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.
I'm usually ok with films but I definitely get that with music.
Around a year ago I came across an animation on YouTube of the top 10 best selling artists in the US by quarter from the 60s to the present day. There was the very occasional one in the 60s or 70s I'd never heard of, I recognised every one from the late 70s to the early 00s but it started to go downhill from there. By the time the lists made it into the mid 2010s I'd heard of less than half of them.
That's a debatable term!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.
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.
My sister is quite a bit older than me. I became a great uncle for the first time before I was 30!You know you’re getting older when you find out you’re going to be not just an Uncle but a Great Uncle…..my eldest niece is having a baby.
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.)My sister is quite a bit older than me. I became a great uncle for the first time before I was 30!
Similar!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.
I've edited that for you! (Thinking of Joanna Lumley or Carol Kirkwood perhaps?)When a beautifulyoungmature woman comes across to your table in the pub when you are sitting with 2 friends and you realise you cannot ever be more than friends.
I've edited that for you! (Thinking of Joanna Lumley or Carol Kirkwood perhaps?)
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!How much younger? My parents had a nearly thirty year age gap.
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.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.)
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.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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.The mind turns -- perhaps especially with its being St. Patrick's Day --
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.
No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!It definitely does!
No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!
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.I was buying 4 guiness for £12 on Sat night (…checks photos…) - ah they were ‘baby guiness’. That explains the headache on Sunday!
I don't think £4.80 a pint is too bad, that's what my 'local' charges.No.....they sell expensive Guinness nowadays!
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 IrelandI don't think £4.80 a pint is too bad, that's what my 'local' charges.
Nigerian Guinness travels very well. If you ever see any in this country try it. Powerful coffee/liquorice flavour with a yellowish head.In fact it doesn’t travel well once it gets outside of Ireland
They sell it in Home Bargains. About 7ish%. Problem is it doesn't taste like Guinness.Nigerian Guinness travels very well. If you ever see any in this country try it. Powerful coffee/liquorice flavour with a yellowish head.