I forgot ...

[Fallout]

Just having a rant about the good old excuse "I forgot". I'm not talking about when people are lying, like when you ask your mate to bring back your torque wrench when he comes round, but he mysteriously forgets because he still needs it.

I'm talking about the lazy "I forgot". Ya know, when people go "I'm sooo forgetful!" They always forget to pack something, or bring something, or do something. The thing is, they always remember at some point. Like "I must remember to post that letter" .... 4 days later, "DAMMIT! I FORGOT TO POST THAT LETTER". No you didn't. You REMEMBERED to post the flippin' letter, you just couldn't be arsed to get off your rotund posterior and walk down to the postbox. You were too lazy, and decided you'd do it when you next went out for donuts ... and you were so lazy, you couldn't even be arsed to put it by the front door, propped up against it so that it was impossible to leave without seeing it.

Ya know, when people forget to buy things at the supermarket. I didn't get the bloody bread! I'll have to have beans on beans tonight. No, you didn't forget. At some point you looked in your cupboard and saw a distinct lack of beans and realised you needed beans, but you were too lazy or disorganised to make a shopping list. You can't forget beans if they're on a shopping list. Yes, you can forget the shopping list, but not if you remember to put it in your wallet ... but you forgot that too, didn't you? Or did you? I bet earlier on you thought, "MUST REMEMBER THE LIST" as you gladly scribbled BEER onto it, but then could not be arsed to find your wallet to put the list inside it.

Yes, I've noticed this. Everyone forgets things now and then. "I must remember to tell Bob about the Vietnamese spike trap I dug in his back garden". You can't be expected to write lists for every possible bit of information, although in this example, if it's as important as not impaling Bob, perhaps a getting off your **** to find your phone and texting him wouldn't be a bad idea .... but 9 times out of 10, forgetfulness goes hand in hand with laziness. People usually remember things many times before they suddenly forgot.

If you can't do something right away, the solution is to leave yourself cues. My favourite for myself is to put a random object in a random place. I look at it and think "WTF is an apple doing in my shoe?!" Ahh yes ... must put the bin out. Then, rather than putting my fat **** on the couch and eating the apple, I actually put the bin out. It really is that simple.

So to all you lot who are incredibly forgetful, take a look at yourself. Are you infact just a lazy bar steward? I BET YOU ARE! And if you're not, I don't care, because you'll have forgot I typed this in 3 .... 2 ... 1 ...

Hello. Welcome to a new thread. Just wishing you a lovely day! :D

[Geodude]

:grouphug: :kiss:

xGx

[Spank86]

Didn't you forget the remote for your camera the other day?

Don't you always forget to rotate it so all the footage isn't at 90%?

[davepreston]

245 post and only now a proper org rant

must try harder








or did you forget to do it earlier :)

[Fallout]

Didn't you forget the remote for your camera the other day?

Don't you always forget to rotate it so all the footage isn't at 90%?

The remote was in the bag. Couldn't FIND it.

And the rotation lens thing is a valid forget because I never remember then don't bother. There has to be 1 remember + not actually doing it, to qualify for a lazy fool forget. :D

[Fallout]

245 post and only now a proper org rant

must try harder

or did you forget to do it earlier :)

Dude, I must've had a rant before! I'll go hunt one down ... :p

[Spank86]

And the rotation lens thing is a fair forget, but I never remember than don't bother. There has to be 1 remember + not actually doing it, to qualify for a lazy fool forget. :D

but since you always mount it the same way there's never a point when you could remember to rotate it and it wouldn't be appropriate, you could rotate it 6 weeks before when you think of it with no I'll effects.

[Fallout]

but since you always mount it the same way there's never a point when you could remember to rotate it and it wouldn't be appropriate, you could rotate it 6 weeks before when you think of it with no I'll effects.

Two different rotations depending on front or back mount, plus it stores better rotated back to flush after use. Come on Ad ... must try harder to catch me out. ;)

[Winder]

"Why is there a passion fruit Sellotaped to the cat??? Oh yeah I have to check my tyre pressures!"

Surely there is an easy way to remember?

[Fallout]

There is mate, but if a passion fruit sellotaped to the cat works for you, then I say go for it. That method has the added benefit of becoming a mobile snacking station. :)

[Specialone]

Am I the only one who's thinking what the feck are you going on about???

Sun is out, roads are dry and nicely sticky, save the rants for the winter.

[Nobbylad]

I forget loads of stuff every single day. What you don't appreciate yet, is that a man's brain has a finite capacity for useless information such as, "Is there bread in the cupboard?", "Do my boxies need washing?", "Is Corry on tonight?"....all this is the domain of your female companion and the finite capacity you do have for remembering mundane stuff, should be reserved for remembering to lock your bike up at night and check the oil level/tyre pressures in the morning.

You should also marvel at the almost infinite capacity of your grey matter to remember to buy beer, fags (if you smoke), curry (or a kebab) on the way home when you can't even remember where you live, endless amounts of cricket/football/rugby scores and stars over the years, as well as a particular skill at reminiscing over yesteryear, along with every girl you've ever snogged and a large amount of Tommy Cooper one liners. I'm sure there's a shed load of stuff I've even forgotten to type here and, to be quite honest, I've forgotten what this is a response to.

However, get a bunch of guys together in a pub, plenty of food, ale, eye candy* and you'll be amazed at how good our memories become at remembering stuff from yonks and yonks ago.

What else is important?

* I'm happily married, but this works for some people so I'm told.

[tigersaw]

I keep all my 'dont forgets' in my phone, but then forget to take it

[Fallout]

I'm the woman in my relationship (not literally *checks pants* confirmed). I don't have the luxury of forgetting stuff. The mrs is about as organised as a monkey in a filing cabinet.

[Nobbylad]

I'm the woman in my relationship (not literally *checks pants* confirmed). I don't have the luxury of forgetting stuff. The mrs is about as organised as a monkey in a filing cabinet.

Which is exactly why you leave the mundane stuff to her, monkeys are good at mundane repetition.

:smt105

[The Idle Biker]

I am a monkey.

[Dave20046]

Computers never forget....




:love: computers

[Spank86]

Fallout is 50% tree monkey.

[maviczap]

I'm the woman in my relationship (not literally *checks pants* confirmed). I don't have the luxury of forgetting stuff. The mrs is about as organised as a monkey in a filing cabinet.

Ha, you think that's annoying, I get stuff like 'I don't do big shopping'

So its fine to do 20 trips to M&S, but I'll still come home to find the fridge near empty.

So I'll do one trip to the supermarket,fill up the trolley & spend enough to last the 4 of us about a week.

[Bordtea]

I was gonna reply to this but I forgot what I was gonna say... damn

[DJFridge]

I never forget anything. Now,where did I put my beer down.....?

[Bri w]

Am I the only one who's thinking what the feck are you going on about???

Sun is out, roads are dry and nicely sticky, save the rants for the winter.

Just in from a great run..

Okay, who left the drugs cabinet open?

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

I never forget anything. Now,where did I put my beer down.....?

He forgets everything, including to look at our huge write on wipe off rememberall board where I put all the don't forget stuff. If I am away from home I send myself an e-mail. At work my note pad is covered with things that I need to remember, I even use four different pens, red, green, blue and black so that I can easily tell the notes apart, I cross them out when I am finished with them. I am a little bit organized and perhaps not that easy to live with because I expect everyone round me to remember (or keep notes) as well.

[Bibio]

well i'm a fat lazy burger who's life revolves around not having to do stuff.

example number one. dad when are you going to make my T.

example number two. dad you do know that i'm supposed to wear CLEAN clothes.

example number three. dad it's my birthday today.

yes i have actually done all of the above. well how the feck am i supposed to remember all that stuff. to top it all off i even have the ace card, 'go ask your mother' :-)

[Winder]

IT WORKS! I went to walk out the front door this morning to find a flip flop hanging from the door handle, "Oh that reminds me, buy oil and filter while out getting shopping."

There's are spitting cobra in the toilet to remind the missus to clean the ****ing oven too.

[The Idle Biker]

Winder I still have your Coffee flask, you left it at Odiham in the TBE van. It's in my porch, I see it everyday. It reminds me that you're forgetful.

[Winder]

I LEFT it there knowing that you would take it thus giving me an excuse to call round to your caravan and possibly purchase a daag off you. No forgetting was involved

[dizzyblonde]

If I have to make the effort to write a shopping list, its guaranteed I will forget to add something. SO, I don't make a list, and I may forget one or two things, but remember a whole load more stuff than would have gone on that bit of paper!


I forget everything....but I am allowed to have many blonde moments ;)

[jambo]

Okay, who left the drugs cabinet open?
I fear it's locked and that might be the problem.

I am forgetful. I am capable of working out quite complicated things, but then forget what day it is. My Mrs on the other hand will remember everything that has ever happened to anyone ever, but makes lists so long nothing ever gets done. Somehow our model of co-operative dysfunction seems to work.

Jambo

[Owenski]

We used to rank the rants and although Davenumbers and i seem to have forgotten our little pasttime it definetly needs bring back in this case.
I recon this scores a 7 out of 10 - Good use of comedy, and your multiple versions are extremely creative, not enough agression and we're still none the wiser about the actual reason for this rant making 7 a really good score.

FYI, This thread has just reminded me to:
Text Phil about his drz,
Add some items onto my Rufforth shopping list,
Text the wife to say footballs at 7 - Im not playing but still watching,

Problem is I usually do most of my "remembering" when Im on the bike, like last night on the way home I remembered I needed to check for a spare stator so as soon as I got home I checked... but its taken until now for me to relay that info onto Phil.

[Fallout]

Pah. You all need to get your rememberzation methods sorted, like ...

IT WORKS! I went to walk out the front door this morning to find a flip flop hanging from the door handle, "Oh that reminds me, buy oil and filter while out getting shopping."

I hope that's actually true mate. It's an ingenious use of the flip flop. Hang it in the doorway so you get a face full of its sweaty aroma for added points.

We used to rank the rants and although Davenumbers and i seem to have forgotten our little pasttime it definetly needs bring back in this case.
I recon this scores a 7 out of 10 - Good use of comedy, and your multiple versions are extremely creative, not enough agression and we're still none the wiser about the actual reason for this rant making 7 a really good score.

I'm happy with that mate. I'll try and improve my rant quality in future to see if I can push even closer to holy grail of 10. :mrgreen: I'll be sure to rank others' rants in future too, using your carefully considered scoring criteria. :p

[Bluefish]

IT WORKS! I went to walk out the front door this morning to find a flip flop hanging from the door handle, "Oh that reminds me, buy oil and filter while out getting shopping."

There's are spitting cobra in the toilet to remind the missus to clean the ****ing oven too.
yeah but you have to carry the flip flop about with you untill you have bought said goods, other wise by the time you have got to work or whatever, even by the time you have gone out of your gate , forgotten ;)

[Fallout]

yeah but you have to carry the flip flop about with you untill you have bought said goods, other wise by the time you have got to work or whatever, even by the time you have gone out of your gate , forgotten ;)

But the reason why the flip flop method is so ingenious is because every time he sees someone on the street with flip flops on, it'll remind him. All he has to do is make sure he buys his oil filter from a vendor on the beach and it'll work flawlessly. :D

[dizzyblonde]

yeah but you have to carry the flip flop about with you untill you have bought said goods, ;)
:smt115


Glue velcro to the soles of flip flops.......stick it on his helmet, then it goes everywhere he does! They're light enough.

Creativity, and a talking point, call it a fashion statement, better than those stick on piggy ears :takeabow:

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

If I have to make the effort to write a shopping list, its guaranteed I will forget to add something. SO, I don't make a list, and I may forget one or two things, but remember a whole load more stuff than would have gone on that bit of paper!


I forget everything....but I am allowed to have many blonde moments ;)

I am such a saddo, I have a 'master' list that is set out in the order of the shelves in Sainsburys for all of the stuff that we need. I go round the house checking what we have as stock at home and write anything required on the weekly shopping list. When they re-arrange the shop I go round with a plan marking where everything is and re-write the master list accordingly.

I really need to get out more.

[dizzyblonde]

Don't you just hate it when they rearrange things in your chosen supermarket?
I swear its done on purpose so those with a mental list get confused and forget what they went for, and buy more coz they have to look at other stuff that's in the place of what's memorized!!

[Owenski]

Saw something about that on tv a long while ago and that's exactly why they do it. Not so much for the metal list but for te habbit shopper. If you go in and buy x x and x each week you'll be blinkered while shopping just going from one location to another. What they want to do is keep you in there longer so you buy more because you see more. Once they've got you thinking 'oh I'll try one of these' then that's it you're done they've got your attention for the rest of the shop while you're thinking 'what was that thing our dave said he fancied'...

You'll be pleased to know its also why the clothes and seasonal/gimmick section is always before the food stuffs. The idea here is that ladies you'll spend a while fettling with the clothes trying before buying etc. then tire and get hungry wether you know it or not. Supermarkets are well aware of how much our wallets suffer when we shop hungry lol.
There is also some mind games at play by having separate counters for paying for clothes and electrics etc. its not for your convenience like you may think instead it's to disassociate the cost of one against another so instead of thinking 'jeez I just spent £500 at tesco' your more likely to think '£300 tv, £100 clothes, £100 on shopping meh not to bad'.

Bar stewards

[Bluefish]

Just as well our Asda isn't laid out like that, still every time the mrs goes food shopping on her own i can expect a bigger bill :rolleyes:

[Fallout]

Last night I needed to put the bin out, but couldn't be arsed to get off the chair, so I got one of the Mrs's slippers and threw it into the hallway. When we got up to go to bed she saw it, was reminded of the terrible turmoil it caused her, had a go, and that reminded me to put the bin out. :)

Just as well our Asda isn't laid out like that, still every time the mrs goes food shopping on her own i can expect a bigger bill :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: I know that feeling mate. I ask her to pick up a pint of milk on her way home, and she will invariably come home with £5 worth of stuff we don't need. In fact, tomorrow we will need a bag of salad which I shall ask her to pick up. I'll report back on all the random crap she buys at the same time.

[Owenski]

This thread has changed my life.

Last night whilst preparing to get into bed I rememberd that my licence wasnt in my wallet and that I need it. My first thought was "must remember that in the morning", so I tried to the shoe trick and dumped a slipper in the hall... wife picked it up on her way past and put it away. Bugger! So i trotted downstairs got my licence out of the draw and put it in my wallet. This also reminded me that I needed my selco card and I needed to text YC to bring it with him this week, so rather than chancing that I forget to text him again I sent it right away.

Still, I did manage to forget to put my lunch in my back pack and no doubt a dozen other things which will occur to me throughout the day.

[Fallout]

This thread has changed my life.

Last night whilst preparing to get into bed I rememberd that my licence wasnt in my wallet and that I need it. My first thought was "must remember that in the morning", so I tried to the shoe trick and dumped a slipper in the hall... wife picked it up on her way past and put it away. Bugger! So i trotted downstairs got my licence out of the draw and put it in my wallet. This also reminded me that I needed my selco card and I needed to text YC to bring it with him this week, so rather than chancing that I forget to text him again I sent it right away.

Still, I did manage to forget to put my lunch in my back pack and no doubt a dozen other things which will occur to me throughout the day.

haha! Yes, the Mrs does have to get used to the randomness of the technique. Mine used to tidy things up too, but sometimes if you're really on the ball, the thought train becomes:
1. Go up stairs
2. Didn't I leave a random glass on the stairs?
3. Mrs must have put it in the kitchen.
4. Ahhh yes! Must remember to buy sex lube.

Eventually though, she has grown accustomed to the random object remembering technique, as it works in her favour. Case in point this morning, she organises the AA cover for the car, and they're going to sexually assault us with a £280 renewal this year, where as RAC is about £100, so she needs to cancel it. To remind myself to email her, to remind her to ring them, I .... GET THIS ... put a AA BATTERY ON MY COMPUTER KEYBOARD!!!

Yes, tis indeed a method of arcane majesty. :smt083

[Owenski]

I see no limit to its brilliance, despite been utilised by others it is you who made it known to a wider audiance and from here on out it should be refered to as the "fallout-forget-me-not method"

[Spank86]

What he's not telling you is he just had a very confused conversation with an Alcoholics Anonymous group. He knew he needed to be there but kept insisting he didnt have a problem.

[dizzyblonde]

Matt when I was younger I worked for a large supermarket, and been present in several refits, so I know your theory has some depth.....

.....HOWEVER.....the damn gits in Asda really moved everything around overnight, and yesterday the Olives weren't where they were supposed to be at all, they've lived happily at the top of the aisle opposite the milk for years(and they aren't out of date before you ask:smt101)......


And I didn't fall for their scheming, I didn't get the olives when I found them, I wanted Greek, not Spanish, and I didn't buy owt else I didn't already need either :smt016:smt016

[Dave20046]

We used to rank the rants and although Davenumbers and i seem to have forgotten our little pasttime it definetly needs bring back in this case.
I recon this scores a 7 out of 10 - Good use of comedy, and your multiple versions are extremely creative, not enough agression and we're still none the wiser about the actual reason for this rant making 7 a really good score.

FYI, This thread has just reminded me to:
Text Phil about his drz,
Add some items onto my Rufforth shopping list,
Text the wife to say footballs at 7 - Im not playing but still watching,

Problem is I usually do most of my "remembering" when Im on the bike, like last night on the way home I remembered I needed to check for a spare stator so as soon as I got home I checked... but its taken until now for me to relay that info onto Phil.

Yep, I 'forgot' about that!

[Owenski]

Yep, I 'forgot' about that!

What are you scoring this one then davido

[Stenno]

Aside from doing a memento and tattooing every single reminder on my body, I forget most things. I even started using a calendar to organise my social life but still manage to forget to check it despite it being by the front door. I'll probably be on this forum next Saturday wondering why it's so quiet before realising I should be in Essex. But still, worse things happen at sea.

[Dave20046]

I'm going 6/10 , it's a good length and just about amusing enough to keep my attention (as women describe me!) but I think it's a bit unforgiving on humans and to an extent fundamentally flawed in that it's often not practical to get right off the sh1tter march downstairs scramble about for a pen, write 'bog roll' on a list, put it in your wallet, march out to your car leave a note on the wheel saying check wallet before you get to the till and then march back inside and resume crapping and devising how you're going to get the most from that last sheet. In my view taking organisation to that extreme defeats the object and is more disruptive than simply having to man up to what other people think, shrug and say 'I forgot'..... especially when you move the note off your steering wheel to drive to the supermarket and forget all about it.


But alas man is saved, despite the 'organised' note chain system failing - going back to man basics, when you notice that pooey smear on your wrist while pushing the trolley you'll remember the bog roll!

[Bibio]

I'll probably be on this forum next Saturday wondering why it's so quiet before realising I should be in Essex. But still, worse things happen at sea.

yup like turning up early and wondering why no one is there... can't remember their name but someone on here done it :smt101