birchesgreen
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When your youngest cousin, who you still clearly remember bouncing on your knee as a baby, celebrates her 45th birthday.
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I think I've heard of most of the very biggest names in music, though I am more interested in music than film.
That said, it's possible that the biggest selling artists today are not the ones that I think they are, so it's conceivable that I too haven't heard of half of them!
birchesgreen
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There are so many artists now i don't know how anyone could know more than a few, the days where popular music revolved around the charts are long gone.
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That's a debatable term!
I could rattle off the mixers/DJ's/singers from my favourite genre of music that I listen to the majority of the time, but if anyone asked me any singer or group in the current (equivalent of) the top 30; not a chance. Must add; my hotel last weekend played "Smooth radio" over it's public area speakers every hour of the day, which meant listening to all the garbage I have hated over all the years and just wish I'd never have to listen to again!! But I feel for the poor souls who work there and have to put up with it all the time.
gg1
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When I first started my working life I had a number of jobs where being subjected to the godawful music in the charts at the time was something you just had to put up with. Thankfully it's been over 20 years since I've worked anywhere where having a radio on in the background was considered acceptable. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone who has the same experience in their workplace.
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When a 'night out on the piss' becomes all too literal. 
My sister is quite a bit older than me. I became a great uncle for the first time before I was 30!
It appears to me that the whole uncles / aunts / nephews / nieces business, can be rather bonkers. I had reached a fair age before I became aware that it's possible -- though far from common -- for an uncle / aunt to be younger than their nephew / niece. (Not anyone I know personally -- just a situation which I read about.)
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You know when you are getting old when people assume that you listen to (a form of) Smooth radio. No I don't! I can (just about) remember the Summer of Love and Prog Rock, certainly Psychedelia, the Punk era and post Punk, Folk Rock and Goth Rock, Indie and New Wave (and other forms I've forgotten the names of). I like some music from all of these, my tastes haven't changed, just added too. Just because I am old doesn't mean the radio is permanently tuned to Radio Quiet.
D6130
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I've edited that for you! (Thinking of Joanna Lumley or Carol Kirkwood perhaps?)
I've edited that for you! (Thinking of Joanna Lumley or Carol Kirkwood perhaps?)
No not comparing her to any "celebrity" just beautiful in her own right, and intelligent.
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How much younger? My parents had a nearly thirty year age gap.
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My neighbour's 50th birthday party taking place right now is graced by her 78 year old father who has come from Ibiza with his 38 year old wife, her stepmother!
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There was 22 years between my late wife and her youngest sister. Although my daughter is very close in age to her youngest aunt, she’s still not quite older than her. I don’t think it’s so unusual.
The mind turns -- perhaps especially with its being St. Patrick's Day -- to the recorded info concerning Denis Cooroobee of County Galway, life-span reputedly 1687 to 1804: who in his seven marriages (all correctly done as per the Church's regulations, each following on decease of preceding spouse -- last of the seven, solemnised when he was aged 93) -- fathered 84 children (with, down the line, 236 grandchildren and 944 great-grandchildren). One feels that Mr. Cooroobee's activities must have led to a fair number of "family-members-related-to, how" anomalies.
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I wonder where you get this information from. I've looked through a list of the 50 oldest people in the world whose details could be verified, very few of whom were men, and the oldest male died at a few days after his 116th birthday and wasn't named Cooroobee, nor does his name appear on the list. The second oldest male fell well short of the longevity of the first, too.
If the other information is correct, I am assuming that each succeeding wife's age deficit compared to Denis the Menace's grew inexorably: the reasons for death entered on their certificates might also have made interesting reading.
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And everyone of them spawned a diaspora of relatives who claim that that is why they put on a green jumper on 17 March and go out to make themselves sick on Guinness, which they don’t like but you have to have it for the craic on St Patrick’s Day. And all because their great-great-great…great-grandfather forgot his birthdate.
The "gen" showed up -- unattributed -- on the Settlement Association game in the "Quizzes and Games" sub-forum of RailUKForums a couple of years ago. Couldn't vouch for the accuracy of any of it -- I just find it delightfully and irresistibly mad ! (I gather that there is a Jewish well-wishing expression, "May you live to the age of a hundred and twenty" -- seems that Denis managed it, all-but !)I wonder where you get this information from. I've looked through a list of the 50 oldest people in the world whose details could be verified, very few of whom were men, and the oldest male died at a few days after his 116th birthday and wasn't named Cooroobee, nor does his name appear on the list. The second oldest male fell well short of the longevity of the first, too.
If the other information is correct, I am assuming that each succeeding wife's age deficit compared to Denis the Menace's grew inexorably: the reasons for death entered on their certificates might also have made interesting reading.
I'd rather doubt that they had death certificates in 18th-century Ireland -- but what do I know
?Off-at-a-tangent: but that expression "the craic", irrationally and immoderately pee's me off. The "illegitimate offspring of two languages" factor, for me doesn't help. It somehow feels so smug ... nice to think that the Irish can at times, be as boring and conversationally-challenged as anybody else. I treasure the memory of my only visit to Cork, not quite a decade ago -- went for an evening drink to a pub, close to my B & B, a bit dreading the potential hullabaloo. Turned out to be the total reverse: definite quietude -- the place was deserted, save for four people at a table, in quiet and seemingly serious converse, and the TV subduedly burbling away in the background. For not-very-sociable me, the epitome of pub heaven.
Ashley Hill
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I remember when pubs would decorate themselves with Irish flags and sell cheap Guinness on St Patrick’s Day. Doesn’t seem to happen these days.
It definitely does!
D6130
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No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!
No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!
I was buying 4 guiness for £12 on Sat night (…checks photos…) - ah they were ‘baby guiness’. That explains the headache on Sunday!
Ashley Hill
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5 for £12 in my local
. I was introduced to these a year or two ago by the barmaid. Having not done shots since my early 20s I found it a whole lot more pleasant than the Flaming Sambucas of my youth.
75A
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I don't think £4.80 a pint is too bad, that's what my 'local' charges.No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!
Xenophon PCDGS
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When you remember those long-off days in the "Top Juniors" in the mid-1950s when the class always had the singing of English folk songs as part of the curriculum, when the words of the chorus of one song " Dashing away with the smoothing iron" always conjured the vision of a woman shoplifting in the local hardware store.
dangie
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Just been to Paris for a few days. Large (500ml) Guinness in an ’Irish’ Bar was 9 euros. I had a German Pilsner as I find that Guinness doesn’t travel well. In fact it doesn’t travel well once it gets outside of Ireland
Ashley Hill
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Nigerian Guinness travels very well. If you ever see any in this country try it. Powerful coffee/liquorice flavour with a yellowish head.
dangie
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They sell it in Home Bargains. About 7ish%. Problem is it doesn't taste like Guinness.