Canadian Entertainment, Music and Catch All II

[Acajack]

The Comical Herald, as one of my bosses used to call it.

The newspaper business is a really rough one these days.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Acajack

The Comical Herald, as one of my bosses used to call it.

It's nickname in Halifax when I lived there was the Chronically Horrid.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by monctonrad

it's nickname in halifax when i lived there was the chronically horrid.

[hipster duck]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Long-time editorial cartoonist (caracaturiste) Michael de Adder has been let go by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald after three decades with the paper.

He is a legend of the genre in Atlantic Canada and beyond.

The meme killed the hand-drawn-political-cartoon-in-a-daily-newspaper like video killed the radio star.

[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Just saw the discussion on greying hair.

I am 67, and my hair is still generally light brown/dark blond, which I think tends to hide the grey which is present (less of a contrast than if my hair was dark), If you look at my hair in good lighting, I think the grey is more obvious, but, by and large, it is well hidden.

My moustache on the other hand is darker, and, clearly more than 50% grey. This bugs me. I have thought about shaving it off.

In general, I look much younger than my stated age. I may be 67, but, I think I look more like I'm 55. I could probably pass for 50 if I shaved off my moustache.

I'm 55 and get told I look in my early to mid 40's a lot, especially in the last year after a significant weight loss. My mom is 76 and I would put her in her 60's. Her mom on the other hand, who passed away 10 years ago at around 90, always looked like a fragile little old lady going back to when I first remember seeing her when she would have would have been about 50. My dad is 78, still a full head of brown hair uncoloured. His moustache does have a fair amount of grey. He actually has more hair than I do lol. My wife's parents always seemed old. I met them when her dad was 50 and mom was 47 and my wife today at 54 is much younger looking than they were at a younger age.

[Nashe]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

I'm 55 and get told I look in my early to mid 40's a lot, especially in the last year after a significant weight loss. My mom is 76 and I would put her in her 60's. Her mom on the other hand, who passed away 10 years ago at around 90, always looked like a fragile little old lady going back to when I first remember seeing her when she would have would have been about 50. My dad is 78, still a full head of brown hair uncoloured. His moustache does have a fair amount of grey. He actually has more hair than I do lol. My wife's parents always seemed old. I met them when her dad was 50 and mom was 47 and my wife today at 54 is much younger looking than they were at a younger age.

I'm 52 but people think I'm in my 40's a lot. They may just be humouring me because my wife is a bit younger and I generally have a tan. My hair receded from the front and crown long before it went grey. What little fuzz I have left is a mix of brown and light grey. My beard, if I grow it, comes in white.

[Gresto]

Lotsa geezers 'round these parts.

[harls]

Originally Posted by Gresto

Lotsa geezers 'round these parts.

People mistake me for a teenager until they see my join date.

[SpongeG]

what about eyebrows? mine are starting to get more white hair in them, I used to pull them but now they are too numerous lol, I got some stuff in Tokyo to cover them up but its too much of a bother to do so.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

what about eyebrows? mine are starting to get more white hair in them, I used to pull them but now they are too numerous lol, I got some stuff in Tokyo to cover them up but its too much of a bother to do so.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/59ea0f33-2da6-4f49-b17b-21079ada86d7

I do, actually. And I'm the same, I have 4 or 5 that keep coming back fast despite being yanked out.

[Gresto]

Let's talk about how difficult urinating can be for us oldsters. Don't you hate the bifurcated stream, or when it goes off to the right or left and you end up pissing onto the floor?

[elly63]

Canadian comedian and talk show host Mike Bullard dead at age 67

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I'm a big fan of de Adder. A good Moncton boy from Riverview NB. He's been done dirty by Brunswick News, then the Washington Post and now the Chronicle Herald. I'm really pissed off.

His cartoons are deeply insightful and cut to the quick. Pure genius.

Seems to me that he had a few run-ins with the ‘woke police’ in recent years as well. These have been tough times for newspaper cartoonists (and comedians in general), as remaining edgy as your audience might expect often results in pissing off some sensitive folks who will raise a storm on social media. Cancel culture is still alive and well, unfortunately.

Not saying that this is a reason for his cancellation, as I really don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me either. For the most part, people seem to have lost their ability to step back and laugh at the absurdity of life, and are instead defaulting to outrage… almost to the point of seeking out things to be outraged about.

[SignalHillHiker]

If you've done AncestryDNA, they have a new update. Usual caveat your DNA didn't change, they're just able to better pinpoint your background as more and more people participate.

I've dropped from 84% Irish at my peak But that pinch of Scotland so shortly after my Scottish grandmother's death is lovely.



Posted mine and a friend commented his:



So sent him...

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I'm convinced as more people do the test, they're going to be able to identify the Scandinavian portion for Newfoundlanders is just Scottish/English genes introduced by Vikings more than a millennium ago. It's too strange for all of us to have it.

And jeddy1989, by far the most objectively attractive of the three of us, has the most varied genetic background... there's something to be said for not inbreeding, b'y.

[Djeffery]

I might have to do mine, to see who my backup options are for the next World Cup lol

[SignalHillHiker]

It's as good a reason as any, b'y! Just be forewarned... the generations before us really didn't give us a realistic view of how much shit went on, and how many secret relatives there are. Even my mother found two nieces no one knew existed.

[kwoldtimer]

I got my update today and it's depressing - up to 36% Irish, although at least they clarify that it's from the North, so Scots-Irish. I'm also apparently 3% Danish and 3% Icelandic, so I guess the ancestors were raped and pillaged after all.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I got my update today and it's depressing - up to 36% Irish, although at least they clarify that it's from the North, so Scots-Irish. I'm also apparently 3% Danish and 3% Icelandic, so I guess the ancestors were raped and pillaged after all.

I love our jokingly opposite perspectives.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I love our jokingly opposite perspectives.

Yeah, joking. Let's go with that.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

If you've done AncestryDNA, they have a new update. Usual caveat your DNA didn't change, they're just able to better pinpoint your background as more and more people participate.

I've dropped from 84% Irish at my peak But that pinch of Scotland so shortly after my Scottish grandmother's death is lovely.

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Thanks for the reminder, my Irish has disappeared. This is the update.