Moments of real inspiration
are really surprising. I'm learning the highway code, and found a way to remember the maximum speed restrictions. eg:

motorcycle max. speeds - 50km/h urban, 90 non-primary, 100 primary, 120 motorway

5, 9, 10, 12 = G, D, E, G in ascending notes. Apply thus to all vehicle max speeds (59 in all) and quite a dull but nevertheless memorable tune gets thoroughly earwormed. Put into phone for regular reminders.
(roysin, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:03, 19 replies)

So what's it like being autistic?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:15, closed)

Well I never
Another surprise!
(roysin, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:19, closed)

twelve miles per hour? do you live at willy wonka's chocolate factory?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 17:18, closed)

How does 5 9 10 12 become G D E G? Just the notes?
Surely it's better just to remember 50, 90, 100, 120, which is just a sequence of 4 numbers which could, in a pinch, probably be derived, even if they're not general knowledge.

Otherwise you'll be pootling along when your instructor asks you what the speed limit is: do you then have to think "oh, this is a major road, it's in the third category, that's an "E", an "E" is the tenth note (remember to skip over the first "E" which is actually the third note, ... ) etc.?

What I mean is, if you have to remember G D E G, you might just as well remember 50, 90, 100, 120.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:32, closed)

It does if you say that 1 = C, 2 = D, 3 = E (etc.) and skip the black notes.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:41, closed)

Racist.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 21:36, closed)

If anyone's racist here it's the OP.
There are 12 notes in an octave, or more if you subscribe to the teachings of Harry Partch.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 23:04, closed)

Interesting, if a little above my Grade 4 Piano (and self-taught whistling/humming). Baffled as to how his mother managed to die in a trolley accident, though. Unless she was vying for a spot at the 'yellow sticker' section in Tesco.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 0:10, closed)

Gebrauchsmusik
or "music for use" as our Teu-tonic cousins would call it.
(roysin, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 17:51, closed)

Yeah, also if you look at the bit on stopping distances carefully it reveals a zionist plot to replace all the world's major politial figures with cyborgs using the alien technology that was hidden in the Ark of the Covenant.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:49, closed)

Stopping distances are easy
Just speed + speed squared / 20

I'm fucked if they ever update them to something newer than a Morris Minor.
(ubergeekian, Tue 9 Apr 2013, 11:52, closed)

I've found an excellent general purpose mnemonic.
If I want to remember something - names, faces, facts, figures, birthdays, credit card numbers - I just fucking remember them.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 23:12, closed)

How awfully simplistic of you.
I always devise some kind of hopelessly convoluted system that endeavours to make me look a lot more intellectual than I really am.

It's almost as if I'm incapable of appreciating the merits of my own brainpower and have to boost my self-esteem by needlessly confusing everyone and deliberately blowing up the simplest of tasks into a great big mess.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 23:14, closed)

More the sound of music
than a spoonfull of sugar etc.
(roysin, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 0:18, closed)

"Spoonful" only has one "L".
I remember this by breaking down each word in to the component letters, and then assigning a numerical value to it, based on it's position in the alphabet i.e. A=1, B=2 etc. I then add all of the numbers and remember the total for that word, so "spoonful" equals 118.

You can then check if your spelling is correct by applying the reverse to the word you are writing, and checking that the numerical value matches the one you have memorized. If you'd have followed this simple system, you would have realised "spoonfull" is 130, which is wrong.

You 64.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 15:24, closed)

What's a 64?
I make him a 58.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 8 Apr 2013, 15:35, closed)

They're both variations on the same theme.

(Sloppy Giuseppe, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 15:56, closed)

Don't
rate me far so lately. Doh.
(roysin, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:46, closed)

3+21+14+20. No offence like.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 8 Apr 2013, 19:55, closed)