Golden Globes/Baftas/Oscars... etc.

[goldencup]

I saw Gareth a couple of weeks ago.  It was at a conference about speech therapy or something and I happened to be in the same hotel.

[drterror666]

Did he have a sp-, er, a sp-, oh, a sp-. Did he have a sp-.

I give up!

[loulou]

Did he say hello and did you ask him if that stutter was put on for votes.

[wjp666]

what's his hair look like these days? mullet, spike or neither?

[goldencup]

I am the most unobservant person in the world so I wouldn't have even known it was him if somebody hadn't pointed him out (and then I saw his name on the posters).  Didn't speak to him and I don't remember what his hair was like!

[wjp666]

poor old gareth, blending into the crowd like that.

[drterror666]

He'd better get used to it.

[oldspice]

I am the most unobservant person in the world so I wouldn't have even known it was him if somebody hadn't pointed him out (and then I saw his name on the posters).  Didn't speak to him and I don't remember what his hair was like!

I am exactly the same. Many years ago - when I worked near the TV AM studios in Camden Town - I served David Frost with dried fruit mix several times a week when he was at the height of his fame and never even recognised him! He eventually asked me if I ever watch TV !

[goldencup]

In extreme cases (I'm borderline) it's called prosopagnosia.  We'd be very useful witnesses to anything wouldn't we!  If I've just met a new person I might remember their voice, their clothes or accessories but rarely their face.  People talk about having trouble putting a name to the face but for me it's the other way round - I remember the name but not what the person looked like!

[wjp666]

i've been asked on a few occasions to give a police statement/id, and i am absolutely hopeless at it. be it size, height, hair, age, colour... i shudder to think at all the criminals on the loose because of me.

on that note - anyone see weymouth on the tv this week? we had our first proper armed robbery/carjacking! yay!

[drterror666]

I thought crime was just one of those things in Weymouth? That's what an ex once said to me.

[wjp666]

no, no, no - i think alot of weymouth's bad press stems from a documentary a few years back that declared it the worst town in the uk for crime! it amused all of us locals when that show aired, as it seemed they acquired all their statistics from simply interviewing local pensioners and asking them if they'd walk the streets at night... of course they all said no (as they would ANYWHERE in the uk), and because of the extreme amount of old folks we have down here it all looked bad when converted into stats.  no, weymouth is a very safe area of the uk. and things like this are very unusual indeed.