(Re. Post 3,604) No I wouldn’t be able for them talking heads myself Solo, spooky indeed, I even hate going on Skype, the wife has to drag me in front of the camera when the son is in Rome, it’s not natural to stare a person straight in the face while speaking to them as is Skype, give me the old fashioned way anytime. 
One dare not mention the black and white minstrels anymore, I think they were the first to get the sack when the BBC had to get real, good riddance to them too, I hated that show.
We had a group over here who used to blacken up and do shows, “The Black Jesters” I’ve never seen them personally but my Dad told me they used to do a Christmas show in one of the TB sanatoriums he was in back in the early late 40’s and early 50’s.
As I said earlier I was tidying up the workshop today and came upon an old newspaper dated 2012, the height of the austerity years here, this is the bit that grabbed my attention, chew on this.
Man tries to eat house.
“A forty six year old Dublin man, Patrick Moore, was before Justice Owens (not real names) in court No.4 at Morgan Place yesterday after being arrested at his home where he was sitting at the side wall of the house with a hammer and chisel lobbing off chunks of brick, smashing them to dust, eating the dust and swallowing it down with water from a large plastic bottle, he was laughing hysterically while chipping away at the wall.
A worried neighbour had called the guards and when the investigating guard asked him what he was doing, he replied “I’m going to do me best to eat as much of my house as I can before the greedy banks gets a hold of it”
The guard noticed that the man was foaming at the mouth like a ‘Mad Dog’ and decided to call for back up, when they eventually got him to the station he was raving and violent, they had to restrain him in a straight jacket, a Doctor was called, he examined the man and recommended he be taken under guard to Portrane psychiatric hospital immediately.
Judge Owens asked why the man was brought before him in the first place, as far as he knew it was not a crime to eat ones own house, providing one had the stomach for it it was perfectly legal, anyway it was out of his hands now and they will have to await the medical reports.”
I’m sure many decent respectable sane folks lost their reason during those very tough years.
Actually the judge was wrong, if you fancy eating your own house you cannot eat it unless it’s fully paid for, this poor unfortunate man’s house was in the process of being repossessed because he could not keep up with the payments having lost his job through redundancy, hard luck I know but the law can be very cruel by times.
Maybe it’s not so strange, I once over heard two women talking at a bus stop and one said to the other “That O’Mara fella was left all his fathers money and property, he drank every penny of it including the house and car”:shock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/lpTmrrmIjpM
