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I kinda miss finding random CD-Rs in the gutterHow and why did so many discs end up in the road?
How and why did so many discs end up in the road?
I don’t find many CD-Rs in the gutter anymore. Time was, the streets would glitter with home-burned CDs and DVDs that were either lost or thrown away. With the rise of broadband and fall of physical media, now everything’s up in a cloud. It is good that we’ve largely ended one form of litter. But I kinda miss them. For a while, I’d fish these CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out the gutter to see what they held. It wasn’tallporn.
“Alice, don’t be so PC-centric,” you say. You have a supposition. “Surely these are all music CDs people have burned to play while driving, and they accidentally fall out their car doors.” Sounds plausible but no, my scientific study of gutter discs discovered: 20% music, 5% software, 5% data, and 70% pornography.
I think this is the noughties/tensies equivalent of ‘porn in the woods’.
I puzzled over why so much pornography was ending up in the roadside. The weirder thing: most of the porn I found was at roundabouts. Does the fun motion of going round a roundabout inspire you to fling porn out your car window? Or is someone making a dramatic point? I’ll not share many of their names because goodness gracious me, but I did enjoy finding a DVD-R with the charmingly quaint label “Naughty Neighbours XX[X?]” on the roundabout outside a dinosaur-themed crazy golf course with blood-red waterfalls of ‘lava’.
Honestly, many of the finds weren’t interesting. Just stuff. And I never looked at a single personal file, because I’m not a monster. I was just curious about how and why all these discs ended up thrown away in the street. The best case of this was a CD labelled “Redemption Songs”.
Note the monstrous disc-ruining gouge behind the first E.
