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David Ollerearnshaw
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1373
From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012

posted December 08, 2013 11:28 AM

Was looking for the scope bracket for my 'new' Elf projector (Thanks Adrian). Now needs a new bulb, so got my blue Elf out to watch "Gold". What do I find on the projector the very thing I was looking for [Smile]

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Is this a sign of watching too many films or just a sign of old age?

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I love the smell of film in the morning.

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Pasquale DAlessio
Film God

Posts: 3523
From: Bristol,RI, USA
Registered: May 2010

posted December 08, 2013 12:30 PM

Old age. It happens to me all the time! [Frown]

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted December 08, 2013 12:34 PM

Sometimes I am looking for my keys or my telephone and they are in..my hands !

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Dominique

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David Ollerearnshaw
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1373
From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012

posted December 08, 2013 03:16 PM

Good news & bad then at least I can still keep watching films. Although I could forget I watched it.

Its an amazing thing though the memory I sometimes in my relaxing mode drift off and remember things from long ago as though they were yesterday, especially holidays.

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I love the smell of film in the morning.

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted December 08, 2013 05:16 PM

Years ago

a chap I once worked with told be he found a book in the public library on "how to improve your memory"

He went on how good the book was....only thing though he forgot to take it back [Eek!]

I kid you not. [Smile]

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Brian Stearns
Master Film Handler

Posts: 487
From: Lexington
Registered: Jun 2013

posted December 09, 2013 03:34 AM

my problems is when my mind is on something else I put things down I loose track where it is. Or you forget that you have a left pocket in your jacket and you panic you cant find your credit card or keys. [Smile]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 09, 2013 05:37 AM

You're working on something at the house. You run down three flights of stairs to the basement to get something you need. You steam up to the workbench only to stop in disbelief that you have no idea what it is now...

-you turn and retreat back upstairs...you'll know once you are back up there!

You ever walk past a table and pick up a pair of glasses only to discover you're already wearing a pair?

My job often requires I use my car a couple of times during the day. If I'm wise I try to park it in the same area all day long. It saves some confusion at 5 O'clock.

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Ken Finch
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Herne Bay, Kent. U.K.
Registered: Oct 2011

posted December 13, 2013 11:47 AM

Hi Fellow suffers, we call them "senior moments"!!. My excuse is my age but my children get them too!!!Ken Finch. [Wink]

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted December 13, 2013 03:52 PM

For about 20 years working on aircraft my biggest fear, way back then, was to forget something "important" [Eek!]

Only once did I wake up in the wee hours, thinking about a certain landing gear pin. It could be fitted in a way that might jam the landing gear door as it retracts on a BA146. I phoned the hanger just before the test flight with my concern. The engineer checked it, and found I had fitted it right...no problem [Smile]

We did have systems in place to double check every ones work, plus a paper work trail a mile long on everything....but in saying that, mistakes can still happen, especially late at night and clocking up long hours.

I remember one chap who told me he had once worked for "American Airlines" in the states and was working long hours, changing the No2 engine on a DC10. After his shift was finished he drove home and slept in his basement not to wake up his family.

The next day he could not remember anything about his drive home
[Eek!]

a complete blank. He decided then, it was time to get out of that job.

Might be something to think about the next time you board an aircraft [Big Grin]

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