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    Default How many phone numbers can you remember?

    Technology, wonderful as it is, sometimes makes us... well, less smart

    I was thinking how many phone numbers i could remember before the days of mobile phones,
    I'd say 80+ numbers from friends homes, shops, pubs, restaurants, hospital, business's, etc

    Nowdays, i think i'd be lucky to remember 6 numbers
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    Pretty much the same mate....

    I can remember a few now.....NOTHING like years ago.....
    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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    Time was when I could remember a phone number for as long as I needed it. Now, not so much. That said, I was often the bloke that got called out in the middle of the night for a call trace. No need to do that now.
    I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

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    I can remember our home phone number from almost 50 years ago and maybe half a dozen other current numbers. Meet me at a party and I'll forget your name in five minutes - before my first drink. Memory is funny...

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    When in use, you can remember quite a few or at least the most of it to complete a call but once the need goes, so does your memory.

    Like mkhannah, there are several numbers I have retained in my memory that have long since ceased to exist, yet I have no idea what my current mobile is but then, I never ring it, do I?
    I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!

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    Iam in the same boat 30 -40 numbers before now 4-5 and whats worse I used to have a map memory I could look at a map and navigate straight there no dramas at all now after 8 years of GPS I get lost around the corner now
    IF IT DONT WORK USE A BIGGER HAMMER

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    Quote Originally Posted by mkhannah View Post
    I can remember our home phone number from almost 50 years ago and maybe half a dozen other current numbers. Meet me at a party and I'll forget your name in five minutes - before my first drink. Memory is funny...
    .......I forget names sometimes before a handshake is finished......bloody embarrassing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by puca View Post
    I I used to have a map memory I could look at a map and navigate straight there no dramas at all now after 8 years of GPS I get lost around the corner now
    Too true!!!!
    That is another great example.
    I too used to be able glance at a map as i set off and drive the next 700ks without needing to look again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oceanboy View Post
    Technology, wonderful as it is, sometimes makes us... well, less smart

    Not quite true, today it are: login names/emails and passkeys.
    Well I consider myself one of the 'smarter' ones who could memorise all of them and do not store these details in browsers or wallets and always use exclusive login details for important (money related) things.
    This was already quite intense when I was trading on over 10 exchanges with crypto currencies a few years ago, but it still is with passwords getting longer and more random symbols.

    I still manage to see patterns in numbers and symbols, it are actually the letters that give me trouble if you avoid existing words of course.
    Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
    Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
    Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...

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    Well at least 3.

    My mobile and the ex-wife's mobile and her home number as i made them easy with the last 6 digits are the same.

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    Interesting that I don't remember new numbers. There is no need to commit them to memory.
    However, all the phone numbers that I used to remember, friend's phone numbers from school, girlfriends, work numbers. I can still recall them all instantly after 30 and 40 years.
    Some I haven't used for that long. A long term girl/friend was in hospital and she asked me if I could ring her dad for her and let him know she was ok.
    "My phone is over there on the table, pass it to me and I'll give you his number."
    "How do you not know your dad's phone number? It's ...."
    "How do you know my dad's phone number?"
    "How could I forget it?"
    "I've never given it to you?"
    "Have you forgotten you used to live there?"
    "That was 30 years ago, how the hell do you remember it instantly after all this time?"
    I then quoted her four more phone numbers that were also stuck in my head from the past 30 years.
    "What are those numbers? All you previous phone numbers."
    "What's my current phone number?"
    "Wouldn't have a clue!"
    "Ha! How the hell does that happen?"

    My long term memory is extremely good. I can remember back to when I was 1 year old with clarity and precision.
    But I only remember some things. I have been questioned about other events when I was young, but I have no memory of them.

    My spatial memory is even better. I can find my way back to any place on earth that I've already been without a map. And I can look at a map and if I know where I am and where I'm going marked on the map, I will get there without needing to look at the map a second time. IF you ask me the street name of where I'm going, I wouldn't have a clue. I can't remember names, especially people's names more than 10 seconds after I've been told.
    It requires many hours of exposure to a person and their name constantly being repeated for me to remember it.
    Yes I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

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    Well said Trish

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    Hey OB can you text me my number please ive forgotten it

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    Here mate, just pop it in your phone (03) 9078 8242
    If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!

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    I can even remember my wife Mobile Number, I have trouble with our land line number. Blame the stroke for this.

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    Its a funny thing memory. I wouldnt remember what I did yesterday. Or last year. And due to strong painkillers, I have no idea what I did from 2010 to 2013 apart from photos that autouploaded to Google Drive.

    But if its from my childhood, I still know it. I still know the phone number of my childhood home that I left in 1977 when my parents split up. I still know both sets of grandparents phone numbers, even know they are long dead. My aunts EH Holden rego number from the 70's. The rego numbers of my mums cars from the late 70's and the 80's. Stuff like that.

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    I can still remember getting my first BJ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteOx View Post
    I can still remember getting my first BJ.
    I can still remember my last one

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    Giving or receiving?

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    My first car was an Austin A40, BM 695 in 1963.

    I have owned this Ford wagon for 13 years I think and I still have to look at the plates or the papers to tell you what the Rego is.
    I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!

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