mjmooney Posted June 21, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2016 12 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: I find it strange how the older you get, your perception of time changes and the past seems closer somehow. It does to me anyway. I remember seeing footage of the Beatles as a kid and my mom and dad telling me it was music they listened to as kids. It seemed ancient, but they'd only split up 20 odd years at that point. The second world war doesn't seem as long ago now as when I was kid. How does that work? 20 years have passed. Obviously, I lived through the whole Beatles era. It seems simultanously (a) familiar and recent, and (b) a million years ago, and quite strange. Cognitive dissonance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 21, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2016 Today's 20-somethings presumably perceive The Beatles and Stones as I perceived Ivor Novello or Al Jolson. Whereas my parents perceived Ivor Novello and Al Jolson as I perceived The Beatles and Stones, and today's twenty-somethings perceive Kanye West, etc. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I find it strange to think that Beatle's music is as old now, as music recorded in the 1920's was in the Sixties. Also watching some of the 'World at War' documentary series earlier this year, I realised that the series was now older, than the amount of time that passed since the end of the war and when the series was filmed. I think it might have to do with, if your below a certain age then you see the distant past in black and white because that's how we're used to seeing it in the media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 21, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2016 11 minutes ago, useless said: I find it strange to think that Beatle's music is as old now, as music recorded in the 1920's was in the Sixties. Also watching some of the 'World at War' documentary series earlier this year, I realised that the series was now older, than the amount of time that passed since the end of the war and when the series was filmed. I think it might have to do with, if your below a certain age then you see the distant past in black and white because that's how we're used to seeing it in the media. Yep. Colour footage doesn't seem so old now as B&W did when I was a kid. Before that, only still photography makes things still more 'other'. And pre-photography (and recorded sound) we're down to paintings (and text). Yet reality in - say - the middle ages was no different to what it is now. Time travel would be one hell of a mindblowing experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Sometimes I'll be walking through an area, like a woods, with no man-made objects in view, and think to myself this how it could have looked hudreds maybe thousands of years ago(save maybe for pollution and weather affects). But for some reason my mind has trouble reconciling with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted June 21, 2016 Moderator Share Posted June 21, 2016 Finding rhythm mags in the park. Who was leaving them there? Was it the guy who went on to invent the internet so he wouldn't have to do it any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: Finding rhythm mags in the park. Who was leaving them there? Was it the guy who went on to invent the internet so he wouldn't have to do it any more? There was a brilliant one off story in Viz called Porn Free about free-roaming art pamphlets! Wish I could find it on the internet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 One of my first memories is getting my first Villa shirt from my Grandad. It was the 98/99 home shirt and I still have it till this day. Another one of my first memories is going down the slide that used to be in my mum and dad's back garden whilst we had various family members and neighbours round for a BBQ. I went down the slide head first, got my arm caught in the ground at the bottom and broke it. I can still remember being driven to hospital in immense pain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 21, 2016 Author Share Posted June 21, 2016 6 hours ago, useless said: I think Carl Jung wrote a lot about inherited memories. I have weird memory thing and it's not from a long time ago, where I strolled around one of the towns local to me, and found a location that I'd never been to before, it was like an old square with fancy statues and a water fountain. Only thing is I went back a week or so later and it wasn't there. You should read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Does sound interesting from the descriptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 21, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2016 1 hour ago, maqroll said: You should read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino And Proust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I've got a Proust to read, but I'm still only half way through Ulysses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Teddy Grays sweets and ice cream, then walking round the park in Bewdley and feeding the ducks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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maqroll Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 I remember when I was 15, I had my first real enemy, a kid from the upscale side of town who went to a different school. But we were in the same baseball league, and the two of us were on the two best teams, and we were considered to be the two best pitchers in the league that year. And we liked the same girl. And I had an edge because of whatever reason she had, and that pissed him off, so he called my phone (old style phone, so whatever you had to say, everyone could hear it) and challenged me to a fight. But on his one condition: "Don't bring any of your black friends"...LOL, what a coward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) I remember being in class the once on one of the computers, I opened up MS paint and started drawing patterns, I must have gone into a bit of a trance, because for a while I was sort of got lost in the activity. When I snapped out it, I noticed everyone had gone really quiet, and I wondered what was going on. I looked around and everyone was standing around me staring at my abstract creations, really thoughtfully and I heard a few of them say things like 'it looks like a Picasso', 'wow how did he do that', 'what does it mean', 'he's so creative'. I remember wanting to say it's really nothing I'm just making random patterns, there's no meaning to this, I'm not trying to create a work of art, but would sound like I was trying to be modest or something. It was really nothing special and I was so embarrassed and still am when I think about it. Edited July 16, 2016 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 I care to see this work and judge for myself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) It's long gone now, I can't even remember what it looked like, just that I wasn't intending for it to look like anything and was just painting to relax. Edited July 16, 2016 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted July 17, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2016 On 16/07/2016 at 14:00, hogso said: I care to see this work and judge for myself. Useless at work 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted June 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2019 (edited) Sometimes I will remember something from a long time ago, that I haven't thought about in a long time, and I will wonder if it's the last time I will ever remember that memory, and then wonder what other memories I have, but will never recall again. Each memory has to have a last time you ever consiously remember it. Edited June 27, 2019 by useless 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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