The Mandela Effect: False Memory

Iris said:
My fake memory is from last Friday.
This is the day the bins are emptied and collected which could be anytime.
I was sure that I saw the recycle one come quite early but as it was drizzly I left it till the other one was emptied.
That wasn't till after 1 o'clock so I left the bins till after 2 so that I could check the letterbox at the same time.
I pulled the bins back in and had just finished when the collection truck came down the court.
Looked in the bin and my rubbish was still there of course.
I was not pleased.
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On Bin Day the nearby care home's skips are noisily emptied at about 6am which used to have me waking up and springing out of bed, thinking we'd overslept and missed our collection. :chuckle:
 
My bins are collected very early on a Wednesday morning. I put my bin out on Tuesday afternoon (I'm usually working Tuesday night and it's too late to pull it out when I get home, and I'm NOT getting up early on Wednesday morning!). Once or twice I've been sure I've heard the bin lorry collecting and gone to the yard to collect my bin, only to find it's still full. I think, half asleep I hear people pulling their bins out and mishear it as a collection.
 
catseye said:
My bins are collected very early on a Wednesday morning. I put my bin out on Tuesday afternoon (I'm usually working Tuesday night and it's too late to pull it out when I get home, and I'm NOT getting up early on Wednesday morning!). Once or twice I've been sure I've heard the bin lorry collecting and gone to the yard to collect my bin, only to find it's still full. I think, half asleep I hear people pulling their bins out and mishear it as a collection.
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I've never lived anywhere where they change the bin times as much as this town.
Everywhere else, you can roughly say to within half an hour, but not here.
 
Floyd1 said:
I've never lived anywhere where they change the bin times as much as this town.
Everywhere else, you can roughly say to within half an hour, but not here.
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It's usually around 9am here, but because it's so rural there can be a huge number of things that hold up the lorry. Once, it fell off the driveway up to a farm and they had to get special equipment out to get it back up again.
 
Here's one of my very own Mandela Effect mistaken memories.

Last night the fillum Fist of Fury came up on the TV menu. I remember this one coming out and may even have been dragged to the cinema to see it, having certainly watched Enter the Dragon at the Hanley Gaumont.

However, I remember the title as Fists of Fury, in the plural, complete with a poster showing Bruce Lee leaping in the air with with both his fists extended. The actual furious fists, y'know.

Nope, it's 'Fist' and always has been. No poster I can find shows him waving fists.
Anyway, Lee doesn't go in for punching. He's more into acrobatic kicking.

My longstanding apathy towards martial arts has brought this about.
 
escargot said:
Here's one of my very own Mandela Effect mistaken memories.

Last night the fillum Fist of Fury came up on the TV menu. I remember this one coming out and may even have been dragged to the cinema to see it, having certainly watched Enter the Dragon at the Hanley Gaumont.

However, I remember the title as Fists of Fury, in the plural, complete with a poster showing Bruce Lee leaping in the air with with both his fists extended. The actual furious fists, y'know.

Nope, it's 'Fist' and always has been. No poster I can find shows him waving fists.
Anyway, Lee doesn't go in for punching. He's more into acrobatic kicking.

My longstanding apathy towards martial arts has brought this about.
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I also would have sworn it was Fists. Saw it when it was first out.
 
Maybe we were too young to grasp that the Fist with the Fury is actually Bruce Lee's character in the fillum, rather than how he metes out the punishment?
 
Maybe you’re conflating it with this:

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hunck said:
Maybe you’re conflating it with this:

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Nah, hadn't seen that before now. As I said, I take no interest.
The poster I thought I saw had Lee doing a typical jump but with his fists held out in front.

Like this drawing, only with both his knees bent and the fists more prominent.

It's all in my head. :chuckle:
 

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I don't know if this is the right place (it reminds me of the thread where someone dies and you think they'd died years ago).
Some little oik has chainsawed down an iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...amous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england
But I thought that exact tree had been blown over or otherwise bit it, some time ago. I'm sure I remember seeing photos and reading stories from people lamenting it.
Was it another tree somewhere else? It's a bit difficult now to google it.
Am I going mad
Or have I crossed into a different time line
This has genuinely confused me this evening.
 
In Blade runner I'm sure Rutger Hauer says 'I want more life, fucker'. Another time I'm sure he says 'I want more life, father '. I'm unsure what he says or perhaps different versions dubbed it differently.
 
Eponastill said:
I don't know if this is the right place (it reminds me of the thread where someone dies and you think they'd died years ago).
Some little oik has chainsawed down an iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...amous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england
But I thought that exact tree had been blown over or otherwise bit it, some time ago. I'm sure I remember seeing photos and reading stories from people lamenting it.
Was it another tree somewhere else? It's a bit difficult now to google it.
Am I going mad
Or have I crossed into a different time line
This has genuinely confused me this evening.
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You're not mistaking it for the Glastonbury Thorn are you? That got chopped some years ago. Another, iconic tree.
 
Eponastill said:
I don't know if this is the right place (it reminds me of the thread where someone dies and you think they'd died years ago).
Some little oik has chainsawed down an iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...amous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england
But I thought that exact tree had been blown over or otherwise bit it, some time ago. I'm sure I remember seeing photos and reading stories from people lamenting it.
Was it another tree somewhere else? It's a bit difficult now to google it.
Am I going mad
Or have I crossed into a different time line
This has genuinely confused me this evening.
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There was a 250 year old one that blew down back in April in the Midlands- maybe you'd read about that?
 
escargot said:
Here's one of my very own Mandela Effect mistaken memories.

Last night the fillum Fist of Fury came up on the TV menu. I remember this one coming out and may even have been dragged to the cinema to see it, having certainly watched Enter the Dragon at the Hanley Gaumont.

However, I remember the title as Fists of Fury, in the plural, complete with a poster showing Bruce Lee leaping in the air with with both his fists extended. The actual furious fists, y'know.

Nope, it's 'Fist' and always has been. No poster I can find shows him waving fists.
Anyway, Lee doesn't go in for punching. He's more into acrobatic kicking.

My longstanding apathy towards martial arts has brought this about.
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Bruce Lee was a Chinese American and quite possibly some of the people around him at the promotional end of things were too.

There are certain grammatical oversights that even naturalised and advanced non-native speakers of English almost invariably make.. These include: not knowing when and when not to use `a/an and the`, overusing present continuous (`I am believing that...`) and...wrong use of singular and plurals.

My guess is that `FistS of Fury` was simply an early grammatical error and one that got out (to the Carnforth Palladium or whatever, anyway) before someone corrected it.
 
Zeke Newbold said:
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American and quite possibly some of the people around him at the promotional end of things were too.

There are certain grammatical oversights that even naturalised and advanced non-native speakers of English almost invariably make.. These include: not knowing when and when not to use `a/an and the`, overusing present continuous (`I am believing that...`) and...wrong use of singular and plurals.

My guess is that `FistS of Fury` was simply an early grammatical error and one that got out (to the Carnforth Palladium or whatever, anyway) before someone corrected it.
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Possibly, but there's no mention of it online which I'd expect there to be. Everything about Lee is continually dissected by fans. There might even be a novelty value attached to an incorrect poster.

I just misheard it and assumed both fists were involved.
 
When I first heard about this reported phenomenon, I swear it was called 'The Mandelbrot Effect'! What happened, that it's now named after the deceased politician? :chuckle:
 
Eponastill said:
I don't know if this is the right place (it reminds me of the thread where someone dies and you think they'd died years ago).
Some little oik has chainsawed down an iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...amous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england
But I thought that exact tree had been blown over or otherwise bit it, some time ago. I'm sure I remember seeing photos and reading stories from people lamenting it.
Was it another tree somewhere else? It's a bit difficult now to google it.
Am I going mad
Or have I crossed into a different time line
This has genuinely confused me this evening.
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Seems that there are thoughts that the Gap Tree was one of a number. . .
*see: Wikipedia - 'Sycamore Gap Tree'
'clarification' does mention that there probably would have been other trees within the proximity of the Gap.

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While listening to the Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again', I thought I was experiencing a Mandela effect... I just could not find a recording that featured Roger Daltrey's huge scream towards the end. I'd got to the point where I thought I must have imagined it all, then I found this version:
I was much relieved to hear it again. It's really what makes that track work.
I wonder why those other recordings have it removed? Is it because that section features a certain amount of wanton destruction of instruments by Pete Townshend? Or because the scream represents the visceral feeling of rebellion? Or was it just an off-the-cuff addition by Daltrey that only featured on one version of the song? It's the only version I'm familiar with.
 
Now that Mandela is officially dead, I wonder how much longer this phrase will remain relevant? It is effectively meaningless now:).

What will this effect be termed in the future?
 
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