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Originally posted by oleras View PostI personally feel most memories we believe we remember are either from photographs or anecdotes that were told to us.
Unless its fairly traumatic, we aint remembering shit before 7 or 8.
...I actually don't remember how everything worked itself out, all I know is I ended up in a computer game shop with my two brothers, unaware my parents were filing a missing persons report...
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIt might be! Can only properly remember one person I went to school with across the entire 13 years. Can't remember a single person I did my degree or Masters with. Had no memory of that 4-8 years of age school even happening. Have just no memory of past events but do seem to have a great different type of memory.
I have a whole mental catalogue of memories with my grandad ho died when I was nine. And it's not recall from photos, as there are none. Just random days I spent with him doing granddad stuff, or the brand of cigerettes he smoked. Like one day I went off to the scrap yard with him when he was getting rid of a copper HWU and some pipes. He got a few quid and we called into a pub. I can remember exactly what pub it was, Mullingar House, the only time I've been there. He had a Guinness, and he scooped some of the head in his fingers and stirred into onto my coke so it looked like a guinness. Nobody else knew about that day to say to me "remeber hte time..."
Like I'll read 100 papers on a research area, seemingly forget them all in their entirety, and then sit down and write something smart that links them very well. Same with the lectures which are a bit of a bizarre unplanned freeride but normally interesting for the listener. Maybe it's a different type of memory that is strong on making connections between things while the 'remember things' memory is very weak. Not sure though, it might just be all those years of excessive drinking and there's no alternative memory upside
It's like when I watch high level black belts pulling off elaborate flowing sequences, they aren't remembering moves they learned years ago. They understand the moves fundamentally so that the unplanned freestyle makes perfect sense.
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My earliest memory was when I was 3 and we were moving to Drimnagh. I remember wailing when I thought we were actually moving into the removal van . Bastards teasing me. After that a vague recollection of a priest and my father holding me down and throwing water over me shouting The power of Christ compels thee.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostI find I'm less productive at home.Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post+1, although three screaming demons on the premises half the day may well have something to do with this.
Usually what happens is I feel I've no done enough meaning I don't switch off at the right time.
My missus still hasn't really grasped that working from involves actual work.
I'm about 90% sure she has and just likes winding me up by getting me to do shit 'as I'm at home all day'People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostI alternate.
Usually what happens is I feel I've no done enough meaning I don't switch off at the right time.
My missus still hasn't really grasped that working from involves actual work.
I'm about 90% sure she has and just likes winding me up by getting me to do shit 'as I'm at home all day'
Living 5 mins from the office means I get to sit here alone all day - its ideal
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Homer: Every time I learn something new, a little of the old gets pushed out of my brain. Remember that time I took that wine making course and forgot how to drive?
Marge: You were drunk!
Homer: And how.
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I'm another of the 'remember little before the age of 10' crowd; and I've a fantastic memory for facts and dates in general, just not from my own younger life! And it was also pointed out to me a few years ago that one of the two memories I held on to from my time living in Kerry (up until the age of 5) was just from a photograph in a family album, one of my Dad standing on the roof of our bungalow installing a TV aerial, I'm now 99% sure the memory is simply that photo imprinted into my brain.
Almost every other memory from my younger self seems to be of traumatic events; knocking over a plastic bottle of 7Up in Kerry and crying as I thought I had broken it, walking along the prom in Salthill and when my parents weren't looking finding a half-drunk bottle of Club Orange on a low wall and drinking it, my parents seeing this and telling me to stop, that it could be filled with pee (very traumatic I think you'll agree), being knocked down by two dogs chasing each other on the Lady's Beach in Salthill, the first time I was called out of the class in primary school to have my hand smacked by the principal using a slipper, the time the principal burst into the class room (about 5th class?) mid-fight with the roughest boy in the class... that last one is funny as I remember it being a pretty 'equal' fight and Dara being the biggest boy in the class, but thinking about it now, the principal was a fully grown man and Dara was only about 11 years old!
Funny how the old noggin works!
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XmasFM is broadcasting todayPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by oleras View PostI personally feel most memories we believe we remember are either from photographs or anecdotes that were told to us.
Unless its fairly traumatic, we aint remembering shit before 7 or 8.
I got stung by a bee, was in a hospital. I was 18 months
A neighbour slapping my arse, I was 2, at her house for a birthday party and was touching the electric fire and poking fingers through
Playing pre school with my friend Christine McCartney - jumping on her bed from the windowsil. Was between 3-4. Loads of memories playing
My first day at school, can even visualise the coat pegs with little pictures on them and introducing myself to Gail Semple who went on to be my best friend.
LOADS of primary school memories, can close my eyes and mentally walk through the school and see the teachers. The building was bulldozed 30 or more years ago.
I have more trouble remembering to do things now, but my memory is still great for all that.
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostI'm another of the 'remember little before the age of 10' crowd; and I've a fantastic memory for facts and dates in general, just not from my own younger life! And it was also pointed out to me a few years ago that one of the two memories I held on to from my time living in Kerry (up until the age of 5) was just from a photograph in a family album, one of my Dad standing on the roof of our bungalow installing a TV aerial, I'm now 99% sure the memory is simply that photo imprinted into my brain.
Almost every other memory from my younger self seems to be of traumatic events; knocking over a plastic bottle of 7Up in Kerry and crying as I thought I had broken it, walking along the prom in Salthill and when my parents weren't looking finding a half-drunk bottle of Club Orange on a low wall and drinking it, my parents seeing this and telling me to stop, that it could be filled with pee (very traumatic I think you'll agree), being knocked down by two dogs chasing each other on the Lady's Beach in Salthill, the first time I was called out of the class in primary school to have my hand smacked by the principal using a slipper, the time the principal burst into the class room (about 5th class?) mid-fight with the roughest boy in the class... that last one is funny as I remember it being a pretty 'equal' fight and Dara being the biggest boy in the class, but thinking about it now, the principal was a fully grown man and Dara was only about 11 years old!
Funny how the old noggin works!
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Snow getting pretty heavy in D18 - we are just on the Dublin mountains side of the M50, not too high at all but must be 3 inches of snow on the ground now. If this the predicted blizzard hits at 3pm or whatever later today and tomorrow are going to be mental! Have no intention of opening the front door until Saturday, it stayed shut all day yesterday too.
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostSnow getting pretty heavy in D18 - we are just on the Dublin mountains side of the M50, not too high at all but must be 3 inches of snow on the ground now. If this the predicted blizzard hits at 3pm or whatever later today and tomorrow are going to be mental! Have no intention of opening the front door until Saturday, it stayed shut all day yesterday too.
We had about 6 inches yesterday and it’s another couple on top today. I got plenty of firewood chopped this morning for the next 36 hours!
I got out for a hike in the sunshine around 14.00 yesterday for a few hours and it was beautiful. The local kids were sledding most of the day on a really steep hill. Shame my kid is a bit young and was unwell as I really fancied a go myself! Maybe on Friday or Saturday once the worst has passed I can convince her that it’ll be a bit of craic!‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by RichieM View Postmisses is properly off today as her work is fully closed, she wanted me to work from home today so we could do some sorting of crap we need to throw out.
Living 5 mins from the office means I get to sit here alone all day - its ideal
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Some photos of a good use for all the excess bread out there.
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Snow Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Red Breast by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Winter Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
The sport that unites Catholic, Protestant and dissenter has had its day of days. Pity anybody who can't enjoy it. Some day. Gerry Thornley 23/3/09
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Originally posted by Mickey Rosa View PostSome photos of a good use for all the excess bread out there.
SPOILER
Snow Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Red Breast by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Winter Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Someone starting giving out to her because there was no bread left in the shop by the time they got down.
I wish I had been there to laugh
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Originally posted by Mickey Rosa View PostSome photos of a good use for all the excess bread out there.
SPOILER
Snow Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Red Breast by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
Winter Robbin by Stephen Devine, on Flickr
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Postdon't remember too much before 4 years old but loads from there on in. We moved country every 4 years more or less, and in each country we moved house 2 or 3 times, so i suppose it's very easy for me to have strong reference points to my time line and lots of memories from each place. I also had a habit of doing things which got me badly injured between 4 and 10 so i've got plenty of scars as reminders still.
Maybe you might know someone who would like to attend ?
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostNevermind bread ye live in strange areas, my local lidl was out of sausages and fairly short on wine. Looked for Lazares favourite wine to see what it was all about, it was white wine - scumbagI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostNevermind bread ye live in strange areas, my local lidl was out of sausages and fairly short on wine. Looked for Lazares favourite wine to see what it was all about, it was white wine - scumbag
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Odd to hear about all the lack of memory, I remember everybody from primary school even though i haven't talked to them since. If I run into one randomly we will remember each other. Same with secondary school. i have quite clear memories of a lot of it and all of my childhood. Probably did a lot more memorable stuff living in the countryside.
Grand aul day today, friend made some bird feeders and we walked around the place in the snow hanging them out for the birds, fed some local cats too, really nice out for a walk. So many people are wearing terrible footwear and they are destroyed.
Called into tesco on the way home was pandemonium in there, hundreds of people. An old man had hidden some stuffed mushrooms on the cereal shelf and came back to get them when I was there, was pretty hilarious. Cat was fairly pissed I had locked her out while all this was happening.Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 01-03-18, 13:40.
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostThere seems to be a lot of people around the place that I never knew existed. In my day you knew who li ed in every house. Feel like I'm in a new town . One of the wimmin I never knew existed has a lovely arse. The beast from the south agreedI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostFear of a snowball pelting can do that to you. Plus you look the type who would engage in a surprise attack.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Pretty disappointing stuff all round in the northwest and it doesn’t look like we are really gonna get anything interesting that justifies the red warning here,I can understand why they did it but can see employers up here being pissed,between Ophelia and this my place has lost 3 days in past few months to non events. I was off anyway so just means gonna be swamped next week with everything hanging over from this week.Last edited by Guest; 01-03-18, 14:17.
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Originally posted by Hooch View PostJust back from a walk and the kids in the estate are giving out that its not fair that there isnt enough snow around to make a snowman.
boy child doing his best gangsta stance:
SPOILER"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThat's a nice thing to do for the birdies Tar, well played.
You just see them seaching around in the snow to no avail. Saw there was a dog found frozen to death in Tallaght.
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"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by PSV58 View Posthttps://www.indy100.com/article/just...ersial-8234026
Trudeau really showed himself up for the gobshite he is in India,the outfits were laughable but utterly predictable from a novelty sock wearer. Saw a good interview on bbc with an Indian fashion designer who absolutely ripped him to shreds.
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Originally posted by jack90210 View PostHe is an embarrassment, spends his time crying, apologising for everything and the rest playing dress up. He is the ultimate beta male.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by jack90210 View PostHe is an embarrassment, spends his time crying, apologising for everything and the rest playing dress up. He is the ultimate beta male.
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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostI'd be pretty sure that a higher %age of Americans are embarrassed by Trump than Canadians embarrassed by Trudeau.
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Originally posted by jack90210 View PostNot necessarily. While it doesn't correlate exactly with embarrassment its our best indicator - President Trump won 46.1% of the vote, Trudeau's party only won 39.47% of the vote in their most recent elections.
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