An article in the Daily Mail explains to us the life of the active senior.
With their silver hair and kind smiles, Christine Smith, Sheila Henderson and June Senior look like three normal grandmothers, enjoying a quiet drink and a chat. But their innocent looks bely a wilder reality and when the trio, who are aged between 61 and 64, travel abroad on one of their regular grannies’ trips, all thoughts of a quiet life are left behind. Instead of enjoying quiet days out with their grandchildren, fancy dress, colourful cocktails and Spanish party spots are the order of the day for the three Barnsley pensioners.
The subject of a new channel 5 documentary, these ladies may turn you off going to the bars forever. The pictures make it all worthwhile.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday April 01 2015, @03:38PM
scarier than the adjacent slenderman post
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 01 2015, @05:50PM
Yeah, the inline image is definitely scary but I think I like the functionality.
I wonder how a story poster would include an image. Just an IMG tag?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @03:40PM
it's all real
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 01 2015, @03:45PM
My playlist hit dies irae right as I read this summary. Remarkably appropriate
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:19PM
There's not enough alcohol in the world to make me sleep with one of those dignity-less sows. Ethanol-Fueled on the other hand just might.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:26PM
Damn right I would -- after an 18-pack. Or a 12 pack. Okay, only for a Snickers bar. But it has to be both for the Snickers bar.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:23PM
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by AnythingGoes on Thursday April 02 2015, @03:26AM
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:37PM
Oh don't be so picky.
So what'll it be, boys, 231 or 321? Or am I wrong about the young filly on the right being 1?
You UK people always confuse me so if these hotties are from Australia then I guess its upside down so 132 or 123.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:42PM
Definitely 231...
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:58PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @05:52PM
One on the right is a 1! She's holding a Guinness can, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:45PM
> There's not enough alcohol in the world to make me sleep with one of those dignity-less sows.
Cool story bro!
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:39PM
on the one in the middle.... doesn't it?
Which introduces the question of WHY? why in the world would anyone put that on their head? crazy old hags..
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:42PM
Birth of a meme (I always wanted to write that, its like "birth of a nation" but somehow even less respectable)
I hereby dub thee "3 girls 1 cup"
Slightly off topic the silent movie collection on archive.org is mindblowing very late at night and/or chemically enhanced. The Buster Keaton stuff is funny but there's some wild silent movie stuff out there.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Wednesday April 01 2015, @05:21PM
I don't get it.
Sure, you might not want to party with these women...but they're so clearly enjoying themselves regardless of what you think of them. Shouldn't we be cheering them on?
After all, we're all going to be old farts some day, if we're lucky enough to not die first. Would you rather be an old fart who's having a blast, or an old fart hidden out of sight that everybody else is ashamed to acknowledge even exists?
All the more power to 'em, I say. Partying's not my thing, but I'll raise a cup of coffee to this trio and wish them many more decades of awesome parties, and express the hope that they're always the life of said parties.
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday April 01 2015, @05:24PM
+1 insightful
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @05:40PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KzxGw0mgVw
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:29PM
My Chinese roommate (skinny guy, 5'10", 150lbs soaking wet) in Beijing ran into ladies like this at the end of a late-night mahjong session in Sanlitun on the East Side of town. He came back to campus with a sheepish, sloppy grin on his face and asked us what we thought--he had been invited to travel with them. Being the bunch of jerks we were, we cheered him on, clapped him on the back, and wished him luck. We didn't see him for the rest of the semester and pretty deep into the next one. We asked him what had happened and he just looked crestfallen and sighed. They used him up like a cheap boy toy and threw him away...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:27PM
Speak for yourself, sonny. Some of us achieved it already.
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday April 02 2015, @09:09AM
This exactly. Seeing this "story" here made me think rather sadly, "I thought SN was better than this." Over-used as the word is these days, "misogynistic" is the only one that seems to fit.
It seems seriously shitty that three women are being called things like "sows" just for being out laughing as a group. If it was a picture of three older men laughing similarly, most comments would just admire them for refusing to let age force them into a life of sedentary solitude, not suggest they were trolling for young dates.
(Score: 1) by skater on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:50PM
As a longtime owner of a Mercury Cougar, it bugs me that the word "cougar" got co-opted this way. I'm pretty sure I owned the Cougar before this new definition arose, or at least before it was popular.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:00PM
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by skater on Thursday April 02 2015, @11:44AM
Yes, but you probably don't go to events named "CougarFest". :)
(Score: 4, Funny) by fishybell on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:16PM
My local university's mascot is the cougar. Never have I been a fan (they are BYU after all) until I learned of the moniker. It makes hearing about "The Cougars Route Bulldogs" or "Cougars Bested by Buccaneers" a hilarious and recurring joke. Best thing the internet ever gave me.