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Juliet27 Tue 06-Sept-22 06:17:44

I also told Mr M that the new neighbours were applying for permission to build a Conservative

I’m sure they could build a better one than those currently in power!! ?

NotSpaghetti Tue 06-Sept-22 06:08:04

MissAdventure
Oh, I'm not getting all dressed up, I'll probably just wear a pair of baguettes

??

Where???

MarinaL Tue 06-Sept-22 00:30:36

That's good to know Big Louis! I keep forgetting the word I want to say. Today I couldn't remember the word for the person who cleans your teeth at the dentists (yes hygienist but it took a good while to remember) I also told Mr M that the new neighbours were applying for permission to build a Conservative!!

biglouis Mon 05-Sept-22 23:33:17

I dont get words mixed up but I do have problems recalling the word I want from time to time. I know exactly what I want to say and can use similar words. I will also remember it later that day.

For example I "forgot" the word deportation but could recall words with similar meanings such as banishment, exile etc. It did get me a bit worried.

So I ran a number of online tests for dementia to allay my fears. What I have been experiencing is "age related recall" and very common in the over 60s. I am 78.

My grandmother was bright as a button intellectually and died at 96.

merlotgran Mon 05-Sept-22 21:20:30

My aunt had friends called Doug and Pauline but she was always calling them Pug and Dorleen.

She also referred to the menopause as the monoplus .

nadateturbe Mon 05-Sept-22 21:12:09

If thd headaches are new and last a long time, perhaps check with GP to be on the safe side. I had one that lasted 4 days, and the GP sent me to hospital. Consultant said they always do MRI on older people who have headache a long time.

Witzend Mon 05-Sept-22 08:05:14

welbeck

there was a thread title on here recently that i assumed was something about extreme hatred of bottoms.
so i didn't read it.
a while later i clicked, to see a picture of a spider.

Arsenophobia!
That wasn’t quite the title of the thread but I like it.

Bea65 Sun 04-Sept-22 17:52:17

I was once said instead of having a full hysterectomy ..said I'd had a full hysterical grin yes really...no wonder am slightly ever so insane!

MissAdventure Sun 04-Sept-22 17:48:33

grin
Somebody once asked me what I was going to wear when she and I were going to a party.

For some reason I said "Oh, I'm not getting all dressed up, I'll probably just wear a pair of baguettes.
I'd meant culottes.

welbeck Sun 04-Sept-22 17:41:25

i hope this won't be outing, as they say over on MN.
long ago when i used to have people to drive and went long distances to country places, i more than once would remark, perhaps we'll get some nice furniture today.
sometimes there would be a kind of puzzled groan, and then the observation, but i thought you didn't like antique shops.
now i'd get concerned at the very mention saying, i'd really rather not go around shops on an outing.
but you said it ! ?what? about wanting furniture.
i. did. not. what are you talking about.??
of course, i meant i hoped for some nice scenery.
this happened more than once. over several years.
all i can think is that in usual life, being at home, what surrounds us is furniture.
on a rare day out, driving afar, it is scenery.
so the common factor is one's surroundings . /?
maybe. has anyone read the man who mistook his wife for a hat. we don't appreciate how complex mental processes are, until they get a bit ropey.

MissAdventure Sun 04-Sept-22 17:34:29

smile
No offence taken.
Poetic justice, I suppose, because I've made a thread before and quoted some of the words my neighbour says.
Kramer has come to bite me up the bottom, I reckon! Joke..

CatsCatsCats Sun 04-Sept-22 17:30:36

Just half an hour ago I asked my husband whether he'd got our passports on his phone. I meant boarding passes, naturally, but passports came out of my mouth!

welbeck Sun 04-Sept-22 17:30:01

that's fine MissA; all your contributions are very welcome. no criticism was intended.
it was more a comment on my erroneous assumption.
and i suppose my dislike of the rude term for a bottom.
i still didn't read the thread. hope you dealt with it ok.
i rather like the creatures, they tend to come inside when it's going to rain. and they eat the baddies.

MissAdventure Sun 04-Sept-22 17:23:31

Ah, that was my thread.
My a and my s are next to eachother on my phone, and I'm having a few problems with stuff - vision, coordination and well... (a list of ailments)

The only big bottom in my bathroom is mine.

smile
I need to keep communicating, so expect some random things.

welbeck Sun 04-Sept-22 17:10:45

there was a thread title on here recently that i assumed was something about extreme hatred of bottoms.
so i didn't read it.
a while later i clicked, to see a picture of a spider.

kircubbin2000 Sun 04-Sept-22 17:03:19

When the kids were small they liked to mess ice cream into a mush they called 'plur'. My ex thought this was a real word and still uses it for a mixed up messy dish.

ExDancer Sun 04-Sept-22 16:23:12

My MIL had a 'hysterical-money', and she loved cooking 'lass-agny' (lasagne).

grannydarkhair Sun 04-Sept-22 16:21:13

Lilliesmum79 This is known as aphasia, can be very severe if or when it occurs due to a CVA (stroke), although then it usually presents as slurred speech or getting the words in a sentence all muddled up. Have you spoken to a GP about your headaches?

kircubbin2000 Sun 04-Sept-22 16:12:51

A local MP has just said he wants to neutralise the water supplier to solve the sewage problem. He meant mutualise.

SueDonim Sun 04-Sept-22 15:47:10

I mentioned the tennis player Cameron Norrie the other day but said Carrie Nomeron. ?

BlueBelle Sun 04-Sept-22 15:41:01

My mum bless her once told me as we sat in the sunny garden under a blue sky that the clouds were very perithupic

Lilliesmum79 Sun 04-Sept-22 15:28:42

I get alot of headaches and just told my husband I'm taking alot of microwaves lately ????‍♀️