Page 11 | The Mandela Effect

Bellver888 · 2021-03-07T23:32:10+00:00

Has anyone experienced it? I’m currently sending my head backwards and forwards because I thought “Vimto” was “Vimpto”

shinynewapple21 · 08/03/2021 16:42

I have never heard of the Mandela effect before in respect of news of him dying in the 1980s. My 1980's memories are of the Free Nelson Mandela song, the T shirts , and there was a concert . So as someone who was late teens/early 20s in the 80s I find the idea of a collective memory of him dying very odd.

I would have sworn the crisp packets changed colour, although I am prepared to accept it was different makes of crisps being sold .

shinynewapple21 · 08/03/2021 16:49

@FedNlanders

This looks blue

£150 for an empty crisp packet

Wow I'm going to empty my waste bin and stick it all on eBay

LakieLady · 08/03/2021 16:56

@sashh

My friends and I also collectively misremember 9/11 which is odd given that we were all together when the news broke live.

I don't think this is surprising, I have false memories. I KNOW I'd had a nap, woke up and put the TV on and it was showing.. well that's where my false memory started.

I think that over the next few days the same footage was shown over and over again with the second plane hitting I 'remember' it, but I'm not sure I do.

My memory of that day is strange and doesn't seem real.

We had been in the supermarket when it happened. We came out, got in the car and the R4 came on, and it was the time in the afternoon when they normally have a play. It was about 10 minutes before I said to my ex "This sounds really real" and it was another 5 minutes before we were confident that this was actual news and not fiction.

We watched the news channel when we got home, but my memory of when I thought it was a play seems far more real than my memory of when I knew it was real, if that makes sense.

A couple of days earlier, we'd been talking about the infamous broadcast of "War of the Worlds", when many listeners had mistaken for a genuine news item and thought there really had been an alien invasion. I wonder if this influenced our perception.

Vanillaradio · 08/03/2021 17:00

I'm originally from Leicestershire. Walkers Crisps were the dominant brand there because they were made in Leicester, they were my favourite flavour and in the 80s I was only allowed them as a special treat. The packets were green! Golden Wonder were blue.
I do remember being taught that there were 52 states, with Hawaii and Alaska being the two extra but like a pp I may have been taught wrongly.

coldemortreturns · 08/03/2021 17:07

I'm sure I voted in the 97 election. For years I said it was the only time I voted labour... but I couldnt have as I would have been 17. It must have been the 2001 election, but that would have been when I was at uni, yet i clearly remember going to the polling station in my home village! Memory is indeed a funny thing.

shinynewapple21 · 08/03/2021 17:07

@lottiegarbanzo yes I remember those

dotdashdashdash · 08/03/2021 17:08

@coldemortreturns

I'm sure I voted in the 97 election. For years I said it was the only time I voted labour... but I couldnt have as I would have been 17. It must have been the 2001 election, but that would have been when I was at uni, yet i clearly remember going to the polling station in my home village! Memory is indeed a funny thing.

The 2001 election was June. I don't know about your uni, but mine had usually finished mid - late May, so you could have ben home?

MyCatHatesEverybody · 08/03/2021 17:15

@StillCoughingandLaughing

Does anyone remember when, for a while, Hyundai started pronouncing it ‘Hyun-day’ in all their ads, when it always used to be ‘Hi-yun-dye’? Then it suddenly went back to being ‘Hi-yun-dye’ again.

I still haven't come to to terms with Nestle being pronounced Nesslay as opposed to Nessles!

And what's with Ikea being Ikkayeh now? It's wrong, just wrong

ConnieDobbs · 08/03/2021 17:19

The Mandela effect is my favourite conspiracy theory because whenever you are proved wrong about something you can just blame the Mandela effect. Meaning that you were a. Actually correct, and b. Less susceptible to brainwashing than everyone else who unquestioningly accepted the new version of events.

coldemortreturns · 08/03/2021 17:19

That would make sense, however I also clearly remember voting for the LDs at my university town! I went with my housemate.
However if it was in June then I should have been home so maybe that's the fake memory! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Shufflebudge · 08/03/2021 17:26

Mmmm mignon morceaux - loved them!

StillCoughingandLaughing · 08/03/2021 17:42

And what's with Ikea being Ikkayeh now? It's wrong, just wrong

Lidl became ‘Leedul’ instead of ‘Liddle’ for a while. I think ‘Leedul’ is the traditional pronunciation in German, so is technically correct, but it just didn’t take off... plus, someone in their marketing department clearly realised ‘Liddle’ rhymes with ‘middle’ - hence their most famous campaign was born

Cactus1982 · 08/03/2021 17:49

My parents are both convinced they watched the Hillsborough disaster happen live, but it was never shown live in the U.K. The footage you see was taken from the BBC who were recording highlights to be shown later on Match of The Day.

Yet they won’t have it and they both saw it happen live.

gurglebelly · 08/03/2021 17:56

@Bloodylovecheese

The man on the monopoly board doesn't have a monicle....mind blowing

🤯

Besom · 08/03/2021 18:03

The footage of 9/11 is so vivid I could easily convince myself that I watched it live. Except I know that I was at work and could not possibly have done. There was no TV or anything. I am just conflating the vivid memory of the shock of hearing about it with the pictures I saw later in the day.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 08/03/2021 18:08

I still haven't come to to terms with Nestle being pronounced Nesslay as opposed to Nessles! And what's with Ikea being Ikkayeh now? It's wrong, just wrong

That reminds me of my mother to some extent. She was incandescent with rage at A BRITISH COMPANY HAVING THEIR NAME CHANGED TO KEEP FOREIGNS HAPPY. Mind you, she'd disagree about it being Ikayeh or Eyekeeer - as far as she was concerned, it was Ikendo, 'like the flower arranging'.

I didn't bother telling her when I had a short term contract at Total.

coldemortreturns · 08/03/2021 18:09

@Cactus1982

My parents are both convinced they watched the Hillsborough disaster happen live, but it was never shown live in the U.K. The footage you see was taken from the BBC who were recording highlights to be shown later on Match of The Day.

Yet they won’t have it and they both saw it happen live.

No...... that's pretty much my first proper memory watching it with my dad??

Angel2702 · 08/03/2021 18:10

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

Me too Harriet. I remember as clear as day Cheese and onion crisps were green and salt and vinegar were blue. The colours were switched in about 1992.

That’s because golden wonder were the main brand back then not walkers and they did use the colours the other way round.

Howshouldibehave · 08/03/2021 18:12

@coldemortreturns

That would make sense, however I also clearly remember voting for the LDs at my university town! I went with my housemate. However if it was in June then I should have been home so maybe that's the fake memory! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

1997 election was very early May. It was my first time voting and I was still at my university address.

boltfromtheblueblue · 08/03/2021 18:12

That reminds me of my mother to some extent. She was incandescent with rage at A BRITISH COMPANY HAVING THEIR NAME CHANGED TO KEEP FOREIGNS HAPPY

Did you tell her they were Swiss?

gurglebelly · 08/03/2021 18:19

@NoNotHimTheOtherOne

I was thinking about this phenomenon yesterday (I didn't know it was called the Mandela effect).

I can clearly remember watching Princess Diana's funeral on a particular television set in a particular flat. Only her funeral was in Sep 2007, and I moved out of that flat in Jun 2006 (and never went back). So my very clear memory is obviously wrong.

Princess Diana died in 1997!

DahliaMacNamara · 08/03/2021 18:33

I have a vivid memory of travelling from my home address to my university one specifically to use my vote in a marginal seat during a general election...except that the only general election it could have been was in my final year, and there's no way I would have been at home at that time. I wasn't even there during the holidays. Who knows what I've confused that with.

lifeturnsonadime · 08/03/2021 18:39

9/11 is a strange one for me , i clearly remember hearing the reports on the radio in the car on the way to a meeting (and discussing it at that meeting). But because of the time difference that must be wrong, it must have been on the way back as I was in a theatre the otherside of the country by 7.30pm. I remember pulling on to service station in shock and watching the second plane hit.

Shopliftersoftheworldunite · 08/03/2021 18:42

My mother and I were surprised that Johnny Briggs only died last week - thought he had died years ago! For some reason I think I’ve misremembered his on-screen death as well, I swear he was in a bed with a pink blanket, but I’ve googled and he died in the arms of Ken Barlow. I think I’ve mashed his on-screen death with Alma’s on-screen death and turned it into his real-life death in my brain!

JustJustWhy · 08/03/2021 18:43

@Confusedandshaken

Many years ago an ex BF and I went to a screening of the film Pretty in Pink in `Leicester Square. It was an excellent deal. We saw a new movie for free with a goody bag of snacks thrown in. We were young and broke so we were thrilled. In return we had to complete a questionnaire about the film. We both wrote than we were unhappy with the ending and thought the heroine had ended up with the wrong guy. Imagine my surprise when I watched the movie on tv with DC about 20 years later and in that version she ended up with the right guy! It made me unreasonably happy.

Love this story!