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post #1 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:01pm
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"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's hameopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself ... the enitre universe is moving towards a final state of total, absolute kipplesation." - Phillip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

And I've got to say he was absolutely goddamn right! Another month, another three full bags of garbage removed from my computer room. Where the hell does it all come from? A bus timetable? Where did that come from? I've haven't ridden a bus in over a year, much less looked at a timetable. A “Hits of 1998” CD cover? I hate compilations! The wife hates them too! Did it magic itself out of the ether? Was it teleported into this room by an orbiting super-intelligence?

I'm fighting a never-ending battle against kipple, and I'm losing.
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post #2 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:04pm
I just bought a new house and there's kipple everywhere.

What's also interesting is to find all the kipple while you're moving out of a place, such as my apartment....
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post #3 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:08pm
My car is a magnet for kipple.

Add to the list - receipts for consumable items under $5.

Some receipts you should hold on to. However, do I really need a receipt to prove I bought a 28 ounce Slurpee that will be gone in 20 minutes? It's a waste.
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post #4 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by Werbal_Kint
Some receipts you should hold on to. However, do I really need a receipt to prove I bought a 28 ounce Slurpee that will be gone in 20 minutes? It's a waste.
I do that ALL THE TIME. Particularly with receipts from the Goodwill store....
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post #5 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:11pm
Damn. I thought this thread was going to be about an exciting new British breakfast sensation.
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post #6 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:23pm
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Originally Posted by L7 Productions
What's also interesting is to find all the kipple while you're moving out of a place, such as my apartment....
Yeah, but there's usually treasure mixed in with that kipple i.e. that CD/DVD/photograph/book/favourite pen/membership card you thought you'd lost years ago.
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post #7 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by Geoff Foster
Yeah, but there's usually treasure mixed in with that kipple i.e. that CD/DVD/photograph/book/favourite pen/membership card you thought you'd lost years ago.
Trust me... I found a ton of things that I thought I lost years ago. They call went into a priority box that I made sure I knew where it was when we moved.
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post #8 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by L7 Productions
Trust me... I found a ton of things that I thought I lost years ago. They call went into a priority box that I made sure I knew where it was when we moved.
You see, that's where I went wrong. I lost my library card for five years, found it when we moved and then lost it again within two days.
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post #9 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:37pm
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Originally Posted by Geoff Foster
You see, that's where I went wrong. I lost my library card for five years, found it when we moved and then lost it again within two days.
Nothing has come out of the box yet. I'm sure it and only the contents of the box will find their way out of my possession.
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post #10 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:43pm
I always find empty lighters and matchboxes in my desk. I don't smoke.

And instructions to videogames I haven't played or seen in years. Hi Tombraider!

Lots of Hershey Kiss wrappers...why can't I just throw them away? Because they're so little it would be a waste of my time to actually make a trip to the trashcan.

Kipple is humbling.
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post #11 of 23
6/16/05 at 5:46pm
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Empty CD cases are the worst.

I've got more cases than CDs.

How does that work?
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post #12 of 23
6/17/05 at 3:47am
That's weird, as I have more cassettes than cassette holders. I used to have CD cases, until my CD player in my vehicle when kaput.
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post #13 of 23
6/17/05 at 4:57am
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Originally Posted by Geoff Foster
Empty CD cases are the worst.

I've got more cases than CDs.

How does that work?
That's got to be somethng to do with coasterisation.
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post #14 of 23
6/17/05 at 5:10am
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Originally Posted by Geoff Foster
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's hameopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself ... the enitre universe is moving towards a final state of total, absolute kipplesation." - Phillip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

And I've got to say he was absolutely goddamn right! Another month, another three full bags of garbage removed from my computer room. Where the hell does it all come from? A bus timetable? Where did that come from? I've haven't ridden a bus in over a year, much less looked at a timetable. A “Hits of 1998” CD cover? I hate compilations! The wife hates them too! Did it magic itself out of the ether? Was it teleported into this room by an orbiting super-intelligence?

I'm fighting a never-ending battle against kipple, and I'm losing.
That's weird. I think I've also been fighting that never-ending battle, but until now I haven't been aware of it. And yet I'm hyper-aware of it, all the time.

I currently live in an effieciency, and it's not the first time. I have become highly conscious of the amount of stuff I allow into my space. I try to weed out the kipple every time I empty my pockets when I get home from work. Your computer room is just your computer room to you. My computer room is my room. Period.

I'm just amazed at how often I have to take out the trash. I think I probably produce too much trash.
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post #15 of 23
6/17/05 at 5:18am
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Originally Posted by Momotaro
That's weird, as I have more cassettes than cassette holders. I used to have CD cases, until my CD player in my vehicle when kaput.
YOU HAVE CASSETTES?!




Ditto on the receipts. There's evidence of way too much money spent at Jack In The Box in my car. I always love that while the car interior might be littered with kipple the trunk is usually neatly kept.

When I moved into my recent house I never came across this USP Airsoft gun I had. So either they found it and freaked out at my old apartments or I'll find it when I move out of here. And the orange tip was removed so it'll be amusing when Ii find it and start running around my lawn with joy with a gun in my hand.
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post #16 of 23
6/17/05 at 4:40pm
I am such a nerd, I just don't let this happen to me. Reciepts > trash. Wrappers > trash. Junk mail > trash. Possessions that I no longer need > give away/sell/trash. The only things that pile up are the little notes I write to myself, the lists of things to do and buy and the notes I scribble when I see/hear something I like. And I even try to filter through those every once in a while.

It's really a good feeling to be minimalist. There has never been anything in any of my apartments or cars just sitting around ever. I just can't let it happen. It's in my nature. I think it's partly because I grew up in a house full of kipple (mostly because of the mom) and I had a reaction to it. It's just so goddamn distracting. Take a day, get a couple of trashbags, and get rid of shit. It'll clear your head up real good.
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post #17 of 23
6/17/05 at 4:43pm
Wait! We're all missing something... What the hell is hameopape?
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post #18 of 23
6/17/05 at 4:49pm
OCD!

no, really, i could use you around my house jubei... it's fucking ridiculous how much "stuff" there is... USELESS CRAP ... assaulting me from all angles...

i would love to change my ways... but I'm married to someone as bad or worse... making it rather, difficult
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post #19 of 23
6/17/05 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by kittyinjammies
Wait! We're all missing something... What the hell is hameopape?
I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you afterward.
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post #20 of 23
6/17/05 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by jonzey
OCD!

No, you're pretty much right on the money there. I'm don't think it's "disorder" proportions at all, but I've got O/C tendencies for damn sure.
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post #21 of 23
6/17/05 at 5:40pm
hameopape: A pap smear except with ham. Goes well with rye bread.
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post #22 of 23
6/17/05 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
hameopape: A pap smear except with ham. Goes well with rye bread.
Nice.
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post #23 of 23
6/17/05 at 6:36pm
That does it...I'm naming my new production company "House of Kipple."
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