the world's oldest man (Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan) seems to be in great shape for his age. He even said a few words in English at his 115th birthday party in April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeYpPXAySNg
it's still kinda humbling (or something) that only one person we know of has ever lived past the age of 120, and that was 15+ years ago. I wonder how long it will be before someone else comes close to breaking the record.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
actually here he is speaking English ("thank you very much. you are very kind man!")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSoycOKZv8
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
seems like a cool dude to me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Besse Cooper :(
Jiroemon Kimura continues to be a cool dude (now the world's oldest person and the oldest man on record)
http://i50.tinypic.com/namaq.jpg
― the horse world of the bludgrass (unregistered), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Jiroemon Kimura :(
now there are only 9 people left from the 1800s
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Friday, 14 June 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
I was sad to see this dude go. He seemed much more vibrant and with it than most of the recent oldest living people
― Treeship, Friday, 14 June 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
eminently quotable, too:
"It's important to let things happen naturally. Even if you have strong ambitions, things won't always go the way you hope.""I cherish each day. What I most desire is for people across the world to recall my name just for a moment.""Thanks to everyone, I'm able to keep breathing. Let me stay in this world as long as possible."
"I cherish each day. What I most desire is for people across the world to recall my name just for a moment."
"Thanks to everyone, I'm able to keep breathing. Let me stay in this world as long as possible."
it must be a surreal experience (for someone who's still "with it") to get yearly visits from reporters who want you to divulge the secret to your long life and drop some snippets of your supreme wisdom (which usually just amounts to sayings you've known since you were a kid, like "mind your own business" or "be kind to others" — being really really old doesn't necessarily make you a sage). but it's interesting to see a world's oldest person who can appreciate his celebrity and engage with the media in a playful way, or use his position as a chance to make political statements like Henry Allingham did. the idea of becoming a million times more interesting just by breathing for a really long time appeals to me, not that I plan to ever live that long.
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Friday, 14 June 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
by coincidence, the '127-year-old' Chinese woman Luo Meizhen died on the same day as Kimura, but it's very unlikely that she was as old as she said she was.
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Friday, 14 June 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
123 year old Bolivian man:
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-bolivia-oldest-person-123-20130815,0,4445976.story
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 August 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
As for Flores, he says he very much misses his wife, who died more than a decade ago. One of his children is still living, 67-year-old Cecilio. Most of his 40 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren have moved away from his small Bolivian hamlet.
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 August 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
kanu is 25
― "fear of putting out" in one's early thirties (darraghmac), Friday, 16 August 2013 03:34 (ten years ago) link
obligatory "world's oldest person turns 116 for the third year in a row" post:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/worlds-oldest-person-116-birthday-japan
http://i.imgur.com/nHsLNwO.jpg
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
and now there are only 5 living people who can prove they were born in the 1800s
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
Oldest people are full of shit. They're confidence that how they specifically chose to live is why they are the oldest. Like they've figured out the secret formula! And they never get sick.
― Jeff, Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it's shocking that people born in the 1890s don't understand how genes affect longevity, and it's even more shocking that British tabloid writers are using "oldest azn person cites sushi, rice, meditation, and those little zen sand gardens as the secret to a long life" as the angle for their stories
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
that doesn't really make for much of a story though
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Breaking: Oldest Person in the World Always Bragging About Age, Doesn't Understand They're Simply Lucky, and is Full of Shit
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
lol
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
funny tho how the worlds oldest person never chows down on bacon and cheese like
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
in a parallel universe the oldest person in the world brags that they smoke every day and drink heavily and it never affected them, and the world takes them seriously and everyone starts drinking and smoking constantly in an effort to live longer. strict global regulations go into effect mandating heavy drinking and smoking, and the first causalities are the people who can't hold their liquor and are immediately disappeared by the govt. over the years liver and lung cancer rates skyrocket but no one is willing to admit the mistake. the new oldest person in the world is 74 and addresses a massive tv audience in a room that's so smoky that she's practically invisible. her poisoned raspy voice brags
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
also in this parallel world the Big One actually happened and the bragging old tyrant lives on the Island of California. The Island of California!!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 March 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
ppl that develop tolerance to these new conditions will eventually beat the diseases, it's the only way
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 March 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wnQYr7D.jpg
"oops I lost my birth certificate ¯(°_o)/¯" ~ 127-year-old Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, the oldest person to have ever lived
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
Family say secrets to her long life are lots of sleep, keeping active, singing to relatives and eating sweets.
And the birthday girl's secret to a long life is eating well, chewing on chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married, according to her family.
OLDEST PEOPLE STILL FULL OF SHIT.
― Jeff, Friday, 12 September 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
I want to know how your life is miserable, oldest person. Riddle me that oldest person.
― Jeff, Friday, 12 September 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
114 yr old digestive system obv
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
Some day an interviewer will ask the same old inane question of an extremely old person, "to what do you attribute the secret of your living so long" and the extremely old person will answer, "go away, you're an idiot". Some sweet day, I can feel it coming.
― Aimless, Friday, 12 September 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
"The secret is to have been born an extremely long time ago."
― jmm, Friday, 12 September 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if it's going to suck or not when the World's Oldest Person is all hep and meta and self-aware of the century-old narrative of being the World's Oldest Person and answers back to the reporter, "Oh, you know. Smoke weed every day, drink a gallon of bleach once a year and keep pullin' on that pork -- amirite? *winks at camera, dies*"
― pplains, Friday, 12 September 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
the only reason to become very old is to take pleasure in fulfilling the lifelong goal to really tell off an inept journalist who asks stupid quesitons
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 September 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Weird to think that for me, that person won't be born until 2070 or so.
― pplains, Friday, 12 September 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
if they even still have journalists then, haha amirite? *winks, dies*
you 2070'er why i oughtta, you weren't even there for the great space rebellion of the 2060s, why i'm so old i was old then and i'm old now, i'm ooooooold and miserable and you don't even know how to ask good questions
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 September 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
wait, this chick is a full 5 years older than the previous oldest person ever?? i am skeptical
― Hot Drexel Students (Treeship), Friday, 12 September 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
no spring chick
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, the odds that she's actually 127 are vanishingly small. dubious 120+-year-old claims like hers make the news several times a year (like the amazing 123-year old Bolivian man and the amazing 126-year-old Brazilian man) without amounting to anything. almost all of them come from countries with poor or nonexistent birth documentation where the government makes little effort to keep track of its citizens' ages. this lady has a government ID card from 2009 that says she was born in 1887, but who's to say that she didn't add 15 or 20 years to her age (possibly using the identity of her mother or older sister) so that she'd be eligible for a pension earlier in life? now that she's reached a record-breaking age, it's too late to change her story, and her local government and media are unlikely question her claim because they stand to benefit from the publicity.
it's possible that the real world's oldest person is some 118-year-old from a developing nation who doesn't have any records to back up their claim, but Guinness isn't going to verify their age just because they "seem honest".
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
tl;dr this lady is probably 105-ish years old but she is FULL OF SHIT and she needs an internet person like me to put her in her place
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
They'll just have to count the growth rings in her femur after she dies.
― StanM, Friday, 12 September 2014 07:33 (nine years ago) link
there are a bunch of premier league football players who are older than that woman but passed off as being 28
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
tick.jpg
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
Q: what's the secretA: come closerQ: *leans forward*A: closerQ: *scoots forward*A: *farts loudly* hahahahaha
― brimstead, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Q: Tell me the secret!A: You must squeeeeeeeeeze the life out of the lemon *pees and dies*
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 September 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
RIP Ethel Lang (the last surviving British person born during Victoria's reign)
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 17 January 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Sounds like a mostly reasonable oldest person. Attributes long life to not smoking and drinking. Not some bullshit like eating chocolate before bed and singing to relatives. RIP reasonable oldest person.
― Jeff, Saturday, 17 January 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/secret-to-long-life-avoiding-men_n_6508870.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
This oldest person is probably on to something. At least with the avoiding men part, her goddamn porridge hasn't done anything.
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
More old person full of shit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/raw-eggs-and-no-husband-since-38-keep-her-young-at-115.html
Secret to long life, raw eggs and misandry.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Also in today's NYT, the downside to longevity: Germany: Man, 93, Is Charged as Accessory in Auschwitz Murders
― The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
sj cru heading for hte eggs section as we speak huh
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
secret to long life, participation in genocide :(
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
get yr hits in first kinda thing
that case has come up a few times. idk was it ever confirmed/not that he'd p much had v little option for survival than to join, or was it that he was one of v few survivors from his village of the holodomor. idk, maybe all this is exactly what one would expect a former deathcamp guard to say on his deathbed too.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
The world's oldest living man is now a britisher. It's the fish & chips that do it.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/05/briton-says-becoming-worlds-oldest-man-at-111-is-pure-luck
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 6 April 2024 16:07 (one month ago) link
That’s a good old person!
― Jeff, Saturday, 6 April 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born in 1912 – the same year the Titanic sank – insist the secret to his long life is “pure luck”. He obtained the title of world’s oldest man after 112-year-old Gisaburo Sonobe, from Japan, was confirmed to have died on 31 March.
actually, Grauniad, the chronology was more like
-March 31: the world's second oldest living man, Gisaburo Sonabe (112, Japan), dies, never having made it to the #1 spot (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lucky_(Daft_Punk_song)#Commercial_performance)
-April 2: the world's oldest living man and fourth oldest man ever, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (114, Venezuela), dies. his death is announced later that same day
-April 4: Sonobe's death is announced. later that same day, Guinness rushes to John Tinniswood's nursing home to award him the title of world's oldest living man
retired British-Indian marathon runner Fauja Singh, whose claimed 1911-04-01 birthdate would make him more than a year older than Tinniswood, sighs and jogs another lap around his couch
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 00:34 (one month ago) link
Let's organise a fight to the death between these two to settle the issue. On December 31, 2026.
― StanM, Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link