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I’ve always kept relatively up to date with the latest music trends but I seem to have missed out on Taylor Swift. Only a few weeks ago I was thinking who is this Taylor Swift that seems to be in the news so much. Even now I have no idea what she sings or even what she looks like. If I hadn’t now retired from teaching, I’m sure my class of Year 2 children would have kept me up to date.
 
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I’ve always kept relatively up to date with the latest music trends but I seem to have missed out on Taylor Swift. Only a few weeks ago I was thinking who is this Taylor Swift that seems to be in the news so much. Even now I have no idea what she sings or even what she looks like. If I hadn’t now retired from teaching, I’m sure my class of Year 2 children would have kept me up to date.
How do you even know she's a she then?;)
 

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I'd better not recall that bit in Airplane, maybe?

Interestingly - well perhaps - the gags in Airplane were a form of satire on an earlier (obviously serious) film. It seemed to follow the basic plot of the film it's based on quite closely. Comparison of the two is (inevitably) on Youtube somewhere.

It must haven taken a special brain to subvert all those innocent scenes :)
 

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I’ve always kept relatively up to date with the latest music trends but I seem to have missed out on Taylor Swift. Only a few weeks ago I was thinking who is this Taylor Swift that seems to be in the news so much. Even now I have no idea what she sings or even what she looks like. If I hadn’t now retired from teaching, I’m sure my class of Year 2 children would have kept me up to date.
How do you even know she's a she then?;)
Ooh, be careful of dodgy ground on that one! :D. My comment would be, in true Rowan Atkinson style, that Taylor is supposed to be surname! :lol:
I'm all but tone-deaf; and the great majority of music, is one of a number of things rapturously acclaimed by many millions -- which I'm afraid leave me cold. Have thought up a bit of fairly dreadful wordplay "re the above" -- "I'm so ignorant that I think these words apply to an exotic bird species which sews an intricate and beautiful nest for itself, out of leaves: the Tailor Swift".
 

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I’ve always kept relatively up to date with the latest music trends but I seem to have missed out on Taylor Swift. Only a few weeks ago I was thinking who is this Taylor Swift that seems to be in the news so much. Even now I have no idea what she sings or even what she looks like. If I hadn’t now retired from teaching, I’m sure my class of Year 2 children would have kept me up to date.
My wife and I are 69 and 72 respectively, and we like Taylor Swift, but prefer Lana Del Rey.
 

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I’ve always kept relatively up to date with the latest music trends but I seem to have missed out on Taylor Swift. Only a few weeks ago I was thinking who is this Taylor Swift that seems to be in the news so much. Even now I have no idea what she sings or even what she looks like. If I hadn’t now retired from teaching, I’m sure my class of Year 2 children would have kept me up to date.

Swifty isn’t exactly a latest trend. Artist of the year in the American Music Awards (and also Billboard) in 2009, first Grammy in 2010, first UK number 1 album in 2012.
 

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Swifty isn’t exactly a latest trend. Artist of the year in the American Music Awards (and also Billboard) in 2009, first Grammy in 2010, first UK number 1 album in 2012.
Still doesn't mean I can recognise her music...

Usual playout in our car with teenage daughter (who is a Swifty...) who grabs control over the music is as follows:

<song comes on the radio>
"Is this a Katy Perry? or it is another popular combo?"
< Disapproving stares from daughter....>
 

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Taylor Swift is not anything special as a pop singer, but either has very good business acumen or effective management, e.g., re-recording her entire back catalogue to prevent her original record company cashing in on ir, and organising her inevitable short term popularity to create a massive live tour returns.
 

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Taylor Swift is not anything special as a pop singer, but either has very good business acumen or effective management, e.g., re-recording her entire back catalogue to prevent her original record company cashing in on ir, and organising her inevitable short term popularity to create a massive live tour returns.
I'll probably be accused of elitism, but not so many years ago "music" meant Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and so on, and I'm not interested in Taylor Swift etc. But it does seem to me that she's a highly intelligent person with a brilliant business sense.
 

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....when 'A' level results weren't plastered all over the media!

I know it's been usual for some years now, no idea when the trend started, but really! Slow news month?
 

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....when 'A' level results weren't plastered all over the media!

I know it's been usual for some years now, no idea when the trend started, but really! Slow news month?
You know your getting older when you remember a time where the media would actually have to do research and investigate things to make an article!
Now, (particularly the town and county papers) just scroll social media and use FOI (freedom of information) requests to get their very lazy and sloppy articles at the expense of tax payers money being used to pay government bodies to hire people to process these FOI requests.
 

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You know your getting older when you remember a time where the media would actually have to do research and investigate things to make an article!
Now, (particularly the town and county papers) just scroll social media and use FOI (freedom of information) requests to get their very lazy and sloppy articles at the expense of tax payers money being used to pay government bodies to hire people to process these FOI requests.
Take it you're not a fan of FoI! Although misuse, or over-use, may be rife we'd be much more ignorant without it. In any case, many bodies are extremely reluctant to provide information regardless of its potential importance.
 

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You know your getting older when you remember a time where the media would actually have to do research and investigate things to make an article!
Now, (particularly the town and county papers) just scroll social media and use FOI (freedom of information) requests to get their very lazy and sloppy articles at the expense of tax payers money being used to pay government bodies to hire people to process these FOI requests.

You know you're getting older when you get wound up by poor spelling, grammar and punctuation not only in the media but also on internet forums.
 

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....when 'A' level results weren't plastered all over the media!

I know it's been usual for some years now, no idea when the trend started, but really! Slow news month?

Yes it is a slow news month, but it is something that affects a large number of people each year. And the media interest has been going on for as long as I can remember - certainly for when I did my A Levels, and I‘m close to retirement 8-)
 

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Taylor Swift is not anything special as a pop singer, but either has very good business acumen or effective management, e.g., re-recording her entire back catalogue to prevent her original record company cashing in on ir, and organising her inevitable short term popularity to create a massive live tour returns.
She does all her own management herself; she most definitely does have very good business acumen.
 

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Take it you're not a fan of FoI! Although misuse, or over-use, may be rife we'd be much more ignorant without it. In any case, many bodies are extremely reluctant to provide information regardless of its potential importance.
Not when they are used to make truly poor news articles. But yes I’d agree they can have their uses!

You know you're getting older when you get wound up by poor spelling, grammar and punctuation not only in the media but also on internet forums.
Oh dear I see it! I’ll blame it on the fact that I had to learn everything in 2 languages when growing up! Something has to give.
 

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You know you're getting older when you get wound up by poor spelling, grammar and punctuation not only in the media but also on internet forums.
Oh dear. I may not be as young as I thought. :lol:

It winds me up a great deal. Normally I point it out as part of a longer post and then take it out while I'm redrafting, which is more cathartic than just ignoring it completely. I have given in and pointed it out occasionally, but I don't want to end up in the Forum Stocks!
 

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You know you're getting older when you get wound up by poor spelling, grammar and punctuation not only in the media but also on internet forums.
I think there's a big difference: "the media" ought to get it right and some of it fails spectacularly - anything to do with Reach media for example - presumably because there are no longer sub-editors who, in the past, would have corrected the grammar and spelling. So the moment I come across a media article in which the grammar and spelling are wrong, I disregard it because if the author doesn't know how to write properly why should I believe what he/she has written?
But for internet forums, it's different, I tune up my tolerance and don't worry about it. It's an information exchange. I'd rather get the information with errors than not at all.
Of course, I'm ashamed if I make grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes, and go back and correct them if I see them later. But that's me. I hope that many people continue to post here with incorrect usage of "their" or "its" or whatever, I don't care, thank you for posting and don't worry about it.
 

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary: The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city.
Ah, well, that is me told. But thank you.
 

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My memory is pretty good - I can even remember what I was doing on a small number of precise dates at the end of the 70s - but I can't always remember exactly what I was doing this day last year.

This is particularly the case if it was a weekday, which often fail to stick out particularly. So for example, let's say Wednesday 18 October 2023. Nope, no idea.
Similarly, remembering what date Easter was 30 or 40 years ago is easier than remembering when it was 5 or 10 years ago.
 

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Couple of weeks ago they changed our bin collection days, and also replaced the yellow bin to monthly, not fortnightly.

Of course it's now all recorded on my calendar so I don't forget! *Also I'm a bit concerned that if I put the wrong bin out on the wrong day, the neighbours will all follow me as they know I normally get it right* Talk about stress...
 

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Similarly, remembering what date Easter was 30 or 40 years ago is easier than remembering when it was 5 or 10 years ago.
Remembering what date Easter was -- whether one, or a hundred, years ago or anything in between -- strikes me as a superhuman feat (regardless of one's age !); but I'm borderline innumerate: anything in this area of the remembering-stuff field, is totally not in my skill-set.
 

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Remembering what date Easter was -- whether one, or a hundred, years ago or anything in between -- strikes me as a superhuman feat (regardless of one's age !); but I'm borderline innumerate: anything in this area of the remembering-stuff field, is totally not in my skill-set.

Easy; if it was a cold, wet, miserable Easter it was in mid April, if it was warm, sunny and you got a tan, March. Realised that when I looked through my dad's diary and photos of his Easter caravanning hols in the UK!

Strange thing about Easter is in my younger days, following cricket, there was almost never any fixtures over Easter, not even the latest ones, apart from a few practice matches. Now the (first class) cricket season starts just about the first week in April and games manage to get finished with few interruptions - albeit the liberal use of hand-warmers in pockets! So plenty of recent Easter's have involved cricket (and hypothermia)!
 

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Remembering what date Easter was -- whether one, or a hundred, years ago or anything in between -- strikes me as a superhuman feat (regardless of one's age !); but I'm borderline innumerate: anything in this area of the remembering-stuff field, is totally not in my skill-set.
I only remember the year when Easter Sunday coincided with my birthday earlier this century, though it apparently happened twice in my childhood too that I'd forgotten about. I count myself as numerate, but I don't think this sort of memory has anything to do with numeracy. More a gift cum possible curse. :smile:
 

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This might have been mentioned already - 2,279 posts soI have an excuse...

I find it embarrassing that after showing the bus driver my pensioner's pass they wait until I have moved to a seat and sat down.
My seat of choice is upstairs up the front but I now have to settle for the nearest one downstairs to avoid causing understandable irritation at causing delay.
I am still agile enough to climb the stairs on a moving bus, I've had many years practice...
 

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