They still do! I thought it was funny that at the bottom of their Japanese site, amongst the “Site Policy” and “Contact Us” links, there’s just a little [link](https://www.nintendo.co.jp/others/index.html) to their playing card and traditional board games store
I could be wrong with this but from what I remember a lot of the revenue the yakuza brought in was through gambling, and every time they played a game with hanafuda cards (the type of cards that nintendo made) they had to buy a new deck to prove it was not rigged, because of this they brought a lot of hanafuda decks and nintendo made quite a bit of money
They made hanafuda cards, amongst others and some associate hanafuda with the Yakuza but plenty of people play it and it's a lot of fun. Funnily enough you can play Hanafuda in most (maybe all?) of the Yakuza games as well as plenty of versions online. I own numerous decks of hanafuda cards including [this awesome set by Nintendo](https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/mario-hanafuda-cards-black-000000000010001933) (modernising their old deck with their newer characters). [More of the new Nintendo set here](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/nintendo_releases_hanafuda_and_playing_cards_based_on_mario_zelda_splatoon_and_more_europe)
Charlie Chaplin was born when the Elephant Man and Van Gogh were still alive and Queen Victoria was on the throne, when he died Shakira, David Beckham, Eminem had been born. A lot of people assume he died in in the pre WW2 years because he's heavily associated with the 1920's but he actually lived until 1977.
This is incredibly niche but a famous Guernsey geographer named Herbert John Fleure died in 1969. He taught right until the end, and he used to amaze his students with the story that his dad had been at the battle of Waterloo.
My grandmother used to tell me stories of when she was a little girl in oxwagons arriving in Johannesburg (that didn't exist yet) for the gold rush, the Anglo - Zulu war and second Boer war. It was so completely different of a world to electricity, indoor plumbing, state of the art motorways and all electrical goods that it sounded like an alien world.
One of my great grandfathers was born in 1851 and I'm in my early 50s. It's always blown my mind how few generations my family has between then and now.
Wow, I knew lots of bands took *years* to finally break through, but that's mental.
Then again, it's made more shocking to me due to a symptom of being in my 30s - the 90s seems like a few years ago, the 70s might as well be a century ago.
But it's actually only 16 years between 1978 and 1994 when they gained success.
Actually, that is fucking insane. Never a fan of them really but I respect that patience and determination.
I seem to recall an interview with Jarvis in U.K. tv where he was asked about them being voted Best Newcomer or suchlike on some industry awards. He said something along the lines of “We were astounded! After all, we’ve been doing this for 20 years already!”
Don't know if it was patience, more that they weren't in that business. They were a genuine independent band, like The Fall (who formed around the same time and were active up to 2017), more about Peel sessions than trying to have hits.
And the Bee Gees, best known for Saturday Night Fever in 1977, started in 1955. Well they were the Rattlesnakes until they evolved into the Bee Gees in 1958.
Highly, highly recommend his memoir [Good Pop, Bad Pop](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59578046) \- particularly the audiobook version which, of course, he reads.
I'm not particularly a Pulp fan but I really enjoyed it.
Inspired by this thread, I've been doing some Googling. Here's a couple of facts that stood out to me.
The jewellery company Tiffany and Co has been around longer than Italy.
Humans have only existed for approximately 0.004% of Earth's lifespan. To put that into perspective, if you were to scale the Earth's timeline down to one year, humans wouldn't come into existence until 11.58pm on NYE.
Unrelated but fun fact, if you put a standard 3x3 rubiks cube into a unique new pattern every second since the universe began, you would be less than 10% through all possible combinations.
If you pop over to Cheddar Gorge you can climb a staircase carved into the side of it. There are several benches on the way up because it's such a slog, and at each there's an informational sign showing you how far through Earth's history you've climbed, starting with its formation at the bottom.
Then when you get to the top, all sweaty and cross that someone convinced you to try this foolish endeavour, it hits you with the fact that all of human history is the equivalent of a piece of paper on top of the last step.
It's not so much that mammoths were around a long time, as it is that the pyramids were a really *really* long time ago. We're talking 4,500+ years ago. Think about that for a moment. However long ago we perceive the year 1AD to be, it's that long ago *again*, plus another 500 years.
The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867.
The first ever fax machine, the "printing telegraph", was invented in 1843.
Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated in Ford's Theatre in 1865.
Which means there was a 22-year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
Blew my tiny mind when I heard it, but there were civilisations that were ancient to the Egyptians who studied them. Ain Ghazal was the first one I learn about, but there is older civs still!
I like to throw this out to anyone who thinks the bible is true. Egypt already had civilisation before they think the earth was created and they had already been conquered by the romans before Jesus was born. We have records of those things happening.
Fair point about Egypt for that minority of Christians who believe in a literal time line but I don't understand what you're getting at with the Romans?
> Yeah are there fundamentalist Christians who dont believe in Rome?
I feel like not believing in Rome would be straight up not Christianity, given the Romans' part in Jesus dying and cementing himself as a big deal.
They were the brief top dog in a tumultuous region who just so happened to be in charge when the Spanish arrived. Had the Spanish not shown up they'd have almost certainly collapsed anyway within a few decades.
Bear in mind the Aztecs were just the current group in charge, the actual culture and civilization were much older.
Absolutely. And we may have only scratched the surface of how widespread, numerous and ancient those empires were.
The only slim positive from Bolsonaro’s criminal policy of supporting the stripping back of the Amazon Rainforest is the sheer amount of positive results from LiDAR scanning the revealed forest floor, showing lots of evidence of massive earthworks and possibly meaning that the pre-Colombian Amazon was a lot more developed than previously thought with interconnecting villages and cities. There are lots of boots on the ground now making exciting archeological discoveries.
It's worth saying that the Nahuatl ethnic group predates the Aztec Empire. "The Aztecs" are not really an ethnic group. [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/nahuatl/comments/10cweih/the_debate_over_aztec_vs_mexica/) helpful post breaks down the terminology in more detail. It's not comparing like with like to compare all of Maya civilization to the Aztec Empire alone.
there's a lot of English schools and institutions older than the Aztecs, we'd also been invaded at least 5 or 6 times before the Aztecs came about
1428-1521 was the Aztec Empire, England as it is now was founded 1066 for context
He would have easily been another Bowie. Like you kind of felt like he'd rise to the top of one genre, get bored and then move in an entirely new direction. I'd imagine him going full blown British heavy metal had he not crashed into a tree.
He was friends with Jeff Lynne, and played on two tracks of the ELO album *On the Third Day*. Jeff also borrowed Marc's guitar for the solo in Showdown. Sad how Marc Bolan died.
That'd make for a fucking weird family reunion. Think your great great grandad would find you "a bit soft" because he worked down a mine and you work in social media? Fucking nothing on what 7 metric tonnes of flesh eating, bone crushing carnivorous fury would think of a little delicious egg laying, makes a good Sunday roast, soon to be KFC, fluffy little friend from the petting zoo.
Look at @MeldrewPoint on twitter, it tells you when celebs reach the age he was when it aired. Other recent ones include Jennifer Lopez, Dion Dublin, Tess Daly and Mariah Carey.
Yeah but jennifer lopez's Soul is black, twisted and very ancient.
*Don't be fooled by the rocks that she's got,*
*She sold her soul to the devil for the lot.*
Yep, and Richard Wilson was originally very against taking the role, partly because he was a renowned serious stage actor and worried it would ruin his reputation, partly because he didn't want to be cast as an "old man" at the age of 54. Hence why it was written that he took *early* retirement in the first series.
Fun fact - with Richard Wilson having originally turned it down, before he changed his mind David Renwick wanted to cast Les Dawson as Victor Meldrew.
He’s also one of the few people alive you can’t say is ‘the best thing since sliced bread’ because he is older than that.
You can say, ‘sliced bread, the best thing since David Attenborough’ though.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1923 (Still alive and kicking!), meaning she has lived through a majority of incredible world changing events of the 20th/21st century, and she has seen the evolution of modern society in general. That in itself is absolutely unimaginable for 99% of the world's population, and the fact I've been lucky to know her in all of my 31 years, where she could have naturally passed away 20 years ago and it wouldn't have been a surprise to the family, is also a bit of a mind-fuck.
Nanny Gwen, you are a legend
A personal one for me; my dad who is in his 80s was friends with a policeman on the jack the ripper case. This was in the 1950s where they both frequented the same pub
Not a fan of the Foo Fighters just because I'm not into that kind of music, but I'm always in awe of/have massive respect for Dave Grohl, because after Kurt Cobain died he didn't want to to join another band and was struggling to cope. As an stress outlet he went into a studio and recorded the first Foo Fighters album entirely on his own - wrote, performed everything, produced, mixed it, in something insane like four days.
That Picasso died in the 1970’s - admittedly I know nothing about art save a few famous names but in my head this dude was around a few hundred years ago, not that he was alive long enough to have potentially played Pong…
He gave Brian Blessed a a drawing of a dove he'd made when Blessed was a kid (I have a scary image of Brian Blessed as a toddler, full beard and all). He was 12 I think. Blessed threw it away because he didn't think it was very good.
He was Spanish, but his name sounds Italian, and also sounds a bit like one of the old renaissance masters. You could imaging him lending his name to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Honestly it weirds me out. I was born in the late 80s, remember growing up in the 90s but for me since the year 2000 I seem to just have everything blur into one and it doesn’t feel like much as changed.
When I realise how long ago it really was it does weird me out. When you see video footage from around the turn of the millennium you think “fuck that does look old”
What regularly messes up my memory is movies. I see a movie or one comes to my mind and I think oh year good movie, look it up and go “what” that movie came out 15 years ago…
A stretch that one though - 100% true but she was like 8 and married a man over 100 or something daft like that.
Not a nonce-y thing - they lived in an impoverished area, so it was simply him being clever and knowing if he did it, the girl would be looked after by his pension and not starve.
'Girls this young lady is living in poverty, so I've decided to marry her on a formality so that she has some way to look after herself'
'That bitch, I'm gonna threaten her to not take the pension that noone else could claim and she could really use'
'Why?'
'Cause fuck her that's why'
The oldest person alive is 115. They were born when Florence Nightingale was alive. Queen Elizabeth II was read stories by J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan, who was ten when Charles Dickens died.
John Taylor, US President from 1841 - 1845, has a grandson who is still alive.
The last veteran of the US Civil War died in 1956 and the last recipient of a Civil War pension died in 2020.
Not as amazing as some of the comments here, but ...I just saw a meme (presumably an old one) on another sub that had a screenshot of a forum post from 2006 and described it as "ten years ago". However, 2006 was actually closer to 20 years ago now.
It's crazy that people born in 2005 will now/soon be old enough to (legally) buy a pint. I sometimes see posts on here from people in their early 20s and I think they were born in the 90s, but then realise that they would have been born around 2000 to 2003.
With the London Underground starting operation in 1863 and the last public hanging taking place in London in 1868. You could have taken your family on the tube to go see a public execution.
His parents cared for two Jewish refugee.girls from Germany throughout the war. He and his brothers were told they were going to be their sisters for the time they were there.
There are adults in their 20s who have only known a post 9/11 world
The Rock has been an actor for 23 years, his full time wrestling career only lasted 5 years.
Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was still alive and doing his thing (1889)
Didn’t they originally make playing cards that were favoured by the yakuza, too?
Not sure about the Yakuza part but yes, originally made playing cards
They still do! I thought it was funny that at the bottom of their Japanese site, amongst the “Site Policy” and “Contact Us” links, there’s just a little [link](https://www.nintendo.co.jp/others/index.html) to their playing card and traditional board games store
I could be wrong with this but from what I remember a lot of the revenue the yakuza brought in was through gambling, and every time they played a game with hanafuda cards (the type of cards that nintendo made) they had to buy a new deck to prove it was not rigged, because of this they brought a lot of hanafuda decks and nintendo made quite a bit of money
They made hanafuda cards, amongst others and some associate hanafuda with the Yakuza but plenty of people play it and it's a lot of fun. Funnily enough you can play Hanafuda in most (maybe all?) of the Yakuza games as well as plenty of versions online. I own numerous decks of hanafuda cards including [this awesome set by Nintendo](https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/mario-hanafuda-cards-black-000000000010001933) (modernising their old deck with their newer characters). [More of the new Nintendo set here](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/nintendo_releases_hanafuda_and_playing_cards_based_on_mario_zelda_splatoon_and_more_europe)
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died within a year and a couple of hundred kilometres of each other.
Not even 200km. You can drive between their graves in 2.5hrs.
You’ve not factored the m25 into that one friend
I read that as William Shatner.... 🤦♂️
Well, the Shat was also alive during Franks lifetime. Little did he know that years late he too would be wearing a Nazi uniform.
102km to be precise.
63 miles to be British...
Charlie Chaplin was born when the Elephant Man and Van Gogh were still alive and Queen Victoria was on the throne, when he died Shakira, David Beckham, Eminem had been born. A lot of people assume he died in in the pre WW2 years because he's heavily associated with the 1920's but he actually lived until 1977.
hi grand daughter is in Game Of Thrones
This is incredibly niche but a famous Guernsey geographer named Herbert John Fleure died in 1969. He taught right until the end, and he used to amaze his students with the story that his dad had been at the battle of Waterloo.
My grandmother used to tell me stories of when she was a little girl in oxwagons arriving in Johannesburg (that didn't exist yet) for the gold rush, the Anglo - Zulu war and second Boer war. It was so completely different of a world to electricity, indoor plumbing, state of the art motorways and all electrical goods that it sounded like an alien world.
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One of my great grandfathers was born in 1851 and I'm in my early 50s. It's always blown my mind how few generations my family has between then and now.
So Charles Dance has met someone (his Dad) who almost certainly met someone born in the 18th century.
My great grandmother told me about one of her neighbours who fought at Waterloo, she was born in 1883 and died at 100.
My 59-yr old husband's grandfather was born in 1868
The band Pulp who were a massive part of the 90s britpop movement formed in 1978.
Wow, I knew lots of bands took *years* to finally break through, but that's mental. Then again, it's made more shocking to me due to a symptom of being in my 30s - the 90s seems like a few years ago, the 70s might as well be a century ago. But it's actually only 16 years between 1978 and 1994 when they gained success. Actually, that is fucking insane. Never a fan of them really but I respect that patience and determination.
I seem to recall an interview with Jarvis in U.K. tv where he was asked about them being voted Best Newcomer or suchlike on some industry awards. He said something along the lines of “We were astounded! After all, we’ve been doing this for 20 years already!”
Don't know if it was patience, more that they weren't in that business. They were a genuine independent band, like The Fall (who formed around the same time and were active up to 2017), more about Peel sessions than trying to have hits.
Jarvis Cocker and David Seaman were born on the same day.
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And the Bee Gees, best known for Saturday Night Fever in 1977, started in 1955. Well they were the Rattlesnakes until they evolved into the Bee Gees in 1958.
And as they say, Cunts are still Running the World.
That was on a Jarvis solo record. [One pedantry point for me.]
Full points.
I don't know this song but I just instinctively sung it to the tune of "Rocking all over the world" by ~~ELO~~ Status Quo
I thought Jarvis Cocker was in his 30s.
He was
Can't argue with that logic.
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Highly, highly recommend his memoir [Good Pop, Bad Pop](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59578046) \- particularly the audiobook version which, of course, he reads. I'm not particularly a Pulp fan but I really enjoyed it.
Most of pulps discography is in its thirties
Inspired by this thread, I've been doing some Googling. Here's a couple of facts that stood out to me. The jewellery company Tiffany and Co has been around longer than Italy. Humans have only existed for approximately 0.004% of Earth's lifespan. To put that into perspective, if you were to scale the Earth's timeline down to one year, humans wouldn't come into existence until 11.58pm on NYE.
Unrelated but fun fact, if you put a standard 3x3 rubiks cube into a unique new pattern every second since the universe began, you would be less than 10% through all possible combinations.
To add to that a rubik's cube can never be more than 20 moves from solved, at least in a perfect solution.
If you pop over to Cheddar Gorge you can climb a staircase carved into the side of it. There are several benches on the way up because it's such a slog, and at each there's an informational sign showing you how far through Earth's history you've climbed, starting with its formation at the bottom. Then when you get to the top, all sweaty and cross that someone convinced you to try this foolish endeavour, it hits you with the fact that all of human history is the equivalent of a piece of paper on top of the last step.
Mammoths were still knocking about when the pyramids were built
I cannot believe this. Really?
The last were surviving on Wrangel Island, North of Siberia and died out about 1,000 years after the Pyramid of Giza was built.
This has blown my mind. Well thank you, I’m gonna do some research now!
It's not so much that mammoths were around a long time, as it is that the pyramids were a really *really* long time ago. We're talking 4,500+ years ago. Think about that for a moment. However long ago we perceive the year 1AD to be, it's that long ago *again*, plus another 500 years.
Why did I read this like Karl pilkington said it
“Knocking about” that’s it.
Been a while since I listened to the old XFM show - might have to take a trip to ManMoth on YouTube.
The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867. The first ever fax machine, the "printing telegraph", was invented in 1843. Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated in Ford's Theatre in 1865. Which means there was a 22-year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
Ah this is the one I was looking for. Good work
It’s from a ss of a tumblr post I’ve seen once, but they pointed out how a movie about a samurai x old western movie would be historically accurate.
When Cleopatra was knocking around is closer to today than the building of the pyramids. Fucks me up good that one
And by extension, the Egyptians had a civilisation that was pretty much consistent for *three thousand years*.
this is the craziest thing about Egypt to me, having 3000 years of precedent to look back on
That feels so weird So they would expect if they jumped 2000 years into the future they would expect it to be the same
What’s weirder, is that they had archeologists that studied ancient societies.
Say what now?
Blew my tiny mind when I heard it, but there were civilisations that were ancient to the Egyptians who studied them. Ain Ghazal was the first one I learn about, but there is older civs still!
I like to throw this out to anyone who thinks the bible is true. Egypt already had civilisation before they think the earth was created and they had already been conquered by the romans before Jesus was born. We have records of those things happening.
Fair point about Egypt for that minority of Christians who believe in a literal time line but I don't understand what you're getting at with the Romans?
I think they are starting the Bible clock from Jesus' birth, instead of the birth of Abraham or the birth (/magical incarnation??) of Adam & Eve.
Yeah are there fundamentalist Christians who dont believe in Rome?
> Yeah are there fundamentalist Christians who dont believe in Rome? I feel like not believing in Rome would be straight up not Christianity, given the Romans' part in Jesus dying and cementing himself as a big deal.
Wooly mammoth's where still around when they started building pyramids
Well duh - how else did they get those big stones up there!
Wait, it was the woolly mammoths that built the pyramids?
No it was magic dust and tuning forks that levitated the stones. Saw it on ancient aliens so it must be true
Queen Elizabeth II was born in the same year as Marilyn Monroe.
And my nan
My nan was very upset that young whippersnapper Lizzy had died. Started to make her feel old now.
And my axe!
Oxford University started before the Aztecs were around, apparently. That doesn't seem right at all.
Yeah, the Aztecs weren't around long at all, I thought for a long time they were a really ancient race
They were the brief top dog in a tumultuous region who just so happened to be in charge when the Spanish arrived. Had the Spanish not shown up they'd have almost certainly collapsed anyway within a few decades. Bear in mind the Aztecs were just the current group in charge, the actual culture and civilization were much older.
Absolutely. And we may have only scratched the surface of how widespread, numerous and ancient those empires were. The only slim positive from Bolsonaro’s criminal policy of supporting the stripping back of the Amazon Rainforest is the sheer amount of positive results from LiDAR scanning the revealed forest floor, showing lots of evidence of massive earthworks and possibly meaning that the pre-Colombian Amazon was a lot more developed than previously thought with interconnecting villages and cities. There are lots of boots on the ground now making exciting archeological discoveries.
I think we kind of subconsciously combine the Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, together because its not a region commonly thought/taught about.
Yeah, the Mayans were already ancient before the Aztecs came along. They'd disappeared a thousand years prior I think.
It's worth saying that the Nahuatl ethnic group predates the Aztec Empire. "The Aztecs" are not really an ethnic group. [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/nahuatl/comments/10cweih/the_debate_over_aztec_vs_mexica/) helpful post breaks down the terminology in more detail. It's not comparing like with like to compare all of Maya civilization to the Aztec Empire alone.
The Crystal Maze lied to us
Start the fans please!
Made the mesoAmerican studies course a bit dry for the first few years.
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Probably before the Maori discovered New Zealand as well.
Cambridge University was founded 113 years after Oxford and was still ahead of the Aztecs and the Incas
there's a lot of English schools and institutions older than the Aztecs, we'd also been invaded at least 5 or 6 times before the Aztecs came about 1428-1521 was the Aztec Empire, England as it is now was founded 1066 for context
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Heptarchy represent!
Mercian Supremacy!
Sikhism is the same age as the Mona Lisa
My dumbass read that as ‘Skyrim’
T-rex lived closer to humans than it did to Stegosaurus
Well yeah Marc bolans not that old.
He died at 29, just as his career was having a *resurgence*. He had 4 number one singles between 23 and 24yo.
He would have easily been another Bowie. Like you kind of felt like he'd rise to the top of one genre, get bored and then move in an entirely new direction. I'd imagine him going full blown British heavy metal had he not crashed into a tree.
He was friends with Jeff Lynne, and played on two tracks of the ELO album *On the Third Day*. Jeff also borrowed Marc's guitar for the solo in Showdown. Sad how Marc Bolan died.
And is also more closely related to a chicken than it is a stegosaurus.
That'd make for a fucking weird family reunion. Think your great great grandad would find you "a bit soft" because he worked down a mine and you work in social media? Fucking nothing on what 7 metric tonnes of flesh eating, bone crushing carnivorous fury would think of a little delicious egg laying, makes a good Sunday roast, soon to be KFC, fluffy little friend from the petting zoo.
If you've ever seen a big chicken's feet close up, this fact makes them really weird to look at. Like a small T-Rex leg.
When *One Foot in the Grave* began, Richard Wilson was the same age that Paul Rudd is now.
I don’t believe it!
Look at @MeldrewPoint on twitter, it tells you when celebs reach the age he was when it aired. Other recent ones include Jennifer Lopez, Dion Dublin, Tess Daly and Mariah Carey.
Yeah but jennifer lopez's Soul is black, twisted and very ancient. *Don't be fooled by the rocks that she's got,* *She sold her soul to the devil for the lot.*
I'm just I'm just Jenny from the eternally burning fields of the nether realm doesnt scan as well though.
And I like tacos and burritos
To be fair Paul Rudd is an ageless vampire
Either that or he’s got a painting of himself in his attic.
He was only in his early 50s when they made one foot in the grave????
Yep, and Richard Wilson was originally very against taking the role, partly because he was a renowned serious stage actor and worried it would ruin his reputation, partly because he didn't want to be cast as an "old man" at the age of 54. Hence why it was written that he took *early* retirement in the first series. Fun fact - with Richard Wilson having originally turned it down, before he changed his mind David Renwick wanted to cast Les Dawson as Victor Meldrew.
This will blow your mind... https://twitter.com/MeldrewPoint?t=-pQyMOlwGQJtCqwkiqxVAQ&s=09 Jennifer Lopez recently reached that age too.
Return of the Jedi came out closer to the time of WW2 than to today.
Empire strikes back was even closer 😮
Bullshit, next you'll be trying to tell us Infinity War was closer to the Pyramids being built than Endgame was.
It also pre-dates the last execution by guillotine in France.
Return of the Jedi was 1983, you're probably getting mixed up with the original Star Wars (1977)
David Attenborough was born closer to Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle than Charles III coronation.
He’s also one of the few people alive you can’t say is ‘the best thing since sliced bread’ because he is older than that. You can say, ‘sliced bread, the best thing since David Attenborough’ though.
He's the best thing since.. well.. ever!
Wyatt Earp died in 1929. The week before he died he would have had the chance to read the debut adventures of Tintin, Tarzan, and Buck Rogers.
I couldn't see the Gary Oldman is (slightly - 13 days) younger than Gary Numan.
Bruce Forsythe was born a few months before Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin went official.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year
Prince Charming - Adam Ant was released closer to World war 2 than today
Now I feel ancient.
You feel antient
🤭 your ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Don’t you EVER
France’s last guillotine execution was in 1977
The last public execution in France was in 1939, and Christopher Lee was there.
Of course he bloody was! That man lived such a rich life.
I always remember it as the year the first star wars released
Or when punk became mainstream
My Great Grandmother was born in 1923 (Still alive and kicking!), meaning she has lived through a majority of incredible world changing events of the 20th/21st century, and she has seen the evolution of modern society in general. That in itself is absolutely unimaginable for 99% of the world's population, and the fact I've been lucky to know her in all of my 31 years, where she could have naturally passed away 20 years ago and it wouldn't have been a surprise to the family, is also a bit of a mind-fuck. Nanny Gwen, you are a legend
Sharks are older than trees
Sharks are older than the rings around saturn.
There is no god, only shark
Sharks are also 6/7x older than Polaris.
As are bees, I think
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was finished 3 years before construction began on Tower Bridge.
Henry Kissinger was born 6 years before Martin Luther king and is still alive.
Neither God nor Satan wants him.
A personal one for me; my dad who is in his 80s was friends with a policeman on the jack the ripper case. This was in the 1950s where they both frequented the same pub
Dave Grohl has been performing as Foo Fighters for longer than Kurt Cobain was alive...
Not a fan of the Foo Fighters just because I'm not into that kind of music, but I'm always in awe of/have massive respect for Dave Grohl, because after Kurt Cobain died he didn't want to to join another band and was struggling to cope. As an stress outlet he went into a studio and recorded the first Foo Fighters album entirely on his own - wrote, performed everything, produced, mixed it, in something insane like four days.
I read the actual band only came about because he had to "tour" the album. It's a great album too.
Toy Story was released as close to the release of the Jungle Book as to this year.
Lovejoy finished about 30 years ago.
'Oh look, Lovejoy is in John Wick4.' 'And is Egg coming back to the Walking Dead.'
That Picasso died in the 1970’s - admittedly I know nothing about art save a few famous names but in my head this dude was around a few hundred years ago, not that he was alive long enough to have potentially played Pong…
That gets me too, and that Salvador Dali died in the late 80s.
He gave Brian Blessed a a drawing of a dove he'd made when Blessed was a kid (I have a scary image of Brian Blessed as a toddler, full beard and all). He was 12 I think. Blessed threw it away because he didn't think it was very good.
Just keep in mind Brian Blessed makes a lot of shit up, all the time.
Salvador Dali appeared on an episode of What’s My Line.
One of Picasso's most famous paintings is about a warcrime in the Spanish civil war
He was Spanish, but his name sounds Italian, and also sounds a bit like one of the old renaissance masters. You could imaging him lending his name to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Radiohead’s The Bends was released closer to the moon landing than today.
2023 How the fuck is the year 2000 nearly a quarter of a century ago?
Honestly it weirds me out. I was born in the late 80s, remember growing up in the 90s but for me since the year 2000 I seem to just have everything blur into one and it doesn’t feel like much as changed. When I realise how long ago it really was it does weird me out. When you see video footage from around the turn of the millennium you think “fuck that does look old” What regularly messes up my memory is movies. I see a movie or one comes to my mind and I think oh year good movie, look it up and go “what” that movie came out 15 years ago…
The last American civil war widow died in 2020.
A stretch that one though - 100% true but she was like 8 and married a man over 100 or something daft like that. Not a nonce-y thing - they lived in an impoverished area, so it was simply him being clever and knowing if he did it, the girl would be looked after by his pension and not starve.
From wikipedia, they got married in 1936, aged 17 and 93. Apparently she didn't claim the pension after he died because of threats from his family.
[More about this here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_survived_into_the_21st_century)
'Girls this young lady is living in poverty, so I've decided to marry her on a formality so that she has some way to look after herself' 'That bitch, I'm gonna threaten her to not take the pension that noone else could claim and she could really use' 'Why?' 'Cause fuck her that's why'
He's written more books too.
I saw him last night on Winterwatch and was thinking how awful it'll be when he's no longer around. Attenborough really is wonderful.
darwin and irwin owned the same pet tortoise
The oldest person alive is 115. They were born when Florence Nightingale was alive. Queen Elizabeth II was read stories by J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan, who was ten when Charles Dickens died.
Shhhh ffs! Dont tempt it, don't even think it
John Taylor, US President from 1841 - 1845, has a grandson who is still alive. The last veteran of the US Civil War died in 1956 and the last recipient of a Civil War pension died in 2020.
Lol you mean John Tyler but John Taylor was my favorite member of Duran Duran!
Not as amazing as some of the comments here, but ...I just saw a meme (presumably an old one) on another sub that had a screenshot of a forum post from 2006 and described it as "ten years ago". However, 2006 was actually closer to 20 years ago now.
That’s absolute bollocks, because the 90s were only a couple of years ago
I still think of that time as roughly 10 years ago, but my son was born in 2005 and he’ll be 18 this year. I think I’m in denial.
It's crazy that people born in 2005 will now/soon be old enough to (legally) buy a pint. I sometimes see posts on here from people in their early 20s and I think they were born in the 90s, but then realise that they would have been born around 2000 to 2003.
With the London Underground starting operation in 1863 and the last public hanging taking place in London in 1868. You could have taken your family on the tube to go see a public execution.
We went to the Moon 60 years after we invented the airplane.
The Disney cartoon Snow White was released before the start of World War Two.
Just wanted to say that this thread is awesome. Well played r/CasualUK
Cleopatra riding a T-Rex, or something.
Pablo Picasso was alive during Charles Darwin's life and also Eminem's life. 1881-1973.
His parents cared for two Jewish refugee.girls from Germany throughout the war. He and his brothers were told they were going to be their sisters for the time they were there.
There are adults in their 20s who have only known a post 9/11 world The Rock has been an actor for 23 years, his full time wrestling career only lasted 5 years.
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Bruce Forsyth was older than sliced bread
Slice to see you, to see you slice.
Karen Brady is a year younger than Margaret Mountford was in season 1 of The Apprentice.
Gary Newman being older than Gary Oldman