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That is hilarious. It's a real life example of catastrophic forgetting.


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It is probably catastrophic forgetting.

Catastrophic Forgetting

luckily this happens all the time since people often forget. i know i do.

Oh, that sounds really dangerous to forget / happen

Amazing how quickly people forget the past.

Trust me, people forget everything.

To be fair to real life there's a reasonable chance of forgetting :)

The scariest thing to me is how fast people forget.

some people "forget"

How quickly people forget :)

How quickly some people seem to forget...

The forgetting is happening in the present time. The subject, at this moment, forgets about something that happened in the past.

They've realized this many times, only to forget the next day.

It's convenient to forget them, so people forget them.

it's not that we haven't learned, it's just that the forgetting is so good.

Remember: forgetting is useful.

why does anyone forget?

How quickly people forget history.

We forget this very often.
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