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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Barman on December 11, 2009, 12:09:34 PM
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I'm in the process of scanning some old (very old) pictures - many of me - to archive them... they are on old 35mm slide film...
The bizarre thing is, I remember them being taken as if it was yesterday - it must be over forty years ago...
How strange... rubschin:
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I've done the very same recently - just a warning - it makes you very reflective sad24:
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p.s though most of mine are not over forty years old whistle:
yet
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I've done the very same recently - just a warning - it makes you very reflective sad24:
Agreed... sad24:
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I'm in the process of scanning some old (very old) pictures - many of me - to archive them... they are on old 35mm slide film...
The bizarre thing is, I remember them being taken as if it was yesterday - it must be over forty years ago...
How strange... rubschin:
I failed to retain custody of all the old family photos ~ despite promises that what I couldn't carry would be kept safely to await collection my ex burned or sold everything she deemed to have been mine within a couple of weeks of my giving her the family home as part of the divorce agreement. Only a few items, salvaged from the fury by my daughter, survived to be returned to me at a later date. Quite why the twenty years together had to be totally obliterated from history has never been explained.
Strangely items that my mother had given us (heirlooms I guess you could call them) that had any value were not destroyed but went missing. The same daughter tells me that these have now reappeared in the new home occupied by my ex and her husband.
There is a lesson in that if anyone cares to listen.
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"a woman scorned..." and all that.
I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.
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"a woman scorned..." and all that.
I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.
Oh yes...? eyes:
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it makes you very reflective
Agreed... sad24:
Shiny pate even back then eh?
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it makes you very reflective
Agreed... sad24:
Shiny pate even back then eh?
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No!
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"a woman scorned..." and all that.
I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.
Had she been scorned I would have understood but it was she who ran away, she who came back after 7 months demanding the house, she who divorced me and she who offered to keep my things until I got somewhere other than my car to keep them. As soon as I did get a place the children, who she claimed she would fight me every inch of the way for, were sent to live with me as they were being "difficult" towards her new man.
No Uncle, not scorned, simply given everything she demanded but still so twisted and bitter as to want to cause me unhappiness whilst ensuring anything of value remained hers. But I dare she she saw herself in the "wronged" role. She was always very good at that.
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I found a load of old photos a while back. I can't believe how young and optimistic we all looked, and always doing FUN things. I put them away again sad24:
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They'll end up on the bonfire then.
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Well the thing is that generally people only take photos of happy events: holidays, parties, wedding, adoption, and so on. Consequently they represent a highly selective and edited version of your own past. Only the good bits
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That's true ...but we can also have very selective memories. It is all too easy to forget that you have had so many good times in your life when you feel down or burdened by things at the moment .
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Mine were all the usual stuff. ..... My Parent's 25 wedding anniversary party, pictures of our children growing up, pictures of us as a family on holiday. I assumed then that was why they had to be destroyed ...... they showed us all when we thought we had a future together. But on reflection I thought "who burns their own children's photos?" ~ I never came up with a satisfactory answer.
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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You look like you've been up to something lol:
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{serious] My Ph.D was in the narrative structure of autobiography.How do people compress 50-80 years into a 300page account? They choose themes and give their life a shape, to invest it with meaning of some sort. I actually studied Victorians who had lost their religious faith. Weird I know, but their childhood religion had given them a teleological framework (look it up) which was whipped away post-Darwin. They had to find a new way of investing life with a shape and direction.Fascinating stuff. We all select our memories and tell our own stories about ourselves.
We live through stories [serious}
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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Nice wig!
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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A case of hair today and gone tomorrow perhaps whistle:
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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Nice wig!
It is not a wig like! evil:
Looks just like my hair now... cloud9:
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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Nice wig!
It is not a wig like! evil:
Looks just like my hair now... cloud9:
But on somebody else lol:
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs4.postimage.org%2F1R7aQ0.jpg&hash=80e28fb7685b627bc9903ccee5b0cd58b034aa83) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1R7aQ0)
Nice wig!
It is not a wig like! evil:
Looks just like my hair now in the box I keep it in... cloud9:
::)
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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Nice wig!
It is not a wig like! evil:
Looks just like my hair now in the box I keep it in... cloud9:
::)
evil:
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{serious] My Ph.D was in the narrative structure of autobiography.How do people compress 50-80 years into a 300page account? They choose themes and give their life a shape, to invest it with meaning of some sort. I actually studied Victorians who had lost their religious faith. Weird I know, but their childhood religion had given them a teleological framework (look it up) which was whipped away post-Darwin. They had to find a new way of investing life with a shape and direction.Fascinating stuff. We all select our memories and tell our own stories about ourselves.
We live through stories [serious}
Exactly ...and stories are open to interpretation, corruption and challenge
I am often surprised by how the same event is recalled in completely different ways and has obviously been a completely different experience for the people involved.
I was talking to my brother about such a time only the other week - a significant event - he remembered certain aspects to the event that hadn't even registered with me and vice versa - same physical event - completely different emotional and cognitive outcomes rubschin:
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{serious] My Ph.D was in the narrative structure of autobiography.How do people compress 50-80 years into a 300page account? They choose themes and give their life a shape, to invest it with meaning of some sort. I actually studied Victorians who had lost their religious faith. Weird I know, but their childhood religion had given them a teleological framework (look it up) which was whipped away post-Darwin. They had to find a new way of investing life with a shape and direction.Fascinating stuff. We all select our memories and tell our own stories about ourselves.
We live through stories [serious}
I was talking to my brother about such a time only the other week - a significant event - he remembered certain aspects to the event that hadn't even registered with me and vice versa - same physical event - completely different emotional and cognitive outcomes rubschin:
That is because he went in the mens and you went in the laydees... ::)
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Absolutely agreed. Think about it. We live our lives through stories: old photos, soaps, films, novels, history, news, newspapers, anecdotes, jokes, posts on here, the report I am writing now - all stories. Stories make sense of stuff.They are atavistic. Reality is just too messy, one damn thing after another, we select and shape to communicate
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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rubschin:
Who is that on your left. An imaginary friend?
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Ahh... not a care in the werld like.... cloud9:
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rubschin:
Who is that on your left. An imaginary friend?
Some of the photography leaves a little to be desired! lol:
I actually cropped-off a load more of that wall... noooo:
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Was it some of your early handywork ? scared2:
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Was it some of your early handywork ? scared2:
I don't think they had self-timers on Kodak Instamatics... lol:
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lol:
I meant the wall brickhead whistle:
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lol:
I meant the wall brickhead whistle:
Oh... redface:
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I have also been scanning in some old slides. There seem to be a lot missing, think the ex Mrs Tel may have got them.
Question - does anybody's other half object to them having piccies of ex's etc?
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Not me, IMHO if you are with a person you are with them because of who they are and they are who they are because of their past what on earth is the point of trying to pretend it did not happen.
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I have also been scanning in some old slides. There seem to be a lot missing, think the ex Mrs Tel may have got them.
Question - does anybody's other half object to them having piccies of ex's etc?
Yes. eeek:
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I do have piccies of my ex but they are not objected to.
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We have history. Sorry ::). Whaddya want? Some Stalinist rewrite? eeek:
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So you and Tel eh rubschin:
Well I'm glad you've sorted out your differences now cloud9:
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I have also been scanning in some old slides. There seem to be a lot missing, think the ex Mrs Tel may have got them.
Question - does anybody's other half object to them having piccies of ex's etc?
Current wife expressed some surprise that I had only two photo's that showed my ex. Two pictures covering 20 years? See explanation given in a previous post.
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I have actually still got (wear) the engagment ring from the ex Mrs Tel.
Not the wedding band though.
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I have also been scanning in some old slides. There seem to be a lot missing, think the ex Mrs Tel may have got them.
Question - does anybody's other half object to them having piccies of ex's etc?
Oh yes... scared2:
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I have also been scanning in some old slides. There seem to be a lot missing, think the ex Mrs Tel may have got them.
Question - does anybody's other half object to them having piccies of ex's etc?
Oh yes... scared2:
That may depend on the sort of picture BM ~ those of ex's taken with a Polaroid and a lot of alcohol are normally frowned on noooo: I don't really understand it either.
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or the ones that he claims are ex's when he's never met them before in his life whistle:
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or the ones that he claims are ex's when he's never met them before in his life whistle:
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