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Blue Maverick

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Ye I know I’m getting older but I find it strange that I can remember insignificant shit that happened in my life and then not remember other stuff, back in 2010 I had two stag dos, one in big bad Benners that I remember clearly despite the huge amount if boozes and for those that couldn’t make it in Manchester. My mate mentioned the Manchester one to me a few months ago and I had zero recollection this ever took place and I mean zero, I couldn’t tell you where we went and who was there. It popped up as a memory on my Facebook a few weeks ago so it did happen but I dont remember anything. Now I know we all get pissed and forget things but the whole thing that’s a new one on me.
I can remember the stupidest things but then other memories either meld into one like many beach holidays, they all just seem the same. I get similar things with City games I remember certain ones obviously but then fairly significant ones not a clue even when someone reminds me of it I just go completely blank. I fucking hope I’m not on that dementia road or I’m popping on a one trip to Switzerland.
 
I was a juror around 1985 and the defendant on one of the cases was Roman Casarab of 100 Heywood Street, Cheetham Hill. (Used different name and number here to protect the guilty). I can't explain why that piece of useless information has stuck with me for 40 years.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Ye I know I’m getting older but I find it strange that I can remember insignificant shit that happened in my life and then not remember other stuff, back in 2010 I had two stag dos, one in big bad Benners that I remember clearly despite the huge amount if boozes and for those that couldn’t make it in Manchester. My mate mentioned the Manchester one to me a few months ago and I had zero recollection this ever took place and I mean zero, I couldn’t tell you where we went and who was there. It popped up as a memory on my Facebook a few weeks ago so it did happen but I dont remember anything. Now I know we all get pissed and forget things but the whole thing that’s a new one on me.
I can remember the stupidest things but then other memories either meld into one like many beach holidays, they all just seem the same. I get similar things with City games I remember certain ones obviously but then fairly significant ones not a clue even when someone reminds me of it I just go completely blank. I fucking hope I’m not on that dementia road or I’m popping on a one trip to Switzerland.
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I don’t think it’s anything bad to worry about. I hope not anyway as I am the same.

I can look at a school photo, say, from 1977 and name every single person on it without fail. Registration plates my dad had on cars from decades ago. Shit like that.

I just had to have a long think about what I had for tea last night.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
I don’t think it’s anything bad to worry about. I hope not anyway as I am the same.

I can look at a school photo, say, from 1977 and name every single person on it without fail. Registration plates my dad had on cars from decades ago. Shit like that.

I just had to have a long think about what I had for tea last night.
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Thing is my auntie is the only one in our family who had dementia it’s fucking awful over the past 8 years she’s just lost it, we joke about it because if you think about it too much it’s depressing. No fucking way I’m putting that on my family.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Thing is my auntie is the only one in our family who had dementia it’s fucking awful over the past 8 years she’s just lost it, we joke about it because if you think about it too much it’s depressing. No fucking way I’m putting that on my family.
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No pun intended here, just don’t over think it. I had one blood relative who had it until she passed in 2006. My missus is adamant I’m on the spectrum due to the shit I can remember compared to what I can’t.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
No pun intended here, just don’t over think it. I had one blood relative who had it until she passed in 2006. My missus is adamant I’m on the spectrum due to the shit I can remember compared to what I can’t.
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Fuck me you sound like me I piss The Chase but can’t remember things I did a few years ago
 
Back in the 80's before mobile phones I used to finish School come home and phone my mate at his parents house. 40 years plus and i can still remember his number.

Last week I forgot how old I was and had to work it out.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Ye I know I’m getting older but I find it strange that I can remember insignificant shit that happened in my life and then not remember other stuff, back in 2010 I had two stag dos, one in big bad Benners that I remember clearly despite the huge amount if boozes and for those that couldn’t make it in Manchester. My mate mentioned the Manchester one to me a few months ago and I had zero recollection this ever took place and I mean zero, I couldn’t tell you where we went and who was there. It popped up as a memory on my Facebook a few weeks ago so it did happen but I dont remember anything. Now I know we all get pissed and forget things but the whole thing that’s a new one on me.
I can remember the stupidest things but then other memories either meld into one like many beach holidays, they all just seem the same. I get similar things with City games I remember certain ones obviously but then fairly significant ones not a clue even when someone reminds me of it I just go completely blank. I fucking hope I’m not on that dementia road or I’m popping on a one trip to Switzerland.
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As we get older, so our powers of recall get weaker. Poor memory is not a sign of dementia. Poor memory is just old memory.
 
Weddings are my weakness, saw one of my mates wedding picture the other day as it was their anniversary.
Asked wife if we were at the wedding and fuck me I was the best man, we then had a "was I at this wedding" and I seem to have mental blockage on quite a few.
Other than weddings I have decent memories of most things so I think I'm okay and I hope you will be the same.
 
Simplisticly:

Memory loss is like shaking a tall bookcase. The shelves at the top are the most recent memories and are dislodged easlily. Our mid-term memories are lower down and need more vigorous shaking before they fall.
The memories on the bottom shelf need the whole bookshelf to be pushed over before you lose them.
 
Zubrman said:
Simplisticly:

Memory loss is like shaking a tall bookcase. The shelves at the top are the most recent memories and are dislodged easlily. Our mid-term memories are lower down and need more vigorous shaking before they fall.
The memories on the bottom shelf need the whole bookshelf to be pushed over before you lose them.
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That might the the reason I got banned from the library, I'm not sure
 
Paladin said:
I did jury service back in the 80s. I remember the defendant was Roman Hasarab and he lived at 200 Heywood Street, Cheetham Hill. It's fascinating that I have remembered that from more than 40 years ago, but I can't even remember what I posted on here five hours ago.
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Brilliant. You had me coming out of the thread then back in thinking it hadn't updated
 
An old mate was organising a work reunion in 2015 for a place that had closed down 30 years earlier. He phoned me and asked uf I remembered any of the old names.

I surprised him, and myself, by reeling off about 40 names from people I had worked with in the mid 70s to 1980, when I left.

35 years on and I could tell you who they were, and what they did. I can't even remember what I did yesterday.
 
Lavinda Past said:
An old mate was organising a work reunion in 2015 for a place that had closed down 30 years earlier. He phoned me and asked uf I remembered any of the old names.

I surprised him, and myself, by reeling off about 40 names from people I had worked with in the mid 70s to 1980, when I left.

35 years on and I could tell you who they were, and what they did. I can't even remember what I did yesterday.
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I know what you did yesterday. Just mail me £5000 and my lips are sealed.
 
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