re probably lost to the void.
Eli Leslie
2021-11-20 04:43:30 +0000 UTCI have scanned old school things, so Team Kole, but I also acknowledge that nostalgia can be golden poison.
Andrew (andyk250) Koch
2021-11-19 17:30:33 +0000 UTCSo on brand for Kole to scan his homework and so on brand for Gary for destroying The Nostalgia Disc. Everyone's personalities on full display this week. Personally I keep a few small important things but not everything. If I'm very proud of it I'll hold onto it, I've been out of college like 4 years and have a handful of good assignments or papers I worked hard on
Mike Fowle
2021-11-19 17:14:43 +0000 UTCi'm on gary's side here. i like to burn stuff like old school work. i give it a nice little reminisce and then throw it into the fire pit. what idiot wrote those papers, anyway? certainly not the me of now.
Violet Sweet
2021-11-18 14:03:10 +0000 UTCthat was the most kole admission ever
Robert M Fenner
2021-11-18 13:45:48 +0000 UTCI had a nice time writing essays in school in a way that I definitely don't now (in a job that involves research writing)—sometimes I like to look back at those to remember a time when writing was fun and easy, and perhaps to be a time vampire and suck some of that energy back into my present self.
Andrew C
2021-11-18 12:49:13 +0000 UTCI actually agree 100% with both Gary and Kole on this one. My mom dropped off tubs of old school work she'd saved, and I wanted to surreptitiously throw them out. My wife said she wished her own mom had kept things like that from her childhood, and that I can't throw it out because maybe one day our kids will want to look back and discover what kind of child I was, what it was like growing up in the 90s etc. I guess I understand the anthropological argument; I found some of my great-great-grandpa's old school journals from the 1800s and it was pretty fascinating to read even though it was just full of mundane details like "today we bought milk." Personally I lean way more towards Gary's side that it's pointless to hold on to these things and brings me happiness to get rid of it and let go, but I also think I'll do Kole's scan and chuck idea now as a compromise to get it out of my house
Todd Bryanton
2021-11-18 06:58:10 +0000 UTCI threw out decades and boxes worth of old writing/papers/etc about 6 years ago. I still have all the awful music I made from ages 16-25 though
Alex Atchley
2021-11-18 01:32:02 +0000 UTCHaha Kole I wrote about the ROFLCOPTER for my 8th grade state SOL writing prompt on ‘man’s greatest invention’. Hammered it out in perfect 3-2-8 with URL sources cited, from memory, and was amazed a month later to find it had gotten a perfect score from some hero state proctor. I wish I had had some way of retaining it.
Nobody
2021-11-17 22:02:26 +0000 UTCI don’t think I have any actual school work saved anywhere, but I understand the appeal of having everything I’ve ever done recorded in an orderly format to look at “just in case the urge arose”.
Ben Sapatka
2021-11-17 19:47:04 +0000 UTCI have a few pieces of school work that I come across from time to time. They, for me, are always fun to read. Sorry Gary, Im team Kole on this one!
Richard Everett
2021-11-17 17:32:40 +0000 UTCSchool generally sucked pretty hard for me, so I never made the conscious decision to keep anything from that era - regardless, a few random bits of detritus have cropped up every now and then, and I've gotten a kick out of looking through it. Stuff from my really early childhood is particularly strange to revisit, mostly from my school psychologist (like many 90s kids, I was diagnosed with ADHD), who wrote that I was "functionally retarded." Reading about that from my perch of 32 years and an editor's position at a publishing company, I can at least get a laugh out of it nowadays. Basically, nostalgia is a land of contrasts. Even if I don't deliberately decide to keep things (because those things sucked) it can still be interesting to see it again, just to reflect on where I've been.
Ryan Lazarus
2021-11-17 15:54:28 +0000 UTC
