Topic: "F**k my Hat, I didn't know that!" Amazing things you've only just found out

[Jockice]

When people refer to watching box sets nowadays the sets are rarely in a box.

New page, wherever I fuck my hat, that's my home. And this should be in the obvious things etc thread...

[Better Midlands]

When people refer to watching box sets nowadays the sets are rarely in a box.

I quite like that old fashionedness, it's like "dialing" a phone number.

[kalowski]

The brilliant Kevin Eldon is in the ridiculous Netflix show The Crown

[touchingcloth]

The brilliant actor Kevin Eldon is in the ridiculous Netflix show The Crown

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Legendary funnyman Christopher Guest is married to Jamie Lee Curtis and is a fucking hereditary baron? The Fifth Baron Haden-Guest??? Lord Haden-Guest?????

[Cerys]

When John Thaw began as Inspector Morse he was forty-five.

[Dr Rock]

He was only 32 when The Sweeney first aired.

[NoSleep]

And died at 60. Must have had some sort of premature ageing gene. Or drank a lot.

[Cerys]

Or both.

Edit - he started smoking when he was twelve, which can't have helped.

[NoSleep]

Works for Nigel Farage (and worked for Barry Norman).

[kalowski]

Works for Nigel Farage (and worked for Barry Norman).

Not that well for Barry, he's dead. (As is John Thaw)

[NoSleep]

Farage is at least seriously working towards an early grave. Aircraft that don't kill him only make him smoke more.

[George White]

And died at 60. Must have had some sort of premature ageing gene. Or drank a lot.

He was playing police inspectors in his mid-twenties. He's in Strange Report, where the juvenile leads were both older than him.
His Aveleyman entry is interesting. When he smiles, at 22, there's a vaguely young, almost Beckinsale-y quality. That's the thing, when he smiles until c.1974 and if his hair is blackened,  he looks vaguely like someone of his own age, but he obviously wasn't afraid to look old.