Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock

[Moonlight]

Now that embedding images isn’t a herculean task requiring a master’s degree in computer science, I figured we ought to finally have one of these on a site where such esoteric bullshit would be welcome.

I’ll start, because that’s how this sort of thread always works. Keep up.

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[Moonlight]

The joke is that Holly has a tendency to overexplain the joke in Series VIII.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Yes, the joke was that I was overexplaining the joke about Series VIII Holly overexplaining the joke.

[Warbodog]

[Nick R]

Or, to over-explain the joke:

[Moonlight]

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

[Ian Symes]

[Dave]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Bravo all of those TM ones

[Technopeasant]

Bravo all of those TM ones

The rest of the thread can fuck right off.

[RunawayTrain]

Bravo all of those TM ones

(I’m sorry it’s so rubbish, you get the idea)

(Original in case people want to use it for better memes: )

[RunawayTrain]

Oh I forgot one:

[Nick R]

(From here)

[Ridley]

Where are all the cat-sized-rats in Birmingham memes?

[Dave]

[Technopeasant]

Where are all the cat-sized-rats in Birmingham memes?

It has to be exceptional to be meme worthy.

* rim shot *

[Ridley]

It has to be exceptional to be meme worthy.
* rim shot *

Are you seriously telling us you were playing the rat version of Birmingham for all this time?

[Ridley]

[Warbodog]

[Dave]

[Warbodog]

[Dave]

[Technopeasant]

It is honestly rather depressing how pervasive the in mint condition ideology goes. I can’t tell you how many big box PC games I’ve seen on eBay literally being crushed by the shrink wrap they refuse to remove. Though granted that goes to show the issue when they were just boxes with a CD jewel case and a pamphlet for a manual, which is why they started making them smaller.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’ve always found it a little weird you’d buy something and not want to use it in some capacity. Just keeping it in a box is sort of depriving someone else of getting enjoyment from it as everything is limited in one way or another. I open stuff up and play around with it and then at the least display it. 

Only thing I have shoved away in boxes is old Red Dwarf VHS tapes (all well watched) and regional CD from bands I imported to grab bonus tracks and stuff.

The fact people buy stuff now as an investment these days is quite depressing.

[Warbodog]

I’ve bought board games half price by scoping out the Damaged / Dings & Dents sections of sites, a good deal for a crumpled corner.

[International Debris]

Yeah I really hate the whole collectors thing where people buy it purely for the collection without any proper appreciation of the item. I remember once seeing an album sell out in a couple of hours, so the label announced a repress (on different colour vinyl, to keep the first pressing special) so more people could get it and it sold out so quickly because half the people who’d bought the first one bought the second as well, for their collection. It’s like fucking hell, let people who actually want to play the thing have a chance of buying one. 

[Ben Saunders]

The people buying out Pokemon cards so they can sell them for sick profit should all be deported to El Salvador

[RunawayTrain]

Yeah I really hate the whole collectors thing where people buy it purely for the collection without any proper appreciation of the item. I remember once seeing an album sell out in a couple of hours, so the label announced a repress (on different colour vinyl, to keep the first pressing special) so more people could get it and it sold out so quickly because half the people who’d bought the first one bought the second as well, for their collection. It’s like fucking hell, let people who actually want to play the thing have a chance of buying one. 

Something I’ve learned in recent years is a lot of autistic people* do enjoy and appreciate having things as part of a collection, just the enjoyment is in a different form from those who’d want to use the item(s) for its/their intended purpose(s).  We often attach great emotional significance to items so just being able to look at them triggers those memories and brings great joy.  (That said, I don’t personally know anyone who buys things to keep in mint condition, more often bought something, watched/listened to/played with as intended, then not used it in that manner thereafter but still really enjoying having it in the collection.)

The vendors of said album really didn’t know their audience, did they‽  I can definitely understand being frustrated at missing out on both versions, and probably would have been too in that situation.

*Edit: I don’t mean that in the overused ‘~oh they might be ND~’ way when people try to excuse bad behaviour.  I just mean from a genuine perspective of, what brings people joy and how people appreciate things isn’t uniform.  And, not to be all ‘collectors are automatically autistic’ either.  It’s just people who are collecting for themselves, okay maybe with one eye on potential resale value but then they keep hold of stuff for decades anyway, are perhaps more likely to be autistic than the general population at large.  (And there’s probably an element of rigid thinking in there too, if the whole thing about being in mint condition is presented as a being a ‘rule’ for collecting.  If having a collection like that still brings someone joy and satisfaction then they’re not likely to question it because there’s no reason for them to.)

[Technopeasant]

I collect old computer games and software, way more than I will ever play (especially since I don’t actually play that much), but I am not doing it as an investment. Most picked up from thrift stores, while purchasing games I genuinely care about on eBay (which, with shipping to Canada, is rarely cheap). My wife collects manga and VHS tapes. Fortunate to have just bought a house to keep it all in…

[Technopeasant]

I open stuff up and play around with it and then at the least display it.

My mother in law has a pathological hatred of any possession being visible. She puts curtains in front of her pantry and shoves loose discs into bags…

[Nick R]

[Unrumble]

My mother in law has a pathological hatred of any possession being visible. She puts curtains in front of her pantry and shoves loose discs into bags…

[Dave]

[Technopeasant]

I am not confirming the wispy beard.

[Rudolph]

I’ve always found it a little weird you’d buy something and not want to use it in some capacity. Just keeping it in a box is sort of depriving someone else of getting enjoyment from it as everything is limited in one way or another.

I always get this mental image of a person, sat by the fireside in his dressing gown with a glass of brandy, sipping it and soaking in his wall-mounted collection of Star Wars action figures.

Dexter’s Laboratory did a great episode where they go to a Star Trek convention and encounter the concept of NRFB and MNB.

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