Chess vs. Forums: Which Causes Less Brain Damage?

The scientist photo is Hilarious!!  Where did you get it?

Every night, as we sleep, our brains sift through our memories of that day and pare away the least useful ones to preserve space for the significant ones.  It appears that your brain has made the decision to eliminate "spelling" memories to leave more space for "chess" memories.  Well, good for you, I say! !

It's L. Ron Hubbard. He's using his little meter to detect emotions in tomatoes

I hope the ones I have a little later were happy.

Dr. Strangelove, the movie that also let us know how flouridation was a communist plot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM

Thanks, Ubik!  Great scene from a great movie -- and you're right --it did alert us to the dangers of losing our PBF to the commies.  In fact, you inspired me to check out the "fluoridation" scene.  Wonderful.  I found this quote from General Jack D. Ripper:

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist Infiltration, Communist Indoctrination, Communist Subversion, and the International Communist  Conspiracy (!) --- to sap and impurify -- all of our precious bodily fluids."

That says it all.

i can't tell,...i had brain damage way before there was chess on line or forums  ...in fact my mental illness gets so bad at times, i can't even play chess  ...i'm restricted to my other hobby...collecting guns!

Excellent point, Denis!  Many of us clearly had "Tons o' Brain -- Anomalies(?)" --- Way before the first time we:

1)  Started playing "Online" (**see Endless forum about what to call it**) Chess,

                        Or 

B)  Started our odd, inexorable descent into the strangely fascinating, apparently "bottomless" Rabbit Hole of "the Forums."

Conclusion?  Perhaps my forum topic here is off the mark --- I may have made the "beginner" mistake in psychological research:  proposing my hypothesis with a presumption of Causality, rather than considering the possibility that all we could Possibly determine would be Correlation.  

Surely, Denis, you can see my point, since it is, in fact, the very point that you yourself raised!

(And, of course, as usual when we chat, I must end by apologizing for calling you "Shirley." .... and if that's not a sign of brain damage, then I don't know what is.)

yup, we all ain't what we used to be no more

Chess keeps my brain active. Most forums entertain or inform me. Some forums anger and frustrate me, those forums do my head in,so I do not linger there.

Well, Pam, you have come to the right forum Here --- If anybody here "angers" or 'frustrates" you, you just let me know.  And "heads will roll!"  Because nobody Here is going to cause "brain damage" to my friend Pam! ! 

Hahaha.I will MIL. Though nobody usually tries to anger or frustrate me twice! LOL

I don't understand this 'cause I'm a dude.

Aw, Felix, how sweet!  But, now, I don't know --- were you just trying to be "nice" to "us women" because it's at the end of "Mother's Day?"  

Sorry! I shouldn't look a "gift horse" in the mouth --- I should just say "Thanks!" -- since it's not that often one of our "boys" remembers to be sweet to us because of all we do ... and seriously, how much trouble IS it to send a "thank you note" from time to time? --- Isn't that All We Really ask for?  An occasional card?  A phone call?  A text?  (of course, we mothers don't really know what a "text" is, but, still, it's the "thought" that counts ... we suppose .......) 

So, in summary, I'm So grateful to you for acknowleging that only "dudes" get brain damage!  (Your comment Completely clarifies the issue for me and, I presume, for all women chess players everywhere!) 

Thanks Felix. My Monday morning is much improved now I know that chess and/or forums won't give me brain damage! Still a little concerned for my male chess friends, some of whom are quite cute. But rather them than me!! ROFL

Vive la difference!

Chess is killing me. I want to be a woman!

ROFL

How is chess "killing" you, dear?  You can tell me. .. I'm a woman ...-...

Is the quantity of games have become embroiled in that causes the damage!

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