What's the most useless thing you still have memorised?

[Scouse Hibee]

Taught at a young age, God, Bless You……Green Brown Yellow order of snooker balls at the D.

[Bridge hibs]

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Taught at a young age, God, Bless You……Green Brown Yellow order of snooker balls at the D.

I honestly never thought of that, I watched snooker for years and still didnt know the set up. Me and my Brother fancied a game of snooker a few years ago and when we got to setting up green, brown and yellow we were clueless and had to google it, pair of stupid ***** 🤣

[Hibbyradge]

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Taught at a young age, God, Bless You……Green Brown Yellow order of snooker balls at the D.

That's useful.

[EH6 Hibby]

Granny likes a small glass of Whisky.

Edward died in November, buried under Robert Grahams house.

[matty_f]

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That reply harvesting question popped up in my Facebook feed and I thought it might be fun to read what stuff folk say.

I'll kick it off with MISSISSIPPI IPPISSISSIM 😃

I must have learnt that at primary school but it still reappears front of brain every 10 years or so.

Are these Facebook posts not just generally trawling for potential password into - what was your first car/favourite teacher etc?

[sleeping giant]

Umbongo Umbongo ,they drink it in the Congo.
A Python picked a passion fruit , a guava and a mango.
He set it to the mandarin who danced a dainty tango........

[Hibbyradge]

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Are these Facebook posts not just generally trawling for potential password into - what was your first car/favourite teacher etc?

Yes, that's what I meant by harvesting question. I never reply to them.

I think most of them are harvesting likes, though. Once they get enough likes and follows, the username or whatever, starts having a value.

This thread isn't harvesting!

Edit: This explains how it works.

https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/...picture%20well.

[RyeSloan]

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Umbongo Umbongo ,they drink it in the Congo.
A Python picked a passion fruit , a guava and a mango.
He set it to the mandarin who danced a dainty tango........

Ahh yes advert jingles!

The flake one from the 80’s with the girl in the boat still resides in my head for some unknown reason.

Only the crumbiest flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before…

[Santa Cruz]

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Ahh yes advert jingles!

The flake one from the 80’s with the girl in the boat still resides in my head for some unknown reason.

Only the crumbiest flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before…

Murray Mints. Murray Mints, too good to hurry mints

[weecounty hibby]

5120124. My clock number when I started as an apprentice engineer more than 37 years ago. Postcode of every house I've ever lived in

[He's here!]

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I think old phone numbers must be a common one. I don't have a clue what my wife's mobile number is but could reel off my parents old neighbours (who moved about 15 years ago) landline without even thinking about it.

Not sure if it's related but does anyone else ever get those moments when you remember something from the past that makes your squirm with embarrassment? Not anything big just a throw away comment or something daft you said that no one else will remember or care about but you get a few seconds of real cringe.

I get that regularly. The cringe factor, if anything, increases each time.

I also find I get a random memory entering my head for no obvious reason ie I'm not revisiting a place from my past or doing an activity associated with that memory, it just seems to be sparked by something undefined. I've tried to analyse it and figure out what prompted the recollection and occasionally I can join some dots but more often than not it seems random.

[Keith_M]

My Gran and Grandad's phone number from the house they lived in when I was a kid. They moved out of that house in 1983 but I still know it by heart.


How come I can remember that, as well as my aunt and uncle's number from the same era, but I have to look up my own house number.... despite living at my current address for four years

[Keith_M]

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Random quotes from tv shows and films, which continually come into my mind to reply to things people have said, which often leads to odd looks

....

Kochanski: "God, just how stupid am I?"

Kryten: "Well according to my calculations, madam..."

(Red Dwarf, circa 1997)


You've no idea how often the response from Kryten feels just sooooo appropriate.

[Scouse Hibee]

Never eat shredded wheat.

[Bridge hibs]

When using a screwdriver/ratchet, righty tighty, lefty loosey

[Sylar]

Och aye the noo, sugar cube.

Was a way were taught to remember the name of the Japanese islands for a geography test once.

[scoopyboy]

Order of reactivity of metals was helped by first initials of the following

Please send Celtic's manager a zulu if the left half cant manage six goals.

Translated into Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Zinc, Iron, Tin, Lead, etc

Never ever forgotten that but now I'm retired will never ever need it again, in all honesty probably never used it since I stopped studying chemistry

[Hibbyradge]

Class in a glass.

[Keith_M]

Methuselah lived until he was 969 years old (allegedly).

Noah's three sons were called Ham, Shem and Japheth.

Shem is where the word Semitic (and Anti-Semitic) comes from




Sunday School, so much useless info

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Methuselah lived until he was 969 years old (allegedly).

Noah's three sons were called Ham, Shem and Japheth.

Shem is where the word Semitic (and Anti-Semitic) comes from




Sunday School, so much useless info

Funny you should mention that, I stumbled across my Child's Bible that I got from Sunday School at Pilrig/Dalmeny Street Church in 1979, probably not laid eyes on it for about 40 years!😀

[wookie70]

Old phone numbers and number plates make great passwords. I still know a few along with a collection of the number plates from my Dads old cars.

[Keith_M]

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Funny you should mention that, I stumbled across my Child's Bible that I got from Sunday School at Pilrig/Dalmeny Street Church in 1979, probably not laid eyes on it for about 40 years!😀

[LancashireHibby]

Up, down, left, right, start, A

[LancashireHibby]

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Never eat shredded wheat.

‘Never ever support Wigan’ in this neck of the woods 😊

[Billy Whizz]

The 24 times table
I used to work in an office, that everything they bought was in 24’s

[MKHIBEE]

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Ahh yes advert jingles!

The flake one from the 80’s with the girl in the boat still resides in my head for some unknown reason.

Only the crumbiest flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before…

The vocals were done by Maggie Bell, of Taggart fame, in the version I remember

[blackpoolhibs]

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The vocals were done by Maggie Bell, of Taggart fame, in the version I remember

And the woman who ate the flake in the advert was married to Roger Taylor the Queen drummer.

[Greentinted]

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The vocals were done by Maggie Bell, of Taggart fame, in the version I remember

Apols for the wee tangent but it so happened I was reading about the Scottish singer, Sandra McKenzie who is apparently now homeless & utterly destitute. Recently the victim of an horrendous knife attack, she’s no had her troubles to seek. Can only hope things improve for her.
Anyway, your post put me in mind of the iconic advert she sang the catchy ‘jingle’ for. Tbf, there’s not many people who don’t know the line:
“Whoaaaaa, Bodyform. Bodyform for you!”

[Keith_M]

The square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.



Not sure if anybody has ever found a genuine reason to remember that since leaving school.