Bob The Badger

@Elwood P Dowdwondered why we only tended to remember the sunny days from school holidays as a kid and said I do wonder if good memories are made permanent by going through the memories over time.
And yeah we do.
We have almost no totally accurate long term memories.  We just remember little bits and then unconsciously stitch them together with presumptions of what we think probably happened.
There's been a lot of research done into memories and the most interesting/alarming is what are referred to as flash bulb memories.
These are the memories of highly specific events, and the ones that we are often the most sure about.
Well, (statistically speaking) 30% of those memories you hold are wrong entirely and 70% will be inaccurate in some degree.
One of the worlds leading experts in memory (can't remember his name and he's dead anyway so he can't help me out in this conversation) had a very clear memory of listening to a baseball game with his father when it was interrupted with the announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Only when he checked, there were no games in that December because the baseball season runs from March to October. He still struggled to accept it even when he knew it was false.
The day after the Challenger disaster they got a load of people (can't remember the sample size - my memory sucks) to write down where they were and what they were doing when they heard.
Only 5 years later they went back to ask them again and almost nobody could answer accurately. One woman got it utterly wrong placing her in a different town with different people. When shown her signed account she said her signature must have been forged.
And whereas she is somewhat of an outlier, not by that much.
We all have scores of false memories but they are incredibly difficult to challenge and the more we think about the false memory the more we embed it and the more sure of it we become.
This is why you get 5,000 people claiming to have attended the first Beatles gig, nobody admitting they thought Nick Pickering was a great signing or even @Eatonram denying he wore a full wet suit playing for Elton one time because there was a light drizzle, not because people are necessarily lying, but because that is what they *remember*.
Our brains literally rewrite history on the fly.
Where were you when you heard about 9/11 and more to the point, can you accept that some, or even a large part of that memory is in accurate?
Personally, I was with Lady Di watching Derby beat Forest in the cup final at Wembley prior to flying to Vegas to see Elvis' last gig. What a day that was.

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@Elwood P Dowdwondered why we only tended to remember the sunny days from school holidays as a kid and said I do wonder if good memories are made permanent by going through the memories over time.
And yeah we do.
We have almost no totally accurate long term memories.  We just remember little bits and then unconsciously stitch them together with presumptions of what we think probably happened.
There's been a lot of research done into memories and the most interesting/alarming is what are referred to as flash bulb memories.
These are the memories of highly specific events, and the ones that we are often the most sure about.
Well, (statistically speaking) 30% of those memories you hold are wrong entirely and 70% will be inaccurate in some degree.
One of the worlds leading experts in memory (can't remember his name and he's dead anyway so he can't help me out in this conversation) had a very clear memory of listening to a baseball game with his father when it was interrupted with the announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Only when he checked, there were no games in that December because the baseball season runs from March to October. He still struggled to accept it even when he knew it was false.
The day after the Challenger disaster they got a load of people (can't remember the sample size - my memory sucks) to write down where they were and what they were doing when they heard.
Only 5 years later they went back to ask them again and almost nobody could answer accurately. One woman got it utterly wrong placing her in a different town with different people. When shown her signed account she said her signature must have been forged.
And whereas she is somewhat of an outlier, not by that much.
We all have scores of false memories but they are incredibly difficult to challenge and the more we think about the false memory the more we embed it and the more sure of it we become.
This is why you get 5,000 people claiming to have attended the first Beatles gig, nobody admitting they thought Nick Pickering was a great signing or even @Eatonram denying he wore a full wet suit playing for Elton one time because there was a light drizzle, not because people are necessarily lying, but because that is what they *remember*.
Our brains literally rewrite history on the fly.
Where were you when you heard about 9/11 and more to the point, can you accept that some, or even a large part of that memory is in accurate?
Personally, I was with Lady Di watching Derby beat Forest in the cup final at Wembley prior to flying to Vegas to see Elvis' last gig. What a day that was.

I've looked on YouTube for that video, Can't find it, Is it a PPV?

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

They did have a 19 goal a season one though ?

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

It makes no sense to cherry pick like that, in the same way as it would make no sense for me to say, Oxford and Barnsley, maximum points, we have no worries.
You have to look at the totality because that is how a season is played even if supporters prefer to look for patterns/similarities/problems etc.

I wonder if she likes to Nordic.

I’ll be in Fleetwood but I imagine it’s much the same.

I wonder if she likes to Nordic.

I wonder if she likes to Nordic.

I have a favourite pair of Diesel trainers that are disappointingly starting to look sorry for themselves.
Yet I still find myself wearing them day after day around the house.
Why, don't I save them?

Because even though they are lace ups I can easily slide them on and off without undoing the laces.
With all my other trainers I have to go to the trouble of undoing the laces and I can't be arsed.

I also will continue to wear a pair of jeans that should really go in the wash because taking the belt out and then putting it into the clean pair is a real chore.
and I will also often stare in an irritated way at my laptop screen for hours through smeared glasses because I can't be bothered to open my top drawer and get a lens cloth and cleaner out.
Anybody beat those for sheer unadulterated laziness?

Marin would get my vote.
But let's not use that as a trigger to discuss the leadership race as we've been down the political path before.
None of you can behave!

The 3rd is even better I would say.

@Wolfie20 with regard to Spiral, it's still very good. I'll drop stuff in a Colin Todd second if I'm not enjoying it, but will have no hesitation going into season 7.

I have a favourite pair of Diesel trainers that are disappointingly starting to look sorry for themselves.
Yet I still find myself wearing them day after day around the house.
Why, don't I save them?

Because even though they are lace ups I can easily slide them on and off without undoing the laces.
With all my other trainers I have to go to the trouble of undoing the laces and I can't be arsed.

I also will continue to wear a pair of jeans that should really go in the wash because taking the belt out and then putting it into the clean pair is a real chore.
and I will also often stare in an irritated way at my laptop screen for hours through smeared glasses because I can't be bothered to open my top drawer and get a lens cloth and cleaner out.
Anybody beat those for sheer unadulterated laziness?