Ever had someone toss out something valuable to you? And it still bothers you?

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Also, the rarest football card collection in history (almost thrown into the trash) has been found:http://www.fox17online.com/news/fox...n-michigan-farmhouse-20120221,0,6844115.story



When I was a kid, I collected every baseball card I could find, most of them I forgot about. In that collection were old baseball cards of Hank Aaron (1957 Milwaukee Braves), Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Joe Jackson, Willy Mays, Joe DiMaggio, and Satchel Paige. And a few others who were my personal favorites playing during my childhood days. I left them in the corner of an old shed when I joined the Navy. Mom, not understanding they were the holy grail of boyhood dreams, tossed them out when the family moved while I was out to sea.

 

[CandiCame]

My mom sold my shit every time she got desperate for drug money. It pissed me off, a LOT. I had shit that would be worth quite a bit today, in mint or near-mint condition, plus stuff that was emotionally valuable to me, that she just fucking sold. I always said that if I had kids, no matter how desperate I got, I would never steal from them. I hate that. It got to the point where now I kinda don't put value on objects, because someone's probably just gonna steal them anyway. If I want a book, I download the epub. If I want a game, I download the rom. If someone steals all my shit, I get pissed about it, but I get over it. Maybe the thing that hit me the worst was when my ex bought me a statue of Fierce Diety Link- there were only like 500 of them in the world, there was a certificate of authenticity signed by my hero Myamoto- and my mom got pissed at me and smashed it. She didn't even want it- she just destroyed it because she didn't want me to have it- and she did it because I wouldn't buy a house (that was falling apart and in a location I hate) from her. I somehow would have been less pissed if she had sold it- it was that- that she just threw it out, just smashed it to bits- that pissed me off the most.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

I was an Eagle Scout and had every addition of Boys Life magazine from 1970 to 1982. When I went into the Marines my mom threw them out figuring I did not need them. I do not know if they would be valuable but the scouts were important to me and they held emotional value.

 

[Destinys_Bitch]

Other than fidelity, I can't think of anything..

 

[1sickbastard]

Yes, yes I have. Thanks for asking and bringing that supressed anger back to the surface.
Now please excuse me while I go and curse your name vilely.

 

[CandiCame]

Yes, yes I have. Thanks for asking and bringing that supressed anger back to the surface.
Now please excuse me while I go and curse your name vilely.

Wait- yeah!

I say this motherfucker (who started the OP) owes me a statue.

Holy fucking fuckberries. I just saw how much that statue went for- and I had a fucking seizure. I'm not even joking. I seriously didn't have close to any idea what that was worth. At all. I just looked it up to post as joke. I have to sit the fuck down right now.

I will KILL my mom. That is an insane amount of money to me. And it makes the whole- breaking up with me because I was a mooch thing may waay more sense- if this was the kind of gift he got me- and then watched get broken...

You guys seriously have no idea how pissed off I am right now. I need a fucking joint so fucking bad- and I'm completely dry! I WILL KILL THIS BITCH!! I feel like I need to call him and apologize- like suddenly this whole break-up was my fault... I am so fucking pissed! That is like, a fucking engagement ring expensive- and she broke it in FRONT of him to be a BITCH!

I need to get my mind off this.

 

[oggbashan]

This thread made me think of the afghanistan reaction to US troops burning the Koran.

To many Muslims, any copy of the Koran is as precious as or more precious than a US flag, or your most loved childhood possession. Even moderate Muslims would be saddened by the burning of a Koran.

Yet US troops did this IN Afghanistan after years of being there. Do they never learn to avoid offending the people they are trying to help?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I was an Eagle Scout and had every addition of Boys Life magazine from 1970 to 1982. When I went into the Marines my mom threw them out figuring I did not need them. I do not know if they would be valuable but the scouts were important to me and they held emotional value.

Boy Scouts and Marines are total cognitive dissonance. No real Marine was ever a Scout. So you musta been a swabby clerk.

 

[deskuser]

This thread made me think of the afghanistan reaction to US troops burning the Koran.

To many Muslims, any copy of the Koran is as precious as or more precious than a US flag, or your most loved childhood possession. Even moderate Muslims would be saddened by the burning of a Koran.

Yet US troops did this IN Afghanistan after years of being there. Do they never learn to avoid offending the people they are trying to help?

What has this got to do with someone throwing out a treasured personal possession? It just looks like you're being a typical know all Brit lecturing the yanks. I think our people have made more than enough mistakes before we lecture other people. Deffo the wrong thread Mr.

For me my Dad throwing out a master tape recording I made with a band in the 1980's. No I wasn't pop star material but the song I'd have liked to hear again.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This thread made me think of the afghanistan reaction to US troops burning the Koran.

To many Muslims, any copy of the Koran is as precious as or more precious than a US flag, or your most loved childhood possession. Even moderate Muslims would be saddened by the burning of a Koran.

Yet US troops did this IN Afghanistan after years of being there. Do they never learn to avoid offending the people they are trying to help?

No one gives a crap what a raghead thinks. And sissies like you never cry when ragheads destroy Buddhist antiquities.

 

[oggbashan]

No one gives a crap what a raghead thinks. And sissies like you never cry when ragheads destroy Buddhist antiquities.

You don't get it, do you? The people who are upset are not the villains who destroyed Buddhist antiquities, but the people the allied forces are there to help.

If any allied soldier or civilian dies because the Taliban or others use the justification that the military burned copies of the Koran, it would be an avoidable death.

The British forces and others have often made mistakes in Afghanistan. But the Allied forces have been there long enough to learn that there are some things we shouldn't do because it hinders what we are trying to do.

Destroying copies of the Koran is seen as bad as destroying your most valuable possession.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You don't get it, do you? The people who are upset are not the villains who destroyed Buddhist antiquities, but the people the allied forces are there to help.

If any allied soldier or civilian dies because the Taliban or others use the justification that the military burned copies of the Koran, it would be an avoidable death.

The British forces and others have often made mistakes in Afghanistan. But the Allied forces have been there long enough to learn that there are some things we shouldn't do because it hinders what we are trying to do.

Destroying copies of the Koran is seen as bad as destroying your most valuable possession.

I know that every self respecting raghead grabs any excuse to scream and do weird-aerobics.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I was an Eagle Scout and had every addition of Boys Life magazine from 1970 to 1982. When I went into the Marines my mom threw them out figuring I did not need them. I do not know if they would be valuable but the scouts were important to me and they held emotional value.

So you've always been a dork?

 

[JohnnySavage]

This thread made me think of the afghanistan reaction to US troops burning the Koran.

To many Muslims, any copy of the Koran is as precious as or more precious than a US flag, or your most loved childhood possession. Even moderate Muslims would be saddened by the burning of a Koran.

Yet US troops did this IN Afghanistan after years of being there. Do they never learn to avoid offending the people they are trying to help?

We are trying to help? That's news to me. I thought we were there to kill terrorists and deny them safe haven. I'm a bit taken aback to find out it's a humanitarian mission.

That being said, the Koran is just a book. If people get their panties in a bunch (which I think most of it is bullshit and being used to inflame passions) over a burnt book, then fuck them. Is their god so weak that burning a book hurts his feelings and the only way to make it better is to have his minions cut the heads off his other minions?

 

[chillywilly2]

You don't get it, do you? The people who are upset are not the villains who destroyed Buddhist antiquities, but the people the allied forces are there to help.

If any allied soldier or civilian dies because the Taliban or others use the justification that the military burned copies of the Koran, it would be an avoidable death.

The British forces and others have often made mistakes in Afghanistan. But the Allied forces have been there long enough to learn that there are some things we shouldn't do because it hinders what we are trying to do.

Destroying copies of the Koran is seen as bad as destroying your most valuable possession.

The article reports that the prisoners were writing messages in the Koran's that got burned. That means they defiled the books themselves rendering them useless and they should be burned.

My friends dad broke my best fishing pole and never replaced it...that kinda pissed me off.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

Boy Scouts and Marines are total cognitive dissonance. No real Marine was ever a Scout. So you musta been a swabby clerk.

the military is permeated with scouts.

So you've always been a dork?

yup and dorks are the guys later in life who make the big bucks and giggle hysterically at the former cool kids

 

[Riles]

Yes, things that belonged to my father that I was keeping for my sons. I wanted them to have something to create a connection to a wonderful man, who unfortunately they will never get to know.

 

[CandiCame]

You don't get it, do you? The people who are upset are not the villains who destroyed Buddhist antiquities, but the people the allied forces are there to help.

If any allied soldier or civilian dies because the Taliban or others use the justification that the military burned copies of the Koran, it would be an avoidable death.

The British forces and others have often made mistakes in Afghanistan. But the Allied forces have been there long enough to learn that there are some things we shouldn't do because it hinders what we are trying to do.

Destroying copies of the Koran is seen as bad as destroying your most valuable possession.

Dude- it's a fucking book available in an ePub format for free- that's where i read it, and I pirated it then. It is in no way the same unless it was the family Koran with all your personal shit in it. If you're pissed over a bookburning you're an idiot- and coming form a capitalist society where I'm still pissed about losing my thousand dollar statue- that just sounds flat out stupid. We're not talking collective, generalize cultural bullshit, we're talking personal, individual bullshit. If someone had their family Koran or Bible or whatever, that's one thing- something irreplaceable.

This thread is just so full of resentment for me. I COULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF DEBT!!!

 

[RobDownSouth]

I was at a large regional mall a few weeks back, and walked by a comics/collectible store. There was a display that caught my eye, a Silver Surfer #1 comic from 1968.

"oh, I remember buying that comic back a long, long time ago!"

I looked at the price tag, $12.00....a lot more than the 12 cents I'd paid back then....

and then I did a double-take...it was twelve hundred freakin' dollars.... and made a note to tell Mom that her throwing out my comics collection was why she can't have a nicer nursing home in a few years.

 

[CandiCame]

I was at a large regional mall a few weeks back, and walked by a comics/collectible store. There was a display that caught my eye, a Silver Surfer #1 comic from 1968.

"oh, I remember buying that comic back a long, long time ago!"

I looked at the price tag, $12.00....a lot more than the 12 cents I'd paid back then....

and then I did a double-take...it was twelve hundred freakin' dollars.... and made a note to tell Mom that her throwing out my comics collection was why she can't have a nicer nursing home in a few years.

You owned a Silver Surfer #1!?

I got to touch one once, but just because I knew Doug and was entrusted to get it signed. When you have something like that in your hands, it's so tempting to just run with it.

Edit: Had the Canadian Flag Logan cover-graded a 9.5- that same con. Damn, I should've run.

 

[JohnnySavage]

the military is permeated with scouts.



yup and dorks are the guys later in life who make the big bucks and giggle hysterically at the former cool kids

I thought you were an airline pilot

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

I thought you were an airline pilot

what do you think the annual salary of an airline pilot is?

i accepted a promotion into the ivory white tower. i am in charge of stuff now.

 

[JohnnySavage]

what do you think the annual salary of an airline pilot is?

i accepted a promotion into the ivory white tower. i am in charge of stuff now.

About 125 a year, I would imagine.

 

[breakwall]

This thread made me think of the afghanistan reaction to US troops burning the Koran.

To many Muslims, any copy of the Koran is as precious as or more precious than a US flag, or your most loved childhood possession. Even moderate Muslims would be saddened by the burning of a Koran.

Yet US troops did this IN Afghanistan after years of being there. Do they never learn to avoid offending the people they are trying to help?

Trolling for suckers, using the right bait.

 

[HoHoBomb]

it's called divorce