Classic boy forced to dress as a girl movie

[transboy]

Apologies if this has been posted before. Just found a classic part of a movie where a boy is forced to dress as a girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0lpHTbkU84

[Betty]

Thanks. I vaguely remember seeing clips of it before, but not here. I think this was a hard to find non-english European TV show, so either didn't make it into my collection, or were one of those on tapes that I lost during the 2007 fire.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

According to my records videos were posted here back in January 2007. I saved several of them as The Mudchild but I can't find the film on IMDB. There have been other films with the same title. It was posted as a series of clips showing him wearing the dress but the first clip, which shows him in the shower, was removed from Youtube as inappropriate because of the very brief scene which shows him completely nude when the woman realizes he's a boy and not her daughter. Those few seconds have been excised from the clip posted. As it was ten years ago I may be the only one who remembers this.

Andy G.

[transboy]

I remember it being Youtube and wondered what happened to it. Thanks for the info Andy

[ace]

.... As it was ten years ago I may be the only one who remembers this.

The alzheimers hasn't kicked in yet Andy, I remember the links here and would have d-loaded them myself, stored in the plethora of backups ... somewhere!

Don't remember the detail of the movies or even that they were lifted from you tube, but what I do recall was he seemed pretty at ease with having to wear the dress.

If you say it was 2007 that might point me to it in my archives ... I'll have a look!

A

[andyg0404]

Hi Ace,

When it comes to time I always refer back to Steven Wright's comment:

"Four years ago... No, it was yesterday. "

I've reached an age where I remember things from years ago but when sitting down to dinner sometimes I can't remember if I took my pill or not. That and going upstairs and not remembering why when I get there.

Andy G.

[Betty]

Last week when I made coffee, I forgot the most important thing... put in some coffee! But I don't think age has anything to do with it, I remember doing that a few times in my teens.

It's like walking into a room, & then forgetting why the hell you went in there.

If you go to the store for just 5 items, if you didn't put them on a list, there's a good chance you'll forget one of the items no matter what age you are.

[cutepatti]

We're not old..........

[Betty]

The absent-minded professor is really smart! I find those people who win on the TV game Jeopardy because they remember all sorts of pointless trivia, like what was George Washington's brother-in-law's middle name, live relatively uncomplicated, uneventful lives. Yeah they get University Professors & scientists on the show, but look who's coming up with the correct answers to stuff no normal person would ever memorize.

A study done by the Neuron Journal suggests that forgetting is actually a natural brain process that might actually even make you smarter at the end of the day.

A study by professors at the University of Toronto found that having a perfect memory might have nothing to do with your intelligence. In fact, forgetting the occasional detail might even make you smarter. The person who remembers the most things is seen to be the smartest. The study, however, found that forgetting the occasional detail is normal. In fact, remembering the big picture as opposed to little details is better for your brain and your safety, in the long run.

Our brains are actually a lot smarter than we think. Our brains are so smart that the hippocampus (where memories are stored) weeds out many details. This helps us to optimize intelligent decision making by holding onto what’s important and letting go of what’s not.

This theory makes sense when you think about how it’s more important to remember someone’s face than name. Both might be ideal for social purposes, but if we were in the animal kingdom, remembering someone or something’s face as being a threat will keep us alive, as opposed to remembering their name.

The brain doesn’t just decide what is and important to remember, it actually retains new memories and overwrites old ones. When a brain is too crowded with memories, they are more likely to conflict and interfere with efficient decision making.

Retaining “the big picture” memories is becoming less and less important for us humans with improvements in technology and our access to information. It’s more useful for us evolutionarily to know how to Google the spelling of a word, or how to install a shower head than it is for us to remember exactly how to do it.

By no means should anyone be forgetting everything, but it’s perfectly OK and healthy to overlook or forget a minor detail once in a while.

So the next time you forget something, just remember that it’s just your brain doing its job.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

I enjoyed this brief item from the Ask Marilyn column in Parade Magazine.

Why does repetition help us remember a phone number long enough to make a call?

—Emily Harrison, Nashville, Tennessee

Memory is a complicated subject. But in general, short-term memory can hold about seven to 10 items and lasts between 15 to 30 seconds. (Both limits vary from person to person.) So if we are able to repeat a sequence within that period, we can effectively reset the time clock. And we can do that again and again. But if something interrupts us for more than a few seconds, and our time clock runs out—poof! The memory is gone. We need to look at the phone number and start all over again.

This explains why when I'm talking to my friend on the phone and he interrupts I sometimes lose the thread of what I was saying. Most of the time I can bring it back but sometimes it's lost and I don't remember until much later after I've hung up.

Many years ago I used to listen to a radio personality, Steve Post, when he had a night time show on WBAI, a non-profit radio station, in New York. One night he had on Paul Krassner who was the editor of a radical newspaper, The Realist. They just talked and moved from topic to topic. At one point one of them asked the other how they had gotten on the subject they were discussing. Even then I was mightily impressed when they backtracked and got back to the original topic.

Andy G.