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There are things I can remember that I can date back to before my sister was born, and there's two and a half years between us. I can remember getting my diaper changed before bed one night, and yeah, I would've been about two if I was sleeping in the bedroom I remember. That said, there isn't much from that time period. I think the memory of finding a bleach stain on the carpet and asking mom about it dates to the same timeframe. And these are not exactly useful memories, so I have no idea why my brain latched onto that moment. Meanwhile, I don't actually remember my sister being born, or when she almost died at three months of age, even if these things happened after this earliest memory of mine. One of the theories as to why you don't remember being a baby is that the part of the brain that encodes long-term memory isn't fully developed until a few years along. Maybe just sometimes the brain gets a few early successes before it gets the hang of remembering?
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I remember nothing from before the day I was brought online, at the biological age of 10, when I was constructed from old epson printers and the contents of a McDonalds dumpster.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:48
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RoboRodent posted:Maybe just sometimes the brain gets a few early successes before it gets the hang of remembering? I can't remember if there's any evidence of it, but some neuroscientists (and maybe Marvin Minsky?) have theorized that as your brain develops over the early years, it reprograms the way it stores and accesses memories. Under that theory, really early memories will eventually become incompatible with that evolving format, unless you regularly recall them, which causes each memory to get reformatted. And of course, doing that recall and save can lead to exaggeration, amplification, and errors.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:53
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't remember stuff from when I was a baby crawling around but I do remember a few things from when I was a I remember a pre-school group I went to from age 2 or 3. I looked it up on street view and aside from being smaller than I remember, it was pretty much exactly the same. HOWEVER my sister went there too, which means I would have seen it as a 5-6 year old. What I might be remembering is going to pick my younger sister up, knowing as a 5 year old that I used to go there because my parents told me. I think a lot of my early memories solidified because my sister essentially went through the same things 2 years later. EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Nov 19, 2018 |
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Nov 19, 2018 20:09
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kimbo305 posted:exaggeration, amplification, and errors. That explains why I remember having friends as a kid
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Once when I was 6, me and my brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. We were going to play doctor. He showed me his, but when it got to be my turn I chickened and ran. Another memory I have is a spider outside my window. Orange body, green legs. I watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched, and a hundred baby spiders came out, and ate her. Memories are weird 
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Nov 19, 2018 21:10
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My earliest memory is of me sitting across from my sister at the dinner table and just making GBS threads my pants with enough poo poo that it felt like I was sitting on a warm soft cushion.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:33
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Most of my early memories, much like every other memory in general, are times when I did something extremely stupid. Like the time I went in to a house under construction and smashed a bunch of tiles and poured out a bag of cement and "tried" to set the wood frame on fire (I just held a match up to it for a couple seconds, I was very stupid and thought that would work). My dumb kid justification for it was they cut down the woods I used to play in to build it, so... Everything else is pretty hazy before the time I got to the third grade.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:37
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JebanyPedal posted:My earliest memory is of me sitting across from my sister at the dinner table and just making GBS threads my pants with enough poo poo that it felt like I was sitting on a warm soft cushion. So, last week? Edit: Also, "that poo poo DID happen!"
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Nov 19, 2018 21:39
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It has been said before, but the worst thing about those types of stdh's is the inclusion of the comments. It's like they don't trust the reader to have their own natural reaction, so they just tell you how to react. I've always likened that to a laugh track in a mediocre sitcom.
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I was going to complain that this isn't the "my earliest memory" thread but then most of these are also probably poo poo that didn't happen so it's actually still thread appropriate.
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bike tory posted:I was going to complain that this isn't the "my earliest memory" thread but then most of these are also probably poo poo that didn't happen so it's actually still thread appropriate. If you're worried about a derail, just call EmmyOK over so they can have an aneurysm and shotgun blast probes all over the thread.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:If you're worried about a derail, just call EmmyOK over so they can have an aneurysm and shotgun blast probes all over the thread. Sounds like mod sass, MODS??
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Down with the empowered bourgeoisie.
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Once when I was 6, me and my brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. We were going to play doctor. He showed me his, but when it got to be my turn I chickened and ran. What do you remember about your mother
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It has been said before, but the worst thing about those types of stdh's is the inclusion of the comments. It's like they don't trust the reader to have their own natural reaction, so they just tell you how to react. It's like the visual laugh track to a bad joke. efb
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snack eater posted:true story And that nasty driver was Donald Duck in the 40s. e: Now that I think about it he used an axe, not a car. Oh well, I'm sure it's been in some strip. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 17:39 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Nov 20, 2018 18:39
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Each sentence more desperate than the last, quite impressive.
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Nov 20, 2018 18:42
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The only real thing about this is that that dude seriously refers to his junk as "package".
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Nov 20, 2018 18:43
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Zelder posted:Each sentence more desperate than the last, quite impressive. Should be impossible when he starts off with "nearly all women love a guy in sweatpants", but he somehow manages.
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Nov 20, 2018 18:57
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This is the strong induction form of Luke's line about "every word of what you just said was wrong" -- every word more stdh than the last.
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Nov 20, 2018 20:13
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Post Your Favorite (or Request): Coldly Compiled Lists › shit_that_didnt_happen.txt: p.s. one of them became my wife, and to this day, she shares me with the other one
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Nov 21, 2018 00:33
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I was expecting the ending to be "it turned out the reason they were staring at me is because I messily poo poo my pants without noticing"
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Nov 21, 2018 03:06
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Just bench pressing in a public gym with my enormous penis hanging out, just another day.
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Nov 21, 2018 06:51
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"And then I went home and ate all the ice cream and Slim Jims I wanted."
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Nov 21, 2018 07:43
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Dear Penthouse, you'll never guess what happened to me...!
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Nov 21, 2018 08:38
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Good thing they had a hotel room handy
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Nov 21, 2018 14:35
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I'm trying to view the 2 up-voters but it's not working 
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Nov 21, 2018 14:41
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"nearly all women love a guy in sweatpants" Yes, this is definitely a thing which is real, right here.
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Nov 21, 2018 14:49
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It's true though: I went to the gym and forgot to put my sweatpants on and nobody loved me tell you what.
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Nov 21, 2018 15:42
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If he were really such a magnificent specimen, he should be wearing double the underwear when he goes to the gym. Gotta keep that stuff locked down.
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Nov 21, 2018 15:45
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Megillah Gorilla posted:"nearly all women love a guy in sweatpants" 
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Sir Lemming posted:If he were really such a magnificent specimen, he should be wearing double the underwear when he goes to the gym. Gotta keep that stuff locked down. You don't want that kind of counterbalance flopping around in the breeze. You could get a hernia.
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When I was in school our bus driver nicked a car, they have to pull over and call dispatch and then another bus driver comes and we had to get into that bus to complete the route.
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Nov 21, 2018 19:20
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I see the hopkin green frog kid improved his handwriting a bit, that's nice.
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Not sure why exactly, but this reminded me of a complaint logged with a department store contact centre I used to work at. The customer was trying to claim that her flat screen TV spontaneously developed a crack (you'd be amazed how many people think this is a believable scenario). This alone would be stdh, but it gets better. She went on to give a back story that her kids were playing on their Wii alone when it happened and that they told her that's what happened and that they wouldn't lie. I used to love reading through the complaint cases. Loads of stdh, but my memory is failing me now. I'll dig inside my brain for some more brb. EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 20:53 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:Good thing they had a hotel room handy I’m not sure a handy would leave the women pleased.
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