Interesting site

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Interesting things memories and how we remember events. An older relaive of mine wrote their autobiography and were quite thrilled with their desceiption of events and people. His sister read it and was both inscensed and hysterical with laughter as it bore little resemblance to her memory of those events and people. Memoy is a good friend but a poor servant.

MrT_5

kittie wrote:

With respect Mr T, you sound like an old man. I am older than you but then I have a young outlook and a zest for life. I wouldn`t live in the past for all the tea in China. We have one life only.

I exercise my brain and I recently started cycling. I did an OU degree in geology and oceanography. When I was 50 I did a four year course in homeopathy. I l have taken over the whole of my DHs pension management. I trade shares. I do the usual crafting and baking. I am a mentor to my adult children and to some young local adults. Goodness me, I have no time to look back at the past. Waste of time, it is done and dusted. If something is wriong then use your experience and change it.[/QUOTE]

Can you explain that please Kittie? Why do I sound like an old man because I like to remember certain things from my childhood? Is a professor of history living in the past? I cycle. I drive, (got a tank licence too). Can't do oceanography but used to deliver parcels to the oceanographic centre, :rolleyes: My cousin is into Homeopathy but she is a crank and I think it is all nonsense anyway, I am fairly good on computers, Until recently did voluntary work at the BBC (usually solving problems for real old people). I've taken a couple of computer courses. Can touch type. Served in the regular army. Studied for and got my amateur radio licence although I lived in the past a bit with that as I only used Morse. (It is a kind of foreign language though). Played football for years, Refereed football for a few years. Went through the mill a bit when our four year old died. Survived all my life with one kidney. I don't do stocks and shares because I can't afford to. My wife does the craft stuff, makes dresses and just about anything on her sewing machine or the overlocker I bought her (one wedding dress and four bridesmaids dresses and she charged 350 quid. (list prices quote more than that for one bridesmaids dress), :mad: I read about four books a week but only factual stuff. I cook. Very good at most DIY (I will never tile another bathroom though), :embarasse There is probably a lot more that I can't remember off hand but I still fail to see how any of this and what you say are relevant? When people say "with respect" they are usually showing anything but! Finally, have I said that anything is wrong or just given the "wrong" impression?

PM me if you want, might save this going on forever.

mikemoate

When people say "with respect" they are usually showing anything but!

Couldn't agree more MrT.
By the way you don't sound like an old man to me. Then again I don't know what an old man sounds like.

orlando1088

Mr T

I took your recommendations in the light hearted way they were intended and thank you so much for passing them on, both sites are now in my "Favourites", also passed them onto my mother who spent a couple of hours surfing the past.

Got any more ???

Edinburghlass_2

orlando1088 wrote:

Mr T

I took your recommendations in the light hearted way they were intended and thank you so much for passing them on, both sites are now in my "Favourites", also passed them onto my mother who spent a couple of hours surfing the past.

Got any more ???

Can only agree orlando! The title of this thread is Interesting Site not lets go live in the past :rolleyes:

and interesting site it is and extremely useful for any school kids who have to research this sort of thing.

Edinburghlass_2

mikemoate wrote:

Couldn't agree more MrT.
By the way you don't sound like an old man to me. Then again I don't know what an old man sounds like.

I'd marry him if he wasn't already married

margaretclare

Mr T, you ask: 'How can anyone say that nostalgia is wrong?'

It all depends on how far you go into nostalgia. If you regard one particular decade - for example the 1950s - as being some kind of 'golden age', then it can become a diversion from living your life now rather than looking back then. As an illustration, home_alone says that he recalls the 1950s as being the 'most exciting time of his life'. The implication of that is that nothing since then has been exciting enough, not even marriage and the birth of a son which happened in the following decade. I think this is the kind of thing that kittie implies when she mentions 'talking like an old man'. This is how old men (and old women) talk - always, always living in the past. 'Things were better then. The streets were cleaner, the policitians were more honest, the music was more exciting....' add your own favourites.

There's a woman who goes to our church, says she always puts her clothes out the night before in the order she's going to put them on - this is because in World War Two she had to often get dressed in a hurry and in the dark. I reminded her that this was 60+ years ago - what if she decided to wear something different, the weather might be different etc? 'Oh no, that's how I've always done it, I can't change'. I once went on a Saga singles weekend, what a disaster, nostalgia coming out of your ears even down to the 1940s jokes! I met a woman there who was going on about the new currency, couldn't get used to it... 'No, it's OK, they haven't decided yet whether to join the euro, maybe we never will'. Eventually it came out that she was talking about decimal currency, which had been around for 25 years then!

I feel that a little history is beneficial but nostalgia as such can be downright dangerous. My DH's grandmother, when she escaped from Russia following the Revolution, had a saying 'You wipe your mouth and you move on'. In other words, you don't look back. And that's the kind of attitude that I can relate to.

Margaret Clare

Fran

margaretclare wrote:

Mr T, you ask: 'How can anyone say that nostalgia is wrong?'

It all depends on how far you go into nostalgia.

I'm not sure why you're picking on Mr T, most people on this thread seem quite happy to have a look into or remember the past. People are different and some people might not want to change and why should they! We all get by in our own ways, it's only a problem if people perceive it to be themselves (or they get told so by other people :rolleyes: )

Dora_the_Explorer_5

This is how old men (and old women) talk - always, always living in the past. 'Things were better then. The streets were cleaner, the policitians were more honest, the music was more exciting....' add your own favourites.

Yeah but no but yeah but no but ........I don't talk like that and I guess you and your OH don't Margaret. Unlesss you're referring to those over 90, in which case they're fully entitled to talk about whatever the damn well like and good luck to them for still being alive to do it.

Hmmmmmmm
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
Mr Max Factor of Hollywood la la laa la
A Double Diamond Works Wonders so drink one today

You can't beat a good tune, can you :T

Edinburghlass_2

You obviously have a tiger in your tank Dora