Oh, and if you want an example
of an absolutely pointless waste of memory synapses, when I was 14, inbetween furious bouts of trying to drain my bollocks, I read about the memory association trick whereby you remember a list of words by making an association with the next/previous. Consequently I still know a list of 20 random words:

Wasp, Table, Penguin, Paper, Bottle, Umbrella, Typewriter, Walking stick, Knife, Wellingtons, Sausages, Keys, Kitchen scales, Bus ticket, Biro, Stool, Petrol pump, Marmalade, Bicycle lights, Stepladder.


Also about the same sort of time, I went to Bridlington on the train with a couple of mates and met some girls on the train home. I got one of their numbers, 43760, and phoned her up to meet her the next day outside ABC cinema. She showed up, we walked about town, I got my first proper kiss with tongues and that, saw her off on her bus home and that was the last I saw of her.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:35, 3 replies)

Yep - my mate learned that trick when we were a similar age.
He took calls for examples only a month ago - 20 years on, one of which was mine - number 17 - a small piece of blue fluff.

Very impressive.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:39, closed)

But how do we know you haven'y just made that up ?
(BiggestNizzy your company name here pm for rates., Sat 2 Jul 2011, 9:52, closed)

Ah..
The 'walk through your house' trick?
( Bathory, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 15:48, closed)