The only TMG number I can remember is TMG 1000. I don't know whether that proves that I'm not an anorak or that I have a terrible memory.
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The only TMG number I can remember is TMG 1000. I don't know whether that proves that I'm not an anorak or that I have a terrible memory.
Ah, that will be 'Finders Keepers', b/w' Do Like I Do'?
I have a good memory, but I don't try to remember things I can't [[if that makes sense!).
What I do try to do is remember where I can find the information, when I want it...
I worry that memory might be like a muscle, and that if it does not get regular exercise, it will wither away to nothing.
I believe you would be quite correct about the consequences of memory not receiving regular exercise.
The key word is 'interest', which I also believe is the trigger.
Best not worry it too much, as that promotes anxiety... which will take the fun out of everything....:)
With the causes of Alzheimer's disease and dementia not being known, we can't afford to ignore the problem, if only for self preservation. There can't be many of us who don't know someone directly or indirectly affected by the problem, and the lack of government resources allocated to research and treatment [in the UK] is a national disgrace.
It is indeed a problem, and a complex one.
Some of it has physical causes, and some of it develops as a person with certain personality traits grows older, and becomes more vulnerable to the ageing process than do others.
Some say there are nine types of dementia, some say more.
And some say there are five stages, and some say seven.
And I say that it is what was once considered 'just' a part of the ageing process...but, with so many older people not only living alone but apart from their families, it is those people living with dementia who are the most vulnerable of all.
So, is there evidence that it has become better or worse in the last few decades? If it's worse, is it because there's more awareness of the problem? There are remarkably few public dollars available for research over here, as well. Actually, there are remarkably few public dollars for anything.
Case in point: It's now been determined that one of every 93 children in the US will be diagnosed with autism. The number for boys specifically is much higher. Nobody knows why and with the current lack of cohesion in the federal government, nobody will break loose money to find out causes or preventive measures. Perhaps the human brain is not ready for the toxic ecology of the 21st century?
I say that it's nothing that this wonderful elixur might not make better. Or much worse...
There is much greater awareness of the problem.
Once, a degree of absent-mindedness and abstract thought in someone elderly, who increasingly appears to be without a specific direction, would have been considered as 'just their way'.
Now, attempts are made to match their symptoms to a diagnosis. While there is much greater understanding and help available, the person becomes less of an individual with special needs, and more 'a patient' or 'a sufferer'. They then carry a label, in addition to a name by which they have been known for decades.
Unfortunately, I feel, most of the increased awareness comes from the middle to senior age groups, simply because they are obliged to be aware of it - and very often, are in fear of it. It generally bypasses the close attention of the younger generation, as it does not signify with their perception if it does not directly affect them. For example, I'm unsure if younger employees in the retail sector are given any guidance in how to engage with customers who may be living with dementia.
It's all quite understandable because, as with the growing awareness to any problem, it can be perceived as 'tomorrow's problem', if it is not adversely affecting people, right here, right now.
Yes, it would certainly be good news if there were to be clearer indications of the causes of autism. However, once those are identified, a different problem may well present itself. Would one feel pressure to at least consider an abortion if likely autism is detected in an unborn child?
We were out at a dairy farm last Sunday, as part of a national 'Open Farm Sunday' held across the country. A notice informed us that the cattle in the herd are now inseminated with 'sexed semen', so that only female calves are born. I was not previously aware that 'sexed semen' existed.
I wonder if you are thinking what I am now thinking.....
Probably, not... I was thinking of how to word a fairly naughty joke about sailors going back to their ship after a night in a brothel. But, I digress... What were you thinking?
If it's available for cows, how long before it's available for humans?
Or maybe it already is....?
I'm too lazy to Google it, but I thought that they have a centrifuge that is used for that purpose in artificial insemination of humans. I'd suggest that it is better to weed out the sexes in the lab than it is to handle it as they do in some Indian villages. There, they kill the female babies because they cannot afford the dowry when the child is betrothed. And of course, if the dowry is too small, the groom's family is allowed to retroactively terminate the wedding by burning the bride to death.
Being able to know the sex of your unborn child has, of course, been an option for many years.
Having children of the sex you require at any particular time would seem a very different matter, and I wasn't aware that it was yet an available option, let alone possible.
It would, however, fit with other changes which have come about in recent decades. If a single person or couple did want only to have a boy, but the boy was unhappy about his gender, he could later change his sex, if he so wished.
It's all going to make our own lives so very......well..... random......
It's like the theme from "Jurassic Park": Ian Malcolm was an expert on Chaos Theory and one of the things that he determined to be among the immutable variables to determine predictable outcomes is that "life finds a way". You can plan and scheme all you wish, but in the end things will be as things are supposed to be. There are nigh infinite possibilities for what will happen in the next two seconds. But after it happens, the only thing that could have possibly happened is the one thing that did.
I suppose that, while it is always best to plan, we should always embrace that theory of things being as they are supposed to be. After the fact, of course, that is a statement of the plainly obvious.
It does add more fun and interest to life, that element of surprise and coincidence. I'd say most outcomes can be predicted by previous events and behaviour, but not with absolute accuracy, as that also applies to current events.
I say "I suppose" because I have a feeling most of us would wish many things to remain just as they are...
But they cannot and will not. Chaos Theory posits that every outcome is predictable, so long as all of the variables are taken into consideration. So, even seemingly random occurrences can be foreseen basically through thorough and complete analysis of all events that affect them.
Of course, it's impossible to be able to know all of the variables, but it's an interesting theory. So, it would be interesting to know the outcome of a football game as a result of the wind blowing in a slightly different direction, causing someone in the stand to drop his beer onto a stadium security officer, who wheels about to threaten him just within the periphery of the goal keeper's vision at the exact moment that a penalty kick is made.
Since the goalkeeper had that subtle image in mind, he reacts 0.0001 seconds later than he otherwise would and the ball squirts in 2 cm away from his outstretched hand. Of course this is a simple example, because there are literally millions of variables affecting every action.
Exactly. I don't believe it is possible to predict accurately with any consistency...but we can always guess..and, very often, we're right.
Don't forget that little voice that tells us not to do something when we reason that it'll be fine. "There's a 2% chance at failure, so why not?", and away we go. When it ultimately crashes and burns, we consider it and tell ourselves "I knew that would happen." The funny thing is, I honestly believe that we did.
I'd say that, in those particular instances, we overruled our common sense.....
It happens to all of us. And it happens more frequently than we'd care to admit. I think that when we die, we will be presented a DVD in heaven that shows how we lived our lives. It undoubtedly will come with a second disc that contains a gag reel.
If they're scheduled to be produced by Arr&bee, then I'm definitely living forever.
When you hear the soundtrack, you'll wonder why you waited so long to die. I hear that is one of the best parts of the package.
And if I'm deaf when I die...?
The angels will play the music for you in sign language. Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Otis Redding are going to be upset when you're not in the front-row seat they reserved for you at the "Welcome Home WGB" concert, though.
It's going to be a tough decision. I think My Mum and Dad may also have something lined up for me.....
You'll have time. That first day is a doozy.
[[I had to check out what 'doozy' actually meant! Not a word commonly used here, at least to my knowledge...)
If I ever get there, I'm hoping every day is a doozy.
You'll get there. We'll have tea and catch up on things.
"We'll have tea...."
Are you contemplating reaching there first?
Nope. But I do intend to get there. I was rudely inviting myself to tea when after I arrive. I figure that if you get there before me, then you'll have the water boiling by the time I arrive...
Let's hope it's only water that is boiling.....
Remember to press the "up" button when you get on the elevator...:rolleyes:
I'm to be borne aloft by angels [[it says in my Will...) so I trust they know what they are doing.
I shall resist any attempts to be sent elsewhere as a goodwill ambassador....
Just look over their shoulders if they break out a road map. You don't want them to hold it upside down. Unless, of course, the arrows point to the bottom of the map...
Jut like some of the taxi drivers I've met.
Have you met any who apparently cannot speak English until they suspect you have paid them too little? Their distant cousins work in Chinese restaurants.
I'd rather they worked in Chinese restaurants than in any hospital or care home I might ever need.
You'll probably want to learn Chinese if you're to survive the 21st century. Expect fewer borders but more walls in the future.
Thank goodness I won't be living forever.....
Are you sure about that? Modem science is doing things that we never thought to be possible just a few years ago.
I won't renew the contract.....