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someone left a Beatles greatest hits cd and a Black Sabbath greatest hits cd on wall at a heavily populated college bus stop

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you look both ways and and see a lot of college kids standing around. you stand among them near the greatest hits cds perched on top of a 4-foot brick wall along the busy sidewalk. you wait a couple minutes for the bus. meanwhile no one has come to reclaim the cds

what do you do?

if you don't take the cds someone else probably will - they are right there in the open. maybe someone else would appreciate the music more than you? maybe the original owner will come back for them?

you see the annoying university street preacher talking his mouth off near the bus stop. maybe the cd quandary is some moral test to see whether you greedily take them all, honestly take none of them or oddly take the one you rather have: the evil Black Sabbath versus the righteous Beatles. too many questions run through your head (you blame that stupid street preacher for having subconsciously made you question things). your bus arrives and you have to think fast. surely someone will take the cds if you don't

Poll Results

OptionVotes
take none of them 33
take both of them 18
take Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 17
take The Beatles Greatest Hits 4


― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

take black sabbath disc; burn beatles disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

I'd take the Sabbath as I have all the Beatles music I need.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

(ps. I'm not sure which Greatest Hits cds they are)

and I post this story because it happened to me at college

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

remember to vote

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

What did you do and why?

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

what do I need a Greatest Hits CD for again?

― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

take none of them, i don't have the fucking room

― "Not in a great place" meaning mentally? or Oregon? (Matt P), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

it's not worth carrying them home and finding a place for them and do i really want any more cds especially these ones? no i don't

― "Not in a great place" meaning mentally? or Oregon? (Matt P), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not telling what I did until I see the results

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

i take none of them: i have an ipod now anyways. also i have listened to every beatles song and am still in the process of going through black sabbath's albums. i don't want a fucking greatest hits.

― don't make me punch your wife in the face because so help me god i wil (marc iv), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

do college students still remember what CDs are

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

the beatles cd was a double album. no cds were in their case

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

I mean to say there was two beatles cds

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

this seems like we're trying to solve a mystery now

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

who is captainlorax

― "Not in a great place" meaning mentally? or Oregon? (Matt P), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

John Lennon

― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

i just MCed him for this thread

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

I FDed you for MCing me

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

wait these are cds out of the cases leaning on the edge of a bus stop? prob pretty scratched, fuck em

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

they aren't scratched at all actually

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

love this thread already

― max, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

i only steal cds when they're in binders

― buzza, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

but no cases right? so i have to like fashion some sort of sling to transport them home without getting them all fuxored huh? fuck em

xpost well if they're in binders yer just fucking asking for it really, generally peeps will just snatch those right out if your hands iirc

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

also CL if u know that they are unscratched then u took them for sure, u varlot

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

in this scenario you have a pack because you are coming home from class jjusten

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

I examined the cds while I was deciding whether or not to take them

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

as an astute judge of human nature i am convinced that once you pick them up to determine if they are scratched, they are functionally already living in your house by the time you see that they are not

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

when i was trying to sell/move/get rid of all my belongings before my move from chicago to hawaii, i came down to the 11th hour with my CD collection (maybe 400-500?)

most of them were too beat up to bother trying to re-sell, and i wasn't really into half of them anymore anyway. i was way more focused on moving vinyl to my new place, as most of the CDs i cared about i had on a hard drive already.

what i ended up doing: holding on to about 2 dozen that had sentimental value and/or badass/collectors item packaging, then taking the rest and putting them (jewel cases and all) into a pair of huge trash bags. then i drove in the rain at 2am to the front stoop of my former college dorm, where i ran out of the car, dropped both bags, and drove away.

― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

if you find any debbie gibson greatest-hits cds laying around at college, take them.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

but if this thread were 10 years ago i would have taken both without thinking.

today i wouldn't take either.

― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

I leave stuff like this around all the time. I want you to take them.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

Take none of them and download some Nirvana. Apparently, they're like Black Sabbath meets The Beatles. Kill two birds etc.

― JasonC, Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

take both discs, shotgun a beer, beat the college kids with a brick from the wall, drop out of college.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:33 (sixteen years ago)

I barely graduated with a Bachelors degree to be honest

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

but the question is did you graduate with a bachelor's degree *in being honest*

― iatee, Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

Greatest hits CDs. With no cases. Yeah, I'm pretty sure in the year 2010 that counts as trash. Do you go through these same moral quandaries when you see yesterdays discarded newspaper lying on the ground?

― wk, Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

xp

Sort of yes

My last college exam I took a couple days later then the rest of the kids. I'm a statistics major so I took it at the end of a table in a fancy conference room in the statistics building. I had my bookbag with all my notes sitting next to me and the professor only checked on me occasionally. This was the most worried I ever was about passing a class and I thought about peaking at the notes in my bookbag because I had gone through every question and I thought I didn't think I was going to get the grade I needed to pass the class. Ultimately I decided not to look in my bookbag even if I had to wait all summer and take this class, my last class neeeded, again 3 seasons later when it was offered again. Right after I decided not to cheat my professor popped his head in the door

I got a B in the class and I was worried about a D. I have no freaking clue how I possibly got that good of a grade. I attribute some of it to honesty

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:59 (sixteen years ago)

wk, my moral quandry was that sabbath is evil and the beatles are good, i felt as if my decision actually makes a difference in the grand scheme of things as if I was choosing between good and evil. or both. why I thought that way at that time is a mystery

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

I just saw that moment as very symbolic

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

my life is pretty deep

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

Take none of them. Don't care about Black Sabbath, and the only Beatles track I really love is "Eleanor Rigby", but the greatest hits cd probably has that awful stereo version with the vocals on one speaker only. If it has the mono version, I might consider taking it.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

My sister found a garbage bag full of dildos and 1x Jack Johnson CD...she took the Jack Johnson CD.

― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

a garbage bag full of dildos and 1x Jack Johnson CD

Must've been some session.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

My sister just found a bag full of dildos in her parking lot

― Sun Tea (Pillbox), Thursday, 26 August 2010 01:26 (sixteen years ago)

Q: What's the difference between Jack Johnson and a bag of dildos? ...

― wk, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:20 (sixteen years ago)

A: assholes never get tired of Jack Johnson

― gr8080, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

Make sure your Jack Johnson has a flared base, people.

― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

http://lyricsmusic.name/img/posters/49878b73e9b2f.jpg

― gr8080, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

A: assholes never get tired of Jack Johnson

This was a lolworthy start to my morning, thx!

― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

These Beatles CDs get everywhere. Ubiquitous, one might say.

― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

A: assholes never get tired of Jack Johnson

Holy god, that's golden.

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

"Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls"

― hold me, thrill me, kiss me, lil b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

I think somebody was performing a psychology experiment on Ozzy Osbourne, and wanted to see which one he would take first.

― elevator to the challops (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

I'd take 'em if they had cases but fuck a CD without a case...

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

i would never want to listen to Black Sabbath in a greatest hits context...they're an album band imo.

same with the Beatles towards their mid or later period, though it might be nice for the earlier stuff

― funky brewster (San Te), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

I've been waiting forever for a Beatles-Black Sabbath thread just to announce to the world that whenever I play "Rocky Raccoon", I mentally do a lyric substitution...

His name is Magill,
And he calls himself Bill

...just cause it amuses me.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

Anyways, I'd ignore 'em both (already got the complete discographies, practically)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

I own every album by both bands. And I hate cds. So I would definitely leave them there for someone else.

― Nate Carson, Thursday, 26 August 2010 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

Beatles.

― Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

hi Bill Magill.

― gr8080, Thursday, 26 August 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

i would furtively take both, then regret it and leave them both on the bus

complete the circle

― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

remember to vote

― Leu! (crüt), Thursday, 26 August 2010 23:17 (sixteen years ago)


someone left a Beatles greatest hits cd and a Black Sabbath greatest hits cd on wall at a heavily populated college bus stop
I don't think that I can take one
because it's too easy to go home and download and make one
and I'll never have the time or inclination to remember to do it in preference to new and/or interesting things that I'd rather hear again
oh noe.

― Mark G, Friday, 27 August 2010 09:00 (sixteen years ago)

"Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls"

― hold me, thrill me, kiss me, lil b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:03 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

I'd take none of them. If I'd choose one it'd be Black Sabbath because I already have everything by The Beatles and it might be interesting to check out the best of what Black Sabbath were doing after the mid 70s.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 27 August 2010 21:52 (sixteen years ago)

Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls

Greatest Hits were once a rather nice way to check out an act you were curious about.

These days, of course, we have Spotify and filesharing clients for that though.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 27 August 2010 21:54 (sixteen years ago)

I still don't know what Spotify is

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 27 August 2010 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

lol at missing the Kids in the Hall ref. but then again did they have that in norway

― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 27 August 2010 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, the shoe salesman/Doors sketch! I knew that sounded familiar

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 28 August 2010 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

wait, so what you're saying is that The Beatles are good and Black Sabbath are evil?

You, CaptainLorax, are Tipper Gore, and I want my thirty dollars.

― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 August 2010 04:55 (sixteen years ago)

wd tell the Beatles CD to FUCK OFF

― Widow of Opportunity (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 August 2010 10:47 (sixteen years ago)

Would take the sabs CD to listen to in the car, leave the beatles CD or maybe drop it down the drain.

― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Saturday, 28 August 2010 11:05 (sixteen years ago)

They're both evil! The Beatles had that non-christian Maharishi phase, remember?

― StanM, Saturday, 28 August 2010 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

Captain Lorax, y'all.

― gr8080, Saturday, 28 August 2010 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA0Iat3AdN8

― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Monday, 30 August 2010 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

dont forget to vote

― gr8080, Monday, 30 August 2010 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

only one more day until we find out Captain Lorax used the cds to sharpen his nipples

― funky brewster (San Te), Monday, 30 August 2010 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 30 August 2010 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

remember to vote

― the banana boat username (crüt), Monday, 30 August 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

Remember to what?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 08:44 (sixteen years ago)

remember to vote

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:00 (sixteen years ago)

Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls

love this line.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:00 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0

For those who haven't seen...

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:13 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not telling what I did until I see the results

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:10 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

http://eslprograms.vcc.ca/ESLWEB/nervous.jpg

― BOND ZORN aka the mp3 player (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

A: he glanced down at them, shrugged, and kept walking into the fetish shop

― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.lookonline.com/vic2000press.jpg

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

I took the Sabbath cd. I already heard all The Beatles songs

― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

How is it?

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

Captain Lorax, y'all.

― gr8080, Saturday, August 28, 2010 3:13 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

― BOND ZORN aka the mp3 player (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

I Love You Beatles But I Choose Darkness...

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

Man this thread resolution felt like watching an alternate universe The Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis merely drives home and credits roll

― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

glad yall voted

― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for the thread.

― BOND ZORN aka the mp3 player (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

Fact: There are more criminals amongst Black Sabbath fans.

― Moka, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

Hey, which came first, the 2€ coin or the Canadian twoonie?

― ❽ (M.V.), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

man that cd's gotta be worth something by now

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 04:09 (thirteen years ago)

the only Beatles comp actually called Greatest Hits didn't come out on CD iirc. terrible tracklist too

http://ring.cdandlp.com/grigo/photo_grande/114769906-2.jpg

the vinyl had *twelve* tracks on one side! musta sounded terrible.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 05:13 (thirteen years ago)

http://bestdvdsale.com/images/ifcshop/56_1.jpg

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:08 (thirteen years ago)

terrible tracklist too

God yeah, those beloved Beatles hits are all dreadful.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:19 (thirteen years ago)

this must be the most boring dilemma of all time

― footballer of the future (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:44 (thirteen years ago)


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