Recognising people

Malt_Vinegar · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:21

Do you look a bit odd, OP?

Predicament · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:21

Are you unusually goodlooking?

Strife212 · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:22

Monserrat said:
Maybe it's my eyesight (I wear a -26.5 lens),

Monserrat said:
I wear hearing aids being deaf, so it might be that. Otherwise I'm just a bit chubby, nothing distinct.

Well this probably explains it?

aproctor · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:25

Cosimo · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:29

Do you have a very long pointy nose?

Monkey Puzzle · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:33

aproctor said:

Yep, it's a person.

Monkeymatt · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:35

I don't like to admit it, but people remember me for being the sexiest man alive

Cosimo · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:36

Monkeymatt said:
I don't like to admit it, but people remember me for being the sexiest man alive

Is that one or two people?

Wires · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:40

Whenever im out with my gf I see countless people and they say Hi ect but whenever im out on my own I stroll along like im not there

Some people are nice and want to say hi others really dont care imo ;p

Overslop · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:52

Monserrat said:
I'm interested in how well OcUKers recognise people - on the bus, bus stop, café, pub, work and people you've not seen for years. Maybe it's my eyesight (I wear a -26.5 lens), but people regularly seem to recognise me and I haven't the faintest idea who they are. Like for example:

1. I live in Stafford and sometimes go clubbing in Birmingham. A girl comes up to me and say "are you from Stafford?" And I'm like "yeah, how did you know?" "Oh I've just seen you about".

2. We employ a new lady in purchasing. She recognised me, saying that she's seen me on the bus countless times. Yet she's 6' 4", so I should have seen and remembered her but once again I'm clueless.

3. I go on holiday to Tenby, some 220 miles away. When queuing up at an ice cream van, an elderly couple spots me and said "We live just down the road from where you are in Stafford!"

Then I get people from uni who I've not known and say hi to me. Plus, I've had people correctly identifying me from the old Sundissential board (same user name), yet I have no ability of my own to suss them out from photos.

Is what I've written here regarded as normal? Are people usually this good at recognition?

Translation - I stick out like a bloody iron-spiked ***** in a nunnery.

atpbx · 2 Feb 2011 at 18:02

One of my biggest failings is my poor memory for names and faces.

I have been approached by loads of people who say "hi john, hows things?"

I just have to give them a blank look and bluff untill they say something about either where we worked, trained, went to school because I literally will not have a clue.

I was filling the car up a couple of weeks ago and a guy pulled up at the next pump and said, "blimey, long time no see john, hows things? still at Interlink?"

Now I dont remember this guy at all, certainly dont remember working with him, and he doesnt look like any of the customers I used to deliver to or collect from, so I figure he knows me from football or something.

No, it turns out he DID work with me at Interlink, and I fired him for not being a very good driver.

Honestly, not a clue, seemed a nice guy though,

J1234 · 2 Feb 2011 at 18:04

Overslop said:
Translation - I stick out like a bloody iron-spiked ***** in a nunnery.

Loony-Luke · 2 Feb 2011 at 18:13

I don't really forget people because I have a photographic memory, but the problem I have is that its out of film :S

starfighter · 2 Feb 2011 at 19:06

I am very good at spotting random things, especially geeky stuff no one else would but when it comes to people I am hopeless.

Me and my friends try and "spot" people in movies from previous ones and i am hopeless. My mate will be like that extra had a minor part in some film from 10 years ago and I am like WTF. :eek:

Some people are better at different things I suppose. I have never been a "people person".

footman · 2 Feb 2011 at 19:22

you have 744 doppelgängers.

Pawnless Endgame · 2 Feb 2011 at 19:31

Yamahahahahaha said:
-26.5? Are you sure?
I'm pretty blind and that's only -6.5!

I'm definitely -26.5. Without it, you're essentially looking through a frosted glass window. Wearing it, I see about 2 metres.

PhillyDee · 2 Feb 2011 at 20:38

Ive never ever seen a prescription worse than -12!!!!

Personally, I have a form of face blindness. I can sometimes recognise people, but no idea where, when, or what there names are. Its very very difficult to remember a name of someone I have know less than a couple of years. And even after a few months I have already forgotten their name!

burns · 2 Feb 2011 at 20:50

Monserrat said:
I'm definitely -26.5. Without it, you're essentially looking through a frosted glass window. Wearing it, I see about 2 metres.

Even with them you only see about 2 meters? That would explain not recognizing people then! You thought about contacts? I was talking to my optician a while back about whether contacts would be a good idea for me (about -10.5) and he reckoned over -20 or so glasses just don't work. I'm sure you've thought about those options though

PhillyDee · 2 Feb 2011 at 20:53

burns said:
Even with them you only see about 2 meters? That would explain not recognizing people then! You thought about contacts? I was talking to my optician a while back about whether contacts would be a good idea for me (about -10.5) and he reckoned over -20 or so glasses just don't work. I'm sure you've thought about those options though

1" thick contact lens . . .

bigchez · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:59

OT poss but Monserrat did you used to be on Fruit Forums years ago?