― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16867942/
― svend (svend), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
omg she was born exactly 90 years before i was (my dob: november 22, 1982)!
― latebloomer: crapness 2 the Nth degree (latebloomer), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Which reminds me, YOU CAN RAISE THE FLAGS BACK UP TO FULL STAFF NOW.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Youngest world's oldest person since 1988.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― roger goodell (gear), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Meanwhile, the current oldest person in the world, someone from Japan, has died, so the new oldest person in the world is Edna Parker, who just happens to live in the same retirement home as Sandy Allen, the world's tallest woman.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/LOCAL0602/70813043/-1/RSS
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
How's Rock Hardy's granny doing?
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
As good as ever, except for the whole not-knowing-anybody thing.
This is the thread where I say "Happy Birthday" to...
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh! I didn't know that was the oldestpersonintheworld thread. Sorry.
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"She fell in with that Guiness Book of Records crowd. I wore a 15-pound beard of bees for that woman!"
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
That one retirement home is the new Ark
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
in this article: a crass picture http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090329/tuk-war-veteran-becomes-britain-s-oldest-45dbed5.html
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7970710.stmMr Allingham, who has dedicated much of his time in recent years to giving talks to schoolchildren about his experiences, will be 113 years old on 6 June.
Dennis Goodwin, his close friend and founder of the First World War Veterans' Association, said: "He has achieved another milestone in his long life and is raising the bar of longevity.
"To be honest the last two years have been littered with milestones but this one is nice for him.
"The next one will come when he becomes a 'teenager' again when he reaches 113 in June."
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
All these world's oldest persons ever do is die - can't one of them do something original? Like rob a bank or rape someone or get tasered or win a life-long something or other?
― StanM, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
StanM, I now have a new life goal – thanking u.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
<3
Headline in about 100 years: WORLD'S OLDEST WOMAN KNITS HATS FOR HER PROSIMIAN PETS
― StanM, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7256/walterwebmedium.jpg
http://watch.montanapbs.org/video/1486986189/
just watched this longish interview with Walter Breuning, who's now the third oldest person in the world. I'm sure millions of men from his era had similar life stories — born in East Butthole Montana in 1896; quit school in tenth grade to support his family; got a job on the railroad in 1913; managed not to be drafted during World War I; stayed employed (with a pay cut) throughout the Depression. the difference is that most of his peers died about 50 years ago, and for him to be able to speak for an entire, nearly extinct generation is a strange thing. he doesn't come across as fogeyish or resistant to new technology in spite of witnessing crises like the loss of thousands of railway jobs due to diesel and computers.
key nugget of wisdom from a guy who's been asked "meaning of life"-type questions countless times:
"If you don't think about some of these things [i.e. politics & social issues], you lose your perspective. If you don't use your mind a little bit, it's going to deteriorate to beat the devil. the more you use your mind and your body, the longer you're gonna understand what's going on in the country. and don't just sit down in the rocking chair, 'cause if you do, you won't last too long."
those hearing aids and Coke bottle glasses probably make a huge difference w/r/t staying sane and alert at that age, too.
― the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
it will sadden me when nobody born before 1900 is alive
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 30 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
only 58 (validated, documented) people born in the 19th century are alive today, says Wikipedia; I doubt any will be left in another six years, and why not let 'em rest? all the ones on record are from either Japan, Western Europe, the USA, or some other part of the English-speaking world, partly because of the long lifespans and exhaustive record-keeping in those places and partly because claims from countries like China and Russian tend to be written off as fraudulent attempts to flaunt their high standards-of-living. to be fair, the USSR did a lot of lifespan-related fibbing back in the day. and so did Thomas Parr.
― the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Sunday, 30 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Walter Breuning RIP
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
shouldn't there be a way to carbon test the unverified oldest people in the world?
― poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Friday, 22 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
read this as WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION!!!!!
― boehner und der club of gore (donna rouge), Friday, 22 April 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread prompted me to go back and reread the thread I made about my grandmother, and recall how cool ILXors can occasionally be.
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Friday, 22 April 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
the patronizing respect given to elderly people is kind of depressing
it's like people being kind to animals b/c they are so non-threatening
if i can't envy you then i will feel sentimental towards you
― dell (del), Friday, 22 April 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
for about the past year now, the world's oldest person has been 115-year-old Besse Cooper, of Georgia.
http://i46.tinypic.com/1zvzv2d.jpg
Besse, a daughter of Richard Brown and Angie Berry Brown, was born in Sullivan County on Aug. 26, 1896, and lived on the banks of the Watauga River for several years. She and her siblings enjoyed the benefits of living near and playing in the river. According to Besse's son Sidney: "In November 1900 while Mother was four years old, her aunt and uncle convinced her parents to move to Arkansas, known as the 'Land of Opportunity.' The two families built a large houseboat alongside the river for the journey. It was fabricated upside down, turned over and then placed on the river. This attracted a lot of attention from neighbors and friends. "Their journey took them down the Watauga River and into the Tennessee River. They had a rudder and guided the boat with a big pole. They docked at night and traveled by day. Besse remembered being tied around the waist to keep her from falling off the boat. One night, the weather was so cold that the river froze delaying them for three days."When the two families reached Chattanooga, they became stuck on a sandbar at low tide causing Mr. Brown to go into town to get assistance. He was advised against going to Arkansas because of a high number of Yellow Fever cases there. They abandoned their journey, sold the houseboat and rented a house for about a year while Mr. Brown worked in the city as a carpenter.They decided to return to the Johnson City area. In 1906, the Brown family moved to the Boones Creek community where they built a two-story wood house on 15 acres of land on a hill along what is now called Brown Road. Besse attended Boones Creek School, graduating in 1913.Miss Brown enrolled at East Tennessee Normal School (which had opened just two years prior). She rode the CC&O train between Gray Station and Johnson City on weekends and boarded with her aunt in Johnson City during the week. She commuted to and from the Normal School on a trolley. She greatly admired school president, Sidney J. Gilbreath, later naming a son after him.After earning a teacher’s certificate, Besse taught at a school in Tiger Valley, TN, between Hampton and Roan Mountain, and rode the Tweetsie narrow gauge railroad to and from there each weekend. When she exited the train, she had to walk and carry a suitcase another five miles to her boarding house in all kinds of weather.
According to Besse's son Sidney: "In November 1900 while Mother was four years old, her aunt and uncle convinced her parents to move to Arkansas, known as the 'Land of Opportunity.' The two families built a large houseboat alongside the river for the journey. It was fabricated upside down, turned over and then placed on the river. This attracted a lot of attention from neighbors and friends.
"Their journey took them down the Watauga River and into the Tennessee River. They had a rudder and guided the boat with a big pole. They docked at night and traveled by day. Besse remembered being tied around the waist to keep her from falling off the boat. One night, the weather was so cold that the river froze delaying them for three days."
When the two families reached Chattanooga, they became stuck on a sandbar at low tide causing Mr. Brown to go into town to get assistance. He was advised against going to Arkansas because of a high number of Yellow Fever cases there. They abandoned their journey, sold the houseboat and rented a house for about a year while Mr. Brown worked in the city as a carpenter.
They decided to return to the Johnson City area. In 1906, the Brown family moved to the Boones Creek community where they built a two-story wood house on 15 acres of land on a hill along what is now called Brown Road. Besse attended Boones Creek School, graduating in 1913.
Miss Brown enrolled at East Tennessee Normal School (which had opened just two years prior). She rode the CC&O train between Gray Station and Johnson City on weekends and boarded with her aunt in Johnson City during the week. She commuted to and from the Normal School on a trolley. She greatly admired school president, Sidney J. Gilbreath, later naming a son after him.
After earning a teacher’s certificate, Besse taught at a school in Tiger Valley, TN, between Hampton and Roan Mountain, and rode the Tweetsie narrow gauge railroad to and from there each weekend. When she exited the train, she had to walk and carry a suitcase another five miles to her boarding house in all kinds of weather.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:49 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Friday, 20 January 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
I love how scammy this thread title looks
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
the most popular drink among artists was absinthe
I'm glad it's now legal in the U.S., so everyone can see what a mediocre beverage it really is
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
thread title should probably read LIVING oldest person -= I don't know who the oldest dead person is
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
most drinking Americans don't care about how 'good' a drink is, quality wise
you could piss in a cup and mix it with coke and tell people it's Jack and diet and they'll just shrug and say "seems legit" and chug it
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Strindberg's "Inferno" suggests as much.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
shocked to discover that some late 19th century painters were frequently getting pissed on absinthe in Parisienne cafes.
― calzino, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
Relevant to our interests here. The tips for a good life idea is obviously a well-worn cliche, but it's interesting to hear from and see such a broad range of possible future contenders for WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/18/100-centenarians-100-tips-for-a-life-well-lived
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 18 February 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
reading the entries of the folks who died between interview and publication and sadly moving their suggestions from the good column to the bad
― mark s, Saturday, 18 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
I noticed some gray hairs this morning. Pretty soon I’ll be posted about here I guess.
― treeship., Saturday, 18 February 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
Who is the oldest person on ilx
― calstars, Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
robert christgau
― Left, Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
Dick Van Dyke, but he posts under a display name you wouldn't expect
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
CerebalCaustic?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
no that's Jordan Peterson
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
Who is the oldest person regularly posting on ILX?
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 February 2023 23:57 (one year 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 (two weeks ago) link
That’s a good old person!
― Jeff, Saturday, 6 April 2024 16:15 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link