Things that annoy you ?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Good. I was going to delete the post and pm you. When I trained to be a psychiatric nurse way back in the 80's on my community placement I had a number of patients with Korsakoff's. Over the years I have seen some shit but those blokes stick in my mind.

I think as well sometimes it is best to keep some topics in an open forum as it could help someone without realising.

[feral chile]

How can you tell if your memory's impaired? I don't mean that to trivialise this, but my episodic memory's really bad - i can remember events as facts, but not the experience of them. Is that normal?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

How can you tell if your memory's impaired? I don't mean that to trivialise this, but my episodic memory's really bad - i can remember events as facts, but not the experience of them. Is that normal?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

How can you tell if your memory's impaired? I don't mean that to trivialise this, but my episodic memory's really bad - i can remember events as facts, but not the experience of them. Is that normal?

[feral chile]

lol I would have thought you would have had a memory test at your age ;-)

In all seriousness there are loads of ways. A common way is to say a word or phrase at the start of a session and ask the client to repeat it at the end. Sometimes back tracking on what a client says as well and asking questions like "who is the pm?"

[Gre]

Its something I don't get about America. Service men and woman are gods in the States. You can't say a single bad thing about them or you're outcast for ever. They literally hold them in the highest possible esteem anyone could have in society.

My american friends, who I consider to be quite normal people, will go up to one in the street if they saw one and shake them by the hand and say thank you. At sports matches they'll announce the presence of one over the tannoy and everyone will get on their feet and whoop and cheer. Its so fucking odd. I just stand there looking totally bemused.

They think we're ungrateful and selfish for not having the same level respect for our troops. I just reply ... I didn't ask them to do it. If they want to risk their life to fighting a war thousands of miles away from their family - then more fool them. I get very dirty looks.

I think it stems from the fact that America views itself as God's chosen country and God's chosen people. Therefore the soldiers are actually soldiers of God.

Really Dumb

[The Nal]

Could part of it possibly that vietnam/Korea veterans were treated badly, so the government/big business etc or has made a concerted effort to push the other way?

[eFestivals]

Could part of it possibly that vietnam/Korea veterans were treated badly, so the government/big business etc or has made a concerted effort to push the other way?

nah, it's just driven by patriotism I reckon.

Patriotism is something that is far more prevalent in 'new' countries than long established ones - it's all about the (mostly false) creation of that country's identity I reckon.

Many years ago, a guy described the world to me with each country being a person of a different age. I couldn't do anything near as good a job as he did to me at the time, but he described the USA as a teenager who needs to show his parents and the rest of society that he's not a child but a fully independent person - and you do that by asserting your authority and showing you won't be pushed around.

To not be pushed around you need a strong army, and you have to back that army - which means you're patriotic about that army.

(that guy described the UK as a wise old pensioner who'd seen it all before, and didn't let much wind it or push it around, but which didn't need to appear strong in order to stand its ground.)

[kaosmark2]

(that guy described the UK as a wise old pensioner who'd seen it all before, and didn't let much wind it or push it around, but which didn't need to appear strong in order to stand its ground.)

[eFestivals]

Shame our governments don't see that.

to be fair to what the guy said, it was in around 1982 that he said that to me - a time when it applied more than it does now I'd say.

Since around that time the UK at govt level (if not within the rest of the population) has given up being wise for trying to reassert its lost authority onto the rest of the world, I'd guess because those of Thatcher's ilk had grown up with memories of Britain ruling the world and wished to believe that it still did.

The generation before that was more pragmatic about its place. The pre-Thatcher era had seen Britain give up its empire because it had to, because of how the world had changed - both within and outside of Britain. Thatcher and her ilk wanted to regard that as a weakness and not as a moral strength or duty, with the result that govts since then have felt the need to try to show the rest of the world that we're not weak.

Edited May 25, 2012 by eFestivals

[kaosmark2]

to be fair to what the guy said, it was in around 1982 that he said that to me - a time when it applied more than it does now I'd say.

Since around that time the UK at govt level (if not within the rest of the population) has given up being wise for trying to reassert its lost authority onto the rest of the world, I'd guess because those of Thatcher's ilk had grown up with memories of Britain ruling the world and wished to believe that it still did.

The generation before that was more pragmatic about its place. The pre-Thatcher era had seen Britain give up its empire because it had to, because of how the world had changed - both within and outside of Britain. Thatcher and her ilk wanted to regard that as a weakness and not as a moral strength or duty, with the result that govts since then have felt the need to try to show the rest of the world that we're not weak.

[Gre]

nah, it's just driven by patriotism I reckon.

[eFestivals]

People don't wake up one morning & decide to be more patriotic - its the result of many things.

Yep, but the main one is feeling the need to belong to something.

If a person is comfortable with themselves they don't feel the need to do that (or at least, they feel the need to do it less).

If a person - or country - feels uncertain about its place, then they do feel the need 'to belong'. That feeling leads people into all subscribing to common themes around which they can belong.

As the saying goes: not all conservative people are stupid, but the stupid are likely to be conservative.

[Gre]

Yep, but the main one is feeling the need to belong to something.

[Paul ™]

Why does happiness at a festival in a field one week, go to sadness and tears a few days later due to a festival family good friend passing away not long after we last seen him?

Dancing and singing, drinking and smoking, we partied hard in those fields.

RIP Brighty

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[greenfairy43]

Why does happiness at a festival in a field one week, go to sadness and tears a few days later due to a festival family good friend passing away not long after we last seen him?

Dancing and singing, drinking and smoking, we partied hard in those fields.

RIP Brighty

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[Ed209]

At least you had the happiness in a field part. No better way to remember your mate by.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Why does happiness at a festival in a field one week, go to sadness and tears a few days later due to a festival family good friend passing away not long after we last seen him?

Dancing and singing, drinking and smoking, we partied hard in those fields.

RIP Brighty

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[Paul ™]

At least you had the happiness in a field part. No better way to remember your mate by.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Forgot to say - condolences Paul. It's a brutal blow when one of the crew go down. Feel for you.

[Paul ™]

Forgot to say - condolences Paul. It's a brutal blow when one of the crew go down. Feel for you.

[theampersanddevil]

Thing annoying me right now is getting half arsed facebook status updates. Like so and so says '.... and not being able to open it.

or worse a chat message that wont open or tell me who from.

Oh ffs now got an E signal. What is the point of an E signal, i'd rather have nothing.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Thanks, though please extend those kind words to a whole community who today have shown why I love festivals and the people I have met via this website and subsequent festivals from it.

They have had a long, hard day. God Speed Love All

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[Paul ™]

Take it easy mate

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[theampersanddevil]

Take it easy mate

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