On 21/01/2023 09:46, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:

> ** Does a tipple of a Single Islay still taste just as good?

Laphroaig does, but just after covid, it tasted more like Caol Ila.
Ardbeg tastes as good TAAAW

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Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On 21-Jan-23 10:44, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
> Tim+ wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I wish that checkout operators would at least pretend to check
>> that I’m over 18 when buying alcohol.
>
> I find they generally do, and it offers a good opportunity to laugh it
> off with a shrug saying "yes, unfortuntely"

If the person asking is a 'lady of a certain age' (it usually is), then
I respond by asking if they are old enough to sell it to me.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 21-Jan-23 3:19, Tone wrote:
> On 21/01/2023 01:22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:14:34 +0000
>> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Watching drama on't 'elly, I occasionally catch myself viewing
>>> authoritarian figures, such as the ecilop and teachers, as being much
>>> older than me, even though the actors are about 40 years younger!
>>
>>     The first sign of advancing age is when you start seeing the ecilop
>> as youngsters.
>>
>>     The first time I was made to feel old (I wasn't even close but ...)
>> was in 1987 when some bright spark thought it was a good idea to put up a
>> dirty great billboard with the Beatles in their full Sgt Pepper regalia
>> topped by the slogan "It was twenty years ago today" ... abstrads! I
>> wasnae
>> even thirty and not ready to contemplate remembering things that were
>> twenty
>> years old!
>>
>>     Still I have a punning clan for a few munfs from now, my next
>> burpday falls on a Thursday when I do open mic thinging so I gooved I
>> might
>> see if I can get a few people to help me do "When I'm 64" seeing as how I
>> will be and it's a lousy solo song.
>>
>>     I am constantly amazed at how far from old I feel and act (I
>> can still touch my toes to my nose, run up stairs two at a time
>> effortlessly, skip a night's sleep etc.) and I'm regularly surprised when
>> someone I meet who seems to me to be old turns out to be anything up
>> to ten
>> years younger than I am - usually I find out when sympathising about the
>> pains of ageing and being quietly glad that I'm not feeling them yet.
>>
>>     When I were a lad people my age were coffin dodgers working out
>> their retirement doing something harmless - my contract (less than two
>> years old) has "key worker" clauses and a retirement extension to 70 - my
>> manager is lining me up for promotion and I'm fending off approaches from
>> "senior talent acquisition managers" to consider some interesting role
>> pretty much every week. Age isn't what it used to be.
>>
>
> You are very very lucky to be in good health, Steve.
>
> Health counts for everything as we age. In Yorkshire we have a 90 year
> old HGV driver still at it. He passes the medical each time.
>
> OTOH I would have failed my medical 23 years ago, had I not given up my
> HGV licence voluntarily.
>
> I have just proved that I can drive cars safely at age almost 81,
> through a DVLA test drive, after a vindictive malicious report. But I
> would not pass an HGV medical. I can barely walk now due to DVT damage
> to the blood circulation in my legs 24 years ago. That was probably
> hereditary. But I can jbex pedals sitting down.
>
> Good health as we age is a lottery. Celebrate yours, Steve, but don't
> ever take it for granted.

I see Buzz Aldrin has just married for the forth time, on his 93rd
birthday.
The photo showed him with a young blonde totty - who turned out to be 63.

Truly, age is just a number.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 21/01/2023 20:37, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 21-Jan-23 3:19, Tone wrote:
>> On 21/01/2023 01:22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:14:34 +0000
>>> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Watching drama on't 'elly, I occasionally catch myself viewing
>>>> authoritarian figures, such as the ecilop and teachers, as being much
>>>> older than me, even though the actors are about 40 years younger!
>>>
>>>     The first sign of advancing age is when you start seeing the ecilop
>>> as youngsters.
>>>
>>>     The first time I was made to feel old (I wasn't even close but ...)
>>> was in 1987 when some bright spark thought it was a good idea to put
>>> up a
>>> dirty great billboard with the Beatles in their full Sgt Pepper regalia
>>> topped by the slogan "It was twenty years ago today" ... abstrads! I
>>> wasnae
>>> even thirty and not ready to contemplate remembering things that were
>>> twenty
>>> years old!
>>>
>>>     Still I have a punning clan for a few munfs from now, my next
>>> burpday falls on a Thursday when I do open mic thinging so I gooved I
>>> might
>>> see if I can get a few people to help me do "When I'm 64" seeing as
>>> how I
>>> will be and it's a lousy solo song.
>>>
>>>     I am constantly amazed at how far from old I feel and act (I
>>> can still touch my toes to my nose, run up stairs two at a time
>>> effortlessly, skip a night's sleep etc.) and I'm regularly surprised
>>> when
>>> someone I meet who seems to me to be old turns out to be anything up
>>> to ten
>>> years younger than I am - usually I find out when sympathising about the
>>> pains of ageing and being quietly glad that I'm not feeling them yet.
>>>
>>>     When I were a lad people my age were coffin dodgers working out
>>> their retirement doing something harmless - my contract (less than two
>>> years old) has "key worker" clauses and a retirement extension to 70
>>> - my
>>> manager is lining me up for promotion and I'm fending off approaches
>>> from
>>> "senior talent acquisition managers" to consider some interesting role
>>> pretty much every week. Age isn't what it used to be.
>>>
>>
>> You are very very lucky to be in good health, Steve.
>>
>> Health counts for everything as we age. In Yorkshire we have a 90 year
>> old HGV driver still at it. He passes the medical each time.
>>
>> OTOH I would have failed my medical 23 years ago, had I not given up
>> my HGV licence voluntarily.
>>
>> I have just proved that I can drive cars safely at age almost 81,
>> through a DVLA test drive, after a vindictive malicious report. But I
>> would not pass an HGV medical. I can barely walk now due to DVT damage
>> to the blood circulation in my legs 24 years ago. That was probably
>> hereditary. But I can jbex pedals sitting down.
>>
>> Good health as we age is a lottery. Celebrate yours, Steve, but don't
>> ever take it for granted.
>
> I see Buzz Aldrin has just married for the forth time, on his 93rd
> birthday.
> The photo showed him with a young blonde totty - who turned out to be 63.
>
> Truly, age is just a number.

I wish...

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On 21 Jan 2023 09:32:32 GMT
Tim+ <tim.downie@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nah, he just chose his parents well.

Lucky roll of the genetic dice I goove - brother and sister perhaps
not quite so lucky, three years to go before I find out if I have more
staying power than my (unlamented) brother, sister still going but creaking
eight years ahead of me.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On 21/01/2023 02:32, Mike Fleming wrote:
> On 20/01/2023 09:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Mind you Dave  Crosby was 80. I can never quite understand these days how
>> these people became so old, then one looks at ones own age and wonders
>> where
>> the years went.
>
> We've still got Neil Young too.

eh wot?!
Oh Neil.
Never mind
--
Nev
It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
that so many people are unable to understand what I write.