A Well Balanced Pint, Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland 1973
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2021
- A bar trick to impress. Pick up a box of matches from the floor using only your mouth while balancing a pint and two glasses of whiskey on your head.
Michael Mulrooney, better known as Mul, performs a balancing act with a pint glass and two half whiskeys on his head.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m going to put a pint of Guinness on my head now and I’m going to pick up a matchbox off the ground with my mouth. After that, there’ll be two whiskeys involved on the top.
The tension is high at Meaney’s pub in Goresbridge, County Kilkenny, as Michael Mulrooney demonstrates his balancing skills in front of a bar full of nervous customers.
This episode of ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 7 April 1973. - Розваги
A person with these skills could walk into any bar and never have to pay for a drink
The only difference between this footage and that of footage from my house around the 1980s would be that Tin Lizzie, Hal Roach, and Tommy Makem would be playin' on the turntable.....and my Grandfather would be sneaking shots of pure 99% isopropyl alcohol. It would have a "Mr. Yuck" sticker on it (anyone remember those?), and I would secretly cry thinking my grandfather would surely die. He would do so when he watched me, while my mother and grandmother would go shopping, or whatever the hell they did. I loved Grandpa. We had fun, and I learned about Brian Boru, hopping the rail cars to find jobs in cities across the country during the depression, emphysema, old time radio, and so on. But man. I was legit scared. It was the first time in my life that I told on anyone simply because I loved them so much and was afraid for their safety......like I WAS the learned individual in the house. It blew my mind. Oh man.....did he tear in to me. I thought he hated me, and it very well seemed like he did. However, that did not last long.
I don't know if it was the combo of my mom and Grandma giving him the heat, or the fact he saw me just break down afterwards.......and not in a melodramatic way a four year old usually would. It just got to me. Grampa came around instantly. However....for my sake and his....he convinced me that what I saw was not what happened. I believed him. Grandma obviously did not, but it was presented as such so as to not have me experience the consequences of addiction that they had prior to my birth. It was no joke. He was a binge drinker.......like every six months or so he would tie one on. It was unpredictable, from what I was to understand, however always chaotic. It was the rare, unpredictable, violent rages that scared the family the most.
He had dried out well before I was born, and had been retired for over eleven years. But there were still times......every once in a while....he would get "out there". Grandma did an insanely Awesome job of trying to hide it from the grandchildren, if only not to ruin a child's bond with their grandparents. Booze was pretty much out of the picture for good not long after that. It was the tobacco that got him in the end. Pall Mall non filters....two packs a day.
I just think of Ireland and how I wish I was there with my Grandfather. He missed the reunions in Doolin. But I brought along some great enlarged photos, some of his art, his "walking sticks".....and of course....he wouldn't have been an Irishman if he didn't have five hundred stories for every topic. So I got to tell a few of them. I visited his father's grave, sat beside him, watched the sun go down behind the sea, and finished a few cans of Murphy's. It was perfect.
My apologies if this was hard to read and/or follow. I'm using my phone to type this, and it is mostly dictated. So, sometimes words come out a little.....odd? Me no good with word hole at times.
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All the money wasted on college education in Ireland when our pubs were already institutions that identified, funded, and developed real talent like that shown here. The average Irish student of today couldn't even hold three drinks with their hands, never mind their head. And they don't even sell matches in pubs anymore, which goes to show how much standards have been dumbed down. The young Irish of today think talent like this should be handed to them on a tray. Makes my heart break.
That's a 'match' for any student union bar that boy!
Even if this comment was pure sarcasm, I would completely agree with you.
The entitlement of the youth of today wouldn't hold a candle to that which the older generations possess. Get over yourself
@@abitdazed respect your ancestors. You only exist because of them.
@@CouncilOfWolves People get when respect when they deserve it, not because they're entitled to it. Y'know so they don't expect it handed to them on a tray
This is far more entertaining than half the things you see on tv nowadays.
The fact he can even balance them all on his head while just standing there is enough for me
I wonder if he could do it "with drink taken"? I fell on my arse in a pub once clutching a nearly full pint pot, with seven or eight more of the same inside me, and didn't spill a drop. Even today - forty years on - it still amazes me.
Actually not as hard as it looks
I'm surprised that the drinks didn't slip off his head with all that brylcreem 😬
And THAT is how we used to pick up chicks in the pub in Ireland back then! You just know he got some that night.
Your wrong there boy he was a queer. didn't pick up chicks he used to pull cocks.
Oh my God, I could hardly handle watching that!!!
Thats ould "jimmy flathead" whos head was grazed by a Gernan shell during the war.
That’s the most intense drinking game in the whole world 🌍 of Ireland 🇮🇪 .
I drank in a lot of pubs big and small, city and rural, around Ireland in the 1970s, and, as far as I can recall thru all the unsober mists, I never saw a trick like this, lol!
The stakes were so high - he wouldn’t have been thanked for spilling that booze!
1973 is the year the extra sticky Brylcreem was released
I've found a new legend! Thanks.
The drums and all going! Unbelievable footage!
No one could match that . 👈
What a legend ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Takes lot of concentration and patience 🤗🤗🤗
Best performed before drinking them.
You can imagine a couple of kids started messing around and by the time they're in their 60s it has become something of a tradition in the village.
And all the Brylcreem in his hair too.. it wasnt exactly a grippy surface for the glass to sit on. This is when men were men and they had nerves of steel, they done jobs that would put most young men in hospital today.. and they never complained as long as they got a pint or two
1 minute silence please for all the spilt pints and whiskey that never made it
fecking hell i miss the pub
He sure has a level head!!!!
Very fit man to be able to do that. Nice tats too. Old school.
Good job that clip was in Black and white. Otherwise that 70s wallpaper would have burnt my eyes...
Eejit! It's the 70s it would all be dulled by a layer of sepia courtesy of the nicotine stain.
Now that's talent. Were tattoos common in Ireland in the early 70s? In my part of Canada they common among a lot of our grandads who were in the navy and my buddy's dad who spent time in Greek (maybe Turkish?) prison for what he described as a "misunderstanding".
Very common with X navy and army only
No not common
Lovely wallpaper.
What muscle control!
Need Francis Higgins commentary on this.
Cultured man, I was thinkin the same thing
@@thatfish3951 lovely to find men of culture among the riff raff
@@ConstantThrowing you hammered your balance
@@jusesjimmybars you have done nothing but drink!
Need Tommy Shlug to try balancing coupla drinks himself
Brilliant! Top entertainment
Local legend status 👏
Wow!! now that was pub entertainment.
This gentleman is one hell of a bar room athlete.
He has a metal plate magnetised in his scull, and a magnet under the pint glass. I think his name was Justin Credible.
That Brylcream is some tack Ill tell ya..
He just picked up a match box with his mouth on all fours with a pint on his head. What have any of us ever done?
Ladies today "He must be 6 foot tall, muscular with lots of money to get my attention" Ladies in the 70s "If he can pick something up off the floor whilst balancing a pint and a shot on his head, he's mine"
10 years later he was up to 9 glasses.
King of all men 💯🤪🤘💪🥃🥃🥃
Yeah, that's impressive.
Only 3 glasses, and he didn't even use his tongue to open the box and strike a match BOOOOO!
He could have done some juggling with those free hands the bloody lightweight.
Frank Hall sitting at the bar smoking a pipe
jaysus a gas man - "a well balanced pint with a decent head" would have been a better title
If Oliver Reed would’ve been there, he would’ve shown you what to do with them drinks, and it wouldn’t of been any balance in Displayhe specialises in making drinks disappear🙈😳
pure concentratie in onmogelijkheid ..
Is that man still with is
Anyone where that was?
My house now...I'm trying it now I am.👍...
Reply to self...whoops the carpet is fecked...
Ireland
And he was pissed as well.!!!!
1:06 for a second I thought that was a nun to the left of yer man.
a "half whiskey" then was as much as regular one of today
I'm presuming the 1/2 whiskey was a double as a standard Irish measure of the time was 1/4 gill. In England it was a 1/6 th and 1/5 th in Scotland. So a double in Ireland was a treble in England.
damn imperial system :D
He musta found the "sweet spot" on his head!
And not a dry seat in the house
born in the wrong time...he wouldve been famous on tiktok
The big belly was not wasted
Brillcream was a bit like glue. 🤣
Just kidding 😂
Culture
Did anyone notice that they were safety matches?
Will there ever be sessions again.... fuck covid lads
Were there hours of practice with spilled drink everywhere or was he born with the gift? 😂
Well, that's not something you see every day
That was a public health campaign from the seventies, don’t drink, don’t smoke but most of all don’t put half a pound of grease on your hair.
A mans man 👍🏻💪🏻
A boy Mull
the men of old wore men
And they wore them well
Kidding
@@fletchkeilman2205 Aw now. LOL
If he farted I'd say it would be all over
Funny AF Thanks for that.
Who the feck were playing the drums🤔
"Larry the sticks mullen" obviously
Irish Olympic events.
Tis a wonder the women didn't slide off the seats after that
Publife😎
Yoga
If the TikTok mob see this, well you know whats coming....
Don't try this at home
This wouldn't be allowed today due to some health and safety nonsense...
You're not even allowed in pubs now!
Well. Thats going to save civilisation 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, he has that much product in his hair that glass is going nowhere. 😂
Think of his poor wife, who had to endure his hours of practice, at home every night..
Irish push-ups
Feckin eedjit
Well now, dont that bate Banagher
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Why????
DONT WORRY KILLJOY RADIO TIMES AND A TELLY IS YOUR WORLD ,
All that there and not hair out of place ! What a shkin.
Shkin as in Afghanistan..or teenaged?
@@garymcmanus9946 I think shkin is now young teeny bopper slang for knobhead.
@@garymcmanus9946 as in skin, 'a good skin' ie 'a decent bloke'
I'll go wif Radford..on this one...aim..fire...
.. Not much worth watching on television that night !
Well you would know killjoy no one wants a slapped ass in a pub
He's a cheater..I'll tell you how he done it.. tractor grease..on his lips 👄👄👄 🇮🇪🇮🇪🤑