Share your juvenilia

[tilty]

I genuinely have no memory of this supposed river of fire.

[hankscorpio]

I did a lo-fi phone video recording of this for a pal so here it is as mentioned upthread. My nu metal band’s 2001 demo Groin Of Metal. I was going to do a reaction video but it was just too humiliating.

Particularly bad things:

All of it sounds like a worse version of Pantera mixed with someone like hedPE.

About half way through listening to it I remembered that the second song was written about our singers feelings after 9/11. I fear it is at best naïve, at worst…probably pro war?! It’s called Less Talk More Action

The third song has a ska breakdown. It’s not good. In fact I would go so far as to say that it’s probably offensive.

I think everyone shared a single Boss Metalzone pedal, before it was part of the covid vaccine.

Deadpan - Groin Of Metal (2001)

[profk]

@hankscorpio

Groin Of Metal

[hankscorpio]

It was nearly called ‘Putting The Pants On Pantera’ which is…about the same.

[GoFasterStripes]

This is pretty decent, if of its time

[The_Excession]

@hankscorpio

The third song has a ska breakdown

This can’t possibly live up to my imagination, I’ll leave it there I think.

[nemrac]

Been helping my mum clear out her attic and found a load of old school books. In year 7 English I wrote a story about stealing a pair of jeans when I was out shopping with my friends Beyoncé and Kelly. I was the Michelle of my own story

[nemrac]

Also I had to write a biography of a hero for year 8 English and wrote about Che Guevara even though I doubt I knew anything about the guy before that point that wasn’t written on my brother’s Che t-shirt

[TheWza]

My folder for GCSE art/design.

(The “Liam” label is due to a guy in our class called, yep, Liam, who looked a bit like Beaker, rather than being anything to do with the Oasis pic.)

Was a repurposed fold-out board for game of some sort.

I’ve basically got an almost infinite amount of stuff that could go in this thread. Nothing hugely interesting. Just that I accumulated and kept almost everything ever until about five years ago, then had a MASSIVE clear-out phase, but to enable me to chuck stuff away without having a minor mental meltdown I have to take a photo of it, and then I’m fine to punt it. Some sort of fear of forgetting thing going on.

[Mert_Aksac]

More please!

[manches]

I miss creative writing at school so much. They stopped doing it for us at around year 9, just as I’d discovered the joy of writing myself as a background character in my stories and having characters talk about how much of a dork I was

[TheWza]

Heh. Just had a quick browse. There’s just fucking everything, mate.

Certificates for stuff dating back to primary school (sports day potato race, cycling proficiency, butlins fancy dress, red nose day fundraising, etc, etc), 18th and 21st birthday cards, swimming patches/badges, all sorts of school projects, driving lesson booking card, driving test appointment cards, driving test error sheet, Duke of Edinburgh stuff, ‘love letters’, letters from school mates from the few weeks of uni, karting results printouts, on and on the list goes… I take a photo of old t-shirts before getting rid of them when having a sort out, ffs…

It’s a little bit exhausting in some ways, to be honest (and most of the good stuff needs an element of redaction).

[TheWza]

I’ve also got an archive file of all my emails from uni (started '97) and it was basically the first time we’d ever used email. Still bessie mates with the same group that these emails were bouncing between and we had a good giggle reading through the very first ones on a zoom chat recently.

The ripest fruit is probably a school exercise book that me and three pals used to send back and forth as a kinda shared journal, circa '94, to four girls in Worthing who would add their chat and nonsense to a few pages, then send it back. No-one we knew in person: we’d responded to one of them putting an add for penpals (or something similar) in the classified ads at the back of Select magazine.

[Mert_Aksac]

@TheWza

‘love letters

you know what to do

[TheWza]

Probably the pinnacle of my engineering legacy, this.

Was a science fair competition thing. Make a vehicle to carry an egg, roll it down a ramp and have it freewheel as far as possible. Very happy with my combo of weight to maximise the effects of gravity, and the minimal points of contact to minimise friction. I absolutely crushed the pathetic challengers*.

*Think I might have come second, actually.

[TheWza]

Just pages and pages of this sort of bollox. (I think this is me scribbling below. Other pages have stuff by others and there’s sketches and funnier chat, and bits and bobs glued in, but I feel a bit funny about sharing stuff that’s essentially someone else’s diary entry.)

[tilty]

At our school we had a ‘conversation book’. Just loads of idle shite almost like a precursor to whatsapp I reckon

[nemrac]

I also found a shoebox containing stuff from my sixth form boyfriend like letters and paper roses, there’s no way I’m posting any of it on this very public website but one of the things I had to throw straight in the bin was a letter he wrote that he’d stuck like 15 love heart sweets to and they’d gone mouldy in the 12 years they spent in the attic

[TheWza]

Read your post, then half an hour later saw this.

Oxburgh Hall: Queen Victoria's Boer War chocolate found in attic

[nemrac]

The love hearts looked better than that tbf