The Curse of Being the World's Oldest Person - how many of them are still alive, eh?
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
Ashwatthama, the superhero of the Mahabharatha, is said to be over 6,000 years old and still alive.[citation needed]
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
Myrtle Dorsey, born in 1885, was the oldest person on Jan. 1, 2000.
Sarah Knauss, born in 1880, was the oldest person before Dorsey, but died on Dec. 30, 1999!
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Either way, I'm never going to see any tri-century folk again.
Anna Eliza Williams was born in 1873, 100 years before me, and died in 1987.
2087 is a very tall order on my end.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Hey, let's not be negative here, 2087 here you come!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
I'd have to get through 2077 first with all of its glitches.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Old poepl!
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
it always blows my mind that in one's lifetime you could go from not having penicillin to being able to order it from a tiny electronic device and have someone else drive it to your house.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
my great grandmother lived to be 100 - she was just always old the whole time I knew her (about 20 years) and pictures of her from the 70's were old too - it's like after 68 you are just OLD and if you keep living you are just PERMA_OLD
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
sounds bad
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
i'm cool w/ getting to 55
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
i can't drive etc
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
pictures of her from the 70's were old
Well hell, pictures of me from the 70s are now old too!
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
my grandma looks old in pictures from the 70s, even though she was only in her 50s. it's the wrinkles and the perm, nobody born after 1930 ever had a perm like that.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
my great-grandmother was born in 1889 and died in the early 90s.. but she was still writing me mostly legible letters right to the end
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
Oh and in third grade, my afterschool babysitter's husband was a WWI vet - the only one I've ever met (that I know of)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
I'll check the obituaries sometimes and see some suave tan mfer wearing a polo shirt and pastel jacket from 1984. I'll think, how can this guy have been 85 years old? Picture should be in black-and-white with him wearing a straw hat or something?
Then I'll realize that he was in his mid-40s 40 years ago, and think, damn, I remember when old people were much older.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
I remember when people my age looked like Wilford Brimley and wore tweed hats
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
Lol
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
Now those assholes are in their mid-30s, drinking IPAs at the boutique bowling alley.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
"shoes? we aren't actually HERE to bowl. it's about the ambience, the rich history of bowling."
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
it's like after 68 you are just OLD
great! so, I have like a whole ten months of being 68 before OLD AGE hits?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
I don't think crown green bowling is quite as popular with hipsters in their mid 30's in the UK. And the oldies that were into it back in the day wouldn't drink no fancy overpriced IPA. I remember going into a smoky wmc as a kid with a friend + his dad, and they were drinking something they all called Blue, can't remember what brand it was. It was very weak and cheap bitter that the landlord probably also watered down for good measure I think, because I couldn't even get pissed on it when I was 11 yrs old. There is the secret to longevity - as long as you don't chainsmoke rollups as well as drinking 15 pints of Blue a day!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
somewhere in the early to mid '10s, around here hookah smoking just like, took off. I had several friends inviting me to hookah bars, and I haaaated it but I loved my friends enough that I did it once or twice.
I think it died down because a lot of the people that I knew that were into it apparently mistakenly thought it was safer than cigarette smoking. the hookah bars in town are like ghost towns now.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
Not being a man is one of the secrets to longevity.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
I'd wager there won't be many future oldest people in the world that huff on pipes in bars! Although that previous title holder, the French woman who recollected meeting Van Gogh, had a one cigarette a day habit up to a hundred iirc
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
I've actually never smoked a tobacco cigarette in my life. I was in a production of Odd Couple once where we were supposed to mime smoking on stage, and the director stopped rehearsal to say "Neanderthal, you're holding it like a joint" as that's the only frame of reference i had.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
somehow skipped over tobacco and went to wacko tobacco
yeah i remember a bunch of hookah bars appearing in like 2011 and then they were gone by a few years later
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
I've never smoked at all, and had to light a prop cigarette in a play I was in, and I tried to light it in my hand rather than in my mouth.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
Wasn’t the French lady who claimed to have met Van Gogh a fraud though?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
there was a campaign to debunk her yes -- only 99 when she died, added her mum's life-span onto hers and co-opted mum's stories -- but it has not been decisive and the record still officially holds afaik
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
the debunker made the mistake of being a bit of a dick
weirdly just read about her a day ago. yeah, it was 'suspected' but never explicitly proven.
hard to prove with people born in 19th century for a variety of reasons. hell, my great grandfather born in 1898 (died in 1992) and my parents argued over what her actual birthdate was as she had no birth certificate.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
*grandMOTHER
All she had to say about Van Gogh was something really shrill and judgemental like he stank of booze and he looked like his brain was gone. I thought at the time she was lacking a bit of centenarian gravitas and wisdom for saying some shit like that!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
Just the opinion of a judgemental teen!
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
van gogh cancelled, followed immediately by jeanne calment
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
perhaps by the time you are 110 (or even faking it) you give up with elucidations like: well I was young and quite a little shit at the time!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
technically the atoms that make up our body are probably much older than our physical age so we are even older.
68 is the new 62
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
i found an article where her unkind comments on vvg are quoted ("he was ugly") and this is the headline they went with: jeanne calment: the supercentenarian who met van gogh and lived to see tony blair elected PM
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
Maybe he did stink of booze and look like his brain was gone though? As well as being ugly.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
old is just older than me
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
when you are old and have interesting old memories that have been stewing in your brain for a century, at least try and be a bit less facile and more broadly descriptive when chatting shit about them to national newspapers. That seems a reasonable enough request, says I - who'd probably say something just as shit if I lived that long, lol.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
idk i bet what keeps these people alive so long is minimal reflective engagement, as it is a well known fact that too much brain energy is bad for longevity
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
well Van Gogh certianly stinks now
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
in van gogh's era the most popular drink among artists was absinthe which can definitely rot your brain
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
Just think in 100 years some centarian will say "I was alive to meet (fill in some astounding personality) "
But who? WHO!?
WHo indeed
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 20 January 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
good news: the first person that will live to be 1,000 years-old has already been bornbad news: it's lord custos
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