maqroll Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Helen McRory, CZ Jones..I need to find a Welsh woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17, 2021 14 minutes ago, maqroll said: Helen McRory, CZ Jones..I need to find a Welsh woman. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 39 minutes ago, maqroll said: Helen McRory, CZ Jones..I need to find a Welsh woman. You are too late for Gladys Morgan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Was watching Polish Stars in Their Eyes yesterday, new episode. This came on Wild for 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Xela said: More of a rhetorical question, but where does time go? Mid April already. Year is flying by. To be honest, it feels like the last 5 years have gone in the blink of an eye. Kind of frightening really. @mjmooney - do you experience the same? Time going quicker as you get older? (sorry for picking on you!) It’s alright he’s old he’ll have forgotten by tomorrow I booked Monday off work to go go to the pub , which made me realise that’s my first day off this year , I could have sworn it was only a couple of weeks ago 2021 started !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted April 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 17, 2021 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Was watching Polish Stars in Their Eyes yesterday, new episode I presume Mr Sheen is the bookies' favourite? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Xela said: More of a rhetorical question, but where does time go? Mid April already. Year is flying by. To be honest, it feels like the last 5 years have gone in the blink of an eye. Kind of frightening really. @mjmooney - do you experience the same? Time going quicker as you get older? (sorry for picking on you!) It's because every new day is a smaller proportion of your life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 17, 2021 22 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: I presume Mr Sheen is the bookies' favourite? None of your beeswax! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 12 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: I presume Mr Sheen is the bookies' favourite? It's his time to shine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2021 18 hours ago, Xela said: Time going quicker as you get older The reason why is because when you're ten, a year is 10% of your entire life. And nearly everything is a new experience. When you're 60 it's 1.7% of your life and not so much is new to you. They say time flies when you're having fun, but it doesn't, I don't think. 'cus if you have a good weekend with stuff packed in, it seems to go on for ages, especially when you look back on it - all those new experiences, like being 10 again. That's my theory anyway. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, blandy said: The reason why is because when you're ten, a year is 10% of your entire life. And nearly everything is a new experience. When you're 60 it's 1.7% of your life and not so much is new to you. They say time flies when you're having fun, but it doesn't, I don't think. 'cus if you have a good weekend with stuff packed in, it seems to go on for ages, especially when you look back on it - all those new experiences, like being 10 again. That's my theory anyway. In a spy thriller I read there was a drug that they used to ensure compliance that would slow the beating of a flys wing to last a whole day so in effect you could be 90 years old physically but only a day at that rate would have been lived. Not sure what if anything that has to do with your post but makes you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 39 minutes ago, sidcow said: It's his time to shine. A well polished gag there, bravo! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 18, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: In a spy thriller I read there was a drug that they used to ensure compliance that would slow the beating of a flys wing to last a whole day so in effect you could be 90 years old physically but only a day at that rate would have been lived. You'd die of oxygen deprivation just a few minutes after getting the drug. So would the fly.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 37 minutes ago, blandy said: The reason why is because when you're ten, a year is 10% of your entire life. And nearly everything is a new experience. When you're 60 it's 1.7% of your life and not so much is new to you. They say time flies when you're having fun, but it doesn't, I don't think. 'cus if you have a good weekend with stuff packed in, it seems to go on for ages, especially when you look back on it - all those new experiences, like being 10 again. That's my theory anyway. Yeah I'm the same, I think time flies when there's **** all happening, there's nothing to remember, no milestones or anything of importance, Xmas feels like yesterday because I remember nothing from January or February because I did nothing in those months, it's the blurriest time of my life, one big mash of nothingness with nothing in front of me to count down to or slow time down either **** corona 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, limpid said: You'd die of oxygen deprivation just a few minutes after getting the drug. So would the fly.. Why, it was portrayed as the drug creating a mental simulation, not physical, rather like being trapped. Not very pleasant I would think but technically possible should some mad boffin put his mind to it Edited April 18, 2021 by Follyfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 11 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Why, it was portrayed as the drug creating a mental simulation, not physical, rather like being trapped. Not very pleasant I would think but technically possible should some mad boffin put his mind to it I'm confused, I thought it was slowing down the beating of the fly's wing, which is physical no? If it just **** up your sense of time perception, I guess it's a kind of extremer version of ketamine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 18, 2021 Administrator Share Posted April 18, 2021 11 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Why, it was portrayed as the drug creating a mental simulation, not physical, rather like being trapped. Not very pleasant I would think but technically possible should some mad boffin put his mind to it You said it slowed the fly's wings down. Drugs can't cause specific "mental simulation" (all our experience is a simulation). They also can't introduce new "content" to fill in the additional time. If it were possible your cognitive functions would collapse any dreamed experience into a construct to fit the physical timeline. See also "near death experiences". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 22 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I'm confused, I thought it was slowing down the beating of the fly's wing, which is physical no? If it just **** up your sense of time perception, I guess it's a kind of extremer version of ketamine. Sorry, it was perceived rather than reality 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2021 This perception of time thing.. Quote I heard a great story once, It gets across the point that the earth really is alive. If you were interviewing a butterfly Standing on the branch of a sequoia tree... Now, a butterfly lives only for a few days, But a sequoia tree can live for over a thousand years. If you were to ask the butterfly, "Do you perceive the object on which you're standing as being alive?" The butterfly would say: of course not. I've been here all my life, Which is all of five days, and the tree hasn't done a thing. Well, it's the same problem with the human being. If you would ask a person, Perhaps one that's lived for a hundred years, If they perceive the earth, which is really 5 billion years old, as being alive, They would say, "Of course not. I've been here my whole life, and it hasn't done a thing." The earth really is alive. Butterfly Standing on the branch Of a sequoia tree The earth really is alive. Born of Fire and Kinobe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 The batteries went on one of our burglar alarms sensors and the firm quoted us £80 to come out and replace it. Cost me £4 on amazon to get a replacement battery and took under a minute to switch them. Ridiculous call out fee. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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