If you had to clean out your brain, to make room for new stuff, what areas of knowledge would you throw away?

1980’s music

What an interesting question! It’s so hard to choose, because even if the knowledge seems inconsequential, you never know when it might come in handy. Hmm, maybe that little voice that whispered in my ear when I was so young… “Smoking is cool. You should try it.” Eliminating that tiny bit of (erroneous) knowledge would have saved me so much time and money over the years!

You spelled it wrong, so you’re making a good start.~
I do an involuntary data-dump every night, so I really can’t afford to deliberately pick out some more. I thought of information that I could just delete, but then I forgot what it was!

Lyrics to songs like Baby Got Back and plot lines to episodes of Saved By The Bell and Friends

Gaaaahhhh! You didn’t spell it wrong!

@Trillian

:)

I remember taking a class back in the 80’s about digital signal, and thinking “Man, my brain is full! I wish I could dump all the lyrics I know to 1960’s TV shows to make room!”
Honestly, when I am ever going to use that?

I think I would wipe out all of my TvTropes browsing so that I could be surprised by more movies. I would also blank out what few memories survived the brain bleach in the aftermath of Troll 2.

I find I’ve already thrown out stuff I’d be happy to still remember, like the names of plants. I could easily refresh my memory, but I think my storage spaces are shrinking and I may need room for something new.

@Nullo Gah, you’re not kidding about TVtropes. Nothing surprises me anymore! And it really pisses people off when I predict things in movies and tv shows just before they happen. It’s turned me into one of those people who always talks in theaters, and I’ve lost hours that I’ll never get back.

OTOH, it’s a pretty good litmus test for originality. I’ve read so much of tvtropes. If something surprises me, it’s a pretty damn good plot twist.

My only other caches of obscure knowledge are wine and sex toys. One of my friends from high school ran into me when I was working at the adult toy shop and later at the wine shop, and she made some stupid ~highly suggestive comment about my job choices. Whatever, dude. Go file those TPS reports.

I wouldn’t get rid of any of my knowledge. I learned all of it, so why not keep it, right?

I could probably afford to lose the names of Star Wars aliens and geography. But I think the bulk of it has eroded anyway so it wouldn’t get me much space.

@Haleth It’s terrible, isn’t it? I called A Dog Year after watching five minutes of it on a family movie night, and people were a bit upset. Someone even asked me if I could even enjoy movies anymore.

I just took a look round with a torch examining the dark corners. There is a load of dusty old junk in there but of sentimental value so I’m going to keep it all and put the birthdays into my iPhone.

Baseball standings and individual player achievements from the 1960s and 1970s

I would throw away my knowledge of porn. And that Biblical children’s book salesman that abused me. And most important of all, those Star Wars prequel movies.

Stuff about cheese & the numbers 5 thru 11.

I’d like to throw away all memories of my first lover.

Memories of former lovers.

I’d throw out the stuff I ’‘learned’’ but never really understood or made sense of, and couldn’t apply practically to, anyways.
Like wood shop. Why the hell did I even have to go through that, anyway? I was born to destroy things, not build them. Gimme a hammer, that’s good enough. I’ll do the rest on my own. Cooking classes can shove it, too.

Serious answer for a change…I’d never throw away any knowledge, at all. Whether I understand it or not, it’s all worth keeping, even if I never find a use for it.

’‘breaks something’’