to think that I cant be the only person who's brain just fucks off occasionally?!

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I just asked Alexa to "Go down....two....volumes" and then started laughing at myself! Alexa, not unreasonably, said "Hmmm...I'm sorry..." :o

I had a friend years ago who couldnt get the word she was looking for and said she was looking to buy "you know... you hang stuff up on it.....a coat.....tree?" She meant a hat stand!

Yes I frequently do the same. Recent gems include "speed-keeper-samer" (cruise control) and "arm trouser leg thing" (sleeve).

I'm struggling to choose which is my favourite!! I think "Speed-keeper-samer" just takes it!

Nope I regularly have brain farts where i forget how to speak / a certain word 😂

I was post 5 months baby brain i need one of them chair thingys that babies sit in to eat

Ya mean high chair, ahhhh yea

Oh I am so happy its not just me!

FYI.....Gary Davies is still being quite loud as every time I try to ask Alexa to go down two volumes, I get the giggles!

Yep me too. Recently couldn't remember the name of the bagpipes, the only words I could get out were "haggis band" I'm Scottish.
Glad it's not just me!

I do this all the time! Describing things quite literally, when I can’t think of the real name / purpose. DH & me have some joke words for household items that were named in such moments. A favourite is “sleeping trousers” for PJ bottoms.

I read a brilliant one on here once where the poster forgot the word for “rug” so called it a floor cardigan instead

@Vispa ‘haggis band’ 🤣

I am bilingual, and recently could NOT find the English word for 'lobster' in my head, so I did a sort of 'snippy hands dance' at my OH for five minutes.

SPOILER ALERT: not a crab.

Yes. I told DS to put the milk in the "keeping cold food cupboard thing" last week as couldn't remember the word for fridge!

A friend used to teach English as a foreign language. She was doing comparatives and superlatives, eg big, bigger, biggest, then she asked the class if anyone know what the equivalents were for the word bad. One bright spark suggested ' bad, badder, baddest' and my friend had a brain fart and told the entire class it was correct. They all obediently wrote it down and used badder and baddest from then on - she was too embarrassed to admit the mistake.

This isn't a word one but I'll often forget how to walk up or down stairs when I'm in the middle of them. It's like I'm fine if my brain's on auto pilot but as soon as I realise what I'm doing I start tripping over myself and don't know where my feet are supposed to go.

Yeah I do this every day - around 4pm usually- I blame my underactive thyroid and 2 small kids but maybe I'm more normal than I thought...
I always seem to be able to come out with overly long words though, just not the right one.
"Pass me the pyrography... excruciating... irascible... pedantic... persimmon... Pyrex bowl! "

i'm not sure why, but I keep finding stairs really difficult if i'm waering a mask.

i used to laugh at my mother when she said "where is the ...thing... you know! Its big and you put the ....orange things in it... It was in the kitchen."

Now I am much more sympathetic when I can't remember that I left the fruit bowl in the dishwasher!

All the time! I have a brain thing though so I just blame it on that usually! I forget the words for things, I forgot what a fridge was the other day and emptied an entire cup of coffee on my lap instead of the blanket I meant to pull on my lap. I also struggle with stairs with a mask. I feel seen!

Stairs.....

At work the stairs really freak me out! I take my glasses off and have to do one cup of (other peoples) tea at a time. I get a sort "falling forward" feelng otherwise.

Umm I can’t fishier out bad, badder and baddest, like I know that’s not correct but in my head it sounds completely right and I cannot think of an alternative??? Bad, worse, worst????

When trying to describe a friends injury to my mum, I couldn’t think of the word ‘swollen’.

‘You should have seen it, her foot…exploded’

And I can’t figure out!

Dd2 is the queen of these! We've had; invitation wrapper (envelope), Christmas box (present) and Pressoec (prosecco) recently. She's 16 and has no excuse!

@TheTempest

All the time! I have a brain thing though so I just blame it on that usually! I forget the words for things, I forgot what a fridge was the other day and emptied an entire cup of coffee on my lap instead of the blanket I meant to pull on my lap. I also struggle with stairs with a mask. I feel seen!

I am waiting to seive my newly made stock because the last time I did it, I poured the lovingly made stock straight down the sink and was left with a colander of ....well crap!

Are you "of a certain age" as I am?!

oh I absolutely love Invitation Wrapper! Thats a new one I am doing on purpose!

I had the COVID booster a couple of weeks ago, and was a total space cadet for over a week. At one point, I was struggling to spell funishure, furnichure, furnizure. You know. Those things you sit on and do stuff on.