stuff to leave behind when your turn 25

[yesno]

Those immature kids privately drinking homemade juice out of mason jars drive me crazy!

[Sarah]

I whack the jars out of their hands with my cane.

[senorcorazon]

This thread is amazing, or rather, COULD be amazing

- Trying to force a quote by someone like Foucault into a conversation to make people think you're smart
- Telling stories that only begin with "one time back in college"
- Only listening to music by bands that have only made one album, and then insisting that they are THE GREATEST
- Not making anything yourself and instead complaining about everything
- Pretending like you don't have to be a considerate person because of your age
- Stupid piercing and large amounts of toys, unless you've got a room to keep all that garbage in. No one needs to see your GoBots collection, especially not your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, as nice as they are to pretend like they like it.   

[Alex_from_the_woods]

-Calling myself an independent thinker while really just being a contrarian. (When everything you think is just a reaction to what others think- you're really not thinking at all.)
-Enjoying pissing people off.
-Unremitting irony.

[dudep]

Trying to force a quote by someone like Foucault into a conversation to make people think you're smart

YES!  I might also add:

-not knowing the difference between things that I appreciate because they're great vs. things that I appreciate because they make me look and/or feel smart

-not knowing the difference between things that I appreciate because they're great vs. things that I appreciate because they make me look and/or feel unique (I trust you've all seen that one episode of Doug).

Calling myself an independent thinker while really just being a contrarian.

-pretending that unwillingness/inability to take a stand on something meaningful is a mark of intellectual integrity

[wood and iron]

Trying to force a quote by someone like Foucault into a conversation to make people think you're smart

YES!  I might also add:

-not knowing the difference between things that I appreciate because they're great vs. things that I appreciate because they make me look and/or feel smart

-not knowing the difference between things that I appreciate because they're great vs. things that I appreciate because they make me look and/or feel unique (I trust you've all seen that one episode of Doug).

Calling myself an independent thinker while really just being a contrarian.

-pretending that unwillingness/inability to take a stand on something meaningful is a mark of intellectual integrity

All Doug ever taught me is if I run across a nematoad, bag him quickly. Honk honk.

[Joe Rogaine]

My friend and I were talking about things we thought were healthy to leave behind a few years after finishing college.

Examples:

-thinking Bukowski is good poetry
-Improv Everywhere/flash mob stunts
-ultra tight jeans

And a bunch more.

What are some good ones I'm missing?

Every thing I think of to add to this list I did probably until 30 (okay 35).  Thanks for bringing me down man.

What if you've never read any Burroughs? Don't start now?

[cutout]

-Making gang signs in photos
-Making that heart shape with your two hands in photos

[wood and iron]

Being on my lawn, damn it!

[Joe Rogaine]

And Toms favorite - Listening to Metal.

[Sarah]

What if you've never read any Burroughs? Don't start now?

Then, much as I forced myself to watch The Sound of Music in my thirties, you have to read at least The Naked Lunch, just so you don't have to pretend to get the references when they crop up.  As they will.

And no one who is not in a gang should flash gang signs, ever.

[dave from knoxville]

. . . a dude gave me a 15-minute-long lecture about how when I'm 26, like he is, I'll look back on myself at 20 and realize how childish I was and how little I really knew back then. Because by 26 you've pretty much acquired all the knowledge and wisdom you're ever going to need.

Damn, I must have bypassed that age somehow.

I find that at virtually every age in my life, if I look back at my ten-years-previous self, I see a fool.

I am 52. You guys get back to me about what I should have left behind at 25 when you hit 52. Until then, I suggest you try self-examination.

[dave from knoxville]

This thread is amazing, or rather, COULD be amazing

- Trying to force a quote by someone like Foucault into a conversation to make people think you're smart
- Telling stories that only begin with "one time back in college"
- Only listening to music by bands that have only made one album, and then insisting that they are THE GREATEST
- Not making anything yourself and instead complaining about everything
- Pretending like you don't have to be a considerate person because of your age
- Stupid piercing and large amounts of toys, unless you've got a room to keep all that garbage in. No one needs to see your GoBots collection, especially not your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, as nice as they are to pretend like they like it.

Thank God Jellyfish made two albums.

[Sarah]

But, Dave, don't you also see a fool when you look at yourself now?  I know I do.*  If you don't, just wait till you're a year older, young'un.  Everything will be clear then.

*Meaning that's what I see when I look in the mirror, not when I look at you. Hell, I've barely seen you.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I didn't really appreciate metal until age 39.  I'm also not about to give up Foucault (who is really not that hard compared to most other French theory, which can be completely impenetrable).  I've been trying to get back into Burroughs and the Beats but you guys might be right about that one.  My new year's resolution is to start drinking homemade juice out of mason jars and making heart symbols with my hands in photos.